#Assassins the musical

[terrible-musical-theatre-ideas]

Combining Six, Hamilton, and Assassins into one musical and calling it History Class

[orangegloom]

happy pride month

[eleancrvances]

my dealer: got some straight gas 🔥😜 this strain is called “everybody's got the right” 😳 youll be zonked out of your gourd 

me: yeah whatever -_- i dont feel shit

5 min later: dude i swear i just heard another national anthem playing, not the one you cheer at the ball park

my buddy john wilkes booth pacing: the american dream is lying to us

[adamshallperish]

anyway on a related note who up bumping assassins the musical tonight

[cartrunkent]

No relation to current events. Just a reference to a musical and a Disney movie.

[gardenianoire]

stephen sondheim estate watching those streams jump

[musicaltheatregirlsandsongs]

Do you like musical theatre ? Do you want to see your favourite songs fight each other to death ?

This is the tournament for you !

The submissions are closed !

Any song is fine, as long as it’s musical theatre

The submissions will be left open until June 12

The amount of contestants will depend on the amount of submissions

I’m tagging some other polls: @bestmusicalworldcup @musicalcharactertournament

The list of entries will be posted once I’m done sorting through them :)

[melissaleftenright]

Recently I did some reading on 9/11 because it came up in conversation, and I realized I didn’t know or remember much in detail about what happened. (And it turns out I talked to some family and my memories were false! Nice guess, brain, but not quite.)

And then, because I’m one of those THEATRE KIDS, I was thinking about the musical Come From Away, and then, Assassins (the musical).

Come From Away is about the town of Gander, Newfoundland, Canada. When the North American Airspace was closed due to the attacks, 42 planes with 6,600 passengers were directed to the Gander International Airport (about 66% of the local population). Residents housed, fed, and entertained the grounded passengers for 6 days while the airspace reopened and flights were configured.

The opening number (“Welcome to the Rock”) is about the town, and the people, and about the moment people learned of the attacks. Interestingly - in my opinion - the song doesn’t name the moment. “Everybody in this room has a story about how they started that day.” “I’m sitting in my car…I’m in the staff room…I’m in the library…And I turn on the radio”. And they let you fill in the blanks of what they heard - what you heard - in that moment.

And it reminded me of Assassins (the musical). Assassins is about Presidential Assassinations (and attempts).

(Interesting aside, a Broadway production was set to start in late 2001, but was delayed until 2004 due to the material being seen as insensitive in the light of the attacks on the Twin Towers).

The penultimate number is called “Something Just Broke” - and similarly, its about people recounting the moment they heard that JFK had been shot, and when he passed. This song does name the moment in a refrain of “The Presidents Been Shot”, although the main singers focus on their little moment - “I was folding sheets - Lizzie’s sheet” "I was getting me a shoe shine” “I was halfway through correcting the exams”.

The other thing about both these pieces - while they are both about loss and collective grief, they’re also about collective strength. The facing of that loss, together. “If you’re hoping for a harbor then you’ll find an open door - to the ones who have come from away - welcome to the rock”. “Something to be mended / Something we’ll have to weather / Bringing us all together / If only for a moment”. “Welcome to the land where the winters tried to kill us / And we said: We will not be killed!”

Just have found both of these songs really interesting, and I’m sure I’m not the only person to contrast them in this way. Both of these moments - JFK’s assassination and the 9/11 terrorist attacks- are very historically significant and I’ve heard people say that they were points of change in American culture as a whole. I only see the events in the rearview mirror (even though I was born before 9/11).

And now that I’ve rambled on, here are videos of the two songs I discussed. I hope you find them as interesting as I do. I’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments.

Welcome to the Rock - Come From Away (Song starts at 2:00) https://youtu.be/UH-ozsBI570

Something Just Broke - Assassins https://youtu.be/cbzAWU4P4Kk

[mourningmaybells]

Assassins, 2004

[backgammon-cat]

what is blud babbling about 😭💀💀💀

[caitlin-snow-leopard]

Had to share this for any assheads (does this fandom still call ourselves that?) who haven't seen it already

[terrible-musical-theatre-ideas]

Assassins but all of the guns are replaced with pool noodles.

[shoeyshow]

[doyouknowthismusical]

[pealeii]

Guiteau is such a little weirdo

[lucat13]

I realized I completely forgot to post this (I drew it for the 20th anniversary of 2004 assassins opening on Broadway). So. Um. Happy very very very belated birthday, 2004 Balladeer