be alright.

♛ QUINN FABRAY ♛ twenty-five. broadway performer. currently with a touring company. i love pizza and tequila and dumb comedies. cruiser bikes and sundresses are my aesthetic. current production: grease current role: sandy dumbrowski

[bwayquinn]

marleyxlizarose:

I don’t think a single show has ever worn me out so much. I have got to start getting more sleep, otherwise I might actually work myself to death.

I recommend a wind-down routine. After a show or rehearsal, I do relaxing things to help me wind down before I try and sleep. It works wonders. 

[bwayquinn]

broadwaysmythe:

I eat salad so that I can afford the calories in my tequila and the soda that I inevitably consume after the tequila. I just wish it wasn’t so boring.

#logic

[bwayquinn]

starchildwaiting:

Exactly! Most people on the apps that I’ve met are eager enough to please that they keep that particular goal enjoyable. Maybe even spice it up more than - almost - everyone you’d just meet on the day to day.

Ooh, good to know! I look forward to finding some new friends~

[bwayquinn]

broadwaysmythe:

It’s definitely you. Dork.

You’re just jealous of my dorkiness. You want to be this dorky.

[bwayquinn]

broadwaysmythe:t. 

Now who’s being a dork?

I mean...me, probably. 

[bwayquinn]

starchildwaiting:

Maybe just a bit. Most of it’s common sense though. Yes! Completely worth it. Though you’ve got to go in to the situation with zero expectations or it can be pretty disappointing.

Well, if my only expectation is sex... I mean, unless they’re completely terrible in bed can’t really be too disappointed, right?

[bwayquinn]

broadwaysmythe:

Excuse you. I am so far from a dork that you’re so completely wrong. I’m ashamed that we’re in the same show.

D. O. R. K. 

You can’t be ashamed of me, I’m too cute for that. 

[bwayquinn]

starchildwaiting:

I can assure you it’s really not as awkward as you’d think. As long as you know what something is then you can separate yourself enough so that it’s not some big clashing thing. Don’t fall in love with a coworker, though. Far worse of an idea than sleeping with them.

Download an app! Modern times, modern conveniences.

Speaking from experience are we? I’v considered those dating apps, but I’ve heard a lot of horror stores about the guys on those things. Would you say it’s worth it?

[bwayquinn]

broadwaysmythe:

I’ll still never get over Greased Lightning. It’s my favorite number in the whole thing. Ugh. Now I need to sing it again.

You’re honestly the biggest dork, oh my god. 

[bwayquinn]

starchildwaiting:

Yeah all that does is keep you healthy, and maybe from losing your mind completely in the process. You need a good old fashioned one night stand just to loosen things up.

The only problem with a one night stand if that I refuse to do that with anyone I work with, it just makes things awkward. And I don’t have enough time to go out and find someone with our busy schedule. 

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broadwaysmythe:

Danny showed some promise, but really, like, this is a high school relationship, Sandy. Don’t go changing yourself for someone, because you’ll never get yourself  back. Teenagers are a mess.

They really are, it’s kind of funny to watch now that I’m an adult. 

[broadwaysmythe]

Of course they do. How else do you really understand how to play that character? I’ve done that since I was a kid. I can see that though- her life being not so great at home. Last minute moves into a new school district probably mean parents are too busy to care about their kids. Poor Sandy.

[bwayquinn]

I had never really given it much though until I was in college and took a class on method acting; it was like I got this whole new perspective on the way to approach a character. It totally messed with her, I think. Plus it’s not easy moving away from the life you know to start somewhere new, that’s probably why she’s so quick to transform herself into something she think’s Danny would like - th dark clothes and bright lipstick. 

[broadwaysmythe]

Okay, maybe other actors who played Kenickie before me have thought about his past/backstory a little. But that’s such a small number of people that it might as well just be me. I’m sure Sandy has something hidden between those scenes. What have you come up with for her?

[bwayquinn]

I think a lot of people try to get into the head space of a character and delve deep into the back story of the person they’re portraying. At least, I know I do. Well, I feel like her home life is sort of in shambles. Her parents try to put on a good show, like they’re the doting mother and father, but they really ignore her and focus on work, in her father’s case, and social events, in her mother’s case. Which is why she tries so hard to fit in at school, she just wants people around her who will pay attention and listen. 

[starchildwaiting-blog]

Not even a hint of stress relief? You poor thing. We need to go out next city and cut loose! (Did I just start singing Footloose? Yes I did.)

[bwayquinn]

Only if you count sleep as stress relief, which just -- no. Poor thing indeed. Ooh, yes please! (Kick off your Sunday shoes!)

[broadwaysmythe]

It’s weird, I shouldn’t care about something like this so deeply, but I’m all for the acceptance thing. And Kenickie and Rizzo were older than fourteen anyway, so their judgement is sound enough in my book. Not that it matters though, because until this conversation, I’m the only person who’s ever thought about this.

[bwayquinn]

I doubt you’re the only one to go into in depth analysis about Kenickie, but I get what you mean. I’ve often thought about Sandy and what she’s up to between the scenes we see her in. 

[broadwaysmythe]

Yeah? Well, that makes me a little more confident about my thoughts on the matter. teenage love has always had this stigma about it, you know?

[bwayquinn]

Oh, definitely. They used to marry off their sons and daughters at, like, fourteen (granted, they didn’t live as long then, but still) and now they tell us we can’t possibly know what we want when we’re fourteen. Sure, we might not know what we want to be when we grow up, or how many kids we may or may not want, but if they think they’re in love, let them be in love. Love is too precious and pure to just throw away or spit on because they’re “too young.” 

[starchildwaiting-blog]

People are such dicks, feeling entitled to an actor and a character in a way they absolutely shouldn’t, but don’t make your fans suffer because of one sex crazed weirdo.

[bwayquinn]

I’m just...ugh. I’m willing to try again tomorrow since it’s a new city, new theater, but the first sign of anything weird, I’m done. Like, I need to go take another shower just from the memory.