side one, track three: starchild

monty, 24, they/he/she. a transmission on the midnight radio. about

[maggot-magnet]

[ashleyslorens]

crying... he’s just a little bear

[audreytwoapologist]

Paddington the Musical is for the lesbians bc why else would there be a plot point where the villain manipulates a man solely for her own gain then puts a shock collar on him so he's forced to do as she says

[olympain]

James Hameed and Arti Shah during curtain call at the first preview of Paddington the Musical at Savoy Theatre, London on the 1st of November, 2025.

[poisondartlesbian]

I need to [remembers suicide jokes are harmful and unproductive] be in a community theater production of Seussical

[m0th0er]

[threetrenchcoatsinatrenchcoat]

oh oh all the Three Houses voices are rebuilding with their grandparents' materials, Susan reconstructs the hay truck escape as her own escape, Sadie rebuilds her grandparents' house of wood and planks, Beckett is recreating the stone clochán, none of them even chose to become their part of the story, it was all already written generations prior.

with a wolf as big and bad as the novel corona, there is no room for free will. everyone's first real choice happens right after the musical ends.

[the-berries-and-the-plums]

ok need to talk about the karaoke scene. “too soon”, a breakup song fundamentally about sunk cost, the wasted potential of a relationship ended before its time, ties in so cleverly with sadie’s inherited obsessive fear of wasted time. sadie spends most of the song drinking and venting to zippy, barely acknowledging grandmother’s performance—until, at the end, she joins in, then overtakes it entirely.

a perfect reflection of how she fails to recognize her own obsessions and compulsions as inherited, even as she’s enacting them. she dismisses grandma’s coin collecting as a funny quirk (“she was a little bit crazy ‘bout coins”), just as she tries to minimize her concerns about her own obsessive gaming. even as she steals the mic and belts out the same words, she doesn’t recognize that she and her grandmother are, quite literally, singing the same song.

and crucially, “too soon” isn’t grandmother’s own song; it’s karaoke. it’s something passed down, repeated, inherited. just like sadie’s patterns. just like the wolf dance.

[ashleyslorens]

VICTORIA HAMILTON-BARRIT as Millicent Clyde in PADDINGTON THE MUSICAL

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[8tet]

Per LMM's instagram:

Octet Movie Cast List: Amanda Seyfried is Jessica Rachel Zegler is Velma Sheryl Lee Ralph is Paula Phillipa Soo is Karly Gaten Matarazzo is Toby Jonathan Groff is Henry Tramell Tillman is Marvin Paul-Jordan Jansen is Ed

Rehearsals have begun.

[ashleyslorens]

PADDINGTON played in costume by Arti Shah and voiced by James Hameed in PADDINGTON THE MUSICAL

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[ankle-beez]

tom fletcher writing the songs for the funny little british bear musical

[digitalcarcrash]

rocky horror was ahead of its time Not because of the blatant queerness but because frank n furter's castle was wheelchair accessible

[if-only-angels-could-prevail]

Musicals used to be about a gay man adopting an adult woman and teaching her diction and now they are Happy Feet

[grapery]

i tried to add more but my graphic design skills are limited

[reallyreallyreallytrying]

(scribbling in my notebook when all the actors and actresses hold hands and bow at the end of the play) all boyfriends and girlfriends in this one too

[jeanleslies]

What this country needs is a genius plan-

[audreytwoapologist]

the response that Natasha Hodgson as Ewen Montagu has gotten from audiences is proof that we need more butch lesbians in mainstream musical theater. in this essay I will-