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The Original Broadway Cast celebrate 10 years of Hamilton at the 2025 Tony Awards (full performance)

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Hot take, "Our Lady of the Underground" should be played angry.

It should be played irratic and desperately sad.

You should feel incredibly pathos and just a little uncomfortable watching it.

This is a Goddess. A woman who literally controls the seasons. A person who's entire purpose is to keep the cycle of Earth in rotation. She can quite literally move heaven and earth to her will.

But none of that matters because all that she is Right Now is a wife in a deeply unhappy and trapped marriage, where her husband is trying to use a younger woman to make her jealous and come back to him. A spouse drinking herself into blissful oblivion who is desperately sad that she cannot fulfil her literal manifest purpose. And she can't escape. She's lost her entire identity.

She calls out for someone to repeat back her name and all they ever respond with is her title.

She wants her name not her purpose!!

She wants people to know her not the title that has been foisted upon her.

She keeps calling and calling "Brother what's my name?" And she never gets an answer that satisfies that deep and base need to be recognised by any other soul.

This is markably different to "Livin' it Up on Top" where people do call her by name. There's a reason she's so much more happy up there -- though equally unstable -- and this is one of them. She's known. She's recognised. She's acknowledged.

Down below she only has her bar supplies. She can't help in a way that matters. She can't relieve this overwhelming suffering. She has no power. She is falling apart and falling fast.

And you should feel that.

You should feel her anger, her frustration, her pity, her restlessness.

And you should feel her euphoria when she sees a crack in the wall.

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Feeling a lot of feelings about how Hadestown doesn't present the story as "Orpheus turned around and everything fell apart and there was nothing anyone could do to fix it" and instead presents a story that says "he turned around, he doubted, he failed, but if we keep telling his story maybe one day Orpheus won't" and it's not just about Orpheus as a single character, it's a bout every Orpheus, everyone who runs up against a system they can't change and fails and everyone who sees that failure and gets back up and says "maybe I can change it now" and tries again. That Orpheus failed isn't the takeaway of the story. The takeaway is that one day he might succeed.

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WAITRESS GIF MEME. ↳ one production ❤ the art.

before the waters rush, i’ve got to make a change or else i know i’ll drown!

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WICKED Costume Design from Stage to Screen ↳ part 2 / part 1

— by Susan Hilferty — by Paul Tazewell

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@projectbway event 02: adaptations - beautiful: the carole king musical

- you’ve got to get up every morning with a smile on your face and show the world all the love in your heart

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this is a real scene in the movie. i-i think.

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the moment I heard elphaba's delivery of "there's a girl i know..." in i'm not that girl i knew i had to draw this comic, i strongly recommend listening to it while you read for the full experience!

this comic is a companion to this piece (which was inspired by glinda's delivery of the same line in the i'm not that girl reprise).

pages 1-4 are from elphie's pov, pages 5-8 are from glinda's.

flower meanings in order of appearance:

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I often think about how loneliness is a more powerful emotion in theatre because you’re in a room full of people who all powerless to do anything but watch and I saw Eva Noblaza as Eurydice in Hadestown the other day and I cannot get her guttural “is anybody listening” out of my mind, she was screaming for someone to listen and you’re sat there mere metres away unable to let her know that you are, that her story is being told and she matters, so many people are listening but she doesn’t know that

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thank you for loving me

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finally painted Melanie La Barrie's Hermes :')

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i’ve seen the wicked movie 3 times and have cried at the dance scene without fail every single time

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Bewitched

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