so what if Andrias is a clockmaker and he builds Marcy out of grief for his polycule and maybe a child
he forbids Marcy to leave the house, tho one day she still sneaks out to see the town
but in awe of everything around her, Marcy knocks down a lady on the street and her wedding dress falls into a well
The Clockmaker's Daughter AU
based on the really amazing and incredible musical, please go listen/watch it, it’s so damn good
Thinking about that time I went to see hadestown and the person I went with afterwards said "wow I didn't think they would go the let her die and he has to live on route since it's a musical" and I just stared at her and said "have you ever seen a musical?"
A handful of random obscure musicals that no one talks about but they're some of my favorites ever:
Frankenstein
Based on Mary Shelley's book of course. It changes some stuff but is generally very faithful to the book and the music is excellent. I just really like it. (Best songs: Modern Prometheus, Coming of the Dawn)
Treason
Based on the gunpowder plot. To my understanding (I'm American and hadn't heard about this until I started listening to the musical), it's pretty accurate to the general history, but fills in a few gaps if you will to make it work better as a story. In the musical, the wives of the plotters are the ones who tipped people off about the whole thing, while I believe that we didn't actually know who wrote the letter. (Best Songs: The Day Elizabeth Died, Burn, Digging Down Deeper, Caught in the Crossfire)
The Clockmaker's Daughter
Not based on the book. I have no idea what the book is about. There is no relation. But it's set in this little town in Ireland. There's this clockmaker whose wife and daughter recently passed away (he's played by the wonder and amazing Ramin Karimloo), and he tries to recreate his daughter out of clockwork. And he ends up creating a sentient clockwork girl whom he names Constance. It's genuinely one of my favorite musicals ever but NO ONE knows about it which is so sad. The music has a ton of piano and strings and it's incredibly rhythmic and I love it so much. (Best songs: You're Still Here, Impossible, Fear and Whispers, Clockwork, also all of them they're just so good)
I also thoroughly enjoy The Count of Monte Cristo musical and The Scarlet Pimpernel (haven't read this book so I dunno how accurate it is), but not enough for them to get their own spots. :p
Just listened through a musical called “The Clockmaker’s Daughter” and it’s just. So good. I’m such a sucker for bittersweet endings and musicals that pull from literature. Like there’s something so timeless about it. 10/10 would recommend.
Also the transgender subtext in the clockmakers daughter is insane. Her fear of people finding out who she is on the inside even if she feels human. Her father hiding her and her secret because he thinks people will hurt her. Wanting to keep her locked away for her own safety and selfishness. People fearing her and hunting her down upon finding out- completely forgetting their love for her and her never ending love for them.
WILL. BEING LEGALLY FEMALE. AND HAVING A ONE OFF LINE WHERE PEOPLE STILL MOCK HIM FOR IT WHAT THE FUCK
Every time I listen to Facade from Jekyll and Hyde and hear the “a model of propriety sobriety and piety” lyric I think of @a-model-of-propriety and every time I hear impossible from cmd and hear the “what is Constance?” “You are Constance” lyric I think of @you-are-constance
I’ve never met either of these people. The internet is crazy and sometimes I just love it.
when will says were any of the parts you showed me true? in fear and whispers its actually one of the most soul-crushing lines in modern musical theatre because he doesn't say was anything you showed me true? he doesn't say were any of the things you told me true? no. he says were any of the parts you showed me true? because now he sees constance as a collection of pieces, as a machine incapable of feeling, as something other and inhuman. he doesn't see her as constance, the girl he's in love with. he sees her as constance, just a clock with a name. and that's exactly what she has been afraid of her whole life.