Take a Step

I’m currently in an 80-person musical where the vast majority of the cast are children so last night we had an “invited dress” before opening night where the kids brought their favorite toys to sit and be our first “audience.”

I will see if I can source a good photo from the cast. An entire auditorium populated with squishmallows and SpongeBob and Bluey and one adult’s Supernatural dolls in the front row.

Director: I’ll just sit here between Unicorn-Pug and this… um… Atari guy.

Sixty children: BEEMO! THATS BEEMO!

Some pictures!

weird unprompted opinion but i think out of all the storytelling mediums.....theatre best portrays loneliness

hamlet: [walks onto a movie screen] now i am alone

me: i guess

hamlet: [is left on an empty stage] now i am alone

me: fuck yeah you are

#it's about the sucking hungry silence of a hundred people holding their breath and very intently watching #the one single person on this bare piece of elevated floor that has been filled with so much #artistry and make-believe that it has become a true and real place #good theater sucks the air out of the room #an empty stage echoes (via @aethersea​)

Children of Eden | The Spark of Creation Stephanie Mills on the Paper Mill Playhouse cast recording Music & Lyrics: Stephen Schwartz Book: John Caird

Aaron Tveit singing ‘Lost in the Wilderness’ from Children of Eden at the Defying Gravity: Songs of Stephen Schwartz Concert in Sydney, Australia.