#James Barbour

[artist-issues]

“Be comforted!” he said, “I am not worth such feeling, Miss Manette. An hour or two hence, and the low companions and low habits that I scorn but yield to, will render me less worth such tears as those, than any wretch who creeps along the streets.” - Sydney Carton.

[icantrecallaskysoclear]

“...I thank you, Darnay. I may use that freedom with your name?" "I think so, Carton, by this time."

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[toshinorimylove90]

Tom at the "Alchemy" after party in 2005

@yetanotherwells @elfwoodfae @dumpeetintofyre

[aleksakonstanta]

my mustard-seed

[thenightling]

Now that I know it was Norm Lewis who sang as Dr. Van Helsing on the album I feel cheated that the album doesn't have a version of It's Over (Zu Ende in German).  I want to hear him duet that song with James Barbour's Dracula, damn it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn80dnYqnFM

[bindi-the-skunk]

Dracula singing Jekyll’s song…this will never not be epic as shit

[achungarchive]

Alexa Chung hosts an intimate dinner at Brat Club to celebrate the launch of her most personal Barbour collection yet: "The Edit by Alexa Chung" (2024) by James D. Kelly

[politicaldilfs]

Mississippi Governor DILFs

Phil Bryant, Ross Barnett, Thomas Bailey, Paul B. Johnson Jr., Cliff Finch, Ronnie Musgrove, Fielding L. Wright, Wiliam Winter, James P. Coleman, Haley Barbour, Henry L. Whitfield, Hugh L. White, John Bell Williams, Kirk Fordice, Ray Mabus, Tate Reeves, Paul B. Johnson Sr., William Allain, Bill Waller

[sneakydraws]

@chernychnyi wanted to see adult Theo and boris and I may have… exploded a bit… where’s that post about how in Theo’s life food is often used to signify comfort and security? It was so true, and I think a thanksgiving dinner would be especially meaningful to him :’) so here he is, trying to bring all the people he loves together into a dysfunctional little family and immediately regretting it when he remembers boris’s bottomless arsenal of embarrassing stories. Theo decker lives in fear

And just because this was supposed to be about boris and Theo being cute:

[cursemewithyourkiss]

The fact that Ronald Colman probably had a great singing voice is driving me crazy because now I can't stop imagining him singing songs from the A Tale of Two Cities musical

[summercourtship]

I am watching a live stream of a production of the Jane Eyre musical (which is one of my faves and severely underrated imo) and why, at some point in this musical’s history, did they move THIS ABSOLUTE BANGER from the end of act one to the middle of it?? The end of act one is now this song which is fine but NOT AS AN ACT FINALE

I’m so confused. Who is the last twenty years decided this was a good thematic change??

Anyway, listen to the first song linked it’s one of my favorite musical theatre songs (and genuinely probably one of my favorite songs in general)

[therealdostoevsky]

date idea: going to Boris and Theo's wedding together

[medievalandfantasymelee]

THE HOT MEDIEVAL & FANTASY MEN MELEE

QUALIFYING ROUND: 116th Tilt

James Douglas, Outlaw King (2018) VS. King Richard IV Plantagenet, The Black Adder (1982)

Propaganda

James Douglas, Outlaw King (2018) Portrayed by: Aaron Taylor-Johnson

*Cracks knuckles* *Rolls shoulders* *SCREAMS LIKE A MANIAC* just getting into the spirit of the character. "Mair fell than wes ony devill in hell." That is how poet John Barbour described James, “The Blak Dowglas” as he came to be known to the English. And Aaron Taylor-Johnson matched that energy 200% in this movie. This man is BAT CRAP LOONY TUNES. He’s feral. Berserkers wish they were as berserk as this crazy Scotsman. I personally find using a mail coif as a weapon to be very sexy. He’ll try to seduce your daughter and when you threaten to cut his balls of, he’ll kiss you full on the mouth and then go and flirt with your OTHER daughter. He just wants his family’s lands back, and by God he will get them, and he will be screaming DOUGLAS!!!!!!! all the way home. (Cont. below the cut)

King Richard IV, The Black Adder (1982) Portrayed by: Brian Blessed

"His voice. Omg his voice. It makes me think I could be attracted to men."

Additional Propaganda Under the Cut

Additional Propaganda

For James Douglas:

"I submit also these choice quotes from this Pajiba article, because Roxana Hadidi put it better than I can. [“In Appreciation of Aaron Taylor Johnson Going Full Beastmode in Outlaw King”]:

… it’s Taylor-Johnson’s feral qualities that add verve to these action scenes; he’s the character the film relies on to clue us into the English’s cruelty. While the rest of the Scottish camp is eating and socializing, he’s practicing sword moves in the woods, preparing himself for whatever threat is coming their way. While Pine has to be the believable kingly figure, Taylor-Johnson is over here attacking dudes with their own chainmail and slitting throats in church on Palm Sunday (it’s so bloody and over the top and great). He takes back his family castle, throws the invading English soldiers down a well, and then invites the castle staff to eat the feast they had been forced to prepare for the invaders—and then he encourages them all to join him in supporting Robert the Bruce before burning his own castle down so the English can’t come back and claim it. […] [He] is the live wire the movie needs, not only to demonstrate how [Robert] sets himself apart while performing his royal role but also because the action scenes are so essential to telling this story effectively, to demonstrating the brutality and the bloodiness of this time.’

For Richard IV:

[scotianostra]

On 7th June 1329 Robert the Bruce died at his manor near Cardross, Dumbarton.

King Robert was buried at Dunfermline Abbey, his heart was removed and embalmed. As recorded in 14th Century John Barbour’s “The Bruce”, as he requested, his heart was to be taken to Jerusalem by Sir James Douglas, known as “The Black Douglas” , accompanied by Sir William St Clair of Roslin, Sir Robert and Sir Walter Logan, Sir William Keith, Sir Alan Cathcart and Sir Symon Loccard of Lee, and one other knight unnamed. Sir James Douglas was killed at the Battle of Teba, on 25th August, 1330.

An embalmed heart, thought to be that of Robert the Bruce was discovered at Melrose Abbey in 1921, re-located in 1996 and re-interred in 1998 marked with a memorial which reads “A Nobel Hart May Have Nane Ease Gif Freedom Failye.” written by John Barbour in 1375, which translates, “A noble heart can know no ease without freedom.”

The tomb you see in Dunfermline Abbey, in the second photo, is not the original it was sadly destroyed during the reformation, the picture shows how it may have looked, contemporary sources record that his grave was by a monument commissioned prior to his death and imported from Paris.

I posted pics of King Robert's tomb after I visited last weekend, here is a wee bit more, the pics include how the original tomb may have looked.

During the building of the present parish church in 1818, workmen discovered a skeleton, believed to be that of the king. Whether or not the skeleton is actually that of Bruce, or one of the other kings known to have been buried in the abbey, is still a subject of debate. However, other excavations between c1790 and 1820 also discovered fragments of carved and gilded stone, variously described as marble or alabaster, which were identified as pieces of Bruce’s vanished monument.

These pieces are now preserved in the collections of The Hunterian, National Museums Scotland, and Dunfermline Museum, who also commissioned the 3D reconstruction you see in the photos.

[achungarchive]

[operachristine]

Phantom Broadway Gifts!

Audios:

Steve Barton, Katharine Buffaloe (alt.), Davis Gaines, Marilyn Caskey, Jeff Keller, George Lee Andrews, Leila Martin

March 19, 1990; Broadway

Steve Barton and Davis Gaines's first performances. Missing Magical Lasso, Notes/Prima Donna in the first act

https://www.mediafire.com/file/jf4ygrz65t595gt/POTO+US+Broadway+1990-03-19+SB+KB+DG.zip/file

Marcus Lovett, Tracy Shayne, Ciaran Sheehan, George Lee Andrews, Jeff Keller, Elena Jeanne Batman, Kristina Marie Guiguet, Frederic Heringes, Tener Brown

March 1994; Broadway

https://www.mediafire.com/file/uqpiwgzoib0x2nw/POTO+US+Broadway+1994-03+ML+TS+CS.zip/file

Ted Keegan (u/s The Phantom of the Opera), Adrienne McEwan (alt Christine Daaé), Gary Mauer (Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny), Wren Marie Harrington (u/s Carlotta Giudicelli), George Lee Andrews (Monsieur Firmin), Jeff Keller (Monsieur André), Leila Martin (Madame Giry), Frederic Heringes (Ubaldo Piangi), Geralyn del Corso (Meg Giry)

January 12, 1998; Broadway

https://www.mediafire.com/file/rsw644qsaxs7txq/POTO+January+12+1998+Broadway.zip/file

Greg Mills (u/s), Elizabeth Welch (u/s), Kyle Barisich

September 27, 2012; Broadway

https://www.mediafire.com/file/3znjtj2g8ymbugy/POTO+US+Broadway+2012-09-27+GM+EW+KB.mp3/file

James Barbour, Julia Udine(Act 1)/Susan Owen(u/s, Act 2), Jeremy Hays

July 18, 2015; Broadway matinee

Notes: Mid-show cast change for Christine.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/lyuzk03aj38i7bu/Phantom+of+the+opera+-+Broadway+-+July+18,+2015+(matinee).zip/file

Videos:

Michael Crawford (The Phantom of the Opera), Sarah Brightman (Christine Daaé), Steve Barton (Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny)

April, 1988; Broadway

Notes: Starts partway through 'Overture'. Color bleeding, washout, generation loss, and several unimportant scenes ('Prologue', 'Magical Lasso', etc.) are cut out, but nevertheless a video of the original cast on Broadway.

https://mega.co.nz/#F!ltAUlKYB!gJqf6DR3Vabhxl4on3j3Mg

Cris Groenendaal (The Phantom of the Opera), Rebecca Luker (Christine Daaé), Steve Barton (Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny)

1989; Broadway

Notes: Almost black-and-white video with constant flickering lines. Dark and tons of generation loss and washout

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1-TSJKYMamAUjU0noSpxnN8t_uTR42fC0

Thomas James O'Leary (The Phantom of the Opera), Tracy Shayne (Christine Daaé), Gary Mauer (Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny)

January 26, 1998; Broadway

Notes: Phantom-orientated highlights of the 10th anniversary on Broadway. Around 37 minutes long.

https://mega.nz/folder/CXJy1RBR#lzx4TYDDi9Y2pZdJBQh2DQ