#backstage badger

[theatre-never-theater]

Backstage views 😍🎭🖤

[theatercommandments]

You know what really sucks? Going to auditions in February. Audition dresses and heels aren’t warm and are possibly the worst things to be walk through snow and ice in.

While this issue exists in musical theater, it is much much worse in opera and classical music. As a soprano, in auditions and performances, I am simply not allowed to wear pants. Period. The only women in opera that can wear pants are mezzos...and only when they’re singing a pants role (playing a boy). Some people even say that women, especially shorter women like myself, should always wear heels in auditions and performances.

This is not even to mention non-binary folks. Concert attire is heavily gendered, and it doesn’t need to be. If you’re focusing more on what somebody is wearing than their performance, you have a problem.

Some opera and MT companies are changing, but it is a tiny minority. These rules are outdated and unnecessary. Let people wear what they want.

[mitersawofthecell]

first set piece sketch | a fitting first post to the techblr

[lyricsandpapers]

Thats the light pit

@fukinweeeb not knowing what a theater is

[asm-on-heads-nevermind]

Summer Stock: The Musical

Act One:

Song 1: My New Home

Song 2: This Place is Amazing: Holy Crap it’s a Mess

Song 3: About to Begin

Song 4: Tech Week

Song 5: Coffee, My Only Friend

Song 6: Fuck

Song 7: The Afterparty

Song 8: No One Can Shit Talk Like Technicians

INTERMISSION

Song 9: I Know Their Lines Better Than They Do

Song 10: Off-script

Song 11: Is This Kidney Failure (The Afterparty Reprise)

Song 12: I Just Went There (No One Can Shit Talk Like Technicians Reprise)

Song 13: Just Patch It, It’s Almost Over

Song 14: Act Like a Newsie, Strike!

Song 15: Holy Crap it’s a Mess Reprise

Song 16: My Life Back in a Box

Song 17: One Last Party for the Road

[stagelefttheatrekid]

Actors take note.

Respect your Stage Managers because Stage Managers mean business. A kid in the show I'm currently SMing was blatantly rude to me. He swore, refused to go into a small group rehearsal and has been reported to have been just as awful to other cast members. Now I understand that you can be in a bad mood sometimes but never, and I repeat, NEVER, disrespect your Stage Manager. You shouldn't be rude to anyone, but be aware that your SM has links to literally everyone who is working with you and has a great influence over who gets kept and who gets kicked. We know all of you, we know how you work, we know how you act and we sure as hell know how a rehearsal room is supposed to be run. And if you do dare to be rude to the SM, be prepared to either be: 1) asked to pack up your crap and leave or 2) taste humble pie and be told to apologise to everyone you disrespected with the threat of being kicked out ever looming (luckily for the kid he had these options and chose this one!) SMs don't take crap from anyone. Heaven forbid you test one of us.

[crepuscularus-blog]

Things I know

AUDIO (aka bae)

Always save your scene. If you have an analog soundboard, put tape on the knobs and faders to keep them in place, or SOMEONE is going to walk by your painstakingly arranged mix and make a smiley face out of it.

MUSICIAN: Can I get some more piano in ears? ME: *runs finger up and down side of soundboard* How’s that? MUSICIAN: Perfect!!

If there’s anyone in the world who can find out where the cookies are, it’s going to be the bass player. I have no idea why. Make friends.

LIGHTS (aka that thing I sometimes have to do)

The COLORS :DDDDDDDDD

The biggest, heaviest cables should be place precariously on top shelves in order to fall on unsuspecting audio techs who are literally jUST TRYING TO FIND AN EXTENSION CORD

No but seriously everyone is going to try and steal your extension cords

STAGE MANAGING (aka I look cool in a comset)

Performers are sensitive. Don’t yell at them.

Performers can sometimes do things where you’re going to have to yell at them. Do it kindly, if possible

Safety first. Safety second. Safety third. Shows don’t look good if someone breaks their arm in the middle of it. SAFETY

DO NOT LOSE YOUR NOT LOSE YOUR NOTES KEEP THEM WITH YOU AT ALL TIMES PROTECT THEM LIKE THEY ARE THE CROWN JEWELS OF ENGLAND

By the end of the show, everyone’s going to be your child. Everyone. Even the people 15 years older than you. (Or maybe that’s just me used to being eldest child and adopting everyone as younger siblings XD)

You’ll want to strangle them and hug them and it’ll break your heart to know the show is over and done. 

[theatre-never-theater]

It’s the day of the Tony’s!! List your predictions below!