Sofia Caselli singing Sogni Miei (original title: In My Dreams) from Anastasia. She really has a beautiful voice, even stronger in person, with an etheral feeling when needed. I really hope she can shine bright in the future, both in Italy and abroad.
As announced by creator @dorky.norkey on instagram! These will be on tiktok, but again, the full production is uploaded to youtube if you can't catch it live.
Sunday, Nov 23 @ 7 p.m. ET
Tuesday, Nov 25 @ 10 p.m. ET
Thanksgiving, Thursday, Nov 27 @ 12 p.m. & 6 p.m. ET
Repo! The Genetic Opera was like. An objectively bad movie. But it got so close to perfection. A sci-fi horror movie critiquing how the monetization of healthcare leaves the poor one missed payment away from death? And it’s a rock opera? And everyone is a horny mallgoth? She could’ve been the Sistine Chapel of cinematography
In 2022, I wanted to find out Tumblr's Top 50 Musicals after seeing similar surveys on Reddit and Twitter. Now, three years and lots of new musicals later, I'm excited to see if anything has changed. So here's the 2025 survey!
To participate, please reply to this post / send me a non-anonymous ask / a dm with your Top 10 favourite musicals - ranked from 1 to 10, with 1 being your absolute favourite, until 11th June 2025.
Rules:
Since every show will receive points according to its ranking, I'm asking you to rank exactly 10 musicals, not more, not fewer.
Movie musicals and concept musicals without stage adaptations do not count. The musical MUST have a stage version.
Revivals/rewrites of a show count as the same musical, e.g. Bat Out Of Hell West End vs. Las Vegas.
Please include the composer/lyricist or another distinguishing element if there are at least two different musicals of the same name, e.g. Cinderella (R&H vs. ALW).
It's meant to be a list of your favourite musicals, not those you consider to be the best! There's no need to justify your choice.
The more people participate, the wider the variety of shows & the more representative the survey: please reblog!
Random example (not my favourites):
Into the Woods > gets 10 points
Company > gets 9 points
The King and I > gets 8 points
Beauty and the Beast (Disney) > gets 7 points
Rebecca > gets 6 points
Next to Normal > gets 5 points
Chess > gets 4 points
My Fair Lady > gets 3 points
Cabaret > gets 2 points
Wicked > gets 1 point
Please do not include the points, this is just for you to see how this survey works.
Once I've counted your list, I'll reply with "counted". You cannot change your ranking after this.
One of my favorite parts of Hadestown is the way Hermes slips so seamlessly between participant and narrator. The fact that he knows from the beginning how the story is going to go, but still plays his part, surrounded by people who don’t know they’re characters in a tragedy. And he plays his part well. Every night, he tells Orpheus, “You want to talk to her? Go on," and every night, he asks, “Just how far would you go for her?” Every night, Orpheus asks him, “ It’s not a trick?” and he tells him, “No, it’s a test.” And every night, when the cycle starts again, when his voice is so broken with grief that he can barely get the words out to tell the audience - the audience that he and no one else has known was there the whole time - “Don’t ask why, brother, don’t ask how he could have come so close. The song was written long ago, and that is how it goes,” when Eurydice appears - fresh-faced and alive, with no memory of what has just happened - to ask, “anybody got a match?” he wordlessly extends his matchbook to her, and lets the story start anew. Someone’s got to tell the tale, whether or not it turns out well.
And still - AND STILL - every night, at the very beginning, he says, “Maybe it will turn out this time, on the road to hell, on the railroad line.”
It also is such a clever way to reference his role in the myths and adapt it to a stage production!
Hermes is a psychopomp god, one who straddles the border between the world of the living and the world of the dead. That's why he heralds the train, takes the coins from Eurydice, tells Orpheus how to get to Hadestown: it's all part of its dual nature.
And in the musical, this also means he's both inside and outside both worlds, that of the characters and that of the audience. This is why he's the narrator, why he knows about how the story goes, why he can play with the fourth wall the way he does, why he gently guides Orpheus and Eurydice towards each other, why he does not join the other voices in Why do we build the wall: he can go to both worlds, but he does not fully belong to either. He's more free than others, but still caught in the web of the story, maybe doubly so, because even if he were part of the audience and no longer bound to the plot as one of its character... He'd still want to see how it turns out, this time.
Performance: February 16 2025 at the Lyric Theatre (West End, London)
Phillip and Amber are sooo good together. Phillip voice records wonderfully, it's of course missing that extra warmth and depth it has in person, but this song turned out surprisingly well all things considered.
Ok so, that was definitely An Experience. I was moved, I cried (a couple of times in spots I did not expect to), I even stagedoored (usually I can't because it's late and/or I am with other people). I loved it. Phillip Boykin is amazing as Hades, and he's a perfect gentleman and the nicest of people at stagedoor, so while I understand being bummed if you really wanted to see Patrick Page live, please give Phillip a chance.
You probably heard that André de Shields fell in the first act. He did seem fine afterwards, it was clear he was being a bit more careful whenymoving but overall ok. He stagedoored (is this even a word?) and he seemed to be fine, if a bit tired. I really hope he only needs some rest.
Now that the first show has been done, it is really hitting me... I will see Hadestown on Sunday.
I am so excited to see performers that would otherwise not be accessibile to me (and while I am a bit bummed about Patrick Page being injured, I am so excited to see Phillip Boykin in his place! He sounds amazing!). To be there knowing most of the people surrounding me are other fans. I am sure the energy will be amazing.
I love "special occasions" for this reason, everyone (performers and audience) brings their best game. I love premieres, debuts, closing nights, anniversaries, singalongs. They have that bit more excitement that really makes them special, and I hope this limited run has it too.
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