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Britney Spears Fairytale Celeb-Studded Wedding To Sam Asghari
Britney Spears Fairytale Celeb-Studded Wedding To Sam Asghari
She’s free and now she’s married again. In a lovely and romantic ceremony that took place yesterday in Southern California, Britney Spears said “I do” to her longtime love amongst flowers, friends and fun. And we’ve got great photos for you from Britney Spears Fairytale Celeb-Studded Wedding to Sam Asghari. Britney Spears Fairytale Wedding The wedding invitations to Britney and Sam’s June 9th…
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'Fairytales are real': Britney Spears celebrates 'dream' wedding to fiance Sam Asghari
‘Fairytales are real’: Britney Spears celebrates ‘dream’ wedding to fiance Sam Asghari
‘Fairytales are real’: Britney Spears celebrates ‘dream’ wedding to fiance Sam Asghari Britney Spears has said her wedding ceremony was a “dream and the party was even better” after marrying fiance Sam Asghari in Los Angeles. Britney Spears has said her wedding ceremony was a “dream and the party was even better” after marrying fiance Sam Asghari in Los Angeles. Go to Source
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Sam Asghari on his 'surreal' marriage to Britney Spears
Sam Asghari on his ‘surreal’ marriage to Britney Spears
The actor appeared on “Good Morning America” in a segment that aired Wednesday to promote his forthcoming film, “Hot Seat.” Naturally, talk turned to their recent nuptials. “The husband thing hasn’t hit me yet,” Asghari said. “It was way overdue for us,” he said of their wedding. “We imagined this thing being a fairytale, and it was. And we wanted to celebrate with, you know, our loved ones, our…
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Sam Asghari on his 'surreal' marriage to Britney Spears
Sam Asghari on his ‘surreal’ marriage to Britney Spears
The actor appeared on “Good Morning America” in a segment that aired Wednesday to promote his forthcoming film, “Hot Seat.” Naturally, talk turned to their recent nuptials. “The husband thing hasn’t hit me yet,” Asghari said. “It was way overdue for us,” he said of their wedding. “We imagined this thing being a fairytale, and it was. And we wanted to celebrate with, you know, our loved ones, our…
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Britney Spears sparks speculations as she deletes her Instagram again
Britney Spears sparks speculations as she deletes her Instagram again
Queen of pop Britney Spears has left her fans concerned after disappearing from Instagram just a week after her fairytale wedding to longtime partner Sam Asghari. The Toxic crooner, 40, has shut her social media page with a message now reads: ‘Sorry, this page isnt available. While it’s not the first time the More singer has deleted her Instagram, but it came after she criticized her family for…
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Britney Spears' 'Fairytale' Wedding, Behind the Scenes Video Montage
Britney Spears’ ‘Fairytale’ Wedding, Behind the Scenes Video Montage
Britney Spears is celebrating a bunch of “fairytale” moments from her wedding day — including her own horse-drawn, Disney princess arrival to marry Sam Asghari. Turns out Brit made quite the entrance Thursday night in a carriage covered in flowers… from TMZ.com https://www.tmz.com/2022/06/11/britney-spears-wedding-behind-the-scenes-video-sam-asghari-fairytale/
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PHOTOS: Britney Spears shares first pictures from her fairytale wedding with Sam Asghari
PHOTOS: Britney Spears shares first pictures from her fairytale wedding with Sam Asghari
PHOTOS: Britney Spears shares first pictures from her fairytale wedding with Sam Asghari Washington [US]: American Pop star Britney Spears, who got married to her longtime partner Sam Asghari, has shared pictures from their fairytale wedding. The 40-year-old singer took to her Instagram to give her fans a sneak peek into the dreamy wedding.For the big day Spears wore a custom Versace white gown…
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Sam Asghari and Fiancé Britney Spears set wedding date
Sam Asghari and Fiancé Britney Spears set wedding date
Britney Spears and Sam Asghari By Jean Ackworth – May 09, 2022 Sam Asghari and singer Britney Spears are getting closer to taking that special walk down the aisle. Asghari, 28, announced via his Instagram Stories on this past Sunday that he and his fiancé have set a wedding date. “Our lives have been a real life fairytale,” he mentioned in a caption over a pic from when the couple first got…
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Britney Spears Set To Marry For The Third Time, Sets Wedding Date With Lover, Sam Asghari
Britney Spears Set To Marry For The Third Time, Sets Wedding Date With Lover, Sam Asghari
Britney Spears Set To Marry For The Third Time, Sets Wedding Date With Lover, Sam Asghari Britney Spears and Sam Asghari have announced to fans that their wedding date is set already. The fitness expert-turned-actor, 28, announced via his Instagram Stories on Sunday that he and his bride-to-be have set a wedding date.   “Our lives have been a real life fairytale,” he wrote over a pic from when…
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Tony: "Hey babe. How do you want to celebrate a year of being married?" Me:" I want to run off to Las Vegas and elope/ renew our vows at the same chapel as Britney Spears." Tony: "Done." Me: "Seriously? I was kidding but Sweeeet." Happy anniversary babe! What an incredible day and trip. I love you so much and I can't wait to see what the next year's bring. ♥️ · · · #cosplay #cosplayer #cosplaygirl #elope #cosplayersofinstagram #photoshoot #loveislove #instastyle #fairytale #royalwedding #model #swirllife #lasvegas #krystinaarielle #littlewhiteweddingchapel #anniversary #vivalasvegas #wonderwoman #marriage #loveislove #actress #wedding #blackgirlmagic #selfie #nerd #bride #photography #ootd (at Vegas, Nevada)
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dangoghz · 7 years
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(a sequel to chlorine kisses.)
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summary: dnp get married! in the maldives! very warm and fluffy, not really much action goin on here except a lot of soft words about how the sun is heating phils cheeks. lol i wrote it really fast and it’s probs bad but enjoy
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Dan’s thumbs cradled the bow tie pinned to his suit. He had been adjusting it for two minutes straight. His stomach felt like little tiny ribbons were being rubbed in its crevices—an oddly specific yet very unpleasant feeling. The young man looked up at the mirror in his tropical hotel room, taking a deep, sensitive breath. He nodded at his reflection. It was the day.
It was the day he would marry his dream boy, his other half. He knew it was cheesy but it could be said they were soulmates. Eight years and his heart leaped more every day to see those black locks and glitter blue eyes. The ribbons fumbled and tumbled.
“Mister howell?” An assistant called, “Are you ready? Everyone else is set.”
Dan took another sharp breath. “Yes.” He scratched at his shaved side and opened his hotel room door. The attendee guided him down the hall.
The music was already playing, meaning Phil, his parents, and Dans dad were already making their way down the carpet. Dan had decided to walk with his mom down the aisle. It was a small wedding on the beach they had planned. Just family and a few close friends. But it made him nervous nonetheless.
The employee and Dan walked through the resort until they reached two buildings. The carpet was obscured by palm trees and the walls of the buildings, and it was a curved path, so Dan wouldn’t be able to see where the ceremony would occur until he walked out. He read the name tag on the assistant who had led him there: Aishath. He thanked her as she urged him forward with a pat on the back.
As Dan stepped onto the velvet, he felt sprigs of nervosity intensify in his torso, but he ignored them. He had been waiting for this for years. Like, a decade. There was no going back. No going back from the way Phil cupped his check. No going back from playing Mario Kart for six hours straight while calling each other ‘nasty twat’ fondly. No going back from ogling each other at the top of the Manchester Eye, unaware of how their lives would entangle like a hybrid flower.
Okay. Stop thinking. Just walk.
Dan gulped and stepped. One, two, three. The trees cleared and sunlight streamed into his blushly face, revealing his family and friends. They stared at him, and dan began to wonder if there was something wrong. He felt to make sure the lily flower hadn’t fallen out of his black suit pocket, and it hadn’t-so why were they staring? He was just a guy from Wokingham…and then he remembered! This was his wedding. It was real. It was good. It was everything he had ever wanted.
As Daniel Lester (that’s right!) strided towards the podium, he could see a gleam on his little brother’s face and a timid but proud look on his parent’s. He didn’t dare look at Phil yet, taking in Bryony and Willow and Louise and PJ, who all looked splendid, first.
And then he glanced up at his fiancé. He saw in those big, whirlpool eyes their whole past, like a fairytale book being flipped through. And how the book started.
A twitter request and an accept. Skype calls for eight hours and forty two minutes. October 19th, 2009: the train station, a hug diminishing all other hugs. Pinof 1, the sky bar, the Uma Thurman poster, the Christmas adventures, the laundry visits, the move, the other move, the tour, the book, the other book, the other other move…….
Oh my god. And their tale had just started. Phil smiled lovingly and held his hand out for Dan, helping him step onto the podium. Phil looked like an angel as always, in a white suit with a red, red rose in his pocket.
The priest cleared his throat. Dan didn’t really listen to anything he was saying. A bunch of stuff that amounted to nothing compared to the way that Phil looked at him and the way Dan at Phil. Everyone could tell they were in love, no matter how they hid it. And it was okay—no, more than okay. Glorious.
“Now, the grooms will say their vows.”
Phil went first. “I’m going to make this short. I love you, you bumbling idiot. I love how you smell like teakwood and how you laugh and how you remind me of Winnie the Pooh. You used to be my fan but now you are the love of my life.” A slight breeze blew through the ceremony, as if to add depth.
“I can’t imagine how my morning would be without you there to eat cereal with while watching Adventure Time reruns on the couch as an excuse to cuddle. You are so much more than you think you are. I hope I am always enough for you. Until death. Please don’t have an existential crisis because I said the word ‘death’.” The audience chuckled. “Yeah. Uh. Love you, BRO!” He ended the speech with a punch to Dan’s gut to emphasize their Bro-ness. Very Phil.
Okay. This was it. He took Phils hand in his, inhaling at the warmth of his palm. “Okay, I was going to practice this and perfect it because that’s what I always do when I want something to be perfect, but I decided that this had to be special. It’s not a video script. I’m winging it.
I love you, Philip Michael Lester, and I have only loved you more every day since seeing that toothy grin through a Skype viewfinder as we talked about Muse and Battlestar Galactica and Attack on Titan and everything else because we were and still are nerds. I can’t put into words how you make me feel. I feel safe with you. You’re like a soft blanket. Wait, no, that’s weird. Uh. You make me feel. Warm. No! That sounds wrong! Fuck it. I love you. Marry me, you bitch!”
Louise started howling in laughter, and Cornelia joined in.
The priest barely had time to say “you may kiss” before Dan grappled at Phils hair and knocked him backwards with a smooch. They parted for a second, Phil laughing, and then Phil kissed him back suddenly. They touched foreheads, light bouncing off of their hair and noses and sand-dusted shoes.
The audience applauded and rose to go to the reception.
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Dan and Phil, freshly married, had somehow ended up making out in a cubicle of the bathroom of their own wedding hall. They couldn’t help it—dinner was over anyhow, everyone was dancing, and they could spend their wedding however they wanted, right? Or at least, that’s what Dan told himself as he dappled pecks along Phil’s jawline. Phils breath smelled of red wine.
He could hear muffled music coming from the ballroom. Britney Spears…what state was he in when he made that playlist to put her song in? Whatever.
“Hey Dan,” Phil gasped.
“Yes, hubby?” Dan said with an exaggerated smirk. His tipsiness has made him say hubby like ten times in less than an hour.
“You’re such a good kisser. This is what I married you for. My face is in heaven right now.”
“I know it. And I married you for your sweet, sweet smile which imma kiss right! Now!” And with that he pressed a heavy, wine-stained buss with his lips on Phil’s still open mouth, and stuck his tongue in and out, quickly, as a tease.
They stared at each other for a good minute then, panting. The song ended in the other room. “We should probably go back in—“ Dan suggested, opening the door. And then he heard it. The song. He tumbled out of the cubicle, Phil following him. “It’s-“
“Interrupted by Fireworks,” Phil finished for him. “I put it on there. To dance with you.” Their song, a part of their history.
“Oh, dang it. Sorry we aren’t in there to dance to it.”
A curious smile arose on Phil’s lips. “What do you mean?” He swiftly wrapped his arms around Dan’s torso and pulled him close. Smooth as ever, even in a men’s bathroom.
Dan laughed. “Here?”
Phils rose flopped as he nodded.
“Okay,” Dan managed, lacing his own arms on Phils neck. They swayed to the song gently, as if they were still on the beach and not a meter away from a toilet. The chords strummed gently in Dans ears, nostalgia surging through him. It reminded him of everything. Everything.
Phil looked at him tenderly. Everything but Phil and the song faded as if the lights were dimming. Dans eyes welled up. He was married. To Phil. Phil Lester. How could he be so lucky?
Phil cupped his cheek, a tear cascading silently down his own face. He beamed. “It’s okay. You can cry.”
And Dan did. He sobbed, his filling with tiny reservoirs of water. Salt and memories and joy soaked out into the open, out of pure and ethereal joy. How was this happening? Oh my god.
Phil lifted Dan’s chin up with his hand softly. “Want to watch Haikyuu when we go back home?”
Dan rolled his eyes despite the emotion of the previous moments. He could always trust Phil to lighten it up. “Sure.”
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All about Britney Spears' Versace wedding gown
All about Britney Spears’ Versace wedding gown
Pop icon Britney Spears got married to boyfriend Sam Asghari on June 9, with the highlight of the fairytale wedding being Britney’s gown. Source link
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newyorktheater · 6 years
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Britney Spears, 20 years ago
Will Roland in Be More Chiil
Cast of Mean Girls
Andrew Barth Feldman in Dear Evan Hansen
Isabelle McCalla and Caitlin Kinnunen as high school girlfriends in The Prom
“I’m not a girl, not yet a woman…I’m in between,” Britney Spears sang some two decades ago, and it could almost be the new anthem (gender-adjusted) for Broadway. The opening of Be More Chill this week adds yet another to the New York stage shows that focus on teenage characters (mostly portrayed by non-teenage performers), many of which attract a large teenage audience. These include Dear Evan Hansen, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Mean Girls, and, yes, ok, Wicked. (The Prom has a dual focus; and the audience for, if not the characters in, Frozen skew younger.) Teen angst has made its way Off-Broadway as well, with Superhero.
Shows about teens and tweens are hardly new: 13, Bye Bye Birdie, Carrie, Hairspray, Matilda, Newsies, School of Rock, Spring Awakening come to mind. But we’re seeing a particular trend now, and not an especially welcome one. It’s of course a good thing to broaden the demographics of the Broadway audience, and at least one of these shows is widely viewed as of high quality.  Yet their focus is largely on angst and on stereotypes.  How accurate or fair are the depictions of teenagers in these shows?  Yes, high school may be a time when some people are trying out identities, and too many of them might like to assign reductive labels to their classmates or even to themselves.  But surely this is not the full picture, nor a constructive one. As I say in my review of Be More Chill, the actual high school students we see regularly in the news are  taking the lead in attacking such crucial  problems as climate change and gun control — problems that have stalemated adults.
Incidentally, “I’m Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman,” along with “Baby One More Time,” Spear’s first pop single when she was 17 years old, are likely to be two of the 23 songs from her repertorie that will be in the new musical “Once Upon a One More Time” aiming for Broadway, announced today.  The book, thankfully, is not about teen angst. (For more details, see Week in NY Theater News, below.)
The Week in New York Theater Reviews
THE B-SIDE: “Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons,” A Record Album Interpretation
In “The B-Side,” three men sing along with an album on a record-player —  or, as people prefer to say these days, a vinyl on the turntable. But there’s a reason why the Wooster Group’s encore presentation of its simple and odd hour-long piece, first performed at the Performing Garage in 2017, is filling St. Ann’s Warehouse every night. The album is “Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons”…
Austin Scott as Alexander Hamilton and Carvens Lissaint as George Washington, the new cast members of “Hamilton” on Broadway.
  Hamilton on Broadway 2019: New Cast, New Clarity
I recently saw Hamilton again on Broadway, during a rare open captioned performance, and it was a revelation in several ways.
  I would love to see this show but there are not enough OC performances for those of us who want to attend. It’s nice to pat yourself on the back about access, but the reality is that an occasional Wednesday OC performance with limited tickets is not access. #captionallshows
— Dr. Petrified Tree Sap (@a_joy_martin) March 9, 2019
The Cake Review: “This is Us” writer on Christian baker’s Lesbian wedding dilemma
In “The Cake,” Debra Jo Rupp (the mother on “That 70s Show”) portrays Della, a Christian baker in North Carolina who refuses to bake a cake for a lesbian wedding. If the story is inspired by the Supreme Court case decided last year, Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, playwright Bekah Brunstetter, who is a writer for “This Is Us,” makes it personal in several ways…One of the future brides, Jen (Genevieve Angelson), is the daughter of Della’s best friend, who died five years ago. Della, who is childless, views Jen like a daughter…Bekah Brunstetter has told interviewers that she wrote “The Cake” as a way to explain her support for gay rights and same-sex marriage to her parents. Her father, Peter Brunstetter, is a Republican politician from North Carolina who supported an anti-gay state bill that defined marriage as between a man and a woman.
Be More Chill on Broadway
Somebody wrote “NYC Loves BMC” in chalk on the sidewalk outside Broadway’s Lyceum Theater, the new home of “Be More Chill,” the high energy, high decibel pop-rock musical that stars Will Roland as a self-proclaimed high school “loser” who swallows a pill containing a supercomputer and becomes cool. I tweeted a picture of the scrawled public love note; the tweet was retweeted nearly a hundred times. “Be More Chill” has some seriously devoted fans, most of whom seem to be 15 years old. It’s a thrill to see such teenaged enthusiasm for live theater.  I wish I could share more fully in their ardor for this show
  The Week in New York Theater News
The first annual Rave Theater Festival is asking for submissions. Artistic director @kendavenportplans roughly 20 plays, musicals, multimedia, and cross-disciplinary projects, as well as family shows, which will each receive up to five performances, August 9-25, 2019 at Clemente Sito Velez Cultural and Education Center on the Lower East Side.
Simpsons theme song composer Danny Elfman will make his Broadway debut by composing music for “Gary: The Sequel to Titus Andronicus.”
Twenty-three of Britney Spears’ songs will form the score for a new Broadway-aiming musical, “Once Upon a One More Time” with will have a try-out in Chicago from October to December of this year. “Once Upon A Time… Cinderella, Snow White, and the other fairytale princesses gather for their book club, when – oh, baby baby! – a rogue fairy godmother drops The Feminine Mystique into their corseted laps, spurring a royal revelation.” The Times reports that the run at the Chicago theater “had been set aside for “Don’t Stop ’Til You Get Enough,” a Michael Jackson jukebox musical that canceled its Chicago plans on the eve of an HBO documentary detailing abuse allegations against the pop star. That show’s producers say they are still hoping to come to Broadway.”
The Arts Are Good For You
Three articles that show that the arts are a good thing.
Article 1, by Isaac Kaplan in Artsy:  Arts Sector Contributed $763.6 Billion to U.S. Economy—More Than Agriculture or Transportation, New Data Shows
Article 2, by Tom Jacobs in Pacific Standard:  How arts can help struggling science students do better
A large study released last month found that Florida middle-school students who study music, theater, or visual art subsequently get higher overall grades than their peers.
Article 3 by Robert Ruffin in HowlRound (from 2018) We Need Theatre to Exist, and Maybe Research Can Prove Its Necessity
A new Broadway By The Year, musicals of 1943 and 1951, will be presented at Town Hall of March 25th, “created, written, hosted and directed” by Scott Siegel — for whom 2018 was not a great year, having gotten into a bad bicycle accident. Here is an article about his accident and his show in the Times, written right before the last Broadway By Year, last month.
Alexa’s new skill lets you scour Ticketmaster using your voice
  Robert Barry Fleming has been appointed artistic director of Actors Theater of Louisville, the theater that brings us the annual Humana Festival. He’s been an actor, director, choreographer, arts administrator (at Arena Stage and Cleveland PlayHouse), and championed or commissioned such shows as Dear Evan Hansen and Sweat.
Daryl_Roth – Producing with a Purpose. Theater producer for 31 yrs “Marvel action hero” – Paula Vogel. One of the few female producers on Broadway…she chooses work by women, LGBT folks, and people of color not usually seen as commercially viable
Daveed DIggs is back in New York, for the play White Noise at the Public Theater, and he’s happier to be here than last time.
The last few years I have had not a great relationship with New York, but this time feels really good. The Hamilton experience here was so intense, and it became a pretty stressful place for me to be. That was a show that, at the bottom of it, it’s a bunch of friends getting together and making rap songs. I was involved with that show for a long time because my friend wrote it and asked me to come along for the ride. Everything on the inside of it felt very small, and everything on the outside of it felt very big.
…I love performing in smaller houses. I think you get a different kind of connection there. I’m excited to be doing any play, period, after spending a couple years being in front of a camera. This is a very welcome return. You get a different kind of intimacy in a small space, and I think everybody gets to know each other a little better.
As much as I loved performing on Broadway, I don’t care if I ever do that again. I like telling stories in places where everyone is part of the storytelling.
Oskar Eustis and Suzan-Lori Parks chat with one another about their new collaboration as director and playwright, White Noise, It begins: Oskar Eustis doesn’t believe in giving audiences a heads-up. “When you have a trigger ­warning, you’re implying that people need to be protected from pain,” says Eustis, the artistic director of New York’s Public ­Theater. “I think real art says, ‘No, you don’t. What you need is the chance to face it.’”
If you’re working on a play– especially a new one– and you’re not checking in with your ushers on a regular basis during previews, you don’t actually know how it’s going.
— Evan Cabnet (@evancabnet) March 11, 2019
Thanks Broadway Twitter for having my back. Being a working parent in any profession is really challenging. I never want to disappoint audiences as I am beyond grateful to them, but the health of my family will always come before my job. Thanks to those who understand that 💛
— Laura Benanti (@LauraBenanti) March 11, 2019
.@FosseVerdonFX cast includes: Sam Rockwell as Bob Fosse & Michelle Williams as Gwen Verdon@kelli_barrett as Liza Minnelli@biancamarroquin as @Chita_Rivera +@BranUran as Dustin Hoffman @TheTylerHanes as Jerry Orbach@ethansaslater as @joelgrey Premieres on FX April 9th. pic.twitter.com/lvokxwZUFl
— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) March 11, 2019
If you’re an aspiring playwright, this thread by @MikeLew4 might change your life. https://t.co/WouQGQXNUh
— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) March 8, 2019
My favorite line: “Get that EXT/INT shit outta there! Dead giveaway your “play” is a pilot.”
Play Formatting PSA: In undergrad one of the 1st things Donald Margulies did was teach us proper play formatting. Which felt like a huge bummer. Shouldn’t it be story first? Who cares about formatting?! Don’t you see that l WILL CHANGE THE FORM, WITH THE POWER OF ART? 1
But now that I’ve done a ton of reading committees, I can see he was right. In the same way you wouldn’t show up to a job interview dressed wrong for the job, when I’m reading a ton of plays my first cut rejections boil down to, “Does this manuscript LOOK like a play or not?” 2/
And the most screwed up thing is that published plays don’t look like manuscript-form plays, so you can’t just learn by picking up an acting edition at the bookstore or your submission’ll look weird. To wit, a thread about formatting. ARE YOU EXCITED?? 3/
A full-length play is approx 100 pgs in length (50 pgs per act). Sure your length may vary. You may have a lean 75 pg straight-through-no-intermission piece or a 120 pg 2-act that “should read really really fast”
Now the formatting nitty gritty! *character names in all caps & centered *dialogue left-justified *in-dialogue stage directions like “(she exits)” should be in parentheses and italics *longer stage directions should be tabbed in and (optionally) italicized 10/
New scenes get their own line (i.e. “Scene 1”) – bolded and numbered *Get that EXT/INT shit outta there! Dead giveaway your “play” is a pilot. *Start a new pg for each scene *End the act on an all-caps “END OF ACT 1” “END OF PLAY” etc – and bold it too cuz that feels GREAT 11/
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A Very Special Karaoke Advice
The fall chill reminds us that the holidays are just around the corner, and it never hurts to be prepared! Soon it will be the season for awkward office parties, often punctuated by some meaningless activity meant to bring staff together…and for some reason, that dubious honor often falls to karaoke. We’re not sure how this strange tradition began. As discussed in previous columns, there doesn’t seem to be any middle ground for karaoke. People either love it or they hate it. So it seems like a bizarre choice as a unification activity for people who might not have anything to say to each other outside of the office. But maybe that’s the point? To create an atmosphere where everyone feels equally uncomfortable? (Aside from us, obviously!) The worst office karaoke experience I (Sarah) ever had was a conference room holiday potluck with no alcohol. Picture this: fluorescent overhead lighting, a karaoke machine in the corner, and 30 of your colleagues staring blankly at each other. Anyway, I got through it, and you will too. In the spirit of the season, we have endeavored to put together a list of song choices that we hope will inspire even the grinchiest among us.
Same Old Lang Syne—Dan Folgelberg
So this is the BEST Christmas song of all time.  If you’ve never heard it: 1. You must be British, 2. please run to Spotify or your streaming service of choice. Spoiler alert: a grown man, now a FAMOUS SINGER, runs into his high school girlfriend on Christmas Eve at his hometown grocery store. (I’m getting chills as I type this; NOT EVEN KIDDING.) I dare you not to be moved by the last line: “Just for a moment I was back at school / And felt that old familiar pain / And as I turned to make my way back home / The snow turned into rain...” (followed by a sad sax version of Auld Lang Syne, obviously). Also, who among us has not run into an ex (or worried about running into an ex) while home for the holidays? SO. MANY. EMOTIONS.
Last Christmas—Wham
This is a fine, festive choice.  It also has a lot of good “act-out” moves, which I realize not everyone wants, but I do.  Please do not do the “Glee” version or the Carly Rae Jepsen version. There is a difference.
Marshmallow World—Darlene Love
A classic, but be warned: I think you might need to be able to carry a tune to pull this off.
Hey Santa—Wilson SISTERS (fun fact: I thought this was by Wilson Phillips until I googled it one second ago)
This isn’t really that great a song but it’s just Carnie and Wendy singing “Hey Santa” over and over again so it’s pretty easy. I also like the idea of Santa just completely ghosting the Wilson sisters as they just call his name multiple times with no response.
Santa Can You Hear Me—Britney Spears
This is a terrible, terrible song but it’s fun to sing in the weird blocked nasal passage Britney voice (“Sabta cab you heab me?”). Also, you could combine it with “Hey Santa” for a rock block of pop stars basically yelling demands at Santa.
Santa Baby—Eartha Kitt/Madonna/Your Embarrassing Aunt/Michael Buble
Speaking of making demands of Santa, no one but Eartha Kitt should ever have performed this song...EVER. Eartha Kitt had a sense of humor about herself and about the song. It’s OBVIOUS that she’s singing to a beau and referring to him as “Santa”--weird, sure, but funny, and her matter-of-fact delivery makes it all the more amusing and a fine addition to the holiday season. Madonna THINKS she has a sense of humor about herself but she does NOT and her delivery implies that she’s going to devour Santa and guess what that means? You’re not getting a convertible, a ring, or checks with a dead Santa on your hands, Madge. Step away from the chimney. This delivery is, by extension, how every embarrassing aunt delivers Santa Baby and it’s awful. You can be a sexy singing aunt in a myriad of ways that don’t involve Santa. I’m not even going to go down the road of Michael Buble singing “Santa Buddy” and you shouldn’t either. It’s the holidays. People want to sit in bars with colored lights strung up around the room and feel a little melancholy. They don’t want to hear Steverino from HR smirkily asking for a “steel blue” convertible because “light blue” equals a chick car, I guess, GOD THIS HORRIBLE SONG. (Note from Sarah: my sister spent most of her life thinking the “slip a sable under the tree” line was referring to a MERCURY SABLE. Dear Santa, please leave a convertible but also a mid-size, four door, American made sedan. Thanks.)
The Hanukkah Song — Adam Sandler
Yes, it’s probably the only token non-Christmas option that’s available in your karaoke book (let us know if we’re wrong!) and it’s a controversial one. I (Karen) like it. It’s also educational—did you know Goldie Hawn was ¼ Jewish before this song? I didn’t! Sarah responded “Oh God, I mean, I guess” when I suggested it. To be fair, I also still enjoy the disgusting “At A Medium Pace” from Sandler’s seminal 1993 comedy album They’re All Gonna Laugh At You [no, I don’t want to hear you sing it, and certainly not at karaoke] and tear up at the “Grow Old With You” part of The Wedding Singer [no, I don’t want you to dance to it at your wedding...ok, maybe I do? I don’t know anymore.] I guess take some time to suss out whether or not your audience is going to be a pro-90s Sandler crowd and then proceed as you like. I want to hear it, though.
Do They Know It’s Christmas—Band Aid
I’m not sure why I’m recommending this because I think I actually performed this unsuccessfully with a group; but maybe you’ll have better luck? Also this song is garbage.
Christmas Wrapping—The Waitresses
Ok, (especially for non-singers) but I should warn you that this song is longer than you think. By the end you won’t care about this meet cute story any more, and neither will the audience. JUST GET YOUR CRANBERRY SAUCE AND GET ON WITH IT.
Fairytale of New York—The Pogues
Either a great Christmas duet, or a terrible shoutfest. Regardless of how you feel, you must admit this unlikely holiday favorite is in a league of its own. Warning: contains slurs. So if you decide to sing this, please omit those. Helpful life hint which can be applied to every situation: DON’T YELL SLURS.  
All I Want For Christmas is You—Mariah Carey
Really? Are you sure you want to do this?
In summary, please sing Same Old Lang Syne, all other choices are terrible. Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night.
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