Broadway-Related Dreams and Nightmares

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 9/20/08 at 5:46pm

Ever have dreams about musicals or Broadway performers? I have very, very vivid, weird dreams (like my recurring dream where I'm the Beast from Beauty and the Beast walking around a mall), and I usually write down my dreams soon as I walk up so as to remember them.

Here's one of my weirder ones:

I dreamed that there was a fire in my basement. Nobody really cared for some reason-- my mom was just like, "We'll leave it 'till it goes out." When I wanted to put it out, she said that it would get the carpet wet.

Then, for the REALLY weird part. I opened an extra door in my upstairs hall that doesn't exist, and I walked through it into this totally transparent room. You couldn't see the walls, floor, or ceiling at all, so it looked like I was walking on air. There were three yellow phones just kind of floating there. I picked one up, and there was this weird answering machine where you're supposed to leave a comment about any actor you think is talented. I left a comment for Michael Ball (probably dreamed this bit because I signed the guestbook on his fan site the other day).

Then, I was eating spaghetti (I hate spaghetti, but I liked it in my dream) at my house with my family and one of my friends, and all of a sudden, Michael Ball comes inside the house to drop off my purse! (I lost it on a ride at an amusement park-- it blew into a meadow I wasn't allowed to access, and the park people said they'd mail it to me in a few days). The first thing out of my mouth was, "I left a message about you earlier today!" And he goes, "Yeah, that's how I traced your address to drop this off." That makes no sense.

Anyway, he randomly sat down and started eating dinner with my family, and then all of a sudden he started talking about writing a Les Miserables fanfiction that shipped Cosette and Gavroche, and he said, "Because Gavroche is about fourteen by the end of the book, so if he didn't die, he'd be older than Cosette." This also makes no sense, but it made sense in the dream. Though I guess the age difference isn't a problem for him since his partner is like sixteen years older than him..

And he also said that he'd always wanted to play Thenardier! Later in the dream, I started singing songs with him, which I'd never do if I met him in real life, because I'd be embarrassed to let someone as brilliant as Michael Ball hear me singing.

I don't remember what happened in this part of the dream, but at some point, the fire in the house spread drastically and the whole house was on fire, including the front door. My mom was freaking out and yelling, "Why didn't you put it out!" And I was yelling, "MOM! You told me it'd wreck the carpet!"

Everyone was trying to escape, but no one could (I hope Michael Ball was okay!), and I managed to crash through the big front window into the yard, in a manner similar to the Cowardly Lion. My dad was randomly standing in the yard, and he started yelling at me for breaking the window. I kept yelling, "THE HOUSE IS ON FIRE! WE HAVE TO SAVE PEOPLE!" and stuff, and there were flames billowing out of the house, but my dad just kept yelling and yelling at me and saying not to interrupt him and that we'd talk about this later and stuff.

When I woke up, I thought my dad was still mad at me and I still thought the house was on fire.

[Select a Member Name]

Posted: 9/20/08 at 7:03pm

I had a dream that John Gallgher and Nina Sturtz were dating (I think it's because I watched that episode of The Battery's Down before I went to bed) and I was really jealous.

[KathyGriffinLovesYou]

Posted: 9/20/08 at 9:06pm

i had a dream anthony rapp was performing "what you own" (somehow on his own) and when he saw me in the front row he stopped and was like "hi" and i said"hiya" and he kept going and after the show he jumped off the stage and was sooo spazzy and was like "OMG!! im youre biggest fan!" and i was like "no way im YOUR biggest fan!!!!" and we got married. it was very pleasent.

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 9/20/08 at 9:21pm

Hahaha, I once had a dream that my friends constantly make fun of me about where I was at my local pool and it was very late at night. No one else was there, even the life guard, and I kept seeing these shadows darting back and forth, people running around and the occasional taxi speeding down the road. I was scared something bad was going on, but since there were so many taxis going by, I felt safe. (I don't understand my reasoning in that dream...)

So then, this guy jumps over the fence and walks very, very, very slowly toward me and gets into the pool, fully dressed, and wades toward me. He looked totally normal and was wearing a big black button-up coat that actually looked really Javert-ish. I instinctively knew that he was the Phantom of the Opera, and in the dream, I remember thinking, "Oh, that's the guy who keeps talking to me online."

He looked like any normal guy-- no mask or anything-- and he vaguely resembled Mr. Knightley from the version of the movie "Emma" starring Gwyneth Paltrow, which I'd just watched. Anyway, a bunch of random and pointless stuff occurred with the Phantom talking about how he can Apparate in and out of the Smithsonian (but nowhere else) at will. Just then, these police cars started driving around, and the Phantom started screaming strange foreign-sounding words and he jumped over the fence again and jumps into a taxi cab.

A couple of minutes later, my dad comes to pick me up at the pool, and we get in this taxi cab. After a couple minutes, I realize that the driver is my friend Julian, but he doesn't seem to recognize me, so I don't say anything, and it's rather awkward. Then, all of a sudden, he goes, "Were you talking to the Phantom of the Opera just then?" and I told him that I was, and then he pointed to this guy sitting in the front seat of the taxi and said, "See this guy here? He's dead."

Basically, he explained that he took all of the people that the Phantom killed and then dropped them off at people's houses to make it look as though other people killed them. He were perfectly calm about all of this, but my dad and I were freaking out, and for some reason, I kept thinking, "I can't let my dad know that I know this guy! I'll get in such big trouble!"

Then, I was at school, and I'd just missed the bus, and I was chasing after buses, and I got on a random bus that wasn't mine. After this, the dream totally shifted to me in a mall-- I was auditioning for this weird musical of "As You Like It" or some other Shakespeare play, and auditions were being held in the dressing rooms of some big clothing store. There was a stage that looked like the stage from the film version of "Phantom of the Opera." I kept getting lost, and I kept tripping and getting hurt. When it was finally time for me to audition, I did a terrible job, and I was really upset.I remember being told that I was going to play the sheep, and getting extremely mad. I went back into the clothing store, and I was looking around at clothes, but a boy I know named John kept following me around annoying me, and that was NOT making my mood any better.

Then, I was at a basketball game, and at halftime, Jacob Brent comes onstage and starts singing a song called "Sirens" from the musical "Jane Eyre." Except that Jacob Brent definitely does not have the range for that song, and I was sitting behind a glass door at the basketball game going, "Why is he singing this song! He's a good singer, but he can't handle this song!" And then, he walks out from behind the glass door and started mocking me in front of the whole crowd, saying that I had to play a sheep.