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HEY

Hamilton: An American Musical portrays the founding fathers in a far more positive light than they deserve and neglects to mention the horrific impact these men had on both African Americans as a collective and the individual Black people they interacted with and portrays America through rose-tinted glasses

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Hamilton : An American Musical was instrumental in igniting a new wave of musical appreciation and modern musicals that sparked a generation's interest in history while also giving recognition and roles to incredible Actors and Actresses of color and is a musical masterpiece

Are opinions that can and should coexist. It's okay to be critical of the things you consume. It's encouraged even.

#hamifilm #hamilton

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This is a masterpiece

Is this Newsies?

#newsies #mamma mia

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listening to bandstand and just thinkin bout how welcome home is rewritten to be this hopeful, happy song about a woman waiting for her love to come home and basically glosses over the horrors the guys faced and how julia’s voice is more high and sweet but during the finale her voice is more low and more gravelly and you can tell how emotional she is because that’s how julia originally wrote it and everyone that came home is still fighting their own war they said fuck making people comfortable they need to know what really happens

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the 2002 broadway revival of into the woods was so unnecessarily extra lmao

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I love songs about being calm that are most certainly not calm

For example

“I’m Calm” from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

“Calm” from Ordinary Days

Are there any more that I’m not thinking of?

#musicals #musical theatre #musical theatre tropes #a funny thing happened on the way to the forum #ordinary days

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Corey Cott really didn’t get nominated for a Tony/any other award for playing this character huh

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Musicals to Listen to in Quarantine!

Since we’re all stuck inside and bored, I’ve put together some underrated and under-appreciated musicals to discover while you’re inside!

& Juliet

Plot: A jukebox musical about if Juliet hadn’t killed herself at the end of Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare’s wife, Anne Hathaway, writes Juliet her own story and gives her some new friends. Shakespeare, however, isn’t willing to let his wife take over the story entirely, and he has other plans. Has a canon non-binary character, a canon pansexual character, and a canon bi character, along with songs that are absolute bops and a kickass female empowerment message.

Emojiland

Plot: No, this is not “The Emoji Movie: The Musical”. Emojiland is a completely different story about emojis in a phone who take one another at face value. For example, there’s a smiling face with depression and a nerd face who’s too smart for his own good. While it may seem cutesy and simple on the surface, Emojiland has a much deeper meaning than it appears to. Has canon wlw, Lesli Margherita, Lucas Steele, and more absolute bops.  We Are the Tigers

Plot: A high-school cheerleading team is having their annual team sleepover. However, the night turns deadly quickly, and soon the cheerleaders are left with three of their friends dead and the murderer still at large. A great whodunnit that blends the slasher genre of the 80s with a teenage drama. Has canon wlw, many strong female characters (only one male character is ever shown onstage), power ballads, a murder mystery, Wonu Ogunfowora, and girls belting their hearts out.

Jagged Little Pill

Plot: I’ve seen this musical compared to RENT quite a bit, which is fair. However, Jagged Little Pill is more than just RENT 2.0. It’s a jukebox musical containing the music from Alanis Morissette’s iconic 90s album. The musical focuses on the Healy family, and their individual struggles. While it is a pretty heavy musical, it touches on important topics such as racism, sexual assault, sexuality, and addiction. Has a canonically bi character, strong female characters, and absolute bangers.

Starry

Plot: If you’re a fan of Starkid, you’ll probably notice a few familiar faces in this cast. This is a pop-rock musical about the lives of Vincent Van Gogh and his brother Theo, all the way up until Vincent’s death. The music is beautiful, the story is touching, and Dylan Saunders is singing his lungs out. What’s not to love? Features Mariah Rose Faith, Dylan Saunders, absolute bangers, Jaimie Lynn Beatty, and Jeff Blim.

If you have any other underrated musicals you want to shout out, add them in the rbs! 

#to come back to

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This was definitely something to come across as I sit waiting to watch DEH at the Kennedy Center

FAVOURITE THREAD TITLE IN THE HISTORY OF BROADWAYWORLD

#deh

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alright kids WELCOME BACK TO DAY 2 OF REVIVING THE NEWSIES FANDOM

reblog this post of your blog has Newsies content cause I’m gonna sift through the notes later to reblog content from your blogs

#its in there!! #newsies #toursies #newsies on tour #newsies the musical

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Someone help!!

So I didn’t realize until after the fact that STEPHANIE FREAKIN STYLES was in Booksmart but I can’t seem to recall who her character (Alison) was

Can someone help a girl out??

#stephanie styles #booksmart #booksmart movie #please help!!

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ANOTHER JOSEPH MEME THIS IS AMAZING

#joseph and the amazing technicolor dreamcoat

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How to tell who wrote the musical you’re listening to

*moody guitar riff*: Jonathan Larson

colloquial angst: Joe Iconis

the most vulgar baroque opera you’ve ever heard: William Finn

unhummable: Sondheim

hella hummable: Rodgers and Hammerstein

*soaring melody* *same soaring melody repeated 100 times but you cry anyway*: Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg

where have I heard this before?: Andrew Lloyd Webber

everyone is singing their own thing and you can’t possibly sing along anymore: Lin-Manuel Miranda

*key change*: Pasek and Paul

what the actual fuck: Robert Lopez

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reblog and put the best understudy/replacement you ever saw in the tags

#eric sciotto for nigel bottom in something rotten on broadway #also kevin csolak for aaron samuels in mean girls on broadway #and jonalyn saxer for karen in mean girls #and zach adkins for dmitry in anastasia before he went on to take over the role #basically every understudy or swing on broadway is amazing

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Hey M A N H A T T A N, the cavalry’s co-oming!

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So today I had to drive by the Pentagon on my way to do things and as soon as it came into view “38 Planes” from Come From Away came on shuffle and it was such a perfect moment so shoutout to the Spotify shuffle feature for making that happen

#come from away #cfa

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She took Thomas, and never said goodbye. The one thing I could never give to him was time.

#this song always got me #tuck everlasting #tuck everlasting the musical

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Chaz Wolcott set to choreograph Bright Star in Springfield, IL.