#Broadway

[rose-margaritas]

This’ll probably be one of the last animatics I post in a while, but I had to contribute at least one of them to one of my favorite ships of all time— Megstine 🥰🫶

#phantom of the opera #poto #the phantom of the opera #phanart #digital art #my art #erik #phantom art #erik the phantom #megstine #meg x Christine #raoul de chagny #meg giry #raoulstine #raoul x christine #erik x christine #eristine #chappell roan #animatics #animation #poto broadway #broadway

[janis01127]

What's your damage? 💚❤️💛

I have a lot of ideas of the vee's being the Heathers, they have a lot of similarities, of course I have to draw them . The vee's are definitely more like the Heathers than the plastics as everyone says on Twitter 😤, we have to make more popular this idea 🛐

#fanart #drawing #hazbin hotel #vox #hazbin hotel vox #hazbin hotel velvette #velvette #valentino #valentino hazbin hotel #the vees #hazbin hotel fan art #hazbin hotel vees #heathers #heather chandler #heather duke #heather mcnamara #broadway #christian borle

[oldnewyork]

Zero Mostel & cast, Fiddler on the Roof, 1964 (Broadway)

#1960s #old new york #vintage new york #fiddler on the roof #zero mostel #broadway

[citizenscreen]

Leonard Bernstein's musical "Peter Pan", starring Jean Arthur and Boris Karloff, opened at Imperial Theatre in NYC on April 24, 1950.

#jean arthur #boris karloff #broadway #peter pan

[sondheim-girly]

JUNE 21 THIS IS NOT A DRILL WE GET THE GREAT GATSPY CAST RECORDING ON JUNE 21

#theater kid #musical theatre #musicals #broadway #musical theater #broadway musicals #great gatsby musical

[threebatsnests]

RIP Jack Kelly, you would have loved Procreate 😔

#newsies #jack newsies #jack kelly #newsies broadway #broadway #newsies the musical #jack kelley

[falsettosshizzzzz]

#falsettos #musical theatre #andrew rannells #musicals #theatre #theater kid #broadway #the book of mormon #gutenberg

[lycazart]

what is this, wash and wear???

#falsettos #falsettos ​bway #art #fanart #my art #marv #marvin gardens #marvin falsettos #whizzer brown #musicals #broadway #spoken like derek zoolander school for ANTS?????

[dewdropdinosaur]

Serious Question My Lovelies.

#romance #hazbin hotel fandom #answered #vizziepop #alastor the radio demon #radio killed the video star #request #hazbin hotel alastor #hazbin hotel alastor x reader #alastor x reader #lucifer morningstar x reader #hazbin hotel lucifer #lucifer morningstar #radioapple #radiostatic #help me this fandom has a hold on my soul #other fandoms #fictional characters #fandoms #fandom community #writers on tumblr #marvel #broadway #lotr #rings of power #the hobbit #ncis #buffy the vampire slayer #last of us

[driveintheaterofthemind]

Little Shop Of Horrors

Art by Suspiria Vilchez

#Comics #Film #Little Shop Of Horrors #Horror Films #Horror Movies #Art #Musicals #Theater #Broadway #Suspiria Vilchez #Rick Moranis #Ellen Greene #Steve Martin #Audrey II #Horror #Horror Comics

[droughtofapathy]

"Welcome to the Theatre": Diary of a Broadway Baby

Cabaret

April 24, 2024 | Broadway | August Wilson Theatre | Evening | Musical | Original | 2H 45M + 1H preshow

I am kicking my feet and twirling my feet as I lovingly, tenderly, reverently carve Bebe Neuwirth's name into the Tony personally.

Bebe Neuwirth Verdict: My Soul Transcended Space and Time

A Note on Ratings

Oh. The rest of the show. Right.

Cabaret is one of the greatest pieces of musical theatre to exist. I have seen four productions of this show on multiple "levels" of production (Broadway, community, regional, etc.) The show being what it is, it seems inconceivable to ever stage a poor production of a show with such rich material. Even if the talent pool came from a small town, the music, the lyrics, the story would be so strong, so moving, so timeless, that nothing coupled possibly ruin it.

I was wrong.

The fifth Broadway revival of this beloved Kander and Ebb musical is a stagnant spectacle whose price tag seems to actively encourage its potential audience to pick up their knitting, their book, and their broom, because the holiday of the Kit Kat Club is only meant for the rich denizens of society. Helmed by a director with no prior experience in musical theatre, the show fundamentally mistrusts its audience's intelligence and the once-masterful subtext is now about as subtle as a brick through a fruit shop window.

It's a bad sign when the security staffer at the entrance line tells you the design is excellent, the visuals are excellent, "the show is...good," with pointed hesitation and eyebrow raising. What would we do without New York honesty?

Under this new "immersive" direction, patrons enter through a seedy back alley door (with too many steps, which granted, they did warn me about before and I should have listened) and into a massive three-story club design with pre-show entertainment and drinks galore. With limited seating and rather underwhelming acts, my disabled ass went to my seat in the theatre instead where the whole auditorium has been gutted and renovated to create a theatre-in-the-round setup that ultimately does not suit the staging. Instead, actors play primarily to the "east" side, leaving the "west" to see a lot of backs throughout.

As characters, the Emcee and Sally are deranged, clownish, and utterly devoid of layers and complexity. They are exactly what their outlandish costumes, garish makeup, and overwrought performances say they are: too much. Eddie Redmayne is going for some kind of demonic muppet clown portrayal. This interpretation fails to do what the character is meant to do. Seduce, entice, enchant, all of which can be done in a morbid or even unsettling way, but Redmayne only ever irritates and repels. Similarly, Sally is an easy character to misunderstand. She's seemingly vapid, ignorant, and concerned with nothing more than having a good time. She's a character on the verge, but only ever on the verge. Too often I have seen performers act out the titular song as a full-blown breakdown. It is not. It is a triumph. It is a discordant celebration as the rest of the show falls into despair. In directing all of Sally's numbers to be as hysterical, unhinged, and off-putting as they are, it's clear the director, the producers, and to an extent, the actress who went along with it, do not understand this character, this story, this world. Less is more. Trust the material. Trust the audience.

Cabaret is a racy show with plenty of lewd and lascivious content. But this production takes the graphic nature to an extreme that ultimately misses the mark. Instead of a seductive coaxing, or even a morbid eroticism, we're granted such overt choreography (a man jerks off a giant black phallus into a woman's mouth, a woman mimes raining her tit milk all over a man's face, a woman graphically masturbates to Mein Kampf) that it becomes a juvenile display. Like children who make sexual jokes to be edgy, but only ever sound immature. It's off-putting, it's annoying, it's dull. There are multiple rewrites to the "Willkommen" introduction schtick, and the new lines are such a downgrade.

There are moments of relief amidst the spectacle that somehow still lacks spectacle. Bebe Neuwirth is a wonder of wonders, and her chemistry with Steven Skybell as Herr Schultz is a miracle of miracles. They are the saving grace of this monstrosity. Age, experience, and deep connection to the writers and the show give their performances a joyous, heartbreaking, beautiful tone. They are real, they are grounded, and they will shatter your heart. These scenes are the only places the director shows she's capable, perhaps because she has only ever done dramatic straight plays. The decision to stage "Married" as a trio with Kost spot-lit and singing in tandem was simple and brilliant and poignant. The way this show is meant to be. "What Would You Do?" is staged perhaps a little oddly, given the director's inability to remember she's doing an in-the-round show, but Bebe's rendition is the best I've ever experienced. I have heard this song sung beautiful by stronger singers, many who still grasp the acting well, but none hold a candle to her. This is a woman who has torn out her own beating heart from her chest as she chooses safety and self-preservation, even if it breaks her. This is a woman who is old and tired and not brave. Who has been given this one moment of happiness in her life and she has no choice but to saw it off like a gangrened limb before it poisons her entire body. Schultz and Schneider are the heart of this show. They deserve better.

It's been said by others, but the issues with this production seems to stem from its creative team's fundamental misunderstanding of Jewish culture. The show was written by three Jewish men who understood what was at stake. They had all lived through WWII. This is a production with a distinctly English tone, directed by gentiles, for gentiles. Broadway and New York, more familiar with Judaism than perhaps the West End, clearly received this revival differently.

Final Verdict: A Long Slog to Curtains

A Note on Ratings

#cabaret broadway #broadway #musical theatre #welcome to the theatre: diary of a broadway baby #bebe neuwirth #if i were a tenant of her building i'd be showering her with the finest fruits in all of berlin every day

[nonthespianswontunderstand]

#95

watching a musical because of a random song you heard from it

#me with hadestown #mwah #broadway #broadway musicals #musical theatre #theatre #theatre kid #musical #musicals #theater #thespian #thespians #theatre life #theater life

[susiephone]

*puts hands on hollywood exec's shoulders, staring unblinking into their eyes* listen to me. you will never get people who hate musicals to like musicals by making your musical less of a musical. if you hide the fact that your film is a musical in the advertising, you're going to get a lot of low ratings from people who hate musicals and went into your movie not expecting a musical and got one anyway. people who hate musicals will hate them no matter how realistic and diegetic and lowkey you try to make it. they will hate musicals even if you completely excise anything complicated, over the top, silly, or even slightly challenging. they will hate musicals even if you cut half the songs. they will hate musicals even if you cast that a-lister who can't sing worth a damn. stop trying to market to people who hate musicals. they're a lost cause. your audience should be people who love musicals. this half-assed middle ground pisses off both camps. just embrace the fact that your movie is a musical. lean into it. don't try and trick musical haters into coming to your film when you could be marketing to the theater kids. better cringe than a coward.

#musicals #musical theatre #broadway #there are SOME good movie musicals but god they're few and far between #theatre

[trashpidgeon48]

Leitmotifs drive me insane, like I hear *repeated melody that has an association with a person, idea, or situation* and I go *tears up the fucking rug like a dog*

#music #musical theatre #leitmotif #les miserables #anastasia musical #sweeney todd #jesus christ superstar #broadway #hadestown #phantom of the opera #ride the cyclone #the hunchback of notre dame #rent musical #fiddler on the roof #starkid

[stormythalamus]

i hope the pjo show makes lmm hermes. not him playing hermes; he IS hermes.

percy: you’re hermes? wait aren’t you that guy who wrote hamilton

hermes: i made a bet with apollo bc he said i wouldn’t be able to write a musical better than him. i needed to prove my superiority. artemis gave us each a topic to write about.

percy: what was his show about?

hermes: spider-man.

percy: there’s a broadway show about spider-man??

hermes: exactly.

#i hope someone understands this #TURN OFF THE DARK REFERENCE??? #lin manuel miranda #hermes #percy jackson disney+ #percy pjo #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo #pjo tv show #hamilton musical #broadway #spider-man turn off the dark

[sondheim-girly]

is there anything better than angrily lip-sinking to the world will know when you're mad?

#theater kid #musical theatre #musicals #broadway #spoiler: there isnt #broadway musicals #musical theater #newsie #newsies live #newsies #newsies broadway #newsies musical #newsies the musical #lives #livesies