#Musical Theatre

[amtrak-official]

#polls #Falsettos #rent musical #angels in america #musical theatre #theatre

[sawthemusical]

Afraid you're missing out? There's no fear here at #SAWTheMusical ...except for the general fear that comes with sawing your leg off. This Saturday, we will be hosting a stream for the last weekend of SAN DIEGO shows! Link to buy tickets is coming VERY soon... make your choice and be on the lookout on our socials for the link. The tickets themselves will be going live on Friday 4/26/24 starting at MIDNIGHT #SAWRIGHTTHROUGH

#san diego #saw #saw the musical #saw franchise #lawrence gordon #adam stanheight #amanda young #jigsaw #john kramer #saw 2004 #off broadway #direct from new york #san diego theatre #musical theatre #parody #horror

[real-odark]

ride the cyclone 2016 slime on its last limb of being taken off youtube:

hepa hepa hepatitis going 3 years strong: 💪💪💪

#falsettos #ride the cyclone #jett talks (me) #musical theatre #theatre #musical #musicals

[my-pretty-american-way]

#lili reinhart #alicia keys #junko enoshima #ekaterina zueva #milo manara #hard rock #aoc #kai parker #guillermo de la cruz #frida aasen #hair styles #musical theatre #Naomi Russell

[for-son]

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#melissa moore #pharmercy #musical theatre #anakin skywalker #the end of the f***ing world #foxes #petpl4y #marshall lee #momojirou #avocado #broad city #italian #accessories #Codi Vore

[trobedarchive]

sorry, ladies. i’m busy tonight (listening to in trousers and pausing every three seconds to read the annotations on the genius lyrics because this show is confusing the hell out of me)

#in trousers #marvin falsettos #marvin trilogy #marvin gardens #trina falsettos #falsettos #march of the falsettos #falsettos musical #falsettoland #musicals #theatre #musical theatre

[sondheim-girly]

JUNE 21 THIS IS NOT A DRILL WE GET THE GREAT GATSPY CAST RECORDING ON JUNE 21

#theater kid #musical theatre #musicals #broadway #musical theater #broadway musicals #great gatsby musical

[jencattv]

Creepy Jane content 💖 tried to doll wink and I don’t think I did it right but it felt right to do it as her 🤪 More Jane Doe content and RTC content available over on my and @majesticrep’s TikTok/IG pages! We just uploaded a really fun faire vlog 🫶🏼

#RTC #jane doe #jane doe ride the cyclone #jane doe rtc #ride the cyclone #musical #theatre #musical theatre #cosplay #singer #ballad of jane doe #the ballad of Jane doe

[falsettosshizzzzz]

#falsettos #musical theatre #andrew rannells #musicals #theatre #theater kid #broadway #the book of mormon #gutenberg

[djdoezntexizt]

as much as I shit on and hate mendel he's actually one of my dream roles alongside marvin.... I don't know it's something about the complexities of their characters and the small things that can either make or break a character. the challenge in their roles is what entices me is what I'm trying to say in a very longwinded way.

#falsettos #musical theatre #im mentally ill i know #mendel weisenbachfeld #marvin falsettos

[marvelmaniac715]

I saw Hadestown today on the West End and I am a WRECK 😭😭😭. Believe me, there WILL be a long angsty post about the show later and about how Orpheus will always turn around no matter how many times the story is retold in hopes of a better ending, but right now I’m tired, so I’ll talk more about it and my trip to the Theatre Diner (literally my dream place) tomorrow. For now, to quote Persephone: “Goodnight, brothers, goodnight.”

#hadestown #musical theatre #musical theater #musicals #hadestown west end #west end

[droughtofapathy]

"Welcome to the Theatre": Diary of a Broadway Baby

Cabaret

April 24, 2024 | Broadway | August Wilson Theatre | Evening | Musical | Original | 2H 45M + 1H preshow

I am kicking my feet and twirling my feet as I lovingly, tenderly, reverently carve Bebe Neuwirth's name into the Tony personally.

Bebe Neuwirth Verdict: My Soul Transcended Space and Time

A Note on Ratings

Oh. The rest of the show. Right.

Cabaret is one of the greatest pieces of musical theatre to exist. I have seen four productions of this show on multiple "levels" of production (Broadway, community, regional, etc.) The show being what it is, it seems inconceivable to ever stage a poor production of a show with such rich material. Even if the talent pool came from a small town, the music, the lyrics, the story would be so strong, so moving, so timeless, that nothing coupled possibly ruin it.

I was wrong.

The fifth Broadway revival of this beloved Kander and Ebb musical is a stagnant spectacle whose price tag seems to actively encourage its potential audience to pick up their knitting, their book, and their broom, because the holiday of the Kit Kat Club is only meant for the rich denizens of society. Helmed by a director with no prior experience in musical theatre, the show fundamentally mistrusts its audience's intelligence and the once-masterful subtext is now about as subtle as a brick through a fruit shop window.

It's a bad sign when the security staffer at the entrance line tells you the design is excellent, the visuals are excellent, "the show is...good," with pointed hesitation and eyebrow raising. What would we do without New York honesty?

Under this new "immersive" direction, patrons enter through a seedy back alley door (with too many steps, which granted, they did warn me about before and I should have listened) and into a massive three-story club design with pre-show entertainment and drinks galore. With limited seating and rather underwhelming acts, my disabled ass went to my seat in the theatre instead where the whole auditorium has been gutted and renovated to create a theatre-in-the-round setup that ultimately does not suit the staging. Instead, actors play primarily to the "east" side, leaving the "west" to see a lot of backs throughout.

As characters, the Emcee and Sally are deranged, clownish, and utterly devoid of layers and complexity. They are exactly what their outlandish costumes, garish makeup, and overwrought performances say they are: too much. Eddie Redmayne is going for some kind of demonic muppet clown portrayal. This interpretation fails to do what the character is meant to do. Seduce, entice, enchant, all of which can be done in a morbid or even unsettling way, but Redmayne only ever irritates and repels. Similarly, Sally is an easy character to misunderstand. She's seemingly vapid, ignorant, and concerned with nothing more than having a good time. She's a character on the verge, but only ever on the verge. Too often I have seen performers act out the titular song as a full-blown breakdown. It is not. It is a triumph. It is a discordant celebration as the rest of the show falls into despair. In directing all of Sally's numbers to be as hysterical, unhinged, and off-putting as they are, it's clear the director, the producers, and to an extent, the actress who went along with it, do not understand this character, this story, this world. Less is more. Trust the material. Trust the audience.

Cabaret is a racy show with plenty of lewd and lascivious content. But this production takes the graphic nature to an extreme that ultimately misses the mark. Instead of a seductive coaxing, or even a morbid eroticism, we're granted such overt choreography (a man jerks off a giant black phallus into a woman's mouth, a woman mimes raining her tit milk all over a man's face, a woman graphically masturbates to Mein Kampf) that it becomes a juvenile display. Like children who make sexual jokes to be edgy, but only ever sound immature. It's off-putting, it's annoying, it's dull. There are multiple rewrites to the "Willkommen" introduction schtick, and the new lines are such a downgrade.

There are moments of relief amidst the spectacle that somehow still lacks spectacle. Bebe Neuwirth is a wonder of wonders, and her chemistry with Steven Skybell as Herr Schultz is a miracle of miracles. They are the saving grace of this monstrosity. Age, experience, and deep connection to the writers and the show give their performances a joyous, heartbreaking, beautiful tone. They are real, they are grounded, and they will shatter your heart. These scenes are the only places the director shows she's capable, perhaps because she has only ever done dramatic straight plays. The decision to stage "Married" as a trio with Kost spot-lit and singing in tandem was simple and brilliant and poignant. The way this show is meant to be. "What Would You Do?" is staged perhaps a little oddly, given the director's inability to remember she's doing an in-the-round show, but Bebe's rendition is the best I've ever experienced. I have heard this song sung beautiful by stronger singers, many who still grasp the acting well, but none hold a candle to her. This is a woman who has torn out her own beating heart from her chest as she chooses safety and self-preservation, even if it breaks her. This is a woman who is old and tired and not brave. Who has been given this one moment of happiness in her life and she has no choice but to saw it off like a gangrened limb before it poisons her entire body. Schultz and Schneider are the heart of this show. They deserve better.

It's been said by others, but the issues with this production seems to stem from its creative team's fundamental misunderstanding of Jewish culture. The show was written by three Jewish men who understood what was at stake. They had all lived through WWII. This is a production with a distinctly English tone, directed by gentiles, for gentiles. Broadway and New York, more familiar with Judaism than perhaps the West End, clearly received this revival differently.

Final Verdict: A Long Slog to Curtains

A Note on Ratings

#cabaret broadway #broadway #musical theatre #welcome to the theatre: diary of a broadway baby #bebe neuwirth #if i were a tenant of her building i'd be showering her with the finest fruits in all of berlin every day

[nonthespianswontunderstand]

#95

watching a musical because of a random song you heard from it

#me with hadestown #mwah #broadway #broadway musicals #musical theatre #theatre #theatre kid #musical #musicals #theater #thespian #thespians #theatre life #theater life

[real-odark]

and society is yet to see an imperfect casting of this show

#OBC FALSETTOS ILY!!!!!!! #falsettos #marvin trilogy #jett talks (me) #musical theatre #theatre #musical #musicals

[susiephone]

*puts hands on hollywood exec's shoulders, staring unblinking into their eyes* listen to me. you will never get people who hate musicals to like musicals by making your musical less of a musical. if you hide the fact that your film is a musical in the advertising, you're going to get a lot of low ratings from people who hate musicals and went into your movie not expecting a musical and got one anyway. people who hate musicals will hate them no matter how realistic and diegetic and lowkey you try to make it. they will hate musicals even if you completely excise anything complicated, over the top, silly, or even slightly challenging. they will hate musicals even if you cut half the songs. they will hate musicals even if you cast that a-lister who can't sing worth a damn. stop trying to market to people who hate musicals. they're a lost cause. your audience should be people who love musicals. this half-assed middle ground pisses off both camps. just embrace the fact that your movie is a musical. lean into it. don't try and trick musical haters into coming to your film when you could be marketing to the theater kids. better cringe than a coward.

#musicals #musical theatre #broadway #there are SOME good movie musicals but god they're few and far between #theatre

[trashpidgeon48]

Leitmotifs drive me insane, like I hear *repeated melody that has an association with a person, idea, or situation* and I go *tears up the fucking rug like a dog*

#music #musical theatre #leitmotif #les miserables #anastasia musical #sweeney todd #jesus christ superstar #broadway #hadestown #phantom of the opera #ride the cyclone #the hunchback of notre dame #rent musical #fiddler on the roof #starkid