Billy Witch - Blog Posts
all photos retrieved from facebook of studio 42's february 2012 production of "billy witch"
Girls will be girls! Or well….girls will be chipmunks and squids…? 🐿️🦑
A squid amongst her squids...and other various cephalopods!!!
(Repost because I updated a few things!!)
Reposts and likes are greatly appreciated!! 🦑🦑
Decided to have a little mess around with some of the brushes I have saved on ibispaint, and who better to draw than my favourite squid girl! (This time, squiddier than ever!)
Oh I love 2010 northeastern University miranda and sandy. My strange little goobers
(miranda is the blonde one!! Sandys the one thats... hanging from the wall for... some reason?)
A very late valentines day themed post oh dear! 🦉🦑
Anyways i love this comic obsessed boy and his weird squid girlfriend! (I love drawing mirandas chromatophores/freckles sm. And i cannot draw men!)
Ooooh the girlies! They're best summer camp buddies! 🐿🦑
Decided to add a sandy to this piece to make it a teensy bit more exciting! Made a few touch ups to miranda aswell!
Close ups:
40 minute odd piece i worked on today, wanted to try and almost realistically draw how I imagine miranda in my head? Not sure if this does her justice but still! (Love her and all her weird squid features!)
I've seen a couple of billy witch articles mentioning puppets and not once have I seen a single photo of said puppets?? WHERE ARE THESE PUPPETS???
Like why are people withholding a production of billy witch with animal puppets from me I cannot take this!!! Absolutely fuming!!
Having a hyperactive imagination i could imagine this perfectly! Like the scene where oliver and miranda split up, they get mirandas actor to walk off stage and a little squid puppet just pops up from somewhere oh absolutely PERFECT!!!
I better see or hear something else about these puppets soon!!! I swear!! I'm obsessed with a nonexistent concept!!!
The uncw ensemble campers were uh. Definitely something. Would've loved to have learned whatever lore they had going on!!! 😭
(Are jana and junior okay....?)
Messing around with brushes on ibispaint yet again, knew i had to draw my girls again!!
(Ignore how weird the hands look!! I was lazy and they suck to draw!)
I have LITERALLY JUST found these and I'm so excited to share!!! These are a handful of sketches elizabeth barrett groth put up on her website of the billy witch costumes from studio 42 and OH MANNNN!!! they are so cool to see!!!
Behind every pair of summer camp lovebirds, there are two zany camp friends trying to set them up with each other, which brings us to Arden and Sandy.
These two never properly interacted, but its fun thinking about what kind of dynamic they mightve had if they did!
Just wanted to show off some of my favourite billy witch promo photos, these were for the University of North carolina Wilmington / uncw production in 2017! (These promo photos feature Oliver, miranda and p.d lockwood. Though that may be a bit obvious)
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Reading the script arden states that miranda is red headed. This itself is... technically correct as the non published draft was written for bloomington playwrights projects production? (And their miranda, courtney) at the time had curly short red hair)
Later in the script though it states that miranda also still wears her glasses? This leaves me to believe that the script is both a mix of either apacs/studio 42s AND bpps. Or thats just how it was in the draft?
AND the fact that in the performance of bpp sandy turns into a bat.. not a chipmunk? So I guess that further proves the point of it being a mix of studio 42/apac/bloomington??
(Also?? Arden has not been blonde. Once? Or atleast he hasn't been blonde in what I've seen. Not too sure about unm or post theatre?? Infact. Not even In the bloomington production was he blonde. So where on earth did that come from??)
Oh don't yall just love cheesy romantic stories?
(Switching it up a little and bringing bloomingtons miranda back to the feed! Gotta say. Bloomingtons billy witch production has really found a place in my heart! )
Okay I'm having to use two different productions for the photos of sandy but it doesn't really matter too much as it its done by the same people? (Studio 42/intar and apac are basically the same production)but here!
(Keep in mind all the costumes do look like this as gregory did infact state that the cheaper the look the better. But I think that's what makes them so much more creative!)
Going by character here. Starting with miranda:
Loving the use of rubber gloves in place for the tentacles. Glasses from the 2nd pic may have been changed as judging by amelias haircut AND the lack of camp logo on the shirt it was before billy witch actually began performances but hey!
Then we have sandy:
Sandy sort of goes through two changes through the play. The first one being the white highlights /extensions shown in her hair in the first image, and then the second being the whole, fake fur and the whole tail and ears thing. (If you notice in the 2nd image, from intars production, Maria's sandy has less prominent ears. Whereas Liz's sandy has more prominent ears!)
And finally. Arden:
Arden.... is the one the goes through the least changes id say? Not two sure. But obviously first is the change with the fake fur, fake teeth and everything. (And if you see behind lance rubin, Fake tail too!) And on the 2nd change he wears a bright orange jacket. Obviously representing the fox that his character arden changes into! (The 2nd photo is a litttle weirder. But to the people who haven't read the play there is context to the whole look on his face I can assure you! Though... I dont think the context would make it too much better...)
I could go on about these costumes for AGESSS though. But I hope these photos were okay !!! I'm always up for sharing production photos!!!
Okay, genuine question for yall who have actually read billy witch on here. Have yall actually seen what the animal/transformation costumes look like? Cause I've been digging up so much content over the last... year (?) That I'm completely unaware of what people have seen of the play and what they haven't??
(Like...? Do yall even know how campy they look?
Get it? Campy? Haha!)
Okay, genuine question for yall who have actually read billy witch on here. Have yall actually seen what the animal/transformation costumes look like? Cause I've been digging up so much content over the last... year (?) That I'm completely unaware of what people have seen of the play and what they haven't??
(Like...? Do yall even know how campy they look?
Get it? Campy? Haha!)
This is a more slightly self indulgent piece, but I made this a few days ago. It shows off some of my favourite amelia pedlow characters. Featured on the piece are:
Top left: Elizabeth (Frankenstein playing with fire)
Top right: miranda (billy witch)
Bottom left: lucille (the metromaniacs)
Bottom right: clarice (the liar)
Hyperfixated on billy witch so hard that I've been temporarily banned from looking at events on Facebook pages.
Mhm....
Lord knows I cant stay away from drawing these girls for too long!!!
Thought I'd try something new out this time. So I decided to make a little polaroid of sandy and miranda at the start of their time at summer camp!
Full image featured below:
They truly did will dirty in billy witch, but its still nice to appreciate his character yknow?
Besides... if he wasn't there it would've been a lot more awkward in the campfire scene... (or they would've used to guy the used for the readthrough. Whoever that was...)
Looking at wills wiki page again and I've just noticed that only one of the billy witch of the two billy witch productions he did is credited?
I think the reason why people only acknowledge one is because of the horrendous press photos that the astoria performance got. I think people tend to mistake the studio 42 photos for the astoria productions. Which is a fairly simple mistake! But I think the easiest way to tell them apart is by the campers themselves AND Oliver.
In studio 42 (left) oliver dawns a lighter blue shirt whereas in astoria (right) we see oliver in an evan hansen-esc shirt.
Honestly I would edit it myself but frankly. Idk how to edit wiki pages.
But seriously though. If yall thought I was joking about how DIRTY will was done in astoria?
Well. Here's my proof
This is the ONLY photo he was featured in. Infact not even featured. Thats just his HAND!!!!
I know I'm rambling on in a way but honestly, I truly do love the ensemble campers (michael/jenny/Peter/sue) but I want more content for them!!! What do they become?? Where do they go??? What are their personalities like?? Just? Gosh! I'm desperate!!!
The urge to just infodump about the two billy witch productions with will roland I swear.
(They did him so dirty in the astoria photos!!!)
Gathering more images to add to the billy witch drive and uh???
WHEN WAS HER NAME SANDRA???
I'm absolutely losing my nuts like??
Is her full name sandra??? Is sandy just a nickname?? Did they change her name like bpp did when making her turn into a bat instead of a chipmunk?? SO MANY QUESTIONS AND NOT ENOUGH ANSWERS!!!
I just spent 2 hours straight composing a Google doc of every billy witch photo i could get my grubby little mitts on!
I thought I'd share it just for fun. This contains photos from all of the productions im aware of, some more than others. But I really hope my work paid off!
Decided I might make the billy witch kids a little series of doodles. Taking them down one camper at a time though.
But I thought it might be nice to start this of with Michael (portrayed by will roland in both the 2012 AND 2013 productions!) Its genuiely really hard to find a good ref of this guy honestly
Tmw when you're comfort characters are from a play that nobodys heard of
Wanted to mess around with shapes a bit more! A drew this piece on the 5th but only recently updated it! I'm extremely happy with how this piece turned out!! 🦑🐿