BLooooooooong

Bảo Long - 25 and can't take it anymore - bookaholic - smoking addict - eccentric child at heart

[osoma-nga]

Ushijima Kaoru and Hopper, his beloved bunny.

Well, Ushijima Kaoru of the manga Yamikin Ushijima-kun had an abnormal craze about rabbits and he had many, many, many, many rabbits as pets. 

The first time the live action incorporates rabbits is in Ushijimakun; The Final and even then it’s only Ushijima’s first rabbit in a flashback - his first pet rabbit, Hopper, that was originally Ushijima’s mom’s. And instead of the pet cemetery almost full of his lil’ rabbits, its just this one. 

At least…He has a rabbit desk-calendar and mother-rabbit figurine

and he almost always says “Usagi” to start off the Kawaii-Shiritori(cute things word game).

[seoyuna]

please watch Ushijima-kun and make me happy

[blooooooooong]

I'm currently at season 2 and I agree with mostly every point made in this post ✨🙌🏻

[osoma-nga]

Yamikin Ushijima-kun

The minor Major Character - Inui (戌亥)

The Johoya, 情報屋(じょうほうや) - informant/information broker(think Izaya Orihara of Duarara) who presumably works as a private investigator/detective(探偵) and has connections with the loan sharks, i.e. our protagonists(of Yamikin Ushijima-kun) and the backing of the yakuza(sometime antagonists). He always invites Ushijima(his childhood friend) and co. to eat at his mom’s Okonomiyaki restaurant. And is easily bribed with candy(by Ushijima).

Even with Takada and Kouno and to some extent Ushijima(who I sometimes mistake for a beefy Inui without his glasses), by the end, Inui ends up very much the main ikemen of the manga. 

His initial appearance with the flower tie somehow ends up seeming confusing what with the tie being Namerikawa’s(rather, it ends up looking like he was wearing Namerikawa’s clothes) and since then he appeared in back-ties and looks slightly different. 

In a manga full of brawny yakuza, scary and also rugged loan sharks, weird thugs and low-life, and shady hosts, the lanky Inui in his always neat black-tie attire with beautiful long hands and feet, stands out too much. Plus, it is a hidden implication that he is great at his job because he is unusually charming and good-looking. While generally easy-going, genial and spaced-out, i.e. not a typical smooth talker, he is actually cunning and ‘smooth’ nonetheless. Honestly, sometimes it gets a little too exaggerated. 

But sometimes - he is just so beautiful. 

Especially his feet! And hands. 

The way he moves, the way he is drawn.

I never particularly thought Ayano Go as anything more than cute and at times a little strange but…he really gets Inui’s odd sexy attractiveness across. 

I really, really wish there’d been more of all the main characters in the drama. In the manga at least, even with a similar focus on the debtors and arc-only characters, the MCs appear far more than they did in either the drama or movies. And specially Inui! For an MC, he probably guest appears once in a blue moon. But as Inui himself states, he is indispensable to the team as an ally. 

(KauKau Finance - LtoR: Ezaki Takaaki, Ushijima Kaoru, Inui, Takada “Ruito”…and any odd secretary that happens to be working that season)

He already was this enigmatic shadow who guest appeared from time to time in the manga but in the drama has hardly much screen-time(through proportionally he appears more than ever in the manga considering how all the MCs are barely left with much screen-time). And well…he knows too much. He more or less connects the narrations in the latter half of the series. What with Ayano Go being ‘perfect’ as Inui(in every way: tall, long-fingered, slouching, casual, graceful, neat, dainty…), it leaves one wishing for more. 

His love for cheap candy and snacks, his random musings, his own charming way of conning people…he brings about an odd contrast in tone. 

Informant or PI, other than his ‘sources’, usually hostesses he doesn’t even drink with(and yet…), the drama has him frequently slip into almost non-disguise guises(hide a leaf in a forest) in a bid to con people or get information. He is a bigger extortionist than any of the loan sharks combined! And there is something so reminiscent of a kitsune(the mythological shape-shifting fox spirit) about Ayano Go as Inui that kindof completes this image.

All his “disguises”:-

Everything about the series just oscillates between dark, bleak and dismal around transient illusions. It is mostly just too depressingly hopeless and rawly vicious, sometimes in bizarre ways. Thus, most of the humor is ‘flat’, impassive or understated…

His interactions with Ushijima and Ezaki border between teasing and an oddly serious childlike nostalgia, with his tendency to drag the last word of his sentence playfully.  

Even while we never really see it openly, more in the background and in talks only, they establish this nostalgic but human side to themselves in a life that is very normal despite their usual humdrum criminal occupation. Ezaki and Inui and even Ushijima were all three very much their mother’s boys(though not abnormally unlike their clients, more in a close, affectionate regular way) and Ushijima being the frank, dutiful and well-behaved orphaned one he gets really, really doted upon by the former two’s moms. 

Not Kyosuke Yabe’s fault they cast him as Ezaki Takaaki(who irl is ~10 years older than Yamada and Ayano) nor that Ezaki, the martial artist with a hard-life, is supposed to look older, but it really is unbelievable that the three are supposed to be the same age(24 at the beginning, 30 by series end) 

and funnily enough, younger than the more boyish and youthful-looking ex-host Takada(and Hayato)

And also Chiaki in the drama.

Ezaki, Ushijima and Inui: childhood friends and classmates. 

Namerikawa: Ushijima, Ezaki, Inui. You were classmates, right? How do you like this little class reuinion, eh?

Inui and Ushijima going way far back from kindergarten. Inui fondly addresses them as Ushijima-kun and Ezaki-kun. 

Also, by junior high school, he seemed to already be quite an ‘information broker’ especially for Ushijima’s sake.

Plus, mostly he does pull a save the day as well as a scrawny private investigator can.

Watching Ayano Go run is…adorable!! (in Shinjuku Swan, here…he’s like a long legged insect or a lanky floppy scarecrow surprisingly flying with the wind)

But on the other hand, while not as badly off as the rest where living life on the edge is concerned since he is the neutral party, as being the neutral party isn’t really an option he is forced to face some pretty dire choices. The entire last arc revolves around the consequences of his actions. Choosing one side means betraying the other. And his choice literally sentences the other side to death.

…

Inui: Ushijima-kun, Don’t get any funny ideas, will you. Ushijima: You’re going to report this to Namerikawa too are you? Inui? Inui: Eh!?

…

Namerikawa: Naa, Inui… What if it comes to between one or the other you have to choose - Me or Ushijima, whom would you choose?

However, as was proved with Takemoto’s case their world isn’t one where sentiment holds any value. To survive means to make the most self-serving ruthless decision. As he himself says:-

…

生きてくのに金は必要だ。金の流れが人の行動を表わすからね。 To survive money is essential. The flow of money dictates a person’s actions.

He states his loyalty in a wordy way. However, his association with the yakuza is uneasy and rife with an underlying threat to himself and finally, an outright threat made about his family. And especially his younger sister. 

Yet both financially and for his own work for them and even his own safety, it is an inevitable connection. 

Also, as he stands far too in the middle and with far too much information that others want. Thus, he does have few run-ins with trouble as well.

But honestly, the spin-off manga’s author Yamasaki Dodo(山崎童々)must really be super-crazy about Inui. For one he is the main narrator…

And about Inui and Namerikawa( 滑皮 ) coz…

Well… 

Most of the spin-off manga, Ramen’s (vol 1 at least) is Namerikawa’s sloppy eating vs Inui’s ridiculously beautiful suggestive eating.

Namerikawa finally gets Inui to eat with him and is so overjoyed(though of course, its a job he got as usual). 

He previously gets pissed that Inui only seems to eat out with Ushijima and never with him but…the way he eats! Did he really expect anyone would be honest and say they were so disgusted watching him, they can’t eat? To be clear… 

Namerikawa’s feral violent sloppy eating in all its glory:-

And then Inui eating…

He outdoes any of the Shokugeki no Soma judge foodgasmic reactions…

…just!

[osoma-nga]

Ushijima…smiling????

No, no, no!! No way!

[emptymasks]

Do you have a list of all the specifically German musicals bootlegs/proshots with English subtitles?

I do not, but I can make one right now! (And I assume by German you mean German-language and not Germany, so this includes musicals performed in Germany, Austria and Switzerland).

There's multiple versions for some musicals and if you want my personal correction of which to watch, based on the quality of the video, accuracy of the subtitles, and overall cast and design, I've put a 💙 emoji next to them.

Artus Excalibur 2015 St Gallen Production (Proshot)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4RzVULC74U Cast: Mark Seibert, Patrick Stanke, Thomas Borchert, Sabrina Weckerlin

Der Besuch der alten Dame 2014 Vienna Production (Boot)

Act 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5pO5YpaSJM Act 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBO0WY548E Cast: Pia Dowes, Uwe Kröger, Ethan Freeman

Dracula the Musical 2008 Graz Production (Proshot)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaJvTmz-zPw Cast: Thomas Borchert, Lyn Liechty, Jesper Tydén, Uwe Kröger, Caroline Vasicek, Robert D Marx

Elisabeth das Musical Original 1992 Vienna Production (Proshot) 💙

Act 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76uePPIQDGk Act 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-f_VmMS5m0 Cast: Pia Dowes, Uwe Kröger, Ethan Freeman, Viktor Gernot, Andreas Bieber

Elisabeth das Musical Original 1992.12 Vienna Production (Boot)

Act 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgTtnTPeMjk Act 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKPtP6Sx8mE Cast: Pia Dowes, Uwe Kröger, Ethan Freeman, Viktor Gernot, Andreas Bieber

Elisabeth das Musical 2002 Essen Production (Boot)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGz4qseaxDs (Subtitles are not embedded, you have to turn them on with the caption option) Cast: Pia Dowes, Uwe Kröger, Carsten Lepper, Jesper Tydén, Claus Dam

Elisabeth das Musical 2005 Vienna Revival (Proshot) 💙

Act 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr8z-yyGqF8 Act 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsBMeHKTNc8 Cast: Maya Hakvoort, Máté Kamarás, Serkan Kaya, André Bauer

Elisabeth das Musical 2012 2nd Vienna Revival (Boot)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwYzPnRo_Cw&list=PLtk7Oj-CH4vbXdc_zdFaonDlWhdk4SQfD

Der Graf von Monte Cristo 2009 Original Swiss Production (Proshot)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_IQRRZmZlI Cast: Thomas Borchert, Carsten Lepper, André Bauer

Mozart das Musical 2015 Vienna Revival (Proshot)

https://archive.org/details/mozart-2015-vienna-proshot-kuipers-seibert-borchert-act-1-eng-subs Cast: Oedo Kuipers, Mark Seibert, Thomas Borchert (It used to be on Youtube until it was take down a few months ago. The copy on Youtube is 360p and so pixilated I'd say it isn't watchable, but I'd downloaded the old 720p HD video from Youtube a while ago so I've put it on archive.org where you can stream and download it and it shouldn't ever get take down.)

Rebecca das Musical 2011 Stuttgart Production (Boot) 💙

Act 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYkT1Rh7Zvo Act 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buudlB9-pYk Cast: Jan Ammann, Christina Patten, Pia Douwes

Rebecca das Musical 2012 Stuttgart Production (Boot)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2kGxht2iW0 Cast: Jan Ammann, Denise Jastraunig, Femke Soetenga

Rudolf: Affaire Mayerling 2009 Vienna Production (Proshot)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoAln45mjgo Cast: Drew Sarich, Lisa Antoni, Uwe Kröger, Wietske van Tongeren, Claus Dam

Tanz der Vampire 2005 Hamburg Production (Proshot)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOzoxa2hNcI Cast: Kevin Tarte, Jessica Kessler

Tanz der Vampire 2011 Berlin Production (Boot) 💙

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvA7SeErpGg Cast: Drew Sarich, Amelie Dobler, Anton Zetterholm, Marc Liebisch

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Bonus: Musicals performed in German-speaking countries but were kept in English instead of translated (or were mostly kept in English)

Hair 2001 Vienna Production (Boot)

https://vk.com/video-9610195_456239031 (English singing with a mix of English and German dialogue) Cast: Drew Sarich, Steven Seale, Kudra Owens

Jesus Christ Superstar 2002 Bad Hersfeld (Proshot)

https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Yx41177Ji (Entirely in English) Cast: Yngve Gasoy-Romdal, Nigel Casey, Anna Montanaro

Jesus Christ Superstar 2003 Remscheid Concert (Boot)

https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1jp411R7Rj (Entirely in English) Cast: Alex Melcher David Michael Johnson, Nicole Berendsen, Claus Dam, Leon van Leeuwenberg, Martin Pasching

Jesus Christ Superstar 2004 Vienna Concert (Boot)

https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV15x411h7P6 (Entirely in English) Cast: Yngve Gasoy-Romdal, Dave Moskin, Maya Hakvoort, Pethon Quirante, Ethan Freeman

Jesus Christ Superstar 2005 Amstetten Production (Proshot) 💙

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cTfdOQbTMc (Entirely in English) Cast: Steven Seale, Drew Sarich, Kudra Owens

Jesus Christ Superstar 2006 Vienna Concert (Boot)

https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1jp411R79b (Entirely in English) Cast: Rob Fowler, Petr Gazdik, Caroline Vasicek, André Bauer, Dennis Kozeluh

Jesus Christ Superstar 2007 Schwerin (Proshot?)

https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Ns41177mF (Entirely in English) Cast: Chris Murray, Matthias Pagani, Kathrin Huke

Jesus Christ Superstar 2007 Regensburg (Boot)

https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Zs411q7fS (Entirely in English) Cast: Chris Murray, Previn Moore, Ilonka Vöckel

Jesus Christ Superstar 2010 Essen Production (Boot)

https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1oW411L7Bt (Entirely in English) Henrik Wager, Serkan Kaya, Peti van der Velde

Jesus Christ Superstar 2012 Vienna Concert (Boot) 💙 Seriously watch this version just for Drew Sarich's Gethsemane

https://vk.com/video-40385084_456239034 (Entirely in English) Cast: Drew Sarich, Mischa Mang, Ana Milva Gomes

Jesus Christ Superstar 2013 Bonn Production (Boot)

https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1ox41167fy (Entirely in English) Cast: Mark Seibert, David Jacobs, Patricia Meeden

All non-English language musicals that are on Youtube, those with or without subs, I collect in this playlist here and update regularly: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLBkeZOvj5B8bSgfsMiGBnF_OnmqTbDdW

I also have playlists for some individual musicals that contain clips, trailers, interviews and other videos that aren't full productions.

[bloody-wonder]

Drew Sarich Video Masterpost

A man who has nearly changed my life.

DER GLÖCKNER VON NOTRE DAME https://mega.nz/#F!ktBQhBbI!PAxXs9m0zr_KJ0H4m14J2w

HAIR REUNION CONCERT https://mega.nz/#F!mJ1y0QaS!d-xFi5bfx9HHrkwjwGdAkg

TOMMY https://mega.nz/#F!cFx3VbaR!tSPgKv3cxBnhIKpwlbx4Cw

FEVER https://mega.co.nz/#F!ypk2mYwS!bhdkAU2CJTolGJ6x8y-E0Q

LAP DOG & WILD CAT https://mega.nz/#F!eFMyUBYS!xT5foqlF5GC4puIwRxa_ew

BARBARELLA https://mega.nz/#F!8o4QzaIS!kvK-UjFFhkPLHA6Lirn3tg

JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR New York https://mega.nz/#F!jMFTBQDI!sq82IiaHEl1doyJqdpXu_A

Amstetten https://mega.nz/#F!TVcS2SCb!X70ANYDQdoSgffDXxGKReg

Vienna 2008 https://mega.co.nz/#F!CoJlhQ6B!JZ6WO1hrCjhVH3ZMJ9HOlQ

Vienna 2012 https://mega.nz/#F!mJU21LYQ!qEnZx7oAZ8bXQaO0wrVdFg

DRACULA https://mega.nz/#F!MgJRUYpL!juhGt7i0KbWR8bfG8JRP6Q

LESTAT San Francisco https://mega.nz/#F!3Bs3WJwJ!XPMpU3qZV10u_VXpGT2TtA

Broadway Preview http://www.4shared.com/folder/xmGz7lDD/Lestat__Panaro_Sarich_Broadway.html

Broadway 5 May https://mega.nz/#F!nJswzRJR!a_pFU-bQBzSF5rcbXNwcbw

Broadway 27 May (Drew as Lestat) https://mega.nz/#F!iQVziAxR!MXtlH1bX7fdhqTaKxpPPZw

JACQUES BREL https://mega.nz/#F!DVszgJCL!6iwlBckQcLfOM093rltEpQ

LES MISERABLES as Grantaire https://mega.nz/#F!jg93HSab!Fhf8Z4aCOjlQ26SvCPWqTA

as Enjolras https://mega.nz/#F!SwtywADD!1jNBocHysGwp1utRzhy45g

as Javert https://mega.co.nz/#F!tFVmTQCb!RK-zpD__JxRS8XT_Pb8CUw

as Valjean on Broadway - June http://www.4shared.com/folder/aqBsMmIY/Abdullas_Wedding.html

as Valjean on Broadway - August https://mega.nz/#F!MwYABBRK!LufQ2CAnjLw2LxXkcSCvkg

as Valjean in London https://mega.co.nz/#F!K4AxBZII!QSUAAthtf44CrhhzHIqz0A

RUDOLF Proshot (contains a torrent file to VOBs) https://mega.nz/#F!S4EkGCKD!LPNg5cPhYbQLYm0dCRAI9g

Leigh Martha Klinger as Mary https://mega.nz/#F!719UDLLa!-F5fbYhWLe0i6Xcfi6q36A

Silke Braas as Stephanie https://mega.nz/#F!rtdSiJYY!-dLKLSS8a01wt_wsAr2gVA

EVITA https://mega.nz/#F!Cc9xRBpA!HzUGiFwLyUuLJ-r5wfqs-Q

TANZ DER VAMPIRE Vienna https://mega.co.nz/#F!SxojCZwJ!VWFB_Mst2ISf17doO__vNQ

Berlin - January 18 https://mega.co.nz/#F!TMRRlJgR!cDtjkDR6sZA6vFjlaIz–A https://mega.nz/#!GYkAhbKZ!VcAi7fFsIgmkYS3r7GX1TesuEGc8OUqV-gX1NhWj5Ak

Berlin - January 19 https://mega.nz/#F!FcgwkZDa!pOC5997yRhDxj_99mRdTHA

Berlin - December 20 https://mega.nz/#F!FcgwkZDa!pOC5997yRhDxj_99mRdTHA

Berlin - December 1 https://mega.nz/#F!0poAiIIA!w2A5VZi4ttch5NnLm9YiAQ

SISTER ACT https://mega.nz/#F!1FInGRhC!VgoQIMCIp2q5P28UTCuldw

ROCKY (i’d appreciate if someone told me the date of this one) https://mega.nz/#F!f5VTSZwD!AgaYCJUfB-ItlIV3b0L2GQ

June 3, 2014 http://www.4shared.com/folder/Gw_p1hGB/Rocky__Sarich_van_Tongeren_Ham.html

LOVE NEVER DIES 18 October https://mega.nz/#F!v5ElTKAK!wNpKyZfzf4eSeggXXgdH0A

19 October https://mega.nz/#F!yNg1wQKY!xxb6EU-BblapP4xjI-Kagw

20 October https://mega.nz/#F%215Yhg0B6S%21lN4tsobosUmCz0GAGoT76w

CONCERTS Konzert Shelter Wien https://mega.nz/#F!K9FwRA6J!vXmksjDRnq4LMd_Co7PVWQ

Backstage XXL Essen 26.09.2011 https://mega.nz/#F!B8pFkLgS!m-s2IMAQNKKO3ULkeTPTrQ

Musical Christmas (various dates) https://mega.nz/#F!4Ap0RAJa!NmxTZJwfZPbzQCMkFR6arQ

DIF 2009 http://www.4shared.com/folder/dEIBact-/DIF_2009.html

DIF 2003 https://mega.co.nz/#F!ad4gQAoB!6gDE1vxoajwGYsblSdZPFA

DIF 2004 https://mega.nz/#F!bwUGGBTI!vyoMqvAQaw-2OXmO_RPfJg

24 Stunden Musicals https://mega.nz/#F!mckkxKqa!fI6C7FukMBclvXoVwUkgbw

BOM 2004 https://mega.nz/#F!SodVWB5C!rW-4-wNPDWSwNeC2AwVnDQ

Voices for Life 2003 https://mega.nz/#F!1RgAmJIL!areVoxTZtsFMdSpIBqgp-w

Happy Birthday Uwe https://mega.nz/#F!kYcU1BSK!VHJ2_MNNNaxcu5j_Snc3JA

Haiti Gala 2011 https://mega.co.nz/#F!GYxy3JBL!53_HAcDe6ZmuLTjAPw4kbQ

Musical Meets Opera 2 https://mega.nz/#F!Qk4AlY4K!d8H8slJhcwEGvVYtlTRQLw

Musiksommer Korneuburg https://mega.nz/#F!ZpgClAQT!uZMP7xm8tnn0plPLUbkYSw

Leading Men https://mega.nz/#F!DEs3UZaJ!EDe8UD7upvMN0eXSHw_abA

Musical Couples & Friends https://mega.nz/#F!aEETFS5R!Z1n3Z1WFJ_-C6kjy9UldDQ

Nivea Familienfest https://mega.nz/#F!fRNGkYCB!Jz137zFaPTmFasRUY6k2TQ

Seth’s Broadway Chatterbox http://www.4shared.com/folder/4vokIV-w/Seths_Broadway_Chatterbox.html

Some of these links are not mine, so I can’t help if they go down. Those which are mine I’ll try to keep working for about a month.

My site is thatmonsternina.weebly.com and that’s where you find all video details in case you need them for trading. I do gifting so long as I have working links for what you ask and you ask for it in messages - not ask box. I did a similar post for Pia a couple of weeks ago, but it doesn’t mean that I’m going to ruin your trading by doing a post like this for every performer every month.

[brav3andwild]

Stage Musicals. The ones filmed on stage are not always the best quality. I tried to include every version I could find. Most of these are the movie versions, if a version was available. Enjoy! I highly suggest everyone installs an ad blocker before watching these videos: Firefox & Chrome Safari Android

[title of show] 1 2

9 to 5 - 1980 

13 on Broadway 1  2  3  4  5  6 

25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Original Broadway Cast

42nd Street - 1933 

A Gentlemen’s Guide to Love and Murder

A Little Night Music - 1990 Act 1  Act 2 

A Very Potter Musical

A Very Potter Sequel

A Very Potter Senior Year

Aida with Idina Menzel, Maya Days, and Matt Bogart

Annie - 1982 

Annie - 1999 

Annie on stage with Jane Lynch 1 2

Annie Get Your Gun - 1950 

Anything Goes - Sutton Foster, Joel Grey, Laura Osnes

American Idiot (password: greenday)

Assassins

bare Part 1 Part 2

Billy Elliot

Bonnie & Clyde with Laura Osnes and Jeremy Jordan Act 1 Act 2

Brigadoon - 1954 

Bring It On Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5

Broadway: The American Musical 1  2 

Broadway’s Lost Treasures 1 

Broadway’s Lost Treasures 2 

Broadway’s Lost Treasures 3 

Bye Bye Birdie - 1963 

Cabaret - 1972 

Cabaret on stage with Alan Cumming

Camelot - 1981 

Caroline, or Change

Carousel - 1956 

Carrie - 2012 Off-Broadway Revival 1  2  3  4  5  6 

Catch Me If You Can

Cats - 1988

Chaplin

Chess

Chicago - 2002 

Children of Eden

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - 1968 

Cinderella - 1997 

Cinderella - 2013

Company - 2006

Company - 2011 with Neil Patrick Harris

Cry-Baby - 1990 

Dogfight

Dracula - German

Dreamgirls Original Broadway Cast - very poor quality

Dreamgirls - 2006 

Evita - 1996

Evita - 2012 Revival Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4

Fame - 1980 

Fame - 2009 

Fiddler on the Roof - 1971 

Finian’s Rainbow - 1968 

First Date

Flashdance - 1983 

Flower Drum Song - 1961 

Follies

Footloose - 1984 

Footloose - 2011 

Funny Girl - 1968 

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - 1953 

Grease - 1978 

Grease on Broadway

Grey Gardens

Grey Gardens, different version

Guys and Dolls - 1955 Part 1 Part 2

Gypsy - 1962 

Gypsy - 2008 Revival

Hair - 1979 

Hair 1 2 3 4

Hairspray - 2006 with Aaron Tveit

Hairspray - 2007 

Hallelujah Broadway

Hedwig and the Angry Inch Original Cast

Hedwig and the Angry Inch - 2001 

Hello, Dolly! - 1969 

High Fidelity

High Society - 1956 

Holy Musical B@man!

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying - 1967 

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying - Darren Criss

If/Then

In the Heights Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4

Into the Woods - 1991 

Jekyll & Hyde Act 1  Act 2 

Jesus Christ Superstar - 1973 

Jesus Christ Superstar - 2012 Revival

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat - 2000 

Kismet - 1955 

Kiss Me Kate - 1953 

Legally Blonde Sing-a-long

Les Miserables 10th Anniversary Dream Cast

Les Miserables 25th Anniversary Part 1 Part 2

Les Miserables - 2000 with Sutton Foster

Les Miserables - 2012 

Lestat

Little Shop of Horrors - 1986 

Little Women

Mamma Mia! - 2008 

Man of La Mancha - 1972 

Mary Poppins: The Broadway Musical

Matilda the Musical

Matilda - another recording

Miss Saigon Broadway

Miss Saigon - National Tour

Miss Saigon - 2008

Monty Python’s Spamalot Part 1 Part 2

My Fair Lady - 1964 

My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies - 1999 

Never Forget

Newsies - 1992 

Newsies - Live 2012

Next to Normal

Next to Normal - Alice Ripley & JenniferDamiano’s last performance

Next to Normal with Jessica Phillips and Kyle Dean Massey

Nine - 2009 

No, No Nanette - 1940 

Oklahoma! - 1955 

Oliver! - 1968 

On A Clear Day You Can See Forever - 1970 

On the Town - 1949 

Once - 2006 

Once - Broadway

Once Upon a Mattress - 2005 

Paint Your Wagon - 1969 

Pal Joey - 1957 

Passing Strange - 2009

Passion - Original Broadway Cast

Peter and the Star Catcher

Peter Pan - 1960 

Peter Pan Tour 2012 Act 1 2

Pipe Dream (password: suzy)

Pippin, Live in Toronto - 1972 

Porgy and Bess

Ragtime - poor quality

Rent - 2005 Part 1  Part 2 

Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway - 2008 

Rent - Hollywood Bowl (password: tango maureen)

Riverdance: The Show - 1995 

Riverdance at Radio City Music Hall

Rock of Ages - 2012

Saturday Night Fever - 1977 

Saved!

Show Boat - 1936

Shrek: The Musical - 2013

South Pacific 1  2  3  4  5 

Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall

Song & Dance - 1984

Spring Awakening with Lea Michele

Starship

Sunday in the Park with George

Sunset Boulevard Act 1  Act 2 

Sweeney Todd Broadway - 1982 

Sweeney Todd: Live in Concert

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - 2007 

The Addams Family

The Addams Family obc

The Apple Tree Part 1 Part 2

The Book of Mormon

The Bridges of Madison County - 2014

The Drowsy Chaperone

The Full Monty - 1997 

The King and I - 1956 

The Light in the Piazza

The Little Mermaid - Sierra Boggess

The Music Man - 1962 

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

The Phantom of the Opera - 1989 

The Phantom of the Opera - 1990 

The Phantom of the Opera - 2004 

The Phantom of the Opera at the Albert Hall - 2011 

The Pirate Queen Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4

The Producers - 1968 

The Producers - 2005 

The Rocky Horror Picture Show - 1975 

The Sound of Music - 1965 

The Unauthorized Autobiography of Samantha Brown

The Wedding Singer

The Wiz - 1978 

Thoroughly Modern Millie Original Broadway Cast Act 1  Act 2 

Thoroughly Modern Millie

Three Musketeers with Aaron Tveit

Titanic: The Musical - Peace Players Production 1  2  3  4  5 

Tommy - 1975 

Twisted

Urinetown Original Broadway Cast

Victor/Victoria - 1982 

West Side Story - 1961 

White Christmas - 1954 

Wicked 

Wicked Kristin Chenoweth’s Last Performance

Wicked with Aaron Tveit (password: swankified)

Wicked with Annaleigh Asford and Stephanie J. Block Part 1 Part 2

Wonderland Act 1 Act 2

Xanadu Original Broadway Cast

Xanadu - 1980 

You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown

Young Frankenstein

[remember-me-to-the-parish]

GOD BLESS

[blooooooooong]

5 giờ sáng and I want to talk about how the 2016 cast of Rock Musical Bleach is not cut out for their roles in terms of singing. Không phải họ hát không hay, tui có thể đảm bảo điều đó, nhưng họ sẽ không bao giờ bằng được dàn original cast, cũng không phải vì dàn original cast giỏi hơn họ, vấn đề ở đây, the ultimate advantage của dàn original cast, chính là mỗi line riêng, mỗi bài hát riêng, đều được producer đo ni đóng giày cho màu giọng của chính diễn viên đó. For instance chúng ta hãy cùng phân tích bài chủ đề The Dark Of The Bleeding Moon, tui sẽ chỉ mang ra xem xét 3 line riêng của Hinamori Momo, Aizen Sousuke, và Kuchiki Byakuya thôi, tại đây là bài chung, hát đồng ca, nên phân tích line riêng sẽ rõ hơn, với cả đây là 3 line vô cùng iconic, không phải Kumiko, Kengo, và Shuuji thì sẽ không hát ra được.

Đầu tiên, line "Trăng đâu biết trời xanh đến nhường nào" của Hinamori Momo. Giọng của Kumiko hát line này rất cao, xin nhấn mạnh là rất cao, và sáng, trong vắt, như trời xanh không một gợn mây, và Kumiko hát được không một chút gượng ép cố gắng nào, giọng hát như xuyên thẳng qua người tui. Chất giọng đặc trưng của Kumiko là như thế, Kumiko khi đó còn rất trẻ, mới mười mấy hai mươi tuổi, hát lên một cái người tui tràn ngập cảm giác thanh thuần. Còn Miyama Karen diễn hồi 2016 hát không được cảm giác mượt mà như vậy, dù vẫn lên được tới cao độ đó, nhưng có cảm giác phải rất cố gắng. Nghe kỹ âm tiết cuối, chữ "iiiiiii" á, sẽ thấy âm "iiiii" của Karen bị đứt, đang to bị gãy cái cụp, còn âm "iiiiii" của Kumiko ngân nga một hồi mới nhỏ dần, mướt rượt 😩

Tiếp theo là line "Nhưng trời xanh vẫn luôn ngắm nhìn vầng trăng" của trùm phản diện Aizen Sousuke 🥲 Giọng của Ohkuchi Kengo bản chất rất trầm, ấm, và dày, cực dày, dày như cái chăn bông vậy á, ổng hát line này như rót mật vào tai mình nóng hổi. Baba Ryouma không có được chất giọng đó, và tui có ấn tượng rằng Ryoma đã phải literally rặn bằng tất cả sức lực để đạt cái độ trầm của Kengo, mà giọng vẫn không dày bằng nên nghe như Ryoma đang hát Rock, hát Death Metal. Ừ thì vở nhạc kịch này hát nhạc Rock mà you might say, nhưng ironic ở chỗ đó, giọng Kengo sinh ra để hát Ballad, và cái khí chất đó mới lại càng hợp với nhân vật Aizen, thâm trầm, và khác biệt với tất cả mọi người còn lại. Thêm nữa, giọng của Kengo không biết vô tình hay hữu ý, đối lập rất tốt với chất giọng của Kumiko, thành ra lột tả được rất đúng cái dynamic của con thuyền vỡ này 🥲

Và cuối cùng, chiếc line luôn ám trong đầu tôi, "Mắt ngươi đẫm huyết lệ" của Byakuya nii-sama 😭 Giọng của Hayashi Shuuji cũng trầm, nhưn là trầm khào, nếu ai đã từng xem vở Thằng Gù Nhà Thờ Đức Bà có Garou đóng vai thằng gù, sẽ hiểu được trầm khào tui đang nói là như thế nào, dù giọng của Shuuji không extreme tới như vậy, nhưng cái chất chính là cái chất đó. And everyone should know by now that so many things can go wrong with trying to replicate cái chất giọng đó 😩 Giọng Ino Hiroki bình thường tui thấy đã không dày, khi đóng Byakuya ảnh đã rất cố gắng làm dày giọng cho giống giọng Byakuya trong anime và kudos cho ảnh vì ảnh đã làm được, nhưn để hát như Shuuji là cả một vấn đề khác. Thêm nữa, line này đi từ cao xuống thấp rồi lại lên cao rất bất thường, Shuuji không phải gồng giọng nên tạm không sao, còn Hiroki vừa phải gồng cho giọng dày lên vừa phải theo cái melody khó chiều này nên câu hát không được mượt, but he managed just fine I think. Nếu để ý nghe kỹ âm cuối của line là âm "ru", sẽ thấy âm "ru" của Shuuji cắt rất clean và neat, rất tự nhiên, được phát âm đồng đều với các âm khác, không bị chỗi?, tui không biết tui viết từ này đúng không nữa 👀, ừ but you get my drift, còn Hiroki hát bị nhấn vào chữ "ru" hơi mạnh, điều này cho tui cái cảm giác như chữ "ru" là cú kết dứt khoát cho nỗi struggle khi hát line này của Hiroki, it's like him saying "omg I'm done, finally done with it" 🥲

Ừ wall of text thế thôi chắc tại tui lại nghĩ nhiều rồi 🥲 Tui không có chuyên môn gì đâu, tui chỉ có một niềm đam mê với việc so sánh đối chiếu thôi, đây là tui nghĩ vậy, các bạn nghĩ khác thì, òm, kệ 🤡 Mỗi người mỗi gu mà, đọc ý kiến của tui cho vui thôi nghen nothing serious 🥲🙏🏻

[voicesbyzane]

I think a lot about how in Ice Age 1 a huge theme is the slow but unstoppable advancement of the human species as they start to threaten previously unchallenged megafauna (hunting the pack of the antagonist sabertooth and killing Manny the mammoth’s family) and then in all the sequels they just fuckin disappear

[twinklecupcake]

I think a lot about how the first movie was actually pretty somber and dark with moments of lightheartedness and comedy, about three animals who had lost their own families finding family in each other while trying to return this baby to his own family… The first sequel, while wackier, touches on the existential dread and loneliness Manny feels at being the apparent last of his kind, his exhilaration at meeting another like him, and the question of “be together because we want to be, or we HAVE to be?” as well as Ellie having been part of a found family herself… ….and then the franchise from then on out turns into “wacky animal hijinks.”

[sky-squido]

OKAY FOR REAL i rewatched the original ice age a little while ago for nostalgia and this movie is GOOD you guys—i literally rewatched it all over again the next day. there are a couple of key things i noticed:

1. they know how to shut up. the animals know how and when to shut up. yes, even the comic relief one. do you have any idea how important this is? yes, they play it for laughs when diego first confronts manny and they fight and then diego stops, clears his throat, and asks manny politely for the child (which was brilliant, by the way, i laughed aloud), but aside from that, when there’s a serious moment, they let it be serious. when manny accepts the baby from the mother, when he sees the paintings of the mammoths on the cave wall, when he returns the baby to its father, these are moments where everyone is dead silent, even sid, and the music is soft and heartwrenching and the next line is rarely, if ever, a joke that undercuts the prior moment. they let these scenes linger and it really makes this feel like an emotional, somber, serious movie with fun character interactions rather than a comedy that makes cheap appeals to emotion.

2. the way they characterize manny at the beginning is SUPER interesting to me. by the end of this movie, we know manny is a big softie who was deeply wounded by the loss of his family. we as the audience don’t know this yet, though, and the first time we catch a hint that there’s something deeper going on here, it’s when manny firmly, sharply insists to sid that partners should be loyal to each other. it’s not an obnoxiously blatant “hey i have trauma” flag, since it could be interpreted as the writers playing with the monogamy of mammoths and promiscuity of sloths, which i’m fairly certain they bring up in this movie, if not one of the others. still, though, it strikes that perfect balance of not making the Oh Frick Manny Had A Family reveal later on completely blindside us while also not telegraphing it too obviously. at the beginning, manny is clearly a loner who wants nothing to do with sid, but to avoid making him come off as a straight-up jerk, they make it abundantly clear in the introductory sequence that he has a strong moral code that he holds himself to (”I don’t like animals that kill for pleasure”). i just thought this was really well done, opening the movie with a scene that demonstrates both that manny is a complex character who comes off as cold but cares deeply (which sid basically sees straight through and i love it) and that sid is incredibly unlikable and as such nobody likes him. i didn’t realize it at first, but that’s such an interesting move. we open the movie with sid getting abandoned by his family, but then we find out how annoying he is and go “oh, well that explains it.” but then he tells manny all about how they regularly do their best to ditch him and it’s so clear that he’s just too pure and innocent to hold any malice towards them. under it all, though, it’s clear that he’s lonely, too, and has been for a while. these characters have depth, and feel like people, and every quiet moment just drives it home even more that they really don’t have anyone except each other.

3. DIEGO! we stan. i think it’s really interesting how instead of just throwing these characters into the world together, the writers make it clear that they had other people, before, but those people either were toxic and ditched them (sid’s family), were toxic and needed to be ditched (diego’s pack), or were loving but torn away by circumstance (manny’s family). i dunno, it just adds a really interesting layer of depth here. but anyway, diego’s arc was just really well done. he’s only there to get the kid, and though he does start to enjoy himself, he still has his mission. but when manny risks his life to save diego’s and sid makes that comment pointing it out, you can SEE how he starts to linger, starts to dread, the guilt builds up until he TELLS THEM. that’s so important! he tells them!!! there’s no stupid, “liar revealed” plotline where they figure out that he’s been tricking them because he comes clean himself, without provocation or pressure, and they do eventually forgive him and that’s SO important. diego wasn’t being honest with them, was living a lie and planning to betray them, and he made the incredibly difficult decision to stop in his tracks and come clean on his own terms because he knew it was the right thing to do. there were So Many Ways the writers could have handled that reveal, but to have diego just stop, think, change his mind, and confess was SO GOOD. also the dynamic between the three of them was just really, really great. i’m so emotionally attached to these early-2000′s CGI creatures okay.

4. speaking of which, this movie is surprisingly good-looking. like it came out in 2002. that is IMPRESSIVE. manny’s fur holds up shockingly well and my suspension of disbelief was never fricked up by poorly rendered CGI graphics. props to blue sky, man.

5. okay point five is lowkey the whole reason for this rant because it’s a really really cool point i only noticed on my second watch through: the parallelism. why does diego have to kidnap this baby? because his pack’s leader (soto, apparently) wants to eat it alive as revenge for the humans killing half of his own. why does manny want to rescue this baby? because he, too, is a parent who lost a child and doesn’t want the humans to go through that. but, wait, hang on a minute, how did he lose his child? oh, yeah, the humans killed it and his wife right in front of him. both soto and manny lost most of the people they care about to the humans—these humans, specifically, since they seem to be the only community in the area—but where soto swears revenge, manny doesn’t want them to go through what he went through, even though this very act could be what perpetuates that. and they acknowledge it in the movie. diego mentions how this baby is gonna grow up to hunt them and sid counters that maybe the fact that they saved it means it will remember their kindness and things will change. but the whole movie carries the somber atmosphere of a tragedy because, as someone else mentioned above, the humans are steadily encroaching and all of these creatures are going to go extinct, and this one act of kindness may not have the intended effect and may soon be lost to the uncaring tides of history, but that doesn’t make it any less worth it. manny isn’t doing this to try and make a statement or change the humans’ behavior, he just wants to prevent them from going through what he did. calling this story one of “breaking the cycle of violence” cheapens it, i feel, because the humans are hunting the mammoths, not out of malice, but out of necessity for furs and meat and bone and tusk. it’s nothing personal—they’re predators. but still, manny seeks them out to return their baby to them. and when the baby’s father is raising his spear at manny when he’s trying to return it, you can just see that look in manny’s eyes, that he’s begging this human to understand, but he’s prepared to get speared if it means this kid gets to be with his father and MY HEART, YOU GUYS.

6. FOUND FAMILY FOUND FAMILY like i know found family isn’t really all that hard to come by, but this movie is REALLY explicit about it in a good way! they make the distinction between a pack—a group who wants you for what you can do for them—and a herd—a group who regularly looks out to see what they can do for you. and a saber-tooth tiger leaves his PACK to join this HERD! and they joke that this is the weirdest herd they’ve ever seen, but a carnivore has just joined a herd and that makes me feel SO MANY FEELINGS

ultimately, ice age is a movie about choices. manny’s choice to return this kid to its parents, even though he lost his own kid to those very parents, diego’s choice to come clean about his betrayal and his choice to join a herd even though he’s a carnivore, manny making the choice to risk his life to save diego, diego making the choice to return the favor, and all three of them making the choice to not give up hope that they can find a new family again after losing what they had before. this is a movie in which characters are more than the way they were born, are more than the circumstances of their lives, are more than what happens to them. they make choices and their choices matter and they choose to be kind, even when they have absolutely nothing to gain from it and everything to lose from it.

i guess you could say this movie aged nicely.

thank you and good night

[vilmublue]

Also, I’d like to point out that the reason the people in the movie look like that is that they’re Neanderthals, not Homo Sapiens.

[blooooooooong]

Idk but as a smoker and an extremely egoistic child, I find the act of letting someone have the first drag of my cigarette speaks louder than any word that I absolutely obviously love that person.

And yea I am more than convinced that 2 sharing a cigarette is romantic at best.

[tetiyus]

Tanaka Shunsuke in UFO

[blooooooooong]

OMG I mean, look at him, I’m hyperventilating right now. I’ve watch the MV, this beauty gives me a heart attack!

[blooooooooong]

It’s been ages since I last went on Tumblr 😅 Apparently my phone’s storage was so full that I had to uninstall Tumblr from it 😢 I’ve been missing all the HQ arts and memes and incorrect quotes so badly... And all the Touken contents...   

[oysterrr]

Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone!

[wrong-haikyuu-quotes]

Daichi: go to your room!

Hinata: that's not fair

Daichi: do as i say!

Hinata: you never tell Tsukishima to go to his room when he's in trouble

Daichi: Tsukishima never leaves his room. If he was in trouble, I'd make him sit in the living room or talk to other human beings

Tsukishima,from his room: I CAN HEAR YOU

[wrong-haikyuu-quotes]

Oikawa, admiring Iwaizumi from a distance: he could end my life anyday and i'd thank him

Kuroo: we'd thank him too

[wattemeer]

Fun

[cryptonature]

‪Birds are dinosaurs who shrugged off a couple apocalypses. Some eat bone marrow. Some drink nectar. They outswim fish in the sea. They smile politely at gravity’s demands. ‬‪I am grateful to see them. I am grateful to feed them. I am grateful to know them.‬