The Battery's Down, a new musical internet series (you get it through your YouTube emails or some such beep boop) is about (and for) a very specific brand of theatre person that, actually, exists somewhere in all theatre people: the musical theatre geigh. The series follows Jake (played by Jake Wilson, a Michigan grad naturally), an aspiring actor facing the miseries and injustices of the New York audition process. Its two episodes have so far featured passable songs ("You Should Be In That", in particular), decent acting (with some fun Broadway guest stars!), and some genuinely funny theatre in-jokes. But more importantly, it's a warm, if at times off-putting (Jake is a straight... right), paean to those strange theatre maniacs, whose numbers seem to be ever-dwindling; fun, well-intentioned, wildly vain and insecure folks who got drunk at your normal kids college party, belted a song with that lonely girl in the corner, then vomited everywhere. Remember them??? A section of the first episode after the jump.
