Theatre is Magic

[sacred-portal]

[do-not-go-gently-42]

his coming was foretold in the ancient murals

[youhavethewrong]

by @beetlemoses

[robogart]

Finished Loose Style commission of Nerrois for @kudufawks! 🥳💖💕✨

[lykoiii]

life cannot inhabit a vacuum. we cannot endure nothing

[softwaring]

the sunset fr said trans rights tonight

[weirdcatlive]

[grox]

[grox]

[col-brightside]

DC Theatre Tech Cattle Call 2019

Hey Techblr. Wanted to do my annual share of an excellent networking and job opportunity in the DC area.

What is a tech cattle call? Much like how actors may have an opportunity to do an audition in front of several companies at once (lookin’ at you DC Non-EQs), this is an opportunity to sell your technical skills to as many as 60 different companies in the DC/Baltimore Metro area. 

The 2019 DC Theatre Technician Cattle Call will be held on Sunday, April 14 and Monday, April 15 at Sidney Harman Hall from 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM.

Sunday will be devoted to Carpenters, Electricians, Audio & Video Engineers, Props Artisans and Painters. Monday will be devoted to Costume Technicians, Makeup Artists, Stage Managers and those who fall into other categories but are on run crew for shows.

Similar to an acting cattle call, each candidate will be given 8 minutes in front of the group of representatives from theaters and production companies around the DC Metro area.

Companies already committed to attending this year include:

The Alden Theatre

Arts On The Horizon

Atlas Performing Arts Center

Baltimore Center Stage

The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

Design Foundry

Encore Decor

Faction Of Fools

F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre

Flying V Theatre

George Mason University Center for the Arts

The In Series

Monumental Theater Company

Rep Stage/ Howard Community College

Shakespeare Theatre Company

Smithsonian Associates

Studio Theatre

Synetic Theater

Theater Alliance

Theater J

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company

WSC Avant Bard

And more are adding every day!

Appointments are given on a first come, first served basis.

To book an appointment:

1) Save your resume as a PDF with the file name [YOUR NAME]_resume, where [YOUR NAME] is your name. Example: Marsha Norman’s resume would be Marsha_Norman_resume.PDF

2) Email the PDF of your resume to [email protected].

You MUST put “Cattle Call 2019” in the subject line AND attach the required PDF in order to receive an appointment slot.

Be sure to include the following in the body of your email:

Full Name

Email Address

Cell Number*

Sunday Or Monday Appointment

Morning Or Afternoon Appointment **

Category***

Each applicant will be expected to supply 70 copies of their resume on

the day of their appointment.

Visit www.backstage-dc.org for more details.

Your cell number will only be used to text you on the day of the event in the unlikely event of a schedule change or event cancellation.

** Morning appointments are from 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM, Afternoon appointments are from 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM. We will do our best to accommodate time requests, but as appointments are given on a first come, first served basis we cannot guarantee any specific times.

*** If you have job skills in more than one category, please feel free to let us know.

[augustds]

For the 75th anniversary production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!, she loves her and he loves him!

Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical Oklahoma! was revived by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival with LGBT+ Casting. “This revival made the musical’s primary romantic couple, Laurey and Curly, lesbians. It made the comic sidekick couple, Will Parker and Ado Annie, gay men (with “Annie” renamed “Andy”). It’s not just the two romantic couples in the show who have been reimagined. Laurey’s starchy yet sometimes playful Aunt Eller will be a transgender woman (portrayed by a transgender female performer). Ali Hakim will be a bisexual man who has a great fling with Ado Andy, but winds up married to a young bi woman named Gertie Cummings (who also fell in love with Curly). The director, Bill Rauch, felt Jud needed to stay a troubled straight man who, with no changes to the book, is angry that Laurey prefers a woman instead of him. “We wanted also to make sure that the world was not just LGBTQ-inclusive, but that it was clear that this was a community that was thriving, because there are straight allies. They are choosing in this small rural corner of Oklahoma to make a community that is inclusive and that is loving.””

Major changes to a show must be approved by the copyright holder. "Ted Chapin protects the catalog of Rodgers and Hammerstein with great ferocity, and at the same time, he understands the way great classics remain relevant is through thoughtful expansion and reinvention and experiment. So, I was really, really honored — not only to get the permission in general, but the fact that this is the 75th anniversary of ‘Oklahoma!‘ 

The story of the Tony and Pulitzer Prize winning Oklahoma! centers around Laurey and Curly, who are in love but are too stubborn to admit it to one another. A troubled farmhand, Jud, will do everything in his power to make Laurey fall in love with him instead. "I think this casting really excels in the love song ‘People Will Say We’re In Love,’ a beautiful love song that Laurey and Curly share, but their fear that people will say we’re in love takes on a completely different resonance and a completely different depth when it’s sung by two women, and the courage that it takes for these two people then, you know, finally when they sing, ‘Let people say we’re in love.’ The audience just cries and cheers, because it’s an affirmation in a completely different way.

Sources: x / x / x ll Official Production Page

[lilbittydragon-deactivated20241]

let this become a trend

[fuckyeahviralpics]

It’s never too late to learn the right way to do things: button sewing technique via imgur → more…

[togglepop]

WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ALL MY LIFE

[ccbytheseashore]

I feel like I just reblog this every time it is on my dash, with hope that one day I will stop being such a goof about sewing buttons.

[ilwinsgarden]

You mean someone don’t do it like this?

[actuallyclintbarton]

Yeah I was taught to just sew them flush against the fabric. It didn’t work as well as I thought it should…

[deadcatwithaflamethrower]

Yeah, I’m so downloading a copy of this post because buttons and I do not like each other.

[medusadeservedbetter]

This is how you sew heavy buttons or buttons that hold heavy fabrics, like coats. Shirt buttons should be flush.

[theatre-technical-witch]

Also, I was taught to go through each hole 3 times for theater pieces. Because they are used so heavily that it adds reinforcement so the button won't come off and you'll have to put it back on.

So I do this with normal buttons too because of habit but it isnt a bad one to have.

[underwatermessarchive-deactivat]

Techblr™ Holiday Giveaway 2018 Edition

Season’s Greetings! It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and that means another Techblr giveaway.

This year we’ll be giving away winner’s choice of one (1) of the following:

Rat Sound Tools XLR Sniffer/Sender Cable Tester 

(super handy compact cable tester that can be used on cables that have already been ran! The sniffer also works on any line with 48v phantom applied. Instantly shows a readout of pin shorts/swaps/faults)

Rat Sound Tools DMX Sniffer/Sender Cable Tester

(same, but DMX 5pin version for lighting folks)

Gerber MP600 Multi-tool

Super handy multitool that is far better than those garbage leatherman pieces :)

HOW TO ENTER:

Reblog THIS POST

That’s literally it. 

One entry per user (Multiple reblogs will not result in multiple entries)

Giveaway open to US/Canadian residents only, sorry!

Winner will be chosen December 15th, 2018. I’ll announce here and message you to get shipping details. *Should arrive before Christmas but I make no promises*

Happy Holidays!

[proudnb]

It’s not just “ok” that you’re nonbinary.

It’s good that you’re nonbinary!

Just like it’s good that the moon shines brightly, and it’s good an apple smells delicious.

It’s good that you are you.

[thvndermag-deactivated20200419]

www.instagram.com/kiyanforootan

[citrusflowers]

what’s the difference between ninjas and stage crew?

ninjas move silently around walls, stage crew moves walls around silently.

[theatre-technical-witch]

Overheard from the dressing room:

You are an enigma, wrapped in a crescent roll, wrapped in bacon.

[theatre-technical-witch]

Here is my addition to the theatre techblr community. From a personal experience.

[if-only-angels-could-prevail]

the saddest sight in the world is a married couple at a musical and the wife is super excited and happy and the husband looks like he was dragged along and he’s making a big deal about how much he doesn’t want to be there and the wife gets embarrassed or ashamed. this isn’t a funny post, it’s actually heartbreaking and i see it happen at like every other musical i attend.

[pencilbent]

Yeah, as an usher what makes me sad is when I see wives clearly dressed in their Sunday best, beaming and buying merch and smiling at me as I hand them a program, toting some guy dressed in jeans and a sweatshirt who declines a program. And that’s at least a quarter of the couples who come in or more. Like come on man, she really loves this stuff, can’t you try to enjoy it for her at least?

[mademoiselleenjolras]

About as bad as when you see a big-eyed kid who looks like this is the greatest day of their life, all excited to see this show, and their parent/grandparent/aunt/Cousin/Friend/whoever they convinced to take them keeps making fun of them and saying how dumb or ridiculous they’re being. For Gods sake, this is a person you care about and this is a thing that means a lot to them. Smile, get off your phone, and be happy for them.

[pumpkin-spiced-melly]

When I went to see a production of ‘Side Show’ on a thrust stage(for anyone unfamiliar with this term: the stage comes out from one side to the middle and seating is on three sides) I sat across the stage from this young dude, probably in his early 20s, and his friends. It was obviously his first show from how he held himself and walked around the lobby prior. The friends seemed okay with the whole thing but he would get so wrapped up in the action he forgot to look indifferent to it. During some musical numbers I watched him slide forward a little, a smile on his face, as he watched the action excited. Then during the end of the number, or sometimes in the middle when he remembered himself, he would go from excited and enjoying the show to consciously looking indifferent. I wanted so badly to go up to him and tell him it was okay to be excited, to get wrapped up in the glitz and glam. That’s what it exists for.

He openly had quite a lot of feelings at the end, I could tell by his face, and that gave me hope that maybe he’d keep going to shows and enjoying them.