Coronavirus sucks. Here are some cool things you can enjoy while stuck at home:
Beloved Broadway Cult Leader Katherine Steele made a video this past Thursday with 50 things you can do (link below)
Some of my favorites of her ideas:
Listen to new soundtracks (I’ve added a link to a Spotify playlist)
Watch concert vids and movie musicals
Theatre-themed TV binging
Build/ organize your rep book
Hold fake auditions via Skype with friends
Here are some of my favorite things to do right now (and some things she recommended that I’m adding to):
JCSS Live! With John Legend and Sara Bareillis will be on CBS tomorrow for Easter
Bootlegs! Bootlegs! Bootlegs! stagedork.com is a great place to start
binging Katherine Steele’s old videos 😉
Binge Fosse/Verdon (available on Hulu)
Listen to Guys Who Like Musicals the podcast
Watch The Shows Must Go On from ALW on YouTube
Welcome to The Shows Must Go On the channel bringing you showtunes, backstage access and full performances from some of the best loved music
Record and share a monologue (contemporary monologues aren’t in the public domain and might be taken down for copyright reasons— try Shakespeare, Moliere, Sophocles, etc)
Research forms of theatre you might not know about— i.e. Noh, kabuki, bunraku, Xiangsheng, shadow play, absurdist
Design an imaginary theatre company (this was actually my final assignment from one of my college classes and it was really cool)— pick a company name, a location anywhere in the world, a mission statement, shows to perform, imagine your friends as employees if you’d like, and anything else you’d like to include
Rank your favorite shows March madness style (Katherine Steele also did this one). I did this and it was like Sophie’s Choice, but it was a lot of fun
Cry over the loss of Beetlejuice
Design show merch! I like to buy a ton of theatre shirts and stickers off Redbubble
Plays I recommend: “Indecent” by Paula Vogel, “Hir” by Taylor Mac, “The Importance of Being Ernest” by Oscar Wilde, any play written by Tennessee Williams, “Waiting for Godot” by Samuel Beckett, and “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” by Edward Albee
Watch Crash Course Theater and Drama
In 50 videos, Mike Rugnetta teaches you theater and drama! This course is based on an introductory college level course in Theater and explo
Reenact scenes with pets. My dogs have a lot of clothes so I dressed them up like Danny and Sandy and we jammed to Summer Nights. Sad? Maybe. Does it take up time? Yes.
If you have any other ways you like to occupy your time, let us know!
Stay safe, stay home, love one another 💕
