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Reacting to the new Three Houses photos!

My Three Houses brainrot is setting in and I have to keep myself from going insane and/or spoiling myself before I see it. So lets go through the new photos released by Playbill yesterday (May 3rd)! My predictions below, but I don't know any more than you do so there won't be any spoilers!

Right off the bat. The set? STUNNING. Giving Octet/Comet/Ghost Quartet if it had a proper set. The concept of the show is an open mic night so the bar setting is a given, I love the little tables with menus, makes it very Great Comet. I love how many of Dave's shows are set in a specific place that the performance factors into. You are at an academic lecture, a jazz club, a church basement. Wonderful job by dots.

Love that the Grandmother and Grandfather double as the bartenders/waiters here. A note about the cigarette from the playbill, these are herbal cigarettes that are actually smoked for real, they just don't have any effect. Just a fun fact for realism.

ONSTAGE BAND lets gooooooo. You can see the other two characters sitting at the two little tables downstage.

No thoughts. Pretty :)

DRAGON DRAGON DRAGON DRAGON

I'm SO curious why he's here. I had assumed, naturally, that the puppet in this case would be the Wolf. But no, there's a dragon here??? My prediction is that this is either connected to the video game references in the show (we'll come to that), it's a puppet a character made, or it's some hallucination/dream sequence.

Dragon is sitting at the bar??? He's havin a drink??? Oh my god???

Band onstage!!!

You can see how close the audience is in this one!!!

More that are close-ups. My only note here is that the background behind the bar is different! So I assume it changes between characters.

HERE WE ARE. THE SIMS PLUMBOBS. THATS SO SILLY. I'm also really curious about the way Dave would use the context of the Sims in this show. Like I'm predicting it's going to be more than "people playing video games stuck at home" but will also have some comment about socialization and human connection. Since Mia Pak doesn't have one here, I feel like we're likely to see an Octet style form where during each person's individual story, the others act as a side characters.

Oh my gooood he is so unhinged and silly. What is he up to. The intense glare. The plumbob again. My prediction is that he will sort of hang around and antagonize from within each person's story, taking on different roles and acting as an omnipotent force.

ALSO. ELECTRIC GUITAR. Giving Beowulf but also The DJ. I guess that's what I'm leaning towards with his style of antagonism, he's just there to poke fun at them and be mean and have fun. I love him, he looks like he's having so much fun.

I love the boxes but it's also really surreal, because I JUST did a show in October that was also about quarantine and featured tons of cardboard boxes. Seriously. The playwright had decided to clean up the house during quarantine, and put things into boxes to keep them organized. But he fell into depression and for months just lived out of the cardboard boxes he didn't have the energy to unpack. This show was about a depressed woman who couldn't sleep, and was haunted by a Pierrot clown and a puppet. Anyway. I'm getting similar vibes here.

Those are all my thoughts on the photos! But I have a couple more from the updates to the program, which you can access here.

The characters have new names added to them! It's now Susan/Shelob, Sadie/Pookie, and Beckett/Zippy. I wonder what these are about, if they're just other characters they play within the stories. My prediction is though that they're either online names or related to the Sims bit mentioned earlier.

According to the program, there are only THREE musical numbers. Not acts, "musical numbers" that's the exact wording.

First House: Susan

Second House: Sadie

Third House: Beckett

Coda

Dave Dave Dave. Maybe this is a previews thing, and the different names just haven't been solidified? Either way, I support doing whatever he wants from a show standpoint but I'm curious how it would translate to an album. Of course, that's a problem for another day!

Woof. Long one. Thank you for sticking with me here and stay tuned because I am going to be sharing a LOT more about this show as it develops!

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Samson:

he’s canonically very strong that’s like his whole thing he’s a guy who is strong

with the jawbone of an ass i have slain a thousand men

Harper Perkins:

it would be funny to watch this failgirl fail even harder. i wanna see het dropkick pierre

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Rose Red:

she has killed Pearl multiple times, a different way each time. she knows how to commit, despite this taking multiple lifetimes she doesn’t give up. she has so much rage, and she knows how to use it

Goes on an interdimensional scavenger hunt just to get somebody else to kill her sister and her crush. She's got the dedication, folks. She's got the manipulation. She might feel bad about it afterward, but she WILL DO IT.

Soldier:

She’s a soldier, I’m assuming she can fight

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Grand High Witch:

I mean she can just turn her opposant into a mouse

one of the oldest living things ever, can zap other witches to death, kills many many children, generally a dangerous entity

The Dragon

Listen to "Olde English" and tell me why she shouldn't win. She's a venomous dragon AND a scholar and was able to kill Beowulf. Queen behavior honestly

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Mr Stringer:

Runs the Hotel Magnificent. A silly, soggy owl of a man who is prime brain-rotating material. He is deeply strict about keeping his hotel tidy and clean and free of mice. As the shenanigans at the hotel escelate throughout the show, Stringer becomes increasingly unhinged and frequently appears deluded to his clientele. He has a vaguely homoerotic relationship with an "over-familiar" belhop and we stan LGBTQ+ business owners. As the hotel becomes overrun with witches-turned-mice at the end of the show, Stringer goes down with his ship and his fate is left unknown. He's not exactly good at much outside of micro-management and sheer theatricality but he'd probably end up on the winning side by sheer accident.

The hotel manager of the Hotel Magnificent! Runs a very tight ship and has an army of hotel staff who work for him. Intimidation 100. Hates mice. Falls in love with the most evil woman we love that for him.

Henry:

Do you know how much mathematics you can get involved in the games he plays? The guy knows his stuff

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OH I HADN'T SEEN THE PHOTOS!!!

They're from Playbill and there's more of them!!!

THREE HOUSES OPENED AT SIGNATURE THEATRE ON THE 30TH OF APRIL

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Seeing a musical that has any sort of fandom at a local theatre and not anywhere else is sort of like hell bc why nobody else think the character looks like the random 22 year old who played them in the black box 😒

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jesus no

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god fell out of heaven yesterday and we all started making fun of him bc the corpse is only like 5'3''

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Little God:

She can't die. I cannot stress this enough. She is UNABLE TO DIE. Also she is literally God, so...

She’s literally god (at least she thinks). Her age is infinite in both directions!

she could just like. turn you into an inanimate object and then you’d be dead. she could send you into outer space or a black hole or inside a mountain. she could do all sort of things. she ran into a door hard enough to kill herself she could definitely kill someone else

Starbuck:

Has a gun. Runs this whole ship and honestly is the only one keeping things together. She's the smartest person here. Starr Busby.

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Gran:

She’s proficient with a crossbow and she’s a witch Hunter

In the words of Sally Ann Triplett, "Gran doesn't care what anyone thinks and is constantly breaking the law". She's a menace to Capital-S-Society but genuinely loves her grandson (Even when said grandson turns into a mouse). She could die at any moment from heart problems yet has been hunting witches and saving kids since her childhood. Also major disability rep for both her heart and her hand. Partially responsible for saving the entire child population of England and overcame her trauma in the process. What a slay.

85 year old Norwegian woman who has dedicated her life to hunting witches. Saw her friend get killed by a witch in front of her when she was 10 and is tough as nails. Wears combat boots and smokes cigars and keeps a crossbow in her bag. She arm-wrestles the hotel manager and sits on him. She lives through a heart attack and is ready to go immediately afterward. Nothing can stop her. To quote her actor: "Gran doesn't care what anyone thinks and is constantly breaking the law"

Marya D:

listen she may not look like much but when she got mad she got Mad. i feel like those of lesser mental strength would be intimidated by her. and i think she’d probably be able to form some alliances since she’s described as “strict yet kind”

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Job:

punched god in the face

He got in a fight with god, he would get in this fight

absolute BANGER of a song

Beowulf:

ripped grendel's arm off with his naked hands

Ripped Grendel's arm off. Killed a lady. Killed a dragon. He's big epic poem hero Beowulf!

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God:

i know she got punched in the face but she IS in charge of the universe i feel like she could maybe win a fight

okay I’m not too familiar with clown bible but this is the CHRISTIAN GOD I think they talk about zapping people…?

She's God. She's literally God. She laid out the earth. She was there at the gates of death. Horses? She made those.

Balaga:

gosipy old neighbor lady but make it old drunk russian man. unbothered king, just here to drive his troika real fucking fast and drink

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receiving concerned texts from loved ones

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The insanity. Rose Red vs the Soldier AGAIN. Gelsey Bell vs herself. Gran and Marya D in a cranky old lady standoff. The Grand High Witch fights a dragon in what would surely be a spectacular battle with many casualties. A high schooler with a gun fights Rasputin. The demonic DJ mc-secretly-satan against Jesus. BALAGA FIGHTING GOD.

Malloysical Death Battle full Tournament Bracket!

Place your bets now, folks!

Ooooooh boy do we have some exciting matchups for you. The first round of fights will be up in the next couple days! Keep your eyes peeled!

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i'll be real with you i'm too aromantic to care about this