Looking for recordings of The Last Trial, Stairway 2018/19!
I've managed to acquire dozens of audience recordings and official broadcasts of Stairway's PI reboot, but I'm missing footage of no less than seventeen performances. In order to be listed on my spreadsheet with the full cast and corresponding album, at least ten minutes of recordings (video or audio) need to exist. Therefore, I'm looking for help with finding recordings of those shows!
Here are the performances I'm looking for:
Birin!Raistlin & Bakhtiyarova!Crysania:
18 & 19 May 2018
23 & 27 September 2018
18 & 19 October 2018
16, 17, 21, 22 March 2019
19 & 20 April 2019 (19.00)
6 September 2019
Egorov!Raistlin & Minina!Crysania:
12 April 2019 (audio exists, but I haven't found anyone who has it)
18 April 2019
7 June 2019 (invited rehearsal; audio exists, but I haven't found anyone who has it)
Gerasimenko!Raistlin & Khanpira!Crysania:
20 April 2019 (14.00)
Thank you in advance ✨️
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Dragonlance Legends AU idea
WARNING, SPOILERS FOR THE LAST TRIAL MUSICAL AND DRAGONLACE LEGENDS
I got this wonderful, aka extremely angsty and painful, idea a half hour ago watching the Last Trial Musical, specifically the second half of nightmares. (I only read the first chronicles so far so sorry if I’m missing lore 😅)
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Crysania gets to Raistlin in the void a few moments later. She pleads with Takhisis so save him, and Takhisis does, (at the same cost as usual). Raistlin comes back and kills Takhisis so so easily. Crysania does not notice it. Then, he doesn’t fail the last trial, he goes to Crysania, passes the trial of compassion, and becomes a god. As his first act as a god, he saves her. Her sight and health are not what they were, but she is alive, no longer blinded, and not going to die. She still does not notice it. He asks her to be by his side as he rules as a god. She accepts in a heartbeat.
Slowly the changes come over the world, small to begin with. Caramon is one of the first to notice, and realizes it’s because Raistlin succeeded and became a god. The Last god.
Caramon does not know if he should be happy that his brother succeeded… or afraid. No, he knows. With how he left Raistlin… he should be afraid. Very, very afraid.
Some years after Raistlin ascends, and the changes on the world are becoming bigger and more noticeable, he goes to Solace to visit Caramon.
Raistlin greets Caramon with a smile and a hug. And then, then Caramon notices it. What Crysania didn’t. Perhaps it was a the odd look in Raistlin’s eye, slightly off mannerisms, perhaps not even something visible to the human eye, something only a twin could recognize in their twin. But he notices. And is more terrified than he ever was before
Caramon does his best to pretend to act normal. Like he didn’t see it. Grateful and thrilled to be “truly” reunited with his twin, and that Raistlin succeeded and Takhisis was defeated. Raistlin offers him a seat by his side, not to be his sword, not this time. But to be his brother. Caramon does his best to gratefully decline, saying he wishes to stay with his family, and their place is there. He does not dare to pray that Raistlin does not notice or realize that he knows, because there is no god to pray to, no other god to pray to but him. There’s a flash in Raistlin’s eyes, but he accepts that and leaves. Maybe he doesn’t notice. Maybe he does, and maybe he doesn’t care.
The moment Caramon is sure he is gone, he packs up his family and they flee without a trace, to no one knows where. For Caramon saw what , who hadn’t been seen by any since entering the void, who had perhaps been too blinded by love to see - that was not Raistlin Majere.
He does not know what his brother became, but he is something, something else. If he had been to the void he would’ve seen the vague resemblance between the being that was his brother and the creatures, the souls of people Takhisis warped into something else, especially the similarity to the creature, the demon, the puppet, that Dalamar became there, after being murdered by Raistlin.
But he does not know, he flees with his family to the farthest corner of the world. And he hopes that perhaps, even if that doesn’t save them, that they will know a little bit, one more tiny, small as a grain of sand in an hourglass, bit of peace. Before whatever the creature that was once his twin brother, Raistlin Majere, had planned would come to pass.
And the world begins to loose light, the sun and stars not casting the same light they used to, first it becomes sickly, then it fades, to nothing. Until there is nothing. Only flame bringing light, and burning and blinding more often than not. The world made into its own kind of void. Dark shapes and souls struggling and clinging to survival in the dark. People who had learned, do not pray, do not pray to this god, but do not ignore him. They learned their lesson from those who prayed to him and those who denounced him. Do not even dare to hope that he will help you, and hope that he does not notice you.
The world does not pray to, something, not a person, but something that once was, ruling it, and sinking it into the abyss of nothing that the soul it once had went into when it was ripped out.
And instead of dissolving into nothing, the near painless death the world would’ve had, all people in the world know long fear and darkness until the painful, vengeful end.
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incomplete list of things that destroyed me today:
maxim's raistlin. his mage is a ball of bitterness and determination which only heightens the sense of tragedy — for this raistlin there's no other ending but "the lord of nothing". i also feel like this raistlin is played like a smartest raistlin because he gets so, so frustrated every time he has to explain something. in "by takhisis, i'm surrounded by idiots" kind of way.
irina's crysania. she's the softest. most naive priestess i've seen, and it was so heartbreaking to watch her completely shatter in istar scenes.
(and the most forceful raistlin and most gentle crysania were fascinating together)
DALAMAR. he was amazing? wonderful? extra charismatic?? 1000/10 the dark elf we love? i also loved how much of a performer he was today. this dalamar enjoyed every minute of playing conclave like a fiddle. and the way his demeanor changed completely every time he shared a scene with raistlin? delicious.
caramon broke my heart. the end.
no, not the end. THE SCENES. so many wonderful interactions.
literally one of the first phrases was "shalafi?", and during the meeting in the temple dalamar and crysania simultaneously reached for raistlin while he was coughing on the floor....
then the tavern, and bonus tika and dalamar interaction?? priceless, i love it. they were very snarky.
also, caramon kneeling before his magnificent wife? as he should.
raistlin treated crysania like she was made of glass during "the prosecutor", and i really liked it! or maybe i'm used to other mages just dragging their priestesses in less gentle manner.
"the temptation by compassion" hit really hard BECAUSE this crysania was the softest. someone hug her, please?
THE ARENA. caramon's "what the hell are you?" after the minotaur had appeared was priceless. and raistlin was anxiously fiddling with his fingers, see, he loves caramon, and gets angry with himself for that, and takes that out on his brother. get this mage some therapy.
the group hug during the fall of istar was hearwarming and painful at the same time. we can't have nice things, right, raistlin?
also, ALSO. maxim and ksenia (as takhisis) sounded eerily similar when they were sarcastic. "isn't that just the echo of her words", hmmm?
then the childhood of the mage which was fantastic because raistlin was ANGRY.
"sedution" was so soft. and i've counted three raistlin and crysania kisses in the show!
"the lullaby" shattered my heart. it's interesting choice to have caramon sing it to raistlin's mantle because the brother he grew up with isn't here anymore. it's over.
(crysania sang her oath to raistlin's mantle too which is fascinating? she binds herself to the idea of raistlin that's in her head, not the real man.)
THE TRIAL BY FIRE WAS THE BEST SCENE. so many amazing little moments. raistlin, who started singing it very professionallyTM, turning to crysania the moment she laid her hand on his cheek and just going with it?? wow. AND THE KISS.
etherius's abyss is the most terrifying version of it, fight me.
(and maxim looked very small there, GIVE THE MAGE A HUG)
"the denial" was heartbreaking and inevitable. the only possible conclusion for this raistlin. the vocals on "the price is not too high!" though? you had to hear it.
and the final eight lines of "the lord of nothing" (after raistlin dropped on his knees) looked visually stunning from the audience perspective.
in conclusion, i'm so very not normal about them.
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