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IN THE HEIGHTS countdown: 17 DAYS!

song for today:

it's silly when we get into these crazy hypotheticals you really want some bread? then go ahead create a set of goals and cross 'em off the list as you pursue ‘em and with those ninety-six i know precisely what i'm doin'

[locke-writes]

Masterlist

The requested rebloggable version of my masterlist under the cut.

Remember that my motto is “If I know it well enough I can write for it” so questions about fandoms and characters are always welcome. I write for movies, tv shows, plays, musicals, books, etc.

All Fics

Anastasia The Musical

Dimitry

Baby Driver

Baby

Buddy

Darling

Being Human (US)

Aidan Waite

Bishop

Josh Levison

Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure

Bill Preston

Ted Logan

Booksmart

Amy Antsler

Gigi

Molly Davidson

Tanner

The Breakfast Club

Andrew Clark

John Bender

Brooklyn Nine Nine

Amy Santiago

Jake Peralta

Rosa Diaz

Terry Jeffords

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Cordelia Chase

Giles

Spike

Xander

Criminal Minds

Aaron Hotchner

David Rossi

Derek Morgan

Penelope Garcia

Spencer Reid

Daredevil

Foggy Nelson

Frank Castle

Matt Murdock

DC Extended Universe

Arthur Curry

Barry Allen

Bruce Wayne

Harley Quinn

Joker

Mera

Victor Stone

Disney

Christopher Robin

David Kawena

Diaval

Dory

Flynn Rider

Gaston

Lumiere

Maleficent

Moana

Nani Pelekai

Piglet

Prince Adam

Prince Philip

Wiggins

Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them

Newt Scamander

Percival Graves

Friends

Chandler Bing

Janice Litman

Joey Tribianni

Monica Gellar

Phoebe Buffay

Rachel Green

Ross Gellar

Fright Night (2011)

Charlie Brewster

Jerry Dandridge

Peter Vincent

Ghostbusters

Egon Spengler

Peter Venkman

Ray Stantz

Guardians of the Galaxy

Gamora

Peter Quill

Yondu

The Good Place

Chidi Anagonye

Eleanor Shellstrop

Jason Mendoza

Michael

Tahani Al Jamil

Halt & Catch Fire

Joe MacMillan

Hannibal

Frederick Chilton

Hannibal Lecter

Will Graham

Harry Potter

Bill Weasley

Charlie Weasley

Draco Malfoy

Fred Weasley

Ginny Weasley

George Weasley

Harry Potter

Hermione Granger

James Potter

Lavender Brown

Lucius Malfoy

Luna Lovegood

Marauders

Neville Longbottom

Oliver Wood

Remus Lupin

Ron Weasley

Severus Snape

Seamus Finnigan

Hateful Eight

Chris Mannix

Domergue Gang

Jody Domergue

Joe Gage

John Ruth

Pete Hicox

The Haunted Mansion

Edward Gracey

House MD

Gregory House

James Wilson

How I Met Your Mother

Barney Stinson

IT

The Losers Club

Bill Denbrough

Ben Hanscom

Eddie Kaspbrak

Richie Tozier

It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia

Dennis

Mac

Charlie

The IT Crowd

The IT Department

Roy

Jurassic Park

Alan Grant

Ian Malcolm

Jurassic World

Lowery Cruthers

Zara

Zia Rodriguez

The Kingsman

Eggsy Unwin

Harry Hart

Merlin

A Knight’s Tale

Chaucer

Count Adhemar

Wat

Knives Out

Benoit Blanc

Law & Order SVU

Amanda Rollins

George Huang

John Munch

Mike Dodds

Nick Amaro

Rafael Barba

Rita Calhoun

Sonny Carisi

Lost Boys

David

The Vampire Clan

Lucifer

Chloe Decker

Lucifer Morningstar

Mazikeen

Marvel

Ava Starr

Avengers Team

Bruce Banner

Bucky Barnes

Cable

Carol Danvers

Clint Barton

The Collector

Deadpool

Fandral

Hope Van Dyne

Johnny Storm

Loki

Nakia

Okoye

Peter Parker

Phil Coulson

Pietro Maximoff

Sam Wilson

Scott Lang

Stephen Strange

Steve Rogers

Susan Storm

Thor

Tony Stark

Valkyrie

Vision

Yon Rogg

Wanda Maximoff

The Martian

Mark Watney

Rich Purnell

Merlin

Arthur Pendragon

Merlin

Morgana Pendragon

Morgause

Uther

Mr Right

Francis

New Girl

Coach

Jessica Day

Nick Miller

Schmidt

Winston Bishop

Now You See Me

The Four Horsemen

Parks & Recreation

Andy Dwyer

Chris Traeger

Donna Meagle

Tom Haverford

Peter Pan (2003)

Peter Pan

Peaky Blinders

Ada Shelby

Alfie Solomons

Arthur Shelby

John Shelby

Luca Changretta

Michael Gray

Polly Gray

Tommy Shelby

Phantom of the Opera

Erik

Princess Bride

Buttercup

Pretty In Pink

Duckie

Steff

Priest

Black Hat

Prodigal Son

Malcolm Bright

Martin Whitly

PS I Love You

William Gallagher

Pushing Daisies

Ned

Repo! The Genetic Opera

Graverobber

Luigi Largo

Rotti Largo

Reservoir Dogs

Freddy Newandyke

Mr White

Nice Guy Eddie

Vic Vega

A Series of Unfortunate Events

The Baudelaire’s

Esme Squalor

Star Wars

Bodhi Rook

Cassian Andor

Darth Maul

Finn

Hux

Kylo Ren

Obi Wan

Poe Dameron

Qui Gon

Rey

Stranger Things

Eleven

Jim Hopper

Jonathan Byers

Steve Harrington

That 70s Show

Donna Pinciotti

Fez

Michael Kelso

Steven Hyde

Three Musketeers (2011)

Aramis

Athos

D’artagnan

Porthos

Trainspotting

Renton

Trouble in the Heights

Nevada Ramirez

Watchmen

Adrian Veidt/Ozymandias 

Rorschach

Watchmen (Team)

What We Do In The Shadows

Nandor

Nadja

Will & Grace

Karen Walker

Will Truman

X-Men

Charles Xavier

Erik Lehnsherr

Hank McCoy

Kurt Wagner

Victor Creed

Wolverine

[newyorktheater]

As the theater awards season enters the home stretch – what’s left: Drama Desk Awards, Theatre World Awards, the Tonys – the question arises once again:How does one determine, or even define, excellence in theater?

“I’ve become increasingly convinced that as a field we do not have a cohesive definition of excellence,” Chad Bauman,  the managing director of Milwaukee Repertory Theater, wrote last year in American Theatre.

So he asked his colleagues across the country, and got some 50 responses – but the question he asked was about excellence in a theater as a whole (regional theaters in particular), not about individual shows. So the answers about excellence in individual shows didn’t get much more specific than “artistic quality.” All did agree that courage counts – such as not being afraid to play with form.

Five years ago, in an article titled Divining Artistic Excellence ,  theater artist and historian Lynne Connor pointed out that, while the concept of excellence can refer to something semi-tangible such as “the sophistication of a play’s dramatic arc,” more often people conflate excellence with taste, “something far less tangible and thus far less quantifiable.” And what determines taste? “Personal taste in everything from beer to Shakespeare comes about through a combination of biology, past experience, cultural norms, and individual predilections.”

She concludes: “We need to find productive ways to invite audiences of all tastes (and all economic and ethnic backgrounds) to join in the conversation about (the struggle over) meaning and value.”

Week in New York Theater Awards

Obie Awards

The 64th Annual Obie Awards, celebrating Off and Off-Off-Broadway Theater, was a New York Theatre Workshop lovefest, with Obies going to NYTW playwrights Heidi Schreck, Madeleine George, Marcus Gardley, and lighting designer Isabella Byrd, as well as a lifetime achievement Obie to NYTW’s artistic director James Nicola. It was also a tribute to the many women working in the theater in New York. But Obies like to spread the wealth, literally — Four theaters received grants.

Full list

  Terrence McNally was made an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts at New York University’s Commencement. NYU Prof (and playwright) Kristoffer Diaz read the citation:”  Terrence McNally, one of theatre’s greatest contemporary playwrights, you have created over the past half-century an eclectic and prolific body of work—literally scores of plays, musicals, opera libretti, and scripts for film and television. Your razor wit and complexities of character largely explain how you created theatre that functions as family, launched the careers of great actors, and helped audiences cope with the AIDS crisis that engulfed them. You placed your unique stamp on American drama by probing the urgent need for connection that resonates at the core of human experience. From an expansive mind and generous spirit, you have created masterful and enduring art and in the process have celebrated and uplifted humankind.”

The latest is a revival of Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, which opens May 30th at Broadway’s Broadhurst Theater.

  Madeline Michel from Monticello High School in Charlottesville, VA was the winner of the 2019 Excellence in Theatre Education Award from the Tony Awards and Carnegie Mellon

After the white supremacist rally in their city, Michel’s students wrote and performed original theater to address racial inequality, helping to elevated the conversation for a wounded community.

Some 2019 Outer Critics Circle Award winners accept their awards at a celebratory luncheon at Sardi’s

elia Keenan-Bolger, featured actress in a play, To Kill a Mockingbird

Amber Gray, featured actress in a musical, Hadestown

Andre De Shields, featured actor in a musical, Hadestown

Benjamin Walker, featured actor in a play, All My Sons

Bryan Cranston, lead actor in a play, Network

Stephanie J. Block, lead actress in a musical, The Cher Show

Santino Fontana, lead actor in a musical, Tootsie

  The Week in New York Theater Reviews and Previews

Brian d’Arcy James (Quinn Carney) and Holley Fain (Caitlin Carney

The Ferryman on Broadway with American cast

The Ferryman, a feast of Irish storytelling in a breathtaking mix of genres, opened on Broadway seven months ago, and since then it’s gotten nine Tony nominations, best play awards from the New York Drama Critics Circle, the Outer Critics Circle, AND the Drama League…and an almost entirely new cast, the original British and Irish actors replaced by Americans. Even Laura Donnelly has been replaced. She is the Belfast-born actress whose uncle’s disappearance, and the subsequent discovery years later of his murdered corpse, inspired playwright Jez Butterworth to write the play in the first place. Donnelly’s character Caitin Carney is now being portrayed by Holley Fain, an actress born in Kansas.

…Does this matter? It might in one way to those of us who saw the original cast. But to those theatergoers who have not yet had the pleasure of experiencing The Ferryman (which they have only until July 7th to do), the play is still a rich, sweeping entertainment — epic, tragic….and cinematic.

Lunch Bunch at Clubbed Thumb

n the first play of Clubbed Thumb’s 24thannual  Summerworks festival at the Wild Project – the first summer theater festival of the season — the cast faces us a la A Chorus Line, except instead of singing “I hope I get it,”they recite “Veggie enchiladas with Clementine” and “Rice, steamed kale, spiced tofu.”

It’s only after several such culinary recitations that we’re told these people are members of a lunch group, each member having agreed to make lunch for everybody else once a week.  It takes a little longer to figure out that they are lawyers in a public defender’s office, that it’s a taxing job – “Greg’s resilient,” says Tuttle (Keilly McQuail), “He never cries in the coat closet” – and that obsessing on food is what helps keep them going.

Loveville High

Two things distinguish Loveville High, a new musical that takes place on prom night in a high school in Loveville, Ohio. First: The cast of 13 is comprised of some of the most talented young theater stars in New York, several of them also currently performing on Broadway — Ali Stroker (Tony nominee for Oklahoma!), Kathryn Allison (Aladdin), Andrew Durand (Ink), Gizel Jiménez (Wicked), and Ryann Redmond (Frozen)  — and they sing the hell out of the lively, often witty songs  by David Zellnik (Yank!) and Eric Svejcar (Disney’s Peter Pan Jr.) How is it possible to be in two shows at the same time?  That’s the second aspect of this musical that’s unusual: It has no choreographer, no set designer…no stage. It’s a podcast.

Úna Clancy and Maryann Plunkett

  Sean O’Casey’s Dublin Trilogy

Sean O’Casey was 43 years old and had worked his whole life as a laborer, when he finally had a play accepted in 1922 by the founders of Dublin’s famed Abbey Theater, the dramatist Lady Gregory and the poet W.B. Yeats. That play, The Shadow of A Gunman, was set during the 1920 Irish War of Independence, and is the first play of what came to be called O’Casey’s Dublin Trilogy, a chronicle of Ireland’s violent struggle for independence from the British, set from 1916 to 1922.

To celebrate its 30th anniversary, the Irish Rep is mounting all three plays in repertory,

  The Week in New York Theater News

Goodbye, Avenue Q

Marisa Tomei will play Serafina Delle Rose in the third Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams’ 1951 play “The Rose Tattoo,” opening October 15, 2019 on Broadway at Roundabout’s American Airlines Theater. .

Mary-Louise Parker as Bella Baird in “The Sound Inside” at Williamstown Theatre Festival.

Mary-Louise Parker will star in the Broadway premiere of “The Sound Inside”, written by Adam Rapp (Red Light Winter), directed by David Cromer Opens October 17, 2019 at Studio 54 Play debuted last year at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. “A tenured professor. A talented student. A troubling favor.”

Cast announced for @Alanis ‘s @jaggedmusical, opening at Broadway’s Broadhurst Dec 5: Elizabeth Stanley, @PattenLauren, @DerekKlena, Kathryn Gallagher, @SeanAllanKrill, & @celia_gooding

“The Healys appear to be a picture-perfect suburban family — but looks can be deceiving.” pic.twitter.com/0izIBUOWd7

— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) May 23, 2019

.@RattlestickNY has a busy and exciting June, starting with #AlumniJam June 3, in which 5 playwrights offer sneak previews of their new plays — clockwise from top left @OhYeaDiana ,Jesse Eisenberg, @HalleyFeiffer , Ren Santiago, @SamuelDHunterhttps://t.co/jHtc8ihYKn pic.twitter.com/gF1RElEOyC

— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) May 21, 2019

Immersive powerhouse Third Rail Projects will  stage “Midsummer A Banquet,” culinary version of Shakespeare’s comedy w/ a tasting menu July 15- Sept 8, a co-production with Food of Love Productions at Cafe Fae in Union Square

Third season of #NextDooratNYTW will offer 10 plays from The Penal Colony by @miranda__haymon, adapted from Kafka short story, July 2019 to “Raisins Not Virgins” by @sharbarizohra in June 2020 Also @michiMigdalia @missmillythomas @andybragen more!https://t.co/KomdhI7hAK pic.twitter.com/XPoTLOWaMc

— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) May 20, 2019

  The real Lunt and Fontanne

After Fosse Verdon, What’s Next?

  EXTRAS NEEDED! Do u live in Washington Heights? Do u want to be in a movie?! How about a movie MUSICAL?!!!! We are doing an open call for Extras for our #InTheHeights shooting very very soon! Check out attached flyers 4details on how to submit. @Lin_Manuel @quiarahudes pic.twitter.com/j7oFk9wYIw

— Jon M. Chu (@jonmchu) May 25, 2019

.@LPTWomen‘s 7th Annual Women Stage the World March, June 11th, Times Square The march is “designed to educate the public about the role women play in creating theatre and the gender barriers they face as men continue to outnumber women by 4 to 1.” https://t.co/56VVv938kO pic.twitter.com/wQzOEmkAHh

— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) May 23, 2019

Nik Wallenda and Lijanda Wallenda, seventh generation daredevils, will walk 25 stories above street level between 1 Times Square & 2 Times Square. Time Square is not for the faint-hearted, as anybody who’s tried to navigated around the Elmos and tourists can tell you

I’m so excited to announce that I’m returning to the highwire with my sister Lijana for a never before attempted walk across New York City’s iconic Times Square! Join me LIVE Sunday, June 23 on ABC. #HighwireLIVE pic.twitter.com/yVi9hqVHB2

— Nik Wallenda (@NikWallenda) May 23, 2019

Billboard above the Empire Diner in Chelsea:

A Mount Rushmore of avant-garde art. But isn’t that a contradiction?

Excellence in Theater…or Taste? Marisa Tomei, Mary-Louise Parker Back on Broadway. Third Rail’s New Immersive Shakespeare! #Stageworthy News of the Week As the theater awards season enters the home stretch – what’s left: Drama Desk Awards, Theatre World Awards, the Tonys – the question arises once again:How does one determine, or even define, excellence in theater?