My regrets from high school theater ft.

"That's gotta be the straightest thing I've ever done." Frickin hell Illy, way to make me laugh🤣

did anyone else's cast bring unforgivable teenage chaos to Waffle House after third night or was that just us

I once played an alcoholic maid that was the comedic relief, I accidentally made a bunch of parents think I was actually drunk and drinking tequila

Being a theater kid, I can say that it’s okay to be in the ensemble.if they cast you as the ensemble, that means they see you as a good actor in that role. They see your skills in that place.

Being autistic myself, it's nice to see Illy express herself in a way that she's comfortable with. Also, I can relate to a lot of what she says, especially the whole "trying only one thing and crying when it doesn't work" thing. Not that I'm a theatre student, but that mentality can be applied to a lot of other things for us as well. Keep your options open and your head high, everyone!

I just need to say it! Illy and the way she paints backgrounds are absolutely gorgeous.

As a fellow high school theatre tech person, this made me happy. Lots of actors that don't get big roles are like "ok I guess ensemble it is" and don't think about tech at all.

Recently, I had an audition for Chicago and I doubted myself as I was going for a main and there were some other amazing actors going for the role, before the cast list came out I immediately doubted myself. I did get the role I wanted but just to think I'm not the only theatre kid that went through that is shocking, especially while watching this.

The queerification of illy's channel is something I am so living for omg. "so much gender" was 10/10. Also, I'm in high school now and I've done tech for a few shows. There's something so heartwarming about the way our chaotic energy brings us together. I love going out for ice cream or whatever afterwards. We hit up coldstone after our most recent play like 10 minutes before closing and just chilled outside eating our ice cream and vibing.

“there is no small people. only small roles.” make the most out of your role! you can be a very memorable part of the show.

You know?
Even when it feels like you wanna slap your past self by acting badly, I have felt that too, but I... think that may not be what you needed.
Watching your videos and the things that happens in your life made me realize that, even when that doesn't justify bad actions, what you needed was a hug, you needed kind and supportive words. Not only from others, but from yourself. You needed more Mr. Hudsons in your life and I mean not just in theater clases time, and be your own mr Hudson

So I just did my first play, it was Bye Bye Birdie and it was amazing. I don’t care that I got chorus bc it had a perfect cast, crew, and directors. The house was packed all 3 nights and the atmosphere was like no other. I had a couple of lines but I was needed for those lines. I love what the director said on closing night, she said “It doesn’t matter if you are apart of crew or the lead you are important in this play” and it is true.

The among us imposter sound when illy said “theatre kids walking among us” just did it for me 😂 love the creativity, effort and thought that you put into every video!!

I had an art professor that once told me "Well you can stay constipated your whole life or you could shit yourself trying." He told me this before I went to present my work at a theatre conference and I was super nervous.

I just want to say thank you for this video. You really made me confident to audition for my schools musical and I got a lead role!

13:06 illymations when younger self:
**slap**

Honestly, your Paulette audition was the most Paulette way to audition for the role. It’s almost as if *no one* watched Legally Blonde in preparation for the musical…

I'm absolutely screaming at the gender March Hare and, while barely recovering, you hit me with the "straightest thing I've ever done". This video killed me and then brought me back to life 😂😂😂

My biggest role I ever got was Captain Hook in a Wendy and Peter show in the 12th grade, I felt so shocked when I found out I got the part. Seeing the many more talented people who auditioned not get it, still shocked to this day

illy, I know you won’t see this but, I’ve had really bad stage freight especially when it comes to singing. I’ve been in my highschool’s theater department for 7 productions and not once had I tried out for a musical. This year it was announced that the musical was a production that I grew up with and still really love. I wanted to thank you for posting this video even though our experiences aren’t completely the same, this video was one of the factors that helped me choose to try out this time. Although I’m not sure if I’ll get casted, I’m still proud of myself for trying out and singing in front of other people. So, thank you!

*is still listening to Taylor Swift's "Speak Now" on repeat*

Man, theatre and clubs are the only things that i'd really want to go to American school for, but i'm in the middle of Asia with the craziest school program (and i'm also already in college). The closest thing to theatre were preschool holiday shows for parents to watch us deliver dances songs & random talents decided by teachers (and it wasn't fun). The fun stuff that only 1 singular cooking class in like 7th grade that was promised every year & never came true again

2:12 Why did this catch me so off guard! 😭💀

I love all the references they managed to cram into a 14-minute video

GAH I still cannot get over how beautiful this art style + narration is. I'm sorry for saying what a bunch of others have already said, but DAMN. I love this channel. Keep being awesome

the zip zap zop brought back so many memories 😭✨

I can feel the pain of the cringe and regrets
Thank you for taking me on that journey

The chaos my middle school theater brought to Culver’s after closing night still haunts the poor acne ridden employees. They tell stories of that day like a scary tale in horror movies.

THIS VIDEOS RELEASE COULD NOT HAVE BEEN TIMED MORE PERFECTLY. My high schools fall show is coming up and auditions are soon. I used to be a theatre kid, but quit for two years. Now it’s my last year of high school and I don’t wanna have any regrets. Thanks for the confidence boost :) and lovely vid as always

I just started high school and since I’m homeschooled I do community youth theatre (it’s an all middle school and high school cast.) We are performing Mary Poppins jr in January and into the woods jr in June.
Edit: 8:56 that same thing happened a couple months ago when Mary Poppins was being casted. EVERYONE wanted these 2 people in the cast to be Bert and Mary poppins since last December when we were doing elf the musical jr ( including the directors) and despite there being new kids in the class they STILL got the parts

I've just gotta say, thank you Illy. Thanks to you, Emirichu and a few others, I think this has gotten me the inspiration and motivation as well as SLIGHTLY over my stage fright and performance anxieties.
And because of that, I auditioned for a school play (The Wiz) and actually got the role I auditioned for (Addaperle, The Good Witch of the North)! Soon we'll be preforming for it in March and well, this is just..nice. This really did make me happy and make me a lot more confident. And thankfully I have few friends that also encouraged me.💕💕

I admire that you were brave enough to expose your less proud moments when you were younger. It's already scary to put your personal stories on a public platform, but it's even harder to show your less proud moments on top of it. It also shows that you learned and matured like anyone else when you acknowledge past mistakes. Feel proud you did what plenty never had the courage to do.

watching this as a theater kid RIGHT NOW was painful ngl. this entire video is insanely accurate, from the show choices, to casting, to the zip-zap-zop section at the start 😭😭

I loved being a high school theatre kid. But now I can see how much I compared myself to everyone else. I was told I would never be good enough to be a professional Broadway star and that would still hurts today.

Girl this video inspired me extremely because I recently did a play and asked for a small role but for some reason was slightly disappointed with it and realised that I wanted a bigger one so for the next play I auditioned for belle in beauty and the beast and somehow actually got it!! 🎉 I’m so excited to take on this role and thank you so much for encouraging me to do so ❤. I couldn’t have done it without you because without this video I literally wouldn’t have done that audition ❤️❤️❤️

Illy’s vids are always super engaging

In my high school theater experience, I got casted as the Dormouse in "Alice in Wonderland" and had only one line to say during the whole play. 🎭🎭After that, I got a miniature trophy for taking that role. 👏👏

The “zip, zap, zop” at the start was so nostalgic form when I did theatre haha

0:44
Saiki: you can’t see me.

When i was in highschool every year we got the official licenses to broadway musicals so we could perform them. sometimes we'd perform it on a big stage and sometimes a small stage. One year we changed to a new teacher and she made us perform a children's version of a well-known musical. the children's version removed many of the most important character development songs. and when choosing that musical the new teacher also didn't think about the fact we had 3 boys in the class and a majority of the roles needed to be cast were male. the female lead even suggested we make it a genderbent version since we obviously could not fill the male roles. but yea whole musical went downhill.

I’m glad my drama club has always done auditions like you do a monologue, any monologue, and then you get cast as whatever the director wants you to be. Took away a lot of anxiety for everyone.

I love how everyone's (including ours) legally blonde went immaculately

GIRL WHEN YOU SAT ON THE FLOOR AND TALKED TO THE CHAIR!
I would have assumed you pulled that on purpose and casted you immediately. That's amazing

In elementary school from 2nd grade, I tried out for many roles in plays and musicals. However, I never managed to break past getting a minor role, stuck in the chorus, with like, 3 lines. However, I always persisted, and continued to try out. It took quite a while, and I always kept the sort of optimism that I would land a meaningful role in a play. Even when I had to leave for a family emergency and couldn't act in that play, I always memorized lines, practiced and repeated. But one day, I managed to land the main role. This isn't supposed to be extremely cheesy, but I just wanted to share my personal experience. I was very lucky to get that role, and it was pretty satifsying after years of minor roles.

The Zip Zap Zop joke just makes up my entire life as a theater kid. Hit the nail on the head with that one 😅

This is my favorite channel on KRplus at the moment

I will never get tired of the video game, cartoon, and anime references you put in your videos. It fills my brain with extra neurotransmitters to see Sasuke sitting next to Ron Stoppable in the classroom, and then a minute later seeing the main characters from Xenoblade 3 in the theater.

Let's talk about how good Illy is at drawing and animating and the amount of work they put into her videos every day, honestly she's legit one of my favioute Animators and I hit off whatever I'm doing just to watch her

10:40 "and guess what" an ad: "CHROMEBOOKS ARE EASY TO SET UP"

I'm not even gonna lie, the advice in this video pushed me into auditioning for the production we did last year, and I got a main role, so thank you so much for being my inspiration for an extremely fun experience ❤❤❤

13:28 in my- TUBEEEE WAS THERE

I love the fact that you're open about some of the crappy things you said when you were younger because I always feel really ashamed of myself for the way I acted but hearing another person talk about what they did I realized that we're all just people who are doing the best we can and sometimes we mess up

The amount of details in your animations is incredible

"I chickened out for four years straight- probably the straightest thing I've ever done!"
I choked

“And pulling little American flags out of my… the tube was still there.” That got me! 🤣

I tried out for Jasmine in middle school, and I didn't get it, I was heartbroken. I ended up as a background character who sells fabrics and my directors let me use my own knitted blankets and shawls as props ❤️ So it worked out nicely for me

2:11 illymations coming out I'm so proud of her LOL

That "Sat on the floor" is such a bop! I have it on my Amazon music, and I listen to it a lot! Thank you and Caleb for such an awesome song!😊

“That’s got to be the straightest thing I’ve ever done” I was dying 😂

We did a “gender swapped” version of Macbeth in high school, and one of my roles was Seyton. So much gender.

Growing up as a shy, autistic kid, I didn't feel comfortable being around people I didn't personally know, and was always worried about saying the wrong things without even knowing it. I only had a small group of friends, but I generally felt more comfortable being by myself. However, I always found comradery in the theatre department at school. I was passionate (still am) about the arts, and being around people with similar interests as me felt like I was part of the island of misfit toys; people who just "get" you without even trying.
Being part of theatre taught me how to communicate with others, and to express myself in a creative manner. I only had supporting roles in high school, but I felt comfortable playing a character onstage. It felt like routine, I learned how to live as another person, and gained a sense of empathy for the said person I was portraying. It was basically psychology put into action.
Now I'm part of my local community theatre, and I get to meet different people with different backgrounds. I've come a long way, but I'm still willing to push myself to learn more.

2:27 illymations but they're old. 10 years later, she's still old.

I was going through the same thought process a few weeks ago for my schools musical. That you for blessing me with knowledge.

i remember i chickened out of auditioning in the fall of freshman year. when i went to see the play, i immediately regretted everything because it was so dang good and i wished i had been a part of it. forced myself to push past the nerves and audition for every show after that! i finally got the lead in junior year and it was such an awesome experience :)

Honestly, I think illy's style is like no other that I've seen on youtube (IN A GOOD WAY). I love how she does the narration too! I feel like she's telling slightly interesting stories but somehow make it even MORE interesting.

Gotta be the straightest thing I’ve ever done- had me laughing like hell 🤣

“I didn’t do Theater for FOUR YEAR STRAIGHT! That has got to be the straightest thing i have done”
*blinks*

I had the same feeling when it came to my choir auditions- I wanted to do them but there were so many people that I felt were “more suited” than me so I never really went for it… then senior year came and I was like “if I don’t do it at least once I’m gonna regret it” 🙃 so I forced myself to audition for a solo, I didn’t get it but I was still proud that I did it- so that 10 year feeling is so valid omggggg

This video is toooo relatable to me omg. The amount of times I psyched myself out of trying out for roles or just putting myself out there, and then getting salty cause I wasnt given a role I wanted. The regret really hits harder than any embarrassment that couldve happened 😭😭

The music of Sat on the Floor was fire you guys. Amazing work. 🥰

I love how at the end when you show the credits they were all doing like a little dances from the peanut movie lol

Illy’s vids are always super engaging, relatable, and straight up entertaining. It’s really fun to see all of it animated!

Loved your song "Sat On the Floor" with Caleb Hyles; you have a wonderful singing voice. ☺️

I wasn’t in theater in high school but I was in band and I definitely have regrets from band. I was in concert band, which was the lowest level, for three years but I auditioned for symphonic band my senior year, which I got, but I wish I’d auditioned for wind ensemble, which was the highest level, instead. I also remember not practicing enough my first two years, which I think probably lowered my confidence and people could tell that I wasn’t practicing enough. But my worst regret from band was that I became close to one of my directors my junior year, but then, senior year, she ended up having other priorities, which I didn’t take very well, so I ignored her boundaries. And I also remember going on a band trip to Hawaii that year and having one day where I had to be around people besides her, to which I threw a fit and clung to her, so then she didn’t let me go to the luau that night. Yeah, that was tough, but I’ve learned my lesson. I would like to tell my BD sorry for what I did to her, but unfortunately, she works at a different school now, but maybe I’ll find her someday.

My theater teacher, although she was great, outright told me she typecasted me as older, “mature” women in shows. The problem was that the shows she picked only had those roles as small background characters or not at all. The biggest role she gave me was Eudora Featherstone in Miss Holmes, which I loved, but that was it. Despite all my work, I wasn’t going to get out of her typecast.

Don't measure out your worth! It isn't on the line! Listen to our song here :) ffm.to/satonthefloor
also ZIP!

8:00 that is pretty bad but I had an 8th grade theater teacher want us to put on ANNE FRANK the play or whatever for a CHRISTMAS TIME EIGHTH GRADE PRODUCTION!!!!!!!!!

OMG LEGALLY BLONDE HAS BEEN MY PERFECT MUSICAL PLAY SO FAR IN SCHOOL!!

5:07 “it was at this moment illy knew she flipped up” 🫣

My high school did Bat Boy my senior year and I have NEVER heard of anyone else ever doing this show. My school had a hella good theater program though, and it was an ICONIC performance, even though the script was so freaking weird. Thanks again for an A+ video, Illy! 💖

Wow. Illy is actually an amazing singer. She sounds so professional! And so friggin good! ❤

This reminds me of trying out for our inter house vocals competition which is a capella, first year I was so nervous I completely flumped it and I didn't even try second year cause I was still so embarrassed. Third year and brought the whole package, channelling Anapantsu's Friend's on the Other Side, and I was asked to do it again for the whole final group as an example of what they were looking for on stage. I was so proud of myself and I'm not nervous about that sort of stuff any more

They actually watched the movie but didn’t get the characters names (Penny, Amber, and Velma)
Also it was really impressive that your theatre department got such a glow up
Considering places like Bumf**k Nowhere, North Carolina (those are in fact her words, go watch their Christmas video if you don’t believe me) the arts are pretty undervalued compared to sports
I would know, I live in a tiny town in Eastern Washington
And despite being next door to the eighth wonder if the world, we didn’t have a theatre department
Only the Missoula Children’s Theatre that would come by once a year (whose plays were super clumsily written it was painful preforming them)
Also all of Batman’s sons were always Robin
The closest would be Batgirl, Robin/sometimes Batman depending on the artist love interest
And daughter of commissioner Gordon

i’m actually really glad you made this video. i’m going to audition for drama club this year and i’m really nervous about it. now i know to face my fear of failure!

1:23 aaaaw so cute❤

6:04 TECH IS GREAT! Literally, i am an actor, but i do Tech sometimes and i love it. Also if i don't do it and if i am acting, always so thankful for the techs...I love it

9:30 This is actually pretty wholesome to me. This moment is just funny and adorable to me but I can't describe why. Probably because I've had moments like that too.

I did Seussical the musical this summer and had so much fun!I can’t wait to continue doing theater and continue to better my performance on stage ☺️

thank you SO much for this. I need this for the play my school is doing next year, to remember I can do it.

6:48 it’s actually called “ *sat* on the floor”

I knew a girl so scared that I was constantly in fear of accidentally taking advantage of her and yet she told me she was one of the people that set up the room for the dances at highschool.

In theater, I was cold reading a scene where my theater teacher (who everyone fears but loves) was playing my mother in front of the entire class. She told me to sit down so I sat in a pretzel on the floor instead of in the chair right next to me. She just looked down at me and didn't say anything. Everyone burst into laughter (including me). It was one of my proudest moments.

Take a nap and hydrate had me dying laughing

One production I did that was my high schools ‘best production ever’ was also Legally blonde. I got cast as Elle’s Dad and it was so fun. Everything you said about this production resonated with me.

I just finished a production and I miss my cast sm so this came at the perfect time! Thanks illy! 💕✨

It's always fun when there's a new Illy video because I can simultaneously watch and play "Guess that Anime Character"
(also at 0:45, that's an anarchy sister)

0:44 meanwhile saiki kusuo is just chilling in the bh

i swear i just love all of the references in the ilymation vids

10:24
PFFFHAHAHAHAHAHA! Okay I'm sorry, but WHAT?

7:46 Star wars fans when Luke and leia