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cabaret night songs

im back home and back with another song poll.

this time about the cabaret night songs from stellar firma

vote for your fave cabaret night song

Trexel is the Best

Little Clone Baby

Free Time Man

Imowhen

Not My Fault

Glad You're Alive

Survive You

Voting ended onMay 27

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Well there was plenty of silliness during the helldivers stream, which already had Sam and Pentoll, but then a wild Simon appeared and amped said silliness to another level which includes such times as: gastalker, peter piper, Simon Cube, snatched, eliminated, Dictator Simon, reminiscing on past times with Ben, there's nothing like horse co-, ISBM, Mr Mime, Dr Cool returns (screenshots included), xenophile, it fell off, gap me, back! on! the! bit!, in this corner, yes it can run doom on it, there was a mine, and clusterbomb.

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Do the Thing has their last Brighton Fringe show today and the only one I will have to miss. Good luck with the show to @stellarfirmatim, Simon and Ian!

I'm genuinely upset I will have to miss the last one even if I should consider myself lucky I got to see three. And yes I have returned safely and possibly more alive than I have ever been. I will elaborate more about the DTT shows and more in the future.

This drawing I had actually already finished before the trip, not knowing that these shirts are literally their uniforms now so they had the same outfits for this year's shows. I'm just saying this to clarify that the reference image was from older shows and not the most recent ones despite them having the exact same clothes.

More art will follow that is actually referenced from the new shows. Also presumably more SFL art again.

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Off to see some very serious shows by these people this week. Laughing will be strictly forbidden. In fact, I've heard anyone who laughs will be escorted off the venue. I'll take my chances I guess. In the rare event that I make it home alive, I will report back.

Anyone who hasn't heard of Do the Thing yet:

What is Do the Thing? I'm gonna quote Tim to explain: "We improvise musicals, more often, better than this."

(for context, he said that at the start of the DTT show that happened during this stream which was followed by a really good show, so don't let his estimate cloud your judgement.)

-> there are a few full recordings of it on YouTube:

DTT in the Visa Fundraiser stream (timestamped link)

DTT recording with live reaction of tiny tim in the corner

DTT at the Brighton Fringe in 2021

If you liked Stellar Firma or if you generally like improv comedy, check it out! @stellarfirmatim is in it, as well as Simon Plotkin (who was Harry in Stellar Firma). Ian Scott carries the music part of the show.

I'm actually very surprised how well this one turned out. I hope everyone appreciates the background color, this exact one is my favorite color.

The reference for this is from the Visa Fundraiser stream and from all few DTT recordings out there on YouTube, this one is probably my favorite. It was exceptionally hard to choose a screenshot for reference but I'm happy with how it worked out.

can anyone guess from what moment of the show that screenshot is?

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choose your own- choose your own musical

for better or for worse this intro/outro song is the one song that stuck in our heads during our whole brighton stay and beyond.

-> the photo that this drawing is based on is from the very first family-friendly Do The Thing show.

about the show:

Many may have questioned the group's ability of making a family-friendly version of the show. I was certainly very curious as to how it would go. I was personally threatened before the show to not snitch if it went badly but it genuinely went really well and was generally family friendly, and I'm saying this now that I'm back home and no longer at gun point.

I would love to elaborate more about the content but as is the nature of these shows, it is hard to make sense of the plot in retrospect. There's a 50/50 chance that tim remembers more plot from that show than I do and will read this, so I'm not gonna publicly embarrass myself and attempt to recount half truths.

-> That being said, I do recall Shakespeare being involved in the scene that is pictured above. My friend and I are very uncertain as to which one of them played Shakespeare though. I'd be be curious if you remember? @stellarfirmatim

why and how did I end up there: I think it was in jaunary when I was talking to people about being so sad that I missed out on seen Stellar Firma Live live and about how a potential Goblins live show would likely be far in the future, I got recommended to go see Do The Thing at the Brighton Fringe and at that time I was still very skeptical of the idea, thinking it would be a lot of travel costs JUST for DTT.

Less than a month later the Stellar Firma Live video came out which I had been very excited for but still somehow not excited enough to prepare me. Maybe 15 minutes into the video I fully accepted my fate that I would have to go to the Brighton Fringe somehow and see DTT. (those things may not seem related but conceptually they are!)

At the time I was still a bit worried that I would end up regretting how much money everything would end up costing just to see DTT. The fact that the more I looked up about Brighton it started to look like the coolest town ever that I would like to visit even regardless definitely helped.

All this to say: Even after just having seen the first show all my doubts about if this was a bad financial decision evaporated. A really great show that vastly exceeded my expectations. Even if Brighton was an ugly sad town in the middle of nowhere just this show would have made it worth it to travel there.

crowd work + format: I was the most scared of the crowd work beforehand, so much so that we had come up with a list of words to say if prompted. I did not know there would be stickers if you don't want interaction until we got to the entrance and at that point it felt too embarrassing to me to take one. Turns out the crowd work really wasn't scary at all. We were not involved in any of it (which was totally fine) but it was good to not sit there in fear of being called on. I also think I actually prefer the choose your own musical format to the up to 10 musicals format. In all 3 shows it worked really well in my opinion. Most importantly, it also removes the terrifying ball throwing part of the crowd work. 3 parties being chosen to make choices throughout the musical really seemed perfect to me, those people will be mentally prepared for being called on and they don't have to come up with something themselves but only have to choose between two options which I feel like generally also makes the crowd work more accessible and less risky.

oh dear, so much rambling.

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Well there was plenty of silliness during Baldur's gate when Simon came to visit, such moments as: live? dancing, Todge looks like Tim except not at all, bough, Simon has to make a new character, chuntering on, big healthy bush, dead dead, Simon has to make... another new character, live a little, critical miss, mechanics worked (screenshot included), delicious cheese, off stream secrets, bonk drum, have you seen this guy's drum?, poor wee goblin brawler, Simon is Scottish, don't kiss the corpse!, Amy Dickensworm, misty step, mage todge, Tim is a soft boy, unlocking doors gives wood, flag at full mast, the saga of the heavy stone, give the pot lid a rest, raid phrase: we regret the heavy stone.

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There was plenty of silliness during the Black 4 Blood stream, and I think the influence of Simon was certainly a factor. Some things include: everyone is on fire, Simon is the other third, Ben is not, Tim goes Northern again, zombies are a metaphor for zombies, timely The Byrds reference, we DID have Supermarket Sweep and I LOVED it (GGG is also amazing), Tim invokes cursed events, Ben knows The Onceler, but neatly avoids having to explain it, DO NOT READ OUT, Snail Pipe is a good band, cisboys in the sausage box, like and subscribe to this opinion, someone threw a harpsichord down the stairs, meat villa, and Big Ben and his Big Opinions.

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Things sure went places during the Back 4 Blood stream, most of them I cannot describe without danger of getting this post instabanned. It was a delight the entire time, as always.

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