#that scene from clueless.. 'what the hell is that?' 'a dress!' 'says who?' 'calvin klein.' 'it looks like underwear 😐'

[greedcartel]

your muses should drag crimson for (formal) clothes shopping and make him pay. 😌

[imi-ike]

so i saw clueless, the musical (spoilers ahead)

“now in the 90s everything is awesome! fashions are fly, music rocks, the whole world loves america! i mean, even our president’s a baldwin.”

i feel like i came out of the womb with the dialogue memorized so i can’t relate to never having seen the movie  BUT i genuinely don’t think you will find it as enjoyable as you would if you have seen the movie. also because of the format, imo it’s a little disjointed if you don’t already know what is happening. but the man next to me at the stagedoor had never watched the movie because he “wanted dove cameron to be his first cher” and he seemed to have enjoyed it so who knows!

okay SO the entire score is repurposed 90s jams where the lyrics have been changed to suit the plot. YES this is as campy and obnoxious as it sounds. at first i was disappointed by the lack of an original score, but it is genuinely a delight once you accept this ridiculousness into your heart.

all of the iconic lines are there (”it’s a dress” “says who?” “calvin klein” got such a huge audience response) and most of the dialogue is straight from the movie with a few exceptions. there is less focus on mel’s court case and cher’s work for the pismo beach disaster relief is changed to a letter writing campaign to help stop toxic chemicals being put in their water (thus shutting down all of the dry cleaners in los angeles or something). they also took the yellow plaid theme and ran the hell away with it. i think she wears some variation of the yellow plaid outfit for almost the entire first act. the stage itself is one giant piece of yellow plaid ribbon.

i was on the fence about dove cameron when the casting announcement was made. now all i have to say is: we have decided to stan forever. she sounds amazing, she’s super charming and actually really funny. like in the movie, cher is our narrator and she talks to the audience frequently.

we been knew the good sis miss zurin villanueva would nail. next.

they changed tai’s last name from frasier to something else entirely and i’m upset because literally FOR WHY. other than that ephie aardema is fully embodying brittany murphy here. i got emotional.

this is the third show i’ve seen dave thomas brown in, no reason behind it he just happens to be attached to projects i would have seen anyway, but he’s always great. good job dave! the glasses are a good look for you!

i felt kind of weird about the cher/josh relationship until the act 1 finale. just give it time, folks. the torn/what if god was one of us mashup (yes, i said what i said) made it start to happen for me.

highlights include: 

cher’s oral presentation about the haitians (it hits particularly hard considering the political climate)

cher at the valley party saying “whose house is this?”

the scene with cher and heather’s conversation about hamlet (has the same energy as “someone should just teach boys to not do That in the first place”)

the aforementioned torn/what if god was one of us mashup

cher checking her astrology transits

“cher what do you say about elton’s oral?” “umm, not if he was the last man on earth”

an entire song about if christian is gay or not (shoutout to dionne asking if he’s bisexual!!!) set to the tune of nsync’s bye bye bye

“she’s so high high above me she’s so lovely, she’s so high like michelle pfeiffer, courteney cox, and all the spice girls”

music referenced in the show:

it’s a beautiful life - ace of bass

i saw the sign - ace of bass

shoop - salt-n-pepa

little miss can’t be wrong - spin doctors

no scrubs - tlc

you gotta be - des’ree

how am i supposed to live without you - michael bolton

creep - radiohead

u can’t touch this - mc hammer (“stop! amber time!”)

supermodel - jill sobule (“we don’t care what the mean girls say”)

barbie girl - aqua

groove is in the heart - deee-lite

i don’t want to wait - paula cole

torn - natalie imbruglia (half of this song is about how cher ripped her armani coat lmfao)

what if god was one of us - joan osborne

never gonna get it - en vogue

a girl like you - edwyn collins

dammit - blink 182

bye bye bye - nsync (clueless eavesdropping on the mcs conversation about how there should be an nsync musical)

mmm mmm mmm mmm - crash test dummies

what’s up? - 4 non blondes

she’s so high - tal bachman

you get what you give - new radicals

kids in america - kim wilde

can’t wait to go back in january once they’ve had some time to settle in! sadly i didn’t see any merch but hopefully that changes.

edit to add: here’s a spotify playlist of all the music used in the show