WHAT. WHAT.

MOST OF THEIR SONGS ARE LITERALLY BEGGING TO BE MADE INTO ANIMATICS, AND HONESTLY? I MIGHT GIVE INTO THAT

THERE IS A SHORTAGE OF KLEINSEN ANIMATICS SO

Nik that's a lot of The Front Bottoms are you okay

uhm

boys we got 1,000 more words in the willrick one shot yesternight and then took a biology test on 6 hours of sleep

IM SORRY WHAT?

WHAT?

I LOVE THIS

Dear Evan Hansen: Character appreciation weeks

A fandom event to appreciate each character individually! Each week a new character—check out the full timeline here.

WEEK TWO: Jared Kleinman

From October 31st until November 6th

PROMPTS:

Friendship

Camp

Tech

Loneliness

Jealousy

Humor

Jewish

(prompts are optional, but you’re welcome to use them if you wish!)

Make sure to tag @sincerely-us so I can reblog your works!

🤯🤯🤯SPECTACULAR I AWAIT ITS FINISH BOUNCING UP AJD DOWN AND GRINNING VERY WIDE

heres a little sneak peak of my current wip 😁

LMAO

Thinking bout friends to lovers

bmc fans, get those squips out

and don’t forget the fucking mountain dew red for worst case scenario

OH MY GOD YES

Somebody animate vox to Don't Say Yes Until I've Finished Talking

Please

All of his minions just swarm around him "we concur! as you wish!"

"HEY! don't say yes until I've finished TALKING. 🙄"

animated a lil something to some christian borle audio hehe I LOVE SEEING MY DRAWINGS MOVE SO. MUCH.

drawing them is not enough, I need to physically give everyone in the falsettos 2016 cast a tight hug

and then also the fact that they completely deleted the jared part of that fight.

like, seriously?

really?

alana and evan dont even fight, its like their talking but there’s tension.

they do it in a fucking l i b r a r y

like

no

what?

why???

theres no objectively good reason for this song to be cut, if anything its making the viewers hate it more??

or at least mildly dislike?

honestly, when i went into the movie theater and sat down, and got to that segment, i was already thinking 

“Hey, there’s been no depth to any other characters but Alana Evan and Zoe. What happened to literally everyone else? Jared? Cynthia & Larry? HEIDI??? C O N N O R, EVEN?? Well, at least the THREE fights are coming up, now we’ll get to see some actual depth in at least ONE of the characters other than those three.”

and the amount of just-

disappointment i felt when they skipped him

sorry, just ugh my jared actually caring for evan and feeling left behind/having some self-fucking-respect kinning soul

my alana being a strong female who can stand up for herself stanning heart

my evan is not just a victim preaching bRAIN

i cannot handle this, somebody make a petition to remake the movie please. 

from what i’ve seen, the movie soundtrack has already been spoken about, but ill throw my hat in too

the gist here is that some songs have been removed. which like, by itself isnt that crazy or surprising. some songs simply wouldnt translate well on the screen - Finale and Disappear for example, which have been cut

there’s also two new ones - The Anonymous Ones (alana’s new song), and A Little Closer

but cutting to the chase, what the other removed songs have in common is pretty damn unfortunate. 

Anybody Have a Map, To Break in a Glove, and Good for You. 

all three of which notably spotlight ‘side’ characters, especially the parents. To Break in a Glove is arguably one of the only scenes that makes Larry sympathetic. (which is sad bc it already seems like theyre cutting larry’s character into pieces) AHaM is one of the only songs Cynthia stars in. 

And it’s like.. okay sure, I could see AHaM translating awkwardly, fine. Still bummed we don’t get that establishing peek into Heidi’s head, but she’ll have her moments.

it’s Good for You that has me making this post at all. i have had multiple conversations about how bullshit it is that they removed it. the more i think about it, the more that seems like a dire misstep, specifically because theres no way a written scene is going to translate at all. 

to understand why this is bad, let me remind yall what Good for You does. besides being objectively the best song (to which nearly all of my peers agree - and yes that’s not to say it’s my personal top favorite, and that’s why I say objectively. it’s definitely up there tho) in the entire musical, Good for You is unique in that its 1) the only time people finally express to evan how deeply his actions have hurt them and 2) the final word either alana or jared get for the rest of the show.

to be clear like, that’s not a good thing, lmao. it’s one of the biggest criticisms ive always had for the musical, actually. but still, within the framework of the story, its incredibly important.

removing it is dangerous. here’s why: try to imagine this as a songless scene. what i picture is jared and alana arguing with evan / expressing their frustrations. whether this is the both of them at the same time, or in two consecutive scenes, this sucks!

because if its both of them, it looks like evan is being backed into a corner. it looks like hes a victim in that moment. and if its two scenes, thats still slamming down the ‘emotional consequences’ hammer repeatedly the thing is, good for you isnt super literal. as in, its not actually jared alana or heidi taking turns to yell at evan. thats why it works! because theres emotional truth to it - how they feel is real - but its not really happening like that. and thats why translating it would be difficult.

and like i said, its fucking important! so it needs to happen somehow! especially considering jared and alana will both get more screentime in the movie, thus doubly warranting a proper exit / chance to express themselves. 

//takes a breath

thats all to say.. the removal of good for you is not good for the movie. 

I love this interview, but this is definitely a moment that gets stuck in my head,