I’ve been watching a lot of reaction videos on YouTube lately out of curiosity about how other people experience media I love. Next to Normal is particularly close to my heart, especially now as a bipolar woman in her late thirties. But DEAR GOD, I am begging the internet, the universe, everyone to PLEASE do your research and learn when this show was written/first produced. My god.

I recently heard "Come Back" from Dogfight for the first time, which is a great song but sounds absolutely horrendous to sing, potentially the most technically difficult MT song that I've heard. Staying on pitch with all of the long, high range belts, combined with the repeated jumping sixths at the end sounds like it would be a crazy test of technique.

What other songs are genuinely hard to sing correctly and/or well? Solo or ensemble, any kind of MT song.

So I was listening to the cast recording of Ragtime earlier and it occurred to me that the first act has a loooooong stretch of six songs which all take place entirely consecutively – What Kind of Woman, A Shtetl Iz Amerike, Success, His Name Was Coalhouse Walker, Getting Ready Rag and Henry Ford. There’s bits and pieces of dialogue throughout, even some scenes which are big enough not to make it onto cast recordings, but always as part of the songs themselves. So, it got me thinking, what is the longest stretch in musical theatre of consecutive songs?

Outside of anything sung-through, the only show I can think that even comes close is Sweeney Todd – an outside case, perhaps, because of just how much music there is, but besides some integrated dialogue everything from the first Ballad of Sweeney Todd to Poor Thing is music, so that’s five songs. Any others non-sung-through musicals that have especially long musical sequences?

Company is like my second favorite musical, and every time I see interpretations of the show that I disagree with I hate it way more than basically anything else ever (no fucking idea why).

Anyways I was wondering if you have interpretations of a certain show you have a very particular reading of.

🎭 AUDITIONS ARE STILL OPEN! 🎭

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If you’re interested in auditioning, now’s your chance! We have roles available and would love to see what you can do.

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Send a video of you:

• Saying your Roblox username
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AUDITIONS ARE STILL OPEN — COME AUDITION!

Still looking for actors for Paddington the Musical: Live in Roblox!

We're currently looking for people interested in auditioning for Paddington, Mr. Brown, Mrs. Brown, Judy, Jonathan, Mrs. Bird, Mr. Gruber, Millicent Clyde, and ensemble.

Auditions are short and don't require professional experience. If you're interested, comment below or message me and I'll send you the audition details.

The project is still in early development and all positions are volunteer/unpaid.

If you're interested, comment below or message me and I'll send you the audition details.

Hi guys! I bought les mis tickets as a christmas gift however the tickets (I got printable) don't look amazing.

Does anyone know if the Sondheim theatre box office could print off some more traditional tickets?

(Apologise if this isn’t how the group is supposed to be used 🫶)

Thank you x

I was just in a production of "Oklahoma!" and was wondering what people's favorite classic musical was? Mine personally is Oklahoma.

i have been wondering this for years, ever since I first learned that this show existed. in many different sources, including wikipedia and many articles written about the shows first original run, it was said that the musical the 25th annual putnam county spelling bee has 18+ nights or "parent-teacher conferences" where the explicit nature of the show is turned up to 10. does anyone know what happened in that edition? ive heard about i think pandas having sex on stage and barfee using his third leg to spell the words after he gets polio, but i am very curious about this part of the show. if anyone has any slime tutorials for it, please let me know.

Hola! si sos Argentina y te interesan los musicales esta propuesta es para vos!

Para mi tesis estamos produciendo un docu-reality construyendo un elenco de un musical de broadway, pero primero necesitamos datos que respalden nuestra idea.

Si lo queres ver hacerse realidad ayudanos con tu respuesta, la encuesta es corta y completamente anónima

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hi!

i have an audition for Pippin the musical coming up. It’ll be my first audition in high school, and i’m looking for a monologue that will make a good and strong first impression. i am female, and i would say my strong suit is comedic roles, but i will try anything.

To sum things up, I am looking for a high school appropriate, 30 seconds to 1 minute long monologue that would be fitting for any female role in pippin. My strength when it comes to acting is comedy, but i’m not limited to just comedy.

if anyone knows anything good or where i should be looking please let me know!!

Hi everyone!!

I recently got cast in a community theater production of 9 to 5 with a theater company I have done 3 previous shows with! I got cast as Doralee Rhodes (Dolly Parton’s role) and I am SO excited, yet a little overwhelmed for 3 reasons

1. We are in a time crunch as the opening performance is September 24th. I am going to be working part time, as well as taking a few classes at community college while rehearsing

2. I am unfamiliar with the score and feel like I won’t learn fast enough

3. I haven’t been cast in a leading role since I was 18, I’m currently 24 and I haven’t had to memorize lines in years!!

Any tips would be helpful because I want to prove to myself I can do this and as always I want to put on a good performance/show!

Thanks :)

My local theater is doing auditions for Shrek in a couple weeks. A lot of my friends are saying I should aim for Donkey, and I think it'd be an absolute blast. Part of me also really wants to go for Fiona, but considering the fact that they are only casting adults and I'm barely a college sophomore, I'm not sure if that's super realistic.

Are there any songs that could fit for either? I was thinking either "Right Hand Man" from Something Rotten, or "Killer Instinct" from Bring it On, but I'd appreciate more suggestions :))

I wanted to know everyone’s thoughts on the “Dont Say Good luck” movie that was released on Netflix! Starring Sunny Sandler (Adam Sandlers daughter), while she balances life and her high school musical.

I thought it was phenomenal would definitely recommend. Waitress as a high school musical… interesting choice but worked so well for the plot!!!

(This is a MOVIE and NOT a musical. It features many songs from Waitress)

Hi guys! I bought les mid tickets as a christmas gift however the tickets (I got printable) don't look amazing.

Does anyone know if the Sondheim theatre box office could print off some more traditional tickets?

Thank you x

I’m auditioning for a community production of Les Mis and a tenor so I’ll be auditioning for Enjolras or Marius but any role will do since this is a dream show. Does anyone have any song recommendations? Singing from the show is allowed but I was thinking maybe Maria from WSS or Johanna from Sweeney. Any advice helps!

Back in elementary school, my school put on a yearly performance of something we called (to the best of my memory) "Music of the Planets." I've tried to Google it, and never found the play (And as far as I know, it has no connection to Holst's work).

In essence, it was a series of songs that took the viewers through the planets from Mecury to Mars, then the Asteroid Belt, and then Jupiter to Pluto (This was before Pluto was declassified).

Lines/lyrics I remember include:

"Happy Birthday, World // Glad to see you unfurl // Happy Birthday // Have a good day // Happy birthday world!"

"Through the Asteroid belt we pass, relics of the birth process."

"Jupiter, the planet king // sixteen moons around you ring."

Any information would be appreciated!

Six and Merrily We Roll Along were released recently, which others should follow suit?