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Recorded versions of theatre, whether bootlegs or filmed amateur productions, are the lifeblood of the fandom. So I am very 😐 that there don't seem to be any accessible versions of the Color Purple, Shuffle Along, or Jelly's Last Jam. I watched the first act of Raisin done by a community theater. Black theatre on broadway already feels so scarce and watching these shows just sink into history is rough.

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Harpers Bazaar US Dec 1993 - Amber Valletta by Peter Lindbergh

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Madonna for Yohji Yamamoto (1994) Photography: Peter Lindbergh

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Pater Sato

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Arthur Radebaugh.

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So you want to get into non-English language musicals?

So back in January of this year I was on the tail-end of one of my worst depressive episodes of my life and a German friend of mine (that’s you @gaymelie​ this labour is all your fault) and myself got talking about what music we were listening to and I mentioned I was listening to Six the Musical and found out she also liked musicals and what with her being German and all, she recommended me a few German musicals:

And I loved them.

Getting into musicals that aren’t in a language you understand can be daunting, but the thing is other countries are actually way better at making pro-shots / officially recorded musicals then the UK or America. You can buy Blu-Rays of recent German stage musicals, DVDs of most French musicals and Japanese musicals. I myself have a DVD of a Dutch stage musical from 2003. Most official DVD releases of musicals have English subtitles, but some of my favourite musicals like Tanz Der Vampire and Rebecca have no official video recording and so the only way to be able to understand it if you don’t speak German, is to rely on dedicated fans who make English subtitles. Where possible I’m going to provide links to where to listen (Spotify or Youtube) and where to watch (Youtube). Sticking with just Spotify and Youtube because most people have access to one or both of them.

This post is going to get a little long, so the list will be under the ‘read more’. They’ll be listed alphabetically and I will try and keep my summaries of them unbiased, but will mention which ones are my personal favourites. For some musicals there are different versions in different languages, and you may think oh well that’s just the same musical again, but that’s not always the case. A lot of the times musicals get non-replica productions meaning that the costumes and sets are different, sometimes entire songs are taken out or added, sometimes minor characters are changed to more be more major characters and so on.

(Also because of linking to Youtube and Spotify, Tumblr is likely going to block this post from showing up in tags so I would appreciate all the reblogs this can get. ❤️ Also because I worked for two whole days on this, it’s over 10,000 words long and Tumblr crashed and deleted half of it and I had to write it all out again.) And of course any can add their own recommendations in their reblogs. There are a lot more I know of, but I tried not to make this list too long. In a while I can always make a part 2 if this post does well.

There’s 32 musicals on this list. I tried to make sure they weren’t all German so there’s: German, French, Hungarian, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Italian, Spanish and Polish. So, lets begin:

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I love the fact that you have this master playlist of European musicals on YouTube. Could you possibly make a separate playlist of all the European musicals which specifically include English subtitles?

That's a good idea! I originally would put all English subtitled videos to the top of the playlist, but now the playlist is so long it takes forever to move videos up there and sometimes Youtube just glitches out half way through me trying to scroll up and ah.

So, yes I can, and I have now.

european musicals: so you want to get into non-english language musicals | euro musicals, asian musicals: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLBkeZOvj5B8bSgfsMiGBnF_OnmqTbDdW

european musicals (ENG SUBS ONLY): so you want to get into non-english language musicals | euro musicals, asian musicals: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLBkeZOvj5B9Bpc4XYhZhPEEPpSkWKgQd

Note: These are only the videos that are on Youtube. There are some videos that have been taken down off Youtube/channels deleted/videos blocked in certain countries. I constantly save videos from Youtube and if a Proshot with subtitles gets taken down, I reupload them to archive.org where Youtube can't touch them. So far I have two on here (Mozart das Musical 2015 in HD 720p and the Mozart L'Opéra Rock 2011 3D) and I am in the process of uploading Les Dix Commandements as it just got blocked on Youtube: https://archive.org/details/@wennli3b3 You can stream and download the videos from there. (If you don't want to scroll through all the Musical CD audios I have posted there that you can stream and download, you can filter by 'movies' in the side panel).

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Can we just take a moment

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Dream house references

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“Diary of a Spa”, Nadja Auermann by Ellen von Unwerth for Vogue US, June 1994.

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"Des Petits Tailleurs"

Beverly Peele photographed by Friedemann Hauss for Elle France, March 1991.

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Gisele for Vogue Russia, September 1998.

Shot by Perry Gordon.

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Gisele Bündchen in “How the West is Worn” for Allure, August 1999. 📸: Rankin. If you zoom in you can get outfit details!!

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"Supermodels: The Sequel"

Shalom Harlow, Kirsty Hume, Stella Tennant, and Amber Valletta photographed by Irving Penn for Vogue US, March 1996.

Styled by Phyllis Posnick. Hair by Julien d'Ys & John Sahag. Makeup by Fulvia Farolfi, Laura Mercier, and Kevyn Aucoin.

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Fleischer Studios would work with with famed Jazz singer Cab Calloway for various projects. One of the most famous was “Minnie the Moocher”, an early Betty Boop cartoon that is almost a proto-PSA against drugs.

Learn more about the short in context of adult animation here:

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Bring It On (2000)

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Drew Barrymore by Bruce Weber for Interview Magazine ‘1992