Last week I auditioned for a role in Hamilton, a musical about Alexander Hamilton that uses hip hop in addition to showtunes to tell the story of Alexander Hamilton, who was a founding president of the United States. I have not taken to the stage in many years, but it was just a local production so I thought I should tryout for the role of well.... Hamilton. I know I'm not the greatest rapper but my acting chops are pretty decent so i figured it was worth a shot. It bummed me out a little, but I'm not too surprised that they gave the role to someone else since Hamilton is known for casting its historically significant and significantly white characters as people of color. I'm all in support of this, however I wonder if my contemporaries actually gave a better performance or if the judges were prejudiced towards people of color for this role. I don't really blame them, and I'd happily give up any role in the name of representation, but I'm not too sure if the judges were very knowledgeable about rap. They seemed very "becky" and "chad" if you catch my drift. I wouldn't say I'm a technical or historical expert on the subject, but I spend a lot of time browsing /r/hiphopheads so I've picked up on a lot about flow and cadence.

While I was on stage I was directed to go "stage right", so I went to the right side of the stage and was promptly reprimanded for going the wrong way. I have to admit my ego was a little bruised by this interaction but I'm sure it happens all the time so I'm trying not to beat myself up about it. Anway, it reminded me of this time back in season season 5 during process week when our demoman Yohnny called that their demoman was going right to start off the midfight. My plan at this point as flank scout was to run at him a little to pressure him, but unfortunately I ended up going the wrong way since I interpreted "right" as the enemy's right, not right from our team's perspective. Yohnny got pretty frustrated and it was kinda silly of me in retrospect, but he kept bringing it up for little too long to the point where it wasn't even funny anymore.

It was a really shitty experience, but thankfully it inspired this suggestion. What if we used "stage right" and "stage left" in our comms to better communicate what exactly we mean when we're telling our teammates what the other team is trying to do? For example, if the demo is goin to the medium pack at process mid you would say they're going stage left and stage right if theyre going towards the small rock. I really think this could make communication in game a lot better.