#jay armstrong johnson

[operafantomet]

MY CHEMICAL RAOULMANCE (...hussarlicious...!)

Vale Ridout and Corps de Ballet, Hamburg

Steve Barton, West End

Hwang Gun Ha, Seoul

Jemal Felix, West End revival

Fred Silveira and ensemble, Sao Paulo

Joe Griffiths-Brown, West End revival

Jay Armstrong Johnson, Broadway

Joe Friffiths-Brown, West End revival

Michael Ball and Rebecca Caine, West End

Jeremy Taylor, West End

Jeremy Hays, Broadway

Alexander Lewis, World Tour

Greg Mills, Kyle Barisich, Carrington Vilmonth, Paul Schaefer and Jeremy Stolle, Broadway

#phantom of the opera #raoul de chagny #hussar #vale ridout #steve barton #hwang gun ha #jemal felix #fred silveira #joe griffiths brown #jay armstrong johnson #michael ball #jeremy taylor #jeremy hays #alexander lewis #greg mills #kyle barisich #carrington vilmont #paul schaefer #jeremy stolle

[betsyswolfes]

“To taste devotion in an infinite sense to make a love bound by no golden band, no-o-o…”

— 35mm, Transition 2

#35mm musical exhibition #35mm musical #betsy wolfe #lindsay mendez #alex brightman #ben crawford #jay armstrong johnson #ryan scott oliver

[broadway-heere-i-come]

Would anybody purchase a RENT poster that was signed by Troy Iwata, Jay Armstrong Johnson, Jerusha Cavazos, and Leah Berst?

#rent #troy iwata #jay armstrong johnson #jerusha cavazos #leah berst

[aquitainequeen]

Sweeney Todd 2014 - The Ballad of Sweeney Todd (Finale)

#sweeney todd #sweeney todd the demon barber of fleet street #the ballad of sweeney todd #Kyle Brenn #as Toby #Erin Mackey #as Johanna #Jay Armstrong Johnson #as Anthony #Audra McDonald #as The Beggar Woman #Philip Quast #as Judge Turpin #Jeff Blumenkrantz #as Beadle Bamford #Christian Borle #as Pirelli #Bryn Terfel #as Sweeney Todd #Emma Thompson #as Mrs Lovett #Youtube

[purecommemasolitude]

35MM: A Musical Exhibition my beloved

reasons to listen to the cast album I've been looping for the past few days 😌 under a cut because this got long, content warnings at the end (for those thinking "huh that name sounds familiar" it may be because this is where The Ballad of Sara Berry comes from

Origin of The Ballad of Sara Berry (also Leave, Luanne, but I think LL is possibly more popular among already-fans of 35MM? As opposed to Sara Berry's transcendental popularity)

OG cast has Alex Brightman, of Beetlejuice fame-- today's teenage theatre children like Mr. Brightman, don't they?

But actually the cast recording is full of fantastic voices + actors: not only Alex Brightman, but also Ben Crawford, Jay Armstrong Johnson, Lindsay Mendez, and Betsy Wolfe, in alphabetical order

It's a song cycle rather than a traditional musical, so you can easily get much fuller of an experience simply listening to it + looking at the photographs for each song than you would get if you only listened to the cast recording of a more """normal""" show (did I steal this from the commentary album? maybe)

Who doesn't love murder? (Sara Berry)

Each song has a corresponding official photograph, which are as much part of the show as the songs. Is that not cool?? (It's cool.)

Nice lyrics! Although I did raise my eyebrow at some of the Genius annotations, I did very much enjoy seeing a deeper delve into the meanings-- for which the official commentary album was also very nice

Both The Seraph and Mama, Let Me In are about Queer Experiences™ and as we all know there's a lot of Queers™ in theatre spaces, so common experiences can be found 😌

I am not immune to ending songs that reprise several other songs from the soundtrack-- And Neither Are You

Genuinely the whole concept of 35MM-- the themes of photography, the accompanying photos, the transitions, the themes of the songs-- is just so tubular

If you love harmonies, you will be very pleased listening to these songs

35MM has a wide array of genres that therefore appeal to everyone: Vampire love(ish) duet (Twisted Teeth), everyone have fun (Why Must We Tell Them Why?), everything is batshit (Crazytown), I Am Crying (Cut You A Piece), etc

Who doesn't love demon children? (Caralee)

Also I am not going to pretend that I am a musical technique expert for every instrument ever-- at most I can offer some opinions and advice on the trombone-- but as far as I can tell the instruments are all well-played

35MM also has songs with a wide array of perspectives about (generally romantic) relationships, therefore appealing to everyone: Twisted but in love (Make Me Happy, also debatably Twisted Tweeth), developing (On Monday), Oh No This Is Unhealthy (Hemming & Hawing, also in a way Good Lady and The Party Goes With You), yearning™ (The Party Goes With You), I Am Crying (Cut You A Piece and The Seraph, but in different ways for different reasons)

The parts of The Seraph where [redacted for spoilers] and Cut You A Piece when [redacted for spoilers] come in are actually vocal arrangements that can be so personal

Since every song is its own story, if you're not fond of one then you can stop dealing with it as soon as the next song hits

Remember that post going around about specific narrative songs? Yeah.

👌 arrangements

Who doesn't love some good old-fashioned chivalry and knights? (Good Lady)

As popular as it is, I do also hold the opinion that 35MM is underrated

Adding on to which, the non-Sara Berry parts are Definitely underrated-- half the people who know 35MM only know Sara Berry (a statistic from I Just Made It Up But I Think It's Likely Labs) and that's such a shame because the rest of it's so good as well but it gets much less attention

As I've mentioned throughout this list, the show has an official commentary album, ft the composer & photographer, the og cast, and a few others, which is just so funky-- and it's really interesting to listen to the process and some of the thoughts behind the show

Who doesn't love vampires? (Twisted Teeth)

Relating to item 9, the transitions (Transition 1, Transition 2, etc) placed throughout the soundtrack also reprise (or pre-prise in one case) other songs from throughout the soundtrack and it's very neat

The lyrics Spotify gives you for the last song (titled "Finale") are actually the lyrics to the Legally Blonde finale, which I find amusing

Relating to item 7, there are not only genuinely very good lyrics, but also gems such as "You make me happy all the time/And you know that I'm a fucking fuck"

Speaking of lyrics, The Seraph's lyrics are just So Much slash pos. Like "You've shown me there is faith without fear or regret/You are a love as close to Heaven as I'll get" with the context of queer love? Screaming wailing sobbing slash pos

The whole message and lyrics of Cut You A Piece is just. screaming wailing sobbing slash pos (reprise)

The soundtrack is very symmetrical and I think that's neat :)

In conclusion, please listen to 35MM: A Musical Exhibition; it's so good and I've been thinking about it nonstop for the past three days

Now for CWs: While I wouldn't say it's an Edgy Show With Dark Themes™, there are definitely heavy themes and topics. Christianity is woven throughout the soundtrack, esp in The Seraph, Mama, Let Me In, Immaculate Deception, and Leave, Luanne off the top of my head

Also some death, such as in Cut You A Piece, and straight-up murder, more graphic in Sara Berry and implied in Leave, Luanne

Leave, Luanne also deals heavily with domestic abuse and Twisted Teeth contains one comparison to rape

iirc the show isn't very sexual, other than this one bit in Crazytown, and there's some slight language but not very Much iirc, but feel free to shoot me an ask about any possible other CWs/elaboration on anything I mentioned above!

If you're still here: congratulations now listen to 35mm pls <3

#my journey w 35mm has been listen to sara berry -> listen to the whole soundtrack -> meh it's okay #-> years later decide to listen to the whole thing again -> hey this is good -> three days later wow this is excellent #can't stop thinking about it etc #anyway #35mm #35MM #35MM: a musical exhibition #35mm: a musical exhibition #alex brightman #betsy wolfe #jay armstrong johnson #lindsay mendez #ben crawford #ryan scott oliver #matthew murphy #the ballad of sara berry #og #english language musicals

[beautyinsteadofashes]

Jay Armstrong Johnson is REALLY good

#parade #parade musical #parade the musical #parade broadway #Jay Armstrong Johnson #parade cast recording

[merp-blerp]

The commentary tracks from 35MM: A Musical Exhibition in Focus (1, 2, 3)

#35mm a musical exhibition in focus #35mm a musical exhibition #ryan scott oliver #matthew murphy #lindsay mendez #alex brightman #betsy wolfe #jay armstrong johnson #ben crawford #Spotify

[theatredreamcasting]

Jay Armstrong Johnson as Giorgio (Passion)

#jay armstrong johnson #passion #broadway #musicals #fancast #dreamcast

[mthguy]

The Broadway Revival Cast of On the Town. (2014)

"New York, New York! It's a hell of town!"

#broadway musicals #musical theatre #on the town #tony yazbeck #megan fairchild #clyde alves #jay armstrong johnson #elizabeth stanley #Youtube #alysha umphress

[frontmezzjunkies]

2ST's To My Girls Doesn't Bite Down Hard Enough Where and When It Probably Should

#frontmezzjunkies finally gets around to reviewing: @2STNYC's #ToMyGirls written by #JCLee directed by #StephenBrackett w/ #JayArmstrongJohnson #MaulikPancholy #BrittonSmith #BryanBatt #offbroadway #SecondStage

 Jay Armstrong Johnson and Maulik Pancholy in Second Stage’s To My Girls. Photo by Joan Marcus. The In-Person Off-Broadway Review: 2ST’s To My Girls By Ross First off, I know, I know, I am soooo late posting this review, and I feel terrible about it. I do really try to be that reviewer who always posts some sort of review of a play in a timely manner, in return for these wonderfully…

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#Jay Armstrong Johnson #JC Lee #Maulik Pancholy #off broadway #second stage #stephen brackett

[wheel-of-fish]

Saturday, March 11, 2023 • 9 p.m. EST: "Best of Broadway" series—Ben Crawford, Ali Ewoldt & Jay Armstrong Johnson (Broadway 2018)

This video has everything! Broadway’s current (and FINAL 😭) leading man, at the beginning of his run. Ali's gorgeous acting chops. Raoulstache.

As always, stream will be on cy.tube and shy anons are welcome. For more info, please see the Saturday Streams FAQ! Link and password will be posted here at 8:45.

#streams #saturday streams

[operafantomet]

RAOULSTACHE, HUSSAR EDITION!

Byron Nease, Toronto

Byron Nease, Toronto

Unidentified, Hiroshima

Unidentified, Japan

Christopher Carl, San Francisco

Christopher Carl, San Francisco

Daisuke Yanase (?), Tokyo

Sebastian Harris, Copenhagen

Jay Armstrong Johnson, Broadway

Jay Armstrong Johnson, Broadway

(original design by Maria Bjørnson, complete with moustache and lovingly based on actor Errol Flynn)

#raoulstache #raoul de chagny #hussar #phantom of the opera #maria bjørnson #errol flynn #byron nease #christopher carl #daisuke yanase #sebastian harris #jay armstrong johnson

[betsyswolfes]

35mm: a musical exhibition in rehearsal

1. Sara berry

2. Hemming and hawing

3. Crazytown (incredibly unsure)

4. Sara berry

#betsy wolfe #35mm musical exhibition #35mm musical #lindsay mendez #alex brightman #ben crawford #jay armstrong johnson #ryan scott oliver #ryan murphy

[jazzyfrog]

Leave Luanne AU - Louisiana

metions of death, SA, abuse and suicide//proceed with caution

@sleepdeprivedsimp234

so @syn-ningsilk mentioned the idea of the states being humans in their past lives and being reincarnated as state personifications, and i had an idea for louisiana.

so, there’s a song called “leave luanne”, that’s about a woman, luanne, staying loyal in an abusive relationship with her husband, who in the song is referred to as “the bastard.”

well, the husband beats and sexually assaults his wife (as stated in the song) and luanne still remains loyal to him, starting to believe the things he tells her.

eventually she gets tires of this constant cycle and attempts to escape, cutting the rope that keeps the husband’s dog inside and then yelling “your dog’s got out!” before running out to the bog.

she then swiftly swims through the swamp near the house, attempting to escape and get back to her house on the golden coast. but, the husband beats her to the end, and then proceeds to drown her and make it look like a suicide.

it states in the song that he feels a little sad about the death of luanne, but nobody really seems to care to grieve her death.

well towards the end of the song, she comes back to haunt the bastard, and he screams about how she came back because nobody ever loved her (which nowclooking back, doesn’t seem entirely wrong~) she constantly yells and wails, becoming a “caution to the cruelest of men” as the song says.

but the sad part is that even in death, she remains loyal to her husband. and that’s also why i feel like this fits loui.

1. the person singing the song is referred to as “the cajun” in the official link for the lyrics.

2. it’s a louisiana ghost story, and you can kinda figure that out just by listening to it. hence the mentions of the setting being near a swamp.

and also, the ghost part would also make sense for him, because he can see ghosts himself and i thought that would fit especially. i also feel like with his connections to magic and spirits, he would vividly remember his past life//have a lot of nightmares about it.

there’s also a specific lyric; “louisiana wants war”, that to me feels like foreshadowing.

#wttt louisiana #wttt #wttt headcanons

[glassprism]

What do you think Cooper in LND would be like?

Hard to say, as he famously said that he had absolutely no interpretation or take on the Phantom and only barely related to the character, he was just following the script. (Same energy as Jay Armstrong Johnson being asked how he related to Raoul, and he responded by saying he didn't relate to him at all. Then conceding that they both like the arts.)

But judging by his performance in the restaged US tour, I'd like to imagine that his Mr. Y would have no chemistry with Christine, be really creepy with Gustave, have an actual fist fight with Raoul, and feature lots of stubble. A performance to behold.

#GP gets asks #anonymous #his vocals might be okay tho

[pazzesco]

A Great Day in Harlem

A Great Day in Harlem or Harlem 1958 is a black-and-white photograph of 57 jazz musicians in Harlem, New York, taken by freelance photographer Art Kane for Esquire magazine on August 12, 1958.

It has been called "the most iconic photograph in jazz history"

Here's the highest resolution I could find followed by the legend.

01 – Hilton Jefferson, 02 – Benny Golson, 03 – Art Farmer, 04 – Wilbur Ware, 05 – Art Blakey, 06 – Chubby Jackson, 07 – Johnny Griffin, 08 – Dickie Wells, 09 – Buck Clayton, 10 – Taft Jordan, 11 – Zutty Singleton, 12 – Red Allen, 13 – Tyree Glenn, 14 – Miff Molo, 15 – Sonny Greer, 16 – Jay C. Higginbotham, 17 – Jimmy Jones, 18 – Charles Mingus, 19 – Jo Jones, 20 – Gene Krupa, 21 – Max Kaminsky, 22 – George Wettling, 23 – Bud Freeman, 24 – Pee Wee Russell, 25 – Ernie Wilkins, 26 – Buster Bailey, 27 – Osie Johnson, 28 – Gigi Gryce, 29 – Hank Jones, 30 – Eddie Locke, 31 – Horace Silver, 32 – Luckey Roberts, 33 – Maxine Sullivan, 34 – Jimmy Rushing, 35 – Joe Thomas, 36 – Scoville Browne, 37 – Stuff Smith, 38 – Bill Crump, 39 – Coleman Hawkins, 40 – Rudy Powell, 41 – Oscar Pettiford, 42 – Sahib Shihab, 43 – Marian McPartland, 44 – Sonny Rollins, 45 – Lawrence Brown, 46 – Mary Lou Williams, 47 – Emmett Berry, 48 – Thelonius Monk, 49 – Vic Dickenson, 50 – Milt Hinton, 51 – Lester Young, 52 – Rex Stewart, 53 – J.C. Heard, 54 – Gerry Mulligan, 55 – Roy Eldgridge, 56 – Dizzy Gillespie, 57 – Count Basie.

Notable absentees: Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane, and Miles Davis (all touring), Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, and Ben Webster were also not present.

#iconic #photography #historical photos #jazz #harlem #A Great Day in Harlem #art kane #photographers