#miyacantdecide

[willowstea]

What's your favorite non-theatre Idina song? (original or cover)

I Stand. I find the melody very calming, especially with Idina's voice. Some of my other favourites are Like Lighting and Here.

For covers, when she did True Colours on her tree house series that was amazing. There's another cover I remember adoring but I can't for the life of me remember the song name. I think I heard a clip of it on YouTube but I have no idea.

[thecitykeepsevolving]

I HATE NOT HAVING FRIENDS WHO LIKE BROADWAY!!!!!!!

[veilingofthesun]

2, 21, 28, 38, & 40 for the musical ask!!

This will be fun:) Thanks for the asks

2. What musical got you really  into theatre?

I loved The sound of music with all my heart as a child. It is my mum’s favourite movie. For some reason it was shown on Swedish TV every christmas season, so we'd watch it at least once a year. My mum had (and still has) the LP, me and my sister would listen to it and look at the pictures on the sleeve a lot. We'd play the Von Trapp children and sing the songs all the time. Our parents took us to see a local amateur production when I was about 8-9 and I fell in love with it even more and wanted to play Brigitta. For various reasons, my interest in musicals faded away for a number of years.

Fast forward several years later and my sister had started to get interested in musicals again. It began with Matilda the Musical and soon we came across Kitt & Yorkey’s work. Matilda, N2N and If/Then were the musicals that really got me back into musicals again. A year or two later I went to London and watched musicals for the first time in several years. The year after I went to Malmö Opera to see Billy Elliot and after these trips I was hooked. Now here I am, obsessed with musicals and running a blog about Swedish productions.

21. Best Disney musical:

I have only seen two,The hunchback of Notre Dame and Beauty and the Beast. You’d think it would be easy to pick one since I’ve only seen two, but I really enjoyed both of them. Both productions were amazing, so I can’t really choose. I’ll say both.

28. What book, tv show, movie, biography, video game, etc. should be turned into a musical?

I would like to see a big, full scale of production of the book Ronja Rövardotter (Ronia the robbers daughter) by Astrid Lindgren. It’s a childrens book that I love a lot. There’s been a lot of adaptions for TV and some smaller plays based on her books, but not a a musical. Plus Ronja has been overlooked in terms of stage work. A high budget musical with a big cast and advanced scenography and lightning to capture the mood and look of the book would be amazing.But the director would also have to capture the sad themes of the story and the relationships between the characters.It’s a deep story about coming of age (among other things)and you have to take it seriously. Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson would be the dream composers because the score has to be quite grand and dramatic and also a bit of Swedish folk musicish.

38. Favourite dance break.

It’s a very fitting question for a dance lover like me! :) It seems like people define dance breaks a bit differently, so I’ll just go with the first thing that came to mind. I really like the bottle dance/wedding dance from Fiddler on the roof. I like the intricacy and how it accelarates with the music. Seeing it live was really special.

40. What’s a musical more people should know about?

If/Then, of course, it deserves much more love and recognition. The concept, the story, the characters, the beautiful music and lyrics, I love it so much. It makes me think, laugh, cry and connect with all the characters in different ways. I never tire of If/Then. I always come back to it.

Also, Kristina från Duvemåla and Så som i himmelen. Kristina från Duvemåla is like the peak of Swedish musicals, based on one of the most beloved Swedish book series ever, music and lyrics by Björn and Benny and the most loved and successful Swedish musical of all time.

Short synopsis: The story concerns two Swedish peasants, Karl-Oskar and his wife Kristina, who emigrate to the United States from the south of Sweden with their children and some friends during the famine of 1848. After a difficult journey, they arrive in Minnesota and start a new life. They manage to survive in their new country but Kristina still longs for her homeland.

The songs have been translated into English and performed in concert versions in both the UK and the US, but there’s never been an English speaking production.

Så som i himmelen is based on Swedish movie from 2004. Short synopsis: A successful international conductor suddenly interrupts his career and returns to his childhood village in Sweden. He is asked to listen to the church choir and from that moment nothing in the village is the same again. The choir grows, and the conductor makes both friends and enemies and finds love.

It’s a beautiful, sad, funny and hopeful story about ‘normal’ people and the power of music and relations with other people. It’s got a beautiful score, well thought out characters and it’s adapted really well. I actually love the musical more than the movie.

It might sound silly to say that more people should know about these two, but they're not very well known outside of Scandinavia. I realise it’s hard to get into Swedish musicals when you don’t know the language and don’t have any connection to these books and movies, but these are two amazing musicals. The stories and themes of both musicals are quite universal, too.

[hypnoticcastiel]

miyacantdecide replied to your post “miyacantdecide replied to your post “Spacey/Rapp case, personal...”

But I do admit I have a personal reason to "defend" her, which is because I felt strong connection to his relationship with his supportive mother when I read his book/interviews. So I'm sorry for poking my nose in your personal opinion. I couldn't help doing so.

oh dear. when argumentation goes offroad. first of all, thnx for pointing out that i wrote my personal opinion, and i won’t change that after what you wrote. second, i don’t give a damn what ANY parent would say after a horrible incident like this, if that is used as excuse for simply bad choices/parenting.

now i can’t ask you private stuff, but here is the example by which i would judge any parent, you as parent:

would you allow your (teen)kid alone and knowing only 1 person to go to a party with adults, strangers, alcohol and past midnight? if yes, i hope you feel good with such a choice, bc IF something happens to your kid, you risked to put him or her in unnceccasary danger. wtf, how many parents do you know who would send their kids alone into the night, to adult parties? and then she wondered (or not???) that her son returned confused, shocked, sad, simply different, and nothing happened from that?! ok, this goes really into speculation area, but it all STARTS WITH THE PARENTS HAVING CONSTANT FEAR FOR THE CHILD’S SAFETY! 24/7, every damn stranger/adult might be a danger (men more than women, ok).

so again, i don’t see or get why you defend a mother who put her son into dangerous and unusual situation. stop excusing her choice. updated text:

my conclusion to such a case is, that parenting doesn’t stop in the afternoon. it doesn’t stop at trusting 1 adult who is known to you at a party with unknown other people, and it sure doesn’t stop at any hipster movie industry lifestyle, you either safeguard your kid OR not. there should be data and experiments, about how many/% parents would allow a kid to go to such a party...

[itwasanangryinch]

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I haven’t got any since you closed your submit box, I think.

Then my box is wide open tonight, ladies and gentlemen

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[ I think the YouTube channel took it down for some reason.... I tried searching the Japanese title [ “ブロードウェイミュージカル「ヘドウィグ・アンド・アングリーインチ」2015年公演” ] earlier and YouTube did not find it. ]

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miyacantdecide replied to your post “Musical ask: great comet”

*evil laugh*

If I get attacked by their fandom then I will 100% blame you. also yes, Lucas. he is cute. and is pale. and very shy at the stage door. 

[elizabethvaughns]

36 for the handwriting ask!

send me a number and i'll handwrite the answer for you!