The Boards, Friday Evening [Performance!]

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It had been a while, but once again the Boards was gearing up for an opening night:

The Petey Sci-Fi Talky Picture!
Please no throwing rice on stage.
Well, okay, if you must.

Tickets were for sale at the door, along with audience participation kits. And yes, you better believe that the one selling the tickets was armed with a tube of lipstick so that he could mark Petey Sci-Fi virgins with a V on their foreheads if this was their first time seeing the show.

In the participation kits, one could expect to find flashlights, toilet paper, playing cards, toast, a newspaper, squirt guns... The usual fare, really. If people didn't know what to do with any of the above, there was even a handy audience participation guide included.

The cast was set. The crew was set. The costumes were scandalous and the music was loud.

The Lord said, let there be lips.

And there were. And they were good.

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Backstage!

[oncourtandstage.livejournal.com]

For vocal warm-ups, last minute line-runs, squeezing into costumes... Keep the panicking to a minimum, please.

Re: Backstage!

[ancientbschamp.livejournal.com]

Ordinarily Gabrielle would have at least a little case of nerves before any kind of performance, mostly because she was worried about getting it right.

Tonight, though, eh -- after the last few weeks she'd had, getting nervous about a play seemed kind of trivial. She was humming some of her lines to herself as she got into costume, still in that oddly tuneless way that somehow managed to disappear whenever she was actually doing a song. (If it hadn't been real life, you'd swear she was being dubbed.)

Re: Backstage!

[whenshewasnice]

Natalie was not panicking. She was actually pretty calm. Focused. It was a question of pride to do this thing right, after all, since she'd stuck it out with this production.

She perched the sparkly red top hat on her head and took one last look through the script.

Re: Backstage!

[selfhelphero]

Billy had reached a Zen-like state sometime this morning, so he was much calmer than he'd been this week. Whatever was going to happen would happen, and they'd all just have to deal with it. That seemed like the best attitude he could have for a show like this.

Re: Backstage!

[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

Kenzi was rushing around like a crazy person. But also laughing.

Waaaaaaay too much caffeine.

Re: Backstage!

[gastronomistic]

Vincent was extremely nervous, and nowhere near anything to bake, which meant his nerves were getting lots of free reign.

Luckily, this mostly manifested itself in pacing in his own tight circle and planning the weekend's menu at the Cafe. He tried to make sure he didn't get any of his nervous all over any of his fellow actors.

Re: Backstage!

[new-it-girl.livejournal.com]

Last night at the final rehearsal, Hanna had been a little more nervous. Tonight, though, she was oddly calm as she went over some of her lines. She was determined to just go out there and have fun with it.

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

Quinn felt like she looked hot in the maid outfit, but her accent was still wobbly. So she'd be in a corner, going over "the rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain" until she lost her damn mind.

Re: Backstage!

[stupid-metroid.livejournal.com]

Thank the stars Samus had finally gotten the components she needed to fix her Power Suit. Because this play was silly enough without her having to do something even more ridiculous like wear those bitty gold shorts without it...

Re: Backstage!

[furnaceface]

For the sake of the show, Jono had actually gone out and gotten himself a new jacket. Black, leather, and it had the added bonus of actually fitting him.

He wasn't going to squeeze into lingerie, but for the sake of being in the band, leather seemed like it was absolutely required.

Re: Backstage!

[olympian-herc.livejournal.com]

Hercules wasn't self conscious in the least. Make-up on, lingerie on, he made an odd image with all the muscles and the whole get-up.

But he was ready to put on a show.

Re: Backstage!

[wasthecuteone]

Petra looked completely comfortable in her costume--look, some of the things she'd worn for beauty pageants were at least this ridiculous--and she was warming up her voice as she waited with her sewing kit to deal with any last-minute costume emergencies.

Re: Backstage!

[randomspanish.livejournal.com]

Freddie Benson was there, ready to do his duty in the sound booth. He even had gotten calm enough with everything that he wasn't bound to freak out over the content of the show...

Re: Backstage!

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

Okay, now Annie was nervous. She was in her costume, running through the script in her head, and wondering if there was a way to lie back and think of England while you were onstage.

Re: Backstage!

[onlysmokesnics.livejournal.com]

Hayley still wasn't filled with a lot of pep or joy, but she was more than ready to fake it for the show.

She was still a little shaky about things with a certain musical director, and all.

But you'd hardly know it as she put on her make-up and costume.

Audience!

[oncourtandstage.livejournal.com]

Some of you know exactly what you're in for. Some of you... do not.

It's not a cute kid in a chicken suit, that's for sure.

Re: Audience!

[dollpocalypse]

Billy had told Topher to come, so Topher was there. Looking very uncertain, very wary, and more than a little bit confused.

Please let someone he knew sit near him, please let someone he knew sit near him...

Re: Audience!

[trigons_child]

Raven had long ago promised Jono she'd come, though she was a bit apprehensive about what to expect and sat near the back. She'd also fended off any attempt to draw anything on her forehead because no one was getting that near her chakra, thank you very much.

Re: Audience!

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

He'd never seen this show before, but Bruce - as the future World's Greatest Detective - did some research on it. Frankly, it didn't seem like his kind of production. Probably not a huge shock there. But he promised Quinn he'd come a while ago, so here he was on what seemed to be a busy social night. 

He wasn't in a corset. Just his normal clothes. Yes, that needed to be mentioned. 

Re: Audience!

[withasword.livejournal.com]

Kate hadn't seen the show before, but she still had some idea of what it entailed.

Anyone who so much as glanced Kate's direction while holding lipstick was getting a Look of 'if you come near me I will put that somewhere you do not want it'.

Maybe she'd participate a little more when they were in darkness and no one would notice.

[necroslacker]

Sam was still bruised and sore but he wasn't missing this. He'd taken a seat in the back to give himself some space to stretch out and settled in to watch Natalie's debut on stage. Well, her debut as an actor since he'd seen her sing before.

Re: Audience!

[nookiepowered]

Bo was in a corset and her normal clothes.

Yes, that needed to be mentioned, Bruce.

At some point she'd stop laughing about the offer to write a V on her face.

Eventually.

Performance!

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Script (with Audience Participation guide, multi-page, colour on black) (http://www.badmovies.org/movies/rockyhorror/audience/audience_pg01.html) | Script (no AP, single page, black on white) (http://www.rockymusic.org/showdoc/rhps-transcript.php)

Re: Performance!

[whenshewasnice]

Natalie had finally hit something of a comfortable stride with Ecuadoria in the previous day's dress rehearsal. There were a few bits where she faltered and her own mild, stiff ways shone through, but she got over those admirably. Ecuadoria was bubbly, but in a sharp, sometimes even slightly dark way. She was naive, sure, but not harmless. Even if she did end up dead at the end.

And Natalie looked really good in the corset, garter belt and fishnets over regular tights for an illusion of more skin that was actually visible during the floor show, even if she preferred glitzy vest and jacket of the early parts of the play more.

Natalie might not have been entirely comfortable strutting her stuff on stage, but she could fake it well enough. And if nothing else, no one was likely to claim she couldn't sing, after tonight.

Outside the Theatre!

[oncourtandstage.livejournal.com]

After the show!

Re: Outside the Theatre!

[whenshewasnice]

Natalie's ears were ringing as she emerged from the theater, needing the cool outside air. Though her clothes were her own sensible ones that actually covered her up, her makeup was still that of Ecuadoria, and it made for a weird contrast.

But she felt pretty weird too. She'd danced around on stage practically in her undergarments. She thought it was allowed to feel weird and wired.

[SP warning as I'm not at home!]

OOC!

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