4 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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POV: You work at Denny's. It's 12 AM. You want to go home. And from outside you hear it... your worst nightmare: 40 pairs of hungry footsteps and an acapella intro to Grease's Summer Nights. In this episode, with the help of stage actor and Tik Tok sensation Tyler Joseph Ellis, Isa and Amanda dig into Theatre Kid (yes, spelled “re”) culture—the rituals and superstitions, the cliques and power structures—to see just how far a teenager will go to live out their High School Musical dream.
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0:00.0 | We talk about a lot of really fun subjects on this podcast, but I do think something we always do is kind of slip into a British accent when we feel uncomfortable. |
0:07.3 | That's so true, babes. |
0:09.8 | And that's what we're gonna do all week when we're in London town. |
0:15.0 | Dude, I am so fucking excited. We're doing our first ever London show on Friday, May 26th at 6.30pm, at the Lester Square Theatre in London. |
0:26.4 | It's going to be fucking lit. |
0:28.2 | Which by the way, why is Lester Square Theatre spelled like that? That was like like Heistr. |
0:32.8 | We are so excited for the stamp show. We're gonna have games. |
0:37.5 | We're gonna have audience participation. |
0:39.4 | And of course, we're gonna have our juicy analysis while diving into a much requested and never before discussed top secret cult. |
0:48.5 | You cannot hear this cult subject matter on any episode because it's what we do for our live show, so you really have to be there. |
0:55.5 | And then meet us after the show by some merch. |
0:58.9 | We're there to chat with you babes. |
1:00.6 | Tickets are on sale now at SoundsLikeAkult.com and at the link in our IG bio. |
1:06.3 | Again, that's Friday, May 26th, 2023, aka this year. |
1:10.5 | At 6.30pm, we will see you there at Lester Square Theatre in London. |
1:15.2 | See you there babes. |
1:16.3 | Hi, Lisa. And Amanda. My name is Michelle. I'm from Moscow, Idaho. |
1:20.9 | And I was a theater kid in middle school, high school, and for a couple years in college. |
1:26.8 | I think the cultiest thing about being a drama student has to be the unpaid labor that the department expects of you. |
1:33.6 | I would get put on my show and have to be at the theater until, you know, two in the morning working on sets or sitting through tech runs. |
1:41.2 | And I'd have to take weeks off of my actual job to be there to do that without getting paid. |
1:46.4 | Hey, I'm Sydney from Anchorage, Alaska. And the cultiest thing about theater kids is the exclusivity within the group itself. |
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