en route to the sky

My name is Kristin I'm a 20 year old college junior And as you can tell, I love musical theatre I also love Ramin Karimloo more than you ♪ ♫ ♬ Music ♪ ♫ ♬ de-lovelies "It does what a musical is supposed to do! It takes you to another world and it gives you a little tune to carry in your head for when you're feeling blue .” - The Drowsy Chaperone

[ariml]

How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore and a Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a Forgotten spot in the Caribbean by providence Impoverished, in squalor Grow up to be a hero and a scholar?

[theatregraphics]

Q: The founding fathers were white, and many owned black slaves. The cast of “Hamilton” is mostly nonwhite. Can you tell me about your thinking as you wrote and cast the show?

Miranda: This was a constant conversation between me and Tommy. Our goal was: This is a story about America then, told by America now, and we want to eliminate any distance — our story should look the way our country looks. Then we found the best people to embody these parts. I think it’s a very powerful statement without having to be a statement.  Odom Jr.: In the first two minutes of this show, Lin steps forward and introduces himself as Alexander Hamilton, and Chris steps forward and says he’s George Washington, and you never question it again. When I think about what it would mean to me as a 13, 14-year-old kid, to get this album or see this show — it can make me very emotional. And I so look forward to the day I get to see an Asian-American Burr.  Miranda: That’ll be the note that goes with the school productions: If this show ends up looking like the actual founding fathers, you messed up.

[sex4wifi]

[sallinger]

Fun Home performs on Late Night with Seth Meyers [x]

[phantomfacesatthewindow]

I’m sorry I haven’t been super active the last few months, guys. I’ve been really busy between graduation, auditioning, shows, rehearsals, job hunting...the list goes on. I’m gonna try my best to be more active from now on. Thanks for understanding you guys! <3 

[lauraosnessource]

I’d love to do movies and be on TV. But I think if I transitioned into TV/film completely, I would really miss singing and dancing. It would be ideal to be cast in a movie musical!

[thoroughlymodernreviewer]

The Cast of Something Rotten performs a medley of “God, I Hate Shakespeare” and “Hard to Be the Bard” on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, May 15, 2015.

[miyacantdecide]

Natalie & Henry - the first and last

[zainromaine]

Transgender vs "Transracial"

The difference between gender and race is that although they are both social constructs, gender has a historical basis in personal identity. Gender has been a part of cultural identity throughout a vast amount of ethnic groups, and many of these groups have lived gender in complex ways throughout time before colonization.

For example, an ethnic group in Indonesia called the Bugis have historically believed in 5 genders. Another example is the Two Spirit identity in certain Native American tribes that praise gender fluid people as wise leaders.

This proves that there is no true concept of what gender inherently is because historically gender fluidity has been a true, lived experience. We have never been born as a gender, but Eurocentric ideals have imposed the way we think that people are either one or the other and that people “change” genders. Gender is a social construct but it is also a LIVED experience that we feel within ourselves. As a social construct, it is not based in actual face or science that the binary is a true and accurate way of living gender, but it is created on ideas of being based on our bodies at birth.

Race, on the other hand, is created simply to label people based on ethnicity and skin color. It has no historical relevance in identity, only in categorization. In modern day we only identify with racial labels because of the social implications of race. In pre-colonial times we didn’t have “race,” we were simply just people. Race is simply defined as a construct, with implications only socially. There is no LIVED experience of race. It didn’t exist at all until colonization.

A trans person’s life will change drastically due to presentation and identity, no matter if they are trans male, trans female, no binary, etc.

A person of color will NEVER be seen as a white person. Certainly, there are light skinned people of color. But regardless, no person of color will ever receive the true benefits of white privileges. I could never just go around calling myself white and reap the same benefits granted from that privilege.

Honestly the idea of “transracial” is incredibly transphobic because it erases the lived experience of gender. Please don’t believe for a second people can be transracial, because race can never be changed for every individual person.

[phantomfacesatthewindow]

Im less than six degrees of separation away from Barret Wilbert Weed and it's kind of amazing. So if you don't know, I live in the Washington DC area and am currently trying to break into the theatre scene here. As you may already know, Barret is currently starring in Signature Theatre's Cabaret in Arlington, VA. I not only know 3 cast member, but I'm also participating in Signature's Overtures program - a 2 week musical theatre intensive filled with workshops and master classes taught by signature staff and guest artists. Wesley Taylor, who is also in Cabaret as the Emcee, is definitely one of the artists giving a master class, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that Barret shows up too. I think I would fall on the floor and cry.

[surreptitious-stories]

[lin-manuel]

Sydney Lucas and Michael Cerveris at the 2015 Tony Awards 

[womenofbroadway]

They met in the hallway of the Paramount Hotel. It was the annual Tony-nominees-meet-the-media event, and Chita Rivera, 82, was about to leave for her matinee performance when she spotted a fellow nominee, 11-year-old Sydney Lucas. She stopped, said hello, posed for a few photos. And then, while mugging for the cameras, the oldest of this year’s acting nominees pointed at the youngest and cracked, “Before, and after.”

[takemeorleavemeonbroadway-blog]

[cinecat]

[phantomfacesatthewindow]

AHAHAHA REMEMBER THAT TIME A DC FAMOUS ACTRESS RECOMMENDED ME FOR A JOB WITH ANOTHER DC FAMOUS ACTRESS AND ARTISTIC DIRECTOR AND SHE MESSAGED ME ON FACEBOOK BUT IT WENT INTO MY “OTHER” BOX AND I DIDNT SEE IT FOR THREE DAYS AND I MADE MYSELF SOUND LIKE AN IDIOT IN MY RESPONSE BACK AHAHAHAHA i do because thats what just happened kill me 

[willexxmercer]

Vanessa Hudgens and the cast of Gigi perform “The Night They Invented Champagne” at the American Theatre Wing’s 69th Annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall on June 7, 2015 in New York City. (2/2)