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BBC Radio 4 new program announced! "Michael Sheen Gets Into Character" broadcast on May 14th! For the love of acting god I'm simply too seated.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001z6j4/episodes/

This is literally for me. I am the target audience of this. I could listen to this guy talk about process on a 24/7 loop and not get tired. If one of the acclaimed performers he happens to speak to is his bestie, that’s a bonus for me but it doesn’t matter I am eating so well on May 14 either way

#saving #when will michael sheen let me rest

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thinking about their peaceful morning in the cottage

#weepy af tbh #go art

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ill be real when i think about camilla and palanedes i think of calvin's parents from calvin and hobbs or whatever van anybody see my vision t

#the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #rock solid take op

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#every once in a while a post like this crosses my dash #and I open the notes idly #and it's like watching a leviathan swim in the deep #a little ripple shivers my boat #godspeed to ye divers #spn

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My bind of @ashmouthbooks beautiful typeset of @mouseonamoose’s fabulous classic Demonology and the Tri Phasic Model. If you haven’t read it you’re seriously missing out.

(T, 99,423)

#profoundly beautiful #I would buy it tbh #go fic #go fic rec

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down bad is so.................

#YEAH #tswift #sleeper hit!!

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#laugh rule #excellent soundtrack too

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This night is sparkling, don't you let it go. ✨💎💖

#ok fine i love her are you happy now #tswift

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I WAS GRINNING LIKE I'M WINNING

I WAS HITTING MY MARKS

CAUSE I CAN DO IT WITH A BROKEN HEART

#this song is such a mood lmao #I CRY A LOT BUT I AM SO PRODUCTIVE! IT'S AN ART #tswift #ttpd #made this reference at work this week and I had a roomful of men look at me blankly #OK GIRL GO OFF....

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What’s your favourite line from good omens?

The invisible and unbreakable one that joins Crowley and Aziraphale.

#michael i hope somewhere you felt a flicker of deep deep pride #david too obviously but #lbr a sec

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#this is such an amazing visual representation of my week LOL

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hey thanks for this rec! also tagging @books-and-omens !

Good Omens fic recs #19

Bark Dust by rfsmiley - A/C, 8k words.  Aziraphale and Crowley meet in the middle of the Saxon Wars, and when Crowley is injured with a blessed sword, Aziraphale takes care of him.  I'd say physical hurt/comfort is pretty rare in this fandom for obvious reasons, but this is a stellar example of it.

a lighthouse (burning) by books-and-omens - A/C, 108k words.  It's hard to categorize this fic -- it's a time travel story and a ghost story and psychological horror and also on occasion deeply romantic.  The basic story is that Aziraphale and Crowley travel to an empty lighthouse to investigate why the humans who kept it have disappeared, and then they get caught up in something wild.  There's a lot of hurt in this before you get any comfort, but it is worth pushing through.

One Night In Bangor (And the World's Your Oyster) by Atalan - A/C, 17k words.  Another very funny fic in the genre of Heaven and Hell having shared corporate parties.  The demons have a bet over who can get an angel into bed.  Crowley and Aziraphale use it as an excuse to hang out together.

come raise your flag upon me by trinityofone - A/C, 5k words.

At the end of S2, Crowley agrees to come to Heaven, and loses his memory when he is "forgiven," but immediately begins to cause trouble (like the demon we love).  This is NOT as angsty as you would expect, because sometimes you need some light-hearted amnesia, I am not kidding about this.  S2 wrecked us enough.

Greedy Ducks by orphan_account - A/C, 6k words.  In desperation, Crowley sent Aziraphale an email right before Armageddidn't, never expecting him to read it.  Thing is, after the world doesn't end, Aziraphale does read it, and it changes everything.

#go fic #go fic recs

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Musical bit from the Nye cinema screening tonight. Excuse the quality and the angle. Just had to share for some friends who I hope see it in full soon :)

#saving for later #when will michael sheen let me rest #why is he like this!!! im. thirsty!!!

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Just a friendly reminder that, THE GOOD OMENS MUSICAL IS A THING THAT EXISTS.

LOOK AT THEMMM AAAGHHHH‼️‼️‼️

#i love them so much. i could die. #gomens musical #the sauce...

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official ratings of the different Aziraphales on the babey-bastard scale.

#yeah. #gomens musical

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Me, watching Aziraphale and Crowley's break up in the musical:

#gomens musical #KLFJ F:LDSJK so deep in the brainrot tonight god

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i'm reblogging this again because i'm deep in the gomens musical soup tonight and this post doubled the amount of information we previously had about it.

It's going strong?? it's going to run again?

aziraphale banishes hastur right in front of crowley i'm losing my marbles

they end act I with a breakup?? they wrote this 2 years before the bandstand scene even aired?? i'm chewing my fingers off

FULLY CONVINCED that whatever the tv show did/is going to do, Crowley and Aziraphale have an AVPM level kiss at the airbase in the stage adaptation. look at this. tell me they don't have this energy in EVERY clip. they're so horny. i'm gonna die here tonight.

edit: oh my god the breakup is on youtube

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The Good Omens Musical Masterpost🎵❤

How it started :)

Some time before 2013: Vicki Larnach, the australian composer and lyricist, read the Good Omens book, imagined figures dancing on stage with brilliant music and thought, ‘Ah, I’m gonna ask Terry Pratchet and Neil Gaiman if I can turn it into a musical.’ and sent an email to the publishers. The next day she got an email saying, ‘We don’t want a musical but Terry’s coming to Australia, so come and say hello and tell us what you got.’

Rob Wilkins came down to meet Vicki and Jim Hare - Vicki's husband and writer - and took them to meet Terry. They spent an hour and a half with them where Terry asked ‘piercing questions’, had tea with them and they showed Terry a song that Vicki wrote (about the Chattering Nuns). Terry said to Rob, ‘Rob, write and email to Neil, “Dear Neil, this is Terry. I’m sitting in front of two hippies from Sydney and they want to make a musical out of Good Omens and I’m tempted to let them do it.”’ which was the best email they ever heard and then Terry said, ‘Okay, you have me curious.’ - it was because of the Nuns song which sounded like the book. ‘I’m gonna give you six months, come back with a first draft libretto and five songs.’

They then sent it to Terry who sent it to Neil. Terry said, ‘I really like it, you’re moving story, you’re doing all the right things, but where’s showstopper, where’s the toe-tapper, you know I need people to go to intermission just snapping their fingers with the song they just can’t get out of their head, and I haven’t heard that.’ - and they realized that they were so busy serving the story they forgot to do the wow-factor, but found it very encouraging from Terry that he wanted to make it better.

They went through the whole book again to find a centrepiece - and they found it  when Warlock is growing up and Aziraphale and Crowley are with him, and spent months working just on that one thing and called ‘All Living Things’ [the song at the start of this post :)] which is a line from the book.*’ Terry gave that song to a person he knew and asked him to play it to his wife with no context and when the next day the person said that his wife woke up still singing the song Terry said to Vicki and Jim: ‘Well, that’s what I asked you to do.’ 

* [“This here’s Brother Slug,” the gardener would tell him, “and this tiny little critter is Sister Potato Weevil. Remember, Warlock, as you walk your way through the highways and byways of life’s rich and fulsome path, to have love and reverence for all living things.” “Nanny says that wivving fings is fit onwy to be gwound under my heels, Mr. Fwancis,” said little Warlock, stroking Brother Slug, and then wiping his hand conscientiously on his Kermit the Frog overall.]

Vicki and Jim got the permission to being adapting it as a musical in 2013.

Vicki and Jim on it a couple of years ‘fumbling about’, took it as far as they could and decided to bring another person into it: Jay-James Moody

In 2015, Jay James-Moody joined the collaboration initially as a dramaturge and directorial eye, eventually evolving into co-book writer. Vicki, James and Jay have continued to evolve through countless more revisions and a number of private development readings with the support, time and talent of numerous wonderful Australian performers testing the material.

In November 2017, the musical was presented in its then-current form and entirety for the first time before an audience of over 500 eager attendees. The cast included Luke Joslin, Lachlan O’Brien, Nancye Hayes, Barry Quin, Brett O’Neill, Lauren McKenna, Nicholas Craddock, Paul Capsis, Rob Johnson, Amy Lehpamer, Debora Krizak, Blake Erickson, Nat Jobe, Ana Maria Belo, Jordan Hare, Bella Thomas, Anthony Abrakmanov and Samson Hyland.

Following a rapturous response to this reading it continued to be refined and developed.

In 2019, ten days before the show came out they did their last presentation, since then they’ve been to London and shown a videotape of that workshop to Neil and Rob which was ‘a pretty heartstopping experience’ but both Neil and Rob were ‘so lovely and very generous with their time’ and they were showing it to them and in the intermission Neil said ‘I wish Terry could have seen this.’ (see here :))

Differences between the musical and the book

The ending of the musical is a bit different, they were worried about it but Neil said, ‘I totally understand, the ending of the TV series is different, because I had something that was book-shaped and I needed to make it TV-shaped. And you had something that was book-shaped and you needed to make it stage-shaped.’

It opens with the burning of Agnes Nutter and Aziraphale and Crowley are introduced there. 

Act One ends with them ‘essentially breaking up’ because of a huge argument and they dissolve their friendship, Act Two starts with the first time they meet.

The Future?

What is the future for the musical: in 2021 they said that they need to work on some things and then they hope to do another run, initially in Australia.

There will be a CD of the soundtrack available when the show is produced in it’s full version.

Videos

Vicki, Jim and Jay talking 46min about the musical (this video was shown at the Ineffable Con 3 in 2021 :))

Sizzle Reel 6min

Anathema singing The Perfect Place

Crowley calling Dagon to check on the hellhound

Shadwell and Newt

Aziraphale vanishing Hastur 👀

Links

Webpage

Instagram - a lot of more bts videos and pics :)

How to support?

Subsribe to the instagram page and like and comment that you want the musical on posts :)❤. If you want to be a sponsor or donor, there is contact on their webpage.

#CAN ANYONE HEAR ME!!!! #gomens musical #Youtube