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ohlookjohannaastar · 4 months

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every day i think abt how johanna mea culpa is one of the best and rawest villian songs in musical theatre history (its only competitors for the title to me r mostly other sweeney todd/sondheim songs. which should tell you all u need to know about his musical genius).

like. it’s UNCOMFORTABLE!! you don’t want to be sitting through it! and that is EXACTLY the point of the number. the audience is watching judge turpin whip himself over and over as he screams at God to deliver him. he doesn’t even ASK God to deliver him he COMMANDS. it is an ORDER. it showcases the judge’s turmoil so well. the best part of this number is that not once during it should the audience feel bad for judge turpin! this is so important especially during a musical like sweeney todd. johanna mea culpa is pretty much Directly contrasting songs like epiphany. because epiphany comes RIGHT after judge turpin escapes from sweeney’s grasp. it’s sweeney’s most visible mental break thus far, and that is made KNOWN to the audience. the audience fears sweeney, but at the same time, we sympathize with him. judge turpin has wronged his entire family so thoroughly- we’re rooting for sweeney to finally get his revenge! but that’s not the case for turpin- mea culpa is turpin’s mental break. it’s his turning point in how he sees johanna. and the song encapsulates the disgusting grimy reality of the situation so incredibly well. we feel no sympathy, only discomfort. sweeney is our tragic protagonist and turpin is the villain and it SHOWS in their songs. it’s. augh.

(which is sorta why it makes me so sad to see it removed from productions esp the 2023 broadway revival like yes i get why you’d take it out but also it’s such good characterization it really just encapsulates the darkness and the horror of sweeney tod as a musical. and bc so many people take it out of their shows not enough people know it exists!!!!! which rlly is a downright shame tbh)

anyway that’s all that’s my little ramble for today johanna mea culpa is a work of art and i hate judge turpin

#sweeney todd #judge turpin #sweeney todd 1979 #johanna mea culpa #long post

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prettyboysdontlookatexplosions · 1 year

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For better and for worse, [Sondheim's] is the most systematic and unsentimental mind that has ever addressed itself to the American musical—the sort of mind one might more easily imagine designing particle accelerators, or computer viruses too wily to destroy. “The first music teacher I had at Williams College was a man named Robert Barrow,” he says. “And everybody hated him because he was very dry, and I thought he was wonderful because he was very dry. And Barrow made me realize that all my romantic views of art were nonsense. I had always thought an angel came down and sat on your shoulder and whispered in your ear ‘dah-dah-dah-dum.’ Never occurred to me that art was something worked out. And suddenly it was the skies opening up. As soon as you find out what a leading tone is, you think, Oh my God. What a diatonic scale is—Oh my God! The logic of it. And, of course, what that meant to me was: Well, I can do that. Because you just don’t know. You think it’s a talent, you think you’re born with this thing. What I’ve found and what I believe is that everybody is talented. It’s just that some people get it developed and some don’t.”

(x) on the one hand, it's unbelievably funny that sondheim is like, "everyone would be thrilled to learn about leading tones and diatonic scales. the fact that i felt this way about them has nothing to do with me having any kind of talent. this is just the normal way for people to respond." but on the other hand i truly love so much knowing that one of the great creative luminaries of his century agreed with me that Teaching People Stuff Is Good Actually.

#one way i'd like started souring on things and a thing i still have a grudge over #was how often i'd hear or read people talking about the importance of teaching math in a way that nurtured mathematical creativity #meaning like: lots of problem solving with open ended problems not a lot of sitting down and doing your facts #and this made me feel very crazy bc i had taken piano lessons as a kid #(a 'purely' 'creative' pursuit)#and like... MUCH of my memory of learning to play the piano was. uh.#boring uncreative rote repetition in the service of building automaticity #and i mean. i was not a good piano student and i have no way of assessing my piano teacher's skill #but it's difficult for me to imagine a path to being a good pianist that does not run throough a lot of scales #or a way of even just memorizing a single piece that doesn't involve playing it until you're blue in the face #anyway. this isn't really about piano. it's about like #this notion that teachers had of capital-C Creativity #that felt totally separated from like the specifics of what i knew it meant to pursue like. many kinds of creative pursuits.#in a way that was like... what are you basing this on. where are you getting this idea. what does this look like in your head.#most of you are not people who consider yourselves to be particularly creative math thinkers #so what makes you feel like you know what it takes to turn someone into a creative math thinker

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hyperannotation · 11 months

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HELL by Charlene Elsby

There exists [sic] a dichotomy of eternity and temporality.

Where temporality connotes materiality.

And materiality implies movement.

And time is the measure of movement [kinesis].

Such that if only there were not this materiality with which to contend, eternality would be the consequence.

But we’ve already made a mistake.

There’s an error above and always has been.

What happens to movement if materiality didn’t implicate.

The paralysis of reality.

The great end.

In consciousness the revolutions of thought mimic the divine and through the repetition of orbital motion imitate eternality.

And in the deviation is implicated the punishment.

Death.

Death and death and death.

Void is something other than the heavens.

The space in which what could be isn’t.

The negative of potentiality.

Not all that couldn’t be is actuality.

So wakes the dreamer from the thought of what could be into a corpse incapable of motion cognizant of the destructive force whose potency is to enact a negative timelessness.

Torn from materiality the other way.

Not anything to live through.

Acts of the divine in nature.

And then there are its monstrosities.

The pathological recognition of dark matter.

I felt it, and I know you felt it too.

Intuition but dreadful.

A lack and all its wants.

A hole for us to fall into.

I see the edge, and I want to go over.

Go over go over go over.

What’s down there?

What could be but what isn’t.

What isn’t and cannot be.

What your mother warned you about.

Whatever faith is the medication for.

It’s down there.

It’s in the corner waiting for your heart to stop.

The beats are too much like its heavens.

On the way down to where nothing circulates.

It comes in through the seams between the walls where they meet ninety degrees and warmer.

It’s why sleepwalkers open doors.

And run back inside.

The fact remains we’ve seen this thing, and we were not asleep for it.

God in a child’s laughter.

Hell in its expunged entrails.

What was holding it together was participation in a form that mimics the eternal but there’s something, something else that tears it apart and that’s so much closer…

Matter tends that way already.

Toward what?

Not the eternal.

To the negative schematized timelessness you can only see in the dark.

Eternality as the rationalization of that which dissipates.

Oh fuck, that’s me.

The contradiction of becoming isn’t being, it’s not being.

Take it from the inexistent.

There’s a time outside of time where your God lives.

And a timelessness on the other side where nothing.

I didn’t see it when I got up in the night.

Perception is a function of the animal.

You know it by the fact that you can’t tell.

There it is, though.

There it isn’t.

It’ll stop your heart, just because it hates its rhythm.

Now there are fits and starts to rationality.

It isn’t clear what’s waking and what’s dead and what’s left over.

Every limb useless.

Tendency after tendency run screaming from its end toward the other.

Everything tends toward the good, until it doesn’t.

Gravitation as materiality gone wrong.

The nature that drags you down.

The light that wants you with it isn’t strong enough to overcome the fundamental pull of matter towards matter towards mass towards the one.

Singularity not as everything not as unity not as weightlessness but heavy, dark, and putrid, all that’s torn apart together, condemned to voidlessness, where there isn’t space to be and nevertheless, there you are.

I see it in the extended devil’s now.

The present that’s necessity by force of its endurance.

The endless end.

#Charlene Elsby

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mittenwonders · 1 month

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Upon learning that Jason Kelce played baritone saxophone after giving a huge lesson why band and music education is so important, I felt so. Much. Joy.

First, bari sax players are rare to come by. We are a unique breed. Saxophone players are already weird people but Bari people are even weirder. One time I tried to sneak skittles into class but someone bumped into my stand and they all fell into the bell. When I played, the rainbow rattled & I got yelled at for throwing skittles into my instrument. 🤣 You mostly start off on alto and once you master that, you can move to bari. The Bari is hard to play though. It takes a massive amount of air power & breathe control to blow into it nonetheless sustain notes. Me, a former asthmatic, somehow conquered this and it did help put my asthma into remission. Learning that beast is what got me from 8th grade band straight into Wind Ensemble in high school rather than going through freshman and sophomore band like a normal person. It’s hard to play and if you find someone who can, you take advantage of that. It’s how I also got swindled into doing jazz band for a semester.

Which leads me to this YouTube video. I never participated directly in my high school theater group except twice. I hated the teacher as he was creepy and a little too touchy feel-y for my taste. However my friends did theater & they were doing this Stephen Sondheim musical, Merrily We Roll Along. It’s actually a really funny show & the music is fun.

Anyway, I was starting my driver training at the time but my band director told me he really needed a Bari saxophone for the orchestra pit as a good chunk of the music is surprisingly driven by it. I was the only Bari saxophone player in my entire school. Mind you, we had a huge band program which consisted of 150+ students. I kept saying no because of drivers Ed. I was promised I wouldn’t have to deal with the theater teacher at all and if I could just give it a go at a few rehearsals and make a decision from there. So I finished up my drivers Ed class, walked down to the band room where they had a rehearsal going and sat in to see what it was all about. Mind you, they were already 10 practices deep into it before I showed up to one. It seemed fun, I had never done orchestra pit before and I like a challenge so I said sure. Wasn’t like I was doing anything else and it was a chance to still see my friends who were in the play.

My. God. First anyone who has ever done musical theater knows Sondheim is on crack to begin with but from the music side of it, holy fucking shit. It’s like he snorted a bunch of coke before deciding to just go crazy. There’s all types of random key changes, tempo changes….nonetheless there are a few parts that are insane finger movements. Once I realized that was basically a solo moment for me, I probably worked on this overture alone for 4 hours a day for a month and a half straight. Sometimes this still comes on shuffle for me and I immediately feel the cold sweats all over again of sitting in the dark pit with nothing but my music stand light on, opening night like lord baby Jesus do not let me fuck this up. I might not be on stage and not able to see an audience but I’m well aware they are there and can hear every little sound I make. And they will come visit at intermission and try to throw us snacks and put a face to the person who messed up or did good.

The whole experience just really made me appreciate orchestra pits more. The amount of practice they go through separately in order to support the production and the actors is an entire process. We’re learning the music plus the actors cues and how to make it work with our own notes. We literally are there to support and are relying on the actors to help us move it along. Next time you’re at a live show, professional or school level, make sure to thank them because I can tell you, they get just as nervous and have put in almost the same amount of time and effort as the people you see on stage. I was lucky to be apart of a few shows at Disney and the orchestra went through the same processes I did back in that high school band room.

This will always go down as one of the hardest pieces I ever had to learn and I nailed it! Idk why Jason Kelce triggered this core memory for me but it did teach me so much discipline that I’m thankful for.

#Youtube

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explainslowly · 1 year

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Funny that SPN rips off the entire plot of good omens, plucks Crowley straight out as well as (low key) Adam Young and just pointedly leaves Aziraphale on the floor.

On one hand - good. GO was already annoying with "he can get called a faggot by a child, but god forbid he would be gay" and I really would not want to see the spn writers handle Aziraphale's particular brand of everything but it is also good because it's fun to compare him to Cas.

Like I do love that Cas is thoroughly uncultured, and his general demeanor is flat and off-putting (complementary) and he is like? Humanity agnostic? Like he doesn't hate humans like some of the other angels but he also doesn't think that humans are the cleverest and best things in all creation. He has never seen a Sondheim musical. He likes humanity but he also likes that random rock he saw on the ground (Dean derangements aside, now). Really good wine tastes the same to him as really bad wine (molecules). He knows more about cat dicks and social insects that he knows about classic works of literature. Human-neutral, but still stopped the apocalypse.

#This is not like Aziraphale criticism #I think that Angel who gives away his flaming sword and spends his existence being gay and doing fuck all is a great concept #but Cas is so fun when he is just some guy #spn rewatch for your blacklist #early fics often borrow what I think is directly from Aziraphale's characterization for Cas and it's a big reason why a lot of it doesn't #work for me

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aeris-blue · 10 months

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Have you listened to the new Broadway recordings for Sweeney Todd that are being released rn?! Im not the biggest fan of this particular musical but /oh my gods/ the vocalists are FANTASTIC. I actually ENJOY listening to 'Johanna' when these guys sing it!

(And like Johnny's movie Sweeney is like "I hate the world cause I'm emo" and Josh Groban's is like "I hate mankind because society has wronged me." And it has so much more depth to it that I enjoy!

Absolutely I have been loving the heck out of every release! Sweeney Todd is a favorite Sondheim show of mine for the way all of the strings tie into one another and the tragedy of not just man but the endless circle of revenge. The opening number gives me chills everytime I’ve listened to it and the Johanna Reprise is an absolute delight! Loved hearing more of the major cast ^^ so yes! Honestly trying to see if I can somehow scrape up enough money to go see it live... it’s unlikely... but I’m trying!

The movie suffers from a lot of the same things as other adaptions and that is the cut content. Sondheim shows in particular are built in a way that not only the story builds and ties into itself but the music does too. Cutting out a song can lose a lot and where I agree for a movie cutting the opening number makes sense it also removes a lot of Sweeney’s charisma. You get a peek right off the bat of just how dark this show is going to be. I genuinely think Johnny did... fine! As far as a movie adaption goes its solid— but the full show is a very different creature ^^

#asks and answers #musical #Sweeney Todd #broadway #have you watched the Tony performance of the opening number?#not as chilling as some past versions #but very good

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chiakinanami82 · 6 months

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Nerdy Prudes Must Die songs ranking

I was inspired by the recent ranking videos on YouTube, plus I’ve been listening to the music ever since the pro shot released, so yeah. As usual, these are just my opinions, so if you disagree, well, just be civil. Now, let’s go!

15. Dirty Dudes Must Die- This one is simply a spin of Nerdy Prudes Must Die, and Angela’s voice sounds off. It’s a fun way to end the musical though. 14. The Best of You- It sounds way too much like a stereotypical pop song. I know that’s the point since it’s playing at their homecoming dance, but still.

13. Go Go NightHawks!- The beginning is good, but the cheer really got on my nerves.

12. Nerdy Prudes Must Die- I love this song, and Will absolutely kills it as Max. However, the chorus of “Nerdy Prudes Must Die” didn’t quite click for me.

11. Dirty Girl- This song was a pain to get through when I originally watched the show. I literally had to stop for a day, and even then it was difficult. However, I’ve gotten used to it, and I love Grace so much as a character. 10. Bully the Bully- It’s cute, the choreography is fun, but it’s not as good as the twisted version.

9. Cool As I Think I Am (Reprise)- This is a reprise. It’s a good reprise, but still.

8. Hatchet Town- The callbacks are awesome, it’s well-performed, but I don’t see myself playing it on its own like I do with Feast or Famine.

7. Just For Once- Usually, this song is generally placed lower on most people’s rankings, but I’m a massive Falsettos and Sondheim fan, so this song is right up my alley.

6. If I Loved You- The harmonies are so good, and I love Pete and Steph.

5. Cool As I Think I Am- Again, Pete is a wonderful character, and I love the lyrics.

4. Bury the Bully- Yeah, betcha you didn’t expect this little song to be this high up. It’s catchy, fun, and dark, which I think works better than the original.

3. Literal Monster- God, this one is so good. I love the nerds, and this is a wonderful establishment of Max and his reign of terror. 2. The Summoning- The Lords in Black are fun, terrifying creatures that add a ton. Also, I love the callbacks to other stuff, like Pokey asking Steph what she wants and Tinky mentioning how he’ll have the whole set of Spankoffskis in his toy box. Also, the song itself is both childish and chaotic, adding to the insanity of the Lords.

High School Is Killing Me- I hated high school, so I can definitely relate to this song. Plus, I love the choreography, the lyrics, and the music. It’s the perfect opening song.

This is definitely the best Hatchetfield musical. It balances comedy, horror, and drama perfectly.

#ranking #starkid #team starkid #hatchetfield #hatchetverse #nerdy prudes must die #nerdy prudes spoilers

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obsessivelollipoplalala · 1 year

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Brian said Anita introduced him to the world of musical theater, so what musicals do you think they watched together?

Well, we know they went to go see a production of Kinky Boots because Brian wrote about it and we have these:

Brian May as a guest judge on RuPaul's Drag Race 2kwhen

I believe Anita was in a production of Fiddler on the Roof, and Wikipedia says she was in Chicago and Annie, so Brian probably saw her in those. I haven't seen all of these shows, admittedly, but Fiddler is wonderful. I know Brian saw Cats, too, because there's a picture of him somewhere on the internet of him backstage with the cast (good god, is that show bad).

Brian posted something like "saluting a legend" on his insta story when Stephen Sondheim died, so I'm assuming he heard some of his music. That doesn't narrow it down much, because Sondheim wrote a lot lol. I hope Brian liked some of Sondheim's work; his caption on insta at least suggests that he respected him. In general, I do love the idea of Anita sitting down and forcing him to watch musicals with her lol. He said he used to hate musicals, but it seems like his mind has opened up. Way to go, Anita lol

#brian may #replies #Anonymous

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aye-of-newt · 1 year

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For the music emoji ask game: 🎥📚🥲💖 please!

🎥song that paints a picture in my mind: I had such a hard time with this question because I felt like a story song or a musical theater song would be “cheating”.

I am just going to go with “Palmcorder Yajna” by the Mountain Goats because it’s both very explicit and very... not at the same time. Like it’s very easy to understand once you know what all the references are referencing.

Either way, it’s evocative for sure.

😢song that makes you cry: “Unlikely Lovers” from Falsettos. At this point in the musical, the character Whizzer is dying of AIDS and his partner and their friends visit him in the hospital. The line “and we vow that we will buy the farm arm in arm” tends to be where I lose it. Even if the context wasn’t so crushing the harmony at the point alone would bring me to tears.

💖 guilty pleasure song: Now I like to say that I don’t believe in guilty pleasures because you shouldn’t feel guilty for enjoying things regardless of what others think…. but if I had to pick I would say Not the Boy Next Door— the glee cast recording by Chris Colfer. I know glee is categorically Not Good and people mock it relentlessly. And a lot of it is deserved because... woof.

And yet, it was very important to me as a child in the conservative rural midwest. Honestly glee was actually they first ever representation I can remember seeing at like 9 (I think?) years old. Of course my parents made me turn it off because a gay people were “disgusting” …but I still remembered how when Kurt came out, his dad told him he loved him and that it was okay. And that planted in me a seed of an idea of a belief that maybe my parents weren’t right about everything. And, you know what? By the time I realized that I am gay the idea didn’t automatically make me hate myself. Because I had been told just once in an incredibly crucial moment that it is okay. So yeah. Glee is important actually.

And Chris Colfer is just simply an incredible performer. I love his voice. He kills this song.

📚 song/album you could write a term paper on: Sunday from tick tick boom (specifically the 2021 movie adaptation directed by Lin Manuel Miranda)

Abridged term paper as follows:

To understand the brilliance of this song and the emotional sucker punch it carries you need to know a bit of musical theater history. So let’s start with the place that makes the most sense, with “god” himself-- Stephen Sondheim.

Sondheim was one of the most (if not THE most) respected composers and lyricists in musical theater history. I cannot think of any singular person who has impacted their chosen art form to the same massive extent as Steve impacted musical theater. To compare him to Shakespeare is not an exaggeration. He was revered and beloved almost universally within the theater community, not only for his genius but for who he was as a person. He was known as an excellent teacher and mentor (just watch him instruct a college student attempting to sing one of the most difficult songs he ever wrote/one of the most difficult songs in musical theater here) and for answering quite literally every single one of the thousands upon thousands of pieces of fan-mail he received.

One of his beloved musicals and the show he described as being his “most autobiographical”/the one that he put the most of himself into, was Sunday in the Park with George. It was inspired by the painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat, though the story is largely fictionalized.

(you know, this painting)

The themes of Sunday in the Park with George center around what it means to be an artist, the desire to leave a legacy, and making choices between one’s creative work vs one’s relationships. Act one closes with the song “Sunday” in which George makes order out of the chaos of life and places the final touches to his masterpiece, capturing a perfect moment, and cementing his legacy, forever.

With the background laid, let us move on to talking about Jonathan Larson, one of the young writers Sondheim mentored who went on to do great work.

Jonathan is best known for writing the book, music, and lyrics for Rent-- a musical which won several Tony Awards, including Best Musical; the Pulitzer Prize for Drama; ran for twelve years on Broadway; influenced the creation of a new sub-genre of musical; and became massively popular and iconic, not only in the theater world but in popular culture as well. However, Jonathan was never able to see his work become a success as he tragically died of an aortic dissection on the morning that Rent was to perform its first preview performance. He was only thirty-five years old.

Jonathan struggled his entire professional career to achieve recognition from the world at large, something that he expressed in his own semi-autobiographical piece Tick, Tick... Boom! The musical was originally formatted as a “rock monologue” that Jon performed himself, though it has seen many revisions since his death, eventually turning it into the fully-formed musical it is today.

The show begins with Jonathan discussing his fear of turning thirty. The theme of "running out of time” was first introduced to the piece by Jonathan himself to illustrate his fear of getting older, but it was hugely emphasized in later productions by writers and directors who knew that he never would. Today, the looming sense of some inescapable fate pervades throughout the show as viewers know what is coming and are helpless to stop it. Jonathan will become famous and respected and beloved, but he will never see it. While everyone in the show assures him that he is still young and has a bright future ahead of him, we know differently. He is running out of time. He only has five years left.

In this sad way, the show that originally began as a piece by a young man fighting for his future has become a bittersweet legacy we look back on, making meaning out of Jonathan’s work that he would never realize was there. This is exemplified nowhere better than in the song “Sunday”.

“Sunday” began as a simple parody of Sondheim’s “Sunday”, recognizable for what it is from the first few notes and becoming clearer and clearer as the song progresses. The original joke of the piece was that Jonathan was arranging the patrons and crappy interior of the diner where he worked in the same way that George was constructing his masterpiece, drawing a comparison between the mundane (or even ugly) and something beautiful.

To make it meta: in Jonathan’s semi-autobiographical musical about his struggles as an artist, he referenced his mentor’s semi-autobiographical musical about the struggles of being an artist. Of course, in the parody, Jon cast himself as the pale imitation of great art, suggesting he was nothing in comparison. It was light-hearted, fun, and, at the time, a pretty recent/topical reference to make. It was never meant to be anything more than a joke.

But then Jonathan left a legacy.

In the 2021 film, Lin Manuel Miranda made phenomenal directorial decisions in a dozen different places but “Sunday” was his home run. He transformed the song from a joke to the pinnacle of what Tick, Tick...Boom! has become, a tribute to the memory of Jonathan Larson.

Throughout the movie, there are cameos of countless famous Broadway figures, but those that appear in the diner scene and utilized perfectly. From true veteran legends, to modern celebrities, to original cast members of Rent, the diner is packed with heroes of the stage. As the song progresses they join in behind Jon to form an inter-generational choir, representing the past, present, and future of musical theater. You can see the arch of the line passing down, the years of history represented and the lives changed. And the hope that radiates toward the future.

A passion and joy for musical theater was passed from Sondheim onto Jonathan, and he went forward to inspire a new generation of theater kids-- including Lin Manuel Miranda. Who, regardless of your personal feelings about him, has already made enormous impact on the world of musical theater and lit the flame for another generation of kids.

That’s what this moment means.

It’s a celebration and a thank you and an honoring of our history, of those that came before us and inspired us, of those who are our future.

There is a moment that is always guaranteed to bring me to tears. As the song nears its peak, “Jon” (played by Andrew Garfield, who should have won an Oscar damn it) takes the hand of legend Bernadette Peters, who originated the role of Dot in Sunday in the Park with George (the main female character, the woman in purple in the painting). She is dressed similarly to her character, including her hat (trust me, the hat is important) and he ushers her into her place in the light. He places his hands over his heart, complete adoration in his eyes, and he bows to her. It’s a sign of utmost respect, of both Jon (the real Jon) acknowledging the legend of Sondheim that came before him, and Lin nodding to both Jon and Steve. It’s all of us watching and wishing we got the chance to say thank you to Steve and Jon and all the others who we look up to and adore.

It’s saying, Jonathan, you didn’t get to see it, but you are remembered. You are loved. You are honored.

You are forever.

#I could talk about tick tick boom for hours #if you want to hear more about it come to my inbox #sorry this is very rambling and not well organized #thanks for the ask!#sorry it took so long to answer!#I was really thinking about the answers #ask game #about me

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here2bbtstrash · 1 year

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CD1-04. Boy in Luv

🎧 Tell me your favorite pickup line.

CD1-05. Danger

🎧 If you were a ghost, who would you haunt?

CD1-15. ON

🎧 Tell me a hidden talent that people don't know about.

CD2-07. BTS Cypher PT.3 : KILLER (Feat. Supreme Boi)

🎧 What is your biggest pet peeve?

CD2-15. Dimple

🎧 What is your favorite physical feature on a person, romantic or otherwise?

i'm sorry hehe

thank you for the questionssss sarah my love!!! 💜

🎧 Tell me your favorite pickup line.

does anyone actually like pickup lines 💀 i'm so sorry but i hate them all and i cringe whenever i hear one, joke or not lmfao

🎧 If you were a ghost, who would you haunt?

YOU MEAN I FINALLY DON'T HAVE TO BE ALIVE ANYMORE AND I CAN'T JUST FUCKING REST???????? honestly i'd go haunt yoongi just to get the tea on what the fuck all these photoshoots are. and also to see his cat 🥺🥺🥺

🎧 Tell me a hidden talent that people don't know about.

well, i sing! i've done a few local open mics, some musicals back when i did theatre (sang one of sondheim's hardest fucking songs as a solo 😵‍💫 and i was even the lead in one!), and i recorded backing vocals/harmonies for my ex's band's album (no i will not share a link so do not ask me lmao). i'm also self-taught on piano and guitar. i'd really like to spend more time practicing all three this year. they're on the list of hobbies to do that aren't writing 😂

🎧 What is your biggest pet peeve?

impatient or otherwise entitled people 🙄 i've dated people who couldn't stand in a line/queue for more than like, 2 seconds without complaining, and it drove me fucking insane. like you are not special, everyone in front of you is also trying to do the same thing that you are right now, so just fucking. CHILL. my god.

🎧 What is your favorite physical feature on a person, romantic or otherwise? - already answered this one!

proof asks!! 💿

#sarah-217 #mbox 📮#ask game

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inkyquince · 2 years

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*slams fist on table*

THEATER KID! MUSICAL THEATRE KID!!!

Give me all your hot takes and favorites!

SO FAVOURITE MUSICAL IN THE WORLD? HADESTOWN BABEY, I SAW IT WHEN IT WAS JUST A LIL GUY, A LIL MUSICAL, AND I LOVE THE ORIGINAL STAGE RECORDING OF IT THE MOST ITS BEAUTIFUL, ITS TRAGIC, ITS THE GREAT DEPRESSION ERA OF AN ANCIENT GREEK MYTH.

It gets Hades right! Like, as a ancient history student, I have a deep hatred any modern movies depiction of Hades (YES, I FUCKING HATES THE DISNEY MOVIE HERCULES, FUCK THAT FUCKING THING fun fact greece banned it) BUT YES. Hades isnt the colossal enemy because he rules over the underworld, you fucking planks.

He is the bad guy BECAUSE HE IS THE GOD OF FUCKING RICHES AND A METAPHOR FOR CAPITALISM IN HADESTOWN. oh MYGOD THE FUCKIN GENIUS.

Love Moulin Rouge so much, AND i know its looked down on for being a Jukebox musical but its so beautiful. It made a huge impact on me because i saw it so young.

Phantom of The Opera too, why you think im so deeply fucking dramatic?

Okay sO

Starlight Express? OF COURSE IT COULD ONLY WORK IN GERMANY, WITH EVERYONE ELSE WRITING IT OFF. ITS DEEPLY ENDEARING TO THE GERMANS and andrew lloyd webber is a fucking pussy for trying to distance himself from it. He's also generally a pussy, that fuckin tory.

Dear Evan Hansen was a mid story with sometimes good songs. Like, the movie warped every single character but my guy, they were already all insufferable. THE ONLY GOOD SONG IS SINCERLY ME, ITS SO GOOD COMPARED TO EVERY OTHER SONG IN THERE, CMON

... Book of Mormon overhyped. I don't care about it.

SHREK THE MUSICAL FUCKING STEAM PLOWS THROUGH WHAT MAKES SHREK SHREK. ITS BAD, IT DOESNT UNDERSTAND ITS OWN FUCKING CHARACTER. If you were going to make a decent fucking musical about shrek, DONT EVER HAVE SHREK SING!!! THAT'S SHREK BABEY, HAVE EVERYONE ELSE SINGING AROUND HIM!! SHREK WAS ALWAYS GOING TO BE ABOUT MAKING FUN OF FUCKING DISNEY SO WHY SUDDENLY DISNEYFY HIM. fUYCKIN flops

Finally, Into The Woods was butchered by its own film. I love everything Stephen Sondheim, especially Sweeney Todd and into the woods was done so so bad. Its so underappreciated and because of the movie, it will further be misunderstood.

The live action les mis movie was always terrible and its sad that it took watching Cats (2019) to people to realise what a hack idiot Tomothy Hooper is.

Rent sucks. Fuck you. La Boheme doesn't deserve this.

FINALLY STOP PUTTING JAMES CORDEN INTO MUSICALS, WE DONT NEED THAT FUCKING MORON RUINING MORE SHIT

#MUSICALS TALK #I LOVE MUSICALS #I LOVE STEVEN SONDHEIM #I LOVE THE DRAMATICS OF IT ALL #ask

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whoslaurapalmer · 1 year

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-i liked it a lot!!! but i do agree it’s not as stellar as knives out was. -for me it’s bc like.......the Stakes are different. in a personal family murder, the stakes are confined to the family. in RICH PEOPLE WORLD TECHNOLOGY MURDER the stakes are just bigger bc it’s not confined to one group of people, and those kinds of murders just always feel, unsatisfying to me, IN MY OWN PERSONAL ONION, they just don’t feel as tight as when it’s on a smaller scale. -like, for me, as a comparison, hitchcock’s least successful movies, in my eyes, are his ones about, big government things and politics. i enjoy north by northwest but even that one falls kind of flat for me in terms of, like, shadow of a doubt and rope (-i also watched it for the first time at age, 10, so did i grasp it?? not at all. i don’t think i really did until. uh. this year. but anyway) -yes the murder is confined to the group of people but it’s like.......there’s more worldly implications around it. which i just don’t dig personally -but i liked that it went so different, too, like that!! -and it does make sense with the Rich People vibe, i do have to give it that. (-oh, you could call the uh.......what was it. the science, chip, thing. its own macguffin, re: hitchcock’s mysteries)

-first hour was a bit slow, but once helen came in it REALLY PICKED UP and i loved where it went!!! -i loved helen, what a delight -her sister’s diary that she uses as her clue notebook saving her life from the gunshot..........andi protecting her sister, even while dead, their connection still existing no matter what happened

-cassandra sharing her name with the woman who told the truth and no one believed......

-shout out to hugh grant in an apron with a little sourdough starter jar. i love a random hugh grant -and as benoit’s partner?? i liked it -give me more of them

-ANGELA LANSBURY MY BELOVED OH MY GOD. ANGELA LANSBURY PLAYING AMONG US WITH THE USERNAME ‘MSHESOLVED’ -ANGELA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -angela 💖 -the greatest detective hanging out with the woman who played one of the most recognizable and famous fictional detectives.........💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖 -and sondheim!! and kareem abdul-jabbar!! and natasha lyonne!! -very excited for that peacock series next year w natasha btw

-i love the ‘character with profession is not good at games relating to the profession’ trope. benoit being terrible at among us and hating clue is delightful

-it has the true murder mystery optimistic ending, i thought, with everyone turning on miles and admitting the actual truth on the steps, but we also have no reason to believe.......they’ll stay that way -them destroying the glass too was sooooooooooo tone deaf of them and great. like it mattered that like........they don’t immediately destroy it with helen. they’re still removed from her. they don’t understand why she’s really doing it, where that calm, glittering anger and vengeance comes from, what it means to her, what these people did to her sister and how it destroyed her and how they let it, how they were culpable, and they can’t untangle their lives from miles and money, even in one brief moment of anger and frustration or one brief singular moment of understanding, they still can’t really truly do it -but it is nice to think that they could be better people. but like ultimately, they do really suck, too. like, damn

-me: /googling derol’s actor me: .......TROOPER WAGNER?? my mom: ????? TROOPER WAGNER?????? me: my god. what a guy

-so back in september i watched the last of sheila, bc it was on tcm and they said it was a big influence on this, and i’m SO GLAD I WATCHED IT YOU CAN SEE IT SOOOOOOOO MUCH IN GLASS ONION AND IT WAS FASCINATING -you can see pieces of it in knives out, too, along with of course sleuth and, in my onion, 44 laura -i do recommend watching sheila if you can, it’s a fucking time. -stephen sondheim co-wrote the script of sheila, btw, with ANTHONY PERKINS, based on their mystery parties

-benoit monologuing in knives out to solve the case vs benoit monologuing to give helen time to search the glass onion

-shout out to JACKIE HOFFMAN she’s so delightful

-i might have more to say when i roll it around a little more but i did really like it a lot, and i think it was very successful though will not quite have a place in my heart like knives out does. will watch again, hope more people start making more murder mysteries bc they’re always so much fun and my favorite

#glass onion spoilers

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