Trailer for Everybody's talking about Jamie - Malmö Opera, 2023
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Idk if other people think this but if a film company has enough money to make a live action movie remake of a musical that originated on the stage, couldn’t they just… film a live show??? Like they did with Hamilton,,? Like some musicals really do not work in a film setting and only work on stage and ngl I’d much prefer to see that instead of a remake.
Like the whole thing about stage recordings not being done often is because the company doesn’t have the budget for it unless it becomes rlly popular, but Hollywood could like idk put money before that so they could make money from the stage recording and more people can enjoy live theatre and making live theatre more accessible.
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some etaj fanart of mine✨👠
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If I had a nickel for every time a musical I like has referred to 32 as some form of old, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
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Yesterday I watched the Everybody’s Talking About Jamie movie and it reminded me of one of the things I love most about the show.
If someone who knew absolutely nothing about ETAJ came up to me and asked me what it was about, I would go with the simple answer: it’s about a boy who wants to be a drag queen. But that would be a superficial answer, and I would say something very different if I was asked what the show is really about: it’s about finding balance.
When we are first introduced to Jamie, one of the first things we notice is his inflated self confidence, his ego, his arrogance: that is evident in the show’s opening number, as he states that “it’s the Jamie show” and that everyone else is his “backing band”. Additionally, at the end of “Over The Top” Hugo asks Jamie what this all is about he replies “It’s about me!”, and that’s how they choose Mimi Me as his drag name.
Although that element persists and gets more intense throughout the whole show, we are also gradually introduced to another aspect of his character: the deep hatred he has for himself, probably due to the trauma he has from the way his father treated him growing up. Jamie deeply believes himself to be ugly (see “Ugly In This Ugly World”) and that he deserves physical pain.
We slowly come to realize that his self-hatred is probably the cause for his arrogance- it’s an overcompensation. But it is clear that this lack of balance is a great cause of unhappiness not only for him, but also for the people around him, who he ends up hurting with his lack of emptiness and his constant need for attention.
The only way for Jamie to stop hurting himself and his loved ones (expecially his mother and Pritti) is to find the right balance: he needs to learn how to love and appreciate himself, but he also needs to learn that not everything always revolves around him.
At the end, that balance has been found, and you can tell that Jamie’s found peace: as he now has a good relationship with himself, he doesn’t feel the need to overcompensate by always hoarding the attention. I think there’s an element in particular that is the proof of this found balance.
In Spotlight, Pritti sings to Jamie: “In a place where you belong”. The whole song is centered around Jamie, and how he’s a star, and how he belongs in the spotlight- it’s all you, you, you. It signifies how obsessed Jamie is with himself and how the people around him go along with it, for whatever reason. A similar line is reprised in “Ugly In This Ugly World”, except now it’s Jamie singing: “There’s a place where I belong”. Again, Jamie is only concerned about himself, but this time he’s not celebrating himself and his destiny of greatness; rather, he’s deep into self-loathing. He is still very much obsessed with himself, but we are shown the other side of his obsession. Finally, yet another similar line is reprised in the finale, “Out Of The Darkness”, and this time it’s sung by Jamie and all of the other characters: “In A Place Where We Belong”. For the first time, it’s not “You” or “I”- it’s we. Other people finally come into the equation.
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Musical Bootleg trading!!
Message me for trades, i’m interested in anything rn but specifically:
- Legally Blonde (Regent park)
- &juliet
- Pretty Woman
- Frozen
- Grease
- etaj (layton williams)
🫶🫶
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Jamie Ice Cream pins are now available!
They come in three different colours/flavours!
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layton said on the one show this week that if they get to musicals week they won’t do something from a show he’s been in so we can rule out everybody’s talking about jamie!
This is great news! I'm a huge ETAJ fan but I feel that it would be too predictable. If I can't get them dancing to something from Les Mis I would die for them to do a Charleston to We Both Reached For The Gun from Chicago.
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20 for the music asks <3
okay so. i will give you a normal person option (a pop/rock song) and a theatre kid option.
normal person option:
we fell in love in october - girl in red.
the truest meaning of this is a bit too personal to put on tumblr but let's just say i'm very gay and very sad (you probably know about this anyway)
theatre kid option:
wall in my head - everybody's talking about jamie.
this was my main song (along with micheal in the bathroom from be more chill) to scream when my mental health was at an atl. but then i went to go see etaj and i started crying during that song because i was there, i was alive, and i was happy. this song reminds me of how far i've come <3
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Everybody Talking about Jamie adaptation was everything The Prom could have been.
Queer teens drama with music!
I expected so much of The Prom and got a kind of disappointed because even Alyssa and Emma beign the focus we got so little of their story at Netflix's adaptation.
And I wasn't expecting much of ETAJ and I got everything I didn't know I need it!
See ryan murphy?! That's how to make an adaptation!
It's so amazing! Go watch Everybody is talking about Jamie now! Really!
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Amnesia Motel Ep. 21
1. 8aug83 (CZ101 version) - Ken Clinger
2. Blossoms and Buds - Bill Yarrow & Ray Fahrner
3. Charlie_Mingus_and_Thelonious_Monk_play_a_broken_out-of-tune_bass_and_piano_[intro] - chicago_word_brigade 4. Chill - The Great Unknown
5. Circus Poster (1992_2015) - Ken Clinger
6. Cocksucker - ZOOTSUITBEATNICK!
7. Desert Poem - Dana Jerman
8. Dogged Motel - Ken Clinger
9. Electronic Generation - Bodycicktail
10. Ferdinand Gets Married - Bill Yarrow & Ray Fahrner
11. Fragment XXX1 - Ken Clinger
12. Ha_Ha_Ha_Ha_Ha_Ha_Ha_Ha___Ha_Ha_Ha_Ha_Ha_Ha_Ha_Ha_Ha - chicago_word_brigade
13. I Ain’t That Easy - ZOOTSUITBEATNICK!
14. Everything You Ends - Bodycocktail
15. I Have Nothing to Say - ZOOTSUITBEATNICK!
16. I’m Just Talkin’ - ZOOTSUITBEATNICK!
17. Kout ak dous - Kwatour
18. Limp - The Great Unknown
19. Mothers_Against_Pointless_Percussionists - chicago_word_brigade
20. My Song 2 - Charlie Newman
21. Nobody Deserves You - ZOOTSUITBEATNICK!
22. People! Are You Ready_ - Bodycocktail
23. Peterson Park - Bill Yarrow & Ray Fahrner
24. Phone Message_ Calling from Mrs. Smith's Office - Ken Clinger
25. Rave - The Great Unknown
26. SH_example - Greg Killmaster
27. Sa-a e ke - Kwatour
28. Secret Recipe - Dana Jerman
29. Phone Message_ Message for Francis Clinger - Ken Clinger
30. The Boat (Music Box) - Ken Clinger
31. The Solace of Olives - Bill Yarrow & Ray Fahrner
32. Waiting System - Ken Clinger
33. Wasted History - ZOOTSUITBEATNICK!
34. What Child Is This_(intro) - Ken Clinger
35. Yellow Rat Bastard - ZOOTSUITBEATNICK!
36. Zankye - Bodycocktail
37. a chance meeting - Charlie Newman
38. Zickye - Bodycocktail
39. a cheap shot - ?
40. been a long time (the Whisper version) - wildsilences
41. break - wildsilences
42. brrrroes 2 - chicago_word_brigade
43. can_you_deliver -chicago_word_brigade
44. chicago_02_06_05_(over_snaky) -chicago_word_brigade
45. jones 2/3/4/8/9/14/13/10/11 - Charlie Newman/Mark Noderer
46. oh-amarillo - Steve Schroeder
47. chicago_04_06_05_(over_strut) -chicago_word_brigade
48. where the heart is - Charlie Newman
49. untitled asides 8/5/4/1/3/ - Charlie Newman
50. toujou rete nan yon G - Kwatour
51. the _dancer - Charlie Newman
52. deadmachinemusic - ZOOTSUITBEATNICK!
53. femme fatale -ZOOTSUITBEATNICK!
54. the_blessed_and_the_damned_ambient_eno_mix - chicago_word_brigade
55. like a monk - Charlie Newman
56. machinehead -ZOOTSUITBEATNICK!
57. tiye etaj - pt 1 - Kwatour
58. nostalgia -ZOOTSUITBEATNICK!
59. ravel_unravel [a_horizontal_vertical_aleatoric_untechno_quartet] - chicago_word_brigade 60. nod -ZOOTSUITBEATNICK!
Artists:
Bill Yarrow
Bodycocktail
Dana Jerman
Greg Killmaster
Ken Clinger
Steve Schroeder
ZOOTSUITBEATNICK!
The Great Unknown
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Is your name Orpheus from the Orpheus and Eurydece tale? I only know two songs from Hadestown (why we build the wall and wait for me). Yes for Everybody's Talking About Jamie, it deserves a lot more than its gotten! Saw it in Birmingham and it was incredible, best musical I've seen! Agree with Cabaret as well, it is underappreciated, saw that in Peterborough a few years ago and I was the youngest there by far but still really good. First act ended on tomorrow belongs to me and the emcee was like "TO ME!" and revealed the puppet handles as swastikas and I felt dirty clapping and enjoying it, it wasn't fun but I suppose that's part of it?
My theatre group are doing Hunchback of Notre Dame and I feel the same during the whipping scene. On one hand, I'm enjoying it, egging the whipper on but on the other, I feel so bad as the guy playing Quasimodo is part of my friendship group! On the plus side it does make me feel very much like a proud mum!
haha yep! i chose the name orpheus because hadestown is my all time favourite musical and because gender envyyy. I'm glad to hear that you agree with me on ETAJ and Cabaret.
I haven't heard Hunchback of Notre Dame yet but at least it's all just theatre, it's way easier to enjoy the heavier scenes when you're apart of the cast rather than in the audience because you know it isn't real. I hope all goes well!
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