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#hamlet #hamlet the theatre kid #shakespeare #play #drama #tragedy #theatre #horatio

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Can't stop thinking about how it's Horatio and not Hamlet who is in both the first and last scene. This is the story of Hamlet, but somehow the play begins and ends with Horatio, because even though it's about Hamlet, it's not actually his story. These are the things Horatio has witnessed - the things we as the audience have witnessed alongside him - and he is going to "speak to the yet unknowing world [h]ow these things came about" (Hamlet, 5.2.364-365). We start with Horatio witnessing the appearance of the ghost and we end with him surrounded by the dead, vowing to tell their stories.

#shakespeare #hamlet #horatio #royal shakespeare company

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Dame Angela Lansbury

16/10/25-11/10/22

#angela lansbury #murder she wrote #bedknobs and broomsticks #beauty and the beast #mrs potts #anastasia #death on the nile #rip

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#bandstand #bandstand musical #donny novitski #corey cott #julia trojan #laura osnes #jimmy campbell #james nathan hopkins #davy zlatic #brandon j. ellis

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Tony Awards 2022

I started crying when, during the Opening Number, Ariana DeBose and the ensemble sang a section of Bring It On whilst a clip of Adrienne Warren winning her Tony played.

I was a goner when the song then transitioned into Ariana singing from West Side Story.

Here are two performers who made their broadway debuts in the same show, Bring It On, over ten years ago. One is now a Tony winner and the other is an Academy Award winner, both are gathering up film and tv credits, their careers are on the up and up. What a difference the years make and it felt like the Tonys were highlighting that through their choice of music in that moment.

To reference another LMM musical, "look at where you are, look at where you started"

#tony awards #tony awards 2022 #bring it on #ariana debose #the bullet #hamilton #west side story #somewhere #anita #academy awards #adrienne warren #tina turner the musical #shuffle along #that would be enough #Broadway

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Hot take:

“The Wicked Witch of the East” song from Wicked is extremely underrated because it’s not on the album and there’s a bunch of dialogue breaks but it’s still a great song and a pretty pivotal scene tbh

#wicked #Broadway #nessarose #wicked witch of the east #best song of the show

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“The snake was not present tonight (we used the dummy). The real one had a turn just before going on and leapt out of its basket and bit a propman.” 

Show report from the National Theatre Archive about an unruly snake from 1987’s Antony and Cleopatra.

#shakespeare #william shakespeare #national theatre #antony and cleopatra #snake #animals onstage #sm #stage manager #stage manager report #theater #theatre

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The cast album robbed us of the scene where Kevin Squared are afraid to be out because what if Gander is homophobic, and they slip up and find out they're pretty much in the gayest town to ever exist.

#come from away #kevin t #kevin j #kevin squared #gander #the gayest town to ever exist

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that moment in come from away where they use the bible to understand each other and communicate… and then the entirety of prayer when all these religions coexist and they all find comfort in it… yeah

#come from away #prayer #religions coexisting

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COME FROM AWAY (2021) dir. Christopher Ashley

#come from away #gander #9/11

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Some favourite staging moments in productions of Shakespeare plays:

Clarence actually getting drowned in a barrel of wine on stage in Richard III; it was a small barrel, they stuck his head into it as he struggled, pulled him out for an instant as he gasped for air and screamed, his head was wet and sopping, his face all red

Macbeth clutching his empty hands to hold an imaginary child, casting a clawed shadow on the wall

Ophelia ripping out hanks of her hair to give to people during her ‘flowers’ scene (obviously fake hair in real life)

Benedict in Much Ado About Nothing hiding from Claudio, Leonato and Don Pedro, taking a swig from a can of beer that happened to be full of cigarette butts and spit-taking it all over Don Pedro and Leonato

who then awkwardly pretend to check if it’s raining

Angelo in Measure for Measure taking off a bloody cilice belt from around his thigh while saying ‘Blood, thou art blood’ 

Also a really good bit where Angelo shows up in a two way mirror later on when the Duke’s speaking to himself and cursing him; the Duke turns to point at the mirror and there’s Angelo, in the chain of office, pointing back, accusing the Duke as much as the Duke does to him

The moment in Julius Caesar where Brutus asks his servant Strato - who’s been sitting with his back to the audience and wearing a hat with a wide brim - to help him commit suicide; Strato stands while taking off his hat to reveal that he’s played by Caesar’s actor

(a collective gasp went around the theatre; really lent a whole new meaning to ‘Caesar, now be still. I killed not thee with half so good a will’)

After a frantic chase scene in The Comedy of Errors which ends with all the cast collapsed across the stage in exhaustion and the scenery itself falling to bits…a pair of underpants falls from the ceiling, and Dromio of Ephesus (who’d tried in vain to retrieve them at the start of the play) crawls over several other characters, seizes them and screams in triumph 

#william shakespeare

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“If music be the food of love, play on.”

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William Shakespeare, b. 23 April 1564

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HAPPY BARRICADE DAY Bradley Jaden as Enjolras in Les Misérables: The Staged Concert (2019)

#bradley jaden #enjolras #les misérables

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Who I’d Be from Shrek The Musical is a beautiful, touching, and underrated I Want song that connects the audience to the trio of characters at their hearts and makes what we only know as cartoon characters real. In this essay I will —-

#shrek the musical #this song #jeanine tesori grabbed me by the feels with this song and it’s everything #the BEST song from that score #easily #Broadway #sutton foster #Brian Darcy James

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Hadestown at the National

Photos by Helen Maybanks

#Hadestown #orpheus #reeve carney #eurydice #eva noblezada #hades #patrick page #persephone #amber gray #hermes #andre de shields

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This tea is PIPING hot

#musical theatre #ensemble #beetlejuice #music man #aaron tevit #hamilton #lin manuel miranda #mean girls

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This headline wins.

#joe biden #politics #2020 election #leslie knope #parks and recreation