#as well as bandstand falsettos and gypsy

[clumsyclifford]

hello bella i would like to ask you about future hearts, not in chronological order, and stories for monday -hazel

WAIT i pressed send too early i also wanted to throw a curveball and ask about the newsies original broadway cast recording :) -hazel

yeesh you picked some good ones hazel. okay. i'm gonna put a cut because four albums is a Lot.

send me albums!

future hearts - all time low

the first song from this album I heard: uhhhhhhh i don't remember, but i......hesitantly......say.......cinderblock garden. but i have no idea why i say that. no i don't really know at all.

do I own the album?: nope

my favorite song: don't you go but also if we're counting b-sides which we should be then how the story ends. and........edge of tonight. and runaways. i know that's a lot of songs i don't care.

my least favorite song: satellite i like it but it's unremarkable compared to the rest of the album and the structure of it is just a little weird to me

a song I didn’t like at first, but now do: there were two future hearts songs that for some inexplicable reason didn't download when i bought the album on itunes back in like 2015 when i used itunes and this album came out so i just didnt know they existed for several months, and those songs were bail me out and edge of tonight. this isnt really relevant since i love both of those songs but i just wanted to share. i guess...i think runaways has grown on me. honestly i think thats a result of including it in baby driver fic, lmao

a song I used to like, but now don’t: well i used to LOVE cinderblock garden and now as you can see i don't list it among my favorites. and the same with dancing with a wolf. and for that matter, also satellite lol

my favorite lyric: another impossible question <3 this doesnt really count but the line in tidal waves "say i'm your filthy little, filthy little-" always makes me smile bc when i was younger and my older sister and i would listen to that song whenever we got to that part we'd both yell WHORE at the top of our lungs. and in fact i still do. real talk though, i think the bridge of missing you might be my favorite lyric in here. "grit your teeth, pull your hair, paint the walls black, and scream 'FUCK the world 'cause it's my life, i'm gonna take it back' and never for a second blame yourself" yeah thats the GOOD shit. WAIT I LIE I HAVE ANOTHER ONE: "beautiful scars on critical veins" (mmm and also "roll like thunder, burn like stars") from kids in the dark. mmmm. and all of edge of tonight. man this album has some gooooooood gaskarth lines.

overall rating out of 10: honestly? 10/10. even with satellite. this is such a good fucking album i constantly underrate it but i love it so much it can do no wrong

not in chronological order - julia michaels (this one is gonna be trickier because i haven't listened to the whole album that many times but i'm gonna put it on while i answer the rest of these so hopefully i can have some real opinions here)

the first song from this album I heard: it would've been lie like this i think, because that song was out before any of the other singles

do I own the album?: nope :)

my favorite song: that's the kind of woman, pessimist, lie like this, all your exes. i really LOVE about half this album and the other half i just don't really know well enough

my least favorite song: orange magic just Does Not do it for me. idk man

a song I didn’t like at first, but now do: well i'm very much still working on familiarizing myself with these songs so i might still be in the phase of "didn't like at first" (betcha anything orange magic will grow on me lmao). there aren't any songs that i've changed my opinion on at least not yet

a song I used to like, but now don’t: see previous answer lol

my favorite lyric: "i love myself, but i'd love her more; that's the kind of woman i'd leave me for" from that's the kind of woman (that shit HITS), also "i'll stop checking horoscopes to cope with all my misery" and "you took a pessimist and turned me into something else" from pessimist because it gives me a lot of hope. and "it was you before i ever decided" from little did i know because :') romance

overall rating out of 10: 8/10 miss michaels KNOWS an album. this would probably be higher if not for orange magic lmao

stories for monday - the summer set

the first song from this album I heard: according to my spotify, all my friends! the first time i listened to this album was on shuffle while writing a prompt fic that was entirely unrelated. i know, it's appalling.

do I own the album?: no <3

my favorite song: MMMNNGNHHGJ i think. i think it's figure me out. and missin' you. yeah. those two

my least favorite song: honest to god i want to say all downhill from here but the little bass riff at the end of that song basically forbids me from saying that. so i'm gonna say change your mind instead. it's the vibiest but thats not why we COME to stories for monday now is it

a song I didn’t like at first, but now do: don't know, maybe all in? i can't remember ever not liking one of these songs tbh. ironically maybe the answer to this is change your mind lol

a song I used to like, but now don’t: well i listened to all my friends about five million times when i wrote that fic based on it so it's in the same situation as i think he knows now. i need a little bit of an all my friends break.

my favorite lyric: bro this is literally an impossible fuckign QUESTION!! the entirety of figure me out. "i'm a bit too punk for the pop kids, but i'm too pop for the punk kids" and "i believe there's more to life than all my problems" both are really close to my heart. the bridge of all in about it being 4am in the parking lot we'll be singing blink songs til the sun comes up, that too. wait wait okay and also: "forever nineteen somehow" from jean jacket and "growing up can make you stupid, why is everyone so scared?" from wasted. okay okay i'm done i'm done

overall rating out of 10: fucking 11/10 bro this is in my top 10 albums ever i'm pretty sure

newsies - original broadway cast recording

the first song from this album I heard: no fuckin idea. it must have been the overture because i never listened to the cast recording before watching the bootleg so!

do I own the album?: i do not

my favorite song: mmm i. LOVE once and for all. but i also love watch what happens reprise. and brooklyn's here. and carrying the banner. ugh fuck i love so many of these songs.

my least favorite song: the bottom line reprise lmfao easy

a song I didn’t like at first, but now do: i don't know, i guess i like the bottom line a LITTLE more than i used to but it's a very low bar. wait actually, the overture. i have a much greater appreciation for an overture than i used to.

a song I used to like, but now don’t: i honestly can't think of one. maybe similar effect to something to believe in? i like it SLIGHTLY less but i still really like it so?

my favorite lyric: EASY answer, this lyric is among my favorites in all of musical theatre, i had it written on my mirror for a long time in high school. this part from seize the day: "behold the brave battalion that stands side by side / too few in number and too proud to hide / then say to the others who did not follow through / 'you're still our brothers, and we will fight for you'"

overall rating out of 10: 9/10. fucking banger of an album. i always say this is the best cast recording for a car ride and i stand by that

[bennyboy721]

Musicals I have to get into

A comprehensive list of shows I have to get into along with ones I’ve actually checked out that I need to get more into, mostly for me but this list is everyone i guess

Ones I have to get into (I know a song or less):

Starting with the 3 I got for christmas

Dear Evan Hansen

Carrie

Come From Away

Hadestown

Bring it On

Next To Normal

Spongebob

Gypsy (I know more than one song and have seen the movie but whatever)

Be More Chill

Bat Boy

The Lightning Thief

21 Chump Street

Spring Awakening

In The Heights

Pippin

Aladdin (All these Disney ones, I know the og movie but not the show)

Tarzan

Freaky Friday (checked out the whole thing one time)

Pippin

Assassins

Passion

Merrily We Roll Along

Ballroom

Side Show

Road Show

Kinky Boots

Avenue Q

Something Rotten

Bonnie and Clyde

Jekyll and Clyde

Secret Garden

Footloose (saw it a few years ago, could use a refresh)

Titanic

Secret Garden

Billy Elliot

Great Comet of 1812

She Loves Me

Chess

The Little Princess

Once Upon a Matress

The King and I

Something Rotten

Urinetown

Porgy and Bess

Aida

Groundhog Day

Waitress

Once on this Island

Tuck Everlasting

Big Fish

Mowtown

On the 20th Century

Falsettos

Ragtime

42nd Street

It Should Have Been You

Me and My Girl

The Wiz

The Color Purple

Violet

Bandstand

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Mame

Dog Fight

Ordinary Days

Fun Home

Hair

Bridges of Madison County

The Producers

Man of La Mancha

Sunset Boulevard

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Jesus Christ Superstar

Godspell

Phantom of the Opera (Yester and Kopit)

The Drowsy Chaperon

Catch Me If You Can

The Wild Party

Pricilla, Queen of the Desert

Xanadu

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Follies

Pirates of Penzance

Nice Work If You Can Get It

A Funny Thing Happened on They Way to The Forum

Henry and Mudge

A New Brain

State Fair

Amadeus

Tommy

Zorro

Billy Elliot

The Light in the Piazza

How The Grinch Stole Christams

Suessical

Half a Six Pence

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson

Love Never Dies

9 to 5

A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder

Blood Brothers

Company

Sunday in the Park with George

Little Women

Parade

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

FlashDance

Saturday Night Fever

Amelie

The Baker’s Wife

The Wedding Singer

A Bronx Tale

We Will Rock You

Rock of Ages

Brigadoon

Candide

Kismet

Rocky

Ghost

The Fantasticks

Young Frankenstien

Fun Home

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

School of Rock

Ordinary Days

Promises, Promises

Curtains

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

13

The Boy from Oz

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

Elf

Peter Pan

Sister Act

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Once

Geekville

Toxic Avenger

Beuatiful

Rocky

The Full Monty

Meet Me in St Louis

A Star Is Born

All That Jazz

Grey Gardens

Nine

A Little Night Music

La Cage Aux Folles

All Shook Up

South Pacific

American Psycho

Lestat

Dr. Zhivago

Spiderman: Turn off the Dark

It’s A Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s Superman

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Kiss of the Spiderwoman

If/Then

Taboo

Starlight Express

Camp Rock On Stage

High School Musical 2 On Stage

White Christmas

Holiday Inn

Dracula

Dance of the Vampires

The Band Wagon

They’re playing Our Song

Smile

The Last 5 Years

Mean Girls

Tick Tick Boom

Gay Card

The Spitfire Grill

Is There Life After High School

Schoolhouse Rock: On Stage

Menopause the Musical

3hree

Escape to Magerittaville

The Band’s Visit

Two Men from Verona

The Boys from Syracuse

The Frogs

Let It Be

Anne of Green Gables

In Transit

Amélie

Bat Out of Hell

American Psycho

Coraline

The Wind in the Willows

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Barnum

Greatest Showman

Anyone Can Whistle

Allegro

Anchors Aweigh

Aspects of Love

Babes in Arms

Paint Your Wagons!

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

Big

Sweet Charity

Bloomer Girl

Bullets over Broadway

Bring Back Birdie

Annie Warbucks

Carmen Jones

Can- Can

Cannibal! The Musical

A Christmas Carol

A Class Act

City of Angles

The Civil War

Clue

Damn Yankees

Daddy Long Legs

Dear Edwina

Disaster

Do I Hear A Waltz?

Do Re Mi

Elisabeth

Fiorello!

Finian’s Rainbow

Flower Drum Song

Floyd Collins

Funny Face

Grand Hotel

Honk!

I Love You Because

I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change

Little Mary Sunshine

Little Miss Sunshine

Lucky Stiff

Much Ado

My Son Pinocchio

No No Nanette

Nosferatu

On a clear day you can see forever

On The Town

On Your Toes

Pacific Overtures

Pal Joey

Pipe Dream

The Red Shoes

Repo!

Rex

The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd

Scarlet Pimpernel

Smokey Joe’s Cafe

Song and Dance

Stop the World – I Want to Get Off

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The Unsinkable Molly Brown

Where’s Charlie

The Woman in White

A Wonderful Life

Wonderful Town

Wonderland

A Year With Frog and Toad

Musicals that I either kinda know or know pretty well that aren’t quite at the best level

Cabaret

Anastasia

Camelot

Pajama Game

Calamity Jane

Fosse

ALW’s Wizard of Oz

Singing in the Rain

Moulin Rouge!

Legally Blonde

Mamma Mia!

Across the Universe

Oklahoma

The Addams Family

The og West Side Story (I only know the movie)

The og Into The Woods (I’m still better with the movie)

Carousel

Sweeney Todd

A Chrous Line

Evita

Hamilton (Almost there)

Newsies

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

Fame

Spamalot

The Lion King

My Fair Lady

Hello Dolly (almost there)

Funny Girl

Anything Goes

Showboat

Fiddler on the roof

You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown

Cats

Book of Mormon

Annie

Miss Saigon

Rocky Horror (stage version)

An American in Paris

Annie Get Your Gun

Kiss Me Kate

Guys and Dolls

Chicago (stage version)

Reefer Madness

Grease (stage version)

[pogatog-moved]

Updated 04/12/2017 

I’m more than happy to share so don’t worry if you don’t have anything to trade (tbh trading is kind of bullshit imo but whatever) but if you have something on my wants list I would rly appreciate if you could link me, sharing is caring and all that :)

Stuff I’ve downloaded is marked with an asterisk and I can upload them for you, italics means I’ve got a link to watch it, bolded means I’ve got a link to a download. Unless something is marked with an asterisk there’s no guarantee I can get it to you seeing as things do get taken down and/or moved around. If I have a link to watch something as well as a download please specify which you would like. Links are to public videos, everything else you’ll have to ask for. Please tell me if any of the links are broken! 

Spring Awakening list | audio list probably coming eventually

[title of show] 13  25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee - OBC* 3 Musketeers - Aaron Tveit A Bed and a Chair - Bernadette Peters & Jeremy Jordan* A Chorus Line - (OBC) (2006 Opening Night)  A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder - OBC pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 Aida Aladdin - Pre-Broadway Act 1 Act 2 Amelie - 4/12/16*

American Idiot - (John Gallagher Jr*) (LA*) Anastasia Anything Goes - (2011 revival) (2012 National Tour) Assassins - 29/05/2004* Avenue Q - 24/02/2004 Bandstand* bare the musical - off Broadway* bare: A Rock Musical Act 1 Act 2 bare: A Pop Opera - (2004*) (2013 Act 1 Act 2) Bat Boy - OOBC*

Bent - Andy Mientus* Big Fish - Pre-Broadway in Chicago Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 Bonnie and Clyde - OBC* Book of Mormon - (Subtitles*) (US Tour*) (OBC*) (London*) (Ben Platt*) Cabaret - 1998 Camelot - 1982 Carrie - (1988 opening night) (2012 Off-Broadway, follow suggestions) (2013 Seattle dress rehearsal*) Catch me if you Can - 2011 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - (22/01/2015 London*) (Broadway*)

Chicago - US Tour 2005* Christmas Story Bway Come From Away - OBC* Company - 2006 PBS recording Curtains Dear Evan Hansen* Dogfight* Dreamgirls - OBC Elf - Broadway 2010 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 Evita - (OBC) (2012, follow suggestions) (US Tour pt1 pt2 pt3 pt4 pt5)

Falsettos - revival (1st boot*) (2nd boot*) Finding Neverland 2014* First Date - OBC Fun Home* Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - 2012 NYC City Encores*  Grease - Laura Osnes, Max Crumm Grey Gardens - Chesterton, Indiana Gypsy - (2003, Bernadette Peters) (2008, Patti LuPone, Laura Benanti) Hair - 2009 Revival Hamilton - (6/06/2016) (pit Act 1 Act 2)

Heathers - (Millennial Theatre Company) (Illegal Heathers) Hedwig - (Anthony Rapp) (Lena Hall, Neil Patrick Harris) Holler If You Hear Me - June 2014 If/Then (preview, 8/03/14) (25/05/14) In The Heights - (Arts Garage Academy) (Irvington Townhall Theatre) Into the Woods - (Live in Central Park) (2002) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat* Kinky Boots - OBC pt1 pt2 pt3 La Cage Aux Folles- 2010 pt1 pt2 pt3 pt4 Legally Blonde - sing along

Les Miserables - (2014*) (Hollywood Bowl) (US Tour 7/02/2000 pt 1 and 14 missing) Lestat- Broadway Opening Night Little Shop of Horrors - (Florida, 2003) (2009 UK Tour) Little Women - OBC Matilda - (Ripley Sobo*) (unknown, 14 part) Memphis* Merrily We Roll Along - OBC Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 Newsies - (OBC*) (1NT*)  Newsies - Santaluces High School Acting Chiefs Act1 Act 2 (high school production based on the movie, incredibly done, def recommend watching)

Next to Normal - (OOBC, early version with Costco) (Off-Broadway) (2nd bway preview) (OBC) (last performance of Alice Ripley, Jennifer Damiano, and Brian d'Arcy James) (Marin Mazzie, Jason Danieley, and Meghann Fahy) (1NT)

Nice Work If You Can Get It - OBC Nine - 2003 revival Oliver - London, 2010 Parade - OBC Preview Passion - OBC Peter and the Starcatcher* Peter Pan - Tour, June 2012 Act 1 Act 2 Phantom of the Opera - (Norm Lewis 1st performance) (Sierra Boggess, Norm Lewis) Pipe Dream Pippin - (Fosse’s uncut proshot, 1981) (Toronto 1982) (2013 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3) (June 2014 Act 1 pt1 pt2 pt3 pt4 pt5, Act 2 pt1 pt2 pt3 pt4)

Rabbit Hole - Cynthia Nixon, John Gallagher Jr. Ragtime - OBC Rent - (Hollywood Bowl) (pro shot*) (OBC opening night) School of Rock* Seussical-  pt1 pt2 pt3 pt4 pt5 She Loves Me - proshot* Side Show - (OBC) (Nov 2013) (Nov 2014*) Sister Act - (London 2009) Something Rotten - (previews*) (28/3/2015*) Song & Dance - 1984

Spongebob* Spring Awakening (I have a lot so this links to a separate post) Sweeny Todd - OBC The Addams Family - Chicago/Broadway Mix The Apple Tree - Act 1 Act 2 The Bridges of Madison County The Colour Purple - 2015 The Drowsy Chaperone - OBC The Fantasticks - 2002 Act 1Act 2 the Hunchback of Notre Dame - (La Jolla Playhouse*) (Paper Mill Playhouse*)  

The Little Mermaid - Pre-Broadway Thoroughly Modern Millie - OBC Act 1 Act 2 Titanic the Musical - (RMU’s Colonial Theatre) (Peace Players Production, follow suggestions) Twisted - Team Starkid Urinetown - OBC 4th preview Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike - (Bway) Waitress* Wicked - (Kristin Chenoweth’s last*) (Aaron Tveit*) (Alli Mauzey, Aaron Tveit, Nicole Parker) (Stephanie J. Bloc and Annaleigh Ashford, subtitles*) Wonderland - 2011 Xanadu - OBC Young Frankenstein - Sutton Foster

Wants:

Anything Deaf West, anything Spring Awakening Anything with Michael Arden Deaf West Pippin American Idiot with Alex Boniello as Johnny or St. Jimmy Funny Girl Spider-man: Turn Off The Dark

Spring Awakening list | audio list coming soon

[toongrrl-blog]

Karen Wheeler Playlist Part Twenty-One

“Lightin’ Strikes” Lou Christie

Born Lugee Alfredo Giovanni Sacco, he grew up in suburban Pittsburgh before moving out after high school graduation and worked as a session vocalist and impressed Nick Cenci with his demo tape with his falsetto and released hits “Two Faces Have I” and “The Gypsy Cried”, for some time he went into the army and after discharged went into the MGM Records label where (along with vocalists Bernadette Carroll, Denise Ferri, and Peggy Santiglia) he sang this song which tells of passion and love, I can’t help but think Karen probably cries hearing this song, wishing Ted had the same passion for her. “When I see lips begging to be kissed...”

“Paradise By The Dashboard Light” Meat Loaf

This is an epic song about teenage love and awful marriages where it starts out nostalgic about how this guy is out with the prettiest girl in school, but she makes him promise that he will love her forever and never leave her while he just wants sex (so many red flags here) and makes the promise: "I started swearing to my God and on my mother's grave/That I would love you to the end of time" and got stuck as we see them married to each other and they can’t stand each other. While they made out together a baseball game is on the radio, I cannot help but thinks this reminds me of how Karen and Ted were when they were dating, well this whole thing about how these very young and smitten women just want to settle down right away with no intentions of going out to the world, working, school, otherwise figuring yourself out and what you want from life before settling with the first guy that seemed interested.

“Karen” The Beach Boys

Karen was a one season 1964 sitcom with a theme by the Beach Boys that was part of ABCs line-up for Baby Boomer teens along with Gidget and The Patty Duke Show and musical variety like Hootenanny, American Bandstand, and Shindig! Like I said it reached ONE season and is one example of how the name “Karen” was used for Boomer women. The sitcom focuses on boy-crazy Karen Scott and her tomboy sister Mimi as they go into hi-jinks that leave their parents flabbergasted (one of whom is played by veteran 1950s and 1960s movie mom Mary LaRoche). This was a role of Debbie Watson before she was used as replacement for Pat Priest as Marilyn Munster in Munster Go Home! and later starred in the Tammy tv series (based on the films starting with the Debbie Reynolds vehicle) and after an appearance on Love, American Style she retired from show business. It’s a very Karen Wheeler kind of life and she does look like her. 

“I Know” Bonnie Raitt

Bonnie Raitt is a legend and in her cover of the Barbara George classic where a woman resigns herself to acknowledging her man doesn’t love her and frankly it’s her time to go because it’s no use staying. I heard this again recently in the Mrs. America episode “Betty” where Betty Friedan (Tracey Ullman) grapples with being The Friend That Nobody Likes in the National Women’s Political Caucus and with being eclipsed in popularity by the younger and much more conventionally prettier Gloria Steinem (Rose Byrne). It ends on a touching scene between them after Betty’s disastrous debate with Phyllis Schlafly (Cate Blanchett), one that reminds me of the talk Karen had with Nancy

Gloria: I’ve been thinking of the first time I read The Feminine Mystique: “Why should women accept this picture of a half-life, instead of a share in the whole of human destiny?” I don’t know if I ever told you, but your book changed my life. Thank you.  

“Hold Your Head Up” Argent

Used towards the end of “Bella” in Mrs. America where the invitations to delegates to the 1977 National Women’s Conference in Houston are being sent out in the mail and we see various characters receive them and become joyous at the news. The lyrics to me call back to the conversation between Karen and Nancy, and to the struggles of the ladies of Stranger Things and Mad Men.

The lyrics:

And if it's bad Don't let it get you down, you can take it And if it hurts Don't let them see you cry, you can make itHold your head up, woman Hold your head up, woman Hold your head up, woman Hold your head high