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Idea: Every musical takes place at the same time, in the same universe, and it’s a pitch perfect au
What Are Your Top 5 Favorite Musical Songs?
Here are mine(in no particular order):
On My Own: Although I’ve haven’t experienced romantic love yet, I adore this song! It’s well orchestrated and sung by Frances Ruffelle, her voice is beautiful.
The Wizard & I: I can relate to Elphaba’s wish to be accepted since I felt that way too. Idina Menzel’s sings amazingly and gets into character so well. I also saw this song performed live and the way it’s done on stage made me like this song more.
Satisfied: Love the blending of rapping and regular singing in this song. It works so well! Renée Elise Goldsberry nails it and made me see Angelica in a different, but good way.
Breathe: I haven’t heard the whole soundtrack yet, but “Breathe” is such a standout to me so far. Again, I relate to Nina’s fear of disappointing her family(I feel that way 24/7). Mandy Gonzalez sings very well and her high notes are delightful to hear. As an Hispanic, I really enjoyed the addition of Spanish.
I Don’t Need Your Love: Izuka Hoyle nails the vulnerability of Catherine Parr’s sad story of losing her love, and her growing confidence in herself later on. The latter part of the song makes me feel so powerful. All the women singing together by the end was so good! Their voices blended so well together.
Fun fact: we went on a vacation to a time loop with 3 different musicals going on at the same time (the time stamps are a little different there, so when these were made it was all before 1940)
The three musicals were:
42nd Street
Footlight Parade
The Broadway Melody
We watched them for a week straight, entirely in love, that’s when we began writing our own scripts and musicals
Musicals are time loops. Every night, the same thing happens except for a few minor differences. It always ends the same. If you want the characters to do something different or to make better choices, too bad. The actors are bound by the script and the score. The only way for the time loop to end is for the show to close. But you (the audience) don't want the show to close, nor do the actors who would like to be employed. It's a lose/lose situation. For the actors, audience, technicians, and for the characters, who are forever stuck in the same stretch of time.
Newsie.
explain your gender in 10 words or less without using boring words like “male”, “female”, “nonbinary”, “masculine”, “feminine” or “androgynous”.
go!
"Where the sun shines down
On a beautiful Bikini Bottom day"
This is crazy and only 26 notes is wild
Now seems like a good time to do this
First of all, rip to William Finn, that legend is missed
But I wanted to introduce y'all to my
Falsettos binder
An entirely hand written book of all the (dialogue? Lyrics?) of the entire musical.
Based on the revival 'cause that one's my favorite.
We got: in depth analysis of every bit of significance in nearly every line. Dumb thoughts of mine. And memes.
[I'm not exaggerating when I said I went through eight packs of sticky notes]
The point
A probably incorrect timeline based on a few dates and hella real world assumptions
Pencil/colored pencil drawings featuring every character's musical assigned colors and me-assigned chess pieces
Depressing watercolor paintings
A cobbled together study on the chess pieces used in "the chess game" cause they look so strange and are never used again
An extensive study on the cube which I used to build the whole thing functionally in the real world
What I call ✨ notes on a scene✨
Which is commentary and observations of every bootleg production I've seen.
There's also an In Trouser analysis in here somewhere, but alas, I have reached the image limit.
Perhaps you can tell I'm just slightly feral for this musical and had a bit too much free time a couple months back.
I saw Hamilton on Broadway this week, in other words, I was in the room where it happened
FIRST FINISHED PIECE IN MONTHS‼️‼️
The art block(and art style crisis) is finally getting better so here's my first attempt at drawing Eliza :)) I'm still trying to figure out how exactly I wanna draw faces and do rendering tho
some close ups under cut
Broadway: Les Mis is closing
Broadway: Spring Awakening closed
Broadway: Hunchback of Notre Dame doesn't come to Broadway
Broadway: revives Cats
Me @ Broadway: no
Broadway Nerd Question:
Scenario: You get to perform one song on Broadway. The full thing, to a full house. Assume you’ll magically be able to hit all the notes and steps perfectly.
What song is it? Reblog with your answer.
how to make spongebob on Broadway great
Spongebob is a witty and strong character who becomes a popular girl overnight
Patrick is the leader of the popular girl group who doesn’t care who she steps on so long as she’s at the top
Sandy is Spongebob’s boyfriend with potentially sociopathic/messianic tendencies and too much time on his hands
It’s Heathers
Put Heathers on Broadway
I forgot to post this a while ago but here’s my piece for @trans-jeremy-heere‘s zine project from the Be Em Cee server! I got BMC Pt 1!! This was super fun to work on 💙
No one asked for it but here’s a gif of the squip dabbing
Awesome party, I’m so glad I came.
Happy Broadway Closing @BeMoreChill 💙 I love this musical (and the amazing people involved) with all my heart 💜
So this is a long shot but does anyone by chance have footage of curtain call from Be More Chill’s matinee performance on Saturday, May 25th 2019?
I saw it yesterday and it was so so amazing, but we messed up when trying to record curtain call so if it exists somewhere out there that would be super rad!!
Why couldn’t Cats 2019 have just been an animated movie of actual cats!? Not those freaking humanoid things pretending to be cats! Either way, this is good content.
rewatched the original Cats with some friends after seeing the new trailer and i really wanted to redraw them!! mistoffelees is still my super favoritee
Auditioning for Heathers
Director: So which character will you be auditioning for?
Me: All of them.
Director: Pardon?
Me: A L L O F T H E M
THE DEH SCRIPT BOOK IS SOLID GOLD
I may or may not have wanted this book for this line specifically
"(Alana exits as Jared Klineman approaches Evan with a kind of practice Swagger that only a deeply insecure person can truly pull off)"
ALSO THE PHOTOS IN THIS ARE AMAZING
reblog if the first musical you listened to was not Hamilton
how many fandom’s do you like?
Oh, wow so many. Let’s start with different channels:
Cartoon Network: any show from the early 2000-10s to Craig of the Creek; plus any anime that was on it like Bakugan and Beyblade
Disney: early 2000-10s sitcoms, TOH, GF, Ducktales (2017), Big Hero 6/MCU, etc.
Nickelodeon: Spongebob, some old sitcoms by D*n Schn*ider, Henry Danger is the last show
For fandoms outside of TV, I’ve seen Camp Camp, Ever After High; used to watch Mianite videos; listen to multiple broadway musicals (Hamilton, Heathers, ITH, DEH, 21 Chump Street, Kinky Boots); watched some shows for stay at home moms like Roseanne, That 70s Show, the Goldbergs, the middle, etc.
I am not avid in book fandoms except for the Artemis Fowl Series (don’t speak of the film).
For the anime that I care about: Bakugan, Beyblade, Fire Force, Magi, JJBA, PPP Mermaid, Haikyuu, HXH, Ass Class, and Azumanga. There’s a few more but I really don’t participate in the fandom for those anime, I just watch them and move on.
This is just a handful of stuff I remember. I try to join fandoms often. I’ll try to put a full list in the tags
¿How many poeple to habla hispana likes Hamilton and another musicals?
Exploring background manhattan newsie looks!! I want to give them all a cohesive colour scheme and all slightly different outfits, also more variety in ages, lengths and nationalities. Also they're just so fun to draw
"grow up Ty Lee oil lamps are SO 1687"
please we need one
remember the post I made saying that we needed a ghostbusters musical?
WELL, I'm here to say that if during the pandemic people were able to make a Ratatouille musical through TikTok, we can also make a ghostbusters one 😠🫵
Be more chill
H E L P M E T O M O R E T H A N S U R V I V E
Be more chill is closing tomorrow, ending the run of a beautiful musicals with an amazing cast. What Be More Chill mean to me is a homage to the losers, geeks, the whatever in highschool. The need to be noticed, to be popular, the need to Be More Chill. I feel as though Jeremy represents how many in highschool struggle with fitting in and standing out. How many can relate to his insecurity and what many people do to be noticed. I’ve heard stories that people have cried during many performances. Not only teens but, also adults who could relate or reminisce on times when they acted just like them. This story is a link to many’s past and an example for the future. To show that you are not unnoticed and the peer pressure to be someone you aren’t. Even Rich, Jake, Brooke, Chloe, and Jenna are examples of insecurity. The Squip showed that they are as strong as you think they are. All of them are not completely confident and are just like Jeremy, scared of never being enough. They lyrics show the pain that they feel but, don’t show. They express the anxiety every character feels. A big thank you to Joe Iconis, Joe Tracz, and most importantly Ned Vizzini. Without Ned this beautiful story would not even exist. Joe Iconis and Joe Tracz for creating an amazing musicals, score, and cast. Thank you the directors, costume designers, and all who work to make this happen. Thank you to every Be More Chill actor ,old and new, you have been an active representation of these characters and their adventures. We as fans have always supported you and we will still do so. We know this production has helped many in desperate time of anxiety and peer pressure. Thank you for making a story of adventure and most importantly a story that warns for being some you aren’t. Thank you for everything you have done, ever since Ned Vizzini put his pen to a paper with a story of a loser with the name of Jeremy.
Thank you we are in-depth to you forever.
My thoughts on yapping
i would like to make it known that i am fine if people talk during shows, movies, docs, etc! i mean, i do it too so it's perfectly okay with me!
i also love it when you sing along to songs!
but if Jeremy Jordan is singing.
SHUT. UP. DO NOT SPEAK UNTIL HE IS DONE.