what tech week is like at a performing arts high school

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[@johnstoll894]

I lowkey love tech week because we all bond over how miserable we are

[@katietidwell7725]

John Stoll and then when it’s over you don’t know what to do with life

[@nova1047]

It’s a love/hate relationship.

[@rachelmarrone3271]

the only time to bond because u cant talk backstage

[@-maxipoo-]

I guess I’m the only one who LOVES tech week

[@JC_artz]

@@-maxipoo- it’s fun but also it’s hell at the same time so I have mixed feelings

[@FreeToBeAFreak]

When you said you could be at school till midnight my first thought was the quote from Mean girls: "I will keep you here all night." "We can't keep them past 4."

[@jschaeffer3440]

ME TOO!

[@purplecatloverrandompizza]

Funny play rehearsal ended at 4:30ish today and it was just setting up the set

[@dandycandy5813]

SAAAAAAAMEEE

[@CristinaDiaz]

All the theater kids at my school always die during tech week too

[@stephanieaustin8474]

EVERYONE dies during tech week

[@gracediehl5579]

You arent a real theatre kid unless you do

[@oliviamatthes47]

it actually the worst thing ever

[@sophiadefaria380]

I hate it because it problema start to form

[@girl.liker4205]

SAME it's so stressful

[@samanthahoefs9928]

The entire drive to the theatre is the girls arguing and Elijah being a mood eating popcorn and singing legally blonde

[@lauren1919]

imagine having that much wing space, i wish i could relate aksjdn

[@mayaspreckman2099]

lauren Garanzuay ikr

[@imtristanadams2630]

omg same 😭

[@baravraham7308]

Yeah me too but they go to a performing arts high school so they kinda have to have a big theatre

[@allthingsnevaehj629]

lauren Garanzuay RIGHT

[@harvey3274]

*Tips for Surviving Tech Week* 1. Ibuprofen 2. Tea with honey 3. Lot and lots of baths 4. 300 sticks of deodorant 5. Buy a casket in advanced

[@helloooo6653]

LMAO NUMBER 5

[@GoldGateBri]

you need to post more school/ musical theater vids!!!!

[@katelynm.1643]

I just got cast in Newsies, and during tech week, Ben Frankhauser (Original Cast Davey on Broadway) in is coming to give us a workshop day and perform for us, and literally can't function??? EDIT: I met him, got a picture, and his signature and he's a pretty cool guy!!

[@liliawolf1621]

JENSKAKKA REALLY HOLY SHIT I LOVE BEN FANKHAUSER

[@margaritalitchfield741]

LUCKY

[@angelicaahmann8019]

KateAnnaMarie MY RIFF LEGEND WHAT

[@annaliselabar5775]

NO FUCKING WAY

[@laureng.3785]

LUCKYYYYY

[@elishiamoyne1776]

Not into musical theatre or anything but WHO HAS A VARIETY OF FRESH PASTRIES IN THEIR HOUSE

[@user-nm6nq8nu7e]

THATS WHAT I THOUGHT

[@livluvsu.]

New goal achieved: always have fresh pastries in my house 👍🏻

[@kiarakarinarose6025]

“I bet ur school hasn’t kept u for rehearsal until midnight” oh sweetie that’s a normal time for my school in tech week

[@isabellaleigh7983]

At my school we stayed over 26 hours

[@ethelb6237]

Isabella Leigh Jesus... for what show???

[@isabellaleigh7983]

@@ethelb6237 Peter and the star catcher

[@annamorris7148]

Same!😭😭

[@kristinloewen4444]

Yeah same. Normally our tech week rehearsals go from 7am-11pm or midnight

[@brisbintwins1907]

I’d love to see a tech week video in the eyes of a techie. I’ve been at the school so late before it’s crazy.

[@laceykeane7422]

Lmaooo we call our tech week “Hell Week” 😂🤩

[@kendalhoover9927]

Same here lol

[@Marysola2025]

Same

[@raeculligan9940]

samee

[@Siynur]

samee

[@imtristanadams2630]

YES SAME

[@dorathybarros6238]

I did legally blonde last year! That show is a beast of a show. I was an ensemble member but I was in every scene because I was EVERY type of ensemble. That was a tuffy

[@dorathybarros6238]

This makes me miss my show so much 😥

[@RainsCloud777]

Im a dancer but I’m in my first musical and I really have a new appreciation for it, it’s so much work and dedication. Show week is always the most stressful and tiring! The saddest part is definitely after the last show and you realize it’s really over

[@claranewton9185]

i mean, theatre kids are wack but they’re honestly the best kinds of people LMAO

[@JC_artz]

True true

[@mirandasaylor9525]

Is no one going to talk about the fact that they got a snow day and it didn’t even snow like up in Illinois my school won’t cancel even if it’s snowing and there’s an ice storm what the heck

[@annegrace6550]

Im in tech week right now and it's exhausting!

[@purplecatloverrandompizza]

Same

[@linesmusic13]

I’m a techie for newsies for 13 hour long days working non stop. The thing is our director has only provided one meal all week instead of every day 2 times a day like she said she would. She ends rehearsals late so we actually regularly leave at 11:30 instead of 9:30 so our 13 hour rehearsal is really 15 hours at least with maybe a few bags of chips and a pack of fruit snacks for food

[@carsoncampbell3609]

tech week=death week. also who are you playing? I love legally blonde!

[@raeculligan9940]

at my school we call it hell week lol

[@Brynnlafferty]

Ry literally in our rehearsal matrix it’s called hell week. I relate to your comment😂

[@peppapig-tk9oe]

my school just did legally blonde and based on her lines and prop i think she was the woman in court who questions the gay guy in gay or european

[@maiat9368]

Ry same one night I got home at 2:30 am and had to wake up at 7 the next morning

[@crocalion4415]

Carson Campbell HONESTLY! I'm a senior and last year in musical during tech week we stayed till 1am! it's insaneee

[@emiliefelix4526]

There's always that one restaurant ALL theater kids go after performing the show the second night. My school is chili's i feel so bad for those waiters everytime...

[@mc-nf7hd]

Haha “I bet your school doesn’t hold you until midnight” where my FRC kids at

[@beccaoreilly1415]

Watching this during tech week at my performing arts high school where I major in musical theatre and I’m crying

[@sandwichchristensen3007]

Theatre kids are so weird But I’m in marching band so I guess I’m weird too :/ I get home around midnight during marching season

[@jocelynelisemedia]

Neapolitan_AD I did theater and band in high school but I’m still doing band in college (Yeet) and it was the absolute worst

[@sandwichchristensen3007]

Jocelyn Elise Media 😂

[@mothersal4569]

Choir is worse =/

[@andersonrothwell4427]

I’ll miss this show but I definitely won’t miss your brown hair paint 💕💕

[@milanwright220]

this has been my comfort vid for like 4 years idk why

[@YasmineBateman]

it has been mine too hahaha

[@Gabi.Lopez_]

at my school we do this thing called “ Lock in” the week before tech week and we stay at school until midnight, we get out of school go to rehearsal and stay till midnight, it’s really fun tbh

[@mayaliffgens7542]

WAIT OMG ELIJAH HAD A THE BAND'S VISIT SHIRT I'M IN LOVE AHHHH

[@theonedayghost5152]

All theater kids know that one feeling of being backstage right before and during a show

[@estherling7337]

Ah weird coincidence but my school is doing Legally Blonde and we don't have an official tech week they just do that the week of the show. So had to come in school on a Saturday but I'm so happy still as I'm playing Elle ahhh! Love your videos btw xx

[@dorathybarros6238]

Break a leg!

[@estherling7337]

@@dorathybarros6238 thank you!

[@gabriellapaige7737]

Esther good luck!! When’s your show? I’m playing elle too!

[@estherling7337]

@@gabriellapaige7737 ah congrats I'm sure you will be amazing. Our first show is tomorrow (Wednesday) and last is Friday the cast is the closest it's ever been so are already super sad it's nearly all over. How about you when is your first show? Xx

[@gabriellapaige7737]

Esther our first show is March 1st!! Good luck!!

[@christinehumes]

I love your school, I also like how all of you dress up and act. I litteraly love all your school vlogs. Basically all your vids, but great video! ❤️

[@annakatherine2399]

Just started watching the vid and I almost spit 😂 my school is doing legally blonde too and our tech week is in two weeks

[@ruthiehayward5639]

omg my school did legally blonde last year i love that show!!

[@natalieandrew7573]

during tech week at my school all the theatre kids are just tired, bloated from not eating real food, and crying over senior speeches and everything

[@hopeholbrook9395]

Natalie Andrew same here....

[@soulxblugamer]

No one: her: *Cuts every sentence*

[@sarahoc1254]

also our king elijah wearing a the bands visit shirt

[@abigailmccormick8615]

i actually like you as a brunette more than a blonde..is that weird?? lol

[@laurarush1392]

Abigail McCormick omgggggg sameeeee

[@CristinaDiaz]

Waffle House: the classic Atlanta high schooler late night hang out spot

[@stephaniedesforges4499]

after opening night for every show at my school, the whole cast goes to waffle house and ive never seen a waitress as terrified as when a group of 25 theatre kids walk in at midnight to get waffles and sing showtunes all night

[@Graybay12]

“the grind doesn’t stop until tickets are sold” that’s what me and all of my friends say when we are in a show together

[@twin12008]

we have tech week from 9-10 for two weeks. then, its show week! 9-11 every day till our 3 weekend shows. then, we repeat that show week for our 2nd show weekend. so fun!!!!

[@dylanpyskaty9402]

Tech week just makes me delirious

[@dilangursoy3358]

I could literally FEEL the excitement and happiness after the Friday night show in that clip. I loved this

[@YenellyT]

The town I used to live in my three first years ok hs did not have any performing arts hs or programs anywhere near me, then I moved and my last year of hs I was finally in a theater program 😩🙌🏼🙌🏼 and I remember those rehearsals until 10pm or 12am and I honestly loved them sm

[@liesiekelly8310]

FUN FACT: I went to a summer MT camp last summer called TPAP, where I met like 6 people that go to your school! When I saw Sylvia on the vlog I was shook. edit: AND CAITLYN!! holy cow

[@lovepen1]

when I did Legally we were double casted and I was Enid Hoops in one of the casts and my cast didn't get a full run through till opening either, luckily our Elle wasn't double casted so she had had a run through

[@kendalhoover9927]

One of the things I hate about tech week......it always falls on my freaking birthday 😂. I haven't celebrated my birthday since the 8th grade lol

[@cecewacht454]

i had tech one night till 2 am and we got there at 1pm i’m not joking love that for me

[@Chatty-op9kd]

I love that school got cancelled for snow but it didn’t even snow. In utah we got our first snow day in the past 14 years just three weeks ago cause it snowed literally 14 Inches over night

[@alexiasantos1925]

i go to a public arts hs. for musical tech week we have all day pullouts so tech runs start at like 8 am and still go to 10 pm and then crew has to stay later while cast goes home.

[@natalievuong5468]

OMG BB, I feel you when my friends are in the car and chirping/over-reactinn during the ride. It distracts me and makes me nervous so bad too, I'm so serious when I need them to stop it LOL, you're a great driver hunbun keep on keeping on

[@chloebaker1345]

ugh oh no i have tech week soon... i love and hate it all at the same time

[@rian4156]

Good luck at performing! My musicals tech week is next week and we perform late February. Hope you have fun performing!!

[@sarahmulligan4694]

love you yasmine! so proud of you!

[@amiadawson]

I love these videos so much! You're so amazing queen YASMINE

[@audreyfaith1652]

my school does this thing called dance week, we basically do the dances to the songs till we want to throw up :)) yayy (dance week starts monday)

[@eandh3153]

MY TECH WEEK STARTS ON MONDAY AND THAT WEEK I HAVE 2 TESTS AND 1 PROJECT AND A TON OF OTHER ASSIGNMENTS WISH ME LUCK!!!!!!!💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕

[@carlyshurbet6832]

yep i’m in middle school and was pulled up to the high school show and our tech week starts at 2 and goes till 12. the show is newsies and i was les

[@gabriellapaige7737]

Omg I’ve been binge watching tech week videos to prepare for my legally blonde tech week that’s in 2 weeks! It’s so funny that you’re in that show too!!

[@MissPurpleDurple]

I'm going to cry once tech week arrives! It's my last high school production and I can't believe that it's happening

[@briannagrady6283]

that’s my fav thing about tech week! somehow everything manages to fall into place by the last day

[@noramcnabb1361]

Once school is cancelled, they can’t backtrack that. They are also not supposed to cancel school till 8 But that’s in the Midwest Where we have polar vortexes, and actual snow

[@nahiely6732]

how do y’all school have no regulations for how long they keep students?? In NYC as soon as the security guards leave the students have to leave as well. And to even stay for tech week and saturdays in my school we have to ask for permission.

[@nova1047]

Last year, I was in the little mermaid. During tech week we were there until 11:30 PM every night and I had to get up at 4:30 every morning to babysit for our neighbor. School in between and homework after rehearsal...... yeah that was pretty bad.

[@alizzahGrace]

We've had rehearsals until 1am before. Twas not cute.

[@MaggieTallman]

This had me weeeeak. I did theatre all through high school and now I’m a theatre major down in Florida so my life feels like a never ending tech week 😅😅

[@jakeburkeyyy7240]

i have felt this last year we literally were still doing choreography for dances during tech week so we were there till 12am -2am

[@ameeespino8497]

I kinda really love tech week... It’s just fun to really really see everything come together

[@emmyrose7229]

I'm doing Anne of green gables. I play Josey pye. Btw my tech week also last until midnight.

[@ilovepiedoyou2]

my first high school tech week was also the week my grandfather passed away and i had so many tests that week it was literally THE worst week of my life

[@frankiestage8977]

Tech week is so stressful but the second that show opens its so much better

[@allisonbartlett982]

My school just closed our production of The Wizard of Oz. Tech week was so stressful, I have never had a tech week that stressful. Everyone was getting sick, people weren't allowed to perform.

[@nayla7982]

wish we had a tech week...my stage tech is lucky if the director even gives us a full day to have our time with the cast. last year, we had 1 day to tinker with the tech for Mary Poppins, a whole ass 3 hours show and we had a day to get the tech right...everyone loved the show but it was absolute hell for the stage tech and we all had at least 3 breakdowns ever hour 🤪

[@chelsea9084]

you help me know what it’ll be like next year when i hopefully get into my performing arts school. Thank you sm! I can’t wait for it even more now!

[@sof9138]

what role were u???

[@morganayscue1163]

Sof her friend said d.a. joyce riley!

[@sof9138]

@@morganayscue1163 Oh thank you! I wouldn't have noticed that

[@treblazer]

girl when i was in show choir and in theatre if we needed to stay work the show we stayed UNTIL!

[@annielaura4822]

tech week is approaching for our school musical!! it’s always so crazy but so fun. also i LOVE legally blonde the musical

[@gracegochnauer7395]

At my school during tech the Saturday before starts it and cast goes 9am-9pm, Sunday is 11-9, the week is typically 4-10:30 and notes till 10:45/11, home around 11:30

[@audreyhamilton5765]

omg tech week is the best but its also absolute hell. love these school vlogs!!

[@NatHatter11]

my highschool show just closed and this is giving me heart wrenching memories of tech week wow i miss my cast

[@Tillysnow1]

I'm so jealous of your costumes! Those cheerleading outfits are so cute :) I got to be in Legally Blonde in Year 12, I was a Delta Nu/Greek Chorus and it was honestly the most fun I've ever had in a show! I don't go to a performing arts school but luckily our teachers are super supportive during tech week (especially my chem teacher

[@harperrussell5418]

I’m in middle school and I’m so excited to go to High School and act there. I won’t go to a performing arts school (I wish) but they have a really good acting program and I’m so excited!! This made me so excited! I also live in Georgia!

[@mraes.44]

Harper Russell I’m going into hs too and my school has only been open for 3 years. I’m sorta sad because their arts programs are pretty underdeveloped.

[@teresalichtenwalner9600]

omg i love ain’t no mountain high enough😂also i’m in theatre, this was such a cool vlog!!!

[@gracekennedy7093]

As a theater kid I cannot confirm or deny that this is exactly like what tech week is like

[@isfngjdfoijgidjfiojg]

When we dry ran a show, I do tech, last year w/o cast, the rehearsal we had planned to do it was canceled. So after the regular rehearsal, all tech stayed behind for 6 hours after cast left, (Cast left at around 8pm). Supposed to stay until midnight but, everyone was exhausted and so it was extra slow. It had been 19-20 I had been in my school. At least it was a Friday and didn't have to go to school the next day.

[@kyleemunn9178]

Okay just saying... we both live in Georgia, do theater, and have the same taste in music. I think we should be friends😂

[@bea9502]

our school did legally blonde and it was s o fun and now i’m sad that our production ended

[@elyssanoel1634]

I’m in the little mermaid as one of the mersisters. But it’s aggravating cause it’s a middle school musical, and we only have about ten to fourteen practices left? But we don’t have one song even completely set and people don’t show up. I’m disappointed so far

[@haleydavis2377]

I actually like that hair color on you

[@sarahoc1254]

what role did u play?

[@sydneyisaacs3008]

We went until 11 every night during tech week, that’s pretty standard

[@makennahope98]

tech week sucks when ur in the middle of it but i miss tech week so much now, it was always so exciting even though it was a pain in the ass sometimes, it was totally worth it

[@crowm924]

Ok but YOU KEPT THE DRESSING ROOMS SO CLEAN JUST HOW

[@soulxblugamer]

My school has held me til 3 am

[@meaganchalmers5880]

Queen I live in GA and was doing tech for a thing we do called international night, which is like a talent show but the acts are related to the performer's culture. It's super hype and the ticket stand is basically a mob during lunch. WELLLLLL bc school was cancelled on Tuesday (even though it was sunny and dry and didn't even get to freezing temperatures asdfadfadjh), we ran the entire show THREE TIMES. We finally escaped that hellhole at 11:30. It was INSANE ALSO I SAW THAT LITTLE FLASH OF MY FAVORITE MURDER MY FAVVVVVV

[@JC_artz]

I’m crying rn cuz my school doesn’t have musical theatre and there is no community theatre, what should I do??? Can you give me any tips??? If you see this?

[@bella-en3jy]

i go to an average public high school whos pretty dedicated to their performing arts program and its extremely common for tech week nights to run until 12/1am

[@olivia-oo7eg]

This is all I want to do at my school but we don’t even have a stage or a drama teacher (or drama class.).

[@katelozhkin9873]

We call it TWOD at my school- two weeks of death. It’s EXHAUSTING.

[@aliciaz6224]

ok this was a while ago, but I did legally blonde at my school in march! our tech week (or as we affectionally call it, hell week) was surprisingly quite chill, and I was also DA Joyce Riley :)

[@Chatty-op9kd]

Its my tech week right now.. been pulling nearly 12 hour work days every single day, including weekends for that past 5 weeks so that this show would be ready on time. Im so stressed and TIRED

[@stellamcdonald1122]

Literally every calls tech week SUICIDE week, but we get to miss parts of school and go to school on the weekends