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terrainofheartfelt · 2 years

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Gossip Girl Playlists: Theatre Kid AU edition!—Serena’s

[Blair's] [Dan’s] [Nate’s]

I don’t even remember exactly how this started, but it’s @strideofpride’s fault.

The concept began as: if they were in this world, what would be in the GG mains’ MT books? What would be their go-to song? Their 16 bar cut? And then, I got on spotify, and got wayyyy too carried away (typical me), and it sort of morphed into: what are the NJBC’s (plus Daniel’s) senior musical theatre recital programs? And now I have this: a quartet of playlists of repertoire handpicked by me for these fake people, and I am very proud of them.

All selections based on my very particular taste, honed from a childhood in community theater, an adolescence in high school musicals, and a 4 year degree from a majority musical theatre school

And, as in the tradition of Glee and all plays within a play, the rep reflects something profoundly personal about the character, because you know I love a theme.

the meta:

So Serena’s type…it’s the same with Nate, too, in that people try to pigeon-hole her into one, but she’s not really into it. She isn’t one for the leading ladies for multiple reasons: a): her personality does not vibe, because the villains and the old ladies (and the overlap of both) is so much more fun to her, b): she’s kind of shut herself out of wanting to be for Blair’s sake, because she doesn’t want to compete with her for the same stuff, and c): she’s as tall/taller than most male leads in her program.

Her voice: hmmmmmm she IS a belter, or can be one, but it’s not — it’s not this weak sauce, nasal belting, and it isn’t high, like she’s not up in the stratosphere, yk? It’s a little rough and tumble, deeper, rounder, lower. She can get Up There, but it’s not where she lives. (Like S floated Laura Bell Bundy, but her voice is SO high, and rings in a way that’s so specific to her that I don’t really hear it for Serena. It’s a vibe, idk.)

Oh, and she’s a ~dancer~ like Natie.

References: Bernadette Peters, Jane Krakowski, Kristin Chenoweth (for the Comedy and for that oldies golden-age country crooner kind of belt), and early Idina Menzel, pre-Elphaba pre-let’s write roles that shouldn’t be physiologically possible, and a girl from my voice studio I’ll call Heather, because she looked a bit like Blake Lively and had the voice I’m casting in this playlist.

the tracklist:

Don’t Tell Mama — Cabaret

It’s just…so perfect. On so many meta-levels

Sally Bowles does not want you to tell her mother about her career change

A Trip to the Library — She Loves Me

Bc S’s au was so SPOT ON with this casting choice, omg.

The darling, if a little bit ditzy, Ilona is definitely over her ex now, after a meet cute in the library.

A Cockeyed Optimist — South Pacific

The only leading lady that both Blair and Serena are perfectly suited for. Imagine a plot where they both go out for it, then are double cast, all that delicious blairena drama…

Nellie talks to the dapper Emil, and reveals her personality, unshaken despite literally living in the middle of a world war

Sonya & Natasha (duet w/ Blair) — Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812

I really think this works best with the duet and solo ballad playing one right after the other. it’s all that stuff all those web weaving posts are about, girls loving with claw marks and teeth and blood but nobody else will love you as fiercely and as loyally. It’s the best friendship of it all.

Natasha’s cousin-but-good-as-sister Sonya discovers and calls her out on her emotional affair with a RAKE to whom she is not engaged. Absolutely brutal girl-best-friend fight ensues.

Sonya Alone — Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812

When her cousin shuts her out, Sonya remains determined to save her from herself.

Through the Mountain — Floyd Collins

A hidden gem in a hidden gem of an esoteric kind of musical. But the song is gorgeous (also composed by Richard Rogers’ grandson Adam Guettel, in a genre I’m calling neoromantic bluegrass)

I picked the Audra performance bc I love her, and for the guitar, because musician!Dan my most beloved

While her brother, Floyd, is trapped in an underground cave, Nellie sings this promise to save him.

Over the Moon — Rent

Like, ~serena the actress~ not doing Maureen is so implausible I cannot entertain the notion. Also, like, just imagine her in a performance—not even the whole show, just her recital or a cabaret—getting the crowd to moo with her. Only thee SVDW could.

Take It Like a Man (duet w/ Dan) — Legally Blonde

I stand by what I said earlier re: Laura Bell Bundy, and while Serena is not a “so much better” belter, she could so sell this. And with Dan!!! It’s perfect!

Okay I have strong opinions on this but this is actually a perfect, feel-good musical. So many bangers, a genius adaptation of a beloved film, a balance that not many musicals in the same genre strike. (a guy judged me recently for calling it perfect and honestly fuck that guy. anyways).

Elle takes her best law school friend, Emmett, shopping for grownup lawyer clothes for their case. Feelings ensue.

Gorgeous — The Apple Tree: Passionella

Okay so I’ve never seen this show, but this song is basically about a “homely” girl who magically becomes ~sexy~ and she is Living for it — it’s a twist on the Cinderella myth, essentially. It was made famous by KChen in a revival.

Turn Back, O Man — Godspell

For no other reason than I can imagine Serena having the most fun with it.

The legendary Stephen Schwartz musical in which the only named characters are Judas and Jesus, it’s a…loose storytelling of the gospel.

The designated soloist opens Act II with this song, which, for telling people to forswear sin and give up things of this world, it sounds hella sexy. (I chose the revival w/ Morgan James bc she’s one of my fave singers and hoooo. She can wail.)

Hard to Be the Bard — Something Rotten

A gender-bender song because Serena would. And let us never forget Serena, Founder of the Shakespeare Club my beloved.

Poor ol’ Billy Shakes is struggling with the trappings of fame.

Changing My Major — Fun Home

Harold.

College-age Alison wakes up after a night of passion (her very first one) and is adorably and emotionally changed forever.

The Life of the Party — The Wild Party

It’s Serena (one aspect of her character) wrapped up into one MT song. It’s perfect.

A musical about a Fitzgerald kind of bacchanal, during which things get truly wild: alcohol, abuse, adultery….murder. Kate, a flapper if there ever was one, opens Act 2 with a salute to the party life.

If You Ever See Me Talking to a Sailor — The Last Ship

Remember when Sting wrote a musical about some gruff northern english shipbuilders? No? Well, it kind of flopped, BUT I think it’s great. And the music slaps (it’s by Sting, hello) and this song slaps.

Meg, a badass MILF who’s been hurt one too many times tells everyone in the pub of this seaside town why sailor’s ain’t shit. because her first love ran away on a boat after he (unknowingly) knocked her up? maybe so.

If You Hadn’t But You Did — Two on the Aisle

Written for a 50s Bway revue, KChen revived this into one of her staples on a studio recording. The wronged woman, but make it both deadly AND hilarious. And patter.

Mamma Mia — Mamma Mia

Because S said it belonged here and she is RIGHT. Like, in a ~serena the Actress~ world, I see her starting off with the Maureens and the comic sexy relief before happily aging into Donna and everything Bernadette Peters ever did.

Donna, on this, the eve of her daughter’s wedding, discovers that not one, but three of her exes (and all incidentally the possible biological father of said daughter) have been invited. Shenanigans and Abba ensue.

People — Funny Girl

Idk if I would have her do this whole role, but I think she would love Babs and love this song (and she can absolutely do “Jingle Bells?” as a party trick at holiday gigs).

Fanny Brice, charismatic comedienne full of ambition sings this number towards the close of act 1, as she begins to fall for Nicky Arnstein.

Get Happy/Happy Days Are Here Again (duet with Blair) — as performed by Judy and Barbra

It’s about the BEST FRIENDS. And about that gorgeous, full, round, vibratoed belt.

A mashup duet made famous from Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand’s performance on the Judy Garland show. Judy sings Harold Arlen’s “Get Happy” which she made famous in the movie Summer Stock, and Babs sings Milton Ager’s pop standard “Happy Days,” one of her most famous singles.

#gossip girl #serena van der woodsen #*ggmt #playlist #theatre kid!serena is actually something that can be so personal #i think this is my favorite of them all #on today's episode of liz was a music major and she's gonna make it everyone's problem #help i can’t stop thinking about serena playling maureen #source: homeofthenutty #source: senamarais #fun fact one of my best friend's married a man named Joe. so he sings 'changing my major' but makes it 'changing my major to joe'#and it's the sweetest fucking thing #they're Goals tbh #i know I said she wouldn't play elle woods and then put legally blonde on the list #but let me defend that by saying 'take it like a man' and 'so much better' are not in the same vocal universe #so much better does slap though

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defyed · 6 months

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𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐘 𝟐𝟎𝐓𝐇 𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐀𝐑𝐘, 𝐖𝐈𝐂𝐊𝐄𝐃 !

OCTOBER 30, 2003 - the official opening show, with idina menzel as elphaba and kristin chenoweth as galinda. the originals. i would have been eight years old, on the other side of the world, with absolutely no idea this was happening nor the impact it would come to have on my life. it is, without a doubt, my favourite. my favourite everything. my favourite cast, my favourite storyline, my favourite book, my favourite soundtrack, my favourite production- wicked is what started my passion for musical theatre. sure, i had seen a show or two when i was little, but it wasn't until wicked that i truly fell in love. i've always adored elphaba and she has always been a character i have wanted to write. i never really had the courage to, until now. i'm so excited to bring her to life how i see her, and i hope everyone here comes to love her as i do. thank you wicked for everything you have given to me, and everything you will continue to give to me until your run ends, which i hope it never does . . . HAPPY WICKED20 !

#‘ offstage !#‘ W20 !#i had to debut on the anniversary #i couldn't resist #i'm so excited omg

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chenoweth · 4 years

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in my defense i have none / for digging up the grave another time / but it would’ve been fun / if you would’ve been the one

#kristin chenoweth #idina menzel #otp: it's a good thing I love you #chenzel #edits #oh noooo #oh no #i can’t stop thinking about this goddamn song #i opened a new document to write fic because of it #also!! ‘the 1’ = ‘extraordinary’ = ‘always on my mind’/’losing my mind’#i said what i said!

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ohlookitstomorrowff · 2 years

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So, the casting for Elphaba and Glinda for the Wicked movie has just been announced and I just need to rant…

WHO’S IDEA WAS IT TO CAST ARIANA GRANDE AS GLINDA???

Like, seriously, thanks for giving me the worst news since COVID - not literally, but pretty close.

The casting of Elphaba wasn’t that big a deal for me, I just wanted a powerhouse vocalist with great acting ability and I’m pretty hopeful to see what Cynthia Erivo will do.

However, while I didn’t have high hopes for the casting of Glinda (I really thought they were going to throw Dove Cameron into the role, which, at this point, would be an improvement) I really wanted someone who could portray all of Glinda’s nuances.

For a fictional character, Glinda means so much to me - if it wasn’t for her, and how she inspired me, I wouldn’t have had the confidence to get through the hardest time in my life, I wouldn’t have sat down and started to write fan fiction, and I wouldn’t have ended up studying English Lit at university.

When I came into the Wicked fandom it was after hearing Idina Menzel on the Frozen soundtrack, so I was a pretty big Elphaba stan and only saw Glinda as comedic relief and Elphaba’s secret girlfriend. But when I saw the show for the first time in the West End, right in the middle of the second row, everything changed. I watched as Savannah Stevenson descended in Glinda’s bubble and I couldn’t believe how wrong I’d been; the emotion on her face as she tried to pretend to celebrate Elphaba’s death with the rest of Oz really did break my heart. She’d just lost the one person in the world that she’d ever truly cared for, the one person who saw past her perfect facade and had believed that she was capable of far more than being a trophy among society, and she had to pretend to be happy, she had to keep her promise to Elphaba not to reveal the truth and help Oz heal and rebuild.

Everyone loves Elphaba for her courage and her passion, we see her as someone good and pure who was wrongly deemed villainous just because of her appearance, but most people forget that Elphaba (in the musical) got her supposed happy ending - she ran off with Fiyero - and Glinda was the one who was left broken and confused, but strong and resolute to do the best for everyone else.

Glinda goes on such an emotional journey throughout the show, she has the most significant character arc, and that’s reflected in the score. The low notes in the reprisal of I’m Not That Girl and For Good are supposed to represent the slip of her control, and the high notes in NOMTW, Thank Goodness and the Finale are to signify the mask she has to adopt when the world is watching. The operatic high notes set her apart from the Ozians; you can easily pick Kristin Chenoweth’s voice out from the ensemble as the chant ‘wicked’ at the end of NOMTW, for example. The highest note of all, at the end of Thank Goodness, comes at Glinda’s moment of realisation - she’s just admitted to herself that none of the things she thought would make her happy have, she’s just realised just what they’ve cost her, she’s just accepted that her true self is the person that Elphaba tried to convince her she could be, but she’s got to pretend that none of that is true, that she ‘couldn’t be happier today.’ That note takes amazing vocal control for an actress, no matter how hard it is, or how tired they’re feeling, they’ve got to put all of that aside and literally master their breathing to perfection. In that instance, they have to mirror Glinda’s internal process, and when it’s done right, like with Kristin, Savannah, and other Glinda’s like Suzie Mathers and GC, it’s so breathtaking it leaves me with tears in my eyes.

Is Ariana Grande going to be able to do any of that? Is she going to be able to show the full extent of Glinda’s emotions and not just play into the comedic airhead stereotype that many believe Glinda to represent? Is she going to be able to hit those high notes convincingly, never mind even starting on the conversation of will she option them up - that optional high F is tough, and so few Glinda’s have been able to hit it? Is she even going to able to utilise proper diction and enunciate Glinda’s lines properly?

Or is she going to absolutely ruin everything about what I think makes Glinda Glinda - one of the most multifaceted female characters to appear on Broadway.

And don’t even get me started on the possibility of Gelphie in this movie, I’ve kissed that goodbye unfortunately. I really think it is going to do it’s best to be heteronormative and force Glinda and Elphaba into this rival love interests mould.

(I’m legit just waiting for them to announce James Corden as the Wizard or Dr Dillamond, and Harry Styles as Fiyero… I miss the days when this movie was just a rumour, how carefree and full of hope I was then…)

#wicked movie #gelphie #ariana grande #cynthia erivo #Wicked #wicked the musical #kristin chenoweth #idina menzel #elphaba #glinda

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hereisisa · 3 years

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I find it Interesting that in the Frozen 1 they asked Idina Menzel help for Elsa’s character and because of that frozen became a success and winning awards, but in frozen 2 Idina Menzel didn’t really give any advice, but Kristin bell did and Frozen didn’t really win any awards. Makes you think 🤔

LOL

Well, it's true. I think KBell' vision of Anna is similar to Jenn' one and it's not the one kids like.

married queen with a dude by her side vs. adventurous princess with a sister by her side

what do you think kids prefer??

And for the ones who think Anna as queen can still have adventures...well she needs Elsa for that, there's no reason for Disney to have a movie without their moneymaker, so...they prove my point.

Idina, so far, proved to know her character. When she was involved in the writing process, she gave the right imput, and when she didn't, in F2, her PR was on point: I remember when she said Elsa's story doesn't have to revolve around a love interest, that she's not that kind of character and she doesn't think it's right for Elsa. I agree. But of course she's an actress and if a day Disney will ask her to say Elsa wants to be an astronaut, she'll say that. My point: I think what she said until now is what she thinks, but it will be hard to separate her beliefs from PR in the future. The writing process is a better way to understand how an actor sees a character, cause they share their vision (as Idina did for Frozen, and KBell for F2), PR is more complicated, even if I liked what Idina said so far. You could easily tell what she loved and what she felt as bullshit.

#BringElsaHome #Frozen 2 #Elsa #Queen Elsa

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d-criss-news · 4 years

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When it was announced that The Rosie O'Donnell Show would be back for one night only with a guest list of about 15 million Broadway talents, many of us wondered, would it be a return to the glory days of her multiple Emmy-winning daytime talk show or more like her ill-fated attempt to resuscitate the primetime variety format on NBC in 2008. It turned out to borrow from both those predecessors while evolving into something completely different — a low-tech lovefest that felt like eavesdropping on a group chat among friends looking out for one another in a time of need.

It was spontaneous, messy and blighted by some of the worst audio glitches imaginable. Yet it was often affectingly intimate, and even over an endurance-testing three-and-a-half commercial-free hours, also strangely addictive. The lack of slickness seemed to carry through to the relaxed manner of the guests, and their refreshing unpretentiousness.

Conceived by actor-producer (and occasional tech-support helpmate) Erich Bergen and live-streamed on Broadway.com and the website's YouTube channel, the show was a benefit for The Actors Fund, the charitable organization founded in 1882 that supports performers and behind-the-scenes theater workers. It raised more than half-a-million dollars, O'Donnell announced at the end of the marathon, sitting in a Hamilton hoodie and offering a champagne toast in a glass emblazoned with the face of Barbra Streisand.

She conducted the entire show from behind a laptop in her New Jersey garage, its floor spattered with the paint spillage of countless craft projects. "I'm a little bit of a Broadway nerd, I admit it," said O'Donnell, establishing her dual role as host and superfan.

Part of the show's unique pleasure was seeing favorite Broadway performers chilling in their own homes, almost all of them dressed down, with little visible attention to makeup or hair, and zero concern about unflattering angles. It was a great equalizer, proving that even artists who can hold packed theaters in the palm of their hands with a song are housebound and trying to make the best of a bad situation just like the rest of us — staying close to their families, killing time, learning to cook, wondering how long this unnerving isolation will last. Or how much longer we can put off that shower.

It was kind of comforting to see Idina Menzel sitting by her microwave and confessing, "I guess I'm going a little bonkers," while lamenting a failed lasagna attempt and sharing the challenges of homeschooling her son when she's no math genius. Likewise, hearing Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker talk about watching Columbo reruns or catching up on The Crown, while SJP begged for no spoilers on the final episode of The Sopranos, which she may now get to at last. Seeing Annette Bening on her Los Angeles balcony wearing a "Make America Kind Again" baseball cap was as much a tonic as watching Neil Patrick Harris do a card trick with his adorable twins. And who doesn't want to meet Gloria and Emilio Estefan's cute rescue dogs or hear about Lin-Manuel Miranda's kids' reaction to their first exposure to Singin' in the Rain?

Then there were the musical interludes.

Where else could you catch Patti LuPone, in magnificent voice, singing the urgently upbeat 1930s standard "A Hundred Years From Today," unaccompanied while sitting by the jukebox in her basement? Or Kelli O'Hara nestled into an armchair honoring Stephen Sondheim's 90th birthday by wrapping her crystalline soprano around "Take Me to the World," a hymn to unity from Evening Primrose? Or husband and wife Audra McDonald and Will Swenson duetting on the Charlie Chaplin evergreen, "Smile," from their Westchester living room? Or Darren Criss pouring his heart into another Sondheim classic about the desire for connection, "Being Alive," from Company, accompanying himself in a lovely pop arrangement on acoustic guitar from the sofa of his Los Angeles home? And while sound problems plagued Barry Manilow's selection of hits, ending with "I Made It Through the Rain," I was tickled to see his Judy Garland Kleenex dispenser.

Many of the song choices were thoughtfully apropos of the current crisis, offering comforting reassurance of the eventual return of resilience and togetherness while people in major cities all over the country self-isolate as the infection rate of the coronavirus pandemic continues to climb. Maybe Tituss Burgess at his home keyboard singing "The Glory of Love" is exactly the kind of uplift we all need right now.

Even in the seemingly random numbers, the entire enterprise was characterized by a spirit of generosity and sharing.

Kristin Chenoweth celebrated a Starbucks romance in "Taylor the Latte Boy." Matthew Morrison goofed it up on ukulele to a mashup of "The Bare Necessities" and "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" from his Disney Dreamin' album. Alan Menken whipped through a medley of his songs from The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast and Little Shop of Horrors, among others, at the piano. Ben Platt, also at the keyboard, did Bob Dylan's "Make You Feel My Love." And Adrienne Warren, the sensational star of Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, growled out "Simply the Best" from her bathtub. That was on the third attempt during a particularly troublesome audio patch, by which time her bubbles were history.

Prompted by O'Donnell, more than one guest reminded viewers that The Actors Fund is not just about Broadway artists pulling star salaries but also stagehands, makeup artists, wigmakers and ushers who work in what is very much a gig economy. The organization provides emergency financial assistance, social services, affordable housing, healthcare and insurance counseling and addiction support.

"Everything's a one-off," said Tony-winning actor Brian Stokes Mitchell, who serves as chairman of The Actors Fund. "That's how we get by, and many people are living on the edge right now."

"We're all just one, two, maybe three paychecks away from bankruptcy," added Billy Porter, whose mother is in an Actors Fund nursing home. "In this community, our whole job description is insecurity," said Judith Light.

Porter, along with Lea Salonga and longtime activist Light recalled how Broadway was on the frontlines of another life-threatening struggle during the early days of the AIDS crisis. All of them urged viewers to stay strong and take the time to reflect on the value of solidarity.

While O'Donnell has never been shy about her opposition to Donald Trump and everything he stands for, the show was remarkably light on politics, with just the occasional dig slipping through. She opened with a little celebratory "Yay!" while admitting she had missed the president's daily coronavirus press update, and then explained that she and her guests were not there to talk Trump. When Harvey Fierstein, O'Donnell's 2005 stage husband in Fiddler on the Roof, reminded her of all the election work still to be done, she said, "Let's all just know, we deserve a leader who tells the truth." And the delays in making coronavirus testing more widely available prompted a comment that the government should have gotten busy on that back in January when the writing was already on the wall.

Mostly, however, the hastily revamped Rosie O'Donnell Show was about bringing people together at this time of anxiety and isolation, as the host reconnected with artists whom she has championed since her reign as the Queen of Nice. "Everyone in the community loves you," she told Chita Rivera in a particularly effusive greeting. "You are our queen mother!"

Many of the performers would have been decompressing after rehearsals or Sunday matinees if the Broadway shutdown hadn't happened — Criss in American Buffalo, Broderick and Parker in Plaza Suite, Warren in Tina, Lauren Patten and Elizabeth Stanley in Jagged Little Pill. Sunday would have been LuPone's opening night in the gender-flipped revival of Company. Gavin Creel, who abruptly ended his London run in Waitress to fly home and is in isolation in a cabin in upstate New York, revealed the fear that he might have contracted the virus, given that several others in the cast have fallen ill, with one of them testing positive.

The show bridged the gap separating us from artists whose work we normally experience on the other side of the footlights. Most of us will never again get to see Stephen Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd Webber exchange greetings in song on the birthday the two composers happen to share. From those celebrated veterans to rising-star newbies, the common denominator here was everybody facing the crisis just like us, reaching out a hand of friendship, albeit from a mandatory safe distance.

#darren criss #rosie o’donnell #rosie o'donnell show livestream #the hollywood reporter #press #march 2020

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hiriahb · 4 years

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Tagged by @iridescentides ! Thanks Dia :D

Rules: hit shuffle on your media player/current playlist and write down the first 20 songs, no skips! Then tag some people.

1. Don't Be So Hard On Yourself - Jess Glynne

2. Rose-Colored Boy - Paramore

3. Long Way Home (acoustic) - 5 Seconds of Summer

4. Setting the World On Fire - Kenny Chesney & P!nk

5. Welcome to New York - Taylor Swift

6. Guitar String/Wedding Ring - Carly Rae Jepsen

7. Kids - OneRepublic

8. How Ya Doin'? - Little Mix

9. Always Be Together - Little Mix

10. Back For You - One Direction

11. What Is This Feeling? - Kristin Chenoweth & Idina Menzel, from the Wicked cast album

12. Dirty Laundry - All Time Low

13. Million Dollar Bills - Lorde

14. My Happy Ending (Avril Lavigne cover) - Cassadee Pope

15. Me and You - RoadTrip

16. The Way I Loved You - Taylor Swift

17. My Delirium - Ladyhawke

18. Them Girls Be Like - Fifth Harmony

19. Boys And Girls - Pixie Lott

20. Bad Blood - Taylor Swift

Tagging anyone who wants to do it!

#tag challenge #shuffle game #music challenge #shuffle #tag #music #iridescentides

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turn-this-all-around · 4 years

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Thanks for the tag @akasmileygirl ! Tagging @lizardwriter @misthiosonthewall and @doctorrainbows

Rules: put your playlist on shuffle and write your favourite lyrics from the first 10 songs (or 5 if you're lazy)

Taylor Swift, It's nice to have a friend

Twenty questions, we tell the truth. You've been stressed out lately? Yeah, me too. Something gave you the nerve/to touch my hand

Jack's Mannequin, The Mixed Tape

This mix could burn a hole in anyone/ It was you I was thinking of

Khalid, Saturday Nights

And all the things that I know/That your parents don't. They don't care like I do/Nowhere like I do

Tones and I, Dance Monkey

Ooh I see you, see you, see you every time/And oh my I, I like your style

Hamilton cast, Blow us all away

Everything is legal in New Jersey!

Lorde, Team

We live in cities you'll never see onscreen/ Not very pretty, but we sure know how to run things. Livin' in ruins of a palace within my dreams. And you know we're on each other's team. I'm kind of over gettin' told to throw my hands up in the air/ So there

Taylor Swift, Enchanted

This night is flawless, don't you let it go/ I'm wonder struck, dancing around all alone. I'll spend forever wondering if you knew/ I was enchanted to meet you. Please don't be in love with someone else. Please don't have somebody waiting on you

Bob Dylan, Knockin on heavens door

It's gettin' dark, too dark to see/ I feel I'm knockin' on heaven's door

Dixie Chicks, Not ready to make nice

I'm not ready to make nice/ I'm not ready to back down. I'm still mad as hell, and I don't have time/ To go 'round and 'round and 'round

Idina Menzel & Kristin Chenoweth, Defying Gravity

I'm through accepting limits/ 'Cause someone says they're so/ Some things I cannot change/ But til I try I'll never know

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Disney's Frozen remains one of the greatest box-office successes in history. But in terms of impact and influence, it is perhaps most loved and best remembered for one of its breakout songs.

No matter which version you know best — the Oscar-winning film version sung by Idina Menzel, the pop version by Demi Lovato or the one currently performed on Broadway by Caissie Levy, star of Frozen's stage adaptation — "Let It Go" announces itself as an anthem right away.

Since its arrival in 2013, many groups have found significance in the song on a personal level. Stories abound of gay, lesbian and transgender people, people in prison, people with eating disorders and chemical addictions and plenty of others on the margins, all identifying with the tale of a queen in hiding, who learns to shed her shame and accepts the things that make her different.

But there is one group for whom "Let It Go" has proven particularly resonant: People with disabilities. The songwriters say they weren't trying to write a disability anthem (though songwriter Kristin Anderson-Lopez has a brother who is on the autism spectrum), but rather one about the pressure to be perfect. Anderson-Lopez thought about the societal pressure on women to be perfect; for Robert Lopez, it was memories of being a student and needing to get the best grades. For Elsa, "Let It Go" is the moment she begins to stop holding herself to someone else's idea of perfect.

"For this to be a good musical," Lopez says, "that's one of the best parts — when a character transforms." As it turned out, many of those watching and listening found a lot to relate to in that moment of transformation.

One of them was Michelle Black. "She used words like, 'a kingdom of isolation and it looks like I'm the queen,' and that was exactly what I was going through," Black says. "She gave me words to describe this bipolar that I had that nobody had given me before."

For Many With Disabilities, 'Let It Go' Is An Anthem Of Acceptance

Photo: Deen van Meer/Disney Theatrical Productions

#music #NPR #Frozen #Let It Go #identity #people with disabilities #NPR American Anthem #songwriting

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crystallineirises · 5 years

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Hello new friends!

SO I’ve never had much engagement on this blog but the Gentleman Jack fandom/discord is *poppin* and I’d love to meet more of you!

Here’s some things/people I like to post (in order of how frequently they’ve been happening lately):

Gentleman Jack/Anne Lister/Suranne Jones

Falsettos

Stephanie J. Block

Katrina Lenk

Jenn Colella

Julia Murney

Laura Benanti

The Band’s Visit

Wicked

Ocean’s 8

Kate Walsh

Here’s some other things/people I enjoy:

Killing Eve

The Bold Type

Crazy Ex Girlfriend

One Day At A Time

Friends

Will and Grace

Idina Menzel/Kristin Chenoweth/Chenzel

Gelphie

Mirandy/The Devil Wears Prada

Tori Amos

Sleater-Kinney/Carrie Brownstein/Portlandia

Shit I don’t like:

TERFS/SWERFS/Feminism that isn’t intersectional

Nazi scum/misogynists/misogynoir/garden variety assholes

Green peas

About me:

Performance artist

Nonprofit administrator

Hard femme/high femme

QWOC/Black lesbian/she/her pronouns

Always looking for the next indie/alternative music festival

West Coast Best Coast (but might move to NYC)

[I have another tumblr that’s more focused on mental illness/recovery/music/my writing/crying over my exgirlfriends so let me know if you want some angsty content]

Always looking for new friends (or lovers/girlfriends if you live near me) so don’t be a stranger <3 however if i’m not responsive it’s because i’m an introvert lolz

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nayeliq1 · 4 years

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Well, I wasn't reeaaally tagged but @wildlingoftarth said anyone who wants to and I'm just so bored. (Seriously, feel free to tag me for anything, I just want something to do.)

Top three ships

1. Brienne of Tarth × Jaime Lannister

OBVIOUSLY. No matter how much I love the others, this will always be THE OTP. Too much perfection, basically.

Staying within Game of Thrones, I also kinda like the thought of Tyrion and Sansa. Perhaps I just think these two could finally do with a break and some happiness.

2. Fleabag × The Priest.

I mean...it's the Priest. Any further explanation needed? I don't think so.

3. Charles Carson × Elsie Hughes

Mrs Hughes. The accent. The eye-rolls. The kind yet somehow terrifyingly calm way she keeps everything and everyone at Downton Abbey under control (even Carson). Fabulous.

Also, does it count to ship Violet and Isobel as the best damn friendship in television history? Because YES.

Lipstick or chapstick

Chapstick. Works better for daily stuff. I like wearing lipstick if the occasion comes along, but it's rather rarely. I'd like to wear it more, perhaps I will in another ten years or so -I just turned 21 today, actually (or rather yesterday, regarding that it's 2am)- and I'm sure there are women my age wearing it on a daily basis but on me who looks like a sixteen-year-old it just doesn't seem right.

Last song

What Is This Feeling? from "Wicked", the original version with Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth.

Last movie

Solo - A Star Wars Story

Not a huuge Star Wars fan (more Star Trek, tbh), but Emilia Clarke and Phoebe Waller-Bridge?? Hell yeah?!?

Reading

Last book I finished was The Children Act by Ian McEwan. So brilliant. And fantastic adaption to film as well.

Have been stuck in the first part of the Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon for a while..

And I should REALLY finish Asoiaf but I just can't motivate myself to pick up A Dance with Dragons right now.

Then (yes, I do A LOT of parallel reading) there is, as always, a Jane Austen novel. I sort of have one of them by my side constantly. Currently my fav, Sense and Sensibility.

Aaand fanfic, of course. Lots and lots of fanfic. Every day.

Three random things that make me happy

1. That time when you just start trying to fall asleep knowing that you don't have ANYTHING to do the next day

2. Content about my OTPs or Emma Thompson. Honestly, anything related to Emma. Seeing her, reading about her or hearing her voice immediately puts a smile on my face. Guess I could say she's basically my favourite person on the planet. Or maybe one of two because we all know there's the ethereal goddess Gwen out there.

3. The time after having just finished a writing flow when you feel that sort of peaceful tranquillity of freeing your thoughts and fixing them as words on paper. Best feeling ever. Ever.

Tagging?

Well, I don't really know anyone so I'm just gonna stick to it and say whoever wants to!

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chenoweth · 5 years

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my coloring book, coda

fandom: wicked rpf pairing: kristin x idina rating: general audiences chapter: 1/1 words: 439

Florence Birdwell sees Kristin after the show in Broken Arrow—she has some notes, of course.

“Kristi Dawn,” Florence announces immediately as she is wheeled into Kristin’s dressing room, her voice firm and inquisitive, its timber almost exactly the same as it had been thirty years ago. “Do I have any business asking who you just sang that song to?”

Kristin shuts the door behind her, letting out a sigh. She walks towards her mentor, kneeling in front of her, taking the older woman’s hands in hers. “Oh, Miss Birdwell,” she starts shyly, looking down at them—hers slender and bony, Florence’s veiny and aged. Kristin’s held these hands so many times in college and her early days starting out in show business that she could no longer count exactly how much. Florence has always been there for Kristin, from the very first day she auditioned to get into her beloved OCU, and has taught her so much since, beyond vocal technique.