The Boards, Sunday

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Drac's week had been... interesting. He wasn't going to talk about it.

He was happy to be out of his rooms, though, and flew his way quickly through the daylight and into the theatre through his office window, ready for the last rounds of discussion with Jonothon about the casting. He was actually pleased to find one of those sticky yellow pieces of note paper on his desk that read Final Draft Casting in what appeared to be a drunken, scrawly version of the director's handwriting. Underneath it was a folder that contained the former drafts of the cast list.



Including the latest:

Dr. Henry Jekyll/Edward Hyde		Joni Starsmore DAVID BLOODY BOWIE
John Utterson - Jekyll's lawyer and friend		Joni Starsmore
Lucy Harris - The main attraction at "The Dregs"		Joni
Lisa Carew - Jekyll's fiancee		Joni
Poole - Jekyll's loyal manservant		Joni
Spider - A pimp and proprietor of "The Dregs"		Joni
Nellie - The manageress of "The Dregs"		Joni
Sir Danvers Carew - Emma's father and Chairman of the Board of Governors		Joni
Simon Stride - The secretary of the Board of Governors and Jekyll's rival for Emma's affections		Joni
Sir Archibald Proops - A member of the Board of Governors		Joni
Bishop of Basingstoke - A hypocritical, sadistic, sexually driven man of the cloth and a member of the Board of Governors		Joni
Lord Savage - A member of the Board of Governors		Joni
General Lord Glossop - A pompous retired army man and a member of the Board of Governors		Joni
Lady Beaconsfield - The only female member of the Board of Governors		Joni
Bisset, the druggist		Joni

"Joni? Isn't that..." As if she thought she was expected, Joni wandered into Drac's office and leapt onto his desk and proceeded to bathe herself. Drac couldn't help laughing. "I knew we were having trouble deciding the roles, but I don't think we're desperate enough to cast the cat in every role."

Joni stopped her grooming to give Drac a stern look, though the rear leg in the air and the tongue still sticking partway out ruined the dramatic effect she was probably going for.

Drac tsked at her. "Not that I doubt your talents, but to perform all the roles would be exhausting even for a diva like yourself. And I don't remember this 'David' person auditioning; what if he is not up to being your co-star?"

That seemed to mollify her and she mewled before returning to her grooming. Amused, Drac went rifling through the folder for the previous draft of role assignments and notes on the auditions. After an hour or so, he had a final list ready that seemed satisfactory... although he had a few minor roles uncast.

He wandered down to the main area of the theatre to look for Jonothon and to post what they did have assigned so that the actors could clear their calenders for rehearsals.

He stopped in the hallway and stared. There was an area of the carpet outside Jonothon's office that was blocked off by the satin theatre ropes from downstairs. "WHO MOVED THE STANCHIONS?!!"



[Jekyll and Hyde it is! Cast roles will be in the OCD! Script and rehearsal info coming soon! Thanks everyone, this really was hard to cast!]

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Cast list!!

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Drac finally moved past the outrage that was THINGS ARE OUT OF PLACE and carried the ropes back to the main lobby WHERE THEY BELONGED.

He then set about hanging up a few (handwritten) copies of the cast list (https://docs.google.com/document/d/188xeDzA67ErO7vpWumEb2qgfbjsyQJLxKwu1vl7enZo/pub).

SHOW YOUR PARENTS YOU HAVE CULTURE

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Hang out in the Theatre!

...also known as MINGLE!

Chat to the Directors

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If they ping in...

And if David Bowie isn't around to scare Jono into fanboy silence <3

Re: Chat to the Directors

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Drac was wandering about!

Re: Chat to the Directors

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Kenzi was reading the cast list, amused. Partly at the idea of Pinkie as a lawyer.

"Hey, Mr. Director! You missed one!"

Little did she know how Jonothon planned on fixing that.

Re: Chat to the Directors

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Jono was well over the fanboy silence, thank you. He did spend last night getting completely drunk with the man, and now any silence to be had was a result of the hangover.

The champagne hangover.

Worth it. Mostly. Except...

"... Who moved the stanchions?"

Re: Chat to the Directors

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Oh, Poor Jono's hangover headache.

It was so not about to get any better. You see, someone in charge of sending out fliers and letters and things had sent a flier to Parents' Weekend to Karla.

About Jono.

War or not, there was no way she was passing this opportunity up. As soon as her portal opened up, she was running towards the Boards wearing a grin that boded well for no one who was not her.

"JONOTHON EVAN STARSMORE!" she demanded, loudly, as soon as she got to his office. "What is the meaning of this?!"

Re: Chat to the Directors

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"Great bloody Christ," Jono breathed, grabbing the sides of his head. "Could you keep it down?"

Yeah, he would grasp that the LOUD THING was Karla in a bit. For the time being, mostly he was concerned with the ringing inside of his skull.

Re: Chat to the Directors

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"JONOTHON!" Karla screeched, only increasing the volume. "I will not be spoken to this way! I am your guardian! How dare you!"

Fandom High Office? She loved you.

And with a very loud, very fake gasp, she added "Have you been drinking?!"

Re: Chat to the Directors

[furnaceface]

"To excess," Jono grumbled, attempting to bury his head under a stack of scripts with varying measures of success. "And if you're my guardian, it's a good thing I'm grown and away from home now, innit?"

And never going to London again, at this rate.

Until the next time he did, of course.

Re: Chat to the Directors

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"Not according to ~Fandom~," she sang, doing a little pirouette. "I have a ~letter~ here that invites me to the island to see how you are ~doing.~"

This letter was getting framed and hung up on her wall.

"For Parents' Weeeeeekend!"

Re: Chat to the Directors

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At the yelling, Drac dropped the props he was inventorying. "Who is making all that noise?!"

Re: Chat to the Directors

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"Jono's guardian!" Karla yelled back merrily--without leaving the office. Why should she? Her voice could carry. "At him, specifically!"

Re: Chat to the Directors

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Drac stared a moment. That was unexpected. "Jonothon's... guardian?"

She was rather loud for being related to his fellow director, but perhaps her gift of volume translated into Jonothon's gift of melody?

Either way, the proper thing to do would be to make an appearance, apologize for his rudeness... and ask that she keep her voice down so that business may be conducted. He tucked his hands into his cloak headed towards the office.

Imagine his surprise when the person he saw was not a large elderly blue-grey woman with a large mouth.

Well, you can imagine it, or you can look at the Count's face.

Re: Chat to the Directors

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"According to the Fandom High office, I am!" Karla said cheerfully, turning around.

The cheerful smile fell away as she took in Drac's appearance and her hand crept up to the side of her neck.

Sorry, Drac. A bit of residual vampire trauma is all. Laaa.

"And you are...?"

Re: Chat to the Directors

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"LOUD PERSON!"

Someone else was kinda hungover too, jeez, Karla. owiiie.

Re: Chat to the Directors

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...Why were all the hungover people congregating at the Boards? That made no sense at all!

"BAD INFLUENCE!"

Re: Chat to the Directors

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"PROUD OF IT!"

A pause.

"HI KARLA!"

Re: Chat to the Directors

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"HI KENZI!"

It was nice to see that everyone had missed her.

"LEAVE ANY DECAPITATED HORSE HEADS IN ANYONE'S BED RECENTLY?"

Re: Chat to the Directors

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"Not me!"

Wait. Was it her? Hmmm.

Re: Chat to the Directors

[furnaceface]

"Don't believe you, Kenzi."

And that cat toy being thrown violently through Jono's office door was probably not being thrown with Joni in mind.

Re: Chat to the Directors

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Was it being thrown with the Anonykitty in mind? Because Kenzi left her at home.

She poked her head through the door. "Ready to run off to Tahiti yet?"

Re: Chat to the Directors

[furnaceface]

"Haven't decided," Jono mumbled, still something like face-first on his desk. "On the one hand, wouldn't have to try to fill that last role. On the other..."

Well, last night had been amazing. He was at least fairly certain around the headache that there'd been a threesome with David Bowie involved.

Re: Chat to the Directors

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Kenz moseyed in and pulled herself up on top of a filing cabinet. "Only one? Seriously? Pfttt. How much doubling up did you wind up with?"

OOC

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Seriously SERIOUSLY hard to cast this. We'll be getting the script up and out soon, as well as rehearsal dates and other things :)