21, she/her, writer (sometimes), taurus, and an utterly obsessed musical theatre nerd. I’m into many musicals, and am always looking for suggestions
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girl what the fuck is even the theme of a midsummer night’s dream. is there even a lesson to be learned. is it just vibes or what
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anyone who told you much ado about nothing is good and worth watching was RIGHT and you should listen to them
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can’t stand the phantom of the opera. oh, you’re haunting this opera house?? how about you go haunt some bitches instead. ffs.
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Slutshaming women is not ok Slutshaming Alexander Hamilton is totally ok Tumblr logic
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Some favourite staging moments in productions of Shakespeare plays:
Clarence actually getting drowned in a barrel of wine on stage in Richard III; it was a small barrel, they stuck his head into it as he struggled, pulled him out for an instant as he gasped for air and screamed, his head was wet and sopping, his face all red
Macbeth clutching his empty hands to hold an imaginary child, casting a clawed shadow on the wall
Ophelia ripping out hanks of her hair to give to people during her ‘flowers’ scene (obviously fake hair in real life)
Benedict in Much Ado About Nothing hiding from Claudio, Leonato and Don Pedro, taking a swig from a can of beer that happened to be full of cigarette butts and spit-taking it all over Don Pedro and Leonato
who then awkwardly pretend to check if it’s raining
Angelo in Measure for Measure taking off a bloody cilice belt from around his thigh while saying ‘Blood, thou art blood’
Also a really good bit where Angelo shows up in a two way mirror later on when the Duke’s speaking to himself and cursing him; the Duke turns to point at the mirror and there’s Angelo, in the chain of office, pointing back, accusing the Duke as much as the Duke does to him
The moment in Julius Caesar where Brutus asks his servant Strato - who’s been sitting with his back to the audience and wearing a hat with a wide brim - to help him commit suicide; Strato stands while taking off his hat to reveal that he’s played by Caesar’s actor
(a collective gasp went around the theatre; really lent a whole new meaning to ‘Caesar, now be still. I killed not thee with half so good a will’)
After a frantic chase scene in The Comedy of Errors which ends with all the cast collapsed across the stage in exhaustion and the scenery itself falling to bits…a pair of underpants falls from the ceiling, and Dromio of Ephesus (who’d tried in vain to retrieve them at the start of the play) crawls over several other characters, seizes them and screams in triumph
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Then a voice came blaring, suddenly, through the woods, huge and distorted. “Freeze where you are, all of you… .” Cops. Everything was chaos. Beams of light swept across the crowd, turning faces white, frozen; people were running, pushing to get out, disappearing into the woods. <…>Then Dodge Mason came out of nowhere. Heather felt like she could kiss him.
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The core appealing thing about the Mamma Mia movies is that I think most recent movies have lost a sense of camp, but Mamma Mia embraces it. It isn’t trying to be anything besides a jukebox musical about having a lovely time in Greece.
Does the plot make sense? Eh, kind of.
Does the timeline make sense? Not really but it doesn’t matter.
Are there some songs that do nothing to further the plot? Absolutely unless someone can justify “Does Your Mother Know” to me.
Is the point of the scenes with the Dynamo costumes just to enjoy some spectacle? Yes! They’re tacky and glorious.
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Leslie Odom Jr tells the story behind his performance on “Dear Theodosia” in Hamilton.
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Grace McLean is a LEGEND
I had to record this off my laptop but GOD I’m so gay for her
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all i want to do is gif musicals | Alice By Heart (35/?)
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thinking about pierre and natasha. how music in great comet as a whole represents ...fakeness, polish, protection from the real. the more music, the faker. (ie anatoles songs being loud and lushly orchestrated with lots of synth while natashas or sonyas tend to be softer and simpler) and then you get to pierre and natasha and that piano right. but then the music stops!!!!!!! because for the first time he’s feeling something real and immediate , and he can’t dress it up with music anymore since the whole moment is new. music represents the “sleep until you fall in love” and pierre only speaks because he has finally woken up
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broadway really makes bank telling the stories of the oppressed and disenfranchised while refusing to make their productions available to people who are members of those opressed and disenfranchised communities.
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