been lowkey obsessed w toast of london recently and i now need EVERYONE who wasn't previously aware of it to know that kayvan novak was in an episode of toast of tinseltown
and his and matt berry's character have an (imo) INSANE amount of sexual tension in the few scenes they appear together
Anyways, thinking about how the musical perfectly translates Christian’s narration into a much more direct way. In the film he has a degree of separation, we first see him in the depths of his despair, we see the aftermath first. The narration is explained by it being his typewriting rather than to the audience itself. On stage you could technically do that, have him start at a desk or so forth but I like what they chose to do. We fall in love with a time and place, with a girl, alongside him.
The musical does follow the same “back in time” idea but to a greater extent. Instead of a screen edit we see Christian literally start the story by raising its title and setting the stage. (Some actors even have him sigh or prepare himself before hand further showing this). There’s a dazzling and mind boggling introduction only for him to stop it- go back to what he sees to be the beginning then directly jump in time again back to Satine’s introduction.
Here he jumps in and out of the story so seemlessly you sort of forget this is being told to you after it had all happened. Christian falls so easily back into the roll of himself, so wrapped in it all that he still has tears or a smile on his face as he talks to the audience.
It’s not a story being told it’s jumping back in time itself- he’s reliving it. It is a self inflicted time loop, no matter what way he tells the story- on paper, in song, or his memory. It won’t change. It may not be a literal time loop but it’s certainly someone settling back so easily into the role. Christian is so much a part of the story that it rattles him to the core when it ends and he has to find some semblance of explanation- he still struggles to end the show. To stop writing. It’s like she’s gone again, there’s nothing left to tell and suddenly there’s no more Satine.
The musical may not start at the end but it certainly does allow that Christian to poke through. When Satine is introduced you see that look in his eye, you see that joy when he explains meeting Toulouse and Santiago. Again the seamless narrator to player in the play. Love.
i swear i will fight a mf if i see ANYONE hating on tyson. im already seething as it is with ppls hate against grover, annabeth and sally. like are we even watching the same show??
So my main coping mechanism is writing shitty poetry and I finished GOs2 yesterday and I'm very much not okay so I wrote this this little thing from Crowley's pov. If I'm still unwell I might do Aziraphale too Idk. Anyway enjoy
One thing I really love about Lackadaisy is how the tails move with the characters. Usually I only see people animating tails like they're just kinda there and they don't really move that much which is sad! I have a cat with a very long and very fluffy tail and it is always moving! She is very cute and I loved to see the tails be so expressive like in real life!