Tag: The Wind in the Willows

Posted on March 6, 2021 by softmanpillowboy

Welcome back, everybody. We’re back from our two month hiatus, and a new year means new adventures for the residents of Chrisville!

The Chrisville Theater Society has just started dress rehearsals for their production of the musical The Wind in the Willows, and it looks like Dirk is actually excited to participate for once. … but will that be a good thing?

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The Wind in the Willows is indeed a real show, and the Chrisville Theater Society’s costumes are based on those of the 2017 London Palladium production. You can rent the musical here. (I am not sponsored by the musical in any way, I just thought promoting it was the least I could do after referencing so much of this production.)

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Posted on December 28, 2020 by softmanpillowboy
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There may be tension among the cast, but the show must go on! Now the Chrisville Theater Society can finally start rehearsals for their production of The Wind in the Willows. But can Dirk keep his antagonistic tendencies in his acting? And what made Softboy so distressed in panel 13? Only time will tell…

Fun fact: In panel 6, Dirk is referencing how, near the climax of the Wind in the Willows musical, the Chief Weasel gets in a fight with Toad and lands quite a few hits on him.

Also, when Softboy says he doesn’t have a brain, he’s not being self-deprecating. He’s just stating that he literally doesn’t have a brain.

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Posted on December 12, 2020 by softmanpillowboy

Looks like some outside talent will be visiting Chrisville very soon…

Fun facts: Just because we moved on to different musicals doesn’t mean the Chrisville Theater Society will be leaving Gilbert and Sullivan behind. Softboy saying “Here’s a how-de-do” references a song from The Mikado.

Also, we may not have seen much of the society’s production of HMS Pinafore, but we now know that their “female” chorus, which is supposed to consist of Sir Joseph’s sisters/cousins/aunts, had the bare minimum of three members. (Which wasn’t too big of a loss, as the female chorus in Pinafore does so little, it’s rather tragic.) This is actually based on a real production of HMS Pinafore that I was in, where we had to make do with one sister, one cousin, and one aunt.

The third chorus member, Mamma Hippo, is actually a guest star herself. She’s one of the toys from baby Zoe’s room, and plays a supporting role in the third book of the original Softboy thesis trilogy.

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Posted on November 28, 2020 by softmanpillowboy

It looks like the Chrisville Theater Society has decided to put on a production of The Wind in the Willows! The next batch of comics will be behind-the-scenes shenanigans of Chris’s toys creating their own version of his new favorite musical.

You can find Part 2 of this comic here.

In case you missed how Dirk got his anthropomorphic form, you can find Part 1 of that comic here.

Fun facts: Almost a month ago, the 2017 London Palladium production of The Wind in the Willows musical was available to watch for free on YouTube for two days. Right before that happened, Chris got a rare message from his British uncle, recommending that he watch the show. Chris has been hooked ever since, and has definitely gotten his parents to rent the show so that he can rewatch the hell out of it. (And you can do this too via the show’s website. In fact, from Nov 27-29, you can do this for 2.99 pounds, which is three pounds less than normal!)

In panel 4, Softboy is imagining Velvel Fox dressed as a fox character from the Wind in the Willows musical, which is what he’s been cast as in the Chrisville Theater Society’s production.

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