mai | she/they/he | brasileira/o | 21yo | i'm like really into musical theatre; ghost quartet is my permanent hyperfixation | you'll find a lot of starkid content here as well | always feel more than welcome to ask me to trigger tag anything, my anon inbox is always open :) | my main blog is @mahlowes i do art sometimes
thinking about how rose kills pearl every time or stands by as she's killed and about how rose won't acknowledge pearl in "midnight" while she's begging "don't you recognize me?" and about the line "the younger is in love was in love is in love was in love" and wondering if mta david falls in love in grief after pearl dies in that timeline and about how the bear says he's not "a murderer or a crazy person" and then proceeds to be one or both of those things in every other lifetime but pearl forgives him ("you're a really good cello player, brent") but oh my god what does the sword mean.
See the problem is I wanna lyric post about in the green but like half the lyrics are just oooohmwah mmmmah hmmmmmmm reeeeororeereee dmtssss dmtssss *clicking noise* *ominous rumbling* and I don’t know if it resonates in a text based medium
any good obscure musical recs?? ive listened to like almost 400 musicals and i need some new ones
oh boy, oh boy, oh boy *rubbing hands together* i'm so glad you asked
my number 1 go-to rec is always "waitress" cause it's gotta be my favorite; it's my comfort musical, i know it's a little more mainstream but i've met a lot of people who just weren't interested enough to watch it, so if you fit into that category pLEASE DO
i think i'd also have to recommend "avenue q"; it's fucking funny, the whole show is done with puppets and the dude who wrote it purposefully hired people who had worked either on sesame street or the muppets, only on this show they're swearing up and down, talking about porn, racism and whatnot; gold mine.
i also love "35mm-a musical exhibition;" dude wrote a musical that makes you feel like you're walking down an photography exhibition and each song tells the story to a different picture. i've actually got a side blog ( @35mm-a-musical-exhibition ) with the pictures to each song cause they're so frickin hard to find??? i was like, why hasn't anyone just dug deep to find the pictures and compiled them all into one place yet?? meh, somebody's gotta do it so it might as well be me (that was a "spies are forever" reference if you didn't get; another great rec; it's a tin can brothers musical, that's made up of some starkid members, including joey richter)
i'm also a really big fan of "lizzie the musical;" i actually made a post hyping it up a while back; it's a rock horror lesbian musical. need i say any more?
now, this isn't really a new musical rec, cause since you said you've listened to almost 400 musicals i'm pretty sure you've heard of "into the woods," bUT lately i've been obssessed with the central park run they did and i'll talk about it for hours to anyone who gives me the chance. they did this shakespeare in the park kind of thing? in which the show is actually put on in the middle of the woods. the lady who plays the witch? my favorite witch up to date; donna murphy was actually the same person who voiced mother gothel in "tangled," which is basically the same role, right? further proving my point that she was born for this part. its so much creepier than any other production, not only because of visual elements but some details they added into some of the characters' representations and detail on the actual story. i do have to warn you tho, that they did not take the wolf's song to little red as a "subtle" reference to being a sexual predator, it's actually pretty explicit, so watch out if you've got any SA triggers. some other details include that amy adams (yes, giselle from "enchanted") plays the baker's wife, jessie mueller (yes, jenna from "waitress") plays cinderella and chip zien (yes, the baker from the original 1987 production of "into the woods") plays the mysterious man. it's so good. please watch it.