TELL ME ABOUT UR JAVID AU
I LITERALLY SPENT ALL DAY AT WORK THINKING ABOUT THIS AU THANKS FOR ASKING
a well known lyricist & composer discovers davey’s writing (davey writes the most brilliant adaptions & original stuff for regional theatre) and begs him to work together on something she wants to get to broadway
davey is confused bc did he just hear his name and broadway in the same sentence.
by the time it’s ready they have producers & a team of creatives who the get sent the script to begin designing and casting
davey assumes he’s pretty much done w involvement unless they need some rewrites but then a producer is like “yo the set designer wants to see u”
this is where davey meets jack kelly. this young guy about his age who shows up to their meeting in a cafe w paint stained jeans and graphite on his hands. they introduce themselves & chat a bit about the musical then jack brings out his tablet and shows davey his designs
“is this how you imagined it?”
davey will never say so but he pretty much fell in love w jack kelly then and there because no one has ever asked him that question before when visualising anything he’s written
it’s beautiful. the detail and thought jack has put in honestly makes davey want to cry
(sure enough weeks later he sees jack’s copy of the script which is meticulously annotated with highlighters & sticky notes all colour coded)
jack insists they exchange contact info and he texts davey whenever he’s stuck on visualising something or has too many options
“shouldn’t you ask the director this?”“still want your opinion first”
they fast become friends and by the time opening night off-broadway comes around they’re pretty much best friends and drunk jack at the after party won’t stop talking about how he wants to work with davey again bc everything davey writes is “just so beautiful guys are you listening”
off-broadway goes really well; the show has criticisms but fact is audiences LOVE it and it’s not too challenging for the producers to get a broadway theatre after that
jack & davey have been working on other stuff and still catch up occasionally but the director brings them both back bc stuff needs to be changed for the broadway run
jack is helping davey change some dialogue when he asks davey out. the convo literally goes like this:“we should go on a date sometime”“jack these characters are siblings”“no davey, i mean us”“oh… i’d like that”
and thus broadway’s power couple emerges
they “announce” their relationship when jack posts a silly selfie on insta of him kissing davey’s cheek on opening night on broadway and adds some cheesy caption like “so glad this project brought me to you”
broadway.com loves them
(this is so long but it’s literally not even all i have about this au so if you have any prompts/headcanon requests hmu bc I LOVE THIS AU OKAY)