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sometimes life is falling again in old habits (having little to do so I can fall into being musical obsessed again)

#this is about #mean girls 2024 #but also i'm so close to being back to my watt era #for anyone who remembers

“Why We Build the Wall” is one of the few songs in my life that I wrote very quickly, almost before I understood what it meant. It was 2006 and I was living in Vermont. The song went into the first staging of Hadestown and then quickly became, at my songwriter shows, the one everyone wanted to hear. There’s much I could say about it—and how its meaning continues to change as the world changes—but I’d rather leave that conversation to the audience. It is, after all, a series of questions, and my guess is that the conversation it provokes is worth more than any statement I could make. Instead, here’s a little anecdote about the song’s language and where it may have come from. In college, I studied abroad in Cairo, Egypt. My Arabic Lit professor was an older woman with dark eyeliner who took it upon herself to introduce leftist, bohemian values to a generation of distracted young Egyptians. She barely concealed her disdain for then-president Hosni Mubarak, and expressed nostalgia for the 1960s and the populist president Gamal Abdel Nasser in particular. “What did Nasser call the citizens?” she asked the students, who remained silent, some gazing into mobile phones. “‘Brothers and sisters’!” she said. “And what does Mubarak call us? ‘My children’…“

–from Working On A Song: The Music and Lyrics of Hadestown by Anais Mitchell

#Hadestown #for today

greetings everyone i'm back from the dead just to analyse the adaptation of come from away from english to spanish because there's just SO MUCH there

#like ????#carla calabrese went FERAL w some of it #and i mean that #suddenly i'm far from everything #suddenly something has died #suddenly the path is dark between the sky and i????????#feral #come from away #come from away argentina

ghostlypawn

COME FROM AWAY (2021)

stylesloveclub

debate: do you guys take someone unfollowing you as personal

#on like tumblr? no #on like instagram? yes

spookyboywhump

If you say you support latinos then you’ll support us when we say latinx ain’t a word lmao

ghostlypawn

six: a summary

#this is absolutely amazing #six the musical

knvbljdflkgleknb

I am not Latino but can I get a cute spanish nickname too?

gringo

musicalgifs

i was fully aware that stephen sondheim was 91 and yet it didn’t even occur to me that he could die

#i've been talking about him for days yet i didn't thought thid would happen #may his memory be a blessing

marisatomay

man. what a gift to have been on this earth at the same time as stephen sondheim.

ghostlypawn

lucy just confirmed that seymour’s ‘tudor von trapps’ is about henry and their potential family together and ive never wanted the sweet relief of death more