The Diary of a Theatre Kid

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[thesarahfiles]

Promotional pics from Sunset Boulevard Australia starring Sarah Brightman.

[thediaryofatheatrekid]

Hi there...

Sorry. I know I promised I'd be trying this out again it's just my life is crazy right now. I'm hoping maybe in the new year things will calm down (I doubt it, but let's pray.)

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[thediaryofatheatrekid]

Oh she's gonna grow into this role BEAUTIFULLY!!!!

[hollywood-fashion]

Nicole Scherzinger in Tony Ward Couture at a press night after party for Sunset Boulevard in London on October 12, 2023.

[marleneoftheopera]

Emilie Kouatchou, Broadway’s first black and final principal Christine from 2021-23.

[roadimusprime-deactivated202605]

Absolute shame that the blood squirting pig animatronic got cut from the 1988 production of Carrie The Musical

Broadway audiences would have died on the spot

[boneur]

My dad thought this was the absolute funniest thing ever.

[incorrectsweeneytoddquotes]

Sweeney is monologuing about his revenge and Elenor is like, “I swear to Christ not this shit again.”

[citizenscreen]

Burgess Meredith and Glynis Johns in the 1956 Broadway revival of G. B. Shaw's “Major Barbara”

[thediaryofatheatrekid]

Should I return to this? Would ya'll want that?

[elphabadelempicka]

Boop. 

Donna Vivino and Alli Mauzey

[olympain]

Best performance by an actor in a featured role in a play — Brandon Uranowitz, Leopoldstadt

[textsfromthefifthbasement]

Love to see the same dude who wrote the April Fool’s article about Phantom closing now celebrating that it’s closing because “it romanticized stalking.” So sorry that not every single piece of media isn’t sanitized and unproblematic enough for you to enjoy.

Stay classy, folks.

[phannah--montana]

[operachristine]

EMILIE 🥹

[septembersghost]

listen, i know phandom notoriously romanticizes erik and christine, it's the nature of the thing and its allure, and i've no problem with that (even though i'm a raoul girlie at heart! lnd does not exist), but since i'm seeing some massively inaccurate bad faith takes on the bird app celebrating the show closing because it's "toxic/problematic/glamorizes stalking/is about stockholm syndrome" (lol not this again) "the phantom is a bad abusive murderer" (yeah! the story KNOWS this! have any of these people ever once understood gothic romance? or fiction? or, like, joy...?), allow me to dust off a quick and ineloquent commentary on our heroine, miss christine daae:

the phantom is not the protagonist. christine is. the emotional and psychological lens through which the story is told is christine's. the journey and character growth from innocent ingenue to more knowing woman? christine's. the character who radically transforms the narrative through her will, bravery, and compassion? christine! christine is the hero of her own story! christine overcomes extraordinary grief, trauma, gaslighting, manipulation, exploitation of her innate talents, an obsessive in pursuit of her, an entire company who doesn't believe her and thinks she's a mad child (even her beloved - the light romance contrasting the dark one - is guilty of this for a bit), and she does this with fortitude and reclamation of her self and her own voice, and by displaying extraordinary empathy. the phantom doesn't let her go because he suddenly becomes "good" himself, or is "redeemed," he lets her go because her goodness overwhelms him, her small act of tenderness even after she angrily and rightfully defies him forces him to realize she deserves her life. that to love someone does not mean you can treat them as a possession. (please note that in the book, he dies shortly afterwards. his is an immense and broken love, and he is a tragic figure.)

it is not a story about an abuser with the upper hand, it's a story about a young woman who survives, grows, and LEAVES. her courage and grace is the fueling engine of the entire machine. her agency is paramount in the ending. i frankly won't stand for erasure of that, and derivative takes about her as a hapless victim and the show as endorsing the phantom (it doesn't) have always made me want to drop a few chandeliers.

[thediaryofatheatrekid]

Once Upon a December: Cher as Morticia

I mean I think she could still do it...

[thediaryofatheatrekid]

what do you think of karen olivo as anita?

I think they were a really strong Anita. Nobody will ever be able to beat Rita Moreno, but Karen delivered a strong performance.