#ianb0hen

okay so if im right about all of the productions before west ends (lemme list them all off because I just want to be sure; workshops, Berkeley, broadway, 1st national tour, 2nd national tour, 3rd national tour, the uk tour, the japan tour, the Korean tour, and I guess you can count the LA idiot thing that happened about a month or so ago) they all were basically the same except for a few minor differences mostly due to how the stage was set up??? lemme just start off with how it went in broadway (and possibly Berkeley??? ill have to look that up after I finish this). im also gonna do my best to find links to different LNOE’s and they’ll be at the bottom of this ask!!

so right after shes a rebel/last of the American girls jimmy is in the middle between whatshername and johnny, surrounded by all of those people that were dancing during the song. jimmy flicks his arms out a little bit, making everyone that isn’t whatshername and johnny go offstage. whatshername is completely clueless to anything that jimmy does, jimmy says, he isn’t real, blah blah blah (I didn’t realize he wasn’t real until like I watched the show at least twice with a friend so youre all good on not realizing about halfway through the show). jimmy steps forward and pulls a pouch, a container, whatever it may be from is jacket and pushes it into johnnys chest. its the container or pouch or whatever that has the needles and the spoon and lighter and tubing and all that for johnny to shoot up. he basically seems to whisper something to johnny and then walk off, go up the stairs onto one of the landings, and then start to sing. (in one of the videos billie was jimmy and van hughes was johnny and before he walked off he just kissed van and everyone screamed their asses off in the crowd).  johnny takes whatshername over to the platform, then basically slip off whatever clothes they had on and then johnnys preparing the needle for whatshername. johnny shoots her up first, and then shoots up himself and then they do the tube ballet. the platform raises up off the ground as they do it. near the end the platform lowers, they basically fall asleep against each other on the floor.

so in Berkeley and broadway, one of the differences is that theres this platform that johnny and whatshername (more on that in a minute) kneel on and it raises up during the middle bit of LNOE and use the tubing (its real long this one) that would be used to wrap around their arms and do what the idiot fandom has come to call the ‘Tube Ballet’ because theyre just like moving in really slow ways and it kind of looks like a dance.

im pretty sure that in most of the tours there was no platform because of how the stage was set up (I don’t think you could just build a platform and stick it in a premade stage so rip) so during LNOE on the tours they would just kneel on the floor and do it in a boxed in area of light and do the tube ballet there.

LA idiot (since I brought it up earlier) had johnny and whatshername on the mattress in the middle of the warehouse stage and they did the heroin on there instead.

right okay links for your LNOE needs;

pj as st jimmy, van as johnny, Rebecca as whatshername - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL9fZ90Jtv0

billie as jimmy, jgj as johnny, Rebecca as whatshername - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa18uvyxMcI

Caitlin as jimmy, alec as johnny, Lindsay as whatshername (please note this is LA idiot) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoWpF4kfBJ8

I cant find the billie and van video rn but if I find it ill update this ask and link it!

so in honesty, that’s the first time that ive heard about an idiot production that had jimmy interact with anyone else besides johnny??? and also everyone in st. jimmy the song but that doesn’t really count since theyre ensemble. BUT ANYWAY I was gonna get to the part that me and my friend were like screaming about last night.

so my friend and I were going back and forth for like a literal second about jimmy kissing whatshername from what you said and from what we can both tell is that it implies that johnny go whatshername under a needle regardless of shooting up with her on not because, jimmy isn’t real, and I quote from my friend which was originally in all caps "jimmy is heroin and by kissing whatshername and interacting with her it means that shes involved in heroin" and then “and its definitely johnnys fault because no other person would influence her to shoot heroin”. and also fun fact, that’s the first time from what im aware off that an idiot show has let jimmy interact with anyone else besides johnny and the posse which is pretty fucking awesome and also really fucking upsetting because of the reason but its needed for the plot anyway. SO IN CONCLUSION