Starring the Baby-sitters Club! Part 2!

[road_baby]

Hey, lovelies! I've been feeling productive lately for a miraculous change and just had to work on a snark. I think it's because I finally made a playlist of all my fave songs and listening to good music always puts me in a working mood. And I gotta say, this book is a lot funnier than I remember. I used to love it for the theater angle but now I

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[the1812overture]

Even if it does have a lot of Dawn in it. At least she's not being her usual shrill self. She's annoying but not intolerable.

This may be her at her most tolerable, yet OMG, her attempts at changing the show remind me of what's happening with the Beauty and the Beast movie and the confirmed changes in the movie and the reasons for those changes.... Emma Watson channeled Dawn, and honestly, I'm having a hard time remaining a fan of Emma for it.

Cokie is in class, kissing her ass about how she and Grace duped the teachers into giving them more classes together. That shit wouldn't have flown in my middle school.

My middle school just had us make a list of classes we wanted, and if there was room, we got them.

Claudia comes up and sees that Stacey and Sam are playing Mrs and Mr Darling

The director at my school cast a popular boy as the male lead in...dammit, I can't remember the name of the show...anyway, he cast a popular boy, and cast the new girl, a freshman, he auditioned with and seemed to get along well with, in the opposite role. The two roles were romantic partners in the show.

What the director didn't know is that there was a family tradition where the boys got the mother's maiden last name and the girls got the father's maiden last name, and, uh, they were brother and sister. Girl's nice brother backed out so his younger sister could have her first lead role. Which she only got because she was on clearly good terms with a popular boy.

she tells K Ron she'll be playing Peter, Cokie rightfully calls her a brat for complaining.

I can actually understand Kristy. There's a huge difference between carrying the show as the lead, and being a minor role. There's a reason a lot of actors want to be character actors. You know, the "that guy" instead of the lead in a movie. You are involved, have fun, get a little attention, but will never be blamed if the production bombs. Not everyone can handle the pressure. This is why good directors usually ask what roles someone is interested in. Someone who lists minor roles, like the family dog, probably wouldn't be comfortable in something larger than maybe Mrs. Darling.

Annnnd...I'm kinda on Jessi's side.

I'm not. The director made some casting decisions that are very questionable. Dawn wanting Tiger Lily and getting Wendy makes sense (though it can still be disappointing when you really want the experience of one role and get another), but Nana to Peter is a huge leap, and putting Claudia IN CHARGE of the sets without asking her is extraordinarily bad. Being in charge altogether requires dealing with budgets. And a little BRAT was cast in a non-existent role just because.

If Jessi wants to be a professional, and wants others to see her as one, that means she has to learn to deal with disappointment. How the fuck does she think the other dancers at her ballet school feel about her ALWAYS getting the best roles at her school? If she got Peter and the others got bigger roles than they were comfortable with, she wouldn't be bitching at them for complaining.

to be bitching about it in front of Jessi is a tad insensitive.

Nope. Jessi has no problem gloating about her big starring roles in front of others at her dance school who literally never ever get a chance. She doesn't care that some of them may be hurt or feel hopeless about ever getting a chance. As their friend, this would be a good chance for the girl who is ALWAYS the star to coach them on how to handle the pressures. I think the insensitivity on on her for exploding about how it's just so unfair that she, for once, didn't get her way. When it comes to performing, she is their Karen. She always gets her way.

Now if Kristy was gloating, that would be insensitive.

she's not gonna play some 'puny pirate role' and dropped out of the play.

Funny that she didn't see being in the corps for Swan Lake for that community performance as puny. (Also I just saw that ballet last night and the night before, professional company though.)