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bestmusicalworldcup · 10 months

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2023 League of Musicals Alphabetized List of Musicals

Below is the full list of musicals in the League of Musicals sorted by Division.

Division A

Alice By Heart Annie Assassins Avenue Q The Band's Visit The Book of Mormon Cabaret Cats Chess Chicago A Chorus Line Come From Away Company Falsettos Fiddler on the Roof Firebringer Fun Home A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder Ghost Quartet Guys and Dolls Hadestown Hair Hairspray Hamilton Hello, Dolly! The Hunchback of Notre Dame In The Heights Into the Woods Jekyll and Hyde The King and I Kinky Boots Legally Blonde Les Misérables The Lion King Little Shop of Horrors Matilda Moulin Rouge Mozart, l'opéra rock The Music Man My Fair Lady Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 Newsies Next to Normal Octet Once Once on this Island The Phantom of the Opera Pippin The Producers Ragtime Rent Ride the Cyclone The Rocky Horror Show Something Rotten The Sound of Music Spies Are Forever SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical Spring Awakening Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Twisted: The Untold Story of A Royal Vizier Waitress West Side Story Wicked The Wiz

Division B

25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee 42nd Street 1776 Adamandi American Idiot American Psycho Anastasia Applause Bare: A Pop Opera Beetlejuice Be More Chill Billy Elliot the Musical Bonnie and Clyde Bye Bye Birdie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Cinderella (Rodgers and Hammerstein) City of Angels Damn Yankees Dear Evan Hansen Death Note: The Musical Evita Fosse A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Grease The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals Hallelujah, Baby! Heathers Holy Musical B@man! How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying Jersey Boys Jesus Christ Superstar Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Kiss Me, Kate Kiss of the Spider Woman La Cage aux Folles The Lightning Thief A Little Night Music Man of La Mancha Memphis Monty Python's Spamalot The Mystery of Edwin Drood A New Brain Nine The Pajama Game Passion The Prom The Scarlet Pimpernel Singin' in the Rain Six South Pacific Starship A Strange Loop Sunday in the Park with George Sunset Boulevard Tanz der Vampire / Dance of the Vampires Thoroughly Modern Millie Tick Tick Boom Titanic The Trail to Oregon! Tuck Everlasting Two Gentlemen of Verona Urinetown The Will Rogers Follies The Wizard of Oz (1987)

Division C

& Juliet 21 Chump Street 35MM: A Musical Exhibition 1789: Les Amants de la Bastille Aida Allegiance Amélie Annie Get Your Gun Anything Goes The Art of Pleasing Princes Bandstand Beauty and the Beast Big Fish Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson Carousel Carrie The Color Purple Contact The Count of Monte Cristo Dogfight Dracula, the Musical Dreamgirls Elisabeth Evil Dead: The Musical Finding Neverland Frankenstein: A New Musical The Frogs Funny Girl Godspell Groundhog Day Gypsy Hedwig and the Angry Inch Jane Eyre The Last Five Years Lizzie The Lord of the Rings Love in Hate Nation Love Never Dies The Mad Ones The Magic Show Mary Poppins Mean Girls Merrily We Roll Along Miss Saigon Mozart! Oklahoma! Oliver On the Town Ordinary Days Parade The Pirate Queen Preludes Pretty Woman The Prince of Egypt Priscilla, Queen of the Desert Rebecca Roméo et Juliette: de la Haine à l'Amour The Secret Garden Seussical She Loves Me Shrek the Musical Starry Wonderland You're A Good Man Charlie Brown

Division D

13: The Musical Ablaze The Act Ain't Misbehavin An American in Paris Anne & Gilbert Anyone Can Whistle Av. Larco Back to the Future the Musical The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas Big River Bran Nue Dae Bright Star Bring It On Calvin Berger Caroline, or Change Clown Bible Crazy for You De 3 Biggetjes The Dolls of New Albion Dorian Gray The Drowsy Chaperone The Fantasticks Fiorello! Fly by Night Follies Frankenstein (Wang Yeon Beom + Brandon Lee) Hans Christian Andersen Hoy no me puedo levantar In Transit Jagged Little Pill Jerome Robbins' Broadway Kimberly Akimbo King's Table Kismet Lady Bess La Légende du roi Arthur Le Passe-Muraille / Amour Le Roi Soleil Les Parapluies de Cherbourg The Light in the Piazza Made in Dagenham Magic Tree House: The Musical Mentiras el musical Notre-Dame de Paris Once Upon A Mattress On Your Feet! The Story of Emilio & Gloria Estefan Phantom (Yeston & Kopit) Raisin Redhead Sarafina! School of Rock The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1964) Seven Brides for Seven Brothers Show Boat Sidd Siete veces adios Soldaat van Oranje The Spitfire Grill Starlight Express Starmania / Tycoon Tarrytown The Threepenny Opera / Die Dreigroschenoper Timéo Wiedzmin The Wild Party (Lippa) The Woman in White Wonderful Town [title of show] Émilie Jolie

#league of musicals

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gerardwaygirlmoments · 9 months

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What We Do In the Shadows: The Musical Episode

I saw someone on Reddit say that the show would have officially jumped the shark if there was a musical episode, so here's my idea of how that would go!

It takes place a little before the s5 finale, so Nadja still thinks she has to be nice to people to break her hex. She already took Guillermo to the vet, so she's helping him on an errand run this time. At the moment, he is delivering Nandor and Lazlo's sperm to the witches, as is the deal they have made. As they arrive, the witches have just got back from seeing Wicked on Broadway for the umpteenth time. Nadja hasn't heard of it, so when they tell her, her inheritance of Lazlo's distaste for musicals and her own hatred of witches merge and she laughs at the idea of anyone enjoying singing sympathetic witches. The witches are offended and cast a spell on her and Guillermo, teleporting them to a demiplane where they can be taught a lesson. Since Guillermo was holding Lazlo and Nandor's sperm, they teleport alongside them. Colin Robinson also shows up, which confuses the others at first before he explains he was jealous of Lazlo and Nandor for being considered more vampire than him and the witches not wanting his sperm so he snuck some in when no one was looking, which wasn't difficult with how hot Lazlo and Nandor's are to look at (Lazlo concurs that "The old chap and I truly do have some magnificent spunk, wouldn't you say, my dahling?" Nadja agrees about Lazlo's but refuses to believe Nandor's could be all that great).

With that tangent over, the gang finds themselves in the dark behind a red curtain. Guillermo's been binging Twin Peaks recently, so he becomes afraid that the Black Lodge is real and they've been brought there. That's quickly disproven with no one talking backward, and their also confused why it’s even be called “the Black Lodge” if it’s red. The curtain rises and the gang learns that the witches will be magically forcing them to perform songs from various musicals to learn the True Meaning of Broadway. They hate it at first, but over time they come to like it. This is especially true of Colin, who at first thinks he can just use it to drain but then starts to recover his childhood enthusiasm for the art form.

Some musicals they could perform could include:

Phantom of the Opera (gothic romance for Lazlo/Nadja)

West Side Story (romance for Lazlo/Nadja)

Sweeney Todd (gothic romance for Lazlo/Nadja, see my in-depth post on this AU)

The King and I (Nandermo with emphasis on Nandor's old kingly role)

Oklahoma! (Cowboys for Jackie Daytona)

Guys and Dolls (idk too much about this one but it's a classic and there could be something with Dolly)

Cabaret (for the flamboyant queer sexy performance)

Hamilton (kinda obligatory at this point)

Fiddler on the Roof (this was brought in in the s4 finale, it should be expanded here)

Wicked (Nadja could finally come to appreciate witches and get her big Defying Gravity moment)

When everyone is having a great time and the moment has come for the grand finale, Lazlo leads the cast in a rousing rendition of a song "by none other than an old friend of mine, a true Chinese-American icon, who no doubt wrote this ballad about his treacherous journey from the Orient to these United States and this wonderous city of ours. Mr. Frank Sinatra!" It's New York, New York, and Lazlo mispronounces it in every incredible way possible, except for the final sweeping note.

#I'm gonna be making another post similar to this where I make wwdits AUs of various older sitcoms #If anyone has more ideas on this please let me know!#wwdits #what we do in the shadows #twin peaks #musicals #Phantom of the Opera #West Side Story #Sweeney Todd #The King and I #Oklahoma!#Guys and Dolls #Cabaret #Hamilton #Fiddler on the Roof #Wicked #frank sinatra #new york new york

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spotsandsocks · 9 months

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Ok so no one asked but I was thinking about musicals and what I’ve been able to see over the years so I made a list. So this has taken over thirty years and most organised by other people and pretty much always in the cheap seats which are never actually that cheap anyway. I do live close enough to a big city and some big local theatres too so I’m a lucky spot and there’s more than I expected. Under the cut for anyone whose vaguely interested.

Professional Productions

Joseph and his amazing technical raincoat when I was ten - first musical I listened to the cassette (I know!!what’s that?) over and over for years I know pretty much every word

Les Miserables good songs - but like it says miserable

The Lion King it’s was ok but too much like the film to be exciting (sorry)

Frozen missed the first 20 minutes cos got the time wrong - the sets and the dress change are magnificent! Not too much like the film

Hairspray one of my favourites

Waitress had no idea what it was about but I loved it

Hamilton the most expensive tickets I’ve ever bought - took my daughter and her friend because they were obsessed

Chicago (on Broadway for 30th birthday trip)

Blood Brothers made me jump at end and then cry

The King and I with Trixi from call the midwife- amazing production. Cried again

9-5 in the underground theatre of the Savoy which was cool

Bugsy Malone a favourite film from my childhood took my kids

Bombay Dreams had to Google the name cos I’d forgotten seen in early 2000s but it was fantastic

The Rocky Horror Picture Show -dressed up for it when I was at uni very fun. Some people left at intermission not sure what they we’re expecting!

Anything goes or possibly Crazy for you- no memory of it really

Miss Saigon seen it twice, once from ‘the gods’ and couldn’t really see anything.

Guys and Dolls- had Ewan MacGregor in it which is why I went

Wicked reasonably good seats for this one excellent

Local amateur productions

Hairspray

Calamity Jane

Shrek - the strangest thing I’ve ever seen

Oklahoma

Little Shop Of Horrors

Singin in the rain was great and it rained on stage in my local theatre

West side story more than once

Local School Productions

The sound of music

West side story

My fair lady

Grease

Wizard of Oz

And finally Would Like to see

Six

Moulin Rouge booked for sept

Book of Morman

Mamma Mia

Everyone’s talking about Jamie

#musicals #me #spotty things

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theresawritesstuff · 1 year

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Ms. Holloway at the Gaslight

(I promise I'm also working on my Midgelenny Wips but I'm also having fun playing in this Weissman family sandbox)

Part 1, Part 2

The Gaslight, 1928

The sound of a jazz trio drifted up to greet them as Abe descended the familiar steps of the speakeasy, the lovely Rose Lehman on his arm.

"Oh Abe, this place is positively tantalizing!" she gasped.

A shy smile tugged at his lips. "I'm glad you like it. Bertie's no stranger to gin joints and to her credit this one does offer some of the better canapés in town. I just wish they'd clean the floors more often."

"Your sister sounds like such an adventurous soul. I can't wait to meet her! You said she lives in Canada?" Rose wondered, taking in the sights of the crowded basement bar.

"Yes, she moved there about five years ago to be with her husband Lester."

"Is he a Mountie?"

Abe chuckled, finding the notion absurd. "No."

"Oh."

"He's a musician. I believe he also dabbles in instrument repair," he explained.

"I see."

She looked around for an open table but her focus was quickly broken by his struggle to suppress a grin.

"What's so funny?" she asked.

Abe shook his head. "Just imagining Lester on a horse."

She blinked. "He doesn't know how to ride?"

"Of course not."

"It's not that uncommon of a skill," she sniffed primly.

He patted her hand gently, guiding her with the arm it was draped over. "Perhaps in Tulsa, but here in New York…"

Rose rolled her eyes. "There are still plenty of horses in New York City."

"Well…"

"People still have carts. There's the carriages in central park," she argued.

"I suppose…" he conceded unconvincingly, looking around the room.

"You're telling me you've never had the opportunity to ride a horse. Not ever in your entire life?" she wondered incredulously.

She knew things in New York were different from life in Oklahoma but everyone she'd ever known growing up had known how to ride.

"Opportunity or not, I am a scholar, Rose. My primary goals in life growing up involved extensive reading. One cannot read while on horseback."

She scoffed lightly. "Don't be silly. Of course you can! As long as the horse knows where it's going…"

"There he is!" A curly haired woman exclaimed boisterously from across the room as she crossed to greet them. "Doctor Abraham Weissman, PHD and President of the snooty-booties-who-only-like-to-talk-about-how-smart-they-are club."

Abe chuckled as the petite woman planted a kiss on his cheek. "Professor Weissman, Bertie. Please," he corrected. "I'm useless if someone in here has a heart attack. Don't go giving anyone the wrong idea."

His sister laughed. "Nonsense. You can exclaim e-gads he's having a heart attack! with the best of them."

"When have I ever uttered the phrase e-gads?" he contradicted.

Bertie ignored him, turning to acknowledge his date. "You must be Rose."

"Lovely to finally meet you, Bertha. I've so been looking forward to getting acquainted," Rose greeted.

"Oh, aren't you a doll! Abe, you really undersold how gorgeous she is. Yowzers! Love the bob."

"Thank you." Rose blushed, running a hand through the ends of her hair modestly.

"Come sit, come sit! I promise the chairs don't bite," Bertie welcomed.

Once they were seated, she turned a curious brow on her younger brother.

"So Professor," she drawled. "I take it the job offers have already started pouring in?"

"They will…at some point. I had an interview with Columbia recently that I think went rather well. I made sure to bring up some of the newer theories within my expertise that I intend to teach on, if hired. They also have a very elderly mathematics department. I sensed a few impending retirements when I was there."

"Columbia would be lucky to have you," Bertie assured him.

"Tell her about the apartment," Rose prompted.

"Apartment?" Bertie's eyebrows lifted in question.

Abe exhaled modestly. "I've heard rumors that a professorship would come with housing as one of the perks of the position."

"They let you have your pick of dormitory?" Bertie teased.

"The university owns a few apartments on the Upper West Side they reserve for their more prestigious instructors, especially those with a family in tow. And given that my dissertation was very well received and I've been making strides within the field while completing my degree, it seems within the realm of possibility…"

He glanced quietly at Rose as he mentioned family, keeping his hands clasped tightly on the table, likely in an attempt to keep himself from reaching for hers.

Bertie bit her tongue to keep from commenting on it.

She'd been more than a little miffed with her parents when she heard they'd hired a matchmaker for her brother. Butting in on her own love life when she was a singleton was one thing. She knew what to expect and what was expected of her. She could handle herself. But Abe had a tender heart behind that enormous brain of his. He could not withstand a true heartbreak if things fell through.

She blew out a breath, focusing on the part of the discussion she knew he was comfortable with.

"An apartment on the Upper West Side, a professorship at a renowned university. I can hear our parents kvelling from here," she beamed, shaking her head. "It will be all they talk about for the next year, mark my words. Abe Weissman, esteemed professor of mathematics and pride of all Manhattan! Were it not for the grandchildren I've given them, it would already be Bertha who?"

Abe let out a laugh at her playful ribbing. "How are the children? Did they enjoy the train ride?"

Bertie slumped dramatically in her seat. "Did they ever! Sherry kept pestering the poor chap working the dining car about the recipe for the cake she had and Jacob ran around the car until he passed out. Tishy napped most of the way. Speaking of which!"

Looking past them into the crowd, she called out, "Lester, dear, who's got our little Canadian contraband?"

"Just got her back from Viola. She insisted on giving her a bite of pickled egg just to see what she would do with it," Lester said, coming to join them, a baby wriggling happily on his hip.

"There she is!" Bertie cooed at the sight of her daughter.

"Oh!" Rose gasped in surprise as Lester joined them before she could stop herself.

"Miss." Lester gave her a smile. "Abe. Good to see you."

"You brought the baby? Why isn't she asleep at her grandparents' like the other children?" Abe wondered, turning to his sister in surprise.

"I can't be away from her all night. My tits would explode," Bertie replied with a laugh, watching her brother squirm a bit at the uncouth mention of lactation. "Besides, after that nap today on the train there's no way she would sleep through the night. Trust me, Mama doesn't need to take that on."

The little girl looked up as she settled in on her mother's lap.

"Oh, hello there! Aren't you a pretty little thing. What's her name?" Rose asked, fawning over the little cherubic face looking over at them.

"Laetitia."

"We call her Tish," Lester added, pulling up a chair and fixing the little one's sock.

"Would you like to hold her?" Bertie offered.

Rose blanched slightly, looking from the baby to her new designer dress.

"Well, I um…alright," she replied, caving to what felt like a test of her maternal qualifications.

Bertie handed her over, the little girl flashing a grin at being passed to someone new.

The smile quickly faded into an inquisitive, serious expression as she looked up at Rose, tilting her head slightly.

"Huh. That's odd. She's usually such a giggle goose," Bertie mused.

Rose blinked, plastering on a smile.

"Oh she probably is just curious about the pearls," she laughed, dangling the long strand for the little one to see.

"Abe! Great to see you Old Sport."

Abe looked up as one of the musicians came to greet them. "Chester! How long has it been?"

"Ages, chum. We must catch up. But first, I am parched! Can I convince you to tickle the ivories for me a spell?"

"Oh I don't know…" he replied modestly.

"I was actually going to tap in on the bass for a song or two if you care to join," Lester offered.

Abe bit his lip, wavering noncommittally. "My improvisational skills might not up to par these days. I'm so out of practice."

"You're welcome to stick to the script if that'll make you more comfortable. I brought a few pieces I've been working on."

Lester waved the sheets of paper he'd been keeping tucked in his pocket.

"Really?" Abe brightened, his interest piqued.

"You'd be the first to play them other than myself," Lester replied.

"Well in that case. That is if–"

He turned to look at the table.

"Go! Both of you. We girls can keep each other entertained without you just fine, can't we Rosie?" Bertie insisted.

"Rose?" Abe asked.

Rose nodded. "Go ahead, Abe. I know how much you adore playing. And I always love to hear you."

"We'll play something real sweet for you," Lester promised.

The pair of women watched them go as the men reacquainted themselves with the instruments.

"He seems nice," Rose observed.

Bertie nodded, smiling softly.

"He is."

Rose bounced Tish on her knee softly, sorting through just how she wanted to phrase what was going through her head. "So um, how did you two…"

"Fall in love?" Bertie offered mercifully.

"Well…yes."

The older woman glanced fondly at her husband. "I can't speak for him but for me it started right over there."

"Here? In this very room?" Rose wondered, already caught up in the tale. She'd always adored a love story.

Bertie nodded. "Part of why I like to swing through this part of town when we visit. I'm a bit sentimental. It was back when I was still trying to get my hat in the opera ring. Trying being the operative word. I had drifted in for a pick me up while I was working on an audition piece that had me completely stuck. I could not for the life of me get the language of the song to flow properly. It was from Carmen, I remember. Habanera specifically."

"Ah! L'amour est un oiseau rebelle. Beautiful number," Rose sighed.

Bertie chuckled. "You can say it better than I ever could."

"Well I spent a little time in Paris last year," Rose admitted proudly. "But do go on. Please."

She obliged. "Anyway, there I was, right over there, with my music and my martini, muttering the phrases of the song to myself over and over and over. And then the piano starts playing along."

Rose let out a gasp. "Was it Lester?"

Bertie smiled to herself at the younger woman's enthusiasm.

"It was indeed. I was so embarrassed at first but he had such a kind smile. We just ended up laughing and that led to talking and talking led to singing…" She sighed happily at the memory, growing thoughtful. "I remember he told me not to worry so much about the words and to just trust my gut. Riff a little. So I did. I don't think I'd ever truly loved performing until that moment. All those lessons and recitals growing up. The years at IMA. I knew I was meant for it. But I didn't love it until I knew him."

Rose blinked, touched by the notion.

Bertie smiled, brushing it off casually. "Anyhow, after that I knew I needed more of Les in my life. His smile lit up my whole world that night."

Rose felt herself grow a bit misty. "Oh my... That's actually quite beautiful."

Bertie shrugged. "Yeah it's not too shabby of a meet cute."

"And you knew he was the one right then?" Rose wondered.

Bertie thought for a moment. "No. I think I realized he was the one when I was struggling to come up with a stage name and he got so fed up with me pestering him for surname ideas that he said I should just borrow his since he wasn't using it."

Realizing she should explain, she added, "He goes by Jacobs when we're performing. Makes for less trouble if the show billing gets out to a more closed minded member of the public. But those who are fans of the act know the truth."

She took a sip of her water, looking into the glass as she held it in her hand. "It's funny. He lent me his name for a night and I finally felt like someone worthwhile. Like it was who I was meant to be."

Rose looked over at the stage as Abe began to play.

"Must have been comforting having someone so decisive in your corner."

There was a wistfulness, a longing in the young woman's eyes. And a trace of uncertainty.

Bertie followed her gaze.

"Something we have in common."

"Perhaps…"

Bertie chewed the inside of her lip. It was heartbreaking to see the poor thing pining. Especially when it was clear that Abe was smitten.

Or at least clear to her.

But not everyone knew him like she did.

After considering her words a moment, Bertie said, "My brother is not always the easiest man to understand. It can be difficult for him to share in words exactly what he feels. He can often get caught up in his work. To those unfamiliar with his character, he can come off as uncaring. Or just oblivious. But he does love very, very fiercely. His loyalty to those he gives his heart to is unparalleled."

She set her glass down, looking Rose head on. "I suspect once his position with Columbia is secured, he will have a few things he'll want to share with you. And a few questions. Or at least one. I hope you'll have your answer ready when he does."

Rose's smile bloomed brighter at the reassurance.

"My answer has been ready for a long time."

"I'm glad to hear it." Bertie reached over, giving Rose's hand a squeeze.

Tish began to giggle as she watched Rose's expression grow happier.

"There it is!" Bertie laughed.

The two women sniffed as an odor wafted from the beneath the little one.

"Oh boy. Hang on," Bertie chuckled apologetically, scooping her daughter up.

She took a peek down the back of Tish's diaper.

"Just gas. We dodged that one," she assured the younger woman with a laugh, settling back down.

"Oh. Good," Rose laughed uneasily.

Watching the little one snuggle into her mother's arms she couldn't help but ask, "Is it worth it? All the mess and crying?"

Bertie smiled softly, glancing at the stage as the song came to a close.

"With the right person it's all worth it."

"Hm…"

Rose smiled as Abe took a modest bow, clearly tickled by the applause.

Looking back to his niece before her, she couldn't help but note the family similarity in the child's warm brown eyes.

Three children seemed like a bit much. But she could probably handle two.

#Tmmm #abe x rose #We deserved more Weissmans #I really should put this on AO3 soon #This one's gonna be a multi chapter #Probably tie in to the eventual sequel to Guess Who's Coming to Yom Kippur because I want to write an extended Weissman family Steiner trip

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mbrainspaz · 1 year

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oops went off on my conservative gran again last night because I called to complain about the housing market because I'll never be able to afford a place to live again unless my salary magically doubles and nobody is paying that much. Naturally she decided to bring up my rich uncles the Dallas slumlords. me: I just wish I could buy property because I hate renting. I'm so sick of funneling all my money into the pockets of the greedy rich landlords. I wish we could stop them from buying up all the property so that people like me could afford to live.

gran: What about all the people who can't afford to buy property?

me: if there weren't all these landlords monopolizing housing, it would be more affordable.

gran: But that's what your uncles do. They buy up apartments and get companies to run them.

me: I know. that's why I don't get along with them so good. I really don't like that they're slumlords.

gran: UPH! Ah! Yuh—you can't say that! And you love your uncles!

me: Actually I haven't gotten along with uncle 2 very well at all since 2020 when we were at their house for christmas and he had the audacity to complain to me —who was literally homeless at the time— that he wasn't allowed to kick out all the tenants who were failing to pay rent during the pandemic. While he was drinking a $400 glass of whisky at his lake house where he keeps part of his luxury car collection.

gran: he didn't say that.

[#gaslightgatekeepgirlboss]

me: he did. I didn't say anything at the time because I didn't want to start a fight at christmas but I'll never forget it.

[I also made a post about it about 5 minutes after it happened because that's what you do when you've spent your whole life being gaslit by your family.]

I actually found out they were slumlords back in 2017, another time I was struggling with housing. I was talking about my struggles and Uncle 1 jokingly offered to let me rent a place in Dallas for a discount. He jokes like that all the time. One time he offered to buy me a car when mine was breaking down. Haha so funny. But this time I was so desperate I didn't realize he was joking. When I earnestly asked him if I could do that he immediately backtracked and said "you wouldn't want to rent the places we own." "I would though," I said. "I just want a place to live." "No," he said, "the buildings we own are run down and in bad parts of town." Like... buddy. My guy. Mine uncle. I'd just spent the last year renting a house where my next door neighbor kept 6 broken fridges in her front yard as lawn ornaments, my backyard neighbors beat their dogs, my front yard was a parking lot, and the abandoned house at the end of the street had creepy dolls in the windows. The absolute inability of the rich to comprehend or even acknowledge the struggles of the poor eternally flabbergasts me. And crazily enough I'd just had the exact same conversation with a rich christian guy from my church in Oklahoma City who owned slums there. Funny how I know so many people who own so much housing and yet they always look at me, a hard-working young pretty white girl (at the time) who should never have to face hardship according their f*cked up white supremacist prosperity gospel worldviews, and immediately confess that they're slumlords. It's almost like this is a systemic problem or something.

#capitalist hellscape #all landlords are bastards #corporate american hellscape #rant #alab #poverty #homelessness #housing crisis #tax the wealthy #house the homeless #prosperity gospel #american evangelicals #gaslight gatekeep girlboss #dialogue from memory #save me from my family

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blubushie · 7 months

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So this an analysis of a song as it pertains to Jesse and Mundy and their relationship as of Chapter 13. Warning I get... massively in-depth about this. Blessing of braintrot. I did this instead of writing. 😅

The song is Oklahoma Smokeshow by Zach Bryan.

Go on and put on that dress that all the bad boys like I know your daddy ain't home so ride with me tonight You always wind up here in a puddle of tears

Just them tbh. Jess is staunchly against dresses (and skirts!) but for this one day she says fuck it and wears a skirt (to impress Mundy of all things). Meanwhile, Charles is recovering from his whole incident, so it's not like he's able to stop her. These verses can be seen as Mundy acknowledging that despite his plans for the night and how much he's going to devote himself to protecting Jess, they're still in Vegas, Jess is still probably gonna get pissed, and she's gonna be even more Jess. This can be seen as him saying "Ok, go ahead and doll up, there's nothing in our way tonight, we can have some fun and you can act a little crazy and I'll be there to pick up there inevitable pieces when shit hits the fan."

Them boys are out and they're angry and they're looking for blood In the back of a blue old pickup truck You got nowhere to go although you're all gussied up

Not really applicable unless you consider the Valley Vultures, but that's not that big of a deal and Jess also wasn't dressed up them.

There's so much whisky in his coke it'll make her nose bend

The first hint that Jesse gets that Mundy hasn't quite kicked his alcoholism is when he lets her have a sip of his Hemingway champagne and she tastes how strong it is. Mundy doesn't drink soft spirits--he doesn't do wine or spritzers or light cocktails, though he does like beer. Mundy drinks hard liquor--whisky, bourbon, brandy, absinthe. This man drinks bushshine. He drinks to get drunk and forget. Small vices kill your big dreams.

But she swears that his love is a damn Godsend She's known God since she was a child

Jess is Catholic, was raised Catholic, and is very much of the "everything happens as god's intention" variety. She's also of the "but sometimes shit just happens" variety. She's not sure what category Mundy falls in, but she's happy enough with him that she thinks it's the former.

She used to play in the yard and she would dream of one day Till the world came around and took her dreaming away Told her how to dress and act and smile

100% Jesse. The world that came and took her dreams--her aspirations of a baseball career--were largely things she couldn't control (such as MLB not allowing female players). This, coupled with her mother insisting that Jess be a proper lady, is what led to her rebelling and joining the boy's baseball team and going stealth. Even when she was discovered it was mostly alright, but Donovan persisted and that's where things fell apart.

She's an Oklahoma smokeshow

Ok neither of them are from Oklahoma but let's be honest, they're both smokeshows. For Jess: Mundy especially thinks this when he finally sees Jess gussied up. For Mundy: Jess is just always thinking this all the time.

He's an asshole from back home

For Mundy: "Back home" as in rural Outback NSW. And let's be honest, he is a little bit of an arsehole. For Jess: This lyric actually fits better for her than him. For Mundy, when he says he's from Tilpa, he has to explain where exactly Tilpa is each and every time. Curse of coming from the outskirts of a town with a population of 15 on the banks of the Darling. But for Jess, "back home" is simply saying "New York." She doesn't even need to say the name of the city itself because there's no confusion between the city and the state. Also Jess is an arsehole at times. Most the time, even.

She'll never make it out alive From that small town bar scene Where small vices kill your big dreams

Whatever dreams either of them had--Mundy of being someone his parents could be proud to say was their son, Jess and her baseball career--are squashed the moment these two stepped foot on the paths that eventually led them to Teufort. And they're both trapped in this small town, where small vices--corruption, greed, lust, cruelty, callousness, arrogance, cowardice--have killed their big dreams. And it's Teufort--there's a fair chance that neither of them are ever leaving TF Industries alive. This job's for life.

He'd take you home but he's too drunk to drive

This has two meanings. One, you can look at it from the perspective of chapter 13, where Mundy is quite literally too drunk to make a return drive to New Mexico and so the pair stay in Las Vegas for the night and fuckstart a relationship. Or two, you can look at it from a perspective of Mundy wanting Jess to be happy and how his vices get in the way of that. You can bet that if Jess ever expressed her secret desire to just go home to her mum and leave Teufort behind that Mundy would make the drive to bring her home in a heartbeat--if he could keep the muzzle on his alcoholism for that long.

I've been here, I've been up all night Thinking 'bout a life with you and I One you'll never know cuz you're a small town smokeshow

This applies to both of them. Both Jesse and Mundy are of the belief that things would never work out between them because of their differences. Jesse loves where she grew up, and Mundy can't handle cities. Mundy loves the bush, and it's fair to say that Jesse wouldn't survive out there without constant supervision.

Both of them stay up at night imagining what their lives would be like if they could just find some middle ground that both find acceptable, but Mundy doesn't do well outside of Australia for too long, and Jess seems to have similar luck outside of the States (looking at the Italy incident) in addition to seeing Australia as some mystical land full of dangerous things (she's not far off, but Mundy doesn't appreciate it).

These two both know that they're likely incompatible, and they've both resigned themselves to their affections only being one-sided, but they still stay up at night thinking about a life with each other despite knowing full well that even if they did get what they wanted, in the end they're likely doomed to be star-crossed lovers.

Go on and put on that dress that all the bad boys like I know your daddy ain't home so ride with me tonight You always wind up here in a puddle of tears

These verses are repeated but there's a hint of resignation in the singer's voice that I think fits Mundy's mood well in the first two scenes of chapter 13. He knows full well what tonight is going to consist of, knows that Jess will be gussied up, knows that he's going to have to suffer through people staring at her and that he'll be angry at that because they don't know her like he does.

He's worried about something happening to her, about her getting too drunk, about the car, about people flirting with her, worst he's worried about the idea of her leaving with someone who isn't him. There's a level of possessiveness here. But he's resigned, and he's deciding that whatever happens, it's alright. He'll be there to pick up the pieces if she needs it. If she needs him.

Those boys are out and they're angry and they're looking for blood In the back of a blue old pickup truck You got nowhere to go although you're all gussied up

This whole song fits well with events of Jesse's birthday, but I think these verses, the last in the song, fit better with the aftermath. This is Mundy acknowledging that once BLU learns of what happened in Vegas they'll be out for his blood--Charles and Liem in particular, with Liem owning that blue ute--but it's also Mundy acknowledging that he'll do Vegas a million and one times until it inevitably catches up with him. You're all gussied up, so let's go somewhere. Even if it kills me.

#learnin the blus #i'm not popping the tf2 tag on this it's too long

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Timeline of Michael’s shows/ work up to 2013 will add more as I get the time (Taken from the Michaelgruber Angelfire website but will be updated by me at a later date (ill rb it then))

2012-2013 -- Bye Bye Birdie Chanhassen Dinner Theater, Chanhassen, MN 2012 -- Roman Holiday The Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, MN 2011-2012 -- Hairspray Chanhassen Dinner Theater, Chanhassen, MN 2011 -- Jesus Christ Superstar Chanhassen Dinner Theatre, Chanhassen, MN 2010 -- Hairspray TUTS, Houston, TX 2010 -- Hits from The Music Man, Seattle Symphony, conducted by Marvin Hamlisch Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA 2009 -- White Christmas 5th Avenue Theatre, Seattle, WA 2009 -- A Chorus Line National and International Tours 2009 -- Singin' In The Rain Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, St. Paul, MN 2009 -- Grey Gardens Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, St. Paul, MN 2008 -- White Christmas Theatre Under The Stars, Houston 2008 -- A Chorus Line National Tour 2007-2008 -- A Chorus Line Schoenfeld Theatre, New York City 2007 -- Stairway To Paradise - 50 Years of Revue in Review An Original Encores! Production, New York City Center 2007 -- Irving Berlin's Easter Parade - World Premier Chanhassen Theatres, Chanhassen, MN 2006-2007 -- Irving Berlin's White Christmas 5th Avenue Theatre, Seattle and California Musical Theatre, Sacramento 2006 -- My One and Only Reprise Concert Series, Freud Playhouse, Westwood, CA 2006 -- Godspell Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia 2006 -- Applause for the Golden Boy: The Music of Charles Strouse - benefit tribute - New York Historical Society, New York City 2006 -- Guys and Dolls Maltz Jupiter Theatre, FL 2005 -- Irving Berlin's White Christmas Wang Center Theatre, Boston 2005 -- And Then I Wrote... The Songs of Steve Marzullo - concert Birdland Jazz Club, New York City 2005 -- What A Glorious Feeling - World Premiere Production Mason Street Warehouse, MI Dec. 2004 - Mar. 2005 -- Singin' in the Rain - tour Houston TUTS Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre Sacramento's California Musical Theatre 2004 -- Anything Goes Avon Theatre - Stratford, ON 2003 -- A Manhattan Christmas - cabaret King Kong Room, New York City 2003 -- Laughing Room Only Brooks Atkins Theatre, New York City 2003 -- Wizard of Oz Lyric Theatre, Oklahoma City 2003 -- Crazy For You Marian Theatre and Solvang Festival, CA 2003 -- Anything Goes Riverside Theatre, FL 2003 -- Taboo - reading New York City 2002 -- Ain't That a Kick in the Head - workshop The New 42nd Street Studios, New York City 2002 - Smokey Joe's Cafe California Musical Theatre 2002 -- Dames at Sea Goodspeed Opera House 2001 -- Red Hot and Blue Paper Mill Playhouse 2001 -- Kiss Me, Kate Martin Beck Theatre, New York City 2000 -- Anything Goes 5th Avenue Theatre, Seattle 2000 -- Rags Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia 2000 -- Singin' in the Rain Music Theatre of Wichita 2000 -- Symposium on theatre at SUNY's Stony Brook campus 2000 -- 14th Annual Easter Bonnet Competition New Amsterdam Theatre, New York City 1999 - 2000 -- Swing! St. James Theatre, New York City 1999 -- Floyd's Follies - Benefit Paper Mill Playhouse 1999 -- Tommy - concert tour 1998 -- History of Sex Golden Nugget Casino, Las Vegas 1998 -- Follies Paper Mill Playhouse 1997 -- filming of Cats video Adelphi Theatre, London 1997 -- Wizard of Oz The Theatre at Madison Square Garden 1996 -- Angela Lansbury - A Celebration - benefit tribute Majestic Theatre, New York City 1996 -- Dodsworth Douglas Fairbanks and John Houseman Theatres, New York City 1996 - 1999 -- Cats Winter Garden Theatre, New York City 1995 -- New Year's Eve Celebration Paper Mill Playhouse 1995 -- West Side Story The Muny Theatre, St. Louis 1995 -- Oklahoma! Arizona Theatre Company, Tucson and Phoenix 1995 -- Little By Little Eighty-eights Club, New York City 1994 -- Harvest of Stars - ArtsPower Benefit Paper Mill Playhouse 1994 -- Songbook Arts and Artists at St. Paul's/National Music Theater Network, New York City 1994 -- Singin' in the Rain Paper Mill Playhouse 1994 -- West Side Story Music Theatre of Wichita 1994 -- Kiss Me, Kate Goodspeed Opera House 1993 -- Little Me Birmingham Theatre, Birmingham, MI 1993 -- Falsettos Alliance Theatre, Atlanta 1993 -- Anything Goes Music Theatre of Wichita 1993 -- Good News! Music Theatre of Wichita 1993 -- Singin' in the Rain California Musical Theatre 1993 -- 7th Annual Easter Bonnet Competition Broadway Theatre, New York City 1993 -- Assisted with choreography of Singin' in the Rain Indian Hill (OH) High School 1993 -- Songs of Unlikely Lovers - A Valentine's Day Review Music Theatre of Wichita 1993 -- My Favorite Year Vivian Beaumont Theatre, Lincoln Center, New York City 1992 -- Singin' in the Rain Music Theatre of Wichita 1991 - 1994 -- Miss Saigon - original company Broadway Theatre, New York City 1990 -- West Side Story - national tour 1989 - 1990 -- A Chorus Line - final company Shubert Theatre, New York City 1988 -- Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Alaska Light Opera, Anchorage 1988 -- Dreamgirls Elmsford (NY) Dinner Theatre 1988 -- West Side Story - European Tour 1987 -- My One and Only Paper Mill Playhouse

#Gruber Lore #Michael Gruber

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1. Are you named after anyone?

No, maybe my middle name but idk

2. When was the last time you cried?

Um probably August, but maybe a few times since then just over silly stuff like sweet things on TV lol

3. Do you have kids?

Yes, one kid

4. Do you use sarcasm a lot?

Eh not really

5. What's the first thing you notice about people?

Hair probably, or what they're wearing.

6. What's your eye color?

Dark brown

7. Scary movies or happy endings?

I don't really like scary movies so happy endings... although I don't think a movie has to have a happy ending to be good.

8. Special talents?

I'd like some.

9. Where were you born?

A small city in NW Oklahoma

10. What are your hobbies?

Artsy fartsy and crafty stuff

11. Have any pets?

I don't right now, but there is a dog that lives in the same house as me.

12. What sports do you play or have played?

Lol me play sports? Well I have played a tiny bit of soccer and basketball when I was little, how about freeze tag?

13. How tall are you?

5'3"

14. Favorite subject in school?

Woodshop, we didn't have an art class in high school but i did in middle school and I liked it a lot. Oh and my home ec classes in middle school was great too

15. Dream job?

Oh gosh idk making toys or dolls, or working in animation

Thanks for tagging me @thiickachu

Please don't feel obligated to do this at all but I'll tag a few people anyway ♡

@mercy-misrule @ladygummybuns @lotternlibertine @heartlesspop88 @ashcray

And whoever else that might want to do it

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Legislator Confirmed To Be Marilyn Manson

From the archives of Oklahoma’s great political satire writers of decades past, we bring you this classic reprint of a spoof that caused more than a little irritation to the political class on Lincoln Blvd.

OKLAHOMA CITY (OP) – House Republicans were shocked to learn that one of their own, Rep. Tad Jones, R-Claremore, had previously fronted 90’s shock-rock band Marilyn Manson. In his rock-and-roll heyday, Manson was renown for his satanic imagery and explicit lyrics.

The star fell from prominence in the late 90s, the victim of post-Columbine fallout and overshadowed by the rise of such provocative acts as Eminem and Creed.

Changing his name to Tad Jones, “the most boyish, innocent-sounding name I could think of,” Manson was elected to the District 9 seat in 1998. As a performer, Manson was renown for his on-stage antics, including stunts featuring goats’ blood, blow-up dolls and strap-on dildos.

As the House minority whip, Jones has authored legislation regarding school district elections and the use of golf carts on city streets. He says his day as the quasi-satanic musician are behind him, though he may still cover himself in blood during House debate.

#partisan #Legislator Confirmed To Be Marilyn Manson #satire #oklahoma #legislature #capitol

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To determine the top 50 Broadway musicals of all time, we can consider various factors such as box office success, critical acclaim, cultural impact, and lasting popularity. Here is a list of 50 musicals that excel in these areas:

1. **The Phantom of the Opera** - A timeless love story with memorable music and stunning visuals[1][2][3][4][5].

2. **Les Misérables** - An epic tale of redemption and revolution with powerful songs and a gripping narrative[1][2][3][4][5].

3. **Hamilton** - A groundbreaking hip-hop musical about American history and identity[1][2][3][4][5].

4. **The Lion King** - A spectacular adaptation of the beloved animated film with unforgettable music and puppetry[1][2][3][4][5].

5. **Wicked** - A reimagining of the Wizard of Oz story that explores themes of friendship, power, and prejudice[1][2][3][4][5].

6. **Cats** - A whimsical and imaginative musical about a community of cats seeking a new life[1][2][3][4][5].

7. **Chicago** - A seductive and cynical musical about crime, fame, and justice in the jazz age[1][2][3][4][5].

8. **The Book of Mormon** - A hilarious and irreverent musical that satirizes religion and culture[1][2][3][4][5].

9. **The Producers** - A farcical musical about a failed Broadway show that becomes a massive hit[1][2][3][4][5].

10. **Rent** - A rock musical about love, art, and community in the face of adversity[1][2][3][4][5].

11. **Miss Saigon** - A tragic love story set during the Vietnam War with stunning music and spectacle[1][2][3][4][5].

12. **Beauty and the Beast** - A magical musical adaptation of the classic fairy tale with memorable songs and characters[1][2][3][4][5].

13. **The Music Man** - A charming and nostalgic musical about a con man who falls in love with a small town[1][2][3][4][5].

14. **Sweeney Todd** - A dark and thrilling musical about a vengeful barber and his accomplice[1][2][3][4][5].

15. **Jersey Boys** - A jukebox musical about the rise and fall of the iconic singing group, The Four Seasons[1][2][3][4][5].

16. **Oklahoma!** - A classic musical about love, community, and the American frontier[1][2][3][4][5].

17. **My Fair Lady** - A romantic musical about a Cockney flower girl who is transformed into a lady[1][2][3][4][5].

18. **Fiddler on the Roof** - A heartwarming and poignant musical about a Jewish family in Tsarist Russia[1][2][3][4][5].

19. **Evita** - A powerful musical about the life and legacy of Argentine first lady Eva Perón[1][2][3][4][5].

20. **A Chorus Line** - A groundbreaking musical about the hopes, dreams, and fears of Broadway dancers[1][2][3][4][5].

21. **West Side Story** - A modernized version of Romeo and Juliet set in New York City, with a score by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.

22. **Into the Woods** - A Sondheim musical that weaves together several classic fairy tales, exploring the consequences of wishes and the complexities of life.

3. **The King and I** - A Rodgers and Hammerstein musical about a British schoolteacher who becomes the governess for the children of the King of Siam.

24. **Annie** - A heartwarming musical about a young orphan who finds a home with a wealthy businessman and helps him to rediscover the meaning of love and family.

25. **Grease** - A fun and energetic musical about a group of high school students navigating love, friendship, and identity in the 1950s.

26. **Guys and Dolls** - A classic musical comedy about a group of gamblers and their romantic entanglements, set in New York City.

27. **Pippin** - A magical and whimsical musical about a young prince searching for meaning and purpose in his life.

28. **A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum** - A farcical musical comedy about a slave who tries to win his freedom by helping his master woo a courtesan.

29. **The Pajama Game** - A romantic musical comedy about a labor dispute at a pajama factory, featuring the hit song "Hernando's Hideaway".

30. **Kiss Me, Kate** - A musical comedy about a divorced couple who star in a production of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, with Cole Porter's classic score.

31. **Man of La Mancha** - A musical about the life and adventures of Don Quixote, featuring the iconic song "The Impossible Dream".

32. **Cabaret** - A dark and provocative musical about the decadence and turmoil of pre-World War II Berlin, featuring the hit song "Cabaret".

33. **Sunday in the Park with George** - A Sondheim musical about the life and work of artist Georges Seurat, exploring the relationship between art and life.

34. **Assassins** - A Sondheim musical that explores the lives and motivations of historical figures who have attempted to assassinate U.S. presidents.

35. **Falsettos** - A musical about a gay man, his lover, his ex-wife, and their son, exploring themes of love, family, and identity.

36. **The Light in the Piazza** - A romantic musical about a young American woman and an Italian man who fall in love in Florence, featuring the hit song "The Light in the Piazza".

37. **The Full Monty** - A musical about a group of unemployed steelworkers who decide to become male strippers to make money, featuring the hit song "Let It Go".

38. **Avenue Q** - A puppet-based musical about a group of young adults navigating love, friendship, and career in New York City, featuring the hit song "The Internet Is for Porn".

39. **Billy Elliot** - A musical about a young boy who dreams of becoming a ballet dancer, set against the backdrop of the 1984-85 British miners' strike.

40. **Next to Normal** - A musical about a suburban family dealing with mental illness, exploring themes of love, loss, and healing.

41. **The Drowsy Chaperone** - A musical comedy about a man who listens to a cast recording of a fictional 1920s musical and imagines the show coming to life in his apartment.

42. **In the Heights** - A musical about a community of Dominican Americans living in Washington Heights, exploring themes of identity, community, and ambition.

43. **The Color Purple** - A musical based on the novel by Alice Walker, exploring the lives and struggles of African American women in the early 20th century.

44. **Grey Gardens** - A musical about the lives of Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter, Little Edie, who were the aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

45. **The Bridges of Madison County** - A musical based on the novel by Robert James Waller, exploring the love affair between an Italian-American housewife and a traveling photographer.

46. **Fun Home** - A musical based on the graphic novel by Alison Bechdel, exploring the relationship between a cartoonist and her father, who owned a funeral home.

47. **Dear Evan Hansen** - A musical about a socially awkward high school student who becomes embroiled in a lie that spreads throughout his community, exploring themes of mental health, identity, and connection.

48. **Come From Away** - A musical about the true story of the small town of Gander, Newfoundland, which took in thousands of stranded passengers after the 9/11 attacks.

49. **Hadestown** - A musical based on the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, exploring themes of love, loss, and the underworld.

50. **Jagged Little Pill** - A musical based on the music of Alanis Morissette, exploring themes of family, addiction, and identity.

These musicals have stood the test of time and continue to captivate audiences with their compelling stories, memorable music, and innovative productions.

Sources

[1] List of highest-grossing musical theatre productions - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_musical_theatre_productions

[2] 15 of the best stage musicals of all time - Classical-Music.com https://www.classical-music.com/features/works/best-stage-musicals-of-all-time

[3] The Most Popular Broadway Musicals Of All Time - Ranker https://www.ranker.com/list/the-most-popular-broadway-musicals-ever/constance-bennet

[4] Top 50 Best Broadway Musicals - Facts.net https://facts.net/best-broadway-musicals/

[5] Top Ten Best Broadway Shows Ever Made - NYTix https://www.nytix.com/articles/top-ten-best-broadway-shows-ever-made

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"The Herricanes" Screens at Nashville Film Festival

Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and make a trail." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) That quote appears at the beginning of the documentary "The Herricanes," which played at the Nashville Film Festival on Monday, October 2, 2023. Olivia Kuan's Mom played football. Olivia thought it was something any girl could do Upon learning how unique her mother's experience was, the young filmmaker decided to document her mother, Basia Haszlakiewicz's, participation in the female football leagues of the seventies. Basia played for the Houston Herricanes in the NWFL (National Women's Football League.) Ms. Kuan's excellent documentary traces the origins of female contact football. She interviewed members of several teams of the seventies. Additionally, she did a great job of labeling each interview subject onscreen. The research and editing team did a terrific job of assembling the interviews into a coherent whole.The archival production team consisted of Kelsey Carr and researcher Chris Morcam. Still photographs and film footage from the games of the seventies take us back in time. The documentary embraces the concept "it's okay for women to be whole people." Another truth the film underscores: "It's important to create a world that welcomes everyone." Interesting timing. Olivia Hill, the first trans-gender woman to hold office in Nashville, was sworn in this very day as one of 5 council-members at large for the Metro area. Meanwhile, the state of Tennessee has banned drag shows in the very recent past. Title IX The entire idea of letting women play contact football grew out of the cultural shift of Title IX in 1972. Title IX said that no school could discriminate on the basis of sex in extra-curricular offerings in public schools. Today's youth don't remember what a sea change this was, but I do. I began teaching junior high school students in 1969 and witnessed the changes of the seventies firsthand. Olivia's mother, Basia Haszlakiewicz, played for the Houston Herricanes in the seventies. To the argument women "don't want to play contact sports" the rebuttal was,"They've never been given the opportunity to see if they want to play football." Today, one of the early supporters of female football runs Gridiron Girls camps. Youngsters who know nothing about Title IX can try football out. Be the Revolution As the film emphasizes, it is not easy to be first. Four National Women's Football League teams were founded in 1974. Among the teams participating over the years were the Toledo Troopers, the Dallas Bluebonnets, the Los Angeles Dandelions, the Dallas/Ft. Worth Shamrocks, the Oklahoma City Dolls, the San Antonio Flames, and the Houston Herricanes. There were initially 14 teams with 3 divisions. The power team was Oklahoma City. In fact, the Oklahoma City Dolls didn't lose a game until their sixth season. The Dolls put a beat-down on the Herricanes in their first meetings. They averaged 35 points a game and routinely beat the early Herricanes by scores as lopsided as 40 to 0 and/or 56 to 0. The Houston Herricanes But the Herricanes steadily improved and were competitive near the end of the league's existence. The players had to buy their own equipment ($88,15 in Olivia's Mom's case) and it took $50,000 to keep a team afloat. There were more people on the field than in the stands. This did not help the financial situation of the teams. The comment is made in the documentary that parity for women in any sport is yet to be achieved. The documentary made it clear that support for women's contact football in Europe is much stronger, citing the 2019 World Championship in Leeds, England. Teams thrive in countries like Sweden, Finland, New Zealand, Germany and England. As for the original NWFL teams, they began to fold in '78 (Los Angeles Dandelions) and '79 (Toledo Troopers, Oklahoma City Dolls, Houston Herricanes,) Some (the Dallas/Ft. Worth Shamrocks) had folded earlier. The 1979 Championship game was canceled. Today, there are over 100 teams playing, worldwide, and women's sports are increasing in popularity (Natalie Portman is one owner of a woman's team). This interesting and informative documentary---one of the best at the Nashville Film Festival---gives you the history of the genesis of contact football for females. It's a well-done fun documentary. Read the full article

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474 of 2022

The Letter Y (True or False)

Created by joybucket

You played with yo-yos when you were younger. 🪀 You attended a church youth group when you were in high school. ⛪️ You're the youngest child in your family. You have a younger brother. You have a younger sister. You have a Yahoo email account. ....but it's not the main one you use. You know how to yodel. You like the song "So Yesterday" by Hilary Duff. You like Yo Mama jokes. You own a yardstick. You've had a yard sale. You own a Yamaha motorcycle. 🏍 You own a Yamaha drum set. 🥁 You've been to Yosemite National Park. 🌋 You've never been to Yosemite National Park. 🏞 ...but you want to go. You like the song "Yearn" by Shane & Shane. Your favorite color is yellow. ☀️ You're wearing something yellow right now. You like the color school bus yellow. 🚌 You were on the yearbook staff in school. 📕 You own all of your high school yearbooks. You've signed someone else's yearbook. You've had someone sign your yearbook. You've paid for something with yen. 💴 You've been to Yukon Territory. 🇨🇦 You like the name Yori. You can't remember what you wore yesterday. You've met someone with the last name Yousef. You've been on a yacht. 🛥 You own a bag of yarn. 🧶 You make New Year's resolutions. You remember last the New Year's resolution you made. ...and you've kept it. You just yawned. 🥱 You don't know the meaning of the word "yuppify." You've been to Ypsilanti, Michigan. You've never been to Yemen. 🇾🇪 ....or Yuma, Arizona. ....or Yakima, Washington. ....or Yonkers, New York. ...or Yuba City, California. ....or Yukon, Oklahoma. ...or Youngstown, Ohio. ....or Yorba Linda, California. ...or Yazoo City, Mississippi. You've had a Yorkshire Terrier for a pet. You've been to New York City. 🏙 You're young. You don't feel young anymore. You wish you could be young and free again. You look younger than you actually are. Your name ends in "Y." You like yams. You've had a yellow lab for a pet. 🦮 You own a yellow dress. You own a yellow shirt. You own a yellow scarf. You've recently said, "Yikes!" 😱 You've had a cat that liked to play with yarn. 🧶 You own a yearbook with a red cover. 📕 You like to yell. You yell at people a lot. You've met someone named Yvonne. You've met someone named Yvette. You've met someone named Yasmin. You've met someone named Yasper. You used to own the Bratz doll Yasmin. 👄 Your favorite Bratz doll was Yasmin. You had the same hair color as Yasmin. You've taken the birth control pill Yaz. 💊 If you were to see a yak in the wild, you wouldn't know it was a yak. 🐂 You've never had a yak as a pet. 🐂 You've met someone named Yolanda. You've played the board game Yahtzee. 🎲 You've played Yahtzee online. 🎲 You've worn yellow eyeshadow. You've driven a yellow car. You're yearning for someone or something. You've never ridden in a yellow submarine. You grew up in a house with a big backyard. You've read the book "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood." 📖 You like the song "Anything but Yellow" by Haley Mae Campbell. You've never worn an itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny yellow polka-dot bikini. ....but you have listened to the song about one. You know the meaning of the word "yuletide" without looking it up. You're a Yooper. You hate it when people mix up "your" and "you're." You've posted in the "Yum or Yuck" tread in the forums. You think olives are yucky. 🫒 You think beans are yucky. 🫘 You think chili is yucky. You think beets are yucky. 🔴 You think pickles are yucky. 🥒 You think pie is yummy. 🥧 You think chocolate is yummy. 🍫 You think cheese is yummy. 🧀 You think cake is yummy. 🍰 You think salads are yummy. 🥗 You think strawberries are yummy. 🍓 You think bananas are yummy. 🍌 You think pineapple is yummy. 🍍 You enjoyed this survey..

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flirting-with-psychology · 2 years

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The Letter Y (True or False) by joybucket

You played with yo-yos when you were younger. 🪀 You attended a church youth group when you were in high school. ⛪️ You’re the youngest child in your family. You have a younger brother. You have a younger sister. You have a Yahoo email account. ….but it’s not the main one you use. You know how to yodel. You like the song “So Yesterday” by Hilary Duff. You like Yo Mama jokes. You own a yardstick. You’ve had a yard sale. You own a Yamaha motorcycle. 🏍 You own a Yamaha drum set. 🥁 You’ve been to Yosemite National Park. 🌋 You’ve never been to Yosemite National Park. 🏞 …but you want to go. You like the song “Yearn” by Shane & Shane. Your favorite color is yellow. ☀️ You’re wearing something yellow right now. You like the color school bus yellow. 🚌 You were on the yearbook staff in school. 📕 You own all of your high school yearbooks. You’ve signed someone else’s yearbook. You’ve had someone sign your yearbook.

You’ve paid for something with yen. 💴 You’ve been to Yukon Territory. 🇨🇦 You like the name Yori. You can’t remember what you wore yesterday. You’ve met someone with the last name Yousef. You’ve been on a yacht. 🛥 You own a bag of yarn. 🧶 You make New Year’s resolutions. You remember last the New Year’s resolution you made. …and you’ve kept it. You just yawned. 🥱 You don’t know the meaning of the word “yuppify.” You’ve been to Ypsilanti, Michigan. You’ve never been to Yemen. 🇾🇪 ….or Yuma, Arizona. ….or Yakima, Washington. ….or Yonkers, New York. …or Yuba City, California. ….or Yukon, Oklahoma. …or Youngstown, Ohio. ….or Yorba Linda, California. …or Yazoo City, Mississippi. You’ve had a Yorkshire Terrier for a pet. You’ve been to New York City. 🏙 You’re young. You don’t feel young anymore. You wish you could be young and free again. You look younger than you actually are. Your name ends in “Y.” You like yams. You’ve had a yellow lab for a pet. 🦮 You own a yellow dress. You own a yellow shirt. You own a yellow scarf. You’ve recently said, “Yikes!” 😱 You’ve had a cat that liked to play with yarn. 🧶 You own a yearbook with a red cover. 📕 You like to yell. You yell at people a lot. You’ve met someone named Yvonne. You’ve met someone named Yvette. You’ve met someone named Yasmin. You’ve met someone named Yasper. You used to own the Bratz doll Yasmin. 👄 Your favorite Bratz doll was Yasmin. You had the same hair color as Yasmin. You’ve taken the birth control pill Yaz. 💊 If you were to see a yak in the wild, you wouldn’t know it was a yak. 🐂 You’ve never had a yak as a pet. 🐂 You’ve met someone named Yolanda. You’ve played the board game Yahtzee. 🎲 You’ve played Yahtzee online. 🎲 You’ve worn yellow eyeshadow. You’ve driven a yellow car. You’re yearning for someone or something. You’ve never ridden in a yellow submarine. You grew up in a house with a big backyard. You’ve read the book “Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.” 📖 You like the song “Anything but Yellow” by Haley Mae Campbell. You’ve never worn an itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny yellow polka-dot bikini. ….but you have listened to the song about one. You know the meaning of the word “yuletide” without looking it up. You’re a Yooper. You hate it when people mix up “your” and “you’re.” You’ve posted in the “Yum or Yuck” tread in the forums. You think olives are yucky. 🫒 You think beans are yucky. 🫘 You think chili is yucky. You think beets are yucky. 🔴 You think pickles are yucky. 🥒 You think pie is yummy. 🥧 You think chocolate is yummy. 🍫 You think cheese is yummy. 🧀 You think cake is yummy. 🍰 You think salads are yummy. 🥗 You think strawberries are yummy. 🍓 You think bananas are yummy. 🍌 You think pineapple is yummy. 🍍 You enjoyed this survey. I hope you take a huge bite out of life and have a yummy day! 😋

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