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Jack | 30 | Bi | they/them | Sort of Actor | This is my theater sideblog. I'm open to question, comments, advice, and singing.

[kpulitzer]

brianna kim as spot conlon

[andthesunwillrise32]

BIGGEST NEWS EVER

[dyk-this-musical-song]

Do you know this Musical Song? #376

I know the song and the musical

I know the song but not the musical

I know the musical but not the song

I may know this

I have never heard this

Voting ended onJul 17

[thirdchildart]

The Hidgens Portrait!

I was props master for The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals: Reprise! I've got lots of fun behind the scenes stuff to share, gonna start with one of my favorite things I did for the show--painting this portrait 🤣

Lauren directed Will to pose, and I snapped this reference pic on my phone (post rehearsal, which is why he's only got the jacket and wig on).

Here's a few progress snapshots from my Clip Studio Paint file! I mostly used the default gouache brush to make it feel like a real oil painting!

Took me about 10 hours spread out over a couple days to paint, and then our scenic designer Colin printed it up and built that beautiful frame!!

Original idea was to have him holding his beloved assistant Alexa, but Lauren eventually decided it would telegraph the joke too early in the scene so I painted it out.

And there it is on set!! (That's also my own actual keyboard 😘 When Will says "MUSICAL THEATER" I'm the person rolling the piano on stage 🤣)

Thank you everyone for supporting the show, and i hope you enjoy the pro-shot on youtube!

I'll post more bts stuff here and there! I'm also going to do a twitch watch through of the proshot with Assistant Props Master Mari to discuss everything we did for the show!

[darkcomedies]

evoking bertholt brecht’s “the way people cast a play!” quote as a spell against prescriptive, stereotypical, fatalistic typecasting

[darkcomedies]

idk what to tell you except go look at the fishwives

[ryan-sometimes]

Tumblr I need everyone to log in rn because the most important, quotable, instantly iconic celebrity post of the century just dropped

[ryan-sometimes]

A ship — a magnificent ship — full of gay men. And me.

I am furious, but I am sailing.

[thirdchildart]

Have you heard the word?

WHAT’s the word?

He’s a comin’

WHO’s a comin’?

Paul’s a comin’!

PAUL’s a comin’?! 

The STAR of the SHOW!

[thirdchildart]

PRO SHOT OUT TOMORROW!!! loved working backstage on the reprise–soon as I’m not buried under Tomb Quest props, I’ll do a watch through/trivia share on twitch with my assistant props designer, Mari!

[ambersephone]

"he has the kind of love for her that you and i once had."

[hardtravelingheros]

Taisho Iwasaki and Madoka Hoshikaze as Jack Kelly and Katherine Pulitzer in NEWSIES (2024)

[personinthepalace]

Amber Davies as Elle Woods and George Crawford as Emmett Forrest in LEGALLY BLONDE THE MUSICAL (UK AND IRELAND TOUR 2026)

[folieanoot]

I HAVE TO HAVE YOU at the 2026 Tony Awards ★

[acting-it-up]

Just watched In Pieces the musical and it's surprisingly very good, especially as someone who is not the biggest fan of the pop musical sound lately lol. It wasn't what I expected but in a good way. The older I get the more I appreciate messy, unfinished stories like this. Very good show, highly recommend!

[gaybichon]

CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL (full performance from the 2026 tony awards)

[coldasyou]

What would I do if I had not loved you?

2026 COLOR CHALLENGE: June & Rainbow

[cinematicallypainted]

@projectbway event 04: free week - jack and katherine

- i never planned on no one like you

[dappermouth]

i can understand the trials but were the tribulations really necessary

[wednesdaygilfillian]

I know we like to laugh at the timing of Benedick's love confession in Much Ado...and that's fair! A lot of productions play up the "oh god WHY did I say that NOW??" vibe. It can be hilarious!

However, in some productions, that scene is played more sombrely. And I think that way of reading the text makes clear that the declaration wasn't some ridiculous lack of self-control on Benedick's part, but actually a very natural progression of their conversation. Which is all about Beatrice's inability as a woman to intervene for her cousin, and the fact that, as a single woman, she has no man to stand up on her behalf.

I mean...if the woman you loved was weeping and in great distress, and you kept offering to help, but she said that intervening on her behalf was "a man's office, but not yours" (subtext: because we are not a couple, and only couples act that way in our society)

wouldn't you be like I WANT TO BE A COUPLE, I LOVE YOU???