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Rita Moreno not being on this list is a CRIME

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This poll brought to you by my dream last night where Tupac Shakur was telling me something 😌

#all the time tbh #last night i had a dream with both catherine tate and persephone valentine (of actual play fame) #sephy helped me fix a hair disaster of truly dreamscape proportions #and catherine picked us all up in her limo she definitely has all the time

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genuinely, i think watching live theatre can improve your media literacy so much

like people who look at doctor who and are like 'lol the effects are so rubbish'

maybe watch a stage play where there's no backdrops and half the characters are played by the same three guys in different hats and maybe you will calm down

#the musical itself didnt last very long #but everyone should look up the practical King Kong puppet they had on broadway a few years back #that is the world we could be living in #if anyone cared

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The Waitress pro-shot was good but the hard cuts between real baby and blatantly fake baby doll had me cackling at extremely inappropriate times

#it was just so jarring i couldn't not laugh #who decided they needed to reshoot with a real baby anyway? #the on-stage baby doll is Fine #waitress #waitress musical #broadway

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Me: I don't feel like I listen to musicals that much anymore. I can't remember the last time I got really into a new show

My Wrapped:

#spotify wrapped #broadway #musicals #tbf there isnt anything new in here #i only remember listening to hadestown and next to normal a handful of times as full albums #literally the only broadway song on my top 100 is wait for me at 88 #i don't understand how this happened

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is he thinking about two hearts 

searching in the darkness?

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The conservative ability towards selective attention is ridiculous. My right wing 2x Trump voting dad also loved Hadestown despite that musical having an entire song dedicated to laying out the logical fallacies and fear tactics behind "build the wall" rhetoric

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absolutely losing it over the queens playing an entire first session and only afterwards realizing that pc death is an actual thing that can happen

like. the indignation 😂😂😂

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"The Incomparable Janelle James''

— Janelle James' opening monologue as the host of the 2023 Writers Guild Awards

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For a campy 90s show about a man who could master any profession in a matter of weeks The Pretender sure had some wild episodes.

Season 2, Episode 8. The episode starts with a sudden on-screen suicide attempt and the anguished cries of the man's family within the first five minutes.

The A plot is clearing said man's name of liability for the deaths of his co-workers while also helping his family to forgive him while he's still in a coma.

The B plot is finding out one of the other main characters was held in a concentration camp was subject to the infamous Nazi twin experiments while he contemplates murdering the doctor who experimented on him and his brother.

#the pretender #tw suicide attempt #michael t weiss #nbc

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hold up im reading more about the lionfish thing and this one island in Honduras has had such a huge problem with lionfish that the measures they have taken include

• getting special exemption from the Honduran government to allow divers access to harpoons and spears which are otherwise illegal in fishing

• public campaign to teach people how to prepare and eat lionfish (apparently they are very tasty once the poisonous spines are removed) (but watch out)

• holding lionfish combination hunting competition and cookout (reportedly they killed and cooked 1,700 in a day) (someone killed 60 of them with a rubber band spear gun???)

• most recently and apparently out of desperation, the divers in charge of culling the lionfish in the Roatan Marine Park just started. feeding the lionfish they killed to sharks. bc what else are you gonna do with it

• the sharks don’t seem to notice or be affected by the poison and begin hanging out with the divers

• the sharks then were seen hunting and killing the lionfish on their own

like this is nuts to me sorry. the sharks just had to be shown “hey this is food, did you know?? you can eat these!! here try one!!” we are possibly altering an entire foodchain bc we like feeding the big ocean wolves

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Rent, Act 1: A single night

Rent, Act 2: An entire year

les mis: takes place over 15+ years

phantom of the opera: at least 3 months

hamilton: 28-ish years

wicked: between 2 and 5 years

west side story: just a really stressful 48 hours for everyone involved

#act 1 is also like 2/3 of the run time lmao

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#That Season 2 Slow Burn First Kiss

#what has streaming done to society that we think kissing in season 2 is a slowburn? #jk jk #mostly

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#maximum derek

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Jason Mendoza tweeted this from the afterlife

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They recently took the London cast recording off of Spotify 😞

Brb persuading Tumblr to go and watch the new Matilda movie musical by telling everyone how baby queer and neurodivergent coded she is

#broadway obc is still there but its not the same

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I'll never understand the movie musicals need to scrape the heart out of the characters in favor of plot and economical run times

You really think people wouldn't watch a couple more songs that better establish Mrs. Honey and Matilda's relationship? They'd fucking love it!!

The new Matilda movie (The Musical) it's amazing, it's not better than the original because even with the same story they are really different from each other, no one it's better, they are both equally good. In here, even when I wanted to say "oh, the original made it better" the movie made something new and great that I wasn't expecting (I'm not talking about the book, yes I did read it, no I don't remember it, it was years ago.

The only thing that I didn't like was Matilda and Ms. Honey's relationship. See, in the Devito's movie Ms. Honey was really worried about Matilda, she went to her house to talk with her parents, but when she saw what type of people they were she started to take care of the child herself, and that was why Matilda trusted in her that much to show her her powers. In this movie not only Matilda spend more time with the librarian than Ms. Honey, but the librarian was the only character that actually suspected that Matilda had abusive parents and tried to talk with her, also, she was all "OMG Matilda you are so bright, your mother had to be really proud of having such an amazing daughter" which made me think that she was the one who would adopt her at the end (and merry Ms. Honey so the original ending would stay but shhhh), but Ms. Honey being her mother ending felt so... Weird? Their relationship never felt any more than "Teacher-Gifted Student" to me, maybe "Two victims finding comfort in relate to each other" but never a "Mother-Daugther" type.

#its like they put out an ad for people who find musicals long and tedious when they make these adaptions i swear #at least Matilda actually gets to PERFORM its songs #what a concept #ETAJ kept cutting away to make the songs background of other scenes it drove me bonkers