#sweeney is the new wick

[gerardwaygirlmoments]

What We Do In the Shadows: The Musical Episode

I saw someone on Reddit say that the show would have officially jumped the shark if there was a musical episode, so here's my idea of how that would go!

It takes place a little before the s5 finale, so Nadja still thinks she has to be nice to people to break her hex. She already took Guillermo to the vet, so she's helping him on an errand run this time. At the moment, he is delivering Nandor and Lazlo's sperm to the witches, as is the deal they have made. As they arrive, the witches have just got back from seeing Wicked on Broadway for the umpteenth time. Nadja hasn't heard of it, so when they tell her, her inheritance of Lazlo's distaste for musicals and her own hatred of witches merge and she laughs at the idea of anyone enjoying singing sympathetic witches. The witches are offended and cast a spell on her and Guillermo, teleporting them to a demiplane where they can be taught a lesson. Since Guillermo was holding Lazlo and Nandor's sperm, they teleport alongside them. Colin Robinson also shows up, which confuses the others at first before he explains he was jealous of Lazlo and Nandor for being considered more vampire than him and the witches not wanting his sperm so he snuck some in when no one was looking, which wasn't difficult with how hot Lazlo and Nandor's are to look at (Lazlo concurs that "The old chap and I truly do have some magnificent spunk, wouldn't you say, my dahling?" Nadja agrees about Lazlo's but refuses to believe Nandor's could be all that great).

With that tangent over, the gang finds themselves in the dark behind a red curtain. Guillermo's been binging Twin Peaks recently, so he becomes afraid that the Black Lodge is real and they've been brought there. That's quickly disproven with no one talking backward, and their also confused why it’s even be called “the Black Lodge” if it’s red. The curtain rises and the gang learns that the witches will be magically forcing them to perform songs from various musicals to learn the True Meaning of Broadway. They hate it at first, but over time they come to like it. This is especially true of Colin, who at first thinks he can just use it to drain but then starts to recover his childhood enthusiasm for the art form.

Some musicals they could perform could include:

Phantom of the Opera (gothic romance for Lazlo/Nadja)

West Side Story (romance for Lazlo/Nadja)

Sweeney Todd (gothic romance for Lazlo/Nadja, see my in-depth post on this AU)

The King and I (Nandermo with emphasis on Nandor's old kingly role)

Oklahoma! (Cowboys for Jackie Daytona)

Guys and Dolls (idk too much about this one but it's a classic and there could be something with Dolly)

Cabaret (for the flamboyant queer sexy performance)

Hamilton (kinda obligatory at this point)

Fiddler on the Roof (this was brought in in the s4 finale, it should be expanded here)

Wicked (Nadja could finally come to appreciate witches and get her big Defying Gravity moment)

When everyone is having a great time and the moment has come for the grand finale, Lazlo leads the cast in a rousing rendition of a song "by none other than an old friend of mine, a true Chinese-American icon, who no doubt wrote this ballad about his treacherous journey from the Orient to these United States and this wonderous city of ours. Mr. Frank Sinatra!" It's New York, New York, and Lazlo mispronounces it in every incredible way possible, except for the final sweeping note.

#I'm gonna be making another post similar to this where I make wwdits AUs of various older sitcoms #If anyone has more ideas on this please let me know! #wwdits #what we do in the shadows #twin peaks #musicals #Phantom of the Opera #West Side Story #Sweeney Todd #The King and I #Oklahoma! #Guys and Dolls #Cabaret #Hamilton #Fiddler on the Roof #Wicked #frank sinatra #new york new york

[schmergo]

Reading headlines about professional theatre these past few years is an absolute wild ride. Maybe all this stuff was happening before the pandemic, but I never heard about it. Now every two seconds, it's something like this:

"Inspiring! 'Retired' Broadway actress stars as Elphaba in Broadway with no rehearsal after 8 years away from the theatre working as a biologist in Antarctica... and she's never even SEEN Wicked before!"

"The Show Must Go On! Tony-winning actor announces that he performed at the Tony awards on a broken leg, will be taking two days off to have it treated"

"The Zodiac Killer to join the cast of Chicago as Roxie Hart! He will be wearing a bag over his head at all performances to hide his identity, but we are training AI to recognize his voice patterns"

"Audience wowed by all-understudy performance of Sweeney Todd with the role of the Beadle eliminated entirely and Johanna played by the French horn player from the pit"

"Previously announced production of NAPOLEON! THE MUSICAL to be canceled two days before scheduled opening after playwright pulled rights due to 'unauthorized changes' and 'offensive casting.' Director defends choice to have a chimpanzee play the title role."

"After 147 years, beloved local theatre company announces closure due to ongoing poison-resistant ant infestation. Site to become a research lab about these spectacular ants!"

"5 billion dollar new AI-written Broadway musical BABY SHARK to close after 2 performances, both of which took place on a partial set because it wasn't finished yet"

"After 109 years, beloved local theatre company canceling their 2023-2024 season because they only got 2 sales and that was from the artistic director's mom and her next-door neighbor Debra (who drives)."

"Shocking! Artistic director of beloved local theatre exposed! Actors report seeing multiple interns and swings sacrificed to a minotaur living in the boiler room during his time at the theatre.'

"Beloved local theatre company announces new membership structure! Top membership tier (names engraved on lobby wall, premium seats for whole season, free admission to exclusive parties and events) will consist of donors who gave full or partial organs to our uninsured non-union actors!"

"Onward and upward! Phantom of the Opera now spotted living under Shake Shack!"

#musicals #broadway #musical theatre #theatre

[bestmusicalworldcup]

2024 Best Musical World Cup Alphabetized List

Listed below is the 128 musicals that have qualified for the 2024 Best Musical World Cup Bracket.

& Juliet 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee 35MM: A Musical Exhibition A Chorus Line A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder A Little Night Music A Strange Loop American Idiot Amélie Anastasia Annie Annie Get Your Gun Assassins Avenue Q Bare: A Pop Opera Beauty and the Beast Beetlejuice Billy Elliot the Musical Bonnie and Clyde Bring it On Cabaret Camelot Carrie Cats Chess Chicago Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Come From Away Company Death Note: The Musical Dreamgirls Elisabeth Evita Falsettos Fiddler on the Roof Firebringer Frankenstein: A New Musical Fun Home Funny Girl Ghost Quartet Godspell Grease Guys and Dolls Hadestown Hair Hairspray Hamilton Heathers Hedwig and the Angry Inch Hello, Dolly! Holy Musical B@man! How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying In The Heights Into the Woods Jekyll and Hyde Jesus Christ Superstar Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Kinky Boots La Cage aux Folles Legally Blonde Les Misérables Little Shop of Horrors Little Women Man of La Mancha Mary Poppins Matilda Mean Girls Merrily We Roll Along Monty Python's Spamalot Moulin Rouge My Fair Lady Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 Nerdy Prudes Must Die Newsies Next to Normal Oliver Once Once on this Island Parade Pippin Ragtime Rebecca Rent Ride the Cyclone School of Rock Seussical Shrek the Musical Singin' in the Rain Six Something Rotten Spies Are Forever SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical Spring Awakening Starlight Express Starry Starship Sunday in the Park with George Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Sweet Charity Tanz der Vampire / Dance of the Vampires The Addams Family The Book of Mormon The Color Purple The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals The Hunchback of Notre Dame The King and I The Last Five Years The Lightning Thief The Lion King The Music Man The Phantom of the Opera The Prince of Egypt The Producers The Rocky Horror Show The Secret Garden The Sound of Music The Trail to Oregon! The Wiz The Wizard of Oz (1987) Tick Tick Boom Tuck Everlasting Twisted: The Untold Story of A Royal Vizier Urinetown Waitress West Side Story Wicked You're A Good Man Charlie Brown

#best musical world cup #2024 best musical world cup

[musicaltheatregirlsandsongs]

Hi! I finished up the list of songs that made it in, I still need to make the brackets, and will post those once they’re done! Complete list under the cut

A Little Fall of Rain - Les Misérables

A Little Priest - Sweeney Todd

A Musical - Something Rotten

Agony - Into the Woods

All you wanna do - Six

Another National Anthem - Assassins

Another Suitcase in Another Hall - Evita

Anthem - Chess

Any Kind of Dead Person - Ghost Quartet

Anything you can do (I can do better) - Annie Get Your Gun

Balaga - Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812

Being Alive - Company

Belle - Notre-Dame de Paris

Brain Dead - A New Brain

Burn - Hamilton

Cabaret - Cabaret

Carnaval del Barrio - In the Heights

Carrying the Banner - Newsies

Cell Block Tango - Chicago

Chant - Hadestown

Come what may - Moulin Rouge

Confrontation - Jekyll & Hyde

Costume Party - Come from Away

Dead Girl Walking - Heathers

Dead Mom - Beetlejuice

Defying Gravity - Wicked

Dentist! - Little Shop of Horrors

Die Schatten werden länger - Elisabeth

Don’t Rain On My Parade - Funny Girl

Drink with me - Les Misérables

Dust and Ashes - Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812

El tango de Roxanne - Moulin Rouge

Epic III - Hadestown

Epiphany - Sweeney Todd

Esmeralda - the Hunchback of Notre-Dame

Everybody’s got the right - Assassins

Feast or famine - Black Friday

Feed Me (Git It!) - Little Shop of Horrors

For Good - Wicked

Get Down - Six

Gethsemane (I only want to say) - Jesus Christ Superstar

Giants in the sky - Into the Woods

Glory - Pippin

Go Tonight - The Mad One’s

Good Kid - the lightning thief

Heaven on their Minds - Jesus Christ Superstar

Holding to the Ground - Falsettos

How Can Love Survive - The Sound of Music

I’m Alive - Next to Normal

I’m Breaking Down - Falsettos

Ich gehör nur mir - Elisabeth

If I had my time again - Groundhog Day

If I were a rich man - Fiddler on the Roof

Inevitable - The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals

Independently Owned - Shucked

Joseon Swag (조선수액) - Swag Age: Shout Out, Joseon! (스웨그에이지: 외쳐, 조선!)

Judas - Clown Bible

Juntton - Gambämark

King of New York - Newsies

Land of Yesterday - Anastasia

Le Monde est Stone - Starmania

Les Rois du Monde - Roméo et Juliette, de la haine à l’amour

Let it out - The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals

Letters - Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812

Lilacs - Preludes

Loser Geek Whatever - Be More Chill

Losing My Mind - Follies

Love will come and find me again - Bandstand

Madame Guillotine - The Scarlet Pimpernel

Michael in the Bathroom - Be More Chill

My Grand Plan - the lightning thief

No One Else - Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812

No One Remembers Achmed - Twisted

Noel’s Lament - Ride the Cyclone

Nonstop - Hamilton

On My Own - Les Misérables

On the Verge - Women on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown

Once and for all - Newsies

One Day More - Les Misérables

Place, je passe - Mozart l’opéra rock

Popular - Wicked

Prologue - Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812

Prologue: Tradition - Fiddler on the Roof

Quartet at the Ballet - Anastasia

Quiet - Matilda

Rebecca Reprise - Rebecca

Requiem - Dear Evan Hansen

Revolting Children - Matilda

Ring of Keys - Fun Home

Santa Fe - Newsies

Seize the Day - Newsies

Sick to Death of Alice-ness - Alice by Heart

Skid Row (Downtown) - Little Shop of Horrors

Solo - Octet

Starchild - Ghost Quartet

Sweet Transvestite - Rocky Horror Show

Talia - Ride the Cyclone

Telephone Wire - Fun Home

The Ballad of Jane Doe - Ride the Cyclone

The I Love You Song - The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

The New World - Songs for a New World

The Opera - Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812

The Pitiful Children - Be More Chill

The Point of No Return - The Phantom of the Opera

The Song of Purple Summer - Spring Awakening

The Starry Night - Starry

The Thrill of First Love - Falsettos

The Torture Tango - Spies are Forever

The Turning of the Key - The Clockmaker’s Daughter

There! Right There! - Legally Blonde

This World Will Remember Us - Bonnie & Clyde

Time Warp - Rocky Horror Show

Tonight (Quintet) - West Side Story

Touch Me - Spring Awakening

Twisted - Twisted

Unlikely Lovers - Falsettos

Usher Pt. 3 - Ghost Quartet

Wait For Me - Hadestown

Wait For Me (Reprise) - Hadestown

Waving Through A Window - Dear Evan Hansen

Wenn ich tanzen will - Elisabeth

What would I do - Falsettos

When the going gets tough - Spongebob Squarepants

Wilkommen - Cabaret

You Gotta Die Sometime - Falsettos

Your Daddy’s Son - Ragtime

Your Fault/Last Midnight - Into the Woods

30/90 - Tick, Tick… Boom

#musicaltheatresongs #musical theater #great comet #falsettos #newsies #les mis #malloysicals #starkid #stephen sondheim #andrew lloyd webber #i included every song that got more than one submission #plus a few that got one submission to get a convenient number

[gaybichon]

cardinal sins of movie musical adaptations:

1. casting famous actors or non-musical singers instead of people who can actually sing the part

why it happens: almost every movie musical does this to be fucking honest i assume it's just to attract an audience

worst example: meryl streep in anything

solution: rent avoided this by preserving most of the original cast for the movie; in the heights avoided this by just finding new people and sticking lin manuel miranda in the back

not a solution: ben platt in dear evan hansen

2. adding a new song that i hate

why it happens: presumably to secure an oscar nomination for best original song

worst example: cats

solution: if it must happen it should at least be written by the same composer/lyricist (stephen schwartz is doing this for the wicked movie) so it fits in with the musical themes

3. making it less "theatrical" by removing things like ensemble songs and choreography

why it happens: cowardice

worst example: sweeney todd

solution: don't do this! hire some dancers! live a little!

cats commits the first two sins maybe worse than any other movie but at least they have choreo!!!!!!!!!!! they have an ensemble!!!!!!!

#i will provide more examples hang on #musicals

[theholiestsanctum]

FanFic Masterlist.

Keep in mind I do write NSFW but not if the person requesting it is under 18

Horror-

The Scream Franchise

Candyman (Old and New)

Texas Chainsaw Massacre

House Of Wax

The Conjuring Franchise

The Boy (1 and 2)

The Nun (1 and 2)

Halloween Franchise

Friday The 13th Franchise

Sweeney Todd

Nightmare on Elm Street

The Haunting Of Hill House

The Haunting Of Bly Manor

The Midnight Club

Carrie

Beetlejuice

The Addams Family

American Psycho

AHS

(More Will Be Added)

Period Pieces-

Bridgerton

Pride and Prejudice

And Then There Were None (1950's, New Series and Book)

Clue

Sherlock Holmes

(More Will Be Added)

Fiction/Fantasy

Star Wars

Star Trek

The Orville

Lord Of The Rings

The Hobbit

Harry Potter

The Dark Crystal

Once Upon A Time

Percy Jackson

The Good Place

Little Shop Of Horrors

Good Omens

Our Flag Means Death

(More Will Be Added)

Musicals

Falsettos

West Side Story

Be More Chill

Mary Poppins

Percy Jackson

Beetlejuice

SpongeBob

Aladdin

Pippin

Wizard Of Oz

Fiddler On The Roof

The Sound Of Music

Willy Wonka

Cabaret

Little Shop Of Horrors

Chicago

Anything Goes

The Book Of Mormon

The Phantom Of The Opera

Matilda

Wicked

Dear Evan Hansen

Hairspray

Grease

Beauty and the Beast

The Hunchback Of Notre Dame

Rent

In Trousers

Moulin Rouge

Rocky Horror

Mamma Mia

Mean Girls

Legally Blonde

Into The Woods

Big Fish

Newsies

Les Mis

Iconic Movies/Misc

Juno

Mean Girls

Legally Blonde

Glee

Twilight

The Notebook

Spirited Away

The Labyrinth

Remember The Titans

Coraline

Howls Moving Castle

Fried Green Tomatoes

Scooby Doo Universe

Heartstopper

Dead Poets Society

Video Games

Stardew Valley

Life is Strange

The Quarry

Mortal Combat

#fanfic #scream #candyman #texas chainsaw massacre #house of wax #the conjuring #the nun #halloween #friday the 13th #sweeney todd #nightmare on elm street #the haunting of hill house #the haunting of bly manor #the midnight club #carrie white #beetlejuice #the addams family #american psycho #bridgerton #pride and prejudice #and then there were none #clue #sherlock holmes #star wars #star trek #the orville #lord of the rings #the hobbit #harry potter #the dark crystal

[imagonista]

ANOTHER using songs from musicals to describe characters from M.O.T.H, multiple songs edition, so this brain dump will be longer than usual. Read if you dare.

"No One Mourns the Wicked" from Wicked - basically all of Manas when Mazzul dies. Just the sections when everyone is talking about how glad they are the witch is dead and how, well, "no one mourns the wicked," not when Glinda is explaining the circumstances of the Wicked Witch's birth.

One section of "No Good Dead" from Wicked ("Nessa....Dr. Dillamond....Fiyero...FIYERO!!!!!!); was relistening to the betrayal episode, the part right after Mirrin passes out and Zed is just...having a mini breakdown, and just starts calling out names, including Y'narri's, and my brain made the connection. Just the pure anguish of failure to help those important to you.

"Something to Believe In" from Newsies - I feel that this song definitely fits Makkaro and Gienne's relationship, just, minus the part that Makkaro is killing people. But the idea of the two of discussing that it was under strange circumstances that they fell in love considering their different statuses, as well as how even if something happens to either of of them, and how they both give eachother something to believe in.

"And if I'm gone tomorrow,

What was ours, still will be!

I have something to believe in,

Knowing you believed in me!

I have something to believe in,

Now I know that you believed in me!"

Note that protesting about newsie wages is MUCH different than murdering people to form a new society. Also Makkaro would NOT be a tenor.

Not any song in particular, but just Makkaro's character is fairly similar to Sweeney Todd; regular men who fell in love with a woman, and then the corrupted government unjustly imprison them and send them away, and once they return/break free, they go on a murder spree. Just take some lyrics from the opening number:

"Sweeney pondered and Sweeney planned

Like a perfect machine, he planned

Sweeney was smooth, Sweeney was subtle,

Sweeney would blink and rats would scuttle"

"He served a dark and a vengeful god

(He served a dark an a vengeful god)"

"Dead Girl Walking Reprise" from Heathers - This could possibly be Gienne when she finally realizes that Makkaro's plan is not the solution she wants for the cruelty done by her family. Mostly the first half of the song, since in the second half, that would imply that Makkaro would try to kill Gienne (though, considering the experiments and the circumstances that made him a necromancer, it *could* happen, but I'm not sure).

Specifically these lyrics:

"I wanted someone strong who could protect me,

I let his anger fester and infect me.

His solution is a lie,

No one here deserves to die,

Except for me and the monster I created!"

Though the part when Veronica sings

"I wish we met before they convinced you life is war"

which is in the second half of the song also feels like it would fit Gienne talking to/about Makkaro (and yes, I'm aware that they knew eachother before Makkaro was imprisoned, but the idea of wishing to have stopped the pain someone went through that caused their murderous intentions probably remains) (also, JD in the musical is not as abusive to Veronica as he is in the movie; and it's genuinely sad when he sacrifices himself because he knows he's a lost cause)

"Home" from Beetlejuice - I definitely see this with Zed; it's a song about being lost without a loved one (who died) and how they have no home without them. In the musical it's Lydia's mom, for Zed it would be his sister Y'narri. Though only the first two thirds of the song, since the final third of the song goes from hopelessness to hope, and unless Zed gets at least a semi-happy ending when the series ends, I don't think it would fit. Also also, the song is set in a dimension where the dead are, which is why Lydia is trying to call for her mom. For Zed, this probably wouldn't be the case; connecting him with this song is for more emotional reasons than actual circumstances.

Lyric examples:

"You left, but I'm still standing,

Spinning on this infinite road,

Terrified of letting you go,

No light above and there's no hope below,

And I don't know which way is home.

(Sis) I got my heart in my hand,

Speak to me and I'll understand!

One little word to know I'm not alone,

And show me the way back home."

And

"The nothingness ahead of me,

Is this the end you meant for me?

Every living minute,

There's no home without you in it.

I'm falling!

Quit stalling!

Your (brother) is calling your name!

I've burnt all my bridges again!

"Not One of Us" from The Lion King 2 (yes I enjoyed this movie and the music from this movie, sue me). Basically all of Manas to the Mistwood siblings after Mazzul's death; hatred of the offspring/kin of an evil corrupted ruler. Only difference is in the song, they say "let him run, let him live, but do not forget what we cannot forgive!", and based on what happened to Y'narri, people are NOT willing to let the Mistwood siblings live.

"Made of Stone" from Hunchback of Notre Dame (the staged musical). Just a full song of self-blaming and self-regret. How everything he does just ends in disaster, so he just gives up. Okay, Zed doesn't give up like Quasimodo does, but I interpret he'd at least be in that hopeless mindset.

Okay, and that's all from my musical brain-dump. Hopefully, for everyone's sake, this will be the last one for a while.

#magic of the heart #good boy audios #magic of the heart spoilers #musicals

[sl-newsie]

Sweeney: how does this new haircut look?

Toby: wicked!

Anthony: kind of messy?

Mrs. Lovett: why should you care? You’re gonna slit the bloke’s throat either way!

Sweeney: I thought I’d try being more considerate to my victims costumers!

#sweeney todd #josh groban #annaleigh ashford #gaten matazarro #tim burton #sweeney todd broadway #sweeney todd musical #mrs lovett #hamlet #shakespeare #incorrect quotes #sweeney todd incorrect quotes

[wishingstarinajar]

Have you ever listened to a musical before? O: Do you have any favorite? I for one love one called Six and Beetlejuice! (If the answer to the first is no, do you have any favorite disney song? <.<)

((If the answer to even that one is none, maybe any childhood nursery rhymes you like? xD))

All these backup questions, thank you xDD

I listen to musical songs from time to time and if it's available, I watch recordings of musicals as well. I haven't seen many of the popular musicals though, like Wicked.

During my late teens, I was obsessed with the Cats musical and watched it often (the new one can rot in a ditch somewhere). For my birthday during my early twenties, my mom took me to see the Lion King musical because I used to be a Lion King nerd. I thought the Shrek musical and Avenue Q were hilarious. Hamilton made me cry. The Disney Cruise and Park musicals are... something x'D.

And if I haven't seen the "Broadway" version of a musical (recorded or live), I may have seen it in movie form like Beetlejuice, Little Shop of Horrors and Moulin Rouge, Sweeney Todd, Rocky's Horror Picture Show, Les Miserables, Sound of Music, Grease, La La Land, Mama Mia, Hairspray, along with all the animated Disney movies and some live action ones, some Muppets stuff, other animated musicals and so on.

Do I have any favorites? I can't say I do but I do/did enjoy a lot of them.

#q and a #musicals

[imintoomanyfandomss]

ok so google drive has messed me up and deleted my drive with all my bootlegs so i’m after losing over half of my bootlegs so here’s an updated list of what i manage to still have!

- Rent: Hope Mill Theatre

-Six: - West end

- Hampton court audio

-A new brain: 1998

-Amelie: - Broadway

- London cast

- Pippin: Pro shot

- The Prom

- Grease: Us Tour

- Angels in America

- Alice by Heart

- Come from away

- Anastasia: Closing night

- Ride the Cyclone

- Sweeney Todd: 3rd revival preview 2023 (audio)

- Lion King: OBC

- Chess

- Cabaret: third broadway revival (emma stone)

- Frozen: Us tour

- Almost famous: Broadway (October 8th 2022)

-Into the woods: 2nd revival Broadway (22/23) (audios)

- Moulin Rouge: Broadway (Aaron Tveit)

- Wicked: Broadway

- Catch Me if You Can: Broadway (Aaron Tveit)

- Company: Broadway

- Aaron Tveit Concert

- Beetlejuice: Broadway reopening (April 2022)

- Phantom of the Opera: Broadway (March 23)

- Kimberly Akimbo: Broadway November 2021

- Legally Blonde: West End Regent Park

- Newsies: West End Audio

#musicals #musical bootlegs #bootlegs #bootleg trading #musical trading #rent #six

[docrotten]

THE MAD BUTCHER (1971) – Episode 209 – Decades Of Horror 1970s

“Meat is meat.” Where have you heard that before? Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr – as they relish the chance to dine out with Victor Buono in The Mad Butcher(1971). Pssst! Despite the title, he has a certificate of sanity prominently displayed on his wall.

Decades of Horror 1970s Episode 209 – The Mad Butcher (1971)

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After being released from a mental hospital, Otto returns to his old job as a butcher. He tries to adjust to his new life, but after a bitter argument with his wife, he accidentally kills her. Fearing he will be sent back to the hospital, he grinds up her body and sells it as sausages. The popularity of his new sausage recipe necessitates that others find their way into his butcher’s display case.

  Directed by: Guido Zurli (as John Zurli)

Writing Credits: Dick Randall (as Robert H. Oliver) & Dag Molin (screenplay); (story by) Charles Ross (as Karl Ross)

Selected Cast:

Victor Buono as Otto Lehman

Franca Polesello as Berta Hensel

Brad Harris as Mike Lawrence

Dario Michaelis as Inspector Klaus

Karin Field as Hanna Lehman (as Karen Field)

Luca Sportelli as Karl Brunner

Hansi Linder as Frieda Ulm

If you are a fan of Victor Buono (Batman,1966-68; What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, 1962; Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte, 1964), then we have the episode for you. The Mad Butcher (1971) is a unique beast of a film: a dark comedy in the vein of Sweeney Todd. It’s bizarre, clumsy, silly, yet oddly entertaining. And, well, “Meat is Meat,” yes? Check out what the Grue-Crew think of this often-overlooked nugget.

At the time of this writing, The Mad Butcher is available to stream from the Classic Horror Movie Channel and YouTube.

Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror 1970s is part of the Decades of Horror two-week rotation with The Classic Era and the 1980s. In two weeks, the next episode, chosen by guest host Gregory Crosby, will be Countess Dracula (1971), another Hammer Film, directed by Peter Sasdy and starring Ingrid Pitt! Be there!

We want to hear from you – the coolest, grooviest fans: comment on the site or email the Decades of Horror 1970s podcast hosts at [email protected]. 

Check out this episode!

[tenebris-lux]

Musicals Masterlist

Will update this list as I see/listen to more; not counting movie adaptations, proshots or slime tutorials.

What I’ve Seen

Enjoyed

The Lion King

Hadestown

The Phantom of the Opera

Sweeney Todd

Some Like It Hot

Hamilton

Cats

Little Shop of Horrors

Six

In the Heights (amateur production)

Newsies (amateur production)

The Book of Mormon

The Scarlet Pimpernel*

The Sound of Music*

Damn Yankees*

Footloose*

My Fair Lady*

Grease*

The Pirates of Penzance*

It’s OK/Didn’t like

Wicked

Pippin (amateur production)

Peter Pan*

Camelot*

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat*

* = saw professional production as a kid; my impressions are old

Not Seen

My opinions on these are subject to change.

REALLY Want to See

Into the Woods

Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812

Come From Away

Tanz der Vampire

Sunset Boulevard

Jekyll & Hyde

Frankenstein, a New Musical

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Les Miserables

Would also like to see

Next to Normal

Death Note

The Music Man

Ruddigore

Finding Neverland

Bonnie and Clyde

Ride the Cyclone

Once On This Island

Die Dreigoschenoper

Elisabeth das Musical

Ragtime

Wouldn’t mind seeing, but not necessary

Beetlejuice

MJ

The Secret Garden

Company

Sunday in the Park with George

Assassins

A Little Night Music

Nevermore - The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe

Merrily We Roll Along

Like the soundtrack, don’t care about seeing

Rent

Dracula

Chess

Mamma Mia

Evita

Heathers

The Color Purple

West Side Story

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Love Never Dies (shut. up. it’s funny.)

Lestat

Don’t Like, Don’t Care At All

Follies

A Strange Loop

Falsettos

Spring Awakening

Waitress

Parade

Jesus Christ Superstar

The Count of Monte Cristo

Dear Evan Hansen

Hair

A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder

Carrie

Kiss of the Spider Woman

Tarrytown

(I might like one or two songs from some of the soundtracks here, but overall, no.)

#musicals #musicals masterlist

[mthguy]

The Heart of Rock and Roll, a new musical inspired by the music of Huey Lewis and The News, began Broadway previews March 29 at the James Earl Jones Theatre ahead of an April 22 opening night. 

The Heart of Rock and Roll follows Bobby, a Chicagoan whose failed band leads to him returning to corporate America. While working, he meets his boss, Cassandra, who has also traded in her personal life for a professional one. Together, the two realize their dreams when Bobby gets another shot at stardom and Cassandra is up for the CEO job.

The cast is led by Corey Cott (Newsies) and McKenzie Kurtz (Wicked) starring as Bobby and Cassandra, respectively, with Josh Breckenridge (Come From Away) as Wyatt, F. Michael Haynie (Wicked) as Glenn, Zoe Jensen (Six) as Paige, Tamika Lawrence (Caroline or Change) as Roz, Raymond J. Lee (Sweeney Todd) as JJ, John-Michael Lyles (A Strange Loop) as Eli, Orville Mendoza (Swept Away) as Fjord, Billy Harrigan Tighe (Pippin) as Tucker, and John Dossett (Wicked) as Stone.

#youtube #heart of rock and roll #huey lewis and the news #broadway musical #corey cott

[bestmusicalworldcup]

2023 League of Musicals Alphabetized List of Musicals

Below is the full list of musicals in the League of Musicals sorted by Division.

Division A

Alice By Heart Annie Assassins Avenue Q The Band's Visit The Book of Mormon Cabaret Cats Chess Chicago A Chorus Line Come From Away Company Falsettos Fiddler on the Roof Firebringer Fun Home A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder Ghost Quartet Guys and Dolls Hadestown Hair Hairspray Hamilton Hello, Dolly! The Hunchback of Notre Dame In The Heights Into the Woods Jekyll and Hyde The King and I Kinky Boots Legally Blonde Les Misérables The Lion King Little Shop of Horrors Matilda Moulin Rouge Mozart, l'opéra rock The Music Man My Fair Lady Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 Newsies Next to Normal Octet Once Once on this Island The Phantom of the Opera Pippin The Producers Ragtime Rent Ride the Cyclone The Rocky Horror Show Something Rotten The Sound of Music Spies Are Forever SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical Spring Awakening Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Twisted: The Untold Story of A Royal Vizier Waitress West Side Story Wicked The Wiz

Division B

25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee 42nd Street 1776 Adamandi American Idiot American Psycho Anastasia Applause Bare: A Pop Opera Beetlejuice Be More Chill Billy Elliot the Musical Bonnie and Clyde Bye Bye Birdie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Cinderella (Rodgers and Hammerstein) City of Angels Damn Yankees Dear Evan Hansen Death Note: The Musical Evita Fosse A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Grease The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals Hallelujah, Baby! Heathers Holy Musical B@man! How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying Jersey Boys Jesus Christ Superstar Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Kiss Me, Kate Kiss of the Spider Woman La Cage aux Folles The Lightning Thief A Little Night Music Man of La Mancha Memphis Monty Python's Spamalot The Mystery of Edwin Drood A New Brain Nine The Pajama Game Passion The Prom The Scarlet Pimpernel Singin' in the Rain Six South Pacific Starship A Strange Loop Sunday in the Park with George Sunset Boulevard Tanz der Vampire / Dance of the Vampires Thoroughly Modern Millie Tick Tick Boom Titanic The Trail to Oregon! Tuck Everlasting Two Gentlemen of Verona Urinetown The Will Rogers Follies The Wizard of Oz (1987)

Division C

& Juliet 21 Chump Street 35MM: A Musical Exhibition 1789: Les Amants de la Bastille Aida Allegiance Amélie Annie Get Your Gun Anything Goes The Art of Pleasing Princes Bandstand Beauty and the Beast Big Fish Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson Carousel Carrie The Color Purple Contact The Count of Monte Cristo Dogfight Dracula, the Musical Dreamgirls Elisabeth Evil Dead: The Musical Finding Neverland Frankenstein: A New Musical The Frogs Funny Girl Godspell Groundhog Day Gypsy Hedwig and the Angry Inch Jane Eyre The Last Five Years Lizzie The Lord of the Rings Love in Hate Nation Love Never Dies The Mad Ones The Magic Show Mary Poppins Mean Girls Merrily We Roll Along Miss Saigon Mozart! Oklahoma! Oliver On the Town Ordinary Days Parade The Pirate Queen Preludes Pretty Woman The Prince of Egypt Priscilla, Queen of the Desert Rebecca Roméo et Juliette: de la Haine à l'Amour The Secret Garden Seussical She Loves Me Shrek the Musical Starry Wonderland You're A Good Man Charlie Brown

Division D

13: The Musical Ablaze The Act Ain't Misbehavin An American in Paris Anne & Gilbert Anyone Can Whistle Av. Larco Back to the Future the Musical The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas Big River Bran Nue Dae Bright Star Bring It On Calvin Berger Caroline, or Change Clown Bible Crazy for You De 3 Biggetjes The Dolls of New Albion Dorian Gray The Drowsy Chaperone The Fantasticks Fiorello! Fly by Night Follies Frankenstein (Wang Yeon Beom + Brandon Lee) Hans Christian Andersen Hoy no me puedo levantar In Transit Jagged Little Pill Jerome Robbins' Broadway Kimberly Akimbo King's Table Kismet Lady Bess La Légende du roi Arthur Le Passe-Muraille / Amour Le Roi Soleil Les Parapluies de Cherbourg The Light in the Piazza Made in Dagenham Magic Tree House: The Musical Mentiras el musical Notre-Dame de Paris Once Upon A Mattress On Your Feet! The Story of Emilio & Gloria Estefan Phantom (Yeston & Kopit) Raisin Redhead Sarafina! School of Rock The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1964) Seven Brides for Seven Brothers Show Boat Sidd Siete veces adios Soldaat van Oranje The Spitfire Grill Starlight Express Starmania / Tycoon Tarrytown The Threepenny Opera / Die Dreigroschenoper Timéo Wiedzmin The Wild Party (Lippa) The Woman in White Wonderful Town [title of show] Émilie Jolie

#league of musicals

[thenightling]

I don't understand why so many people seem surprised or reluctant at the idea of horror musicals. It has occurred to me that there are more horror themed musicals than any other genre within the musical format. Note: Some of these are stage musicals, some are movies, and some are both. Little Shop of Horrors Sweeney Todd: The Demon barber of Fleet Street Phantom of The Opera Phantom of The Opera: Love Never Dies The Rocky Horror Show Shock Treatment Evil Dead: The Musical Carrie White Lestat (Two very different versions but same cast) Dracula: The musical Dance of the Vampires (Tanz der Vampire) Jekyll and Hyde Richard Campbell's Frankenstein The metal opera Frankenstein: The New Musical Young Frankenstein Dead Man's Party (performed at Six Flags every Halloween season) Beetlejuice: The musical Beetlejuice: Graveyard Revue (Universal Studios) Edward Scissorhands (The ballet) Teeth The Lost Boys (in workshop now) Death Note: The Musical The Canterville Ghost Dorian! The Remarkable Mr. Gray Bat Boy: The Musical Hocus Pocus Spooktacular stage show Hocus Pocus the musical (in development) Ghost: The musical The Addams Family (Broadway musical) The Princess and the Goblin Bad Cinderella Labyrinth The Black Labyrinth (unofficial Labyrinth sequel) The Wizard of Oz Wicked Over The Garden Wall Something Wicked This way Comes: The musical Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Coming out of Their Shells Lazarus The Nightmare before Christmas Corpse Bride Monster Mash: The Musical Rockula Red Riding Hood (direct to video musical) Into The Woods The Little Mermaid Frozen Alvin and the Chipmunks meet The Wolfman Alvin and the Chipmunks meet Frankenstein Repo! The Genetic Opera The Devil's Carnival The Hunchback of Notre Dame Monster High: The Movie Monster High: The Movie 2 Descendants Descendants 2 Descendants 3 Descendants: The Rise of Red Zombies Zombies 2 Zombies 3 Zombies 4 Hadestown Scooby Doo and The Witch's Ghost Faust: The Rock musical The Crucible Stage Fright Frank Wildhorn's Dracula The Musical Frankenstein: A Rock Opera Dracula: The Rock Opera Admittedly some of these might count as scifi or just supernatural / fantasy but they still had Gothic or horror elements. I can name more horror musicals than I can mother other genres of musicals that are performed in the English language.

[the-witching-ash]

🌟 Andrew?

1) He gets the idea to try out community theater after Byan Ryan’s vist and auditions for the next show after Les Mis.

2) He doesn’t know this, but Simone, Corbin & Ezra offered to Hiram and Leroy he could live with them & go to Carmel. They say no after realizing Shelby is the choir director, giving the explanation they didn’t want to separate him from his friends.

3) He sings this version of 1989 in Carmen’s Class in The New Rachel

4) His first big Broadway job is as wicked ensemble

5) A (future) Broadway dreamrole for him is Tevye from Fiddler on The Roof.

6) He’s really good with languages and mostly taught himself to speak Spanish and Yiddish by the time he was graduating NYADA.

7) Andrew gets wins the tony award for Sweeney Todd at 23, in 2019.

8) Solo-verse, he lives in the same apartment building as Dani. (They initially don’t get along because of her biphobia but like he does with Kurt, he gets her to learn how to accept bisexuality.)

9) He works at least two part-time jobs in New York - as a bar tender in a nicer bar in the theater district by the recommendation of a NYADA friend & at the guitar shop Elliot Gilbert takes Kurt to in Frenemies.

#oc: andrew berry