it wouldn't be live theatre if things didn't go horrendously wrong: enjoy the anastasia tales (abridged version coming shortly this one is all-encompassing)
the dowager and i were supposed to waltz as baby anya and grandma at the beginning and we totally forgot but it was okay because when i set the music box down there was a delay in the tsarina+tsar getting onstage so i seized the opportunity and started spinning her around in a very little girl like fashion so it all worked out in the end
my quick change from baby anya into teenage anya is fucking bonkers but i found a way anastasia and it actually went really well thank god
unfortunately apparently NOBODY KNOWS WHAT THEIR CUES ARE and they didnt start singing last dance of the romanovs on time (in their defense we cut and uncut and recut and uncut and recut a shit ton of music. so. whatever i ended up coming on after my quick change and rescuing them BAHAHAH)
so opening was actually the first time we ever fully ran the show #oops and i ended up spending all of act i with only one sock on. i missed the first bit of rumor in st petersburg because you know i had to CHANGE MY CLOTHES but i found a place to come onstage in time with the music and it worked. also i guess my belt and two of my scarves are just gone to the void
5 minutes before the show hey what fingerless gloves do you want to wear :) as if my emo ass doesnt already wear my own every day u guys did not have to provide them for me BAHAHAH
"a ruble for this painting. it's romanov, i swear" it's an AI generated corgi painting. awful i know but the worst part is that it didnt even make it onstage LMFAO
istfg only 1 person on tech crew was actually locked in and it was our stage manager because tell me why i was the one telling tech crew "...you guys are supposed to be running a scene change right now." AND WHY WERE THEY TELLING US "go on" "NO DONT GO ON" "why the heck arent u guys onstage "NO WAIT STOP" gang....
i told my friend beforehand that i had to hand the music box off to her during ouad but i think they forgot or they werent able to do it cleanly because of the fact that they were actively waltzing (fair enough) so i had to keep like. awkwardly circling her like a vulture (VERY AWK BC THEY WERE SUPER UPSTAGE FOR A WHILE) but eventually i was able to shove it close enough to them that they could take it LMAOO)
i forgot the diamond oopsie i just ended up cupping my dmitry's hands so that he'd know to fake it and it ended up being fine. when i tell you our diamond is fucking massive it was probably for the best
there were some standard missed lines mishaps but that wasnt a big deal thats just part of live theatre and we handled it well. do u know what WAS a big deal. I WILL TELL YOU. the smoker didnt come onstage and i was waiting before just going ahead anyway so anya is a schizo now i guess (no what i actually did was get up as though i were just saying it to myself for my own benefit and it worked fine)
DO YOU KNOW WHAT WAS WORSE. EVEN WORSE. COUNT IPOLITOV DIDNT DIE. THE POLICE NEVER CAME ONSTAGE. BYE here is a play-by-play of how we handled THAT
-fuck okay we're rawdogging this one i guess "WHAT IF THERE'S POLICE ON THE TRAIN"
-vlad: "...i'll go check-" (RUNS OFF TO GET THE WANTED POSTER)
-dmitry and anya dialogue continues as normal
-I GUESS STAGE CREW WAS HIDING THE DAMN POSTER BECAUSE IT TOOK WAY TOO LONG FOR VLAD TO COME ON but whatever man we still jumped off the train
9. during the traveling sequence my dmitry and vlad came on too early with the "the princess anastasia-" BUT it actually ended up working because they realized it so they just held the note so when i came on saying "the princess anastasia" the fact that i had a harmony made it sound intentional and the fact that it overlapped actually sounded good and we were super in sync with the "is running out of time!" so that was finesaucepants
10. someone tell my why tech crew didnt change the backdrops out after still...cause the lighting never changed either so ya boi did journey to the past in sickly green blue lighting BUT it was okay because the line "....it looks like russia" was SO MUCH FUNNIER
11. im annoyed at myself because my vowels at the end of jtp were weird but everyone else said they were fine sooo
12. everyone came out of land of yesterday saying "FUCK THAT WAS SO BAD" but im not in that number so i cant verify or dispute what i do know is that everyone sounded very out of breath and i was very concerned
13. nobody knew when to come in for their ahhs at the start of nightmare but it was finepants
14. dmitry said "i'd find you again" at the beginning of acot which honestly isnt that bad because if he's trying to con anya it still works
15. LITERALLY NOBODY KNEW WHEN TO COME ON FOR MEANT TO BE EXCEPT ME BECAUSE IM THE ONLY ONE OBSESSED ENOUGH WITH THIS SHOW so dmitry and i ended up having to RUN onstage to time ourselves with "she's radiant and confident and born to take this chance" and just ... kinda awkwardly walk across like yep we're definitely supposed to be here and everything is very normal.
16. tech crew put my bigass luggage in front of the bed in such a way that there was barely any room for both me and my costar (the dowager) to sit on it BAHAHAH
17. okay this is the big one folks. it's so bad you aren't ready. when gleb pointed the gun at me "the tsar lies COLD" there was a BOOM noise. and for a split second i thought "did the soundboard people make a mistake? do i have to die now? fuck" but not half a second passes when. all of the lights are out. no sound is coming. WHEN I TELL YOU THAT THE ENTIRE FLOOR'S ELECTRICITY WENT OUT. we finished the rest of the show a-capella. but. guys. y'all. fanastasias. we did not find out until TODAY if we would be able to have another show because the damage was so bad that the electrician couldnt even come in until this morning and both of our remaining shows had to be cancelled. so yeah closing is now this saturday at 1pm yippee???? but even if we hadn't been able to i'm still so happy i got to do this
we got boba on saturday, when we were supposed to arrive for the second show, as our "mourning anastasia" hangout because we all thought the show was dead permanently. blaming our director for saying "this show isn't cursed :D" before calling places on friday...tsk tsk...