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Nevertochange-evertoshare -> hesimpossibletoreasonwith -> idontknowiwasntlistening

#whoops i changed it again #this is funnier to me

'theatre is dying' okay but everyone is flocking to see a beautiful hit musical now that it's been released in the cinema, something more affordable and accessible to most people, and ticket sales in the west end in particular have spiked

'cinema is dying' okay but everyone is flocking to their local cinema to see a beautiful hit musical, and so many have shown up this weekend that licensers decided to extend its theatrical release for another week, a massive rarity in the current climate

maybe the answer to saving art is... seeing art?? and making art accessible??

#BIG on the making art accessible!!!#i said it when the hamilton proshot came out and i'll say it again #this only does good things for theatre and i stand by that

borntolead

GERIANNE PÉREZ as EWEN MONTAGU, JOHNNY BEVAN, JEAN LESLIE, & OTHERS

#got to see Geri Monty in February and she was soooooo good!#operation mincemeat

Is this a safe space to say I think the Hadestown live original cast album is better than the version that came to Broadway?

#like don’t get me wrong the Broadway one is great too #but I’m listening to the live original album again and I think it’s leagues better #hadestown

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.

bisexualshakespeare

[ID: excerpt from an article reading: One of my favorite stories, which should drive anyone who has every played in a band crazy-- there’s this bassoon player who has sat next to the same clarinet player since 1988. She’s convinced he plays half a note4 flat on every note he’s every played. He denies this. /]

cleverlittlefox

Here’s how Operation Mincemeat can still win:

#I just think they should make an exception 🤷#tonys #tony awards #tonys 2026

I love when people talk about Chess because it’s always like yes, it is kind of bad. No, there’s never been a particularly good production. I have extremely strong opinions on which songs should be included and in which order. This is my favorite musical.

#it’s so funny but also I totally get it and I love it #chess broadway #chess musical

Special Tony award for Nicholas Christopher's "Never" during Endgame (Pt. 2)

#still thinking about it 3 months later #best moment in the show for sure #chess #chess broadway #nicholas christopher

Finally listened to the Chess album and was just thinking how much I want to see it again only to find out it's closing in June 😭

#like listen there was a lot i didn't particularly care for #but overall i really liked the show and the music is /so/ good #ideal world: i go back to nyc in June and see DBH chess and moulin rouge before they close #i had planned to see dbh on my trip in february but then ragtime extended so i saw that instead which i do not regret #but i would love to see dbh #my wallet will absolutely not allow this trip though so someone let me live vicariously through you

So I watched Suffs

#love a woman playing a man and making him so cunty #also go watch suffs it was very good #suffs musical #operation mincemeat

I’m not saying this Broadway season was bad but I am saying Mincemeat would have dominated the Tonys if it opened this year

#oh for a show to open in a year with so much competition #This season was just kind of lackluster #don’t get me wrong I’d still see most of the nominated shows #I’m just not as excited by them #helluva year for revivals though

areyoudoingthis

the importance of being earnest gdrive link for anyone who missed it or wants to watch it again ✨

kilp15

Charles Cholmondeley//Ewen Montagu I know//Of course you do

Or: It's been 83 years since the two of them said their last goodbye to Major William "Bill" Martin and they had to trust that they had done as much as they could and Bill would succeed in his mission. (It's also the 83rd anniversary of the photo that this is based on)

[And the bar crawl. It would be the anniversary of their bar crawl from the musical today [April 17th]]

I have planned to make something else for April 30th when Bill was brought onshore in Huelva, but depending on exams and burnout it might not happen on time.

I don't really talk about my thoughts on the show or it's significance to me too much on here and I mostly post art, but I wanted to share that the quote I used is the one I have a tattoo of. I think that this show is so beautiful and it's changed my life in a way that I fail to articulate (for which I need to thank two men 83 years ago for following though on their wacky wacky plan that against all odds, succeeded and saved many)

#the way i saw operation mincemeat on operation mincemeat day last year #and this is how i'm just finding out about it #operation mincemeat #i love this so much but especially your charlie <3