#lempicka obc

[grilledcheeseandguavajelly]

In honor of Lempicka opening one year ago today, here’s an incomplete list of all of the moments on the cast album that absolutely ended me:

This one’s for you, @pearplate 🤍🫶🏼

*Disclaimer: please note that this list was compiled after listening to the OBCR for the first time. I hadn’t seen the musical at that point, and I was very much along for the ride!!

Alright, here we go 🙈

1. “COME MY GIRL WHAT DID YOU EXPECT, THAT THE WORLD WOULD NEVER CHANGE”

And it will ALWAYS be first on the list because I literally fell on the floor when I heard it the first time and then broke down sobbing at the beauty and complexities of this composition. Basically this was the moment when I realized that this album/musical was going to change my life and I didn’t handle it well but it’s fine I was home alone so I only startled my dog when I screamed

(Everything else is in no particular order 🥰)

2. “I will speak, ask her name, ask her back to my rooms, in the afTERNOON SUN inhale her perfume”

3. “WOMAN IS PLANE LINES FORM WOMAN IS PLANE COLOR LIGHT” the fast one from pari will always be pari will always be pari will always be pa

4. The way Eden sings “a thousand different blues”

5. The pounding, pulsing drums and strings that melt into the overture pouring through the end of “perfection”

6. “Paintings can be turned to money, money can be turned to jewelry, in case we have to leave in the middle of the night, in case, in case, in case, in case”

7. “Heart STOP— am I losing my mind? She is just a woman who’s pretty. But she’s flesh, she is chrome, she is steel, she is bone. Her eyes looked right through me like nothing”

8. “The center will hold”

9. Just the placement of the entirety of “in the blasted California sun, no grey can survive. Where is my blessed blue, deep and ancient, glistening on canvas since the Medicis? Where is the grey of the Paris sky? The grey of her eyes?” 😫

10. “Lascivious panting”

11. “It is a bitch to outlive your own context”

12. The delicate “Rafaela” melody that plays two octaves up after Tamara says “woman is…powerful”

13. “Flicker, maTCH, light”

14. The final “shhh” at the end of “Starting Over” sounding like the steam of the train slowing as they arrive in Paris

15. That guy just full belting “OHHHH YOU STOLE THESE FROM US, OUR LABOR MADE YOU SHINE”

16. “Cobalt, viridian, cocaine, valerian” (I mean honestly get lit)

17. “A painting is not a woman.” “But I am painting a woman 👀”

18. “It’s just us, the sound of— sound of the rails, the baby’s asleep— and the baby— oh” and the STUNNING HARMONY ON “ohhhh, and we’re free” *sobs because it’s too. fucking. gorgeous*

19. “Do you know who I am?! An old woman who doesn’t give a damn that history has passed her by. HISTORY’S A BITCH, BUT SO AM I—“

20. “It. Feels. Good.”

21. The 9/8 + 6/8 time signature on “Woman Is” and then the way it shifts into the triplets over “your cry, shattered, your heartbeat, your heart beat, your heartbeat”

22. The cowbell in “Don’t Bet Your Heart” because why is it everything 😂

23. “Withtheknowledgeoftheknifesedge”

24. “Beauty takes my name, takes my soul. Beauty is the hand at my throat. Beauty, her mouth red with my blood. Come back, give back my soul. Let me love you, beauty” 😫

25. Also just the piano and strings on ^^that moment because hnnnnghalskaksjalslflgjdjakjskskdkf

26. “No more paintings of naked women or bowls of fucking fruit”

27. “My wife, my little mouse, stronger than I EVERRRR DREEEEEAMED”

28. “WAAAARM DAAAAWN, bodies and BREATH, I am ALIVE. Damp sheets, watching your body rise, TANGLED HAIR ON THE PILLOWWWW”

29. All of the time signature shifts in “Our Time” 🙌🏼

30. Eden’s laugh right before “wouldn’t that be nice?”

31. Whatever the hell is happening with that riff/pizzicato on the strings during the “please, take this bracelet from my wrist, as a sign that we are friends” melody as it repeats

32. That 12/8 time that comes crashing in right as Eden sings “tonight we’re still free” UNGH 👏🏼

33. The little piano intro from “I Will Paint Her” coming back in “The New Woman” as Tadeusz sings “a million miles of road… don’t ask me to just watch you leave” and fades away every time Tamara sings “I’ll never leave you… how could I leave you?” And back and forth and back and forth and the longing and maybe it’s Tadeusz having his muse moment and realizing he can’t live without her or maybe it’s Tamara finally realizing that he feels for her what she feels for Rafaela and understanding how deeply her heart would break if Rafaela left her like he was terrified she was leaving him— I don’t know but it makes something rise up in my chest and I can’t really handle it

34. “Ha— New York. I’ve got jewelry older than New York 🙄”

35. The key change (I think it’s a key change) on “I’m HEEEERE” during “Stay” and then the way her little riff rounds out into something that sounds so much like Tamara’s style and tone as she goes into “your PAINTINGGGGG” and then falls back into Rafaela’s tone as she says “ohhhh I think I’ll stay”

36. “Do you know how I got you out?! I LET THEM DO ANYTHING TO ME, WHATEVER THEY WANTED!!! AND YOU KNOW WHAT?! IT DIDN’T TOUCH ME— I WALKED OUT OF THERE CLEAN. BECAUSE I HAD YOU. BECAUSE I LOVED YOU”

37. Honestly just the drums through the entirety of “Woman Is” because LORD HAVE MERCY

38. “Seven…”

39. “You should have left me there to diiiiiiIIIIIIIEEEE”

40. That. Fucking. Harmony. On “a month at the chateau” 😫

41. “Alright— we’ll do this now.” “It’s her or me.” “Is that the best you’ve got?” Honestly GO OFF EDEN

42. The sheer depth of Amber Iman’s voice through all of “The Most Beautiful Bracelet”

43. “Your eyes so cold… how can they be… like the Black Sea… so cold your heart stops before drowning”

44. “ONE- one- ONE braceLET, replace three stones with GLASS. PApers for KizETTE and me, a LIttle ink and we eRASE the PAST. My FAther’s reLIGION, noT Jew, but CHRIStian”

45. “The heartbeat fluttering beneath her skin. The fingers curled around a glass of gin.”

46. “LEAVE HIM— be with me…” RIP ME I DIED. DEAD.

47. “Crawling up from nothing I created for MYSELF, something that the world had never seen. I painted what a woman could be”

48. “Here it is, here it comes, staring down the barrel of the gun.”

49. “Fight for this now— come on *clap clap*” (yes I am pretending the claps are in the soundtrack and not just the promo shot because I CAN)

50. I am going to say this ONCE— there is some beautiful poetry in the parallels and contrast between “Wake Up” and Rafaela singing “when I wake up, you’re painting. When I wake up, you’re here” and I haven’t completely dissected it yet but oh my dear lord

51. “When?” “When the world is not in flames” “WHEN WILL THAT BE?!”

52. Just. Just— just everything from the triplets in “Here it Comes” swelling into the entire ensemble singing “REVOLUTION” and then the reprise of that little piece of “THE WORLD SPINS, WHO LIVES WHO DIES” as the climax building into “when everything SHATTERS, what MATTERS” I die. I DIE.

This list could go on forever, and I have at this point listened to the cast recording over fifty times, and I’ve seen the show three times. So I will end it here, but please remember, this is a very, very incomplete list. And please, for the love of god, do yourself a favor and go listen to this OBCR 👏🏼🤍

[wild-feminist]

don’t mind me, just sobbing at work over amber iman & eden espinosa in “Speed” 😭😭

[bootleglesbian]

available bootlegs

this is everything i currently have available (updated 06/18/24). if you have anything to trade i generally prefer that but i am open to gifting any of the titles that are not starred! as a rule, if no cast is listed or only some members are listed, that means that i do not know the cast but i am happy to send a screenshot if you would like (and if anyone is interested in helping me identify unknown casts or dates of any files, let me know!).

green = video, pink = audio, starred = trade or donations only

*Anastasia (Hartford Theatre pre-Broadway run - Christy Altomare, Derek Klena)

*Anastasia (Broadway - Christy Altomare, Derek Klena)

Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Broadway, 06/24/18 - Melissa Benoist)

Beetlejuice (Broadway, 10/31/19 aka Halloween)

Book of Mormon (Broadway - Ben Platt)

Come From Away (Broadway - Jenn Collela)

Falsettos (Proshot)

Falsettos (Broadway - ORC, not proshot)

Falsettos (Tour - Max von Essen, Nick Adams, Eden Espinosa, Nick Blaemire, Audrey Cardwell, Bryonha Marie Parham)

*Falsettos (Tour - Max von Essen, Nicka Adams, Eden Espinosa, Nick Blaemire, Audrey Cardwell, Bryonha Marie Parham)

Freaky Friday (La Jolla)

*Ghost (Broadway - Caissie Levy)

Hamilton (Broadway - Lexi Lawson)

Hamilton (First National Tour - Michael Luwoye, Solea Pffeifer, Joshua Henry, Emmy Raver Lampman, Isaiah Johnson, Jordan Donica, Mathenee Treco, Ruben J. Carbajal, Amber Iman, Rory O'Malley)

*Hamilton (Chicago Act 1 only - Karen Olivo, Ariana Afsar, Samantha Marie Ware, Miguel Cervantes, Joshua Henry)

*Hamilton (Broadway - OBC, not proshot)

*The Last Five Years (Off-Broadway - Betsy Wolfe, Adam Kantor)

*Lempicka (Broadway, 03/38/24 - Eden Espinosa, Amber Iman, Andrew Samonsky, George Abud, Natalie Joy Johnson, Zoe Glick, Nathaniel Stampley, Beth Leavel)

*Mean Girls (Broadway, 02/22/20 - Renee Rapp, Erika Henningson, Barrett Wilbert Weed, Grey Henson, Kate Rockwell, Krystina Alabado, Kyle Selig)

*Mean Girls (National Tour)

*Mystery of Edwin Drood (Broadway - Stephanie J. Block, Betsy Wolfe, Jessie Mueller)

*The Prom (Alliance Theatre pre-Broadway - Caitlin Kinnunen, Anna Grace Barlow)

*She Loves Me (Broadway - ORC proshot)

Waitress (ART pre-Broadway run - Jessie Mueller, Jeanna de Waal, Keala Settle, Drew Gehling, Joe Tippett, Dakin Matthews, Christopher Fitzgerald, Eric Anderson)

*Waitress (Broadway - Jessie Mueller, Keala Settle, Molly Jobe, Drew Gehling)

*Waitress (Broadway - Sara Barielles, Chris Diamantopoulos, Charity Angel Dawson, Molly Jobe, Will Swenson, Christopher Fitzgerald)

*Waitress (Broadway, 06/19/17 - Betsy Wolfe, Drew Gehling)

Waitress (Broadway, 12/14/17 - Stephanie Torns, Jason Mraz)

Waitress (Broadway - Shoshana Bean, Jeremy Jordan)

*Waitress (Broadway - Shoshana Bean, Jeremy Jordan)

Waitress (Broadway, 02/03/19 - Sara Bareilles, Gavin Creel)

Waitress (Tour, 08/26/18)

Wicked (Broadway, 02/01/15 - Caroline Bowman, Kara Lindsey)

Wicked (Broadway, 02/10/13 - Donna Vivino, Ali Mauzey, Kyle Dean Massey, Randy Danson, Adam Grupper, Catherine Charlebois, F. Michael Haynie, Tom Flynn)

Wicked (unknown - Eden Espinosa, Megan Hilty)

*Wicked (Broadway - Stephanie J. Block, Annaleigh Ashford)

*Wicked (Broadway - Lindsay Mendez, Katie Rose Clark)

[missararts]

I just listened to the whole Lempicka OBC album. It was stunning. The style is really something I've never heard before. And of course, this musical is probably the most Lesbian-est musical I've ever heard, even gayer than the prom, fun home, and other lesbian broadway shows.

And they're closing them on Broadway?????

JAIL.

Gayest song ever⬇️🏳‍🌈

Edit: WAIT IT HAS CLOSED????? MY GOODNESS 😭

[sapphoshands]

2, 18, 22

2. Album of the year?

lollll so my apple music wrapped really called me out this year and i can tell you that i listened to the OBC recording of lempicka just a ridiculous number of times. (prior to that it probably would've been the wheel of time soundtrack, because i listened to that a lot while working... although of course, now that's been supplanted by the 10-hour lo-fi ballad of the witches' road beach house atmosphere video on youtube, thank u marvel.)

18. A memorable meal this year?

do you know, i had fresh figs for the first time this year? i had just never eaten them fresh before! while i was visiting my mom, a neighbour brought some over from her garden, and then my aunt and her husband took some and had me over for dinner and did something delicious with figs and honey and goat cheese and arugula. plus local corn and local fish. very simple, very delicious.

22. Favourite place you visited this year?

i travelled to some annoying places this year and i didn't (yet) get to travel to some of my favourites. but you know what, i am gonna cheat. i am once again planning to spend new year's eve in vancouver with my bff and her fam, and that will be my favourite!

(year-end asks)

[musicaltrash]

joining in I guess lol

can u tell I'm an absolute theatre nerd

im making a tag game. its basically a poll of your top 5 songs on your spotify wrapped! (if you dont have spotify, just use your top 5 songs on whatever music app you use.)

tags!! /nf: @wispedvellichor @robinprinceofchaos @magicclemons @lord-of-crabs @alventure

@weirdly-specific-but-ok @sillylilneurodivergent @skellseerwriting @brokenmilkcrates @little-teacupss

@oceaniddoesstuff @brodiedoesthings @saturnisaroace

[grilledcheeseandguavajelly]

Rules: Spell out your url using song titles, then tag up to as many people as there are letters in your url. 

I was tagged by @isle-of-earle and @stayevildarling, and I would say thank you, but you both know how long my url is so this kind of feels like an attack on my life 🙈🤍

Guilty as Sin? - Taylor Swift

Rule #34 - Fish in a Birdcage

I Will Paint Her - Lempicka OBC

Landscape - Florence + the Machine

Levitating - Dua Lipa

Edge of Seventeen - Stevie Nicks

Drumming Song - Florence + the Machine

Can’t Catch Me Now - Olivia Rodrigo

Hallelujah - Jennifer Hudson and Tori Kelly

Easy - Izzy McCalla

Evermore - Dan Stevens

Sky Full of Song - Florence + the Machine

End Credits - John Williams (E.T.)

Alive Forever - Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard

No Good Deed - Wicked OBC

Down Bad - Taylor Swift

Good Luck, Babe! - Chappell Roan

Unseen - Lempicka OBC

Agatha’s Theme - Christophe Beck

Vigilante Shit - Taylor Swift

A Wish Worth Making - Julia Michaels

Jenny of the Oldstones - Florence + the Machine

Endless Night - The Lion King OBC

Lethal Woman - Dove Cameron

Love Me Tender - Barbara Streisand and Elvis Presley

You Didn’t Know - Hazbin Hotel OC

I tag: @welshdragonrawr @darling-dontforgetme @dontsblameme @hauntinglesbian @all-neonandhazy @lunargrrrl @marvelfansince08love

[wild-feminist]

how is there not one Lempicka musical post on this site?! Bisexual Eden Espinosa?!?? WOMAN IS!!! EDEN & AMBER IMAN???!!! im screaming

jfc

anyways Broadway loving queer girlies you probably wanna check it out. OBC album recently dropped and it’s 😧🫠🥵

(don’t come at me, I searched and got 0 results 🤷🏻‍♀️)