G.I. Joe Classified One-A-Day Beamish-Style Figure Poll - #86 - Red Scream (Extreme)/Ghost Bear (Valor Vs Venom)

Ru1977 said:
Arsenic & Old Lace
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1) I fucking love that movie!

2) The play version of A&OL is how I met my wife! I got called in as a “hired gun” to play the Irish cop, the guy playing Mortimer (poorly) introduced me to his long-time girlfriend after the show. I didn’t exactly remember her after that meeting (I dissociate hard after shows and have a hard time remembering who I talk to or how), but a year later we were both single and had done a show together and just naturally hooked up.
(Ha ha it wasn’t natural at all, our theatre friends match-made the shit out of us secretly)
Now her ex doesn’t even work for the company ever anymore, and we are members of the company. Heh.
 
AceofKnaves said:
1) I fucking love that movie!

2) The play version of A&OL is how I met my wife!
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That is fucking awesome and already makes me love it more!
AceofKnaves said:
I got called in as a “hired gun” to play the Irish cop
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O'Hara!
AceofKnaves said:
, the guy playing Mortimer (poorly) introduced me to his long-time girlfriend after the show. I didn’t exactly remember her after that meeting (I dissociate hard after shows and have a hard time remembering who I talk to or how),
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Man, I BET.
AceofKnaves said:
but a year later we were both single and had done a show together and just naturally hooked up.
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AceofKnaves said:
(Ha ha it wasn’t natural at all, our theatre friends match-made the shit out of us secretly)
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Haw!!!!!!
AceofKnaves said:
Now her ex doesn’t even work for the company ever anymore, and we are members of the company. Heh.
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So it's all good then. Clean getaway.
 
Ru1977 said:
Clean getaway.
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Wellllllllllllllllll
Her ex is now low-key notorious for getting uncomfortably intimate with much-younger (yes, *that* much younger) girls, yet still runs a small theatre group he co-founded with . . . my wife. Who he forced out of said small theatre group. Even though she helped found it.
So kinda clean?
But he’s still skulking around being a creep. He’s been “disciplined” and kicked off of a couple boards, but mostly people just don’t talk about it.
Theatre people can be fucking GROSS.
But at least our theatre “family” is super ethical and kind, and quite frankly we have outgrown two-bit scum like him.
🤷‍♂️
 
I feel like theater people are like Targaryens. Every time one pops up the gods flip a coin and they're either a paragon of wonder or an absolute monster. Like I would fully die for half the theater people I worked with over the years and the other half I want to cross the street to avoid. It's such a weird dichotomy in the community.
 
Ru1977 said:
Thank you both. I regret not trying out for my high school's theater class way less now.
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Heheh and see I cannot imagine my life without the theatre. It literally *is* my life. There are absolutely shitty people, but also there are the very best, most loving, most accepting, most inclusive and revolutionary people I have ever met as well. And to be at a point now where I am mentoring young actors and actively setting the “tone” of how theatricals behave in our region is incredibly rewarding.
But, like: you have to absolutely *love* it to work in theatre, like “love” as in “I *need* to do this, it is a primal drive I cannot ignore” because holy fuck it is thankless and soul-crushing and it can be *mean*.
But I honestly only truly feel alive when I am creating a character. I openly sobbed in front of a live audience while playing Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol last night, and for that hour or so I actually felt like a member of the human race, which in general I absolutely never do. I feel like a floating, detached alien in “normal” human life, but on stage I can live, love and feel like an actual person. It fills up all the gaping holes inside me.
 
Stretcher is *highly* underrated.

An Olympic weightlifter who specializes in physically yoinking wounded comrades from danger?
This guy is my fucking hero.
 
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