#asecretshekept

2. What movie have you watched most recently? What did you think of it?

last night i just watched 'love at first sight' for the first time, it was so fucking cute 😭 i needed something on in the background but this was actually like. really good. so i ended up paying attention too hard ahlsdjf. but the acting was so good the writing was so good the cinematography was so good. i need jameela jamil to be a fate/fairy godmother (?) figure in every romance from here on out. delightful. also so very dimya coded i could throw up

7. what's your favorite way to travel? Is there a mode of travel you haven't done that you want to experience?

TRAINS!!!!!! i miss the train, take me back to trains 😭 i don't mind flying tbh, i actually really enjoy it, but train travel is. like. the whole package. we (us america) lost the plot. what are we doing.

i've been on a boat before, but not with the purpose of Traveling™, so maybe one day i'd like to try that??

15. What's a piece of advice you find yourself giving a lot?

one thing i keep saying to myself is that we are responsible for our own happiness. when i'm in a shitty mindset i often find myself blaming other people for ruining my day, etc, and like. i get that sometimes that's true! and it's a lot easier said than done when we are living in shitty environments or stuck in situations we can't control. but i know i can control my own emotional reaction to things, and how i cope. no one is going to save the day and bend over backwards to fix you. it's up to us. and it's hard work, but it's worth it, and we are not helpless creatures at the mercy of everyone around us. we have agency!! we can go outside, we can listen to our music, we can read a good book or play a little game, we can look for better living conditions. it's always possible.

20. what do you wish someone would ask you?

There’s a myth that couples that kiss when they reach the top of a ferris wheel will stay together forever….but i obviously don’t believe that stuff….obviously.

dimya + to all the boys ive loved before au

It was a silly myth, and one she had heard from one of her older sisters, but Anya had thought of it at every fair, carnival and amusement park she had ever gone to. A stupid daydream of hers, she’d stare at the ferris wheel and imagine a faceless (well sometimes, not so faceless) boy to go on with and they’d kiss at the top and be together happily ever after. Or whatever the teenage version of what that would be.

making gifs again???!!!!

(I accidentally replied without writing anything, damn this site honestly)

46: Weirdest experience in the theatre?

It depends on what you mean by weird. 

I always somehow end up at shows that have tech holds for one reason or another, but I’m not sure how weird that is. 

That being said, I think this particular experience at Book of Mormon is probably the weirdest:

One time I won Book of Mormon lotto and sat next to a woman who spent almost half the first acting sketching a drawing of the conductor. She had pulled her pad and supplies out before the show started and I just kind of gave her a look, but didn’t think much of it until she “went to work”. At first, I thought she was sketching someone in the show but then it became more clear it was the conductor and being in the front row it super obvious that the cast was watching what she was doing. In the middle of Turn It Off, the house manager came down and told her to stop. The lady begrudgingly stopped and you could tell she wasn’t happy about it. 

At intermission, this lady bolted up the aisle and I wasn’t sure she was going to come back or not, but the house manager was waiting for her when she did eventually come back. The house manager offered her the option to move to the mezzanine and sketch all she wanted or stop and remain in the front row. The lady was again not pleased, but stayed where she was. 

It turned out the way the house manager had been alerted to what this woman was doing was someone in the cast had sat next to her during another show and she had done this. 

47: Favorite thing about theatre?

The feeling of connecting with a show and how it impacts an audience and sharing that collective experience. Also, I’m a sucker for a GOOD overture and that feeling when the orchestra starts playing it. 

49: Favorite choreography in a show?

So many good ones to choose from! An American in Paris, Kiss Me, Kate (2019 Revival), Carousel (2018 Revival), Hello, Dolly (2017 Revival), The Prom, Newsies, Hairspray, and Anastasia just to name a few. 

oooooooh okay so. i feel like i notice a new detail every time i really study these costumes, but one thing i've been thinking about is how some of the characters seem to wear the same repeated patterns? idk if it's every character, so idk how sound this observation is, but. yeah.

dmitry wears this sort of plaid/cross stitching pattern throughout the whole show. look at his coat!

it's the same as his blue phtk suit and the Peasant Shirt he ends the show in <3

and vlad wears a lot of paisley and floral, mostly on his waistcoat. in act ii he has a different flower on his lapel for every outfit he wears.

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