Broadway cast recording season is almost fully upon us! ✨

Starting my morning off with a song from The Notebook that’s been stuck in my head.

I try to see all the new bway shows of the season every year but my favorite part is usually listening to all the cast recordings that release in May/June.

(Plus you never know when a mediocre show will drop a fierce album 🔥)

Anyone else desperately awaiting the Hell’s Kitchen cast recording 👀 no doubt that’ll be on repeat for me once it’s released. Best show of the season easily.

💜💜

Hadestown au perchance

anyone else completely loosing it over Jonathan Groff’s choice to have Frank’s voice get progressively less harsh and textured as the show progresses (or, as he becomes younger and less… harsh and textured)?

at the beginning of the show (and the END of his cannon arc) in “That Frank,” he growls frequently in his singing (“…let it never stop!”) and thoroughly textures his louder line deliveries (“PARAMOUNT!!!”), whereas by the finale, (and the END of his cannon arc) “Our Time,” he’s skillfully tapered out the texture throughout the course of the score. totally buttered my skunk, and was an elegantly effective focal point for my second listen!

Reasons Newsies UK needs a cast recording:

Reorchestrated overture

Brooklyn’s Here

Reorchestrated dance breaks

Brooklyn’s Here

Additional solos for Crutchie in CTB and TWWK

Brooklyn’s Here

Letter From The Refuge

Brooklyn’s Here

Newsie roll calls during dance breaks

Brooklyn’s Here

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2023 Broadway Cast Recording) release day mood

Josh Groban saying “the history of the world my sweet” in A Little Priest is…heavenly

The song transitions are done perfectly?!?

It was SO worth the wait it’s mastered beautifully and I am sooooo happy we get to have these recordings forever

Pretty Women (Pt. 2) is seriously going to be my lullaby forever thank you

Annaleigh is amazing her voice is soooo smooth when harmonizing

outsiders bway stop destroying my heart challenge

Stephen Sondheim, frustrated artist

i think that the reason i’m in love with the tale (and, by association, the retellings) of orpheus and eurydice is because it’s repetitive. i love repetition in my works. i use repetition so much. and for us to tell the story again, over and over, in hopes that one day, maybe, just maybe, it’ll turn out different even though we know the ending, we know it’s a tragedy right from the start, just makes me go feral.

christian and the cast of some like it hot vía some like it hot’s socials !!

Is it to weird to make merrily we roll along fanart like I’m currently on a spring break trip to the east coast and I watched merrily on broadway and omg it’s my new favorite musical I love it to much and JONATHAN GROFF!!! Like I was in the same room as him watching him sing and he was incredible it was crazy I want to draw the friend group of Frank, Mary, and Charley because I love them

(I’m a little disappointed that Daniel Radcliffe wasn’t performing the day I went but holy shit I loved his understudy like I can’t imagine Dan’s performance since his understudy did such an incredible job at Charley I can’t imagine anyone else doing better)

the impact of the 2016 broadway revival of falsettos on my psyche cannot be overstated

In my brain somewhere the hadestown au is cyclical in a way where everyone, once, a lifetime ago or now, has in some way been Orpheus and Eurydice. Jon and Martin were Orpheus and Eurydice before tim and Sasha were, and the story was still the same. Jon turned to look and came up to the surface alone. Their Hades and Persephone were Peter and Elias. Maybe even before that, maybe Peter and Elias were Orpheus and Eurydice once. One of them must have turned. Someone will be Orpheus and Eurydice after, and maybe Tim and Sasha will be their Hades and Persephone. Orpheus will always look back. Eurydice will always forgive him

Can you give a kind of summary of what In The Heights is actually about 😭 this is coming from a girl who only knows it as 🎵 Usnavi all night, you barely even danced with meeee🎵

please somebody stop me from writing another essay

ok so basically it's the story of a few characters living in the new york city latino neighbourhood of washington heights. so we have:

usnavi: a bastard, orphan the owner of the store, who is trying to save money to pursue his dream of leaving nyc and moving to dominican republic where his parents come from

nina: a girlie who dropped out of college and now that she's back home she is afraid of telling her parents (and basically everyone) how big of a disappointment she is

vanessa: she works at the hair salon where she doesn't make much money, she's dreaming about moving downtown (usnavi is in love with her)

benny: he works for nina's dad and is also in love with nina

and there are more, but i don't want to spoil anything for you, if you're planning to watch it. also, it was supposed to be short haha.

Teaching this man about how to succeed in business without really trying.

josh groban's pivot from "guy who makes weird sad music that your mom likes but you mostly know from dog shelter commercials" to "guy whom all the broadway casting directors are knife-fighting each other to hire for their tony-bait musical" is the best career pivot in human history