#tuck everlasting the musical

[pealeii]

Finally. Here it is.

Feel free to add on. I hope I didn’t miss anything.

#these shows!! they are everything!! #newsies #tuck everlasting #tuck everlasting musical #tuck everlasting the musical #livesies #andrew keenan bolger #akb #ben cook #ben tyler cook #musical theatre #musical theater #musical theater memes

[claireverlasting]

Musicals about time and/or cycle>>>>>>>>>

#tuck everlasting #tuck everlasting the musical #hadestown #groundhog day

[finleyforevermore]

If I had a nickel for every musical theatre song I enjoyed called "Top of the World", I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that there's two of them.

#the hunchback of notre dame #tuck everlasting #tuck everlasting the musical #the hunchback of Notre Dame musical #hunchback musical #hunchback of notre dame #top of the world #Youtube

[spookysplatt]

Wait is mtf bottom surgery just

Tuck Everlasting

#please let this be funny #tuck everlasting #tuck everlasting the musical #trans #trans everlasting #what do you mean that's not a tag >:(

[september1st1899]

#tuck everlasting #tuck everlasting the musical #tuck everlasting atlanta #musical theatre #winnie foster #hugo jackson

[raineyjess]

For a while, I’ve been wondering why Winnie Foster didn’t have a daughter, since in The Wheel, the line “girl to wife to mother to daughter” is sung. Then I realized something. In The Story of Winnie Foster, Winnie is shown to have lived out the things that each of the Tucks wanted but couldn’t have. Jesse craved a partner who stuck with him through thick and thin. Miles wished he could have watched his son grow. Mae longed to dance with her husband all their lives like they did at their wedding. Angus hungered for the passage out of this world and into the next one.

And now I see why Miles said, “Looks like she lived the life we never could.”

#tuck everlasting the musical #tuck everlasting #winnie foster #jesse tuck #miles tuck #mae tuck #angus tuck #the story of winnie foster

[bearswithpartyhats]

hugoooooooooooo you know what to dooooooooooooo!!

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My schools production of tuck is over, so I thought I’d draw the costume I actually got to wear for Hugo!! OMG I LOVE HIM SM ITS NOT EVEN FUNNY

#sketch #doodle #hugoooooo you know what to doooooooooo #hugo jackson #tuck everlasting #tuck everlasting the musical #team hugo #if anyone wants i can draw some more of him in either style! #i love him

[theatermademegay]

happy birthday to a musical ive never actually seen but im still very a little and a totally normal amount obsessed with

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#tuck everlasting the musical #tuck everlasting musical #tuck everlasting #toad

[crows-and-paint]

ok so-

i’m trying to base outfits off of winnie foster, but i can’t find photo refs of all of her outfits and costume changes

and it’s driving me up a wall

send help

#costumes #winnie foster #tuck everlasting #musicals #tuck everlasting the musical

[peace-and-fandoms-67]

Headcanon that even though they’re invincible, the Tucks can still get sick (but they heal quicker and can’t die from illness.) So when Jesse suffers a bout of polio one year, it is awful but he at least isn’t afraid for his life. 

However, he never expected to be left to limp through the rest of his immortality, with one leg permanently crippled.

On the bright side, this new limp comes in handy (along with his sunny ✨poisonality✨) a couple years later when he decides to move to New York and takes up selling papers for a living, going by the nickname of “Crutchie”.

He never does climb any more trees, though.

#jesse tuck #tuck everlasting the musical #tuck everlasting #crutchie morris #newsies #jesse tuck is crutchie

[pealeii]

Hello!!!1!1 Let’s talk about singing, vest-wearing autistic bitches from the 1800s please!!!1!1

#they are everything to me #hugo jackson #davey jacobs #tuck everlasting #tuck everlasting the musical #newsies #livesies #autistic headcanon #neurodivergent #musical theatre

[claireverlasting]

#has this been done before #tuck everlasting #tuck everlasting the musical #musical memes #memes

[newsiegoil]

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ᴘᴀꜱꜱ ᴜꜱ ʙʏ?⏳

#musicals #broadway #tuck everlasting #tuck everlasting musical #tuck everlasting the musical #tuck everlasting broadway #musical #andrew keenan bolger #andrew keenan-bolger #sarah charles lewis #miles tuck #jesse tuck #carolee carmello #michael park #Robert Lenzi #live like this #time #time quartet #left alone #left with nothing #nothing #nothing but time #good girl Winnie Foster #top of the world #the wheel #partners in crime #the story of the the tucks #winnie foster #back on my missing tuck everlasting vibes

[spookysplatt]

Winnie: It's dark in here

Jesse: Don't worry dude I got this

Jesse: *Stomps his feet*

Jesse: *Skechers light up*

#tuck everlasting #tuck everlasting the musical #tuck everlasting broadway #tuck everlasting incorrect quotes #jesse tuck #winnie foster #modern jesse has light up sketchers and heelies thatt is all

[september1st1899]

Me when Tuck, Beetlejuice and rtc have the same message about how essential life is as well as death

#musical theatre #tuck everlasting #tuck everlasting the musical #beetlejuice the musical #beetlejuice #ride the cyclone #rtc

[common-grackle]

Winnie Foster and growing up

@claireverlasting @marinesocks You guys wanted this?

Here's the thing about Winnie Foster. She's not dumb (anything but), but she is naïve, especially at the beginning of the show. From literally the first time we see her on stage, we know a lot about her home life and her motivations:

She's obedient, especially to her mother (who is...pretty stifling)

She wants to go to the fair (and she's hopeful that her mother will let her)

She's unhappy with her life (she can't "live like this forever")

There's some other stuff too, like how the setting is casually dropped (August 1st, 1893 in Treegap, New Hampshire), which I love because the music is catchy and it's an excellent way to get the audience to remember stuff. I'd also point out "I wish I had wings, I'd look good with a pair" - we really get a feel for Winnie's whimsy and youthfulness, but also that she has her expectations set pretty firmly.

This especially comes to light with Mae's verse. Mae's plotline is about her finding that youth again (Tuck actually does a great job of developing plotlines for each character and I appreciate that greatly). In her part, she also talks about feeling stuck (duh, that's what the song is about) and about anticipation - her boys will be home by the end of the day. But that excitement feels more mature than Winnie's for the fair.

Miles and Jesse have a really interesting part that deserves its own post. I'll skip over Miles's lines for now because there's too much to unpack.

Through the lens of Winnie's character arc (or at least the fragment of it that I'm focusing on), what I notice is the parallels between her and Jesse. Jesse is 102, but he really does seem 17 here. His enthusiasm aligns perfectly with Winnie's - it's more childlike, more free. (We'll get there later, but it's my personal theory that that's why their song sounds like it does.)

After Good Girl Winnie Foster, we see Winnie shouting at her mother ("No! I hate you, and I hate your rules!"). It's implied that she doesn't have outbursts like this often (if at all), which is...really interesting with what happens next. My favorite part of this scene is Winnie's line when she's talking to her toad: "Why should I apologize? I don't want to just be 'good.' I want to be daring."

She then has a short reprise of her song, and I think these lines are the most significant:

If I don't leave now I'll only wish I had

How can I know good without trying bad?

Winnie knows exactly what she's doing: she's breaking the rules. She goes directly from being a "well-behaved eleven" to literally running away from home. That escalated quickly.

Let's pause before we meet Jesse to talk about the plotline the show has set up for Winnie. She wants to go to the fair, wear a bright color, have fun, and then she gets in an argument with her mother and runs away. Honestly? This could've be the plot of a story on its own, if we hadn't also been introduced to the Tucks and the Man in the Yellow Suit. Winnie really is just a kid who got caught up in the plot (and proceeded to stir up a lot of drama herself).

One of Jesse's lines right before Top of the World is "There's no use running away if you don't make it an adventure." Jesse and Winnie's friendship took off because they shared the same view of the world, and neither of them had ever known someone like that before (or, not in a long time - part of me wants to know what Winnie's father was like, but again, topic for another time).

Winnie: Everything looks so different, up here!

Jesse: You ain't seen the half of it.

She really hasn't. All of these scenes have been setting up who Winnie is at the start of her story, but where it gets interesting is when she's faced with more things that she's never thought about before.

Winnie: I can't believe you tricked me. I trusted you. (As if they got engaged.) We climbed a tree!

Yes, that's the actual text from my script. Climbing a tree with Jesse was The Biggest Deal to Winnie, because she'd never done anything like that before, with anyone.

There's so much I could say about The Story of the Tucks, but the gist of it is that Winnie has no idea what to do with this information. The first thing she asks after they finish is "where is this cat?", and the second is "How can I be sure you're not just telling me a story?"

There are two other lines here that I'd like to mention. First, the bit where Winnie asks what else they can do, and if they can fly. She's picked up the immortality thing (which is likely something that she's read about), but she's assuming that it's some kind of superpower (positive connotations - keep that in mind).

The second is "It must be so fun to be you!" Winnie, you sweet child, no. Winnie just isn't grasping how eternal life could be a bad thing, and I don't think she really does until the end of Act One.

(Also, the way that Angus says "Not natural, how much that boy has lost" when Miles exits? This is why Tuck Everlasting causes audiences pain. It's because we already know more than Winnie does.)

Okay, let's talk about Partner in Crime and Seventeen. Like I said, I'm pretty sure that (besides it just being the right tone for the song) Partner in Crime is fast and upbeat because that's the mood that Winnie and Jesse share. This song happens literally directly before everything goes south. I also love all the echoing and overlapping that happens in this number, because they feel the same way but they have different contexts for it.

There's a line before Seventeen that haunts me when I'm trying to sleep: "Listen: Ma and Pa and Miles? They don't know how to enjoy anything anymore. They're stuck in the past. But you? You thought it was amazing to climb a tree." Jesse is still optimistic because he thinks he's found a way out (and it is a solution, just not the right one).

But do you want to know something? Neither Jesse nor Winnie sings anything upbeat for the rest of the show. All of their songs up to this point were fast and cheerful, and that doesn't happen again after Partner in Crime. Actually, none of the Tucks sing anything upbeat after this point. The Man in the Yellow Suit, the Constable, and Hugo are the only characters who appear in the faster songs in Act Two.

Why?

It's because Winnie is finally learning how negative immortality can actually be. She's still herself, just more somber. Jesse's already losing hope, and with our two most optimistic characters (not counting Hugo) finally getting hit with all of this, it travels over to the rest of the Tucks. (Miles, Mae, and Angus all have their own reasons for this too, but there's too much to say about those.)

Time is a song that most of us have cried over at one point or another, and I think it's this scene that starts to solidify Winnie's decision not to drink from the spring. (It's also the most insight we get into Miles's character, I think. I love this song.) However.

The Wheel doubles as a Winnie and Angus bonding moment and the moment where Winnie finally puts everything together. She echoes Angus's words, and she strings together her own in Everlasting.

Not to ruin the mood that I've set here (whatever that may be) but I think that seeing the Man in the Yellow Suit dead (killed by someone she knows and loves) also probably contributed to Winnie's sudden maturity.

The effect that Winnie has on the Tuck family is made very clear throughout the show. She shows Mae how to live like she used to, and remember the joy that she's lost a bit of. Winnie and Angus have one of the sweetest dynamics in the musical, this father-daughter relationship that develops between them. Miles and Winnie have...a lot going on that I will save discussing for later. And Winnie is Jesse's first real friend in pretty much forever. But this experience also has an effect on Winnie, and that's what I'm trying to get at here.

Right after she says goodbye to the Tucks, Winnie sings Everlasting. It's a song about a decision, and although a little bit of the suspense is kept, we as the audience already know what Winnie is going to do, because that's what's been set up the whole show. (And we're right: she gives the water to the toad.)

Winnie starts her story as an eleven-year-old girl who wants to get out of the house and go to the fair. Throughout the course of a few days, she grows up and learns a lot about the nature of life and humanity and everything Tuck Everlasting is trying to teach us.

Remember how I said that Tuck hurts because the audience knows more than Winnie? I really do think that's the reason. We know early on what's going on with the Tucks, and we see Winnie figure it out and sort out her emotions on her own time. We basically go through that pain twice.

(I'm not sure if this is significant, but going back to my thing about how the music changes in Act Two, I did notice that the ensemble carries the fast part of the end of the show. It's not the Tucks anymore. Oof.)

If you made it this far, please discuss this with me because I am desperate to hear more theories.

#gracie writes overly long media analysis #all the quotes came from my copy of the script! #tuck everlasting #tuck everlasting the musical #winnie foster #jesse tuck #musical theater #analysis