Just a reminder that the line
"I caught them in the den, with Marvin grabbing Whizzers ass"
was originally "I caught them in the den, with Marvin stuck in Whizzers ass"
but they told Bill Finn they couldn't say that on Broadway
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is Trina not introduced by her name until Please Come to our House or am I just dumb?
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When I was at my psychiatrist to talk about my gay lover he just started waving his hand at my face and kept asking sexual questions about my ex wife??????? Wtf??????
I swear to god if that motherfucker marries her I’m gonna lose my shit.
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Why I love the big grey cube
The cube starts very uniform and rather out of place as it seems just I bit odd to the audience.
But as it gets ripped apart it becomes clear to the audience how it is just a collection if blocks that are used by the characters to play pretend.
This shows Marvin's attempt to control everyone by viewing life as a game and trying to get everyone to play along to his delusional view on life.
After Meldal is engaged to Trina, he tries to draw her out of the fictional world Marvin has created by physically moving Marvin's blocks and fighting with him in 'a tight-knit family reprise'
As trina breaks free from Marvin's childish world, more props are introduced on stage to signal her newfound freedom from him. She gets to move into her new life with Meldal, and u see them decorate their house together (which is incredibly sweet).
The second act starts with a set made from the cubes arranged in a dolls House like formation as if Marvin will continue living in him fauls reality.
But Marvin himself tears down the formation just before 'its about time' to show how he's developed and is awhere that he can't live life as if its a game.
In the second act it is clear that all the characters are living in reality instead of playing Marvin's pretend both due to the important topics Charrlotte is trying to fight for and the increased use of props spread out across the stage.
(I love their little house plant collection)
When Whizzer gets ill, the set completely shifts to be highly realistic with no use of the grey blocks at all. This shows how Marvin can't ignore things anymore and has to face Whizzers health.
RLDR: The set is amazing. I love it so much!
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