#tragic musicals

[basilpaste]

the romances in hatchetfield fuck me up so bad like. every time. like youve got:

the most normal couple of all time, except one of them always seems to understand when the world is going to end and they inevitably are driven apart by something out of their control.

two grungy teens/young adults who will never get a happy ending so long as theyre together

a woman who everyone forgets and the man who falls in love with her every time he meets her again and again and again.

high school sweethearts haunted by their pasts and sometimes their futures, too.

a nerd and a 'cool kid', who just keep trying to sacrifice themselves for each other despite something interrupting them every time.

romance is not dead in hatchetfield! except for the fact that it usually ends up dying horribly and tragically.

[zu-is-here]

☆ Happy 2nd anniversary to Trapped ☆

(In case someone would want to play this :D)

[botanicallyinclinednerd]

I don't think I ever fully realized that in many ways, The Odyssey is a tragedy until I listened to Epic. Because he survives and he manages to get home and see his family again, so it doesn't really strike as a tragedy.

But then there is Epic going, "but look at all he lost to get there, all the people that died for him to get home. Don't forget that the man you met at the start of the musical is not the one that makes it home. He dies in "Monster.""

[confoodles]

[thissongisawesome]

do you ever think about how ocean was implied to be the first one to notice that the ride was broken and they were all absolutely fucked? in like every intro song (not uranium suite but uranium suite is mid anyways) there's at least one line that shows her having knowledge beforehand. in fall fair suite there's this line from ONLY OCEAN!! while everyone else dances around and sings the background vocals. but her line is, "had a strange feeling from the start. bought out tickets stood in line, a rickety cart. i did not feel safe at all. tick-a-tick-a heard the crack!" and then they all say "felt the drop, now i know im never going back!" but she could tell even leading up to the drop that they were going to die. in the choreography of "waiting for the drop", in the moment before the drop of the ride, ocean is like set aside from the rest of the choir and she has a look of absolute terror on her face because she KNOWS. she knows that these are her final moments alive. there isn't anything in tragic fact but idk the other two are pretty compelling to me! imagine how absolutely horrifying that must have been, knowing that you and your closest friends are all about to die on some stupid carnival ride. she had the time to think about everything the other members didn't. like the fact that she would never get to leave uranium no matter what she did, she would be stuck there for eternity. she wouldn't be known for her real accomplishments but for simply dying on a rollercoaster. she could've thought about anything and everything in those final moments. no one else even knew they were going to die until they were already falling, ocean had time to think about it and that's arguably so much worse. yeah, me neither.

[wineonmytshirt]

ran out of room on one oop if i missed any please tell me your favorites in the tags!!!

[ace-and-ranty]

SPOP is full of tragedy, but there is nothing so quietly tragic as Light Hope's little "Warmth. Her memory brings me warmth."

[underratedgrapeju1ce]

the difference between book jekyll and musical jekyll is so fascinating to me

because on one hand, jekyll being a Not Good person adds to the horror, the underlying feeling that hes manipulating everyone around him, trying to gain pity and trust from people to save his reputation, springs at the opportunity to carry out his most violent desires with no accountability. and yet in the end hes torn himself apart so horribly, no sense of self, only to forever be reduced to a whispered urban legend in the london streets about that mad scientist and the mysterious murders. and you cant help but feel bad for him.

but on the other hand, theres the musical, with jekyll as a genuinely good person who wants to help the world. he obviously still has some pride and ego (claiming he made it this far on his own despite his relationships with john, lisa, etc.,) but he doesnt feel like manipulative selfish man from the book. he feels like someone who's already been mostly isolated from society, told that his work will never amount to anything. you're rooting for him! but the story is the story, and he ends up having to be killed by his closest friend, on what was supposed to be the happiest day of his life. and he didnt get the luxury of dying a mystery. everyone saw what he was and what he turned into, and that everyone who ever doubted him was right: he turned out to just be a madman, and only utterson will know who he really was.

tl;dr: the book is a better horror. the musical is a better tragedy.

[wiltedfaded]

super different than normal lol!

[spyruce]

au where they get a car but only Pete learns how to drive it. they have little chats on the way to ted’s work.

(I’m gonna redraw this eventually and fix their mannerisms… I need to do a study on em…)

[johnnny-s]

sixth breath, the last breath

[diaruchann]

Bro really said "I'll gladly drop a few babies from a wall to keep my men alive"

which is hilarious like Odysseus do you think a god coming down to tell you to kill an infant is a common occurrence

[hyakunana]

Durge, the Dark Urge — but make it a bard forest gnome girl named Imbrie

[cillyscribbles]

once a baby brother, always a baby brother (with highly varying degrees of how pleased he may be about it). the naps are nice, though.

[zingaplanet]

Ok but are you talking about complicated relationship or are you talking about John Lennon and Paul McCartney meeting when they were just 15 & 17, who decided then and there that they will change the whole world forever, who fell in love with music and skipped school to write songs eyeball to eyeball every day, who wanted to be credited as Lennon/McCartney because all their craft should always be remembered as one, who changed history and wrote music that still inspired generations for the next 5 decades together, who've lived together and saw each other almost every day for more than 10 years, who were each other's biggest rivals driving each other mad trying to outwrite history's greatest hits, who were each other's greatest inspiration and source of jealousy, who had a bond so intense their wives said they never looked at anyone else like they looked at each other,

who ended their musical partnership and friendship through an article in the press, who didn't properly speak again for almost 8 years and only communicated through veiled insults in each other's solo records and media, whose breakup of friendship drove each other to substance and drug abuse for over a decade, who lost a battle to time as the other was gunned down just when they started properly connecting again, who said the night he was murdered that the other was family, and family always forgave each other,

and McCartney who never showed up to induction ceremonies but cried as he said, "John Lennon, you made it, tonight you're in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame" because they always promised they'd conquer the world together, who still showed up to gun laws march in Central Park 40 years after Lennon was murdered across the street, who spent every single interview he got telling people to tell their loved ones "i love you" before it's too late, because he never forgave himself for never being brave enough to say it.

[nataliawoods]