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theodorebasmanov · 2 years

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I’ve watched “Starship”. I’m not even going to try how many Star Trek references and jokes are in here because I feel like it’s just one huge Star Trek joke, have you even seen their emblem? “The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few”, - are you even serious? It’s like the sixth minute. I bet at the end somebody will say that sometimes the needs of the few outweigh the needs of the many. February, sweety, that’s not a tricorder, that’s a communicator how did even show you anything. Joe Walker looks unexpectedly good with a moustache, his look feels especially refreshing after the penis costume (yes, I still feel a little traumatized after it). I saw Joe Moses and spent some time with that odd itch in my brain trying to recognize who the hell is that, because without a black wig and twisted face expression he looks like a completely different person (I would never think that he’s actually pretty). Okay, some silly Terminator and Futurama jokes are here too. The “lap” scene (when commander Up asks one of his subordinates to sit on his lap, but then it turns out that it’s nothing sexual, he just wants her to sleep better) was at the same time weird and unsettling but very sweet. No, it’s sooooo sweet. Almost too sweet to handle. How they rub their noses! Okay, audio jokes were very good, especially the one when Mega-Girl makes a modem sound. I’m too lazy to retell the plot right now, but just believe me that it’s about acceptance and tolerance. And love. Of course. Seems like we’re getting back to the good stuff – with funny jokes, interesting plots and, what I forgot to mention – pleasant music! It’s not like “Twisted” yet, but it’s already pretty good. P.S. I lost the bet, nobody said that. Such a missed opportunity.

#musical #musical theatre #starkid #starship #starship musical #strakid starship #joey richter #joe walker #lauren lopez #dylan saunders #denise donovan #brian holden #meredith stepien #julia albain #joe moses #comedy musical #star trek references

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random-jot · 6 months

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The Land Of Faerie: A Musical

A - ***potential**** - musical by yours truly. I was inspired by StarKid to have a crack at writing my own comedy musical a few years ago, and the recent release of NPMD has once more inspired me to blow off the dust and recommence work on this project.

The Land Of Faerie is Quest-Fantasy Comedy set in the magical land of Faerie, where everything is perfectly fine... or is it?

It's not finished yet, but just for shits and gigs I thought it'd be fun to share what I currently have for the prologue/opening number!

Without further ado, here it is!

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PROLOGUE

Lights start low and gradually get brighter. A MAN from the Kingdom of Faerie begins to sing over soft music as a spotlight slowly brings him into view.

SONG – IN THE LAND OF FAERIE

MAN: Have you heard of a land called Faerie?

If you haven’t then won’t you hear me out?

I’ll tell you what it’s about

(MAN moves upstage as lights now begin to fill out the stage, revealing the set. The music steadily grows more upbeat and jaunty. An ELF, a DWARF and an ORC enter the scene.)

If you’ve heard of a land

So wondrous and grand

Where every race is living hand in hand

So merry

ELF, DWARF AND ORC: Then you’ve heard of the land called Faerie

(We hear the sound of a ship docking and a large group of people enter the stage, a mixture of humans, elves, dwarves and Orcs. MAN greets them with glee)

MAN: Ho there! Welcome to Faerie

Watch your step as you get off the ferry

Can I take your case? (He takes a backpack off a weary traveller.)

As you enter the place

Where every race is getting along

ELF AND DWARF: Every Elf and Dwarf

MAN AND ORC: Every Man and Orc are

CHORUS: Singing the same song!

There are no wars between our people

And our lands are always peaceful

There’s no underlying evil

Anywhere, see

In the land of Faerie

ELF: You might think because I’m an Elf

And he’s a Dwarf; he'd wanna to bring harm to me

DWARF: It ain’t so, in the land of Faerie

In fact he’s my bro!

DWARF AND ELF: And we live in harmony

MAN: You might think because I’m a Man

And she’s an Orc she’s gonna start harming me

ORC: It ain’t the case in this place

ORC AND MAN: 'Cause we’re mates, we live in harmony

CHORUS: Yeah, we all live in harmony!

There are no wars between our people

And our lands are always peaceful

There’s no underlying evil

Anywhere, see

So come on down to Faerie (MAN steps forward and the lights focus in on him, the music slowing to a gentler pace.)

MAN: I daren’t take it for granted

You know, we didn’t always have this

There used to be

A Dark Lord, you see

But don’t worry; the Dark Lord’s been vanquished (he reassuringly addresses the audience)

(Spoken) Yeah, we won’t be seeing anymore of that guy, he is long gone

ORC: When he was here we were divided (Singing again, ORC steps forward)

DWARF: To take him down we were united (DWARF steps forward)

ELF: And in a way I think that’s why we’re (ELF steps forward, the four of them forming a line)

CHORUS: Singing the same song!

We’re all just getting along!

There are no wars between our people

And our lands are always peaceful

There’s no underlying evil

Anywhere

There are no wars between our people

And our lands are always peaceful

There’s no underlying evil

Anywhere, see

MAN: So come on down to the land

Oh so wondrous and grand

Where every race is living hand in hand

CHORUS: In the land of Faerie

In the land of Faerie

MAN: So come on down to Faerie

Lights down.

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Thank you to anyone who stayed and read the full thing!

This song serves really as in introduction to the world as opposed to any of the main characters. I want it to almost have the quality of a song that might play in a 'come to DisneyWorld' commercial; fun, upbeat, and inviting. It's not the funniest song in the musical, but I do like the bit of characters reassuring the audience that there's "no underlying evil." Spoiler alert: There is in fact underlying evil. Shh, don't tell anyone.

Hopefully I'll get to actually finish this and be able to share the full thing one day - and hope beyond hope actually get the damn thing produced, but that's a problem for later.

Still, hope folks have enjoyed this little extract!

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oasisr · 5 months

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after hearing "simply having a wonderful christmas time" by paul mccartney 74 times while working in retail, I came to the conclusion that they shot the wrong beatle

#meme #christmas #Christmas music #paul mccartney #the beatles #beatles #dark humor #retail #fast food #work #job #seasonal #seasonal worker #funny #lol #yes i am using a lot of tags because i want everyone to see this and laugh with me #welcome to the comedy of hate

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strazcenter · 20 days

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Hit Sci-Fi Series Gets Affectionate Send-Up in Stranger Sings

A parody of Netflix’s Stranger Things isn’t just an opportunity to salute and spoof the beloved sci-fi thriller series. “It also gave us an opportunity to give fans what they might have wanted, but that didn’t happen in the show,” said Nick Flatto, producer-director of Stranger Sings! The Parody Musical, playing at The Straz now through April 21. The New York cast of Stranger Sings! Photo by…

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#arts #Broadway #comedy musical #dance #music #netflix #off-broadway #parody #performing arts #Stranger Sings!#Stranger Things #straz center #straz center for the performing arts #Tampa #theater

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atomic-chronoscaph · 6 months

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

#the rocky horror picture show gif #70s musicals #horror comedy #richard o'brien #time warp #jim sharman #charles gray #cult movies #70s horror #dance number #70s movies #seventies #1975 #gif #chronoscaph gif

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pants-lint · 1 year

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Just had a Thought and now I'm curious. What's you guy's strangest comfort media? It doesn't have to be strange as in like creepy/fucked up/whatever, it can just be smthn a lil odd.

#Mine is a drum corps show from 2015 LMAO #Carolina Crown's “Inferno” to be exact lol #this was during my peak Band Kid years and also the height of my Divine Comedy fixaction so this just scratched SUCH a good itch #i would literally just watch this like 13 min long marching band show over and over #and try to figure out what parts of the music represented what parts of the poem #thank god i had other band friends i could just word vomit about this too at the time lol #every few months or so i'll fall back into it and reanalyze it a lil weirdo too lol #anyway 10/10 show would recommend if you like band stuff n dante LMAO

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tiktoksinspo · 2 years

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#omg #perfect #masterpiece #I love this #cat #cat lovers #damn #I love him #nice #funny #comedy #accurate #cute #music #american idiot #beautiful #wow #tiktok #@thatcatbobbie

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nectorbruise · 6 months

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I have also been sucked into nerdy prudes must die

I LOVED Ruth and Richie and I’m so sad about them being doomed by the narrative and hurt and given false hope. Deserved better honestly. I’ve annoyed my friends via talking about it and here we are!!!! I am not a loser.

Edit because of reblogs; i don’t ship them :D

#nector art!#fanart #nerdy prudes must die #npmd #DUDE #watch this musical #warning it is horror #but also comedy #the songs are looping in my brain

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odetokeons · 10 months

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i don't know what this movie genre is called, but it's my favourite movie genre

#campy horror comedies? some of which are also musicals?#re-animator #renfield #renfield (2023)#beetlejuice #beetlejuice (1988)#what we do in the shadows #what we do in the shadows (2014)#the munsters #the munsters (2022)#repo! the genetic opera #little shop of horrors #the rocky horror picture show #bride of re-animator #movies #films

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filmgifs · 4 months

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MEAN GIRLS (2024) dir. Samantha Jayne, Arturo Perez Jr.

#mean girls #mean girls 2024 #meangirlsedit #musicaledit #filmedit #gif #liz #2020s #renée rapp #usercharisse #userclara #useraurore #comedy #musical #flashing gif tw

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alwritey-aphrodite · 4 months

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Also the whole “do you know what they would call me if I was a man?” “strong?” “Reginald” scene literally had me laughing so hard I almost pissed myself

#mean girls 2024 #mean girls musical #mean girls #renee rapp #once again… I am obsessed with her and that whole spring fling scene with her on the pain meds was hilarious #but especially the part in the bathroom that was comedy gold

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theodorebasmanov · 2 years

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I’ve watched “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder” and Devil sees, I didn’t expect much of it, and fortunately – I was mistaken and had wonderful two and something hours. It reminded me of some old operettas, like “The Bat” (“Die Fledermaus”), for example, but darker. I mean, there’s a scene in which the main character stands in a corridor and holds doors of rooms in both of which stand women with whom he has an affair of a kind and they all three sing together “Barber of Seville” style (there it was a quintet and here a trio, but you get the point). Also, it’s probably the first not-Starkid musical comedy, which’s genuinely funny, at least sometimes. (Okay, maybe third, “Avenue Q” and “Beetlejuice” were also pretty amusing, but there, the main thing were cultural references.) Especially the very last scene made me actually laugh. That’s probably thanks to the charisma and talent of the leading actor - Bryce Pinkham. All those voice modulations, jumps and so on made the whole show. Well, of course, the whole idea that one actor should play all members of the family (which how many, nine people?) adds some comedy effect. The musical part was pretty good too and again felt a little operetty. P.S. A little comedy gay musical number never hurt anybody either.

#musical #musical theatre #a gentleman’s guide to love and murder #comedy musical #monty navarro #the d'ysquith family #sibella hallward #phoebe d'ysquith #miss marietta shingle #bryce pinkham #jefferson mays

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shadowpuppetteer · 1 year

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So we've all heard of the "I Want Song" genre in musicals.

But what about the "Let's talk about the bitch behind their back like they're not in the room" song, or "singing s*** behing a bitche's back". There's a surprising amount of them.

"Belle" from Beauty and the Beast

"Scrooge" from Muppet Christmas Carol

"Maria" from The Sound of Music

"Look at Me I'm Sandra Dee" from Grease

"You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" from How The Grinch Stole Christmas

"Jackass In a Can" from Galavant

"Phony King of England" from Robin Hood

"Stepsister's Lament" from Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella

"Non-Stop" from Hamilton

And, of course, the man, the myth, the legend...

"We Don't Talk About Bruno" from Encanto

You can learn a lot about a character and story from what they sing versus what other people sing about them.

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dailyflicks · 7 months

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DAILYFLICKS 30K EVENT: FAVORITE 90s FILM PER MEMBER ↳ SPICE WORLD (1997) — Courtney (@mandy-lane)

We're the Spice Girls, yes indeed. Just Girl Power is all we need. We know how we got this far. Strength and courage and a Wonderbra!

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fruitypieq · 1 year

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I really do love following people who hate each other. I'll see some shit like "STOP POSTING ABOUT TAYLOR SWIFT SHE SUCKS SHE IS THE WORST" followed by someone else reblogging 5 Taylor Swift gifsets in a row

#comedy gold right on my own timeline #my opinions on taylor swift?#you'll never know #(just kidding I don't really have any. her music slaps though)

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atomic-chronoscaph · 8 months

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Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

#little shop of horrors gif #rick moranis gif #audrey ii gif #frank oz #horror comedy #80s musicals #practical effects #carnivorous plants #seymour krelborn #80s movies #1980s #1986 #gif #chronoscaph gif

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