#octet

[pilarsofsalt]

bonus shout out to whatever the fuck I've got going on with myself

[bookofmac]

All Dave Malloy knows is fairytale motif, mental illness, video game, crunchy chords, drink booze, sad lesbians, write canon and send me into a State

[grapery]

i tried to add more but my graphic design skills are limited

[whoopseydaisy]

listening to three houses has me like it’s going to be so cool to be able to look back on the signature theatre trilogy of dave malloy shows. the essays future musical theatre history students are gonna get to write. how deeply they are entwined with the time they were written in. their confessional nature, the continuing themes of loneliness, mental health, coping mechanisms, magic, monsters as metaphors for the world and also yourself. chamber musicals. octet and three houses have established a pattern and it will be so interesting to see how whatever comes next is in conversation with these things.

[rated-r-for-grantaire]

"two women in a forest in the evening in the light rain" vs "people only change because of trauma or light rain"

[asthe-crow-flies]

ok but what if you ARE yourself? what if you have no choice but to sit and soak in the reality of your own mind? what if there is no one else to be?

The DJ (Don't Stop Me) // The Prelude (Preludes) // blood (three houses) // II. Refresh (Octet) // V. Fugue State (Octet) // Prayer (Ghost Quartet) // Jesus (Clown Bible) // blood (three houses) // Midnight (Ghost Quartet) // wolf dance (three houses)

[bazzleman]

octet the musical but instead of a support group for internet addicts its a support group for those suffering souls who tried and failed to get ghost quartet 10th anniversary reunion tickets (its me im suffering souls)

[cactus-cactus-cactus]

Octet act 2 you will always be famous

[grimdarknokia]

the way dave malloy said “are you a 0% apr loan? because i’m having trouble understanding your terms and you aren’t showing any interest!” and “i feel my body stretch between two cliffs, one side is fantasy, the other reality. i feel my fingers start to lose their grip, and i can’t hold on. i could be so good at love.”, and both of these are the SAME song in the SAME musical????

[8tet]

RIP Toby Octet you would have loved watching the Trump/Musk breakup go down online in real time

[appleflavoredkitkats]

no but the way malloy wrote solo from octet. we have two lonely people who are so desperate to find human connections that their entire DILEMMA is to figure out if they want to succumb to the most disgusting, misogynistic gender roles just so they can be loved by someone else? karly as a women hating that she feels like she has to objectify herself to feel loved by a man while ed as a man hates that he's so close to joining incel groups because he's desperate to feel less lonely? the way that solo is an entire song commentary on how the internet allows for the reinforcement of misogyny and how people who, despite knowing better, fall for its pitfalls because we are LONELY? like holy shit dave malloy

[bookofmac]

Dave Malloy Musicals + Recovery

The Forest | Prayer | Epilogue | The Field

[towertea]

guys would anyone want me to port over my organized collection of most of dave malloy's musicals' audio files and lyrics to tumblr. i could make a masterpost. a google doc. what have you

[whoopseydaisy]

dave malloy really knows how to write a last song in a show that’s going to make you feel okay again

[ghostephine]

tumblr seems to be the only reliable and rabid malloysical fanbase so i'm shouting out for help:

WHERE CAN I GET SADIE'S FLOWER SUIT?

i know it's a longshot, likely it was custom for the show. but i've been obsessed with it since last may and if anyone happens to know i'll be forever grateful <3

[gaygollum]

how i feel listening to little god literally every time. like. when you get to that level of skepticism, i mean of course you know its a possibility in the back of your head, but you dont live like that. its paralyzing.

no, i know. but if we’re being scientific. SCIIIEEENNTTIIIIFIIIIIICCCCCCCC about the existence of god, we cant discount those possibilities.