my favorite things in the performance of beetlejuice i saw live
TLDR; this is an unfinished list and i love beetlejuice the musical
- alex brightman being in the show
- literally all of it
- everyone cheers when beej says "Holy crap, a ballad already"
- "Hey guys, ain't it pretty? Look who's back in New York City! Since your live have been super shitty, let's start on, y'know the whole being dead thing."
- "that was an old Scandinavian folk song, i like to think i put my own spin on it"
- all of the transitions between scenes but especially when the graveyard turns into the house and beej says "it's a lot bigger on the inside!" because it was genuinely epic
- when Barbara says "look at these jugs!" beej turns around excited
- "this is what life is, it's just a bunch of Howards and then you die"
- Barbara gets her hand caught on fire i don't know how they did that
- Barbara "you give me the creeps" Beej "you give me a boner!" [pulls out a bone] "that's a femur"
- beej has a whistle during the whole being dead thing pt. 2
- the house retracts during dead mom and lydia stands on an empty stage during the long notes
- Adam gets turned around by beej when Barbara is doing the screams so that Barbara can focus
- a whole choir shows up during beej's soliloquy in fright of their lives
- "don't text in the middle of the night saying 'you up' because-" [pause because he's trying to hold back tears] "-new phone [sing song] whoooooooooooo~ [normal] dis?"
- *throws smoke bomb* "BAM! I'm gone." *jazz hands*
- "The Maitlands, more boring than Brigadoon."
- when beej takes the door down instead of saying "fuck you guys" he says "fuck brigadoon"
- Adam and Barbara with sheets over their heads
- Delia fortnite dancing during no reason
- beej complaining about his mom to lydia
- beej's hair turning purple during the roof scene
- smoke coming out of where beej falls during say my name
- during say my name Barbara learns to throw her voice
- during day-o beej comes out of the table (so proud of him) when lydia says his name
- the lights going dark when the skye goes inside to change to the inside of the house + skye had a flashlight
- during that beautiful sound, after the rip-off joke the actor holds the fake arm in between their legs (cuz no arms obvi) and beej says "that looks like a penis!"
- the pie gets flung out of the door, the actor doesn't even catch it
- i forgot when, but at some point Delia ran into the wall while exiting the stage
- the actor playing otho/Kevin looked like a discount jesus (not making fun of the actor just a thing i noticed that enhanced the character to me)
- "exorcism. death for the dead!"
- during the while being dead thing pt. 4 (good old fashioned wedding) beej's hair turns red
- "it's a green card thing!"
- the entire netherworld scene (especially the chase part)
-what i know now but one guy fell fully over, like they slipped and fell. i dont think anyone noticed but me. i noticed. i see you chorus member that fell.
- the whole life or death scene but specifically Adam's jeopardy podium thing says 'sexy' instead of his name
- "HOLD ON JUST ONE DAMN MINUTE" *everyone cheers*
- during Adam and beej's kiss (#lovewins) beej got REALLY into it
- Barbara slaps Adam and then they both say "Maitlands 2.0" to make sure they're on the same page
- Charles and Adam distracting beej while lydia gets the plan moving during creepy old guy
- beej with the tear away costume and slicked back hair
-the lights changing to pink when they say "i can't believe some cultures think this kind of thing's alright" and the entire on-stage cast singing (including beej he doesn't even use the demon voice)
- beej coming alive, feeling emotions, and then dying in the span of 4-5 minutes (y'know, fair)
- Juno having a smoke machine around her chest and making it seem like she's smoking
- when beej says "this guy knows what im talking about" the third time he starts laughing a lot and saying stuff like "three times!" and breaking the fourth wall while all the other characters stand there confused
-"YOU TRICKED ME but with love" -beej as hes pushed off the stage by juno
- beej riding sandy (the sandworm) and wearing a cowboy hat
- "Look lydia, now we both have dead moms!"
-beej giving Adam his dead mother's leg and saying "you're boring, but you're sexy. own that."
- "maybe I'll find my father." [gasp] "sequel??" *bad imitation of airhorns*
- when beej goes to the netherworld he says "fuck brigadoon" again instead of "tell my story"
- lydia floating during jump in the line- the stage going dark and the deetzes + maitlands being spotlighted in pink in a hug during the last "im home"
55 notes
·
View notes
another really fantastic detail from the s2 finale regarding Leo's powers... I've always loved the hell out of what they did cinematically with it, it looks and feels incredible and kicks total ass. initially I was under the impression that he was replacing his portals with his swords; that he was "traveling through" them per-say. but here --
...we can actually see Leo materializing SEPARATELY from his sword! you can see in the following frame he actually dissipates again and his sword continues flying along the same path untouched, inertia unaffected.
...and then he materializes again to properly align with it and catch it!
he's entirely not in contact with it but is implied to have already crossed spacetime. which means Leo can just... Do That. he's rapidly bending space to transmit his goddamn subatomic particles to a new location. the purpose of the swords isn't to do the portaling; it's to work as a landing pad. it's a vector point by which he re-solidifies the mass he's transporting. a familiar homing beacon he can align himself with on the fly.
3K notes
·
View notes