#alice x lizzie

[lavender-gayz]

Lizzie the musical at Southwark Playhouse Elephant - some little moments that I love, part 2/?

Previously: [Part 1]

We left off with Bridget announcing that it was time for Mrs Borden’s tea :)

Shattercane and Velvetgrass:

THIS IS MY JAM

Bridget brings in a tray with a teapot and associated accoutrements and starts singing about making tea while Lizzie reads aloud from a book on household poisons and forms a bright idea

Their voices are so gorgeous together

The last(?) time they do the chorus, Lizzie brings down the teapot dramatically and it hits the beat just right and it’s super satisfying

Bridget gives it her ALL in the last verse. FIRE BURN and TOIL.

A fun thing I notice on the final night in London sitting in the right-hand balcony: while Bridget and Lizzie perform this educational masterpiece about poisons and teas, a shadowy figure stands in the aisle separating the middle section of the audience from the left section and leaves after a little bit. It’s Emma! There is no spotlight on her so I only realise it is her because she lets in a little light when she opens the door to enter and leave the theatre.

(Tbh my initial interpretation was that Bridget was cheerfully planting the idea of poisoning the Bordens in Lizzie’s head of her own volition, but I’m not mad about this revelation)

2. ‘To...clean a stain?’

Lizzie x Lying is a close second to Lizzie x Alice for me.

Quick break for me to gush about Lauren Drew’s performance as Lizzie because this feels as good a time as any! I just love the physical ways in which she conveys how deeply awkward Lizzie is – her posture is terrible and she blinks a lot when she’s nervous. It’s in her manner of speech as well and I just find it so compelling. At the same time, we obviously get these powerhouse vocals when she’s singing about her feelings – the contrast is fascinating.

3. Alice makes good on the invitation from this morning and comes over to hang out! Lizzie says she’s sorry but she must go to Benson’s Pharmacy.

‘Why?’ – Alice sounds so unguardedly baffled and offended and I personally find this hilarious.

4. ‘Are you well?’ is Alice’s first reaction to Lizzie freaking out about Alice calling Mrs Borden Lizzie’s mother

She cares about her so much, I wail

5. Lizzie in Kronk mode is one of my favourite things. The milk, the milk that comes in a can, the milk that leaves behind an empty can. The canned milk.

6. That awkward moment when the girl next door – in a kindhearted attempt to ease your mind! because she loves you! – casually pokes holes in your plot to poison your stepmother and you have to pivot and talk about your struggles with sleeping at night. 

7. Will You Stay:

So! Much! Anticipation!

How does one sing these suggestive lyrics about gathering ripening pears in skirts and biting through skin to the sweet flesh within while smiling (and sounding) like an angel? How?!

Alice sings, ‘let me bring back your smile’ and it does actually bring a tiny smile to Lizzie’s face :)

Lizzie says she has to go and things escalate rapidly

IT’S JEALOUS PEAR TIME

Maiya’s delivery of ‘she’s always eaten ingreathaste’!!!

And also the vocal acrobatics in ‘will you bite through the skiiiiiiiiiiiin’

Alice literally guides Lizzie’s hands down her neck and her torso and the whole time I panic while gay.

(NOT to be mistaken for the strategy of legal defence where a straight person argues that they found a purported same-sex advance so horrifying that they reflexively reacted violently!)

Alice promises to keep Lizzie safe while she sleeps. She has this cute smile when she ducks her head and says she’ll keep one eye open half the time

8. AND THEN THEY ARE CONSUMED WITH PASSION AND KISS FOR SEVERAL SECONDS AND THEN BREAK APART AND KISS AGAIN

I have Notes from watching this from multiple angles

Hands-down the funniest view was when I was in the front row in the central block but at the last seat from the right and so could not see the actual kissing and just admired the braids in Alice’s hair the entire time

I have seen some clips from other productions on Youtube where it kind of looks like Alice is pushing Lizzie into the kiss? Happy to report that this is not the case here! They both lean in. Maybe Alice leans in a tiny bit more / first but Lizzie is definitely enthusiastic and wraps her arms around Alice. HA.

9. Alas, Bridget comes in bearing bad news and a bagful of dead pigeons.

10. Why Are All These Heads Off:

Somehow, another banger!

‘Wait, wait, wait! Everything is fine Lizzie, we will find a better way’ – there is audible laughter from the audience at this on the last night and, well, I get it.  

A fleeting moment of peace as Alice presses her forehead to Lizzie’s

A tug-of-war between Alice and Bridget before Lizzie strides forward in the middle and makes her choice

‘I'm standing looking forward in the dark / A feeling brushes past me / And I know the wind has changed’ – it’s like Lizzie's carving these words into stone. CHILLS.

11. Mercury Rising: the lyrics are so archaic and poetic. More chills.   

12. Somebody Will Do Something:

!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bridget whips out her microphone to announce that Mrs Borden is ‘ALL…BY…HERSELF’

‘AXE FALL RIVER RUNS RED’ is amazing to witness up close (the upshot of missing the kiss!)

‘My eyes they never saw it / But my hands they found the axe’ – BRIDGET is the one to hand Lizzie the axe – I don’t know if this is how they do it in all productions, but I love how integral she is to everything here.

There’s also something about the practised way in which Bridget shifts her grip on the axe just a little bit when giving it to Lizzie that has stuck with me!

Lizzie darts offstage to look for her stepmother

(A quick note on the staging: there’s a doorway with sliding…doors at the centre of the stage. For this scene, the doors are open and there are PVC strip curtains hanging from the doorway. You can see this in the eighth picture in thegirl20’s lovely collection of production photos here: [link])

Lizzie attacks Mrs Borden with her axe behind the PVC strip curtains while the 40 whacks rhyme is projected onto the wall

Another fun thing I notice while sitting upstairs: Shekinah and Maiya pop up in the balcony and sing about being afraid somebody will do something and that somebody will dieeeeeee! Such rockstars!

‘OOH Miss Lizzie you startled me’ is Bridget’s v chill response to Lizzie when she emerges from the murder curtains with blood all over her. Bridget’s reactions and harmonies are always top-notch.

Lizzie sounds so exhausted and on the edge when she says she might go out too. I know she's just violently killed her stepmother, but I do also want someone to wrap her in a blanket and give her some cookies (maybe no coffee).

Anyway, one final push! ‘HE’LL WISH HE’D HAD THAT SON,’ Lizzie declares to the balcony while holding aloft her axe.

Lizzie murders her father as well and immediately asks Bridget to summon Miss Russell because she does not want to be alone.

13. Lauren Drew looks really, really good covered in fake blood.

It’s time for the interval!

[moxie-girl]

me when a piece of media/character is Alice in Wonderland themed:

[lanasmissingvape]

[lavenderfables]

Imagine you are Death from Discworld.

Imagine you are in your Domain, minding your anthropomorphic personified business.

Imagine the wizard Alberto 'Albert' Malich suddenly showing up in your house after performing your most hated spell (the Rite of Ashk'Ente) backwards in an attempt to banish you.

Imagine Albert realizing he can't die in your Domain and thus has achieved his goal of immortality.

Imagine you are Death from Discworld and, now, for the very first time in your existence...

You have a roommate.

[the-simple-creature]

Murder Drones characters ranked by what they would say if you fought them.

[thegirl20]

Lizzie x Alice - Lizzie the Musical

[lizzie-wendigo]

I could have uploaded this in October, for the month of Halloween, but it didn't occur to me.

The idea didn't occur to me until now and well...better late than never, right? ^^"

[vivi-designs]

[3queerfrogsinatrenchcoat]

[a-m-pyra]

Story of this render is looooong.

(I feel better and goofy at the same time. In addition, I'm listening to Polish folk band)

[lovinmullen]

no because means something by Lizzy McAlpine was made for nick and charlie and you can’t convince me otherwise. 

“I felt the way that you hugged me When I was broken inside And that has to mean something”

“But for some reason You're not here And I refuse to believe That means somethin'”

[leefl00f]

Okay so crack idea for the fnaf au:

I had a hc where the og gang (Nori, Yeva, Khan, Yuri and Alice) kinda had snouts

yk how companies would make the cartoon versions of their mascots but would do a terrible job at bringing them to life w/ animatronics? Yeah that.

Then the next gen (Uzi, Emily and Sam) would have a shorter snout and the next would kinda have the same faces as regular worker drones

imagine if Thad and Uzi try to kiss, but due to the snout difference, it would look awkward. (They are such dorks omg-)

What the security guard sees when the animatronics (gen 1 & 2) are on camera (they are going to beat him to death):

[tribridlvr]

Hiii!!! so i will be writing for these people:

TVDU:

Hope Mikaelson

Freya Mikaelson

Cami O’Connell

Nora Hildegard

Mary-Louise

Lizzie Saltzman

Keelin Malraux

Twilight:

Esme Cullen

Rosalie Hale

Alice Cullen

Bella Swan

RULES:

- i wont write anything romantic for males, hence why the people i write for are women

-i wont write nsfw at all, i will do hints at that that’s all, maybe down the line i will but at the moment no

-i write wlw/nblw as im a lesbian and this is all i’m comfortable writing

-i will write angst, fluff anything just not smut

[broken-mirrors-binding-magic]

Song Fic: Speak Now

Song: Speak Now by Taylor Swift Characters: Alice Sweeney, Gilbert Lehmann, Roderich Klein, Lizzy Lupei Ship: Roderich/Lizzy, Lizzy/Gilbert, Alice/Gilbert

His throat clenched as he watched her step out from around the corner in her beautiful white gown. His fists clenched against his sides, he needed to keep his composure. He couldn’t let anyone know how bad this was killing him, he was supposed to be happy for his brother. He was given the honor of standing with Klaus, Bach, Leonardo and Sebastian for Roderich. It was his duty to smile and keep the mood light. Who would be selfish enough to ruin their brother’s wedding, so what if he was in love with his bride, it wasn’t his right to ruin their event. So what if she had been in his home days ago, in his bed, telling him how they’d be together forever? He bit the inside of his cheek to fight the forming tears, had he known she was his brother’s fiancé, it never would have happened. He betrayed his own brother, but his heart ached to say something. He needed to know why, why she lead him on, why she lied to him, why she was choosing his brother over him?

“Gil, are you ok?”

Gilbert blinked, he hadn’t realised they ceremony was over. Everyone was celebrating, moving to join the new couple in the ballroom. Everyone except him, and Alice.

“Gilbert, what’s wrong?”

His red eye glanced down at her worried gaze, he wasn’t sure what to say. He hadn’t spoken to Alice since she left his home.

“I… Yeah, I’m fine.”

Alice frowned, she could always see through him, “Gil, what’s going on? You haven’t been acting like yourself at all today.”

He wanted to point out that she was the only one who noticed besides Klaus, “I’m fine.”

She crossed her arms over her red dress, “Gilbert, I’m not going to force it out of you and make a scene at Roderich’s wedding, but I don’t appreciate the secrecy lately. Just because we aren’t on good terms right now, doesn’t mean that I suddenly don’t care how you’re doing.”

Gilbert sighed, she wasn’t going to drop it, “The girl I was seeing… It was her.”

He watched her eyes glance behind them toward the closed doors before turning to him with wide eyes. He quickly placed a hand over her lips.

“I sware I didn’t know she was dating Roderich or his fiance or anything until yesterday! You know he and I haven’t been talking for a few years. I knew he had someone and was getting married, but I had no idea who she was until I ran into her yesterday. I swear.”

Alice sighed, pulling him into a hug, “I’m sorry, Gilbert.”

Gilbert’s arms wrapped around her automatically, and he finally let the tears start to fall. She wasn’t accusing him, she wasn’t mad, she offered him comfort, even after their fight.

“You should tell Roderich, he deserves to know the kind of woman he married.”

Gilbert squeezed his eye shut, “He’ll hate me.”

Alice sighed, “Ok, when you’re ready.”

He nodded into her shoulder, she was right, she seemed to always be nowadays. He’d tell him, tomorrow. He didn’t want to ruin his brother’s celebration.

[thegirl20]

Lizzie and Alice - Lizzie the Musical 🎥: @westandonshakyground

[lizzie-wendigo]

I redesigned Morrigan's outfit a bit, and well, I just improved her appearance a bit with my drawing improvement.