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mary | 25 | bipolar | here to talk about musical theatre and mental health | next to normal and fun home own my soul

[faeriejoan-deactivated20241211]

[daughter-0f-air]

“always an angel, never a god” is so enjolras-coded

[biblecoded]

still baffled that “be easy”, “be serious” “i am wild”, “permets tu”, and just the entirety of grantaire's introduction is actually in the brick and isn't from fanfiction

[mousidy]

rebolg to crawl around in tunnels underground

[television-bodies]

do people even know they’re writing songs about enjolras and grantaire

[ashleyslorens]

[oof-i-did-it-agaaiiin]

Thinking about how many musical tragedies feature the narrative almost as a character of its own. Like a force within the story, divided from the characters. Out of their control at times.

Orpheus had to turn around, that’s just how it goes. That’s the way the story is told.

Tony had to go and get himself killed. Of course he did. He’s Romeo. The story wills it so.

Jesus must die. No matter how much he wanted to live, no matter how much the people around him wanted him to live. It’s his role to die.

Alison can’t go back and change the events of that last car ride with her father. It’s set in stone, there in the past where it will always remain.

And then there are musicals like Once On This Island and Ride The Cyclone that embrace the role of inevitability in their stories and find joy anyway.

And then on the exact opposite side of the spectrum there’s the radical freedom from the narrative that’s seen in Into The Woods. The narrator is dead and now the story is no one’s but the characters. And there’s the lack of protection that comes with that, the chaos and confusion. But it’s theirs and it’s tragic but they make the best with it.

Those themes of Inevitability vs. Freedom and the meta understanding of story within a story. I can’t seem to get enough.

[mochacoffee]

sometimes you just have to return to the tonys performance of ring of keys and cry despite yourself

[television-bodies]

writing les mis fics set in any country other than france is so embarrassing. i’m writing like all the characters don’t have the most french sounding names in existence. Combeferre, from Scotland. babe what are you talking about

[roycohns]

more recent musicals NEED an overture like a real good overture that takes the best parts of the songs and puts it into a fun little opening instrumental number this is like crucial.

[memories]

Do not blame me for who I am. The doctor prescribed me 20 mL of #jesus christ superstar twice a day.

[taipa13]

The only place I upload my Les mis drawings is in old tradition tumblr….also tradition is that I am going to delete this in latest half a year…..so I guess here you go…

[ukulelekatie]

Kids these days don’t know how good they have it. Back in our day the only gay baseball rep we had was I Don’t Dance from High School Musical 2

[daughter-0f-air]

I am literally on my knees begging for them to cast Denée Benton as Daisy in Florence Welch’s Great Gatsby musical

[ashleyslorens]

#he’s got that sadness in his eyes that you only ever see in catholic stained glass windows

[snazzystarlight]

This came out so pretty! This is “Ring Of Keys” from Fun Home as I see it because of synesthesia! I really like this musical, so it was pleasant to revisit it for this painting!

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[lhavdil]

victor hugo was so woman coded for writing so much about les amis