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WHO: OPEN to ALL !
WHERE: Recollé Community Center
WHEN: Forward dated to Friday, April 7th thru Sunday, April 9th
WHAT: The Recollé Community Arts Theatre fundraising production of Romeo & Juliet is performed at last! Nothing burns down. Much.
WARNINGS: none, contact me @![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
catsudon if this needs to be changed!
Opening Performance, Friday, April 7th:
WHERE: Recollé Community Center
WHEN: Forward dated to Friday, April 7th thru Sunday, April 9th
WHAT: The Recollé Community Arts Theatre fundraising production of Romeo & Juliet is performed at last! Nothing burns down. Much.
WARNINGS: none, contact me @
catsudon if this needs to be changed!Opening Performance, Friday, April 7th:
The very first performance goes on without a hitch — if you ignore the entire primary cast is missing. The whole of the opening performance is being given by the Understudies to the primary cast-members, with a sparse chorus and rabble made up entirely of the performers throwing on alternate costumes when not on stage in a named role.The Performances on Saturday, April 8th:
As it turns out, the Director is also missing. He took the entire primary cast out to a pre-show early dinner on his dollar, promising to throw an excellent closing celebration in order to make it up to the cast and crew he couldn't afford to treat this first time around. The main cast will have been treated to an all you can eat freshly made on the spot buffet, herded back together in order to make it back to the Community Center with hours to spare.
What actually ends up happening is more like: while in the buffet, one of the bus tires is stolen. The bus is actually propped up on cinderblocks on the back right. A traffic accident (no fatalities, but blocking all lanes) keeps the next bus from reaching them in time, leaving the cast to decide on walking back to the community center or waiting for the accident to clear up. Those who walk back will make it to the theatre in time for the final act; those who stay waiting for the bus will be treated to a chocobo breaking free from a carriage and running amok eating flowers from the center divider in the road.
For the Understudies, this is their chance to shine! Not only will they be filling in as the primary cast, they're also being asked to help be both chorus and background cast in scenes they're not already starring in. See how often you can spy the same faces in different costumes!
For the primary cast, don't worry! The second show of the night will all be on you to pull off without a hitch. At least your Understudies helped pave the way...?
Of the three performances offered on Saturday, the cast has been give a tip off that there will be big arts program donators in the audience for the second or third showing, and they're to be on Top Game to hopefully show the merit of engaging the whole community in the arts. At intermissions for both these shows, the actors are encouraged to mingle with the audience in the front lobby area leading into the theatre proper. The biggest challenge? Stay In Character no matter what.The Performances on Sunday, April 9th:
Meaning stay in character even as your friends, family, or even enemies try to troll you into breaking form. The Director will wander around and compliment those who stay in character, giving them organic fortune cookies or peppermint patties or coupons for buy-one-get-one-free at the smoothie shoppe down the street depending on what he pulls out of his hat. Literally.
Cast photographs for the local paper will be taken after the second show, announced last minute as the curtain falls and people head on stage to take a bow. All crewmembers will be asked to cooperate and sign releases for their photographs to be used in the paper and in advertising for the arts program in the future; for some of those who are on Retrospec, however, they may find their phones singing notifications to them in all these lovely songs.
How the heck do you turn off these notifications?! Since when did you need reminders to brush your hamster's teeth?! You don't even have one!!
The first show of the day ends up having to evacuate halfway through Act One when popcorn burns in the microwave of one of the smaller rooms in the Community Center. (Why is there always that person with the goldarn popcorn?!) Everyone has to stay outside the building until the fire department arrives and checks the building to pronounce it as safe to re-enter: in the meantime, the audience, cast, and crew are all caught out in the basketball courts and parking lot.
The Director has a simple suggestion given to all cast members: ad lib. Ask audience members to locate a Capulet or Montague; get into complicated and ridiculous stage-fights with each other and running over the playground; ask around to find Romeo or Juliet, who are attempting to evade the rest of the cast; get the audience to cheer on actors as they fight In Character, either with prop swords or in sudden WWE-style matches; the show will go on in whatever form until everyone can be back on stage.
The subsequent shows carry on without a hitch, culminating in plenty of applause and an open invitation to cast, crew, and their plus ones to mingle with the arts sponsors at the cast party held out in the attached park, where there's an all you can eat taco truck and open (non-alcoholic) bar for everyone to enjoy. Don't be surprised that while the food's free, everyone's required to recite at least one line from the play before they're fed or watered!
Please also enjoy the photobooth being run by the Director for laughs! Photos won't print, but they will email, and there's a variety of silly props, wigs, stage jewelry, oversized glasses, and an unexplained disco stuffed penguin all on hand for fun photography times with friends — or strangers! Make memories in honour of the Bard, a Good Time, or Now I'm Free Of This Rehearsal Heck. All cast, crew, and associated helpers will go home with at a string of beads that recalls of Mardi Gras past... except that the letters pressed on beads will all spell out a Shakespearean insult.
Congratulations, everyone! You did it! We all made it through!
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[ Ryoji won't let him be unsocial, not when he's around. But for once, he doesn't greet the other boy with a smile and a bounce in his step; he pulls away from the gradually dispersing audience to catch Noah the next time he steps onto the stage to clear away the props. Don't think he won't hold this stock board wall hostage!! ]
Where was Yuuko? Anya? They all worked so hard to be in the play...!
[ Sorry understudies. Ryoji's specifically here to support his friends, and he's upset on their behalves for having their roles stripped away like this. ]
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[He looks over. Somehow, he's growing less and less surprised that Ryoji just seems to pop up everywhere. Maybe it's just a thing that happens, that you shouldn't question that much]
Stuck on the highway, last I heard. Along with the rest of the main cast.
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They weren't in an accident? Is everybody okay?
[ Stuck means traffic, traffic means an accident, and an accident involving a bus full of students means over a dozen casualties in one fell swoop. ]
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Far as I know, yeah? It's just really shitty traffic.
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[ If there were an accident, he supposes it would be all over the news, but he hadn't the chance to check a television or the internet in sitting through the play. ]
I thought everybody in the city would be here, so that there aren't any cars left to block the roads.
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[...He's pretty sure not even Hamilton could get that kind of reception...]
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[ And therefore he expects all of Recollé to come support them. ]
There's the cast's friends and families, their friends and families, and so on and so forth. Everybody's connected in some way like that, so there has to be somebody up on the stage or working behind the scenes they want to be here to support.
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[the city is way too big for that. ]
A lot of people came to see it though. So there's that.
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I'd have wanted to see you up on stage, Noah. You would have done well!
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You don't think it would be even a little bit fun? Anya looked like she didn't want to either, but she did it anyways.
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[Honestly Noah's not going to fight him on it, it's one less thing he has to carry]
Anya looked like that 'cause she was nervous. I know I don't like it.
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So you did backstage work instead? Do you like creating instead?
[ Things like painting props and sewing costumes, they sound fun too. Ryoji just isn't very good at that sort of stuff, so can't get as excited as he can waving a plastic sword around. ]
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Yeah, I did backstage work, but only cause I needed the extra credit for school.
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[ Ryoji's standards. Are very low. ]
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Well yeah, but I was kinda hoping to get higher than a D-?
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[NEVER HELP]
My grades aren't that low! I just wanted to bump them up some, fuck.
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[ Not that low = just a little bit better. A step up from a solid D, even, just because he wants to believe the best in Noah. ]
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Fuck, it's a B, alright??
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[ He'd clap Noah on the back, but fortunately for Noah, Ryoji's got his hands full of props. Instead, he gets this beaming grin, the sort of pride that a parent shows when their child comes home with a straight A+ report card, principal's honor roll, etc. etc. ]
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Okay, what the hell were your grades in school?
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[ "Passing." "More or less." Whatever that means. ]
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On one hand, he was homeschooled a lot too growing up, just purely because it was easier than enrolling him in schools constantly due to his dad's job, so he can't really diss homeschool. But on the other hand.....]
....That explains a lot.
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[ Clearly, Noah only has good things to say about him, with curiosity and expectation written all over Ryoji's face. ]
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