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[annabelle--cane]

I hear they're putting down andrew lloyd webber after phantom on broadway closes. SAD. oh well there's other composers.

[tindolini]

RENT Act I ► Rent

How can you connect in an age Where strangers, landlords, lovers Your own blood cells betray What binds the fabric together When the raging, shifting winds of change Keep ripping away

[you-have-to-use-your-imagination]

anyone who told you much ado about nothing is good and worth watching was RIGHT and you should listen to them

[raven-curls]

Green elixir.

X

[raven-curls]

[star-can-wrecked-screenshots]

[witch-in-pointy-hat]

Starkid is modern Shakespeare and no I’m not kidding

Strong emotional core

Widely available to the masses or “common theater”

Most successful plays are adaptations/ parodies of older stories

Dick jokes

In 500 years kids are going to read Twisted and not understand any of it and that’s a shame.

[itscolossal]

The Fourth Wall: A Rare View of Famous European Theater Auditoriums Photographed from the Stage

[talesandfluff]

just so we’re clear, this is where I stand on all Joey characters so far. I did not include every single character strictly for sake of time (this took me hours lol) but they’re bi too. 

(anyone is totally free to use these for any purpose without asking for permission or credit! free range!)

[crutchie-with-a-y]

broadway really makes bank telling the stories of the oppressed and disenfranchised while refusing to make their productions available to people who are members of those opressed and disenfranchised communities.

[exeggcute]

one of my favorite this american life segments of late is about the people who played orchestra pit for phantom of the opera on broadway and how, like, a sizeable majority of them had literally been playing the show since it opened in 1988 (on broadway. I know it opened in 86 on the west end, you random pedants, but I am specifically talking about broadway musicians) because their contracts stipulated that they'd have jobs throughout the show's entire run... but nobody anticipated that phantom would become the longest-running broadway show of all time.

and none of these people wanted to walk away from a guaranteed job, so very few of them ever quit. they just kept doing the same show eight nights a week... for twenty or thirty years... and by the time it finally closed last year most of these musicians (who had been working together for DECADES) hated each other and really really fucking loathed phantom. I can't stop thinking about it. it's indescribably hellish to imagine but also the funniest thing I've ever heard in my life.

[exeggcute]

can you imagine.

[foronewholeminute]

Newsies but they all wear light up Sketchers

[lesmiserelphieoftheopera-deacti]

Wicked 30 Day Challenge 18/30

No One Mourns the Wicked or Finale

[norabeanie]

she has something to tell u

[talesandfluff]

I’m listening

[girldumas]

Okay so Valjean’s father is called Jean and his mother is called Jeanne and his sister is called Jeanne and he himself is called Jean.

M'kay.

[pontificalandwarlike]

|| i know this is supposed to be a funny post but I’m going to hijack it (sorry) because –– this is actually a deliberate thing. Namelessness is one of the characteristics of the miserables in the book. 

You mentioned the ubiquity of Jean/ne as a name; when everyone is named Jean, your own identity is erased in the midst of all the people who share your name, and you become effectively nameless. On top of that, Hugo mentions at one point that the full name Jean Valjean is likely a corruption of Jean, Voilà Jean –> Jean, V’la Jean –> Jean Valjean. As in, his name is literally “Jean, here is Jean”. The man effectively doesn’t even have a real last name. Nameless. 

It’s not just Valjean, though. See Fantine. Did her parents name her Fantine, was there meaning and love attached to this name? Nope. She was a young girl waking alone barefoot in the streets, and some passerby called her Fantine. It stuck, because there wasn’t any other name to call her by. She had no family name, no nom de baptême (roughly, Christian name). Again, nameless. 

I’ll wrap this up with Cosette, although you can go farther with it. What does Cosette mean? It’s a corruption of chosette, or “little thing.” Her name is, literally, “little thing.” Sure, she has a “real” name, Euphrasie, but no one calls her that. Effectively, nameless. 

It’s a form of dehumanization, robbing these people of their names. It makes them nobody, and it makes them everybody. It serves the same purpose as calling Valjean 24061 in the musical –– it says that you, you are not human, you are not worthy of respect and dignity. You are not worthy of even a name. It’s how Hugo illustrates one part of the plight of the misérables. You take away a name, and suddenly it is barely a half-step more to take away dignity, agency, power, humanity.

[dolokhoded]

rare aesthetics: the four horsemen of the apocalypse

[chrishemsworht]

get to know me: [7/20 films] • Rent (2005) dir. Chris Columbus “There is no future, there is no past. I live this moment as my last. There’s only us. There’s only this. Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other road. No other way. No day but today. I can’t control my destiny. I trust my soul, my only goal is just to be. There’s only now, there’s only here. Give into love, or live in fear. No other course, no other way.”

[cassidystclair]

The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals spoilers but with zero context