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🤣

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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!

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.

“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.

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

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

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

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…

Illy’s vids are always super engaging

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!

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

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 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.

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

the zip zap zop brought back so many memories 😭✨

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 😭😭

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

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 ❤❤❤

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.

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.

This is my favorite channel on RU-vid at the moment

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.💕💕

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!!

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

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.

Illy! I had really bad anxiety for when I was trying out for a solo and I was about to back out and not do it but I did it anyways and then I got the part that same day! You’re right I shouldn’t be afraid to try new things. Thank you for the help and inspiration!

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. 👏👏

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.

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 ❤️❤️❤️

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.

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.

The amount of details in your animations is incredible

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

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

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 😂😂😂

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.

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

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!😊

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.

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

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

Ended up watching this right after submitting auditions!! Made me feel a lot better about trying out of my comfort zone. ❤

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

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

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

great video also great work with all the character Easter eggs X3

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

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

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

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

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

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

I love technical theatre soooo much

This is so cool and thanks for making us feel less alone theater

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

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.

loved the vid ! you did great!

Holy moly you have sich a good singing voice! I listened to the song.

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

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.

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

Omg that song sounds so good!❤

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 :)

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

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

OH MY GOD I LOVE BAT BOY!!! the music is so fun and its such a strange but amazing show

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 😭😭

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.

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

0:44 Saiki: you can’t see me.

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

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

Dude I keep watching your videos and I get so many references now- and Caleb sings a few of my favorite songs so- like stop it. (Please don’t I love your content)

Legend says that the tube is still there to this day

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

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!

The little easter eggs from shows in this vid are great.

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

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 ☺️

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! 💖

Fun fact this video gave me the confidence to try out for theatre AND cheer this year

The way my school does it is that every kid in the theater program auditions and we put three roles we want on a piece of paper. Then we give it to them and sing our audition song. Later they call in everyone from that time slot to do a dance and read lines for a specific character of their choosing. So we kinda just audition for everyone and anyone get a good part.

i love watching your animations

7:28 : mirabel on the side

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

8:26 Legally Blonde was also the perfectly casted and executed show for my high school while i was there! I was literally thinking about it during your spiel and shook when you said Legally Blonde at the end of it

8:41 i’m literally watching this at rehearsal for legally blonde😅 our show is tomorrow lol

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

STOOOP THE SONG IS SO GOOD I ADDED IT TO MY SPOTIFY

wow this is so good like so many amazing animation u tubers including u u are so good at animation

Thanks for your high school swim team video! It convinced me to join my swim team at school and this is my second season and now I am going for school records!