I know in Australian musical theatre we say "chookas" as like wishing someone good luck before a show. So if you're friend is in a show or its opening night or something you'd say chookas to them as like good luck, break a leg etc.
@@theonlyenekoeneko So, the story goes that they used to say “Break a leg,” as a way of wishing people good luck. But then one day before a performance, the cast all said “Break a leg” to each other, and a few minutes later, one of the girls fell off the stage and actually broke her leg. They thought that they’d jinxed “Break a Leg,” So they started saying “Chookas” instead. At least, that’s the story that I was told. As for whether it’s just in Australia or not, I believe that it is unique to Australian theatre. Edit: Fixed a spelling mistake
This is a very niche reference but whenever Ollie says lovely emails it really reminds me of the dad from friday night dinner, saying lovely bit of squirrel
Martin loves a lovely bit of squirrel. It didn't remind me of that until now - but now that I've heard it that way and it's been pointed out to me, lovely emails will never be the same.
The way I see it, if you wanna see a rainbow you gotta put up with the rain. Everyone here in this comment section is strong and beautiful love you have a great day! 💪❤️
I was in a show once and I played a forest sprite featured dancer. And as part of our costumes we had leafy flowery things that were wrapped around our lower arms. We used mic tape to help them stay on, and for weeks afterward we all had tape residue on our arms from that.
I'm from (near) Manchester. And even though I'm over an hour on the bus to Manchester, you'd get on the bus and ask for a ticket to "town" to mean to Manchester even if you passed through other towns on the way
Investing in a external hard drive was the best thing I ever did! Never lost a piece of work when I was university. Had to buy a new laptop during lockdown when my pc died and I need to reformat my old hard drive to use it with the new one but I also got a brand new one with my MacBook. Took me a long time to convert to a MacBook but it makes so much sense when I’ve had iPhone and iPad for years now! It’s gutting when you do lose work and I feel for you xx
the amount of times i have to explain myself when i talk about what i study at uni (stage management) is unreal. I have almost everyone asking me what a stage manager is or a DSM is and what a get in or get out is and i just say it explains itself!
A gobo is usually a piece of metal or glass that sits in a slot in front of the lamp in a light. The metal ones cast shadows, the glass ones distort the light.
No Harvey, both metal or glass gobos can form patterns, images or distortion with edge focus, regardless of material. The only real difference is that a glass gobo will not heat warp like metal and does not require bridge segments to form circles or open negative, space in the image.
Carrie, I know it won't help for the stuff you already lost, but when I was at uni I always did all my writing on google documents, because those automatically save and it would take literal years to fill up the storage. It's also handy as you can access it anywhere
Refering to London as "Town" isn't just a theatre thing - it may have come form theatre I don't know but I think it's related to commuter town. When I lived in Brighton people would always ask if you were "going up to Town on the weekend?" and I now live in another commuter town (a town with easy & quick access routes to London, usually with A-road access or with a trainline direct to London) and people often refer to London as "Town". It's often going "Up to Town" so I wonder if it's a Southern thing? (Also Gobos are specifically the stencils that you put in to a lamp to create the shapes on the floor Ollie was describing. "Specials" are the more expensive lights (usually heavier) that can either move, change colour, spin and they often have "inbuilt" gobos that you can choose from. In older lights, they have a slot for a Gobo &/or Gels, but that means that light can only shine through that gobo/gel, there's no changing it mid-show. A Gel is how you add colour to a light.)
I feel like I should know more of these terms because I do amateur theatre but there were still loads I'd never heard in my life. I guess it's because it's West End terms so amateurs wouldn't necessarily know them or need to ever use them. The West End Tattoo is a nightmare. Whenever I have a mic, you can guarantee I have a permanent West End tattoo for however many shows a week, usually 5. I never knew it was called that though. I've heard blocking a lot, it's never been called staging in my drama groups, only ever blocking, so I'm completely certain with that one. We used to get told off for paging the curtain at my other theatre group. We would get screamed at after show if we did it backstage so none of us dared. In my current group, we don't have curtains in the wings so we don't have to worry about that. I used to get so confused with stage left and stage right but I kind of figure it out now. By the time the show comes around, I know where I come on and go off so I don't need to know what side it's actually called if that makes sense, but to start with it takes me a hot minute to figure out what the director means. Downstage and upstage, I've always been fine with.
I didn’t realise you have one person doing both sets of tannoy announcements. I work in an arts centre and because we have multiple shows, films and other activities that require audience announcements in FOH it’s our duty manager who does those announcements and the CSM does backstage.
Is "in town" actually theatre slang? I thought it was just a word that city folk/people who live near a city used to refer to said city. I used to live near Edinburgh and frequently heading into the city centre was referred to as "going into town". Doesn't happen so much in Glasgow though, I find, so maybe its a slightly regional thing as well?
For the "West End tattoo", isopropyl/rubbing alcohol works a charm. (He says, having had multiple electrode pads and medical tape sites during a recent hospital stay.)
Wait, I have never heard of a DSM (I'm from the USA so that might be why) before now. Our stage managing order goes Stage Manager and Assistant Stage Manager. Also, I think this is just a university musical theatre thing, but our sitzprobe is nothing like that. It's usually midway through or towards the end of tech week and we have to do everything, but kind of stop and go. Sometimes we squeeze time in earlier with practicing some things with the band, but most of the time we just have to do everything full out even if the band just got inserted into the rehearsal.
Hate to be the unsolicited advice guy but Google Docs & Google Drive are way less temperamental than iCloud.. easy to use, works with Word, Google Drive app is good at telling you when your stuff isn't syncing... Basically everyone on the internet has a Google account anyway, so it's more universal than Apple's ecosystem. Always reccomend it to my colleagues when their clouds corrupt or whatever.. it's super underrated & underused.
@@dizdozable Exactly yeah. Docs is pretty ideal for writers specifically, too. I find Word can be a bit annoying with all its pushy vocabulary suggestions. I reckon it's built more for concise documents, whereas Google Docs is just a versatile writing tool. Feel like a hypeman for Google lol... when do I get paid?
Google Drive is free for a certain amount but you need to pay once you start running out of storage in order to get more storage. Google Docs is great though.
I wonder if it's different in the professional world but I've only heard the term sitzprobe fairly recently, we always just call it band call (and it's my favourite part of any show I'm in 😀😍)
I just finished my drama degree and can still never get upstage/downstage/SL/SR right 😅 I understand it in theory, but it's just one of those things there's no point trying to explain to me because once I'm actually stood on a stage I just can't get it to work in my head 😂
Considering I’ve done theatre and musicals since the age of 10 I didn’t hear of the term sitzprobe till I was like 19/20! It was always just referred to as a band call🤷🏻♀️
Aw man, 2 emotional and mental difficult days... :( Been thinking of you, Carrie. It sucks SO MUCH when you think everything is saved and then you find out it isn't. :( Carrie, something completely different but I've been wondering for a few videos now: what are you drinking? I love the colour of it :-) Owwww parcel day :) haha Oh gosh Oli, you miss so many good opportunities for your 'don't' part. :p You could've said: don't...press the wrong button! :p
Some Theatre "Slang" LX - Lights The Book/Prompt Book/Call Book/Bible - The script used by the DSM to call the show Gel - Thin plastic sheet that changes the colour of a lantern Beginners - Call 5 minutes before the show starts Report/Show Report - the document that is filled out by the DSM with all of the info from that show (time went up, interval, came down etc) God Mic - the microphone used by the director in the auditorium during tech Blacks - the clothing worn backstage (sometimes actors will also wear blacks in rehearsals) Workers - the lights on stage during a rehearsal Blues - the lights backstage during a show to enable people to see (often normal white light with a blue gel) The Desk - the place that the DSM calls the show from. This will have cue lights for each department Clearance - Front of House informing the DSM that the auditorium has closed and the show can begin/resume Curtain Call - Bows Bounce - when the curtain "bounces" at the end of a show during a curtain call Flys - the space above the stage where scenery is hung Boarders & Legs - the curtains that frame the stage across the top and down the sides Truck - piece of scenery that is on wheels Flat - scenery that is flat and often hung Cyc - short for Cyclorma, a large white curtain (often at the back of the stage) that can be lit to represent different times of day. Can also be projected onto. Gauze - a curtain that is translucent when lit from the front and transparent when lit from behind Cloth - another name for a curtain (primarily a curtain used as part of the scenery) Iron - the "safety curtain" that is lowered at the start of the interval. It is called the iron because it is made our of iron and often painted with something that represents that theatre
L S sorry to jump into this debate but I’ve also been wondering this for days 😂 I thought it might be Ribena, but it seems almost too pink rather than purple-y? I feel like Ribena is darker also 🤔
Me too. My computer crashed and died midway through me writing a book and I couldn't get my computer to start back up at all and so went onto Google Drive and realised I hadn't backed it up so I lost basically all of it. Luckily I don't write for a living so it wasn't as big of a deal.
Yep the buttons for FOH, techies and dressing rooms are generally right next to each other- I always stressed about pressing the wrong one. Usually there are little lights on the board to show where you’re speaking and I’d always quadruple check which one was on
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I read the title as west end slag and I thought oh my god this has escalated 😂😂
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Me too hahaha
‘Lovely, lovely emails’😂
I know in Australian musical theatre we say "chookas" as like wishing someone good luck before a show. So if you're friend is in a show or its opening night or something you'd say chookas to them as like good luck, break a leg etc.
Yes! I remember chookas! Do we know the origin of this? Is it just in Australia?
@@theonlyenekoeneko
So, the story goes that they used to say “Break a leg,” as a way of wishing people good luck.
But then one day before a performance, the cast all said “Break a leg” to each other, and a few minutes later, one of the girls fell off the stage and actually broke her leg.
They thought that they’d jinxed “Break a Leg,” So they started saying “Chookas” instead.
At least, that’s the story that I was told.
As for whether it’s just in Australia or not, I believe that it is unique to Australian theatre.
Edit: Fixed a spelling mistake
@@freedomroses certainly sounds plausible! Will have to research the etymology of “chookas”, it’s such a funny word
This is a very niche reference but whenever Ollie says lovely emails it really reminds me of the dad from friday night dinner, saying lovely bit of squirrel
Martin loves a lovely bit of squirrel. It didn't remind me of that until now - but now that I've heard it that way and it's been pointed out to me, lovely emails will never be the same.
OMG yes 😂😂😂
The way I see it, if you wanna see a rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.
Everyone here in this comment section is strong and beautiful love you have a great day! 💪❤️
I was in a show once and I played a forest sprite featured dancer. And as part of our costumes we had leafy flowery things that were wrapped around our lower arms. We used mic tape to help them stay on, and for weeks afterward we all had tape residue on our arms from that.
I'm from (near) Manchester. And even though I'm over an hour on the bus to Manchester, you'd get on the bus and ask for a ticket to "town" to mean to Manchester even if you passed through other towns on the way
In Sweden the curtains are called ”the trousers”. We also say you “bub” your props.
Oli: 'A gobo'
Me, out-loud to my empty room: 'I love a gobo!'
Oli: 'I love a gobo'
Great minds think alike!!
Good morning everyone 🌞
Investing in a external hard drive was the best thing I ever did! Never lost a piece of work when I was university. Had to buy a new laptop during lockdown when my pc died and I need to reformat my old hard drive to use it with the new one but I also got a brand new one with my MacBook. Took me a long time to convert to a MacBook but it makes so much sense when I’ve had iPhone and iPad for years now! It’s gutting when you do lose work and I feel for you xx
Carrie, please please please save it to an external hard drive as well xxx
the amount of times i have to explain myself when i talk about what i study at uni (stage management) is unreal. I have almost everyone asking me what a stage manager is or a DSM is and what a get in or get out is and i just say it explains itself!
Good morning everyone, stay safe, stay positive,drink water ,sending love 💞
Love that appreciation of the musicians !!!
A gobo is usually a piece of metal or glass that sits in a slot in front of the lamp in a light. The metal ones cast shadows, the glass ones distort the light.
No Harvey, both metal or glass gobos can form patterns, images or distortion with edge focus, regardless of material. The only real difference is that a glass gobo will not heat warp like metal and does not require bridge segments to form circles or open negative, space in the image.
I love sitzprobes its always so exciting! always great to hear and sing with the orchestra for the first time!
my theatre group always used to call a 'sitzprobe' a 'bandcall' idk why, but I thought I would contribute to a possible English version lol.
We call it band call too
First! Have a good day!!
You to!
thank you :) you too
As soon as I heard Gobo I was brought back to gcse drama 😂😂😂
My brother has pierced his own ear
Without my mum knowing, he was drunk 😂
Sitzprobe I find is the best rehearsal day!! I love it
I'm from Ontario Canada, and we also say sitzprobe!
Surgical spirit on a cotton pad is great for getting plaster/tape residue off your skin 😀
So proud of myself for knowing what a gobo was 😂 Thank you to my GCSE drama teacher
Carrie, I know it won't help for the stuff you already lost, but when I was at uni I always did all my writing on google documents, because those automatically save and it would take literal years to fill up the storage. It's also handy as you can access it anywhere
Refering to London as "Town" isn't just a theatre thing - it may have come form theatre I don't know but I think it's related to commuter town. When I lived in Brighton people would always ask if you were "going up to Town on the weekend?" and I now live in another commuter town (a town with easy & quick access routes to London, usually with A-road access or with a trainline direct to London) and people often refer to London as "Town". It's often going "Up to Town" so I wonder if it's a Southern thing?
(Also Gobos are specifically the stencils that you put in to a lamp to create the shapes on the floor Ollie was describing. "Specials" are the more expensive lights (usually heavier) that can either move, change colour, spin and they often have "inbuilt" gobos that you can choose from. In older lights, they have a slot for a Gobo &/or Gels, but that means that light can only shine through that gobo/gel, there's no changing it mid-show. A Gel is how you add colour to a light.)
We call the city centre “town” in Scotland too. “I’m going to town today to get a new coat” ... referring to the main shopping part of the city :)
A gobo is a thin, metal disk with the image in it punched out. It has a frame and sits in a slot in the middle of a light fixture. I do like a gobo.
I feel like I should know more of these terms because I do amateur theatre but there were still loads I'd never heard in my life. I guess it's because it's West End terms so amateurs wouldn't necessarily know them or need to ever use them.
The West End Tattoo is a nightmare. Whenever I have a mic, you can guarantee I have a permanent West End tattoo for however many shows a week, usually 5. I never knew it was called that though.
I've heard blocking a lot, it's never been called staging in my drama groups, only ever blocking, so I'm completely certain with that one.
We used to get told off for paging the curtain at my other theatre group. We would get screamed at after show if we did it backstage so none of us dared. In my current group, we don't have curtains in the wings so we don't have to worry about that.
I used to get so confused with stage left and stage right but I kind of figure it out now. By the time the show comes around, I know where I come on and go off so I don't need to know what side it's actually called if that makes sense, but to start with it takes me a hot minute to figure out what the director means. Downstage and upstage, I've always been fine with.
GCSE Dance and Drama served me well for the GOBO part! Although I didn’t know quite a few of those😬
I didn’t realise you have one person doing both sets of tannoy announcements. I work in an arts centre and because we have multiple shows, films and other activities that require audience announcements in FOH it’s our duty manager who does those announcements and the CSM does backstage.
Is "in town" actually theatre slang? I thought it was just a word that city folk/people who live near a city used to refer to said city. I used to live near Edinburgh and frequently heading into the city centre was referred to as "going into town". Doesn't happen so much in Glasgow though, I find, so maybe its a slightly regional thing as well?
Yeah I also say ‘in town’ when referring about city centres. But in this instance when referring to shows, ‘in town’ means a show in the West End. X
I think the English word for Sitzprobe is 'Band Call'. We use both terms in am dram in Sheffield 😊
For the "West End tattoo", isopropyl/rubbing alcohol works a charm. (He says, having had multiple electrode pads and medical tape sites during a recent hospital stay.)
Hope you're doing okay now, Andy.
I am, thanks. Feeling much, much better but still have a road ahead.
Wait, I have never heard of a DSM (I'm from the USA so that might be why) before now. Our stage managing order goes Stage Manager and Assistant Stage Manager.
Also, I think this is just a university musical theatre thing, but our sitzprobe is nothing like that. It's usually midway through or towards the end of tech week and we have to do everything, but kind of stop and go. Sometimes we squeeze time in earlier with practicing some things with the band, but most of the time we just have to do everything full out even if the band just got inserted into the rehearsal.
I definitely had to look up Tannoy a few months ago thanks to Carrie - a cool bit of British MT lore!
Good morning 💕 hope you all have a lovely day 💞 anyone know what drink carrie has because it looks really nice? 😍
That’s what I’m trying to find out! Have a great day! Xxxxx
@@roscoestanley4858 it looks so good!!!! 💕 I hope you have a wonderful day
sophie hare I know right I think it might be Robinson’s juice I’m not sure! Xx
@@roscoestanley4858 what ever it is, I need It🤣
Stagey is another one!
Have you tried a disc digger app or something to pull videos back see if your docs come back with the vids .
Hate to be the unsolicited advice guy but Google Docs & Google Drive are way less temperamental than iCloud.. easy to use, works with Word, Google Drive app is good at telling you when your stuff isn't syncing... Basically everyone on the internet has a Google account anyway, so it's more universal than Apple's ecosystem. Always reccomend it to my colleagues when their clouds corrupt or whatever.. it's super underrated & underused.
This! Plus google docs has a built in versioning system so you can revert to an earlier version if needed!
@@dizdozable Exactly yeah. Docs is pretty ideal for writers specifically, too. I find Word can be a bit annoying with all its pushy vocabulary suggestions. I reckon it's built more for concise documents, whereas Google Docs is just a versatile writing tool. Feel like a hypeman for Google lol... when do I get paid?
Not to mention it's free!
Google Drive is free for a certain amount but you need to pay once you start running out of storage in order to get more storage.
Google Docs is great though.
Olive oil is pretty good at getting mic tape off. Mix a blob of it with a bit of shampoo.
That’s interesting - we never call it a tannoy, we always say ‘the relay’, and the DSM has never done the FOH calls, it’s always been prerecorded 🧐
I wonder if it's different in the professional world but I've only heard the term sitzprobe fairly recently, we always just call it band call (and it's my favourite part of any show I'm in 😀😍)
I just finished my drama degree and can still never get upstage/downstage/SL/SR right 😅 I understand it in theory, but it's just one of those things there's no point trying to explain to me because once I'm actually stood on a stage I just can't get it to work in my head 😂
Considering I’ve done theatre and musicals since the age of 10 I didn’t hear of the term sitzprobe till I was like 19/20! It was always just referred to as a band call🤷🏻♀️
Aw man, 2 emotional and mental difficult days... :( Been thinking of you, Carrie. It sucks SO MUCH when you think everything is saved and then you find out it isn't. :(
Carrie, something completely different but I've been wondering for a few videos now: what are you drinking? I love the colour of it :-)
Owwww parcel day :) haha
Oh gosh Oli, you miss so many good opportunities for your 'don't' part. :p You could've said: don't...press the wrong button! :p
Some Theatre "Slang"
LX - Lights
The Book/Prompt Book/Call Book/Bible - The script used by the DSM to call the show
Gel - Thin plastic sheet that changes the colour of a lantern
Beginners - Call 5 minutes before the show starts
Report/Show Report - the document that is filled out by the DSM with all of the info from that show (time went up, interval, came down etc)
God Mic - the microphone used by the director in the auditorium during tech
Blacks - the clothing worn backstage (sometimes actors will also wear blacks in rehearsals)
Workers - the lights on stage during a rehearsal
Blues - the lights backstage during a show to enable people to see (often normal white light with a blue gel)
The Desk - the place that the DSM calls the show from. This will have cue lights for each department
Clearance - Front of House informing the DSM that the auditorium has closed and the show can begin/resume
Curtain Call - Bows
Bounce - when the curtain "bounces" at the end of a show during a curtain call
Flys - the space above the stage where scenery is hung
Boarders & Legs - the curtains that frame the stage across the top and down the sides
Truck - piece of scenery that is on wheels
Flat - scenery that is flat and often hung
Cyc - short for Cyclorma, a large white curtain (often at the back of the stage) that can be lit to represent different times of day. Can also be projected onto.
Gauze - a curtain that is translucent when lit from the front and transparent when lit from behind
Cloth - another name for a curtain (primarily a curtain used as part of the scenery)
Iron - the "safety curtain" that is lowered at the start of the interval. It is called the iron because it is made our of iron and often painted with something that represents that theatre
The ironnnnnnnnnn = safety curtain
I'm so curious - what is that red juice Carrie has been drinking the past few mornings???
Ribena?
L S sorry to jump into this debate but I’ve also been wondering this for days 😂 I thought it might be Ribena, but it seems almost too pink rather than purple-y? I feel like Ribena is darker also 🤔
What is Carrie drinking? 😂😂
"business" is the first one I thought of for weird theater words that don't sound like what they mean
I ran over my foot with a stage brake. That felt great. 😣
Some others - "God mic" and "rake/raked stage"
Yeah London is town. If you're from here, it's town 😂
Yikes i know how Carrie feels i deleted about 60 pages of a book once!
Me too. My computer crashed and died midway through me writing a book and I couldn't get my computer to start back up at all and so went onto Google Drive and realised I hadn't backed it up so I lost basically all of it. Luckily I don't write for a living so it wasn't as big of a deal.
You couldn’t pay me to use an Apple product for work!
🥺I sent fan mail of Ollie and Edgar a while ago🥺
Yep the buttons for FOH, techies and dressing rooms are generally right next to each other- I always stressed about pressing the wrong one. Usually there are little lights on the board to show where you’re speaking and I’d always quadruple check which one was on
oh dear, ive literally JUST bought a macbook pro and watched this video to hear how carrie’s macbook has failed her haha oh no