Me trying to explain Bandstand to anyone: A family isn't always your blood. It isn't just a mother and a father. Sometimes a family is a depressed bisexual war veteran, the widow of his best friend, an alcoholic double bass player who likes Shakespeare, a drummer with memory problems, a gay lawyer who likes checkered trousers, a divorced dad of two who has OCD and a trumpet player with anger issues.
Literally anyone else:...what?
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I AM SCREAMING
Long story short this is the story of Chaz Wolcott auditioning for Bandstand on Broadway and breaking a mirror
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Rb this with underrated musicals others should totally watch
1. Tuck Everlasting
2. Bandstand
3. Jekyll and Hyde
4. Placebo the musical (#1 underrated gold)
5. Goosebumps the musical
6. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (!!!)
7. 35MM (10/10 did not understand)
8. Flower Drum Song (I’m a little biased bc of the all Asian cast in a 60s movie but it’s still amazing)
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Just Like It Was Before from Bandstand is SO GOOD because so much art from that era romanticized the idea of a post war-life and Bandstand takes that and then contrasts it with the gut-wrenching reality that soldiers were coming home from a harrowing and traumatic experience with scars both visible and invisible and with the loss of so many others in the war. It shows how hard everyone's trying but they're just failing because the goal isn't attainable. You can't send boys to battle and expect them to come back the same. It's fair that people just wanted things to go back to normal, but that was never going to happen.
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Controversial take: Jimmy Campbell would love Legally Blonde (both movie and musical). Like the whole message of it, the fact that Elle originally becomes a lawyer for Warner then becomes one for herself, the message of empowerment, THE SASS. He would love that
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american bandstand |1969|
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adam stanheight in saw the musical has the same vibes as donny novitski in bandstand
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I haven’t finished Bandstand yet but if Julia and Donny get together I’m committing arson
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Shout out to the like five other people in the how to dance in Ohio trenches
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Will take the top ones of all 3 ones I made once this and part 2 are done, and make one of all the tops
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