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It's Curtains Mods ([personal profile] stagemanagers) wrote in [community profile] itscurtains2016-10-10 11:53 am
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OVERTURE

You wake up, and realize you don’t remember how you got here.

This bed is soft and warm, but it’s certainly not yours. And the room is unfamiliar - unless perhaps you’re an actor, seeing as it looks almost exactly like every dressing room in the world. It's not quite large enough to fit the bed and trunk comfortably alongside the vanity, but it what it lacks in open space, it makes up for in coziness. This could be something you’ve seen in a movie, or dreamed about experiencing one day. But whatever the case, you aren’t supposed to be here.

There’s a silver key resting on your vanity, along with a thin program booklet. The cover - where the name of the show would usually be - is blank, but if you flip through it, you’ll find some startlingly familiar information. Maybe a few familiar faces as well…

The hallway outside is narrow and poorly-lit, lined with star-studded doors. But if you make your way past them and out into the lobby, you’ll find something entirely different: an elegant, refined opera house. Crystal chandeliers glitter overhead, and the red carpet is perfect for putting on a show. A large clock on the northern wall marks the time, though with the windows shuttered and locked it's difficult to tell whether it's morning or night. There’s also some framed information pinned up that you might find helpful. If you explore further into the adjoining wings, in fact, you'll see there's an identical copy in every room.

There’s also two sets of double-doors in the lobby: one leading back the way you came, deeper into the Opera House, and one leading out. For the moment, neither of them will open.

It looks like you’re stuck. But hey - at least you aren’t alone.
catliketread: (☠ SO STEALTHILY THE PIRATE CREEPS)

[personal profile] catliketread 2016-10-10 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
...Can you run away from hell?

[is. is this what we're doing today. NO, YOU KNOW WHAT, THIS IS NOT WHAT WE'RE DOING TODAY, HE IS GOING TO TAKE THIS IN STRIDE, THAT IS WHAT A PIRATE KING DOES]

Right, well! You may not have escaped how you wanted to, but you are free! Once we find a way out of here then you can go where you want, do what you wish! Your life is yours and you should live it however you want!

[SEE HE'S TOTALLY GOT THIS]
robitussin: (bleeding out in the--)

[personal profile] robitussin 2016-10-10 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I mean. If they went to the trouble of bringing us here, I'm going to guess they have a good reason and probably aren't going to be too cool with the idea of us leaving immediately?
irreprochable: (quatorze)

[personal profile] irreprochable 2016-10-10 10:20 pm (UTC)(link)
You need not thank me until the job is done.

[javert takes a breath. as if preparing. and then he sings (vaguely to the tune of "stars"):]

Yes, Hans, you have my promise,
as I search for Anna,
search through the night,
until we can find her,
you'll beeeeee united at last
united at last

you shall not have to fret
and spend all your days
waiting and wishing for answers
as they all slip away

i will see she'll come home safe
safe to your arms
where you'll both find shelter
and at the end,
you'll be united at last
united at last
sunshineprincess: (♥ To take it slow)

[personal profile] sunshineprincess 2016-10-10 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[She nods with a smile.]

Yup. Just like it says in that booklet. Except I am not an actress! Why would they make me sound like one?
aflatouttahell: (06)

[personal profile] aflatouttahell 2016-10-10 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah! Yeah, you're right, uh...

[She looks in her program guide.]

Pirate King?
robitussin: (growing up unstable)

[personal profile] robitussin 2016-10-10 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Uh, Natalie is fine. I'm not French, so...

[She might not be familiar with the language, but that still sounds too formal to her, like calling her 'miss' would.]

Not a scratch on me. As for assistance, I'm assuming you haven't found a way out of here, which is the main thing I want.
dieformymusic: (Grackles)

[personal profile] dieformymusic 2016-10-10 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[A piano?! Aw heck yes. Winslow grunts with excitement, pointing towards wherever it is.

Heck yes let's go there.]
catliketread: (☠ WE NEVER SPEAK A WORD)

[personal profile] catliketread 2016-10-10 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
That's right, I am the Pirate King!

[POSE!!

...anyway.]


I don't know what to make of the book there, but I am certainly not an actor.

[just a ham]
aflatouttahell: (04)

[personal profile] aflatouttahell 2016-10-10 10:25 pm (UTC)(link)
He sure can.

[She sighs.]

He's not a great dad, but he sure can be one.
dieformymusic: (Default)

[personal profile] dieformymusic 2016-10-10 10:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[Honestly he wrote a whole musical about Faust and still missed the deal with the devil thing.

He ceases his attack on the box office when he hears someone speaking to him. Whipping around, he gesticulates to all of this, then ultimate to himself. It's pretty clear he's lost and confused by all this.]
irreprochable: (cinq)

[personal profile] irreprochable 2016-10-10 10:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[javert is a little surprised to hear it. everyone is french. well, everyone at home. although it sort of belatedly hits them that even though he called her by a french title, they are not, in fact, speaking french. it didn't seem weird until she pointed it out. but he has no time to deal with that now.]

Unfortunately, no. I would that I had, for all our sakes.
blackstache: (002)

here come the fireworks, lobby

[personal profile] blackstache 2016-10-10 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Whoever owns the building certainly has expensive taste.

[Hook comments to the man fiddling with the windows, staring about the room with idle curiosity.]
sunshineprincess: (♥ When can I see you again?)

[personal profile] sunshineprincess 2016-10-10 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[Since the playbill has already given them all their names and titles, Anna feels like maybe she can be more lax about introductions now. She takes the others hand and shakes it.]

Anna! It's nice to met you!
sunshineprincess: (♥ Ready to shine)

[personal profile] sunshineprincess 2016-10-10 10:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[....................................

That......

She laughs nervously.]


Isn't that kind of the point? Pirates are supposed to fight weaker ships and steal from them.
catliketread: (☠ TRUCE TO NAVIGATION)

oh boy!!!

[personal profile] catliketread 2016-10-10 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well, this certainly isn't budging. All the windows are probably shut just as tightly. Hmm, maybe there's a door around here. That probably should have been his first thought... Oh.]

"Expensive" is understating it! This is beyond anything I've ever seen!

[It's bordering on gaudy, which is great. Sign him up. Can he hang chandeliers like this in his ship?? Probably not. But imagine if he could.]
sunshineprincess: (♥ There's something in the air)

[personal profile] sunshineprincess 2016-10-10 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
America?

[All these places she's never heard of.]

I'm not surprised with a name like Skid Row.
dieformymusic: (Curious chirping)

[personal profile] dieformymusic 2016-10-10 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[He makes an annoyed noises, hoping words come out but nope.

And he turns round to see...a Victorian era Frenchman? That's a rather large wig....and yeah the hook but he looks rather bizarre.

Winslow swats at the window before making little finger walks. He's trying to find management, duh.]
dontfeedplants: (Stick with that plant)

[personal profile] dontfeedplants 2016-10-10 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[Judging by the look on his face, that is the first time anyone has ever told him that he wasn't a nobody. Although that first part still didn't make much sense.]

You... you're joking, right?
catliketread: (☠ WE NEVER SPEAK A WORD)

[personal profile] catliketread 2016-10-10 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Some of them surely do. But not my crew! We have honor.

[He gives another sweeping bow at that.]
trettende: (somos tal para cual)

[personal profile] trettende 2016-10-10 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Truly beautiful :') Hans is of course moved by Javert's conviction, for what greater way is there to express emotion than through song? ]

Then I wish you luck, sir. And I pray you'll find her soon.
irreprochable: (treize)

[personal profile] irreprochable 2016-10-10 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[this is, unfortunately, after javert has met hans, a sad circumstance for pretty much everyone involved here. but being duped by royalty aside, javert really means no harm to anna though he has been keeping an eye out for her for the better part of the afternoon, at least among his other exploring. I imagine it was a fairly comedic scenario - the sort of one person going out one door another one coming in, etc. but finally, at long last -- ]

Princess Anna?

[it's hard to mistake a girl with such striking red hair, even if she is ...lacking the normal grace royalty affords. it's no matter. he walks up to her in a matter of a few steps, which might look a little intimidating because intimidating was what he meant to be and the "smile" he's trying to sport doesn't do much for the whole thing, either.]

Your royal highness, I was asked to find you.
sunshineprincess: (♥ It's just a matter of time)

[personal profile] sunshineprincess 2016-10-10 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, just books that the servants left behind when I was little. There's plenty of plays that have swearing in them as well, but it's not like... well, that word you used.

[Ah. So he has a sister, too. And a mother and father.]

I don't think my parents ever swore. Not around my sister and I anyways.
breakingbread: (bread dad is good)

[personal profile] breakingbread 2016-10-10 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
...I don't believe anyone knows that, monsieur. [He is surprisingly not freaked-out by the yelling stomping pirate, though that outfit (and the hook) do garner a furrowed brow.] Ah, but forgive me - it is Captain, isn't it?
catliketread: (☠ OUR CAUTIOUS WAY WE FEEL)

[personal profile] catliketread 2016-10-10 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course I'm not joking! Do you truly think so little of yourself that your name holds no meaning? Come now, that simply won't do! No one can make you into someone - you have to seize that for yourself! You're Seymour! Live up to the name you've been given and make something for yourself!

[He poses dramatically again, because of course he does. This is absolutely inspiring and wonderful and not at all dumb!!]
sunshineprincess: (♥ 'Cause your future's)

[personal profile] sunshineprincess 2016-10-10 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[She shakes her head. Neither of those places sounded familiar.]

It's a country.

[She nods at that.]

Yes! I'm a princess.