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If you ever feel like you’ve made bad decisions just remember that somewhere out there is a theatre director at an all-white high school about to choose the spring musical
#musical theatre memes#musical theatre#theatre kid#theater kid#theatre#theater#hairspray#once on this island#Hamilton#in the heights#ragtime#west side story
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If you like the idea of a black Little Mermaid but aren’t interested in the new movie, please check out Once On This Island
Aside from the actual mermaid part, it has many of the story beats of the original Little Mermaid but set in semi modern day on a Caribbean island
The fact that the characters are black matters as the story deals with struggles of colorism, there’s a Voodoo inspired pantheon of gods, and in general the music is really good and in parts both funny and moving
#if you want the little mermaid but with more oomph and ethnic relevance#once on this island#the little mermaid
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Thinking about how many musical tragedies feature the narrative almost as a character of its own. Like a force within the story, divided from the characters. Out of their control at times.
Orpheus had to turn around, that’s just how it goes. That’s the way the story is told.
Tony had to go and get himself killed. Of course he did. He’s Romeo. The story wills it so.
Jesus must die. No matter how much he wanted to live, no matter how much the people around him wanted him to live. It’s his role to die.
Alison can’t go back and change the events of that last car ride with her father. It’s set in stone, there in the past where it will always remain.
And then there are musicals like Once On This Island and Ride The Cyclone that embrace the role of inevitability in their stories and find joy anyway.
And then on the exact opposite side of the spectrum there’s the radical freedom from the narrative that’s seen in Into The Woods. The narrator is dead and now the story is no one’s but the characters. And there’s the lack of protection that comes with that, the chaos and confusion. But it’s theirs and it’s tragic but they make the best with it.
Those themes of Inevitability vs. Freedom and the meta understanding of story within a story. I can’t seem to get enough.
#hadestown#west side story#jesus christ superstar#jcs#fun home#fun home musical#once on this island#ride the cyclone#into the woods#musicals#post i made#i love analysis
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#musical theater#do you know this musical#poll#once on this island#stephen flaherty#lynn ahrens#language: english
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#best musical world cup#best snubbed musical world cup#best snubbed musical world cup finals#best musical#broadway#musical theater#musical theatre#musicals#theater#theatre#newsies#once on this island#miss saigon#disney#alan menken#ahrens and flaherty#polls
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MUSICAL BEATDOWN 2023 LINEUP
Newsies vs. Ride the Cyclone
Chicago vs. Once On this Island
Hadestown vs. Les Mis
Little Shop vs. Great Comet
Heathers vs. Falsettos
Carrie vs. JCS
Hamilton vs. Six
Phantom vs. Book of Mormon
#musical beatdown 2023#great comet#natasha pierre and the great comet of 1812#newsies#rtc#ride the cyclone#hadestown#les mis#les miserables#chicago musical#once on this island#heathers#lsoh#little shop of horrors#carrie#jesus chris superstar#hamilton#six#phantom of the opera#tbom#book of mormon musical#falsettos
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ROUND 1A, MATCH 2 OUT OF 8!
Propaganda Under the Cut:
Ariel:
It’s Disneys Little Mermaid, but on stage. With new songs and so fun!
she’s cute :)
Ti Moune:
ONCE ON THIS ISLAND MY BELOVED SUCH A GOOD MUSICAL please listen to it. It’s just over an hour long and it’s a sung through show so you can experience it just through the album. But if you’ve seen it, it’s even better. Ti Moune my beloved, she deserved so much better than what she got <3
sings some of the best songs in the musical theatre canon also she's cute as hell <3
#the little merpoll#round 1#round 1a#ti moune#once on this island#ariel#the little mermaid#disney's the little mermaid#broadway the little mermaid#broadway#disney#poll tournament#poll bracket#character polls#polls#fairytale#hans christian andersen
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For people who love The Little Mermaid remake that's comes out today,
I recommend go listen to the musical called Once on This Island, and a book called My Love, My Love; or The Peasant Girl by Rosa Guy, it's a retelling of the original story of The Little Mermaid that the musical is adapted from
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2002, Rosie O'Donnell Show - LaChanze performs Waiting For Life from the musical Once On This Island
#her voice is like butter#lachanze#once on this island#stephen flaherty#lynn ahrens#musical#broadway#video#posted
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If you ever wonder what a C sharp sounds like and you’re a theatre kid + loves LotF, you can hear it in “Waiting for Life” from Once on this Island. It’s in A Major, which has 3 sharps, F#, C#, and G#.
The part where she sings “We’ll drive~~~~~!” (around 2:01 in cast recording), the note to belt drive is a C sharp and I can belt that 🤪🐚☝️🤓
Yes I am a fucking nerd
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PSA
If this isn’t the year that Michael Arden gets his Tony I’m going to riot
#tony awards#michael arden#parade musical#spring awakening#once on this island#musicals#broadway musicals#musical theater#theater kid
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My girl Ti Moune was on extra strength delulu pills prescribed by the gods themselves jfc
#once on this island#ti Moune#hailey kilgore#isaac powell#Alex Newell#Quintin earl darrington#Lea solanga#merle dandridge#she speaks#not only was she delusional#she was rude abt it ?? like#if I talked to my parents like she talked to mama and tonton#the way wouldn’t be alive
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Finale: Children Will Listen - Into the Woods // Road to Hell (Reprise) - Hadestown // Why We Tell the Story - Once on This Island
#I know this is kinda obvious with hadestown but I wanted to connect them anyway#i love lyrics#musicals#into the woods#hadestown#once on this island#post i made#lovecore#compilation
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I need white theater directors to stop choosing shows that require Black casts. Why would you do the The Wiz when The Wizard of Oz is right there? Why do Aida when Beauty And The Beast is right there? Why do Once On This Island when Phantom of the Opera is right there??? If the characters aren’t white and you have no one of that race to play them then the show should not be on your list. At all. You gon have them kids up there sounding and looking a fool.
#smh#black broadway#broadway black#stick with the music man#once on this island#the wiz#phantom of the opera#beauty and the beast#aida#unique writes
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10 fave musicals in a nutshell
The Phantom of the Opera - disfigured musical genius stalks a 20-something he’s obsessed with; her chosen lover isn’t much better
Once On This Island - TFW your love goddess and local loa are having a ridiculous pissing contest of which you are the centerpiece
Hadestown - Greek myth but make it angstier
Wicked - one of the best early film villains but make her life a parable about acceptance
Sweeney Todd - wrongly convicted man commits actual crimes
Into The Woods - classic fairytales but closer to the Grimm versions
Titanic - Ismay was a greedy bastard who got hundreds of people killed
The Lion King - Julie Taymor’s genius before she ruined her reputation
Les Miserables - treat poor people better; also having a black-and-white worldview will ruin a person’s life
Carrie - superpowered outcast does some mass murder as a treat
#the phantom of the opera#once on this island#hadestown#wicked#sweeney todd#into the woods#titanic the musical#the lion king#les miserables#carrie the musical
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