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i love london, just saw one of the guys in west endsies on the tube 👌 ironically while listening to carrying the banner

#it was splasher i believe #what a legend #newsies #west endsies #i summoned him #okay this sounds creepier than it was

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impressions of west endsies (or, why you should see it immediately)

i saw london's new production of newsies sunday. it was everything i imagined and more. if you have the chance, sit in woodside or just any of the side ones. they throw copies of the banner and the torn newspapers into the audience. it now has a place of honor on my wall.

these are the absolute chaotic crackhead thoughts (edited for clarity) that i frantically typed into my notes app, along with post-show additions because i couldn't stop thinking about it.

(tl,dr at the end)

i bought a pin and it's going right on my nerd jacket

THE OVERTURE IS A DANCE NUMBER

THEY START BEHIND THE AUDIENCE AND DANCE IN THE AISLES

DO THE WHOLE "EXTRA EXTRA" THING TOWARDS THE AUDIENCE

I SHIT YOU NOT, ONE GUY FLIES DOWN THE CENTER AISLE ON A ZIPLINE WHILE HAWKING PAPES

one of them smiled at me

im dying

Jack has sketches all around his penthouse!! and a santa fe postcard he shows crutchie

oh yeah, i am obsessed with this crutchie

they are so chaotic and i am in love

"blind, mute, DEAD" guy jumps on the others

race my beloved,,, less ditzy than broadway and i love him all the same

his cigar actually smokes and he does it the whole act

Davey sounds amazing, pitch perfect pre-strike nervous boi

small thing, but papers in the stacks the delanceys hand out are different sizes corresponding to the number of papes the newsies buy and it makes me happy

Newsies are just vibing during office scene, they are sleeping in the aisles!!!

love Hannah, she's a sassy queen

they don't run on scaffolding, they run in the aisles!!! it really hypes you up and makes you feel involved in the action

newsies come to watch meddas show, and they're adorable

medda has BACKGROUND DANCERS (who become the brooklyn newsies!!!)

no seriously i can't stress enough how awesome the theater scenes are

kathy is a badass bitch and i love her

he hands the drawing right to her

everyone talks very fast

i don't have any notes on "the world will know" because i was too focused getting my mind blown by the entire number

race looks like Jeremy Jordan and he smiled in my general direction earlier

"who wants Brooklyn" they all very dramatically hide, i love it

i like how the newsies visbily and audibly respond to katherine's descriptions of them

my darling davey is less confrontational at this point but so sassy

One of them shouted "for fucks sake" when les went to davey instead of hanging out

Kathy thanks the newsies that bring on her desk

Newspaper sword fight before they dance on the papers!!

there's another ballet boy doing those super hard turns and he did MORE OF THEM

Les got LIFTED INTO THE AIR during the fight scene

ALERT: DAVEY AND JACK ARE IN THE BIG DANCE NUMBERS MORE OFTEN THEN USUAL (not doing the elaborate jumping stuff, but still!!!!)

i was on the cusp of tears the whole time and they spilled over during Santa Fe

on the way to the bathroom i picked up one of the pieces of the newspapers they threw into the crowd during seize the day, it is on my wall now

act two and i am ready to be emotionally damaged even more

RACE IS EVERYTHING TO ME IN EVERY ITERATION

les starts the tap of KONY while on a table

there is less tap than in livesies, but more creativity when it comes to involving the whole group

tables as cars!! they pretend to drive around and it's adorable

They saw hadestown's 'wait for me' swinging lights and said "we can do it better" and y'know what??? they fucking nailed it (no shade, i love both numbers more than life)

katherine has a crown of sppooons

jack is painting the same backdrop as broadway during "watch what happens reprise" and i actually squeaked

davey is whipped (at least that's what i see lmao)

i'm loving confident davey, his character development is everything!!

his deliberate way of saying "we are inevitable" really tugs at my heart man

BROOKLYN IS ALL GIRLS!! they start in the audience, then sing on their way to the stage and GET A DANCE NUMBER

no seriously I LOVE THEM SO MUCH

during the rally, the newsies are actually standing in the borough they shout out (the "woodside's here!" gang was like 6 feet away from me on a riser)

the newsies really feel like kids fighting for a cause

love something to believe in; gotta say, wasn't really feeling this jatherine until this scene, because man they killed it

here comes once and for all, which will never fail to hype me up

they changed the "you got your thugs..." lyric and i was too busy mouthing along to the song to remember what is was changed to

lanterns during once and for all! they lit it like it was night and the lanterns added to the ~vibe~

AND they do the bundle tossing thing in the central aisle and towards the exits, i was mesmerized

then they go to the rest of the aisles and throw the banners into the crowd (one of which i have)

love the teddy roosevelt

the newsies vs pulitzer is everything??? spot and davey??? amazing

davey says sandstorms instead of tarantulas

i would die for the whole jacobs family

of course, curtain call for newsies is mindblowing

i made eye contact with race at one point during the show and it made my evening even better

they got MULTIPLE standing ovations during the show and i stood up during the applause for "once and for all" (no one else did) because that one deserved a standing ovation too

when i walked out of the theater, it had started snowing in wembley for the first time this year :)))

a magical, rousing, fantastic show that i eagerly recounted to my friends and boyfriend when i got back to our accommodation

tl;dr please oh please if you have the opportunity, go see newsies! it is unforgettable and worth every penny!!

#i was trying very hard not to start singing on the way home #twas a vibe especially with the snow #my friends knew how excited i was so when i got back they let me speedrun these notes #and while we were hanging out in the kitchen i just started playing the soundtrack and dancing around #extremely dorky of me but bf thought it was cute #newsies #west end newsies #west endsies

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Roger: Brian hasn’t stopped staring through the window since the storm started.

Roger: I suppose I should let him in.

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The Boys from the 80s.

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watched bohemian rhapsody again for the first time in 2020,,,, still makes me cry

#how to recharge emotional batteries #i love them so much #my little sister watched it with me and was surprised i still cried #i will always cry for freddie mercury #aech speaks #bohemian rhapsody #borhap

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Freddie Mercury, Jazz Tour North America, 1978 photographed by Neal Preston, ©️ Queen Productions Ltd. 2020

#dream christmas present

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just realized that because our small class meetings are recorded, my teachers have access to my horrible attempts at flirting. fuck

#why am i like this??? #im too much of a chicken to text this guy but i look forward to our goddamn class discussions???? #big chaotic energy #aech speaks

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update: after 4 fucking years, the horse is finally out of the hospital

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tfw you're talking to your crush before a group meeting and they're about to say something but someone joins and they go silent

#fucking really??? #what anime were you going to say???? #why don't you just text me?? #this episode on i don't know how to properly flirt #or even emote #aech speaks

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Well, I just got to part 5 of ‘10 Things I Hate About You’ before I realized that my idiot self hadn’t reblogged any of it 😅 oopy, I’ll do that now!! But it’s very good!

aw, thank you! i'm glad you enjoyed it :)

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also the ignatian teach-in for justice??? emotionally exhausting af

#it is very important though!!!! adress your privilege!!!!! #im so tired #it's so long #aech speaks

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don't mind me, just casually weeping while listening to "a day at the races" after too many months

#i just love everything about queen #there are photos on the album liner and i actually cried when i saw their 1976 faces #that is all #queen #aech speaks #a day at the races

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yeah I love them a normal amount

left to right: Talin, Talin again, Adena, Red, and Jeran

#love these chaotic kids #the mind link talin and red have???? perfection #his pet mouse #corian deserved better #we 👏 stan 👏 jerran 👏 and 👏 aramin #hello again tumblr #skyhunter #marie lu #highly recommend

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i just finished the new hunger games prequel and it was absolutely incredible... i don't know how to proceed with my life now

#i can even find the words #it was exceptional #i genuinely could not put it down #aech speaks

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thinking about Percy standing over a wounded Annabeth, swinging his sword to keep enemies at bay and yelling "NO ONE TOUCHES HER"

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me thinking i was done with pjo, finally, after devoting all my time to it from age 11-13, then finding out about the disney+ adaptation