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edensundae · 4 months

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Constance Blackwood 🍭

I cannot be the only person who cries like a BABY during Jawbreaker. I mean UGLY CRYING 😭😭 she’s a deeply relatable character for me, & I LOVE HER W MY WHOLE HEART 🙋🏽

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kitsunecrows · 11 months

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you’ve gotta work, gotta haunt ‘til it hurts through the night!

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front-facing-pokemon · 8 months

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#bonus extra forms under the cut #burmy #i guess it's not technically a Bonus but it is three images in one post. anyway why is trash-form burmy pink #i never understood this. i'd hear about trash form and go wow it must be like. black and brown with marks of trash all over it and cool #like trubbish. but they just made it pretty pink and cute. how? why? why would a creature that lives in the trash become bright pink #“that hot pink bitch is named breakfast” et cetera #i dunno. whenever i see burmy i think of that one clip from detective pikachu where it's just like #burmy! burmymymy! burmy… burmy :( and pikachu is like WOAH WHAT THE FUCK #i've never played detective pikachu. i should. i probably will go back and play the original once the one on the switch comes out #i saw the movie though. but i don't think that's. anywhere related to the games. to be honest. i also remember going and seeing it in #the theater and it was fucking. me‚ my mom‚ and one other parent/child duo and that's IT. NO one was there in the theater to see it #and we literally just went to go see it on a fuckin. whim. we were driving by‚ looking for something to do‚ and saw that a random theater #was showing detective pikachu. and we just said Fuck It. and it was cool but she kept asking me about every pokémon during the movie #and then it had that really weird ableist villain that was fucked up but the pokémon were cute

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anecdotal-acorn · 27 days

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I AM A CHANGED WOMAN. OH MY G-D. I can't think coherently. But here are my thoughts on Sweeney Todd (3/30/24 matinee)

Act I

- I almost jumped out of my skin when they said “swing your razor high, Sweeney,” in Ballad of Sweeney Todd, like if that was possible I would have done it lol; the ensemble was so scary, there was a bright white light change, and the music got super loud, it was awesome

- Seeing Joe Locke in that opening number, something about him made me realize “oh he's gonna be great,” like his really intense pained vibes, his Toby really wears his heart on his sleeve

- WHEN AARON JUMPED OUT WITH THE SPOTLIGHT ON HIM!!!!!!!!!!!! I think my soul left my body (& it's still in the theater)

- Aaron’s weird cockney accent that he clearly has so much pride in, like King you could've just done a normal voice but no, he chose to do his own strange thing and it was giving Prince James One Royal Holiday (his Hallmark movie, iykyk) tbh

- When Mrs. Lovett threw flour across the stage at Sweeney to get his attention in Worst Pies

- The shadow/silhouette projections going through the story in Poor Thing, they were so tantalizing they actually managed to distract me from Aaron lol

- AARON’S MY FRIENDS WAS LIKE HEARING AN ANGEL SING FR

- It really didn't seem like he snapped when he said “my right arm is complete,” it seemed like he was a depressed man who finally found passion and drive again, not someone who was going crazy

- Maria was IMMACULATE as Johanna, the most gorgeous voice and acting…her halting, jerky movements really showed how damaged Johanna is, yet she still had this grace about her underneath, true beauty that couldn't be stamped out of her, even with all she endures

- Joe Locke was so light on his feet in Miracle Elixir (also he seemed to be having a great time, which goes for everyone during the whole show honestly)

- The lights changed color with each line of the song, like there was orange, white, then blue

- Aaron leaned over when he was standing by his little razor table and Sutton’s Mrs. Lovett ate that shit up, she crouched down to check out his butt for a solid twenty seconds

- When the Judge came into the shop Aaron had this huge grin on his face, he was so excited to kill him and he just spent too long relishing the moment

- Epiphany was a full-body experience I swear

- When Mrs. Lovett stared at his package in A Little Priest

- And then Aaron laughed when he pointed down at her cupped hands and said “what's that,” you could tell it was a genuine laugh from Aaron and not a Sweeney thing

- Aaron’s buttery voice when he sang “the history of the world, my pet”

- And he did a little growl too (don't look at me. DON'T)

Act II

- his voice was SO well-suited for Johanna Act II

- SUTTON FOSTER’S FEET IN BY THE SEA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was hoping SO HARD that she would do that, and she did and it did not disappoint; Miss Foster how does it feel to be living out my dreams, thank you queen for letting me see that and live vicariously through you <33333333333

- she struck a pose like she was taking photos for Playboy when she said “me in stripes”

- “Not While I’m Around” was emotional af, Joe Locke did not have to go that hard but he fucking did

- For some reason I was the only one who clapped when Johanna shot Fogg? Is that not an applause-worthy moment??

- He was so giddy when he finally killed the Judge

- Aaron actually scared me when he was gonna kill Johanna, and esp when he chased down the stairs after her like a hulking monster

- the scariest thing was that even as things unraveled, he didn't seem to be “losing it”; he seemed to be getting even more intent on his revenge, stronger, more deft and precise, more confident, more powerful in his evilness

- he was scary af when they were looking for Toby too, so menacing

- his growl when he said “you lied to me”

- how he crawled towards Mrs. Lovett like an animal and scrabbled at the floor to grab her

- How loud the fire roared when he put Mrs. Lovett inside

- his body language (hunched shoulders, limp limbs/posture) seemed maybe almost remorseful once he threw her in the fire? Like as if he was thinking I'm glad I did that, I had to, but I'm exhausted and can't exactly process that she’s actually gone because of me

- The way Johanna held Anthony close when she saw the bodies

- Aaron’s acting when Toby killed Sweeney—he didn't fight him off, he just looked so sad and tired, like he wanted to be dead (what a wonderful interpretation of the lyric “she was his reason and his life”)

- UGH when Sweeney and Lovett hold hands and step into the pit, finally weightless, they’ve got each other, Sutton and Aaron are right, it IS a love story, oh my g-d my heart

I don't know if I'll ever be able to stop thinking about this. It was SO GOOD!!!!! Anyway thanks for reading my rambles if you got this far hahaha, hope you have a lovely day

#sweeney todd #hnnnghghghghhhhh #broadway #theatre #musical theatre #musical theater #musical theater trash #musicals #aaron tveit #sutton foster #joe locke

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lilacthebooklover · 7 months

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me, age 11, finding out fanfiction exists through @charismabee telling me about the harry potter au she made with her friend:

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homicidalbrunette · 1 month

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Musical theater gays be like

#musical theater #musical theatre #musical theater kid #musical theater fandom #musical theater trash #musical theater gays #the brians #trixie mattel #trixie and katya #katya #katya zamolodchikova #katya zamo #the bald and the beautiful #cj post

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roseg96 · 10 months

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My Sweeney Todd hyper fixation has been revived once again and I’m loving it 💅🏼

#sweeney todd #sweeney todd 2023 #sweeney todd broadway #josh groban #annaleigh ashford #roseg96 #musical theater trash #musical theater art #fanart #Sweeney Todd fanart #why he kinda

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theaterkidlament · 3 months

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RTC Headcannons baayyyybeeee

NOTE: These are my personal head cannons, my outlook and my perspective on the characters isn’t canon and I respect that. If yours are different that’s fine. I just wanna share these!

everything is undercut!

Ocean O'Conell-Rosenburg

→ I don't like her. I personally think that she bullies others subtly and thinks she's above everyone.

Noel - bullies him (subtly) for being gay and not feeding into the stereotypes she believes.

Mischa - looks down on him for being a "bad boy”, scared of him for an RBF

Ricky - Just ablist towards him. Uses him as a scape goat for trouble.

Penny - Thinkis that she's weird and shoe-in for the chior. Looks down on her for her crimes and family.

Ezra - Same as Penny but very too vocal

Constance - Unknowingly manpulating her. Just a bad friend.

Noel Gruber

→ Sensitive, a poet. Wants to live life to its fullest but over all, scared of that. Dials his everything back.

Ocean - bullied by her constantly. That's about it.

Mischa - huge crush on nim, wrote letters and burnt them without giving nim then.

Ricky - they don’t interact much

Penny - thinks she's cool, hangs out wiher and gushes over Johnny Moon with her

Ezra - Talk abt European nihilism together as well as obscure entertainment

Constance - they bake together and he’s in classes with her

Mischa Bachinski

→ I'm going to heep close to his catchphrase here, tough exterior soft interior

Ocean - Doesn't care much for her, but stands up to her she's bothering others

Noel - Thinks he's cute realizes/falls in love with him later (depending if AUs are involved)

Ricky - Doesn't care much, both cold and friendly towards him

Penny - hangs out with her, good friends

Ezra - Rap enjoyers :)

Constance - Friends, swings by the bakery and even helps out sometimes.

Ricky Potts

→ Silent due to obvious reasons but uses CSL as well as communiction cards to communicate. Overall p. cool guy

Ocean - thinks she's smart but overall just rude rude.

Noel - Admires his longing for love but they don’t really talk much

Mischa - Thinks that he and Talia are cute, but they also don't talk much

Penny - Crushes on her, they talk often and he info dumps her on the Zolarian Race, even made her a character

Ezra - Friends

Constance - Also talks to him in CSL, she knows a little bit of Zolarian lore

Penny Lamb

→ Weird kid, wholehearted, nice. Is mean when She needs to be though, not afraid to state opinions.

Ocean - bullied by her, understandably doesn't lime

Noel - Also a 7up fan, fauns over other bay bands with her

Mischa - Enjoys bands with him out mosty Eminem and DI2

Ricky - <3 crush, knows all Zolarian lore

Ezra - Friends + Siblings to the end, clun. Brings him with her to chior so then he's also not alone

Constance - Friends, only in classes though

Constance Blackwood

→ Genuinely sweet but also has taken so much shit from ppl

Ocean - Always mad at her but lies, mainy for her own good

Noel - Notices his crush on Mischa and comforts him when she can, he comforts her as well

Mischa - Appreciates his help around the bakery. (Also drops hints for Noel- Doesn't pick up on them though)

Penny - Friends, only in classes though

Ezra - Gives him pasteries when he's in the choir room

Ricky - Communicates in CSL with him, knows Zolarian Lore

*Bonus Page! *

Ezra Lamb

→ Quiet sometimes. I thint that he's quite caring for his friends but comes off as genuinely mean.

Ocean - Hates her, not quiet about it

Noel - Friends! Probably tall about European nihilism together

Mischa - Rap Enjoyers!

Ricky - Taught him the WORST words in CSL

Penny - Hates her/j/nsrs. Probably started selling dugs to get her better help/get out of St. Cassian

Constance - Enjoys her baking and presence

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asentienthaze · 1 year

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Into The Woods: Why the movie was shit

I'm not the first person to talk about this, nor will I be the last. It's pretty widely accepted among theatre fans that Disney bungled up this fantastic show. But it's important nevertheless to talk about how it went wrong, 'cause adaptations are delicate things, and the core of a good adaptation is an understanding of the themes and messages that constitute the story, and not just the story itself. Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine together wove a fairly meticulous fabric that is this musical, and it's fascinating to see how Disney's adaptation reduced it to rags.

For a summary of this show's plot, I recommend watching the first few minutes of Sideways' video on the themes in this show, mainly because it's a fairly complex plot and he explains it well. This is especially important, since the plot of the movie is……definitely not the same.(The whole video is definitely worth a watch too, and it brings up points that I might talk about here too.) Done that? Good, let's keep going.

"The narrator comes on stage, and he starts, 'Once upon a time.' Now once he says that, the audience starts to relax inside. Now what I wanted to do was to wake them up immediately, so before [the narrator] gets to the fifth word, I wanted a loud sound from the orchestra, or the piano"

That was Stephen Sondheim talking about the very beginning of the show. The choices he made in the songs were almost all deliberate, they were for a reason.

Now what does the movie do? They say the entire first line of the song before playing the musical sting. They knew that they had to have that there, since it was part of the prologue song, but they didn't understand at all why the song was structured the way it was.

Let this be an omen as to how the movie will adapt this musical.

Another important part of the first song is the constant quarter note motion the piano makes throughout. It's what keeps the energy of the first song going, and is the song's connective tissue. Guess what the movie didn't do? As a result, it makes the prologue feel like five different disconnected small songs.

The main problem that the adaptation suffered, was the removal of seemingly small things, but which ultimately led to the plot of the movie collapsing in on itself.

The first major one is the removal of the narrator and the baker's father. Yes, the movie technically had a narrating voice, and the father got….like one scene, both played much more prominent roles in the original musical. The baker's father, initially a mysterious old man, pulled many of the threads that made the various characters really interact, and he's an outside force helping move the story along. As for the narrator…well it's important to note that the narrator is a character. A major feature of the show is that it's a story with characters, and the show knows that. The narrator dictated how the story would go, and when the witch sacrifices him to the giant, the characters are left to fend for themselves, and that is how most of the destruction in the second act really happens.

The second one is Rapunzel's death. In the musical Rapunzel is crushed by the giant, and it leads to Witch's Lament:

"This is the world I meant. / Couldn't you listen? / Couldn't you stay content, safe behind walls / As I could not?"

An important thing to note is while yes her relationship with Rapunzel is definitely toxic, there's a complexity that arises out of her over sheltering Rapunzel to protect her, and then as a result she comes to despise that "shelter", and is then ultimately killed. The fact that she is grieving the loss of her daughter plays largely into her character in the second act, something that is entirely lacking in the movie. SO MANY OF HER LINES get undermined by this one detail, that Rapunzel never died, and that she was wrong the whole time.

Lastly, songs that were cut. There are four main ones that are important to talk about.

First, Maybe They're Magic. It's sung right after the Baker and his wife sell the beans to get the cow. It's the first time the question of whether or not they'll really have to lie and possibly steal to obtain the items, and what the ethics of it really are, arises. It also exemplifies the character of the Baker's Wife, and her more clever side, which we further see when she obtains her items mostly through either deceit or persuasion. This glimpse into her character helps set her up for 'Moments in the Woods', a song much later which also expresses her inner thoughts.

Two: Ever After/Prologue: So Happy. This is how the show ends its first act and begins the second. In the movie the events in the second act occur immediately after the wedding, while in the musical there is a time gap between the acts. The music is referenced in the instrumental track, but it's never actually sung. Although the songs are definitely very much suited for a theatrical performance, cutting both the songs means that the resulting events that occur within them have to be shuffled and rearranged. The way that the characters make their way into the woods changes, and the prince and Rapunzel run off together much later, which doesn't allow for their later scenes to ever happen in the movie. It's where the cracks in the movie start to show, and ultimately the way the decisions made for earlier parts snowballs into the later parts of the movie.

Three: Agony Reprise. Agony as a song is famous from both the movie and the show. However the reprise happens in the second act, when it turns out the two princes are not focused on the giant, but in fact on another maiden somewhere else, much like how they were in the first act. Except now they're married. Removing this song is basically like telling a joke without the punchline. Yes, Agony by itself is funny, but it's the perfect setup for its reprise. As the plot stood in the movie, it's clear why it couldn't be put in, but,,,like that's the problem. That's the whole problem

Finally: No More. This song is the one I'm most mad that they cut out. It's the final interaction the Baker has with his father, just after he runs away leaving his baby son with Cinderella. The movie,,,,badly paraphrases it, and then cuts to the Baker,,,,,crying? There's no actual emotional development, no actual introspection, and it removes one of the best written scenes in the show.

"Where are we to go?

Where are we ever to go?

Running away—we'll do it

Why sit around, resigned?

Trouble is, son

The farther you run

The more you feel undefined.

For what you left undone,

And more, what you left behind"

I implore you, watch this scene, if nothing else. It's a work of art, and the fact that it's completely cut out is a crime.

Pretty much every character in the movie became a duller and flatter version of their original, but the most egregious examples are Jack and his mother. Jack is older in the show, significantly so. He's basically in his late teens, and is sweet and naive, but not particularly bright. In the movie, however, he's,,,,a child. Like just straight up a child, and now his personality is no longer "too ungrounded for his age" but instead it's exactly how a child his age might act. Conversely, Jack's mother is overbearing, but ultimately 'stern but sweet', and is much more gentle with Jack than in the movie. In the movie though, she's mean and almost callous towards Jack, in a way that doesn't make her an enjoyable character.

I won't blame the actors for most of this. Yes, a point can be made that some of the acting itself may have been bad, but most of the fault in what I've talked about goes to the directors and script writers.

In every adaptation, choices need to be made. Since this was no longer a theatrical performance, liberties had to be taken to fit it into a film format. But each choice has a consequence, and their choices to change parts of the story snowballed into the climax of the movie, making it almost entirely different from the musical.

We talk about Into The Woods as a Sondheim show, but it is just as much a show by Lapine as it is by Sondheim. Lapine's ability to craft a story with strong and clear themes, no matter how complex or abstract the plot is, is one of the show's greatest assets. The movie was a disservice to original stage musical, but most of all it was a disservice to Lapine, taking his carefully crafted story and muddling and twisting it, until the end product had killed the central spirit of the original.

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eridonna · 1 year

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✧ 𝕸𝖞 𝕳𝖔𝖑𝖞 𝕿𝖗𝖎𝖓𝖎𝖙𝖞 𝖔𝖋 𝕸𝖚𝖘𝖎𝖈𝖆𝖑 𝕿𝖍𝖊𝖆𝖙𝖗𝖊 ✧

.・。.・゜✭・.・✫・゜・。.

#musical theatre #musical theater trash #phantom of the opera #broadway #elisabeth das musical #mark seibert #tanz der vampire #Бал Вампиров #vampire #musicals #romantic goth #der tod #count von krolock #poto erik #ramin karimloo #european musicals

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edensundae · 2 months

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Beej & Lyds!

Partners in crime!

*NO SHIP

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taoofshigeru · 7 months

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You know what probably won't happen but would be oodles of fun?

A Hamefura musical episode.

Wouldn't take much to set the thing up. Alan gets bonked on the noggin and, when he wakes up, everyone seems to him to be singing.

It starts with Geordo delivering Katarina a big bouquet of eggplant seeds, dropping innuendos that she completely fails to catch. Like one of those duets where two characters in two different locations are singing in parallel to each other, except in their case it's just a conversation.

Sophia's number has her narrating the plot of her new favorite F/F novel while Katarina reads through it, interjecting repeatedly with remarks about how it's neat how the two protagonists are such great friends. (Nicol is humming in the background to be supportive.)

Maria sings about the treats she baked and how wonderful they are, and Katarina agrees while repeatedly emphasizing how delicious they are (and how marriageable Maria is). The duet ends with them almost kissing before Katarina turns away to eat the last cookie.

And, when Alan heads to the Hunt family for afternoon tea, we cut to Mary Hunt curating her blackmail book and she bursts into a grade-A villain song.

#A farce is better when it's more elaborate and few things are more elaborate than a choreographed musical number #Kanamemo pulled this off back in the day so it's not unprecedented #Reading volume 13 and this popped into my head #hamefura #maria campbell #geordo stuart #alan stuart #mary hunt #sophia ascart #nicol ascart #katarina claes #musical theater trash

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noperopesaredope · 3 months

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Just saw the new Mean Girls movie, and I don't care what the internet is probably gonna say about it because IT WAS GOOD!!!!

#i had fun #and honestly #that's all that matters #but fr tho #i came in with mediocre expectations (disney has made me hate remakes by now) and came out rambling happily to my mom #i do have a few criticisms but those are actually directed more towards the cinematography (mom got dizzy from all the spinning cameras)#i wouldn't say it is QUITE as iconic as the original but it lived up to the legacy pretty well #and was the first movie to ever portray social media and modern teenagers in an accurate way that also fit the themes of the movie #i will come out with a proper review later but lets just say it was good and anyone who trashes it can fight me #mean girls #mean girls reboot #mean girls remake #mean girls 2024 #movies #teen movies #musicals #movie theater #2024 movies #mean girls musical #mean girls movie #regina george #cady heron #mean girls the musical #adaptation #movie adaptation #reboot #remake

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sirgawainofgalifrey · 1 year

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Everyone always gives Javert shit for spending half his life chasing a bread theif but like

In most versions of Les Mis when he's telling Madeleine to fire him he divulges some pretty personal info because he finally trusts and respects him completely.

Like the language used in the brick paints it as him literally baring his soul to Valjean

And then immediately after that finds out that not only was he right, but now there's a person alive that knows things about him

Like, if I trusted someone enough to tell them basically my entire outlook on life and what all my personal values are, and then it turned out everything they'd ever said had been a lie

And then they escaped prison and were just out there in the world with personal information about me, I'd want to shut him up.

All I'm saying is, Javert's just doing what everyone wishes they could do in this situation.

#les miserables #les mis #javert #jean valjean #the brick #les mis headcanons #les mis 2012 #les mis 1978 #les mis musical #musical theater trash #valvert #les mis Madeleine

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tyrannic-prince · 1 year

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I said what I said and no, I won't take criticism 💅

#Tbh this applies to most versions of Wonka but I had to pick my Best Boys 💖#charlie and the chocolate factory #catcf #catcf musical #charlie and the chocolate factory musical #willy wonka #Douglas Hodge #Gareth Snook #musical theatre #west end theatre #musical theater trash

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lilacthebooklover · 6 months

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no i am not crying over the cool as i think i am reprise again, why do you ask???

#hatchetverse #musical theater #musical theatre #musical theater trash #that's me <3 #cool as i think i am #hnng i have so many thoughts on steph and pete's relationship #stephanie lauter #peter spankoffski #steph lauter #pete spankoffski #hatchetfield #nerdy prudes must die #npmd #starkid npmd #starkid #team starkid

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