Theaterfest
A disclaimer to anyone from Theaterfest who may be offended by what I'm about to write: don't be. It's my observations and opinons, nothing more. I can be wrong.
So.
Everyone, the apocalypse almost happenend once in 1989. How do i know this? Look at the bottom right section of this page. We were this close to annihilation. Anyways, this is what I got out of yesterday's performance of "Starmites:"
The show opens with a prologue that sounds kind of like a combination of the Lord of the Rings prologue and the plot of Galaxyquest. There is a girl in a room with a comic-book like background. Apparantly she reads...comic books. A lot. Her mom doesn't like this very much for some reason or another and wants her to pack up all her comics in a box and never read them again. After she sings a song about wanting to be a superhero girl, the scene ends with a buglike creature peering over the wall as the girl falls asleep. All of a sudden, four black-robed and purple-hooded characters come out with Redbugman! It appears as if they hold her down on the table as Redbugman kills her!!! But no. Because, in the next scene, she's ok! And, as would happen in any musical comedy, she's being serenaded by a boy band-like group of identically clad superheros called STARMITES who apparantly don't like girls, but they do like her. Right, ok. So then they all fall asleep. Don't quite know why. Next scene, a bunch of strange girls called 'banshees' come and do a dance while the lead banshee, who looks like the bastard child of the Wicked Witch and one of her winged monkeys, sings a song about how hard it is to be a diva. The Starmites stay asleep through all this, because, like in all musicals, those who are asleep are immune to the effects of, you know, sound. So then they finally wake up the Starmites and the Diva lady decides to make one of them marry her princess daughter. And how will they decide which one? Through a dance, of course! So she dances with each one, knocking them all down one by one, which whould seemingly indicate that none of them will marry her, but no! In the next scene, there is a wedding after all! Granted, it lasts all of four seconds. Then there is a song about reaching right down to the bottom of your heart and then, digging a little deeper. This song goes on for a very long time and includes some random characters not seen at any other point in the show doing what appears to be a very complicated step-touch movement. Then the girl magically appears back in her room and does...something. I dont remember what because hy head literally hurt.
And I didn't make any of that up.
The Seussification of Romeo and Juliet was amazing. Pure fun and entertainment and excellence from start to finish. Basically what they did was they took Romeo and Juliet and turned it into a Seuss story. They made Romeo a surfer dude, Juliet a total ditz, the monk a stereotypical black-accented guy...it was just pure awesomeness and it really helped me after they started off the morning with a holocaust-related drama which was...strange. Yeah, I enjoyed it. Good times, good times.
This one was about these two cockroaches in a movie theater after a nuke goes off (i think) and about what they were gonna do with themselves. It was really good. The dance break with the girl cockroaches was a tad long, but whatever, i enjoyed it for a couple reasons. Yeah so moving on
There was also a show-choir-y medley of songs from Joseph that was fine, despite their inability to count (read: 8=\11). There was also a thing from Fame, with this girl who was really good. So good we thought she was lip-synching, but apparantly not. Very cool.
I also heard this song from Bare in songfest called "Are You There?" which was really good, so i downloaded that and some other songs from the show (go here and fill out the form then you can download like 12 songs for free) and unfortunatley it sounds like a one-song-wonder show. Oh well.
On another note, i could've graduated a few hours ago.
So.
Everyone, the apocalypse almost happenend once in 1989. How do i know this? Look at the bottom right section of this page. We were this close to annihilation. Anyways, this is what I got out of yesterday's performance of "Starmites:"
The show opens with a prologue that sounds kind of like a combination of the Lord of the Rings prologue and the plot of Galaxyquest. There is a girl in a room with a comic-book like background. Apparantly she reads...comic books. A lot. Her mom doesn't like this very much for some reason or another and wants her to pack up all her comics in a box and never read them again. After she sings a song about wanting to be a superhero girl, the scene ends with a buglike creature peering over the wall as the girl falls asleep. All of a sudden, four black-robed and purple-hooded characters come out with Redbugman! It appears as if they hold her down on the table as Redbugman kills her!!! But no. Because, in the next scene, she's ok! And, as would happen in any musical comedy, she's being serenaded by a boy band-like group of identically clad superheros called STARMITES who apparantly don't like girls, but they do like her. Right, ok. So then they all fall asleep. Don't quite know why. Next scene, a bunch of strange girls called 'banshees' come and do a dance while the lead banshee, who looks like the bastard child of the Wicked Witch and one of her winged monkeys, sings a song about how hard it is to be a diva. The Starmites stay asleep through all this, because, like in all musicals, those who are asleep are immune to the effects of, you know, sound. So then they finally wake up the Starmites and the Diva lady decides to make one of them marry her princess daughter. And how will they decide which one? Through a dance, of course! So she dances with each one, knocking them all down one by one, which whould seemingly indicate that none of them will marry her, but no! In the next scene, there is a wedding after all! Granted, it lasts all of four seconds. Then there is a song about reaching right down to the bottom of your heart and then, digging a little deeper. This song goes on for a very long time and includes some random characters not seen at any other point in the show doing what appears to be a very complicated step-touch movement. Then the girl magically appears back in her room and does...something. I dont remember what because hy head literally hurt.
And I didn't make any of that up.
The Seussification of Romeo and Juliet was amazing. Pure fun and entertainment and excellence from start to finish. Basically what they did was they took Romeo and Juliet and turned it into a Seuss story. They made Romeo a surfer dude, Juliet a total ditz, the monk a stereotypical black-accented guy...it was just pure awesomeness and it really helped me after they started off the morning with a holocaust-related drama which was...strange. Yeah, I enjoyed it. Good times, good times.
This one was about these two cockroaches in a movie theater after a nuke goes off (i think) and about what they were gonna do with themselves. It was really good. The dance break with the girl cockroaches was a tad long, but whatever, i enjoyed it for a couple reasons. Yeah so moving on
There was also a show-choir-y medley of songs from Joseph that was fine, despite their inability to count (read: 8=\11). There was also a thing from Fame, with this girl who was really good. So good we thought she was lip-synching, but apparantly not. Very cool.
I also heard this song from Bare in songfest called "Are You There?" which was really good, so i downloaded that and some other songs from the show (go here and fill out the form then you can download like 12 songs for free) and unfortunatley it sounds like a one-song-wonder show. Oh well.
On another note, i could've graduated a few hours ago.