20 Things I Learned from Doing Musical Theatre for 8-ish years
1. Everyone wishes they started earlier.
2. No one is good at pirouettes. There are people who are in fact good at pirouettes but this is my blog and it makes me feel better to blanket everyone under being incompetent at turning on one foot.
3. Gen eds are the WORST!! :-(
4. Everyone has acid reflux.
5. Compliments have become so succinct that you can kind of just yell one verb or noun. Ex: arms!! Sing!!! PLACEMENT!! Giiiiirl!
6. There are people who are still butt hurt about college auditions and will not hesitate to let you know they were waitlisted at CMU even though they had a cold that weekend!!
7. Daddy issues are prevalent.
8. ^ just me???
8 again. Stagedoor Manor is a cult.
9. We all enjoy it??????
10. "Oh you're PERFECT for Hamilton" - most white performers to non-white performers
11. Binge drinking is fine if you're in a themed costume.
12. Binge drinking is fine.
13. Musical theatre teachers can say horrible unhelpful things to you under the guise of making you better. Including but not limited to:
15. Someone will always try to harmonize/option up when you sing happy birthday. It never works because no one starts in the same key and also because it's hORRIBLE AND INDULGENT the universe hates when you do that.
16. You should have a pitch pipe/piano app on your phone. Not for practical application but for when you watch YouTube videos with your friends and someone sings a really nice note you can take out your phone and say "oh it's only an F"
17. "I am SO excited to share..."
18. Self deprecation is super in.
19. Loooooot of "tenors" out there.
20. Someone you know has wholeheartedly believed that they developed nodes at the ABC party last Saturday.
2. No one is good at pirouettes. There are people who are in fact good at pirouettes but this is my blog and it makes me feel better to blanket everyone under being incompetent at turning on one foot.
3. Gen eds are the WORST!! :-(
4. Everyone has acid reflux.
5. Compliments have become so succinct that you can kind of just yell one verb or noun. Ex: arms!! Sing!!! PLACEMENT!! Giiiiirl!
6. There are people who are still butt hurt about college auditions and will not hesitate to let you know they were waitlisted at CMU even though they had a cold that weekend!!
7. Daddy issues are prevalent.
8. ^ just me???
8 again. Stagedoor Manor is a cult.
9. We all enjoy it??????
10. "Oh you're PERFECT for Hamilton" - most white performers to non-white performers
11. Binge drinking is fine if you're in a themed costume.
12. Binge drinking is fine.
13. Musical theatre teachers can say horrible unhelpful things to you under the guise of making you better. Including but not limited to:
- "clownish"
- "borderline untalented"
- "like a low-budget porno"
- "you've gotten really good at pretending to listen"
- "Jose put that Clif bar away we're doing petite allegro"
15. Someone will always try to harmonize/option up when you sing happy birthday. It never works because no one starts in the same key and also because it's hORRIBLE AND INDULGENT the universe hates when you do that.
16. You should have a pitch pipe/piano app on your phone. Not for practical application but for when you watch YouTube videos with your friends and someone sings a really nice note you can take out your phone and say "oh it's only an F"
17. "I am SO excited to share..."
18. Self deprecation is super in.
19. Loooooot of "tenors" out there.
20. Someone you know has wholeheartedly believed that they developed nodes at the ABC party last Saturday.
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