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What Are Your Top 5 Favorite Musical Songs?
Here are mine(in no particular order):
On My Own: Although I’ve haven’t experienced romantic love yet, I adore this song! It’s well orchestrated and sung by Frances Ruffelle, her voice is beautiful.
The Wizard & I: I can relate to Elphaba’s wish to be accepted since I felt that way too. Idina Menzel’s sings amazingly and gets into character so well. I also saw this song performed live and the way it’s done on stage made me like this song more.
Satisfied: Love the blending of rapping and regular singing in this song. It works so well! Renée Elise Goldsberry nails it and made me see Angelica in a different, but good way.
Breathe: I haven’t heard the whole soundtrack yet, but “Breathe” is such a standout to me so far. Again, I relate to Nina’s fear of disappointing her family(I feel that way 24/7). Mandy Gonzalez sings very well and her high notes are delightful to hear. As an Hispanic, I really enjoyed the addition of Spanish.
I Don’t Need Your Love: Izuka Hoyle nails the vulnerability of Catherine Parr’s sad story of losing her love, and her growing confidence in herself later on. The latter part of the song makes me feel so powerful. All the women singing together by the end was so good! Their voices blended so well together.
the final performance of phantom on broadway - april 16th, 2023
these are teenagers?
No.
THESE are teenagers
Y'all I want some musicals to watch can be any musical in existence 🩷
I've watched rtc, dear Evan Hansen, npmd, &juliet,newsies,les mis and I'm seeing grease in person soon 🙏
Oh &juliet fans...
@writingnotes520 @weomynluvrr
Jumping up and down because I'm gonna see & juliet on tour AGAIN
imagine if people had live sponsorships, like you’re watching a concert or a musical and in the middle of it they say “before we continue I’d like to thank our sponsor RAID SHADOW LEGENDS!” I think that would be kinda terrifying.
So, you know how Anthony Ramos plays both John Laurens and Philip Hamilton?
I just had a theory - Burr might be the narrator, but we were still looking at the world through Hamilton's eyes. And he was so devastated after Laurens's death, that he just saw him everywhere.
Including his son.
And when Philip died, he lost all sense of self-preservation. Both the love of his life, and his pride and joy, both so alike in looks and demeanour, gone. Why must he live, when his son and lover await him in heaven?
Oh, but the freedom he'd promised an entire country yearning for a breath of fresh air. The millions of other unknown Johns and Philips in the crowd, the millions of other unknown Elizas, they all depended on him.
He storms around, in a quite bad mood, and along comes...
Jefferson.
That ambitious bastard.
That moron, who'd much better suit presidency, than Alexander Hamilton, the loudmouth who won't shut the fuck up. It wasn't such a bad idea, was it? All he'd have to do is screw up. Or maybe he could change it all... with a duel.
Anygays,
Have a good day/night!
edit: what the fuck was past me on I don't understand anything
met milo manheim today after his little shop show and good lord im having some sort of post concert depression but for meeting him and i fear ill never recover
If I had a nickel for EVERYTIME I saw a sadistic character who had a profession in caring for people despite being a horrendous evil person who abuses the supplies they get in their job and mistreats those they perform on AND also has a relation with plants….id have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice.
The difference with the plant thing is, one of them enjoys plants, and the other was killed a fed to a plant.
I think the true beauty of art school is listening to & Juliet in full 3 times while at the labs. Makes time seem a lot shorter! (I spent 8 hours at the labs today and & Juliet is the only thing still keeping me sane)
& Juliet fandom pls come in clutch
Does anyone have a y2 or y3 & Juliet slime tutorial? I’m trying to get my friends into the show and they’re curious about the newer casts ‼️‼️
I don’t have any bootleg trades but I’d be willing to make you art of whatever you want 🫶
If you hate on & Juliet but have never given it a chance bc you hate jukeboxes I’m sorry but ur boring
I love you & Juliet
THEATHER KIDS HELP!!
I need help on how to memorize my lines. My school is doing a production of "You're a good man Charlie Brown" and I got the part for Lucy but this is literally my first time doing any type of acting since 2020 and this is also my first time doing a musical. The first night of the show is November 9th!! In desperate need of help.
wait I'm actually so nervous for auditions. How do people get rid of the auditions jitters because ik the director will smell my fear
I drew Tamoko and Ai as Elphaba and Glinda because I was curious, and now I’m thinking about making a Wicked AU
Looking for following bootlegs:
I'm currently looking for hamilton, newsies (with jeremy jordan as jack kelly) and hpcc boots.
Is anyone willing to gift or trade? That would be greatly appreciated. :)
First time ever I've got a main part!!
I got Pilar who, if you don't know, is one of Elle's best friends in Legally blonde
I get to sing and have my own little very girly moment on stage
(I wanted Margot but another girl got her and she's really good so I'm very proud lol)
roles I wanted vs what i actually got:
DNA Wanted - any girl part Got - Danny
Cinderella panto wanted - fairy godmother got - evil step mother
Across the line (show created by my academy) Wanted - Kai (main part) Got - I was the only one without a named/speaking part T_T
Trouble's a brewin (made up show) wanted - anything Got - nothing lol
Legally blonde wanted - Margo Got - idk yet
I am one of the only student that have been there for years only recently they realised I could sing like bro wtf
Aahh (≧▽≦) I'm completely in love 😍✨
Thank you very much 🥰🥰
Requested by @sthefanywilson7305
Sweet birthday message for such a sweet person!!! 🤟🏻💙💜🫶🏻💗💕💋😍🥰
Happy Birthday to Daniel Durant! 🤟🏻💜🎉
It’s been so fun watching Daniel’s career blossom since doing Deaf West Spring Awakening. Can’t wait to see what he does next!
"here, life is beautiful." (Spoilers for Cabaret, on Broadway and the West End)
Leave your troubles outside! So - life is disappointing? Forget it! We have no troubles here! Here life is beautiful.
~ Emcee, Willkommen, from Cabaret
Let's unpack these lines, shall we?
leave your troubles outside!
Escapism; ignorance is bliss.
we have no troubles here!
So long as you are here, there are no problems to worry about!
So why not stay awhile? After all, what good is sitting alone in your room?
here, life is beautiful.
Life is beautiful here in our little cabaret.
Life outside the cabaret is ugly.
so why not stay awhile?
When those are all added together by the end of Cabaret, what do we get?
The Kit Kat Club is a place for people to engage in escapism. While you're in the Kit Kat Club, you have nothing to worry about, especially your worries outside. After all, in here, life is beautiful. Why bother worrying about the people who can't afford, can't find, or otherwise cannot access this beautiful little Club of ours? They aren't here, where life is beautiful, they are outside, where life must be ugly.
See where this leads?
It divides us just like the titular Kit-Kat; split in twain. There is no glory, no love of life in the line "life is beautiful" within Cabaret. It is the vessel by which we see one of many possible messages:
fascism is able to invade our lives by our proclivity for escapism.
and, simultaneously,
fascism can seduce us all into not noticing the damage that it does, by glorifying and beautifying itself.
To celebrate the show by reveling in the sexiness of it is to miss the point; you are using it as escapism. The London and now Broadway production literally showcases how everyone is slowly seduced by imagery: from the Emcee's swastika-inspired dance at the top of show, and his old war helmet in Money Money, to the very attractive and flashy dances we see performed by the beautiful Cabaret girls and boys (and "even the orchestra is beautiful!") This is the exact point. The sexiness and imagery is used to distract us from folks like Ernst Ludwig, who weaponize information and identity to divide and conquer. Neon.
I had to unfollow some old friends because they have seen this show twice and that was all they came away with. But any time I try to talk with them, they shove me off, like I'm taking things to seriously. I hope this is useful to someone. That is all. Yes, life is beautiful; but it is only as beautiful as we defend it. Life is beautiful in that it is lived, and lived deeply, by truly perceiving it.
"We live, I regret to say, in an age of surfaces."
~ Lady Bracknell, The Importance of Being Earnest
But how much longer can we live in such an age? And how much longer do you want to? Do we want to live only as far as we can touch and see at first touch, first glance?
I don't trust pep that hate eponinee😭 also lovedd drawing Frances Rufelle in her era as the og eponine ❤️
She had the perfect gamine feature to play an endearing oddball with voice of a young edith piaf ❤️