Clarissa | she/her | 18 • Musicals, classic literature, etc.• Current focus: Love Never Dies (for fun, not serious) + Phantom of the Opera
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Reading Dracula. When does she show up?
i love when people say "meg was so out of character in love never dies" because then i have the opportunity to tell them about the theory she was written that way as revenge against patti lupone and her one million dollar andrew lloyd webber memorial pool
(EXCLUDING Les Miserables because I know dang well a lot of people would have picked it. It’s in between WSS and Sunday in my ranking, though)
- The poll is just for fun lol. No purpose <3
- Mostly in order
fucked up hurt/comfort. the person who stabbed you tends to your wound. the person who killed your loved one helps you grieve.
i just realized they released next to normal in the US on mother’s day weekend and that is FOUL
Today's observation is The Disabled in Monte Cristo.
La Carconte has some chronic illness that gives her frequent fevers and prevents her from waking up or doing things. Her mariage is not happy but overall it works. She is shown as a materialist and not a good person but her husband does not disrespect her and even listens to her at times. Her actions help develop a key point of the plot.
Ali is mute but he is essential for the Count's plans and he communicates with the Count with just some effort on the Count's part. He is proven to be agile and intelligent, he is very expressive and we know how he feels and what opinions he has on things. For being a slave, he has more space and importance than the hired servants. His disability is useful to the Count, which is not something positive per se but it is unusual.
M. Noirtier is severely disabled and we spend a whole chapter on him, on how he communicates and how his grand daughter found a way to speak with him. He can only move his eyes, so there is a family agreement to ask him what he wants and he can give basic answers winking or pointing with them. With his granddaughter, she eventually pulls out a dictionary to help him find the word he wants after he made her go through the whole alphabet looking for the letter he needed. Thanks to her, he can communicate with people who don't know him.
This man was first described as a lost cause. His own son looked at him with pity (or worse) and used him as an example of something more terrible than death, barely more than a plant. When he is given his own chapter (2 chapters actually) he is also given his own voice and someone who listens. And then, he also does something that affects the world around him and probably the plot of the book.
There is a great respect about these characters. They have dignity and flaws, they are as active as their disability allows them.
The locals trying to warn Jonathan Harker about Dracula like
did i spend the better part of an afternoon making this because i’ve been wondering about this for a while? did i expect this many actors to have played both krolock and erik? honestly i was worried i wasn’t going to have enough room for them all
anyway hey phantom fans, please watch elisabeth das musical and tanz der vampire. if this silly pointless thing somehow got you curious then hey check out my guide/rec list of non-english language musicals with links to where you can watch/listen to them
indoor voices, raoul
I love that Jesus Christ Superstar ends at the crucifixion instead going through the whole resurrection. It's the perfect ending for their portrayal of an extremely human Jesus. It's like it's saying that whether or not the resurrection happened doesn't matter, not this time. We know that's the most vital part of every other telling, but this time we're talking about Jesus the man. And if anything crawled out of that cage, it was no longer a man. Whatever happened next, this is where this man, as he knew himself, ended. And so that is where we leave you.
obsessed with the timeloop quality of stage plays...romeo and juliet can not escape verona even in death... theyve been repeating the same tragedy for hundrets of years again and again and again, details like what they look like or wear get altered but the core of the story stays the same. romeo dies and juliet follows. the knife draws blood and juliet wakes again to news of her betrothal to paris. does romeos depression stem from rosalines rejection of him or from the fact that hes done this a thousand times over?
I’ve been reading Dracula for the first time, im about halfway through, here’s my take on it so far
The polycule learns about monster hunting
A lot of tcomc adaptations I've seen have ended the story by having Edmond get his revenge and then happily reunite with Mercédés and leave the story like that, and here's why that does NOT fly with me.
The Count of Monte Cristo is NOT a love story about Edmond and Mercédés, though it starts that way. A lot of adaptations tend to do this, as in zero in on the romance (and leave Haydée out if the plot, wtf???) But the romance, although an accessory of the tragedy, is NOT central to the tragedy! Mondego, Danglars, Caderousse, and Villefort didn't JUST steal Edmond away from Mercédés, they also a) left his father to starve to death, b) took advantage of Mercédés' misery to marry her when she had no one left, c) abandoned Edmond to suffer in prison presumably for the rest of his life, and d) did all of that other insane shit that didn't affect Edmond personally.
But the point of the original ending is that there is too much time lost between Edmond and Mercédés, too much loneliness between them, and they have changed too much apart from each other for things to go back to how they were. Although Mercédés can see past the Counts callousness to find his old humanity, Edmond HAS changed, he's not the same bright-eyed young man who had so much in life to do. Mercédés isn't the same untroubled, poor woman Edmond fell for, and that's okay! They still love each other, though they have different paths in life and different responsibilities! It just seems, maybe cheap is the right word, to give Edmond the traditional "happy ending" by having him "get the girl back" in the end, as if that were the point of his efforts. They've earned their peace!
The funniest hyperfixations have gotta be the ones where you watch something and go "this thing is cute. I like it. not sure if Id call it a favorite of mine but its definitely enjoyable at least" and then cut to a month later and its completely overtaken your life
hopefully may will be kinder to me
Rudolf’s hairstyle in the Elisabeth 2005 revival pro-shoot:
big fan of when a character is a vengeful ghost but they're not even dead
"I am the mask you wear"/"It's me they hear" kinda ⚧️ imo
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Musical theatre questions for old and cynical musical theatre fans
How did you first get into musical theatre?
What is the oldest musical you love?
What is the newest musical you love?
Who is your favourite musical theatre composer?
Who is your favourite musical theatre lyricist?
Who is your favourite musical theatre director?
Who is your favourite musical theatre actor?
What is your favourite Broadway musical?
What is your favourite musical that's never been on Broadway?
What is your favourite non-English musical?
What is your favourite overture?
What is your favourite opening number?
What is your favourite act 1 finale?
What is your favourite act 2 opener?
What is your favourite act 2 finale?
What is your favourite female solo?
What is your favourite male solo?
What is your favourite female duet?
What is your favourite male duet?
What is your favourite mixed-gender duet?
What is your favourite trio?
What is your favourite group/ensemble song?
What's a song you love from a musical you don't otherwise like?
Which three cast recordings would you take with you to a deserted island?
What catches your attention in a musical and makes it interesting to you? Is there a subgenre of musicals you especially like?
What's the latest musical you've seen? What did you think about it?
What's a musical you're looking forward to seeing?
What's a musical that you saw ages ago that you're still not over? What about it made you love it so much?
What's a musical that you used to really like but don't anymore? What made you fall out of love with it?
What's a musical that's grown on you since you first saw it or listened to it? What made you appreciate it more?
Is there a musical that means a lot to you that isn't one of your favourites? What made you feel that way about it?
Talk about the worst production of a musical you like that you've seen.
Talk about a performance in a role that you can't forget.
Who's your musical theatre blorbo? Talk about them.
Who's your musical theatre otp? Talk about them.
Do musicals in general make you cry? Is there a musical, a song, or a scene that makes you cry especially hard?
Is there a musical lyric, line, moment, etc. that lives in your head rent-free?
What's the weirdest musical theatre related experience you've had?
Share a happy memory related to musical theatre.
Talk about something musical-related that annoys you.
Share an unpopular opinion about musical theatre.
Do you own any fun musical memorabilia, or do you maybe have a musical-related tattoo? Show and/or tell.
You have to do musical karaoke. Which song are you singing?
If you got to direct any musical, which one would you choose? Talk about how you would stage it.
What's a musical that doesn't exist yet that you would like to see?
Is there a musical you like listening to but not watching, or vice versa? What makes you feel that way about it?
Is there a musical that you looked forward to seeing that disappointed you? Why did it fail to live up to your expectations?
What's the worst musical you've ever seen? What made it so bad?
If you have to choose just one, what is your favourite musical of all times?