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Pink is hosting the Tony Awards????

#is she part of broadway this year in some capacity????#I'm very confused #I hope she gets to fly over the audience during the opening number like she does in her shows #I have no idea if the theater is rigged for that but what's the point of having pink if you're not gonna let her do that?

apolladay

How do you feel about jukebox musicals?

* love them!

* like them

* neutral about them

* dislike them

* loath them

* depends on the artist/songs

* depends on the plot

* see results

“Jukebox musicals” are musicals that use preexisting songs instead of songs created for the musical (examples: Mama Mia!, Singing in the Rain, Jersey Boys, etc.) Most (but not all) of these musicals center around a biography of the original artist

How do you feel about jukebox musicals?

love them!

like them

neutral about them

dislike them

loathe them

depends on the artist/songs

depends on the plot

see results

Voting ended onMay 30

“Jukebox musicals” are musicals that use preexisting songs instead of songs created for the musical (examples: Mama Mia!, Singing in the Rain, Jersey Boys, etc.) Most (but not all) of these musicals center around a biography of the original artist

#mamma mia might be the only good one #but it's so good it almost saves the genre #I think a lot of jukebox musicals try too hard to be *good* when they should be trying to be *fun*#and don't just tell the life of the artist that's boring

helpimsotired

Justin McElroy talking about accessibility in live theatre (June 9, 2019)

formichi

quasi-normalcy

“Art is happening everywhere all of the time” but an awful lot of it seems to only ever happen in New York and London, doesn’t it?

#I've noticed that the vast majority of people who live in The Cities (NYC LA London ect)#have no concept of anyone who does not live in The Cities

sometiktoksarevalid

creatingblackcharacters

Worth listening to 👀

Need concernedape to drop the update so I can stop falling for pokopia's social media marketing campaign

#it looks so 🥺#but i refuse to drop that kinda money for a new console just to play it #and i know once there's new stardew I will get sucked into a new farm for countless hours and forget anything else exists #(ik it's still gonna be a while dont mind me i'm just yapping)

thestuffedalligator

In the discussion of whether personifications of the seven deadly sins should be subject to their respective sin or inflict their sin unto other people, I’ve always thought that a neat personification of gluttony would be a bartender.

I think that would be so much more interesting than another “Big Guy That Eats Things.” A devil with the face of Ted Danson and a voice like a hug and a reassuring “Hey, c’mon, have a drink. You’ve earned it” that wheedles you into endless consumption

thestuffedalligator

After writing this I’ve realized that “A devil with the face of Ted Danson” also describes Michael The Good Place but you know what I mean

diaryofandnwoman

sixappleseeds

[ID: threads post by _larrylin_ that reads,

I didn't know a lot about Bad Bunny or Puerto Rican culture. So when watching the SB halftime show, I had questions.

What are piraguas? Why are there telephone poles?

What do these flags represent?

Afterward, I looked them up. I learned a ton, and I came to a deeper appreciation of Puerto Rican culture.

Unfortunately, other folks have reacted with bigotry or anger. Why?

The difference boils down to this:

When you discover your own ignorance, do you feel threatened, or do you feel curious?

/end ID]

#stream in the heights for a cultural battle between the local piragua vendor and a franchised ice cream truck #(like for real one of the songs is called Piragua it's great)

In like 2023 I saw the tour of Hadestown pretty good seats for $60.

Now the same theater wants $170 for the majority of the house for a way less popular show the night of the superbowl

#broadway #musical theater #the hadestown was a discount but still I think discounted from $90-$100 #it did not get THAT much more expensive to host a show in 3 years #I checked tickets for the outsiders which is coming later and it's even worse $200 for most seats #before fees #we have to stop the madness

bedwyrssong

lots of people expressing disappointment that Zohran Mamdani is a Dear Evan Hansen fan. personally speaking I think it is good and healthy for the mayor of New York to have extremely basic taste in musical theatre. I don't want someone in public office worrying about who sang "The Miller's Son" the best. that's my job.

caenis-mordred

Prev this is way too funny to leave in the tags

left-lateral-incisor

[ID: tags reading, "of course his tastes are pedestrian!!! them's who needs all that public transit!!!" /End ID]

#also like...yeah a politician is going to say their favorite is a popular thing a general audience has heard of #he wants to he likeable and of the people that's like his whole shtick #there's definite elitist connotations with naming an obscure musical (and there aren't that many that you can guarantee wont sound obscure)

HOLY SHIT SIDEWAYS YOUTUBE IS BACK????

#this is probably so niche #but like the peak of genuine movie music analysis #and movie musical deconstructions #musical theater nerds rejoice #sideways #musicals #youtube

mobius-m-mobius

#love this life for him 🎭💖

chickenmim

I love him. I just love him.

namusass

benoit blanc truly is a character of all time. who tf listens to skimbleshanks the railway cat full volume in their car on the way to a police station

God grandad wicks literally swallowing eves apple in his own righteousness is just. it's so ridiculously on the nose it's basically a farce. except it really is like that. modern religious extremism really is that blatantly in opposition to its own teachings

#knives out #wake up dead man #like its to obvious it shouldnt work #except for the thing its commenting on is literally even more blatant and unabashed than that

The hadestown christmas album is the one good thing to come out of the pandemic

#hadestown #(not actually the only thing plz allow me my exaggeration thnx)

acorviart

just spoke with the funniest hater of all time. went to the optometrist, happened to be wearing my hadestown shirt. he asks me about it, I tell him it's a musical and he tells me he hates musicals and lists a few he didn't like. fair enough, but he listed mostly movie musicals, so I tell him that stage musicals are quite different. so he asks for my favorites and a few recommendations, and I also explain to him the differences between seeing a show on tour vs on broadway. I tell him he could check out the local theatre and see what's in the next season, but he says he'd rather just fly to new york and see the broadway show if it's the best version and that he probably wouldn't like it. I tell him that sometimes people will like the tour version better just based on personal preference of singer performance. he says, I don't really like singers, I just don't really like music. I get my eyes dilated. I bum around for 15 minutes before going back. he checks my eyes and shows me that he pulled up a google search of hadestown to read up about it while we were waiting. he tells me again he hates musicals and can't take them seriously, while actively looking at showtimes for hadestown at the walter kerr on broadway. I tell him each musical is very different so he should listen to the recordings of a few songs to see if he likes the vibe of a show before he wastes $200 on a ticket. he says nah I won't do that because I probably wouldn't like it, I just don't like music. the broadway showtimes to hadestown are still pulled up on a browser tab. I cannot emphasize how many times he told me that he doesn't like musicals or music while actively taking my recommendations and planning a theoretical trip to nyc specifically to see a broadway musical that he predicts he will hate. i respect it

turtlegirlave

Say what you will about the camera work in the merrily proshot, but it did make Daniel Radcliffe look very tiny. Such a little guy. Shoot his intro from a downward angle and have him stand next to Jonathan Groff so we can make him look just pathetically small

The bar is in hell but the camera work for Merrily was not distractingly bad and I will absolutely take it

#merrily we roll along #like for waitress im constantly pulled out of the show by how annoyed i am by the camera #n2n there's several moments where im screaming at them to move the camera bc theyre missing something important #maybe its just cause i dont know merrily as well but i was able enjoy the show without thinking that much about the camera #EXCEPT!!! when they refused to let us watch the bows #what the fuck!!!

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