after 55 years, the north shore music theatre in beverly, mass. is closing its doors, terrance writes, “and i wanted to preserve the rich history of notes and art that have accumulated over the years.” first up: this artistic series from the intern lounge. (sidenote: intern lounge?!)
related: i’ll tell you what’s classy, though
132 responses so far ↓
#1
candybeans
is this some sort of anti-pooping theatre troupe? what *happens* in these toilets making poop so offensive? (aside from its natural offensiveness, i suppose)
Feb 4, 2009 at 6:35 pm rating: +20
#2
T.U.M.
They had to dig the poop out with a live chicken?
Feb 4, 2009 at 6:35 pm rating: +13
#3
yellowcroissant541
or did they have the live chicken dig it out w/ a fork??
i’m confused…..
Feb 4, 2009 at 6:38 pm rating: +2
#4
yellowcroissant541
wait.
i don’t think it’s a chicken.
Feb 4, 2009 at 6:39 pm rating: +2
#5
Mishee
then I guess I will just have to go to the showers to poop.
Feb 4, 2009 at 6:40 pm rating: +37
#6
Vic
If they don’t want you to poop in the potty, where would they prefer you pooped?!
Feb 4, 2009 at 6:40 pm rating: +10
#7
Mishee
Lucy looks like she has to puke, not poop.
Feb 4, 2009 at 6:40 pm rating: +10
#8
Monkeyspeaks
Obviously these musicians are having bowl movement problems. Perhaps they eat too much fiber.
Feb 4, 2009 at 6:43 pm rating: +2
#9
Mishee
I have heard of interns getting treated like third class citizens in some places, but to not let them poop is unconstitutional.
and just wrong.
Feb 4, 2009 at 6:45 pm rating: +15
#10
Andy
These signs are a load of crap.
Everyone knows girls don’t poop.
Feb 4, 2009 at 6:47 pm rating: +28
#11
msb
i think this is a special class of sign, using premade coloring book sheets to express passive aggressiveness in a new way.
Feb 4, 2009 at 6:55 pm rating: +26
#12
amy d
Apparently when you are in the Intern bathroom, you are supposed to internalize your need to poop.
Feb 4, 2009 at 6:59 pm rating: +19
#13
yellowcroissant541
maybe they have a phobia of poop… but is that even possible?
(and yes mishee, i see it now, and i’m currently in shock from my own brilliance)
Feb 4, 2009 at 7:02 pm rating: +1
#14
Cady
Where, exactly, do they want people to poop? I mean, I’ve been pooping in the toilet for years. Have I been making a fool of myself this whole time?!?!?
Feb 4, 2009 at 7:20 pm rating: +10
#15
Dina
I love how in the first one it looks like Ariel’s raising her hand as if to say “Me next!” or even (dare I think it?) “I was the pooper!”
Feb 4, 2009 at 7:24 pm rating: +3
#16
se
maybe the interns weren’t supposed to use the star potties.
wouldn’t want to mingle the special people poop with the peon poop
Feb 4, 2009 at 7:28 pm rating: +8
#17
JoelWhy
Lucy, no need to walk all the way to the lobby bathroom when you have that handy, dandy backpack with you.
Feb 4, 2009 at 7:30 pm rating: +4
#18
matt
hearing an intern’s cry of distress, the chicken grabs the nearest utensil and rushes to the bathroom. Realising that an intern is experiencing pooping problems, the bathroom chicken carefully and delicately assists the intern in the passing of said poop using the fork.
Our Intern is currently undergoing delicate surgery to reconstruct colorectal passages as chickens do not have opposable thumbs and therefore are not suitable candidates to perform manual evacuations..maybe next time try a spoon
Feb 4, 2009 at 7:42 pm rating: +15
#19
MoxieHart
Who’s letting penguins use the regular bathroom? Don’t they have their own bathroom?
PENGUIN SEGREGATION FOREVER!
Feb 4, 2009 at 7:50 pm rating: +3
#20
hungrygrrl
TC you have made my day!
Feb 4, 2009 at 7:58 pm rating: 0
#21
teeg
Those things are giving me acid flashbacks.
Feb 4, 2009 at 8:09 pm rating: +1
#22
Wade
By intern lounge they mean janitor’s closet, and by potty they mean mop sink.
Feb 4, 2009 at 8:13 pm rating: +3
#23
TheOldSchool
About the art-work we’re finding around here.
It’s hard for us to believe that it’s not cutting into poop production time.
Though it’s nice artwork, let’s focus on having a nice poop troupe. : )
Feb 4, 2009 at 8:21 pm rating: +22
#24
C
If the toilet is so shitty (pun obviously intended) that it cannot accommodate 50% of its design function, it’s time to save the money spent on kitschy coloring books and put it toward a new can.
Feb 4, 2009 at 8:28 pm rating: +1
#25
SockHead
So if I don’t poop in the LOBBY bathroom, I’m not a cool kid? That explains so much…
Feb 4, 2009 at 8:36 pm rating: 0
#26
MW
Why shouldn’t you have explosive diarrhea in someone else’s toilet? It’s the only time you don’t have to clean it up yourself!
Feb 4, 2009 at 8:42 pm rating: +4
#27
Canthz_B
I’m not at all surprised.
Seagulls will eat just about anything!
Feb 4, 2009 at 8:47 pm rating: +5
#28
T.U.M.
My mom always tells the story of the time Uncle Norm lost his temper while fixing the toilet and yelled out, “Why can’t you kids just s*** at school?”
Feb 4, 2009 at 8:52 pm rating: +15
#29
Landry
As a Beverly resident, I have been to NSMT many times (minus that one time I was supposed to go see a show but the night before it caught on fire… true story) and I had no idea the bathrooms sucked that bad. People need to save this theatre, if only so the crappy coloring can continue.
Feb 4, 2009 at 10:35 pm rating: 0
#30
Canthz_B
Like most low-budget arts centers, North Shore Music Theatre relies on crappy interns to make it all possible!
Feb 4, 2009 at 10:35 pm rating: +4
#31
mamason
I’ll take those flowers now.
You shit on the floor!
Duh. The sign said I could have the flowers if I stopped pooping in the potty. Sooo…
So, what?
I’ll take those flowers now.
Feb 5, 2009 at 12:38 am rating: +10
#32
Olivia
Maybe it’s at a dungeon…y’know, where customers pay for that shit.
Waste not want not, I always say.
Feb 5, 2009 at 12:54 am rating: +1
#33
Canthz_B
*****
Feb 5, 2009 at 8:10 am rating: +1
#34
Ti O
Like most community theaters the NSMT actors leave their bombs on stage.
Feb 5, 2009 at 8:44 am rating: +4
#35
claw71
Yeah, go ahead and poop in the lobby loo like the cool kids do. See how that works out for you. Don’t you know that cool kids have stronger sphincters? They can hold it in while they walk. If you’re not careful you’ll end up pooping in the lobby and everybody will see it. You’ll never be cool, so just give up and poop in the office like all of the other losers.
Feb 5, 2009 at 8:56 am rating: +1
#36
claw71
I’ve seen this song and dance before; people everywhere are so possessive of their restrooms and they project some pretty strong emotions when they feel that their sense of ownership is violated.
Of course if I were part of this theater I’d just act like I didn’t see the notes.
Feb 5, 2009 at 9:05 am rating: +1
#37
claw71
Ladies and gentlemen, North Shore is proud to present Chris Isaak:
I know somebody and they took a poop
In this toilet that’s reserved for me and you
I had to smell it; I swear it’s true, yeah that’s why I’m cryin
It was somebody who works off the stage
They shouldn’t poop here…now I’m enraged
I wrote the message on a colored page, yeah, I’m sick of cryin
So plee-HEEE-eeeez go down the hall, don’t poop near me
Or plee-HEEE-EEE-EEEZ just stay away, call in sick for me
I know when somebody’s trying…I know when somebody’s trying
I know when somebody’s trying, I know when somebody’s tryin
To sneak in and take a secret poo
I can hear you straining in the loo
It makes me queasy, sometimes I puke
just to, hear you trying
Feb 5, 2009 at 10:44 am rating: +2
#38
Mishee
Note to everyone:
this thread should not be read as you eat your breakfast.
just a suggestive warning.
Feb 5, 2009 at 10:49 am rating: +1
#39
Themiki
I’m a little disturbed by the complete lack of coloring skills displayed by this theatre troupe. Why is Lucy green?
Feb 5, 2009 at 10:58 am rating: +1
#40
Frankie
I refuse to comment on this one…
Feb 5, 2009 at 11:22 am rating: 0
#41
Andy
I’ve seen “March of the Penguins”. They have to all huddle together and sit on top of their eggs for months to prevent them from freezing. I doubt they even poop at all, but if they do, for sure everyone knows who did it.
Feb 5, 2009 at 11:44 am rating: 0
#42
kimberlimhh
Legs are required for jumping, dancing AND pooping.
Feb 5, 2009 at 2:49 pm rating: 0
#43
TheOldSchool
Problem solved:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/55587/saturday-night-live-pampers
Feb 5, 2009 at 3:20 pm rating: 0
#44
Monkey Speaks
APPARENTLY – the pooping epidemic has inspired new hope at the theatre… they’re raising money to stay open.
I for one will visit if I ever hit MASS…. but i WILL remember to poop prior to visiting.
Feb 5, 2009 at 4:25 pm rating: +1
#45
SpamMeNot
I bet it’s those darn Lobby workers.
They get tired of all the Interns pooping in their bathroom and smelling it all up, they take their retribution by pooping in the Interns’ bathroom.
Feb 5, 2009 at 4:42 pm rating: +1
#46
Red
Um.
Save the poop!
http://www.nsmt.org
Feb 5, 2009 at 5:55 pm rating: 0
#47
Shawn Bryan
These are some uppity damn interns to be so protective of their precious bathroom. I wonder if variances on these cartoon signs have been placed in the intern lounge for the entirety of the 55 years the North Shore Music Theater has been around.
Feb 8, 2009 at 5:54 pm rating: 0
#48
bobby
It makes me so mad when people try to shame other people into not doing basic human functions in appropriate places. Keep your unhealthy body issues out of my life.
Feb 10, 2009 at 2:05 pm rating: 0
#49
Hold on!
The North Shore Music Theatre isn’t closing anymore! I went to see HSM2 there, and was really sad to hear it planned to close after the show, but they’ve made enough money to stay open for at least a while.
Feb 15, 2009 at 4:14 pm rating: 0
#50
JAB
I used to go there all the time… I was so sad when I heard on the news that they were closing. Little did I know what kinds of wars went on off the stage!
Feb 23, 2009 at 4:33 pm rating: 0
#51 notes with character
[...] related: how many wonders can one cavern hold? [...]
Jun 12, 2009 at 6:57 pm rating: 0
Leave a Comment