(out of character but…)
okay I saw the outsiders on broadway today. THAT WAS DEVASTATING. saw it with Emma Pittman (stunning). I’ve written an essay on the musical but some of the dialogue man…
(johnny’s parents can be seen and heard fighting and yelling. johnny is sitting outside. dally walks up to him.)
dally: “cant go in there, can you.”
johnny: “no. but i cant leave either cause i’m scared he’ll kill her”
Being a person with abusive parents, I get this WAY too much. After the time my father pushed my sister out of a door, slammed and locked it on her, NEAR A SET OF STAIRS, after saying he’d never lay a hand on us… gods the screams of my sister calling him a liar echo in my mind… I want to run. I can’t. I have a younger brother too.
(right before the song faraway from tulsa, johnny is in the park when pony runs out after of course getting hit by darry. they talk.)
johnny: “sometimes i wish i could just disappear… just press a button and…”
pony: “you cant say that johnny-“
johnny: “i think about it all the time pony”
like oh? I get that too. Not even like… death per se. Just disappearance.
Ollie out!