The Games I Play

For those of you that never had the privilege to see Mike Faist in Newsies. This is a snip of Mike covering Jeremy Jordan. Mike is playing Jack Kelly and singing Santa Fe.

I get chills every time I hear it.

The final scene of Falsettos: Hartford Stage, Original Broadway Cast, Revival

Fred Molina in a production photo for Uncle Vanya

My father’s a homo 🙋‍♂️🏳️‍🌈

My mother’s not thrilled at all😡😡

Father homo🤨

What about chromosomes 🤔🧬

Do they carry 😨

Will they carry 😖

Who’s the homo now🤷🏳️‍🌈❓

Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice.

current mood: watching falsettos with my friend who’s never seen it and observing their every movement to make sure they love it an acceptable amount

He was so impressed with that last comment!

Kit and Rachel play ‘Taylor swift or Shakespeare?’

Kit and Joe... BOTH ON BROADWAY🫠🥹

I need them together btw

Judy Garland & Liza Minnelli, 1964 [colorized]

Zendaya with the Dear Evan Hansen shout out!

the strange girl with the paintbrush.

*puts hands on hollywood exec's shoulders, staring unblinking into their eyes* listen to me. you will never get people who hate musicals to like musicals by making your musical less of a musical. if you hide the fact that your film is a musical in the advertising, you're going to get a lot of low ratings from people who hate musicals and went into your movie not expecting a musical and got one anyway. people who hate musicals will hate them no matter how realistic and diegetic and lowkey you try to make it. they will hate musicals even if you completely excise anything complicated, over the top, silly, or even slightly challenging. they will hate musicals even if you cut half the songs. they will hate musicals even if you cast that a-lister who can't sing worth a damn. stop trying to market to people who hate musicals. they're a lost cause. your audience should be people who love musicals. this half-assed middle ground pisses off both camps. just embrace the fact that your movie is a musical. lean into it. don't try and trick musical haters into coming to your film when you could be marketing to the theater kids. better cringe than a coward.

Leitmotifs drive me insane, like I hear *repeated melody that has an association with a person, idea, or situation* and I go *tears up the fucking rug like a dog*

i hope the pjo show makes lmm hermes. not him playing hermes; he IS hermes.

percy: you’re hermes? wait aren’t you that guy who wrote hamilton

hermes: i made a bet with apollo bc he said i wouldn’t be able to write a musical better than him. i needed to prove my superiority. artemis gave us each a topic to write about.

percy: what was his show about?

hermes: spider-man.

percy: there’s a broadway show about spider-man??

hermes: exactly.