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Producing a musical with a war criminal is really hitting the bottomest of the bottom for me

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So Norway’s production of ‘Frozen’ just casually has a plus size Anna and black Elsa? And I think that is fabulous?

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RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN'S CINDERELLA (1997) dir. Robert Iscove

#r&h cinderella

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ok idk if people on here are talking abt this idk if I’ve seen it but one of the funniest/most awkward things about the immediate aftermath of the queen’s death was audiences that night going to see musicals on the west end, specifically Wicked. apparently before the show some official came out and called for a minute or two of silence in honor of the queen. makes sense. silence concludes, lights come down, show begins. the overture begins very loudly with dramatic and fast-moving music, moves to a slower section, and at around the minute mark, becomes a very brassy, loud, cantankerous kind of aggressive melody. and then, after a minute of silence and a minute of overture, the audience is greeted with the first words of this musical, the words that have started the musical every night since 2003, now being sung loud and proud in london on September 8th, 2022:

“Good news! She’s dead!”

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Happy news indeed guys

#sweeney todd

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But I’m a Cheerleader (Jamie Babbit, 1999)

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Hot Vintage Stage Actress Round 1

Carol Lawrence: Maria in West Side Story (1957 Broadway); Clio in Saratoga (1959 Broadway); Angela McKay in Subways Are for Sleeping (1961 Broadway)

Gwen Verdon: Lola in Damn Yankees (1956 Broadway); Anna in New Girl in Town (1958 Broadway); Essie Whimple in Redhead (1959 Broadway); Charity Hope Valentine in Sweet Charity (1966 Broadway)

Propaganda under the cut

Carol Lawrence:

(Editor’s note: could not get the gif submitted to save and upload cause of computer issues so I just added the same gif through tumblr)

Gwen Verdon:

She had like a bajillion cats and these were some of their names - Feets Fosse, Tidbits Tumbler Fosse, Junie Moon

#gwen!!!

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Paris is Burning (1990) dir. Jennie Livingston

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I don't know what inherent problem there is in having a narrator on screen tbh. Commit to it and you'll be fine. Fleabag was a stage show first and the fourth wall breaks are the heart of that show (including thematically, with the priest). People love Deadpool. Fourth wall breaks are less awkward to me than gutting the entire emotional core of ITW, if I had to choose between the two.

see the thing is it's really hard to have an onscreen narrator in a movie the way you have an onstage narrator in theatre so of course it makes sense to cut it and have the narration be done by the main character's voice as an overlay. perfectly normal and reasonable decision unless by doing that you have to cut every instance of the onstage narrator affecting the plot itself and therefore completely cut the emotional core of the story.

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Vivaldi played by the South African elementary school Goede Hoop Marimba Band

Turn ON the sound

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That time in Passion when Giorgio had a beard

x

#passion musical

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I had a dream where someone told me “of course ‘Razzle Dazzle’ from the movie/musical Chicago is the ideal song to give a blow job to” and I was like “yes we all know this.”

#gotta do the finger snaps tho #chicago musical

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First photo of Chumisa is up outside the theatre!

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White Girl in Danger identifies "me pronounced as may" as a particularly white girl epidemic, but the most famous it's gonna be may pop culture reference is

#white girl in danger

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if gender is a performance then my gender is "musical that flopped on broadway initially but is widely loved by gay people"

#prev one is not born but rather becomes a puppet #my flop gender is hmm the visit? women on the verge? the frogs? #brek kek kek kek 🐸

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Performing both Wild Parties in rep

#evil ideas #also throw in big fish and little fish for further lachiusa lippa showdown

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