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One of the biggest differences between the 1998/2014 runs of Cabaret and the most recent run is the ending. Alan Cumming’s Emcee, for his final act, does a strip tease. He winks lasciviously and toys with his buttons. The audience laughs. Then, when he finally drops his coat, he reveals he is wearing a concentration camp uniform. If you don’t know it’s coming, it’s utterly shocking. This was not how the original Broadway run ended. Community theaters and smaller productions basically all adopted this way of doing things, putting their own little spins on it but fundamentally not changing anything.

In the most recent Cabaret revival, the Emcee is much more sinister. About halfway through the play, he is no longer wearing makeup. He wears a brown suit reminiscent of a Nazi uniform. His hair is shockingly blond. But I think this interpretation is not just about the transformation of the soul of Germany as it bent towards fascism — I think it is also a tragic ending. This vibrant, queer character goes back into the closet to try to survive. It’s not death, like it was for Cummings’ emcee.

But I think about the slogan I hear from some friends — “death before detransition.” Re-closeting is its own kind of death. This Emcee lives at the end, but does he really? What does it cost him?

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while my guitar cries so hard it throws up

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see i fuck heavh with this

It would make a genuinely really good musical

Ideas for Yellow Submarine stage musical!

Use colorful spotlights for the musical numbers.

Startle the audience with things happening off-stage.

Bright and cheerful lights for Pepperland.

Live band for Sgt. Pepper's Band.

Design the Blue Meanies to be either like their original designs or to be more humanoid. Either way, have the Chief Blue Meanie, Max and the Storm Bloopers resemble those Wacky Nazis. Also, have the Glove be a giant puppet.

Slightly yellowish light for the scenes aboard the submarine.

More puppetry for the Sea of Monsters.

Either have Jeremy be human(oid), or make him yet another puppet (since he's like a literal Muppet).

Green light for the Sea of Green sequence.

Less light for occupied Pepperland. Have the cheery light return with "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band".

Change the plot slightly in that Jeremy is rescued from the Meanies much earlier.

Have the "It's All Too Much" finale be as amazing as possible.

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My beloved just got home from a week away, and I knew they’d be hungry after the flight. We’re grabbing burgers and I handed them the bag.

It’s important to know that with jet lag my wife’s body currently thinks it’s 1am and not 10pm.

They felt the warmth of the burgers and pronounced, “These are fresh from the burger mother.”

I looked at them in horror and they just started slowly laughing. We ate our first burgers in silence, then split the last.

They unwrapped the last burger and saw that it was covered in ketchup. “Looks like blood.”

“It’s fresh from the burger mother, what did you expect?”

They started laughing even harder while taking a big burger bite.

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after hearing "simply having a wonderful christmas time" by paul mccartney 74 times while working in retail, I came to the conclusion that they shot the wrong beatle

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Marrying your cousin, being drunk at 11 am, and having a kitchen table repurposed from an old door. Things that are trashy if you're poor, but totally fine if you're filthy rich.

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I believe.

good things will happen 🧿

things that are meant to be will fall into place 🧿

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one time when i was 17 i watched an episode of doctor who (tennant years) that made me so inconsolable that i went upstairs to my mom and i sobbed like, "please don't make fun of me, i'm so upset about a fake person from a tv show right now i can't stop crying." she let me sit in her lap and tell her all about the episode and i stopped crying and said i felt so stupid and she started laughing and she said, "i once cried this hard in college over a star trek episode. want to hear about it?" i said yes and then while she told me about the episode she got upset all over again 30 years later and she started crying and then i started laughing about it so hard i started crying again

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a wonderful ao3 author note

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hey g- [was about to say “girlboss” reflexively but then realizes you’re transgender and i don’t wanna misgender you]boyboss- [remembers the patriarchy] boss- [remembers i hate capitalism] king- [remembers i hate the monarchy] friend. how’s it going?

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haaate when i actually find advertisements funny. makes me feel dirty . makes me feel impure

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Ghost dropping Satanized and the skeleton orgy grucifix in the era of heavy-handed censorship and purity culture that demands everything be as sanitized and "appropriate" as possible really is such a fucking breath of fresh air. Time to glorify and glamorize the obscene and disgusting (or whatever their profile said last week).

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it’s 2028. trump is dead. elon is dead. zuckerberg is dead bezos is dead they’re all dead

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PATCHES

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Spoiler alert; i fell asleep

Pov u wanna tug one out but you’re too fucking tired so you gotta hit the pros and cons list

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Pov u wanna tug one out but you’re too fucking tired so you gotta hit the pros and cons list