#david hein

[doyouknowthismusical]

#musical theater #do you know this musical #poll #come from away #irene sankoff #david hein #language: english

[barrygeuse]

come from away: my retrospective

now that come from away has ended, i've decided to collect my thoughts and put them all together in one (not-so) little post for myself and anyone else who wants to to read.

lots of emotions below the cut and a long story about how this thing came to mean so much to me!

if you stick around and read, i really do appreciate it. this is my favorite musical (my second favorite piece of theater!) and my second biggest special interest.

tl;dr — come from away is a beautiful show about the best of human nature, about people healing from a collective trauma. it will be a part of me for as long as i live, and i couldn't be happier to have it nestled right next to my heart, keeping me warm.

i first saw the show when it visited my local theater on tour in 2019. despite being a musical theater kid, i managed to skip over it entirely—i feel like that wasn't uncommon—it wasn't exactly targeted toward the middle school crowd! my mom and i went to see it (we went in knowing literally nothing at all, and i mean nothing besides the title!), and we left that theater crying and absolutely gushing about how beautiful it was.

it became a pretty common staple to play over bluetooth when we were in the car together for the years to come.

at that point, besides having seen it and loved it immensely, i moved on. it was another piece of media to add to an ever-growing list of adorations, and it wasn't until december of two years later that it grabbed my attention for a lasting period of time.

in september of 2021, the proshot released, a day before the 20th anniversary of 9/11. i didn't end up hearing about this myself until later in the season—i was busy with college and had a lot of other things on my mind—but i was ecstatic nonetheless when i did find out.

i got my hands on the recording and watched it. something changed that day, even if i hadn't realized it yet. i showed it to my friends, new ones every time, over and over again. when i was home for that holiday break, i showed it to my parents, and put it on in the background in my free time.

as i got back to school and february came to an end, come from away became the thing that i watched whenever i felt poorly. it was a feel-good show about wonderful people. i've always loved stories, especially stories about the beautiful nature of humanity, and it got me through some pretty rough times. over the winter months i started to learn the dialogue, since i already knew the numbers.

for spring break, i took a trip to florida, and watched the proshot probably over seven times during the course of travel alone. i fell in love with the characters, their mannerisms, the stories, the reality of people coming together to heal from trauma. it was a beautiful thing to make a part of myself.

time pressed forward. sharon wheatley released her second book, which i bought, and then had the honor over the summer to send to her and have her sign for me (not to mention read my annotations and write alongside them!).

the news that the show was closing devastated me. at that point, i had no hope of going to see it, which didn't upset me too badly. i was happy to just have the professional recording to watch and to celebrate the show from afar!

summer flew by. i got back to school, settled in, and started going to classes. at the beginning of september, my parents called me and surprised me with the news that we would be going to new york city at the end of the month to see the show. i was absolutely floored. my pupils genuinely grew two sizes (it was funny, i looked like i was on drugs but it was just concentrated autism in the bloodstream) and i made a countdown for the trip as soon as we got off the phone.

telling you the details of my time in NYC could be a whole post on its own. with the broadway flea happening at the same time, i got to buy some things that i really wanted (hello, beetlejuice obc signed playbill!) and i had the insane opportunity to meet sharon, who actually recognized me and my book when i went to the table and gave me the sweetest hug.

we had front row seats, which i could never thank my parents enough for, and i silently mouthed along to the show the entire time. the actors smiled at me, i was ecstatic, i was flying, i was there and a part of the show. it was more than anything i could've ever dreamt of. i laughed, i cried, i had the time of my life.

i was lucky enough to meet jim, astrid, and jenn at the stage door, alongside seeing sharon again, who spoke to me briefly and gave me another hug before leaving. it is an experience i will never, ever forget.

come from away is something that means so much to me. more that i could ever describe, really. today, the day of the final performance, i watched along to the proshot at 3pm while the matinee played in new york. i cried nearly the entire time.

i am so proud of everyone who was a part of this amazing, amazing production. it changed lives, it put newfoundland on the map, it told real life stories about real people and did everything endless justice. i could not thank everyone involved enough.

"you are here at the end of a moment," and "you found your heart but left a part of you behind," and "you're gonna be okay," and a dozen other lines that would make this already long post too much longer.

come from away: thank you for telling stories. thank you for doing something beautiful. thank you for the tears, the laughter, and the endless joy. thank you for everything you did for me and for millions of others.

this is not the end. it is only the beginning of a tale that will be told for years to come, one that will live on in my heart and in so many others.

thank you.

#long post #come from away #broadway #musical theater #after the proshot ended i was so exhausted from crying that i went right to sleep and slept for five hours #i woke up and cried some more and ate dinner #and then i sat down to write this. #acting like a normal functioning person tmrw is going to be VERY DIFFICULT because i am being so autistic about this closing #it's so terribly sad for me that i can barely believe it' #but i'm so grateful that it happened at all and i can't even believe i got to see it #thank you thank you thank you #i love this i will never stop loving it and it will be comfort media for me for the rest of time #sharon wheatley #jim walton #emily walton #astrid van wieren #david hein #irene sankoff #newfoundland #jenn colella

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#comic books #Comics #david hein #edge of spider-verse #luciano vecchio #marvel #patrick brown

[procrastinationaccount]

#This one really grinds my gears. Only one wrong answer. #Dear Evan Hansen #Natasha Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 #groundhog day #Come from away #Dave malloy #tim minchin #pasek and paul #Irene sankoff #David hein #Tony awards

[longerbox]

What a clunker. And I don’t mean the car.

#Edge of Spider-Verse #jordan blum #michael shelfer #rico renzi #joe caramagna #david hein #luciano vecchio #brian reber #dan slott #ty templeton #dono sánchez-almara #tee franklin #jethro morales #chris sotomayor #josemaria casanovas #nick lowe #devin lewis #marvel #spider-box

[thommi-tomate]

Our 23/24 Squad 🫶🏽

#fabio vieira #oleksandr zinchenko #mohamed elneny #jurrien timber #ben white #jakub kiwior #jorginho #bukayo saka #karl hein #takehiro tomiyasu #martin odegaard #aaron ramsdale #gabriel magalhaes #mikel arteta #david raya #william saliba #gabriel jesus #kai havertz #reiss nelson #emile smith rowe #declan rice #cedric #eddie nketiah #leandro trossard #gabriel martinelli #arsenal fc

[sillyba]

#aaron ramsdale #david raya #karl hein #arsenal #hes so stupid i miss him so much

[dd-is-my-guiltypleasure]

Some things never change (x) @randomfoggytiger

#david duchovny #2023 #hein ? #lol

[camyfilms]

H20: JUST ADD WATER 2006

I never liked pool parties anyway.

#h2o just add water #2006 #cariba heine #phoebe tonkin #claire holt #angus mclaren #burgess abernethy #cleo massey #alan david lee #deborah coulls #trent sullivan #jamie timony

[rwpohl]

#der stadtstreicher #short film #fassbinder #rainer werner fassbinder #gods of the plague #plagwitz #leipzig #karl-heine-straße #zs23 #material #jva #696 #david lynch #blue velvet #herbert achternbusch #hades

[intellectures]

»Jeder hat sofort ein Bild von Kafka«

Seit Jahren nimmt der Wiener Comiczeichner Nicolas Mahler die Hochkultur auseinander. Als Freibeuter im Meer der Weltliteratur macht er sich ein Werk nach dem anderen zu eigen. Zum 100. Todestag von Franz Kafka sind gleich zwei Arbeiten von ihm erschienen. Ich konnte mich mit ihm bereits im Herbst letzten Jahres, bevor er zum Leiter der Wiener Schule für Dichtkunst berufen wurde, mit Mahler über…

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#Arno Schmidt #Arthur Schnitzler #David Zane Mairowitz #Else Lasker-Schüler #Franz Kafka #Heinrich Heine #James Joyce #Marcel Proust #Mark Twain #Nicolas Mahler #Reiner Stach #Robert Crumb #Robert Musil #Thomas Bernhard

[yulia-inferis]

(Im Agnostic)

Heinrich Heine

"Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, The best would be never to have been born at all"

David Benetar

"Each one of us was harmed by being brought into existence. That harm is not negligible, because the quality of even the best lives is very bad—and considerably worse than most people recognize it to be. Although it is obviously too late to prevent our own existence, it is not too late to prevent the existence of future possible people"

#weirdcore #dreamcore #dark #art #weird #quoteoftheday #poem #david benetar #antinatalism

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#comic books #Comics #david hein #edge of spider-verse #luciano vecchio #marvel #patrick brown

[procrastinationaccount]

#Only one wrong answer #dear evan hansen #Natasha Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 #groundhog day #Come from away #Steven levenson #dave malloy #Danny rubin #Irene sankoff #David hein #Tony awards

[wordthieve]

David is quitting. He’s had enough of working for a photography company with an off-the-books philosophy of "sleaze and cheese", he's had enough of getting forced into assignments at the last minute when the company president decides he's flitting off to party with D-list celebrities instead. He’s quitting. This is, in fact, his last job. At least it's an easy shoot - a puff piece on some up-and-coming Canadian singer-songwriter on the indie circuit who's just been catapaulted to widespread fame. No complications, no controversy. He'll be in his apartment and wallowing in his bamboo-silk sheets before he knows it. A PhotographerDavid fic inspired by THAT photo shoot by Vanessa Heins.

It's finally finished! Chapter 1 should be up on ao3 as we speak.

#new fic! #sc fanfic #schitt's creek fic #one last shot #photographerdavid #musicianpatrick #shameless plug #wordthieve writes #sweetsirius writes

[why-i-love-comics]

Edge of Spider-Verse #2 - "Home is Where Your Heart is Cut Out by a Huntsman" (2023)

written by David Hein art by Luciano Vecchio & Brian Reber

#spinstress #kraven the huntsman #fairy gob mother #marvel #wednesday spoilers #spoilers #comic spoilers