The Theatre Performer's Essentials - 2008/04/19 20:42What are some of your essential, must-have items? Don't have to be theatre related. But these are items that you have to have with you at the theatre.
Mine: Sharpie (for autographs) Hand Sanitizer Tide to go pen (because I am a very messy person) Travel-sized deodorant/ perfume Any sort of mint Tea bag, sugar, and honey packet (Because if there is water and a microwave around, you can bet I'll be making tea.) Burt's Bees Chapstick HairbrushMelchi Gabor, he's such a radical!!!
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Water bottle Hard Candy (To suck on before the show) Extra Tights and Shoes Script (Even on closing night) Air Freshener Baby Wipes (To get off makeup quickly) Condoms (To protect mics from sweat)Auditioning For- Bye Bye Birdie (Hoping for Kim for Ursula)
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The only things I really must always have is Bobby Pins and Safety Pins, because our theatre, no matter how many packages we buy, never has any sitting around to use.
Post edited by: dramageek4567, at: 2008/04/19 23:49I'm Micaela. But you can call me Mickey!
Currently: Taking a much needed BREAK!
Dream Roles- Lucy in YGMCB, Penny in Hairspray (She's hysterical!), Anything in Oklahoma.
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Re:The Theatre Performer's Essentials - 2008/04/20 00:19-water -cough drops -script (u never know when you might need it) -deodorant (idk about u, but costumes+dancing+lights+being backstage with 20 plus people equals being very sweaty) -Mint Herbal tea -Makeup (for reapplication if your lipstick rubs off or something) -Burts Bee's chapstick!!! (my lips get so chapped after having all that lipstick on them and i love anything minty) -tissues, cotton balls, q-tips (for makeup) -Hair brush, bobby pins, ponytail holders-Laura
Favorite Musical: PHANTOM OF THE OPERA!!!!!!! As for more "happy" musicals i like BATB, Music Man, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, and Singin' in the rain!!!
Next production: R&H Cinderella?
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Re:The Theatre Performer's Essentials - 2008/04/20 11:59Ooh, definitely hairspray. In a hidden spot where no one else will find it. It's the only thing I don't like to share, because it gets used up so fast and then you don't have any when you really need it.- Caitlin / Cait -
Favorites Belle in Beauty and the Beast (2008), Jupiter in Cymbeline (2006), Narrator in Joseph... (2005) Present (possibly) YAGMCB...
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Re:The Theatre Performer's Essentials - 2008/04/21 17:04safety pins, band aids, jazz shoes (always in my car), a towel (useful for so many situations), pencil, notebook, vitamin C, tylenol...Chris
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Re:The Theatre Performer's Essentials - 2008/04/21 18:00-jazz shoes -cell phone -cough drops -water -mints -money for going out to eat -bobby pins -safety pins of all sizes -band aids -tampons(good for stopping nosebleedds that are close to curtain) -makeup -chapstick -deodorant -extra tights -Pond's makeup remover wipes -makeup remover pen -tissues -hairpsray -hair ties -travel sewing kit -honey -advil -black gloves(always part of someone's costume..) -a huge a bag to put it all inI Rent a Wicked apartment on Avenue Q! (Unfortunatly, it's haunted by a Phantom) Sarah
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I also carry around a mint can with everything from Tylenol to Benadryl to Heavy Duty Pain meds because you never know whats going to happen. (I broke my baby toe in between shows for B&B and out beast sprained his ankle, yay pain meds)
Also Vodka. If you put it in a spray bottle and spray it on costumes it gets the smell out. (especially good for long runs)Auditioning For- Bye Bye Birdie (Hoping for Kim for Ursula)
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Re:The Theatre Performer's Essentials - 2008/04/22 09:04so basically, you carry around Drugs, condoms, and vodka? no wonder people worry about thespians! Chris
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Re:The Theatre Performer's Essentials - 2008/04/22 18:03-Script (every rehearsal and performance) -Scene/number order taped to the dressing room mirror (generally, I'm the only one that thinks of this, so I get a lot of visitors, wondering what's up next) -Make-up kit -Face wipes -Hairspray -Water -Tea -A pen -A book (if I have a lot of down time) -Camera! -Tylenol -Bobby pins -Seam ripperAuditioning for: Brigadoon, theatre season, American Music Theatre, Into the Woods, Sound of Music, and AMDA.
Currently In: Nothing
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Re:The Theatre Performer's Essentials - 2008/04/22 19:31stlgurl702, the baby wipes to get make-up off is a good one. I will have to pick some up at Walgreen's
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Re:The Theatre Performer's Essentials - 2008/04/22 21:46I normally have a pair of pajama shorts with me at rehearsal for when you realize at the last minute that your costume is see through.
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Re:The Theatre Performer's Essentials - 2008/04/23 17:24stlgurl702 wrote: lilmissbroadway wrote: -tampons(good for stopping nosebleedds that are close to curtain)
That's a new one.
haha, from 'She's The Man'! I use that too.
The scene order thing is a lifesaver, too. I was in a show chock-full of flashbacks and it was the companion to my bible (script)-Ali
Currently: -Sheila; Boys Next Door (postshow depression mode) -acceptance to acting ensemble -Bye Bye Birdie (audition- didn't get a callback)
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Re:The Theatre Performer's Essentials - 2008/04/23 18:08extra tights hairspray hair ties and bobby pins (we had to pin mics on with pins once.) script and sheet music (I constantly review everything) list of songs in the right order (we post these all over the wings)~Sarah~
Upcoming: Grease and Guys and Dolls
Past Shows: Godspell, Damn Yankees, Little Shop of
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