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I have been sick for weeks and just mentally have not been well enough to do much, so I'll try to post tomorrow. I apologize for going AWOL.

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So now I'm very late, my apologies, the holiday weekend was a bit hectic. But now I'm back and ready to share another musical.

Welcome to Russia, in a 2016 musical based of a movie that looked like a Disney film, but at the time in 1997 was not. Presenting:

Anastasia

So the show starts with the princess Anastasia Romanov not wanting to say goodbye to her grandmother, the dowager empress, as she leaves the young child behind to go to Paris (very important for the plot). She dances with her father, Tzar Nicholas II, and a sequence happens where years have passed and she's now a teenager, dancing with her older sisters and her younger brother, Alexei, as their parents watch. Other nobles dance around them, Alexei faints for a moment and his mother rushes to him to help him up. This starts the sequence to get the Romanov family in position to take a "portrait", but turns into revolutionaries coming in and killing all of them... Or so we're led to believe.

The first sentence is in the first song on the soundtrack, and the rest isn't on the soundtrack, which is a shame because it's wonderful. But this is how the show starts before really getting into the story.

And it is just a story, the real princess Anastasia unfortunately died with her family during the Russian revolution, but shows very often aren't reality, so it's best not to nitpick so much. And at least it has a happy ending.

I actually was in this show with the community theater I was a part of. I played a soldier, mainly ensemble, in the first act and for part of the second act I was an ensemble member before becoming the bouncer of the Neva Club and was in that costume for the rest of the show. It was such a fun show and I had wonderful cast mates. This was the second show I've done with this group, the first one I might do this upcoming Friday (if I'm on time this time)

Anyway, here's a bootleg:

I'll see you all on Friday for the next musical.

If you have a musical you want to see me review or more talk about, send me an ask!

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I'm slightly late, and I like reviewing good musicals, but the good must come with the bad... And this next one is, in my humble opinion, BAD! So much that me and my fiance had to turn it into a drinking game just to get through it. An Andrew Lloyd Webber show is on the chopping block!

Introducing: Love Never Dies

So where do I begin? Normally I would begin at the first song or two, but not this time. This musical had so many "this child needs an adult" moments for Christine and "Raoul's" 10 year old son, Gustav, so many drunk Raoul moments (like so many), and Phantom being controlling and manipulating in such a horrifying way. I'm not saying he was a saint in Phantom of the Opera, but here he literally makes a deal with Raoul betting on whether Christine sings Phantom's song or not, without her knowledge for the rest of her life (which isn't very long after that bet). She sings the song btw, and then dies shortly after, in the repercussions of the stupidest moment from Phantom in the entire forsaken musical. He tells a suicidal Meg (remember her? Christine's friend from Phantom of the Opera, and her mom are more in the focus in this one, which is fine because they're usually not terrible in this show. Highest praise I can give) that "not everyone can be Christine" when Meg was already distraught after learning Phantom's still obsessed with Christine, and had kidnapped Gustav btw, and (spoiler)

She shoots Christine, accidentally, the gun goes off when she didn't mean for it to, and Christine dies in front of her son who is actually the Phantom's and not Raoul's.

If this review felt all over the place, welcome to Love Never Dies, it's just as all over the place if not more. Have a bootleg since no one should have to pay to see this: