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Tony Winner Jak Malone as Hester Leggatt & Others in the musical Operation Mincemeat

(📸 @callmelasagna)

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The best thing about being a Jesus Christ Superstar fan is getting to be insane at art museums. Like a third of the entire museum is showing my blorbo being tortured. Truly no one is living as well as jcs fans are

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The hottest thing a woman can do is sing All I Care About in a white suit.

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Tumblr's Top 50 Musicals - #22-#19

22. Legally Blonde

107 points, 24 mentions, poll win

21. Into the Woods

120 points, 25 mentions

20. Assassins

124 points, 20 mentions

19. Falsettos

132 points, 21 mentions

SURVEY - STATS

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they had no reason to be serving challengers realness for hsm promo 😭

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Goodbye, fireflies.

MAYBE HAPPY ENDING Tony Award Winner for Best Musical (2025)

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having grown up doing community theatre and then some professional shows, i genuinely believe from the very bottom of my heart it is crucial that any human with the desire to perform on a stage gets the chance as many times as they like. singing and dancing are innate to humanity yet we've made it inaccessible to all but the select few we deem "good enough" to tolerate. i think people with no pitch and no rhythm and who can't remember their lines should get to be in musicals and plays and choirs and i mean that.

and community performing arts groups & venues shouldn't have to rely on ticket sales to fund their programs. they should be paid for by taxes and freed to focus solely on engaging & enriching the communities in which they exist.

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she will see you very soon you dummy

she will see you very soon you fool

gonna get you with her poon you dummy

gonna get you with her poon you fool

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Goddess

GODDESS, book by Jocely Bioh, music and lyrics by Michael Thurber, conceived and directed by Saheem Ali, choreographed by Darrell Grand Moultrie: If I had seen no other play during my current New York theater pilgrimage, I’d be able to go home fat and satisfied. This mythic tale of a goddess escaping her evil mother by coming to Earth and becoming the star singer at a Mumbasa night club is like XANADU with a soul. It reverberates with the rhythms of African jazz.

Marimba (the amazing Amber Iman) refuses to let her mother make her the goddess of war. At the first war she’s to influence, she turns the weapons into musical instruments before fleeing to Earth to hide out in a jazz club under the name Nadira. There she meets Omari (Austin Scott), recently returned from his studies in the U.S.to replace his ailing father in the next gubernatorial election. Scott’s father (J. Paul Nicholas) wants to close the club, and the young man’s fiancée (Destinae Rea) since they were three wants him to marry her quickly to secure his election. But Omari really wants to play jazz saxophone at the club, where he and Iman fall in love. Neither of their parents approve of the union, which can make for some major problems when one parent is a goddess.

From the first notes of music, the production erupts with excitement and pulls the audience right along. Arnulfo Maldonado’s set transforms gracefully from the club to Omari’s home to a fortune-teller’s shrine in the woods to the world of the gods. Marimaba’s mother, Wawamaraka, is represented as a huge puppet at times and at other times as a disembodied head floating above the action. It’s a tremendous effect. And none of this dwarfs the actors, who are all dynamically entertaining. I was particularly struck by Arica Jackson as the bartender, Rashida. The character is written as a standard musical theatre soubrette, but there’s nothing standard about Jackson’s timing or physical comedy. If I have any complaint, it’s that there isn’t more of her musically. I longed for to have a solo or at least a duet with Iman. The leading lady is magical. She has a big powerful voice, but she modulates it so she’s not blasting us out of our seats on every note. Some of her jazz ornamentation sounds almost effortless. And when she cut loose in her big 11 o’clock number, the audience gave her a standing ovation mid-play. She needs the chance to do this play on Broadway. It’s too magical to be confined to a limited run.

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if i was charley i wouldve been shitting bricks when joe said "is frank the only person in the world who doesn't know you're in love with him" and then realized he was talking to mary

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"well, I could drown... myself?"

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Yellow Face is streaming until the 30th. I watched it this morning and it was excellent, I recommend it

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so are we going to talk about this?

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a woman with a strong grasp of her personal brand

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victorian trans guy who goes to beloved local barber sweeney todd and presses half a crown in his hand and says “begging your pardon sir, i know it ain’t much but i was hoping you might tell my employer i get me shaves from you should he ever come around. only he’s been asking me how i keep my chin so smooth and i haven’t the heart to tell him i can’t grow a beard, so i might have told him a little lie, sir, and said it’s all due to your wonderful skill, sir” and sweeney todd goes “no problem. by the way would you say your employer deserves to die”