Theater Jobs: Fight Captain

A fight captain is just what the name implies, someone to watch over any stage combat. Now in the show I'm currently involved in there are two fight captains, myself, and another guy. This was done this way because we are both in the show and heavily involved in the fighting done in it. There are three main fights throughout the show. #1- The Wedding Fight This fight involves 8 combatants that are split into three groups. The main group has stage left and center stage and is comprised of three people (Myself and two others), the other two groups are on stage right and are comprised of two and three people respectively, ( The other fight captain and another guy in one group and three in the other group). This fight is one of the reasons two fight captains were chosen, so we could each watch part of the stage instead of one of us trying to watch it all. #2- The Glen Fight This fight involves only two combatants, me and the other fight captain. It is described as the most brutal fight in the show. It is between the two of us because we are the least likely to get hurt during it. #3- The "Bonnie Brawl" This fight involves many combatants, I'm not part of the fight but the other fight captain is. This allows me to watch the fight as a whole while he takes part and watches each individual. This allows for more control overall. This is part one of the Fight Captain entry. Stay tuned for more

Video Games Musicals: The Future?

So a fairly new channel on Youtube called RandomEncountersEnt has caught my attention with their video game musicals (I'm also a gamer in addition to my love of musicals).

The first musical of their's that I saw was Pac-Man the Musical: A Pacapella Song. Which as a fan of the old arcade machines this peaked my interest in what they did (I am still terrible at Pac-Man however).

One thing they do that makes them unique is the fact that they do what they call "Bonus Encounters" which are generally short behind-the-scenes, additional little musicals, skits, or just odd little tidbits, here is Pac-Man musical temp track which was shown to the cast before recording.

RandomEncounters preformed one of their most popular musicals Needlemouse: The Musical at Sega's Sonic Boom at E3. Sega is the publisher of the Sonic the Hedgehog games that Needlemouse is based on. If the actual company recognizes the song as good advertising without having to do any work themselves than we know that we have something.

Check out their others musicals such as:

• The Legend of Ganondorf: A Zelda Song
• Singachu: A Pikachu Song
• Angry Birds The Musical: A Green Pig Song ("When I take flight my pigging sprees" is forever stuck in my head)
• Nicole: A Dead Space Song (Dead Space: The Musical)
• Nothing Is True: An Assassins Creed Song

Check them out, they're pretty good and just keep getting better.

Website Story

Website Story is a parody of West Side Story. It was posted by College Humor on Youtube on Aug 6, 2009. It is a parody set in the modern times. Several songs a parodied including

• When You're on the Net = When You're a Jet
• I'm on Twitter = I Feel Pretty
• Pandora = Maria
• E-Harmony = America
• Evite = Tonight (They make a blogging joke in this one)

The description of the video says "CollegeHumor's first Broadway musical since (LOL)Cats"

Watch it here: http://youtu.be/FtPb8g8Jl6I