Bear: A Pop Opera

Well first of all, you should probably practice your roars. Definitely wear something furry to your audition.

Nah, I'm kidding! Okay so first of all, I'm not sure which version you're auditioning for. Ivy changed quite a bit (for the better, I think) so I'll try to be general and hopefully the info I give you will be thorough enough to help you either way! But I'm gonna warn you, this is probably going to turn into an essay so I hope you're ready for that and sorry to anyone just here for some bears.

During this one episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a character who is your cliche popular girl talks about how she can be in a crowd surrounded by people and still feel lonely, and I think that is totally Ivy. Ivy is a really lonely person, so she fashions herself into this perfect portrait of what every guy wants and every girl wants to be in order to get attention. She knows that everyone only sees the portrait that she shows and she's mostly content with that, but there's a part of her that really wants someone who understands her. There's an added layer to that in the new production because she becomes the new girl in school, so she really gets to create this portrait of herself from the ground up, and then that all comes crashing down.

I don't wanna get slut shamey over here, but I think that Ivy uses sex because she thinks that's the closest she can get with a person physically and she attributes that to getting close with someone emotionally, which isn't the case for most of her partners. "Boys have come and boys have gone, I've grown accustomed..." But she keeps on trying and it just doesn't work.

So if you want to get suuuper basic, Ivy is the misunderstood popular girl. As far as tips go, I'd say to keep in mind that Ivy has a lot of layers so what you see in the text is not always necessarily what's really going on. Also, Ivy is belty as fuck so make sure you can belt!