Starring the Baby-sitters Club! Part 3!

[road_baby]

Well, after a pretty good streak of normalcy, I went and fucked up my sleep schedule. I slept until 5:30 pm (and missed Animal Crossing events) and after touring Tumblr I came to snark. And so far this book is a breeze! It's pretty fun tearing into the BSC when they're acting stupid rather than bitchy. Stupidity is so much easier to handle than

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This book though

[jessicarae729]

I love this one because it's so unbelievably unrealistic in so many glorious, awesome ways. My husband has been involved in a technical side of high school & middle school productions at our local schools for about 10 years and the only part of this that makes any sense, is that schools do, sometimes, perform musicals

Re: This book though

[the1812overture]

I did Belle's ballgown last year for a theater, and the side seams were first serged, and then basted together to fit her. This enables the side-seams to be pulled out without the edges being raw, and then re-fitted to someone else.

I agree that having KIDS measure people is dumb. Measurements are vital to have correct, even when making things to be adjustable.

Peter Pan without wires is cute if done right. Basically you can't act like you think you're putting on a professional production. And Annie...oh god, not that one again.

You described the rehearsal schedule better than I did, and you're 100% right about it.

Re: This book though

[road_baby]

Thanks so much for your insight on how a play is actually produced! I always wonder why Ann couldn't do even the smallest bit of research for her books. I mean, I kinda get it. When these books were in production, they were coming out like once a month. But there are so many mistakes in them! And even if they were cranked out once a month, that doesn't excuse the overwhelming amount of continuity errors in them.

Yeah, Jessi obviously doesn't know what a producer does. It's not like she's making any final decisions about how the play is done. She's not in charge of anything but the choreography. But she has this idea that Mal asking about a costume means she's doing all the work.

I always thought it seemed like a lot of work to be making all the costumes from scratch. Especially complex ones Like Captain Hook's and Mrs Darling's. And if they're only gonna fit that one person, it's kinda a waste, right? This book is such fail.

Re: This book though

[the1812overture]

When they were coming out about that fast, there were ghost-writers.

Jessi's not even in charge of choreography. Coming up with a simple little dance number, which will have to be approved of by the choreographer, who will answer to the director, doesn't put her in charge. She sure thinks highly of herself. $10 says that Mal asked her once or twice if she thinks something looks okay. That would be like me asking my husband if he thinks a gown I'm designing and making looks okay, he says yes, then he claims he's a costumer.

Re: This book though

[road_baby]

$10 says that Mal asked her once or twice if she thinks something looks okay

That's $10 you'd win because I'm sure that's exactly what happened.

Re: This book though

[jessicarae729]

I always felt like since there were so many ghostwriters, the ghostwriters should be responsible for doing research, or at least pointing out glaring plotholes. Like in the the case of SS#9, obviously the book would be boring to have all the leads cast to high school kids, like it would be in real life with a district-wide musical. OK, fine, so just have SMS do the musical. Literally the only part it would affect is Sam's being in the musical, and who could ever keep track of whether he & Stacey were on or off, so just replace him with Pete Black and literally nothing else changes. They could still include SES kids under the auspices of having younger kids to be the Lost Boys etc. The ghostwriter should have caught Karen being in there, not being an SES student