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Nothing pisses me off more than Marvin’s stupid ass square tie in Falsettos

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"am i always starting over in a brand-new story? am i always back at one after all i've done? 'cause i've burned all my bridges, and learned every last lesson too. so how can i start new?"

FALSETTOS + IF/THEN LYRICS, PART 4

song: "always starting over"

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"What was it like to love him?" asked Gratitude.

"What was it like to be loved in return?" asked Joy.

"What was it like to lose him?" asked Sorrow.

There was a long pause before I responded:

Lang Leav

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*sobbing as with One Last Time playing in the background*

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My fifth rewatch of Hamilton has made me realize that Burr only dances in The Room Where It Happens... Because he wants to be like Hamilton and be included in everything that was happening...

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HAMILTON + moments that absolutely sent me

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Musical Theatre Tropes/Things I Never Get Tired Of (pt. 1)

The Runaway New Yorker - mc wants to leave NYC because they feel like they aren’t achieving anything there. Like a typical New Yorker, they want to leave for someplace warm and sunny (probably Santa Fe). They almost leave when they lose hope, but then they realize that their home is in New York City with their friends-turned-family.

Ex. Usnavi (In The Heights), Jack Kelly (Newsies), Mark, Roger, Angel, and Collins (Rent)

Kickass Female Trio - probably have a song where they sing about how powerful they are and how everyone bows down to them. Adored by the whole fandom. They also have this iconic pose that everyone can recognize. Also have a distinct colour palette among their outfits. The leader is the most powerful, popular, and feared of them all and is in the center of their pose & the main singer of their song. She’s somehow defeated in a later part of Act 1. The second-in-command takes over for the leader and is at her right. The innocent sidekick is at the leader’s left & she’s very youthful and childlike. Has yellow somewhere in her outfit. She’s likely to be an alto.

Ex. Angelica (leader), Eliza (2nd-I-C), and Peggy (IS) - the Schuyler Sisters (Hamilton) | H. Chandler (leader), H. Duke (2nd-I-C), H. McNamara (IS) - the Heathers (Heathers) | Regina (leader), Gretchen (2nd-I-C), Karen (IS) - the Plastics (Mean Girls)

The Seductress Song - hot young woman breaks into lead male’s house in her own song where she belts some mad vocals and then flirts with him cause she wants him.

Ex. Mimi Marquez - Out Tonight (Rent), Maria Reynolds - Say No To This (Hamilton), Veronica Sawyer - Dead Girl Walking (Heathers)

The “My Life Sucks and I’m Struggling Because I’m Poor and I Have To Work and I’m Too Young For That BS, but life goes on” song - It’s probably a bunch of oppressed New Yorkers singing that.

Ex. In The Heights (In The Heights), Carrying The Banner (Newsies), It’s A Hard-Knock Life (Annie), Rent (Rent)

The romance between the Girl Who Has It All and the Boy Who Has Nothing trope - also self-explanatory. The girl’s father is probably wealthy or respected.

Ex. Alexander & Eliza (Hamilton), Jack & Katherine (Newsies), Nina & Benny (In The Heights)

The Silly Little Banter Between Two Love Interests song - the two characters are lowkey into one another, but they’re like, fighting-flirting.

Ex. I Never Planned On You (Don’t Come A-Knocking) (Newsies), Light My Candle (RENT), Anything You Can Do (Annie Get Your Gun)

The “Let’s Have Some Fun In The City!” song - super upbeat instrumentals and ensemble, the characters are exploring the city and having fun.

Ex. When You’re Home (In The Heights), One Short Day (Wicked), The Schuyler Sisters (Hamilton)

The Badass Revolution Song - the song that makes you want to take down capitalism and scream something at the top of your lungs. take down the oppressors. the poor kids are taking over now.

Ex. The World Will Know (Newsies), One Day More (Les Misérables), My Shot (Hamilton), Yorktown (Hamilton), Defying Gravity (Wicked)

There’s probably more to add.

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I broke out into a cold sweat and started coughing while making this god tried to stop me.

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PSA

FALSETTOS WAS AND STILL IS SO UNDERRATED AND THEY WERE ROBBED

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five types of musical love duets

1. “hey, I just met you and I’m ready to die for you”

Examples: “A Heart Full of Love” (Les Misérables), “Helpless” (Hamilton), “Ten Minutes Ago” (Cinderella)

2. “…we’re not actually talking about (thing mentioned in title)”

Examples: “Baptize Me” (The Book of Mormon), “Light My Candle” (Rent), “Small Umbrella in the Rain” (Little Women)

3. “if we talk in hypotheticals, we don’t have to face the magnitude of our true feelings”

Examples: “If I Loved You” (Carousel), “This is Life” (Bandstand), “What Would I Do” (Falsettos)

4. “the world is so messed up, but we have each other”

Examples: “Hey #3/Perfect For You” (Next to Normal), “I Should Tell You” (Rent), “The Last Night of the World” (Miss Saigon), “Only Us” (Dear Evan Hansen),

overlaps significantly with:

5. “it’ll all be over tomorrow, but at least we have today”

Examples: “As Long as You’re Mine” (Wicked), “The Last Night of the World” (Miss Saigon), “Something to Believe in” (Newsies)

BONUS: “this song is totally coming back, but next time, only one person will be singing it” 

Examples: “If I Loved You” (Carousel), “I’ll Cover You” (Rent)

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me

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I can’t believe that Aaron Burr shot Alexander Hamilton 214 years ago on free slurpee day

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John : The best thing about having the house all to myself is that I can make breakfast in my underwear !

Lafayette : … I prefer to use a bowl, but you do you.

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History Facts:

•Lieutenant Colonel John Laurens thought that White was easiest colour to clean

• Marquis de Lafayette attempted to sneak to America by disguising himself as a pregnant woman

•George Washington and Lafayette cuddled together under Washington’s cloak and took a nap after a battle.

• Alexander Hamilton once fell into a river and everyone assume he drowned and mourned his death only for him to storm into camp soaking wet.

• Hamilton once wrote a proposal on why John André shouldn’t be hung because he was too pretty to kill.

•Aaron Burr once caught himself on fire trying to light a candle with his gun

• Thomas Jefferson had a pet bird that went everywhere with him and was reported to have eaten from his mouth

•Martha Washington named a feral tomcat after Hamilton

• While Jefferson and Hamilton has extremely different political views, they occasionally read together

• John Adams once called Hamilton a “Creole bastard” which Hamilton responded to by slandering him*

•Washington was an excellent dancer

• Lafayette saw George Washington as more of a father figure and named his only son after him (Georges Washington de Lafayette)

• Lafayette was fluent in English after only a year of being in America

• Lafayette once threw himself in front of a canon to stop a massacre during the French Revolution

• With the help of his wife, Adrienne de Lafayette, he was able to sneak out of prison only to be arrested again the next day*

• Hamilton was fearful of getting close to Washington lest he begin to see him as a father figure

• After the death of John Laurens, Hamilton more than likely never spoke of him again (as he tended to do when anyone close to him died)*

• Hamilton was often reported to “talk to himself” while on campus when he was in actuality memorising the lessons

• Jefferson only ever made two speeches during his presidency and they were both inauguration speeches.

• Hamilton once managed to prank all of New York by pretending he could communicate with the dead after joking around with his nephew

• Abigail Adams once looked Hamilton in the eyes and said she saw the devil in him.

• While Alexander Hamilton was a lot of things, he was an extremely caring father from all reports.

• After the death of Philip Hamilton, his sister Angelica became extremely reclusive and fell into a very deep depression that left Hamilton constantly looking for ways to cheer her up. None of them worked.

• Elizabeth Hamilton, Alexander’s wife, often talked to a bust of Hamilton that was in her house after he died.

• The letter that Hamilton is famous for getting him off of the island he grew up on was actually a letter to his father.

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