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i made this with utmost respect to the 2002 essen production. i love you üwe but please

MORE ELISABETH DAS MUSICAL ART FOR THE 4 PEOPLE WHO CARE

google show me this guy wet and whimpering

i like to see men from the 19th century in a situation

I need people to stop writing shows based on real events because how am I supposed to explain to non-theatre people that three of the best musicals out there are a WWII comedy about deceiving the Nazis, a heart-warming tale of the day after 9/11, and a hip-hop story of the founding fathers??

girls will have a crush and then his name is some bullshit like herbert

Hans Thoma (1839–1924) - Death and the Girl, 1916

etching

magneto: how do you have so much faith in humans to do the right thing when they have proven you wrong time and time again?

the humble charles xavier:

Apparently, 15 years (and two, three days) ago, Love Never Dies had its first run.

Have some snarky Ramin Phantom from Devil Take the Hindmost

And why not have the Ben Lewis version, too?

I honestly didn't have to add much chaos at all, it's... what happened

More POTO cats here, a rant about LND here and more LND cats here.

PLEASE WHAT IS THIS

Mit ihr stirbt die Welt

a sketch I did cos I wanted to experiment with how "opposite" I can make them look

you know the drill. yap session below

eponine's angular face vs Cosette's rounder face. I wanted to use this to highlight the struggles eponine has gone through since her childhood. also by using rounder, sleeker lines to draw cosette I thought it could give a more romantic impression, if that makes sense

gave cosette doll eyes to suggest Valjean's been spoiling her to the point that she has been treated like a doll. ep's sharper eyes are more catlike. could be a nod to the hardened life since her family's been living in poverty since shes all squares and hard lines now. I thought it also gave her a very alert look. a nod to her participation in the patron minette

I wanted to give ep's hair a bit of a clumpy look

cosette has thick eyebrows because I love thick eyebrows

if I ever choose to colour this I’d use colder/faded colours for ep and more saturated colours for cosette

Bereczki Zoltán as Mercutio.

Stumbled upon this video essay on Musical Rebecca and how Kunze/Lévay supposedly departed drastically from the book’s themes by romanticizing Ich and Maxim’s relationship, and I have Des Notes(tm):

The claim that the novel is not a love story but a study of jealousy. Obviously…romantic jealousy. 🤣 Granted, the narrator also has self-esteem issues, but the moment Maxim says he never loved Rebecca, the narrator’s seething jealousy of her literally vanished. It is very much dependent on her love for Maxim and her belief that he did love Rebecca.

While Maxim did murder Rebecca in the book, it should be noted that little to nothing contradicts his claim that Rebecca was a bad person. Outside of Maxim’s POV, Du Maurier wrote numerous red flags. To whit:

Ben is afraid of Rebecca (she threatened to send him to the asylum, per him). Frank, who had a wholeass affair with Rebecca, tells the narrator directly that goodness is more important to a man than beauty. Beatrice, who is depicted as straightforward and honest, doesn’t praise Rebecca outside of her beauty and charm, forgot Gran loved Rebecca, and deals with the narrator with uncharacteristic patience. Even Mrs. Danvers proudly boasted that Rebecca once flogged a horse. And then there is the fact that all of Rebecca’s closest intimates are creeps and sleazeballs. Mrs. Danvers and Favell may have their sympathetic moments (as in, they did care about Rebecca), but that doesn’t mean they are depicted as good people.

And then there is the fact that Rebecca deliberately manipulated Maxim into killing her, lol. The final twist is that she had cancer and was looking for a quick end. Mrs. Danvers confirms, even before she knew of this diagnosis, that Rebecca feared getting sick and would have wanted a quick end. Her pregnancy was a lie meant to push Maxim to his limits, and it worked.

If Du Maurier wanted to make Maxim shady and unreliable, she wouldn’t have done any of this. Instead, she did everything possible to justify Maxim and buttress his claim that Rebecca was bad, which is no doubt part of why the narrator forgives Maxim so easily.

So on that count, what the novel ends up saying in terms of theme is less “traditionalist chauvinist husband murders his flawed but morally clean modern ex-wife” and more “abuse victim finally retaliates against his abuser and struggles to recover from his trauma with the help of another abuse victim.” Problematic? Yeah, highly so (except for the abuse victim overcoming trauma part). But that’s the way Du Maurier wrote it. She absolutely gave Maxim (almost) every reason.

So in adapting the book to a musical, Kunze decided to opt to emphasize out this romantic strain of the novel. Understandable, given that musicals are very romance-friendly and don’t do thrillers easily. But it’s still not a radical interpretation from Du Maurier’s work. You do get Rebecca fans and defenders, but given that a pro-Rebecca fanfic sequel irked most fans, it’s safe to say most fans agree that Rebecca was bad and Maxim was a victim.

Bonus: As for the novel’s queer coding, it should be noted that in the novel, Mrs. Danvers explicitly says Rebecca never loved anyone. Not just men. This supports the whole Rebecca-as-sociopath canonical strain (although ace headcanons are a possibility) and less the interpretation of Rebecca being a possibly queer woman silenced forever by her murderous macho husband. Also, Beatrice is perhaps just as queer coded than Rebecca herself, and it is heavily implied (and Maxim confirms it) that she didn’t like her, found her fishy.

So in sum: This is less Book-to-Musical Wicked and more Book-to-Musical Notre Dame de Paris. Subtle thematic shifts, same plot, some changes to make it more musical-friendly. Sounds like your everyday book-to-musical adaptation to me.

toby: mister pirelli we're out of product :c whatever shall we do :c pirelli:

death wip :)

Body (Mother Mother) "Body" describes parts of the human form as separate pieces, disconecting them from the idea of a "person" and making them into flesh. It also makes the idea of a body undesireable. You can almost imagine a body unwinding into its separate gory pieces, like the flowers of Jared's garden, and the satisfaction the singer would feel in being free of it all.

A Little Priest (Stephen Sondheim) It's about Mrs. Lovett and Sweeney Todd hatching a plan to murder people and cook their flesh in Lovett's meat pies to revitalize her failing business. They joke about various kinds of people, reducing them to the quality of their meat.

nothing brings me more joy than critically engaging with media that was clearly not designed with critical engagement in mind. it’s the media studies equivalent of like, idk, trying to skateboard up a flight of stairs.

You guys want to play a game? REBLOG and put in the tags why you follow this person

GERRIT

This too is Yaoi

NOTES:

- I mean “prefer” in terms of being in the show, from a plot and thematic perspective, not how much you like the song in general.

- Some of these were implemented elsewhere before their Vienna run, but I wrote those dates to simplify it.

That’s not even a headcanon lol

@littlelattewanders @derschleierfallt

Tag game time baby

Ok here are the rules:

1: Go to Character Headcanon Generator

2: Type the name of your current #1 kin character/comfort character

3: Press the "Create Headcanon" button

4: Take a screenshot of the headcanon that it generated and post it in your reblog

5: Tag some moots

Here I'll go first :3

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@drizzlemoth @lunozapp @hey-imma-fangirl @awakentrashpanda @aintan0driscollnomore @mylivingend @orangeleftyart @flower--ghoul @selora-florients @n-atsu @ol1verdrawsyt @skullgirlrawr @stitcheds-sewing-box @carnationstars @dat1jamesandthegiantpeach @worldsbiggestnerd101 @fanoffandoms23 @foulfictkin @chaosbug-png @sillyjesters @datotota @catinabeartrap

*Edit: Ok so since a bunch of people keep asking this, yes you can join in even if you weren't tagged by anyone.

Oh and also holy shit that's a lot of notes

not very new hyperfixation rediscovered write a poem abt it

i keep thinking about how in the original 1992 production of the elisabeth musical "death" was implied to be genderfluid and even appeared in a ball gown in one scene and for some reason later productions turned him into some guy in a leather jacket and made what used to be a cool metaphor for depression and suicidal tendencies into just another heterosexual love story

Pia Douwes & Uwe Kröger

- Elisabeth das Musical -

Left: 1992 Vienna

Right: 2002 Essen

y’all ever see a piece of fan content about your favorite character that is so horrifically different from what you personally believe and you just