I watched 42nd street today.

I was really confused at first, because it gave the impression of belonging to a different era of musicals. Apparently, even though the musical put on stage in the 80s, there had been a movie of the same name in the 30s where most of the songs come from.

Peggy was kind of a Mary-Sue, but she was really sweet and it didn’t bother me much

I was also a little confused by the love story. I thought Peggy would end up with Billy, but then she kissed Julian, but after that she said she was going to the party with Billy? I’m not sure whether it was the production I watched, or if it’s supposed to be open ended or something.

Anyway, it was a fun musical, and there was lots of tap dancing, which I always adore.

kent would be so good at chess. so last verse of one night in bangkok coded.

FUCK CLIVESDALE!!

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I am so very excited about the new Starkid musical, but…

It really needs to be the last Cinderella musical.

There are already at least four musicals about her (I haven’t actually seen them all, but still) that I can think off the top of my head.

There is:

The Disney one

The one by Rogers and Hammerstein

The one by Andrew Lloyd Webber

The one by Camila Cabello

Plus Cinderella is one of the main characters in into the woods

Is there something about Cinderella’s story that makes people want to write musicals about her?

I am really curious about Starkid’s take on the story and can’t wait to watch it, it’s just something I have been wondering.

’Tis a faithful squire I spy! Who shall accept this fine mouse into thy service? One last illumination comes on the morrow…

Who, pray tell, is this gallant frog? Are there any squirrels or badgers who dare test the mettle of his oath? Pledge thy sword and watch for more…

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It’s been over a month since I watched the musical HAIR and I still have mixed feelings about it.

The music is good as a whole, but I only like parts of most songs. For example I only like the last section of “walking in space”. I’ve seen people hate on the 2009 recording, but that’s the version I saw so every other version of the songs just sounds a little off to me.

I didn’t really connect with most of the characters, with the exception of Claude. Not sure what the reason for that is.

Lastly, there were parts of this musical that made me really uncomfortable.

It is a good musical, and overall I enjoyed it, but I’m still really confused about it.

I have also heard that the movie version is vastly different to the live show.

emma is the villain of tgwdlm

I need to talk about this oh my god

because it's told from the hive's perspective. paul is the protagonist because he is the one who resists them but must ultimately come to accept that they're right. emma is the one who must be beaten through force.

the difference between the hero and the villain is that the hero must change, while the villain cannot. (I'm not speaking in universals here, just generalizations of how the narrative structures work that tgwdlm uses in parody.) the hero and the villain both hold a belief that represents the thematic evil; by the end of the story, the hero must undergo apotheosis, which is to say, ultimate unity with the thematic good. once this is achieved, he can defeat the villain, who represents the thematic evil completely and is incapable of change.

to the hive, "good" is unquestioning conformity to the group's ideals, specifically, singing and dancing in sync with everybody else. "evil" is refusing to sing and dance along when, clearly, you want to.

paul is the perfect protagonist because he resists song and dance, but largely because it makes him uncomfortable. getting out of your comfort zone is necessary for change! it's a good thing to let yourself go through something uncomfortable in order to come out the other side better and stronger for it. (that much is true; however, sometimes discomfort is a legitimate sign that you should stay away from something.) paul has never really tried singing or dancing, and deep down, is afraid that if he tried it, he might like it. exactly the sort of person who can be converted and used as a shining example of the hive's righteousness.

emma must be the villain because her refusal to fall in line is a choice. she can sing, she can dance, she was in brigadoon in high school and she fuckin killed it, she is even taught a whole ass song with choreography by the hive on their first morning in hatchetfield (emma's comment about how they have to sing "all the time, apparently!" and zoey's implied presence at the theater when the meteor hit - because she was with sam, and sam was there - strongly suggests that nora and zoey were zombified all morning and she had no idea). it's stated by hidgens and suggested by nora and zoey that getting a human to sing/dance along with them is supposed to be a sort of mesmerizing tactic that the hive uses to start synchronizing a person to the hive mind, but emma refuses. she sings and she dances, just like they want, but she chooses to actively hate it the whole time, on principle. she can't be convinced; they have to swarm her, surround her on all sides. let it out is meant to win paul to their side; inevitable is just to gloat.

in the bar scene in hidgens' bunker, emma says that she must be the villain to paul's hero because she was in the musical that got him to hate musicals. on the one hand, she had it backwards; she's the villain because according to the hive, the all-encompassing narrative power, he's not supposed to hate musicals. on the other hand, she's kind of right: paul is the protagonist because he is the guy who didn't like musicals, while emma is the villain because she has the capacity to like musicals as well as experience in them, but has chosen to reject them.

who is the hero and who is the villain all depends on who is telling the story. and the hive is telling this story. don't forget that.

So the trailer for the wicked movie came out and I just realized. I don’t know much about the musical, but I gotta say it looks very pretty.

I’m looking forward to watching the movie.

While watching Spelling Bee I was fully rooting for Leif to win. But I guess they had to run out of South American mammals at some point.

It was a very cute musical regardless, and much funnier than I anticipated.

I just watched assassins (the musical). Let’s just say it did nothing to help with my unhealthy obsession with murderers.

I loved every second of it. Musicals are becoming the only way I can learn anything about history.

I think that in terms of songwriting it is the best thing Jeff has written. It reminds me of Sondheim and Lapine. I especially love the end of the song, where it just deescalates so rapidly. And of course Lauren’s performance is indescribably incredible, but we need to appreciate Jeff’s songwriting skills more, he truly outdid himself here. I really hope we will see more of barbecue monologues, because if just for once is any indication, it will be breathtaking.

if someone ranks just for once lowest on an NPMD ranking i instantly don't trust them sorry not sorry it's in my top 3

i love nightmare time

what if tarzan was a sleazy con-man

family gets perceived so much that they try to kill each other

the weirdest paulkins fanfiction au you've ever read

eldritch god decides to fuck with one guy in particular for funsies

local man fucks his car

magical autistic child suffers through The Horrors

grown-up heather chandler with daddy issues and homophobic theatre kid battle it out for the chance to get vored

evil weed birds

people keep fucking in sex-repulsed asexual's home and then being surprised when he kills them

store owner discovers the dangers of rich people

the ring but with music and like 1000x more angst

child fighting ring gets hijacked by the hivemind

what a beautiful series

I just watched Anything Goes and Sutton Foster was amazing. Also I did not expect the triple wedding in the end.

no so i've been thinking about it and i'm dead serious like... legally blonde the musical is the greatest musical ever written... not joking guys... i won't be elaborating on this but seriously...