#tech rehearsal

[ilikethisacompletelynormalamount]

vanyaonstage

Kater Gordon

We're getting so close to opening night for Vanya! I'm so excited for all you lucky fucks ducks who have tickets! 🥳

[bespokeredmayne]

Cabaret camaraderie

(Top) Eddie Redmayne selfied by Kit Kat Club “Cabaret girl” Texas, Mimi Scardulla, who reported “Tech is fun.”

(Below) Eddie at the mike during Saturday’s “sitzprobe,” the first rehearsal of the singers and orchestra for the unique sound of the Kit Kat Club. If the production repeats the London arrangement, the musicians are divided into two balconies overlooking the round, rotating stage in the middle of the “club.” (Photo from IG @kitkatclubnyc)

[syuniikisss]

tell me why there’s literally a tornado warning where i live and i’ll bet money that rehearsals wont be cancelled 😿

[against-all-0dds]

guys omg.

so we had our last tech rehearsal before Matilda opens at my school.

I play trunchbull, and I have terrible, awful, really really bad self esteem (if you want to make the team you don’t need happiness or self esteem)

we did a cue to cue (the show is double cast, so that was complicated),

people made fun of my singing voice TO MY FACE several times,

One of the guys that plays Eric took a picture of my feet when I was changing out of my costume even tho I explicitly told him not to,

I cried twice,

i had to run the newt scene (Matilda fans, you know what I mean) TWICE,

people always make fun of me for the newt scene and the final scene that im in, this time was just worse,

I have to scream “there’s a newt in my knickers” several times, and that sounds like a slur, and my cast mates always bring it up, and idk why but I just feel like a terrible person because it sounds similar,

after all that, I went to the director and told her about the feet pics and the being made fun of and how I wanted to drop out of the show,

she said some stuff that was really encouraging and made me feel better (I’m not dropping out of the show),

then she scolded the dude that took the pics of me,

then I came home and ate some good food,

then I started watching the first part of Sunday in the Park With George,

then I started thinking about ART and I DONT PAINT FOR YOUR APPROVAL

so now I guess I’m just gonna eat some food, practice my solos again and sleep

because it’s tech week, and I’m exhausted

[nobody-expects-the-inquisitorius]

Y’ALL WE GOT A PREVIEW FOR THE BAD BATCH COMIC

THE RETURN OF FUCKBOY HUNTER?? CROSSHAIR AND WRECKER BICKERING??? THIS IS ALL I NEED IN LIFE AAAAAAH

[from Star Wars Splash Page on twitter]

[one-time-i-dreamt]

My tech director named me stage manager like 10 minutes before the first rehearsal. He was then mad at me for not knowing the play.

[iamthemaestro]

music-related injuries I would have deemed unlikely to occur if I had not sustained them anyway, in order of increasing obscurity:

✅ stabbed by a mandolin string on more than one occasion

✅ stood up directly into a suspended cymbal

✅ run over by a sousaphone

✅ hit in the head with a theorbo

[judasofsuburbia]

hey exposure and accessibility to theatre is incredibly important btw. theatre teaches people so much about empathy and compassion for others btw. professional theatre sure but also children’s theatre, high school theatre, community theatre, all of it deserves attention and love btw. theatre is a very powerful force for humanity btw. just! by! the! way!!!!!!

[lifeandtimesoftrying]

Francine Boyle as bearing witness

(hi! I’m writing this for TOTA takeover. There will be some minor spoilers for the show, but I’ve done my best to keep them vague)

A really neat thing that I love about Francine Boyle’s character is that she’s *incredibly* observant. She functions as a witness to events in many episodes (you can see this multiple times when she watches everyone dancing in the hall outside the radio station), and I think that that’s part of the reason that everyone else trusts her, even if she hasn’t talked to them that much. She *knows* how people and things work—what makes them tick, so to speak—to an extent that I don’t think any other character does. She’s the first person we see who acknowledges Eddie’s alcoholism, but she doesn’t push him to recognize it before he’s ready. While we don’t see much of her friendship with Fergus (though I sorely wish we had seen more), she seems to understand him and his situation the most, even more than Campbell who’s his roommate.

There’s also her fondness of McTavish and later her kittens—first off, as far as the audience knows, she’s really the only person at St. Jude’s who’s noticed McTavish, and she also notices when she and her kittens are in danger. Even before then, though, Francine’s awareness is part of the reason that her insistence that McTavish *isn’t* pregnant is so unsettling to both Eddie and the audience; it isn’t something fits in with what we’ve seen of her.

This also works really well with the themes of the show, where Francine’s perception of the world is often *more* clear than the “sane” characters’, and ignoring that in-universe would often be disastrous, as demonstrated with McTavish.

It also connects with Francine’s arc, which is centered around her *finally* being genuinely seen, and allowing herself to be that vulnerable. I think that all the instances of her bearing witness is part of the reason that her ending feels like such a triumph—she’s finally being shown the kindness that she has given to those around her.

[prestonmonterey]

silly tlt stuff :3

@vincentaureliuslin @tatsumisheep3

these are actually awful pictures TwT

but we have weapons now!!!! :3

left is a real prop dagger i think? its used by an ensemble member for capture the flag and i think luke also uses it after last day of summer

right is a captuee the flag sword (the pvc sword behind it is what we use for rehearsal) and thats what most campers get for capture the flag :3 i think theyre made of wood (idk im doin hand to hand)

the sheild was flipped over :/ but im guessin thats the apollo one. theres like nine or something. one for each of the actually represented cabins? idk

anyway hopefully i can go to costuming next week. i should be able to FINALLY unless the schedule gets changed last minute. uhh i went to sets for a bit this week and i think most people are workin on the columns but we had to scavange for plywood from an old platform...and that took. over an hour :/// i might force someone in props to kidnap me so i can see the minotaur (i say that as if i dont already go to tech that im not signed up for) and maybe get pictures of the shields

[corallove]

Tech day 3/4!! Dress rehearsal!! Lets see how it goes!!

[aurosoul]

“please wait by Ludacris” and “parking the car Karkat pony” are currently battling for the title of Weirdest Shit I’ve Seen On The East Coast This Weekend

[whatislifebesidesrehearsal]

Assistant Stage Manager: I’m still thinking of stupid ways to die.

[against-all-0dds]

normal people winding down after a long week: video games, maybe some tv, maybe some junk food or even an alcoholic beverage

theater kids (me) recovering from tech week: watching Sunday in the Park With George, reading the entirety of Riverside Shakespeare, re-reading a collection of Oscar Wilde plays, drinking copious amounts of lemon-honey tea, making gifts to give to the director when this show closes, thinking about Bernadette Peters as Dot (“There are worse things Than staring at the water As you're posing for a picture After sleeping on the ferry After getting up at seven To come over to an island In the middle of a river Half an hour from the city On a Sunday”) and also the Witch (“I’m not good, I’m not nice, I’m just right”) and eating an entire bag of cough drops.

[nerd-at-sea5]

holy crap that was an experience

[mobydyke]

girls love me for my forklift certified swag