stories. backstage. live.

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Cats may have closed but...

Celine Dion x memories 

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=856903454354377

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Between Two Waves in rehearsal

Emmett Skilton (Almighty Johnsons) and Shara Connolly (Go Girls) star in Between Two Waves (4-15 August) #climatechange

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Did you know Jack Nicholson was in Little Shop of Horrors - playing a masochistic dental patient? 

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Advice on dance

This list of questions that people submitted to an advice column in the 1690′s includes this question on the subject of dance, very naively put/

Q: Dancing, is it lawful? A: Dancing seems in some sort natural: It's difficult not to leap for joy and the whole body seems almost necessarily to follow the motion of the spirits and blood ... this natural way of expelling mirth, which is also a healthful exercise to the body.

For the full list, head to  http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/05/the-questions-people-asked-advice-columnists-in-the-1690s/392111/

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In rehearsal: Live Live Cinema: Little Shop of Horrors 

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There is a very visceral, primal joy in seeing twelve thousand litres of water pour from the ceiling and seeing a performer dance and splash that water onto the first four rows of the audience and it’s the kind of joy you won’t get sitting on an uncomfortable couch in a thirty-seat theatre. For reference, twelve thousand litres of water is twelve spa pools of water, or sixteen thousand bottles of wine. It is a lot of water.

On The Art of Spectacle with Singin' in the Rain

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Auckland Festival’s birds eye view timelapse of the Aotea Square Festival Garden.

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chormaconnect 2015

> Jacky Ke Jiang - timecard, Journey, Frozen, Tangled, Adventure Time

> J.A.W. Cooper - Her website

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The 17 Emojis Theatre People Need in Their Life Right Now

Emojis are all the rage on your iPhone, but we feel like there's a keyboard missing… Playbill.com offers up 17 emojis for theatre people.

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NAUTILUS by Trygve Wakenshaw

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Duritz and company performed what can only be described as a triumphant return at Auckland’s Civic Theatre on this prematurely-chilly Tuesday night.

Counting Crows – Civic Theatre April 14, 2015 | The 13th Floor

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Eli Driftwood was pretty great too guys

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Line. Opening act. Set-up.

Then my phone died. All the better.

You get lost in the music more that way.

Drown out the yammering bitches’

vapidness from your auditory canals and

“Keep your head up, keep you heart strong.”

Pink socks and pulling those pants up.

Drinking wine from a glass,

said he felt classy.

Then Ben Howard thanks Auckland.

And walks off the stage with the band.

Encore. Encore. Encore.

The entire space vibrates like

the inside of a drum, beaten in time

to the wolves howling

OoOoh Oh Oooh Oh

OoOoh Oh Oooh O- 

Ole. Ole. Ole.

Roaring or applause or

screaming and more howling.

He walks back and thanks everyone

for being so loud.

“We didn’t prepare for an encore.

Just planning on walking off the stage.”

Well, the old pine fell

and we sang.

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Thank you for coming to Auckland, Ben Howard.

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#auckland #mycityAKL #theciviv (at Auckland Civic Theatre)

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FotoQuartet: From Last month’s visit- Details of the Auckland Civic Theatre Lobby (circa 1929). This former 2,750 seat Movie Theatre boasts an amazing Indian-inspired foyer designed by Architects Charles Bohringer and William T. Leighton. Sadly the Mooris

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NAUTILUS by Trygve Wakenshaw! Coming soon.