& Juliet Tour 4/5/25 Notes
matinee
- lois!juliet
- henry has very sparkly arm bracers for blow
- they cut the SMTM flower crowns
- gregory and richard are swapped for the romeo crew bit with juliet during SUBG
- “yes love that!” “yaeeees” from corey
- corey just screaming after the players go “I never wanna hear you say”
- corey doing a fun riff on the 2nd to last “tell me why”
- “alright anne” *teal giggles* “what would happen in your play”
- kenny with the player page in his mouth during the scene after LTL
- lois!juliet is very grounded and I love that
- lois’ voice is very rich
- I love the tour harmonies at the beginning of SMTM, they feel more acapella
- nell is in the bway richard spot for “all of your time spent keeps us alive”
- naima and usman were doing absolutely ridiculous voices as the capulets and it took me out it was sooo funny
- kenny kicking his butt as he rolls out the coffin for SMTM
- nick pointing judgmentally at teal on “ewww”
- corey doing a really silly baby voice on “[you’re all] in your 20s”
- teal doing a laugh before blow
- “me and my friends weren’t on the guest list”
- very long and sad silence between “that’s when I realize” and “i’m not a girl”
- lois gesturing on “frankie da boi” and mateus doing the same motion but on “no” and stretching it out into two syllables to match the gesture
- dion and augustine are the dancers with juliet at the beginning of confident
- mateus doing the robot on “and i'm dangerous”
- kenny doing the same blowing a kiss thing that daah does during the confident playoff
- the way kathryn and paul-jordan did “i remember a little french” “who you calling little” was really cute
- kathryn’s “your wife” didn't get laughs because of how she said the line so sadly
- kathryn yelping “looking back [is what brought me to your bed]”
- mateus having a more confident and excited “so you do wanna marry me!” as opposed to “so you do wanna marry me?”
- “AND I CAN’T GO BACK BECAUSE frankieandiareengaged”
- “but to lose all my sen-tennn-ces” where sentences was a triplet but also on the off beat
- corey twirling away on “present laughter merriment and murth” and then humming before doing a demonic voice for “my thoughts be bloody of be nothing worth”
- mateus cutting off may’s line of “but you know that im not a girl, right? If that what you-” before they even said “girl”
- “so you have nothing to compare it to”
- “I know in my heart of hearts *laughs* … heart of… hearts” as if he had literally just come up with the phrase on the spot or he was just realizing that he was in fact the one who came up with it
- michael doing a fun riff on the first “[and i'm just gonna do it] my way”
- mateus doing an opt down on “i did it my way”
- michael doing a leap on “cause ive never been so high”
- both of the capulets being the only players dancing in response to “am i sexual”
- “If you have stronger feelings for me and i have stronger feelings for you” “may it’s not about-” “we’ll find the friar and marry in secret”
- thee saddest “with me?” from nick
- mateus leaning in to kiss nick again before “us girls we are so magical”
- paul-jordan pointing upwards on the “come” of “hopefully not indicative of things to come”
- paul-jordan “we’re not doing accents” is very good cause he does just use his real accent
- corey and mateus doing the stark arm wave and mateus making a noise and looking super uncomfortable as he did it
- nick going "WHAAAT" after teal throws the glitter
- for the boop, corey did a fart noise
- the old woman next to me googling “is shakespeare gay?” during intermission
eve
- lois!juliet again
- kenny and ish doing the choreo of the beginning of i hope I get it from a chorus line as the curtain rises before IML
- after “i didn’t know he had a wife” kenny turning to the audience and mouthing “DOES he have a wife?”
- ish taking player page out of kenny’s mouth in the clump before BOMT
- kenny doing the old augustine hand raise into one finger
- corey seductively taking off his vest during IML
- kenny mimicking corey on “see your body sway”
- kenny doing half of a hand heart hand during the IWITW (reprise) and corey finishing it with him
- there was a person yelling in the audience during fuckin perfect and it came very close to calling a show stop but lois and kathryn just very awkwardly pushed through the scene
- teal and lois doing the macarena during blow
- lance goes offstage to change during the wedding
- while doing the pre everybody stretches, michael just goes “and he said I was pigeon toed” very loudly but with his mic off
- nella!eleanor and jj!richard matching with their costume colors for the SML couple dance and it looked really nice
- nick was angry crying by the end of WWFM
- after “after this we should rewrite all your plays” teal started quietly listing different shakespeare shows that they could rewrite
- michael does the IML kick late the same way liam does it
- camille being late with the backpack so they just had to do the selfie super quick
- jj and naima chatting as they set the bench for WWFM
- mateus being super disgusted on “you wore this on your wedding night?”
- yoshi doing this cool walking in place move during the map bit
- nick reaching into the top of their jumpsuit checking for glitter after anne throws the glitter
- for the boop, corey did a meow
- kenny being sad when anne says “seems like a pretty important message to leave to a messenger”
- “ah ha. ah huh. a hahahah. you can’t be in it”
- nick leaning on kathryn’s shoulder during “for the death of tybalt and mercutio, and of course your parents’ first choice, the nobleman paris”
- “feel how sweaty I am” corey, very quietly “no”
- corey freaking out on “a play with no conflicts, obstacles or complications” and teal trying to reassure him with “I like this play my love”
- the drummer going crazy on the act 2 opening instrumental
- “cause it’s true i’ve been romantic with other people”
- kenny waiting for anne to say “french onion soup” and getting very excited about it once she did
- “you told me to be confident and i’m trying”