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i am FULLY convinced josh strobl could do a ponyboy johnny split track

here's a visual representation:

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hey so i just found my audio clip on tiktok and this is why im not sharing audios anymore!

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if anyone has rush tips for the show (esp the ponyboy seat) pls pls pls let me know i'm planning to rush for the first time soon!!

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Things in the musical that I love. I’m sure everyone already pointed all of these out like a year ago, but whatever.

1) GGAH ends on a gospel sound, because its philosophy is literally their gospel

2) “great expectations” is in a major key, and “grave revelations” is in a minor key

3) ICTTYAL, “suddenly it seems…” it sounds like the next line will be the final line. Like the verse should end, “suddenly it seems, I could talk to you all night.” But then Cherry adds one more line. Then another. “I could talk to you for hours. But these hours go like minutes.” It mimics a conversation where you keep thinking of little things to add on just because you don’t want it to end. The song is drawn out like their conversation. Like their conversation, the verse should end but it doesn’t.

4) RRB sounds like one of those “legend of an outlaw” folk ballads

5) RRB does that thing I love when musical act one finales do, and when they do it well: it brings back multiple musical and lyrical motifs/leitmotifs from throughout act one and re-contextualizes them in the current circumstances. “You’re a greaser now and you ain’t goin’ back,” playful and prideful and celebratory in GGAH, now an ominous verdict. It seemed like a game before, but now shit just got real. (Of course it was never a game, that’s the point). There’s no coming back from this. “This town is a dead end road, let’s leave it behind let’s just get up a go,” is twisted from a fantasy into something they’re forced to do.

6) “little brother” and “stay gold” both end on unresolved notes. Two unresolved, unfinished lives. For Dallas it’s chaotic, a high note because he dies screaming. For Johnny it’s a more peaceful, premeditated choice to pass his final message onto Ponyboy, for Ponyboy to carry it forward in a way Johnny can’t. Both lives are cut short, but both live on through Ponyboy. Ponyboy picks up where their melodies left off, and finishes their stories.

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Tell me Anna Bermudez wasn’t born to play fem Dallas Winston 😤

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kevin william paul having a printed out photo of himself hanging on his dressing room mirror is an incredibly bob sheldon move

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I'll never ever stop makin these thank you so much for askin

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I love the themes and motifs in the outsiders: two sides of the same coin, family, brothers and brotherhood, sunsets, being in love with your bestfriend, trains, being in love with your best friend, growing up, being in love with your brst friend, being in love with your best f-

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i hope dre gets a cute little cropped tank and jorts for his ace look

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Just thinking abt how the queerness in this specific group is just such a normal thing for them. Like, yeah, Ace doesn’t like girls like that. Yeah, Pony and Johnny are closer than friends. Yeah, Darrel never looked at a girl the way he used to look at Paul. It’s just so normal for them. None of them quite say it, it’s just, there. But it’s not weird to joke like that. It ain’t weird for Ace to talk about this guy he saw at the drive in. It ain’t weird for Pony and Johnny to curl up together and hold each other in ways normal best friends don’t. It’s weird for Steve to never mention anyone at all. It’s not even too shocking when Soda slips a guy in with all the pretty girls he mentions. It’s just who they are. And they know they can’t go around and blast it to everyone they know. But there, with their family, the people who are “weird” and “wrong” in the same ways they are, all of em know it’s okay.

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one hilarious underrated dynamic is how steve is like kinda possessive of soda, like thats his friend, meanwhile soda doesn't give a fuck about steve's insecure ass and keeps inviting ponyboy along to things.

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Runs In The Family (Reprise) with JPC!Soda

*edit 6/13 not 7/13

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because i love you all

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i actually need to go back to the jacobs right now because what do you mean i saw davis paul and have zero recollection of it happening

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ace with locs…… hear me out….

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henry just mentioned on his live that andre is now a cover for ace!

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Darry loves falling asleep on someone's chest. The feeling of them breathing under his head calms him, and then the movement also lulls him to sleep