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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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You're really something else.
[He would not bother running all the way here for a play, but Anya's just so sincere about it jeez. It's hard to criticize that]
Yeah, they did alright. Sure you guys will get your chances tomorrow.
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[????
Still though, she smiling even as she starts working on helping him put the props away. She'd seen it done before and is watching him closely now. That's luckily all she really needs to be able to figure it out.]
Ah... I am excited. [mostly after the pageant but she laughs softly] Cпасибо... Thank you for that too. Mm, not letting me give up before.
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But hey, he does appreciate the help with the props and lets her do it]
Yeah? Good. I thought you'd get into it once you got past the nerves. You seem like the type.
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[What does that mean...]
Noah? What is "the type"?
[please help decode your own words for her]
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You know...the type that likes being in front of people? Performing, making them happy?
That kinda shit.
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You think I could make people happy by performing?
Ah... I hope for that too. [and she giggles faintly] Does Noah like the theater? Or is it the extra credit?
[Still...] You seem like you are привычный... Familiar?
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[He says quite firmly, and it's true. He got no real joy out of situations like this. Though, she is right about it being familiar.]
...My dad's a performer. Nothing major, just circuses and shit. Sometimes I'd help out.
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Is that what Noah did before coming to the city? Is that where your papa is now still?
[the things she doesn't get a chance to ask in class....]
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Uh, no. He's...sick. My, uh, extended family's looking after him.
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... Has Noah seen him? Maybe we should send him a gift basket.
Would that be ok?
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[It's the main reason he didn't toss out his phone when this retrospec stuff started. He'd put up with every glitch Retrospec caused if it meant he could still talk to his father.]
A gift basket? [That makes him pause and look] You'd do that?
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Mama works a lot... and sometimes on the really bad months, I do not see her for a few days if our schedules are not right. I miss her a lot. So... I leave her gifts at her desk to make up for the time we are not together.
Другой... Maybe it is not the same for Noah and his Papa. But if you want to send him something, I think we should.
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....]
Maybe, but...
If you send him a giftbasket, he'll be convinced we're dating.
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Did you tell him that we are dating?
[Are they dating??? How come she didn't know this UGH She looks clearly confused by this, brow furrowing as she hums sadly.]
Oh no, not again....
[um]
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[Wait what-]
- Again? Does this happen a lot?
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Mm? Not "a lot".... [She tilts her head.] I do not think?
I do not... замечать? Mm - notice, I think. It is hard for me to tell if someone wants to date me.
[so she can't actually say if it happens a lot or not but it's happened before and that's alarming??]
I am glad you do not want to.
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[That requires INTERACTING with people which man, fuck that]
But that's...a little worrying. What if a bunch of guys think you're dating?
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especially as he asks the question that gets her all nervous]
Mm...! I worry too! But I do not know why they would think that...
[but like it's happened
but also she's just anya being anya!]
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I dunno. Not like I go around watching how you interact with other guys.
[That's Yato's job]
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That would be odd.
[rip yato]
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Ah.... Oh well. Yuratchka said that it is not my fault if people are not direct? So I just hope that I do not hurt anyone on accident.
[but also:]
"Honesty is best policy"... Да?
[right???]
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I dunno. People say that, but then I keep ending up in detention for being too honest.
[Not his fault people can't handle being called things in colorful language really!]
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That is because Noah's words are both sharp and honest, I think.
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You sure know how to put a nice spin on anything.
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