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less than 100 notes and someone has tagged this as a character from war and peace. tumblr is the best website on earth

[catie-does-things]

Why don’t you listen to “Still/The Neva Flows (Reprise)” and experience the entire spectrum of human emotion in 2 minutes and 22 seconds and then maybe you’ll calm down.

[slaygentford]

[thegeminisage]

[anya-alone]

gleb was literally not?? his father's son??? after all?????

[dolokhoded]

he's a 10 but he's fierce and not too important and anatole's friend.

[45percenterthen]

riddler this riddler that ENOUG?H about that guy. what about the fiddler. hes stuck on the roof

[sai-fujiwara]

Vintage Phantom of the Opera movie poster featuring the cutest version of the Phantom ever.

[carlottagiudicellivevo]

I’m a bitch I’m a lover

[ofbeautsandbeasts]

we were all thinking it, so here it is XD

[haltraveler]

[wilbdhm]

[adhoption]

is it just me or

[adhoption]

[sarcasticmudkip]

[downton-not-downtown-smh]

what about blorbhov from my complicated russian novel though

[goodstuffhappenedtoday]

There's a new Belle in town — and she's shattering all kinds of princess beauty standards

If you ask a young child to describe the heroine from “Beauty and the Beast,” they might reference the slim, fair-skinned Disney princess in the memorable blue-and-white dress from the animated movie or the petite Emma Watson from its live-action remake.

In the production of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast” currently running at the Olney Theatre Center in Maryland, however, Belle is played by Jade Jones, a self-described queer, plus-sized Black woman.

The production’s Tony Award-nominated director, Marcia Milgrom Dodge, said Jones’s presence has made an impact on the audience from the very beginning. After the cast sang about the most beautiful girl in town during the opening number, Jones stepped on stage. “Little Black girls in the audience screamed out, ‘Is that Belle?’” Dodge recounted. “And it’s not just a Black Belle who fits into the size 2 replica dress, but a plus-size Belle. So [all] little girls can dream big about them being princesses, too.”

“I never imagined I would play a Disney princess in my entire life,” Jones said. “I mean, there were never any Disney princesses who looked like me…. It’s just a dream to do a show like this that I never thought I would be cast in. I’m living my musical theater dreams.”

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[anya-alone]

sometimes i’ll be reading a fic or whatever and i’ll be thinking about Gleb and it just hits me that his name is GLEB. like. i know it’s an actual russian name but come on that’s so funny. anyway i do love him 

[fuckoffstraightpeople-blog]

you come into my house, you disrespect my problematic fave

[mohansabbot]

Disney needs to realize that no villain redemption storyline will ever be as good as starkid's Twisted

[natalie-natalie-natalie]

I miss them :(

((The entire, talented cast of The Great Comet))

[lazarus-lazuli]

The Cruella trailer really does remind me of that one moment from Twisted

[firbolging]

the pride and prejudice musical we deserve:

darcy doesn’t sing a single note even during conversations where everyone else is singing at him that is until the argument following his first attempt at proposing to lizzy where you can see his restraint fall away

his first big solo is the letter he writes her

gelsey bell is mary and the unofficial narrator and she sits down at her piano to describe whats going on but before she can ever reveal her feelings on the matter, starting with that gelsey bell scream, mr bennet comes over and does the whole ‘that’s nice dear but give someone else a turn’

mr wickham has this huge ballad about how darcy ruined his life and its super melodramatic and touching

mr collins proposal to lizzy is an absolute bop that he gets so into he forgets for a moment what he’s doing he’s just owning the stage

wickham has a song where he’s trying to seduce lydia but she’s not even listening she’s just monologuing about how excited she is to get laid

during darcy’s second proposal he keeps hesitating waiting for lizzy to interrupt him like she has done every time before but she doesn’t say anything until he’s finished

at the end mary sits down at the piano and right where she’d usually be interrupted, kitty joins her and harmonises

 jane and bingley have the adorable upbeat romantic duet which is just them being super polite like ‘oh so nice to have you here’ ‘so nice to be here’ interspersed with their inner monologue which is just them being like fucking jesus I’m so in love

the bingley sisters probably have a really cool mean solo

lady catherine has this terrifying disney villain song in the garden

there’s for sure a song about ribbon shopping

[procrastinating-porcupine]

do you ever read something that leaves you absolutely batshit feral and frothing with rage at the fact it isn’t real

[turtlegirl521]

This post just brings me back to my forever wish that Dave Malloy should write the Pride and Prejudice musical.

PS- If any of you bitches ever win the lottery I am begging you to commission Dave Malloy to write the Pride and Prejudice musical

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