Yes, audience participation is very much A Thing at RHPS. In fact I directed the stage version (The Rocky Horror Show) and encouraged the audience to yell out.

my first theater experience in the US was rent, where i had the most unfortunate experience of sitting next to two young women who sang along loudly to that stupid ‘how many minutes in a year’ song, and then sobbed for the rest of the second half.

HAVING MOST OF A THEATER JOIN IN THE SINGING OF A POPULAR SONG COULD BE A WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE. NEVERTHELESS, I CAN SEE HOW THE CAST AND SOME/MANY/MOST AUDIENCE MEMBERS, HAVING PAID TO HEAR PROFESSIONALS, MIGHT NOT APPRECIATE IT. THE SOLUTION IS OBVIOUS: LEAN IN. ADVERTISE PERFORMANCES WHERE JOINING IN IS ALLOWED AND…

Read that as “Jerky Boys”. Suddenly knowing what could have been has made my world just a little sadder.

When I saw Jersey Boys there was a woman behind me who would not stop singing along to all the songs. It was infuriating. People really don’t know how to act in public anymore.  

“Two women were forcibly pulled out of the theater by security”

We had to back it up to confirm what we heard, but I thought it was notable that Walter sold himself to Misty as a Moriarty to her Holmes, not a Watson.

The article got it wrong too, but the guy she held the gun on in the garage was not the carjacker. He runs a chop shop, but he doesn’t steal the cars himself. 

And Misty murdering that PI is just Misty’s way of saying “lol!”

To Misty, hiring a P.I. to check up on her is just Tai’s way of showing how much she loves and cares about her.

I do think dark Taissa was indicating Van by covering her face other than one eye. Was Van cheating on Taissa with her dark  other self?

Misty doing the Steel Magnolias monologue while their coach starves to death in the next room feels pretty close to peak Yellowjackets. I get the complaints about the plot feeling scattered, since there are a lot of balls in the air at the moment, but this may have been the show’s funniest episode.

Can we just pause for a moment and recognize Melanie Lynskey’s stunning performance with the carjacker at the garage? That monologue complete with having to “peel back the skin” or pointing the gun at him and confessing how she was shaking not because she was afraid, but how much she wanted to kill him.” THAT was the…

I think the reflection was saying “Go to her”, and the bit with her hands resembled Van’s mask from Doomcoming...

OMG

Cue Madonna’s “What It Feels Like For A Girl.”

What?

I don’t think I’ll see this till it ends up streaming free for me.  But holy moly, that really is a great trailer.

“Daphne may not have been our favorite character this season...”

(See Laverne and Shirley)