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Keke Palmer’s Cinderella Looks [x]

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Keke Palmer as Cinderella

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MUSICAL THEATRE FEMALE CHARACTER MEME

day 15: your all-time favorite female character in a musical | Francesca Johnson

but what is true is that we loved, and that i loved, and that i love, and i will always love. and love is always better.

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Remember that time 6-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald rudely interrupted your interview by serenading you with some Porgy & Bess perfection? Remember, Daniel? [x]

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#i think i just witnessed daniel radcliffe fall in love

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@BarrettWeed: Everyone has reasons for what they do. It’s so bizarre to acknowledge that.

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Who am I anyway? Am I my resume? That is a picture of a person I don’t know.

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Barbra Streisand photographed during a ballet lesson in 1963.

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Lesli Margherita’s morning struggle.

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One of the festival’s biggest surprises is Richard LaGravanese’s sparsely staged, but lushly orchestrated and perfectly acted adaptation of Jason Robert Brown’s tightly constructed off-Broadway musical.

Jumping back and forth through time between ages 23 to 28 for a pair of young lovers – budding novelist Jamie (Jeremy Jordan) and struggling actress Cathy (Anna Kendrick) – the story never takes a linear path, but matches up perfectly the ups and downs of a relationship the same way a great album would arrange tracks of love and heartache next to each other.

The music is top notch, perfectly produced, and expertly written, but it’s paired with an intimate, low key, low budget handheld style by LaGravanese. Think von Trier’s Dancer in the Dark, but less of a downer. Well, it’s still a downer since we know from the opening scene how it’s going to end, but that’s not an unfair point of comparison stylistically. Only here, it’s a full on musical with almost no interludes, and every number is designed to be a go-for-broke showstopper.

Jordan and Kendrick have perfect chemistry and are able to convincingly portray the couple’s honeymoon phase alongside their acrimonious, jealously tinged marriage. The fact that they do it all without having a straightforward narrative and only a small handful of lines that are spoken instead of sung is astounding. Their energy and enthusiasm for the material gives the film the kind of lived in quality LaGravanese’s staging requires.

Sure, it might be aiming for twentysomethings and going straight for their feels, but damned if it doesn’t play perfectly.

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if anyone actually likes the song Nobody Needs to Know they are actually wrong. like how do you even listen to it without being kind of sickened? like fuck jamie.