#brightyberg

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Okay, here's my final Alex Brightman "career" iceberg chart ^v^

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I love your brightberg chart, especially since I'm a new fan of his so there's a few things I haven't heard of before, like:

- wtf is Zabnot? (Google only gave me results for Zabno in Croatia lol)

- Dracula?

Thanks!! That's why I made it ^v^

- Zabnot is the name of Brighty's superhero alter ego in the (M)orons pilot! Brighty being Alex's usual "character name", although I'm not totally sure that they actually use the nicknames in the pilot. Just easier to differentiate. Anyway, Alex talks about it in this Susan Blackwell interview at 5:05.

Here's Alex in his Zabnot costume.

- Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors, which is now Off-Broadway good for them, was originally recorded as a teleplay during covid! Alex played Renfield. You can listen to the whole show on Spotify for free, it's a fun show definitely recommend!

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@linny-of-the-lakes

Spidermusical! Here are all the videos about it I have, they're silly and explain the premise better than I could. But long story short, it's a Spider-man parody where Alex played Peter. Unfortunately, theres no accessible recordings of the show as far as I'm aware.

First Look - Cast Interviews - Rachel Routh

The website that published the promotional images is all messed up so sadly these are the best quality I've been able to scavenge. Some I've found in better quality than others as you can see. (The last one I believe I've picked up from another fan account at some point because I can't recall the source and it's not shot professionally like the rest.)

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🌟 me again... i just read your answer to my last ask, OMG those answers were so cool!! i literally did not know any of them. Can i ask some more????🥺

- morontourage pilot?

- as the curtain rises?

- how i paid for college? Any videos of that?

- any videos of make me bad?

- n'harmonics???

Lol thank you

Of course!

- The Morontourage project aka the (M)orons pilot, you may have heard Alex mention it in this Susan Blackwell interview (at 5:05). It was finished but as far as I'm aware was never publicly posted, but here are some pics from its production. I'm not sure if there's ever been much more information on the plot besides Alex's short description.

- As The Curtain Rises (Broadway's First Digital Soap Opera) is exactly what it says on the tin, a little podcast soap opera. Recorded over quarantine and completely free on Spotify, Alex plays the Narrator, definitely worth a listen! There's also some in-character interviews in this playlist (Alex is in the thumbnails of the ones he's featured in) and he was in two cast live streams (7:44) and (5:40). [I'm not smart enough to do time stamped links sorry]

- Unfortunately no recordings of How I Paid For College as far as I know, but here are two promo videos for it! (Plot) (Production) And these pictures are everywhere but I figure I should add em just in case. (I also have the one of him doing the archer pose, but blasted tumblr photo limit!)

- Make Me Bad, Drew and Alex's horror musical, similarly there's no recordings of Make Me Bad as far as I'm aware, but here's a whole gob of promo photos, a promo video, and a playlist of some songs from the musical. It's a shame there's not more of it, I'm super curious about Alex's writing, guess I'll just have to be patient and wait for one of his plays to be produced.

- Alex was in and acapella group called the N'Harmonics with F! Here's a playlist of the recordings I've been able to find, quality is a bit sketchy on some, but you can usually pick Alex out pretty easily since he moves way more than everybody else haha. He's INTO it.

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🌟 - hey im back thanks for replying to my first ask!! Okok so about the Brightberg... let me start off with:

- Bloggr?

- hello out there?

- mrs.sharp?

- the boundaries?

- who gives a sh*t? (LOL)

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE :D

I'm happy to! Thanks for asking!

- Alex used to regularly update a blogger account! On it you can find his documentation of The History Boys production, a diet log, and a hilariously short Glory Days blog.

- Hello Out There is a show that Alex did with F, I don't actually know much about the plot, but here are the promo pics!

- Mrs. Sharp is an RSO musical Alex was in, you may have seen his prefomance of "What I Wouldn’t Do For You" at the Kennedy Center, but Alex was also in a semi-staged version of this show in 2007! Here's another version of "What I Wouldn’t Do For You" and "G'nite Jake". There's more information on the shows plot on RSO's website.

- The Boundaries was Alex's podcast about the boundaries of comedy, from what I understand it was lighthearted discussions about comedy taboos. Thanks to the fairly generic name and the fact that it's website has probably been deleted for years, it's completely lost. The only reason I know it exists is because he was credited with it in this article and I know he's mentioned the podcast in passing before but I can't for the life of me recall which interview/podcast he brought it up on.

- Who Gives a Sh!t? Chatting w/ (M)orons was a 7 episode podcast that Drew and Alex did, sometimes accompanied by the other two (M)orons. It's the episodes are completely lost just like Boundaries, but you can find the website episode descriptions here on the internet archive. You have no idea how badly I wish it was still accessible.

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Also, The Book of Mormon reading?? That's awesome! Please elaborate.

He read as Elder Cross in 2008. Here's a fun picture from that. This is from Flickr, it's from his account which I think is alright to post from since its literally just him posing with cast members and stuff, but I don't want to link it for privacy reasons sorry! (Wayyy too easy to find relatives through it)

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Was Alex in next to normal? also wtf is the boundaries ?

He was in a production at Pioneer Theatre in 2011! He played Henry. Here's a promo vid.

The Boundaries podcast has like no footprint online, the only reason I know it exists is because he was credited with it in this article and I know he's mentioned it before although I can't recall which interview/podcast it was on.

From what I understand, it was about the boundaries of comedy, taboos, what's okay to joke about, that kind of thing. The name is so generic that its basically impossible to find info on if it hasn't already been scrubbed haha.

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OK. I thought I knew everything Brightman but what the hell is hairless hair???

IM SOOO GLAD SOMEONE ASKED

When Alex was at NYU he was ensemble (I believe) in Theater Mitu's 2006 Hair production, but get this. All the performers shaved their heads!

Theres some videos online, but good luck picking him out. Although you can play Where's Wally with this promo shot!

Clips - Aquarius - Colored Spade - I Got Life - Walking in Space - "War"