Iris

Just another theatre kid🎭 Techie Student at MHS’ Performing Arts Academy❤️🖤❤️🖤

[go-bonkers-go-foolish]

highlights of The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals

this is gonna be a long one. spoilers ahead.

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[techie-talk]

where’s the lie??

[techie-talk]

That feeling of closing a show

(Note: these are just my experiences and I know they’re not universal. If you want to add your own feel free to do so !)

It begins before the show does. You hear actors saying “the last time I have to get this makeup on” and the ASM telling us it’s the last time they’ll take our phones.

We carry out our preshow traditions, but there’s a sort of sadness to them now. The traditions will continue, but the seniors who passed them down to us will not.

That familiar nervous anticipation as the stage manager calls house to half, the first cue to start the show,

And the last cue to fade everything out.

The final applause from the audience, the final bows.

“I’m going off headset,” but you’re never coming back on.

Backstage, the actors are taking off costumes and putting them away. They’ll go to the “dungeon” and probably never be seen again.

There are posters laid out everywhere, inviting everyone to sign them. You find yours and laugh as you read through the inside jokes and references, and hold back tears as you read the goodbyes.

Somebody sings the first few notes of a showtune and quickly everyone else joins in. It’s from a past show of ours, and the lead reprises their role.

Of course we still remember all the words.

[techie-talk]

“I’m SORRY for being a LEFTY and GAY”

— a techie using a pen

[stagefoot]

You know what terrifies me?

Eos highlights the cue you’re in. QLab highlights the next cue.

[overheardbackstage]

[techie-talk]

This man is a national treasure

[techie-talk]

I just had a terrifying thought.

Imagine... Alexander Hamilton... WITH TWITTER

[techie-talk]

A few quotes on our “techie talk” door

[panicinthedr]

Friend #1: What are your thoughts on Phineas and Ferb?

Friend #2: What AREN’T my thoughts on Phineas and Ferb?

[stagefoot]

Me: clears 1 (one) square inch of space in the theater

Every other department:

[valtsv]

DILF (Director I’d Like to Fight)

[that-sound-guy]

“I probably came out of the womb coiling my umbilical cord”

— Unknown technician

[5-to-places]

You know what I want? I want a show in the style of The Office, only it follows a Production Team at a theatre. Have like an SM, some designers, front of house, an electrician, board ops, and a Michael Scott-esque director who has all these big ideas, and actors that would cycle through every half season or at the end of each season.

Idk just an idea

[susiephone]

honestly i am just the fakest bitch ALIVE when i’m tryna convince people to come see the show i’m working on.

“it’ll be great!!!” i say. like bitch, our set ain’t done, you nearly killed six actors this week alone, the tech choices are questionable at best, the cast still don’t know their lines, and we are working with a budget of negative three dollars and anxiety alone, shut up

[745pm]

Ive been in tech all week and im so bored of it ive just started making memes

[auditionwtf-blog]

Choose the blacker one.