Musical Songs For Musical People

"Can you hear my heartbeat? Tired of feeling never enough. I close my eyes and tell myself. That my dreams will come true."

[whereareyounoworpheus]

My List of Musicals: the ones I've "seen" and the ones I haven't seen yet

And by "seen" I actually mean "listen repeatedly to the soundtracks, and watch some recordings that people post on Youtube."

The ones I've seen:

Anastasia (2017)

Be More Chill (2015)

Beetlejuice (2018)

Cats (1981)

Chicago (1975)

The Color Purple (2005)

Dear Evan Hansen (2016)

Epic: The Musical (2022)

Frozen (2017)

Grease (1972)

Hadestown (2019)

Hairspray (2002)

Hamilton (2015)

Heathers (2014)

In the Heights (2008)

Into the Woods (1987)

Legally Blonde (2007)

The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical (2017)

The Lion King (1997)

Mamma Mia! (1999)

Matilda (2011)

Mean Girls (2017)

Les Misérables (1985)

Miss Saigon (1989)

Newsies (1992)

Oliver! (1960)

The Phantom of the Opera (1986)

The Prom (2016)

Ride the Cyclone (2008)

The Rocky Horror Show (1973)

Shrek (2009)

Six (2017)

Waitress (2015)

West Side Story (1957)

Wicked (2003)

The ones I haven't seen yet:

The Addams Family (2010)

Aladdin (2011)

Amélie (2017)

& Juliet (2019)

Annie (1977)

Avenue Q (2003)

A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Story (2022)

Billy Elliot (2005)

The Book of Mormon (2011)

Cabaret (1966)

La Cage aux Folles (1983)

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2013)

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (2002)

The Count of Monte Cristo (2016)

Dreamgirls (1981)

Evita (1978)

Falsettos (1992)

Finding Neverland (2012)

Follies (1971)

Funny Girl (1964)

Godspell (1971)

Gypsy (1959)

Jekyll & Hyde (1997)

Jesus Christ Superstar (1971)

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1968)

Kinky Boots (2013)

Little Shop of Horrors (1982)

Little Women (2005)

Love Never Dies (2010)

Moulin Rouge! (2001)

My Fair Lady (1956)

Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 (2016)

Oklahoma! (1943)

Pippin (1972)

Rent (1996)

School of Rock (2015)

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)

Sister Act (2009)

Something Rotten! (2015)

The Sound of Music (1959)

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979)

Tick, Tick... Boom! (2001)

There are probably many more musicals out there, but these are the ones I'm planning on checking out in more depth. I will update the list as this happens, or if I receive more suggestions.

[whereareyounoworpheus]

This is a safe space, right?

Well, here goes:

I wanted to talk about how much I’d ​​love to see a production of Hadestown where both Orpheus and Eurydice are played by girls.

In fact, I even pictured the girl who would play Orpheus with Anäis Mitchell's features.

I also made a play on Orpheus's name—I now call him (or her, in this case) "Orphelia". So yes, this is a concept I'm really invested in.

DO YOU ALL GET MY PICTURE?

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Okay, but why is the concept of "Daddy Electric and Mother Nature" basically how Hades and Persephone are portrayed in Hadestown? 😭

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I'm not going to lie, Danny Collins and Naoimh Morgan kind of killed it on the 2019 movie version – it was one of the songs I listened to most from the entire soundtrack!

[whereareyounoworpheus]

Alyssa Greene Core: "Having purple/lilac as signature colors, and/or having mommy issues (with also slight sapphic undertones)"

[whereareyounoworpheus]

Stranger Things × Hadestown

1. Lucas Sinclair as Orpheus

2. Max Mayfield as Eurydice

3. Chrissy, Fred and Patrick (Vecna's First Three Victims) as The Fates

Okay, in this version of Hawkinstown (the way @jesse-wilder referred to this AU), Eurydice/Max (the 4th victim) would be "haunted" by the voices of Vecna's previous victims:

"They're always singing in the back of her mind...🥀"

[whereareyounoworpheus]

My head, after seeing Jonathan Bailey playing Fiyero in Wicked, starting to imagine him playing Dr. Pommater from Waitress in a possible film adaptation of the musical: 👀✨️

[whereareyounoworpheus]

When you TRY to explain to explain to that one person that the new film "isn't a remake of the original, where they just decided to add music" but a "film adaptation of a already existing musical production that was based on an film"

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Honestly, I don't know if I'm living or if I'm just waiting to hear Jonathan Bailey and Cynthia Erivo sing As Long As You're Mine 💚✨️

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Okay, the bad news is that I haven't sat down to watch the whole movie yet, but the good newa is that, just hearing them sing and, together with some images I've seen of that moment, I can say with absolute certainty IT WAS TOTALLY WORTH THE WAIT 💚✨️

I have a feeling that a certain musical is going to win another award at next year's Oscars ceremony!

[whereareyounoworpheus]

"Orpheus was a poor boy...But he had a gift to give. He could make you see how the world could be. In spite of the way that it is"

"And Eurydice was a young girl...But she'd seen how the world was"

"When she fell, she fell in spite of herself..."

"In love with Orpheus"

I already associate Max and Lucas with Odysseus and Eurydice from Hadestown so naturally, that I fear soon I'll start believing that Sadie Sink and Caleb McLaughlin already played them in the musical!

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I am just a man

A space age man, that's all I am

But I wanna hold your hands, all your hands

As we make love tonight

Oh, I have no desire to rule the galaxy

Oh, to hold you close is enough for me

✨️ Makin' love in zero gravity ✨️

[whereareyounoworpheus]

✨️ I daydream so often about the musical CATS being adapted into a Lackadaisy-style animated film that it's almost unhealthy ✨️

Do you think there's any chance they'll give us something like that to commemorate the musical's 50th anniversary? Probably not, but hey, a girl can dream.

[whereareyounoworpheus]

A headcanon about Fiyero Tigelaar that I came up with based on absolutely nothing:

Actually, I don't even know if this can be considered a "headcanon", but here goes...

Fiyero (in a possible genderbend AU) would definitely be one of those female characters with REALLY long hair – which he (she?) obviously wears in a braid so as not to get in the way of his daily life!

- This Circe art belongs to @gigi (go check out her YouTube channel)

While we're at it, which of these braids above do you think Fiyero would choose?

[whereareyounoworpheus]

Okay, I think I'm possibly taking this AU idea too far; I just thought of what Fiyero would be called in this scenario:

✨️ Fiamma Tigelaar ✨️

I think it fits just right with the character!

Or, to better fit in with the pattern of other Wicked names, I thought she could be called FIEMMA TIGELAAR – sort of a mix of the name "Fiamma" and "Emma"

[whereareyounoworpheus]

A headcanon about Fiyero Tigelaar that I came up with based on absolutely nothing:

Actually, I don't even know if this can be considered a "headcanon", but here goes...

Fiyero (in a possible genderbend AU) would definitely be one of those female characters with REALLY long hair – which he (she?) obviously wears in a braid so as not to get in the way of his (her?) daily life!

- This Circe art belongs to @gigi (go check out her YouTube channel)

While we're at it, which of these braids above do you think Fiyero would choose?

[whereareyounoworpheus]

"Would You Fall In Love With Me Again" in a nutshell:

- art by ximena natzel

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"GOD, I HOPE YOU'RE READY FOR A SHOW ABOUT DEATH"

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Which one of these characters would you feel most comfortable leaving a child with?

"Which of these would you trust a child to?"

Mr. and Mrs. Wormwood (Matilda)

Thénardier and Mme. Thénardier (Les Misérables)

Miss Hannigan (Annie)

Mr. Bumble and Widow Corney (Oliver!)

Voting ended onMay 5, 2025