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this is the most powerful image on the internet.. reblog to join the circle

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Since Tumblr is going to shit, I want to finally express my opinions on a post I saw floating around lately, whose Bottom line was basically:

“Why don’t traders gift out all their bootlegs if they claim that bootlegs should make theater more accessible?”

Today I wanna try to answer that question.  I wanna start by putting aside leaks and not for trade dates for a second, as it has been discussed at length by people on Tumblr and by myself. If you leaked a bootleg you ain’t gettin shit anymore period. You actively hurt the community and you know why.  I want to address another aspect of trading that many seem to forget about 

TIME!! It takes so so much time to built up a decent collection. Be it scouring the internet for gifts, learning the rules of conduct, making friends in the community that help you along or simply just finding trading partners. It takes time. A lot. And then you have to keep your collection clean make sure you have working links ready at all times, of each item in your collection, sometimes even on different sites (while most traders use mega some might ask specifically for a drive or mediafire link).

So when you are a trader and you open your Tumblr inbox or your mail box and find a message demanding a bootleg, with no please and no thank you, you think of all that time you put into your collection all these hours, and you just ignore the message. It happens. 

Does this means that traders are gate keeping bootlegs? Absolutely not! I have gifted many things on here, on discord and in my mail. Because the people took the time to write me a nice message, saying why they would like bootleg xy. Or sometimes it’s people messaging me about an old post I made, and I know they took the time to go through the tag of a specific show and then they looked up my account and took the time to DM me. And while I already have the word document open with my active links because I’m currently in the middle of a trade, might as well sent them my link. 

In conclusion, next time before you ask a trader for a gift, take into account how much time it took them to get that bootleg, and take up some of your time to say please & Thank you. Let’s make Broadway & West End theater a bit more inclusive for everyone, while also respecting the work of the people who help make it more inclusive! 

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Audio My Fair Lady Broadway. 23rd October 2018-

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-BuTWjCX41bBTjZdDomVcruHUwdTk-l2

Cast:  Laura Benanti (Eliza), Harry Hadden-Paton (Higgins), Allan Corduner (Colonel Pickering), Norbert Leo Butz (Alfred), Jordan Donica (Freddy), Rosemary Harris (Mrs. Higgins), Linda Mugleston (Mrs. Pearce)

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Audio Dear Evan Hansen Los Angeles. 10/19/2018

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DUUIu7NkCs2tIGOI8_JLlT7QhUNJljUx

 Cast:  Ben Levi Ross(Evan Hansen),  Jessica Philips(Heidi Hansen), Maggie McKenna(Zoe Murphy), Marrick Smith(Connor Murphy), Christiane Noll(Cynthia Murphy), Aaron Lazar(Larry Murphy), Jared Goldsmith(Jared Kleinman), Phoebe Koyabe(Alana Beck), Becca Ayers, Mary Bacon, Gerard Canonico, Jenn Colella, Ada, Halpin, Mykal Kilgore, Stephen Kunken, Tamika Lawrence, Carrie Manolakos, Ken Marks, Asa Somers, Jason Tam, Brenda Wehle, Natalie Weiss, Tim Young, Remy Zaken

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Audio Pretty Woman Broadway. 08/29/2018.

https://mega.nz/#!CLwxSKKD!uzNJrfSJidHsib3NtvYCjuMGWhcHAhPJcK9xYi8x1e0

Cast-  Andy Karl (Edward Lewis), Ezra Knight (James Morse), Orfeh (Kit De Luca), Eric Anderson (Mr. Thompson/Happy Man), Jason Danieley (Philip Stuckey), Allison Blackwell (Violetta), Samantha Barks (Vivian Ward)

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Audio Everybody´s talking about Jamie. 06/16/2018.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1XMUYvKm1pearr9IWFt_-8Cu6iSq3mf5o

Cast: Jamie New - Luke Bayer (u/s)Margaret New - Josie WalkerRay - Shobna GulatiMiss Hedge - Kirstie Skivington (u/s)Pretti Pasha - Lucie ShorthouseHugo Battersby - Phil NicholLaika Virgin - Alex AnsteyTray Sophisticay - Ken Christiansen (u/s)Sandra Bollock - Daniel JacobJamie's Dad - Spencer Stafford (u/s)Taylor - Cherelle Jay (u/s)Dean Paxton - Daniel Jacob (u/s)Fatimah - Courtney BowmanSayid - Jordan CunninghamMickey - Ryan HughesBex - Harriet PayneCy - Shiv RabheruBecca - Lauran RaeVicki - Chloe Pole (u/s)Young Loco - Jordan Cunningham (u/s)

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Audio Hello Dolly Broadway. 08/25/2018. Evening. Final Show.

https://mega.nz/#F!ZPgERAQY!EyyjQZhAwctpE9UoSEirpg

Cast: Bette Midler, David Hyde Pierce, Gavin Creel, Kate Baldwin, Charlie Stemp, Molly Griggs, Will Burton, Melanie Moore, Kevin Ligon

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Audio Heathers London 10/06/2018.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-3RS_LYJGdMrZq0TztUws5kIszhGIK0j

Olivia Moore as veronica Sawyer

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Audio Waitress Tour. 09/29/2018. Matinee

https://mega.nz/#F!kGpFCaQC!lKgOA7lxxA_bPSGOOdjlIg

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Audio Hello Dolly, National Tour. 09/26/2018. 

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ynAkqveBlJCu3R2ZXSvtA_Ga7wfTsufp

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Audio Be more Chill 30/09/18. Off Broadway.

https://mega.nz/#F!OTRnkabD!3dw-zjGtsZSo-R0KrLmqyQ

Cast: Will Roland, George Salazar, Stephanie Hsu, Jason Tam, Katlyn Carlson, Lauren Marcus, Gerard Canonico, Tiffany Mann, Britton Smith, Jason Sweettooth Williams Notes: Tracked; closing night, no speeches were made

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Audio Mean Girls 30/09/2018. Matinee-  https://mega.nz/#F!CPBm3C7Y!Qti1yedSXs3_9uWuckGlKQ

Cast: Erika Henningsen, Taylor Louderman, Ashley Park, Kate Rockwell, Barrett Wilbert Weed, Grey Henson, Kyle Selig, Jennifer Simard, Rick Younger, Cheech Manohar 

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Newsboy Strike: Day 5 - Saturday, July 22, 1899

World and Journal bribe men to sell papers

Who was striking? Manhattan, Brooklyn, Bronx, Long Island City, Mount Vernon, Newark, Fall River, Jersey City NJ, Hoboken NJ, Elizabeth NJ, New Haven Conn

On July 22, businesses started pulling their ads from the New York World and New York Journal because they weren’t selling. This was when the papers realized that the strike had the power to do them serious economic damage. They started to bribe people to sell their papers, offering them $2 per day, plus 40c per hundred papers sold. They recruit 100 men from Bowery lodging houses, but most of them back out after talking it over with the newsboys.

Kid Blink told the Tribune that this bribery only encouraged them to destroy the stock of anybody selling the papers because they knew they weren’t losing money since they were being paid off.

Unable to speak to Hearst on the previous day, a group of strikers waited for him outside his office when he arrived that morning. He invited Kid Blink, Jim Seabook, Jim Gaity and Dave Simmons up to his office to talk. They asked him if he would lower the price of the paper. He asked what the World was going to do, and they told him if he arbitrated they probably would too. He said he would talk it over with his staff and get back to them on Monday if he decided to arbitrate. The strikers took this as an encouraging sign.

Around 1 PM, a few hundred boys demonstrated in front of the World and Journal offices in Park Row holding banners. The police give up trying to disperse the crowd, taking instead to standing in front of the World building to protect it from being damaged.

The boys then marched to the Battery and through Broadway, picking up stones as they went and stoning a distribution wagon when they found one. Two of the ringleaders were arrested. Two other boys were arrested for parading illegally in Park Row, and three others for fighting.

All in all, the strike was gaining ground. Many of the cities and towns around New York joined the strike in solidarity with their New York brethren. The New York Herald described the strike as “one of the most successful labour upheavals in recent years.”

Sources on this day: The Herald: “Newsboys’ Strike Promises Success” New York Times: “Striking Newsboys are Firm” New York Times: “Newsboys May Be Uniformed” New York Tribune: “Newsboys’ Word Stands” The Sun: “Newsboys’ Strike Swells”