#theater commandments

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ONCE AGAIN I’M MAKING FUN OF MYSELF AS MUCH AS IM MAKING FUN OF ANYBODY ELSE

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Happy International Women’s day from me and my friends at Mary Poppins!

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I’m very passionate about this alright I’ve had way too many of those tubes explode on me

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Put A Seismograph In The Soprano Section For Science 2K20

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I just cleaned every single thing in my makeup bag because a tube of Tarte Shape Tape decided to betray me. 

Merch!

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Roasting more of your weirdest theatre photos, feat. pics from @exit-upstage-left, @there-is-no-barrier-between-us, @xanthera, @loveazepam, @realpartoftheshow, @letthemdrinktea, @thequeeralpaca, @izzybutt, @technically-whizzy, and @whaddathinkiam

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I auditioned for an opera company (that shall go unnamed) back in February and got rejected. I didn’t think too much of it...until they kept emailing me.

To be clear, this is not a company that I’ve worked with before. Our only interactions was a single audition. I’ve gotten plenty of emails like this from companies I have worked with, but that’s a different story. Those are companies that I have a relationship with, and that I would be on the mailing list for.

I didn’t ask to be on a mailing list for this company, and it’s just not a good look to hit up people for money that you rejected at auditions.

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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.