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broadway sideblog. probably posting about sondheim. she/they, well into adulthood, queer. likes and follows from @vestiges-of-light.
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Still listening exclusively to Assassins. Grateful to be sharing this absolute hellscape with Steve, at least

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bewareofitalics

Good news: full video of In the Green! Bad news: it only shows the drummer. And the audio is sometimes great but sometimes not and there's what I think is a click track whenever there's looping and wow is it annoying. :( But cool look behind the scenes, I guess?

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halles-comet

I’m not saying Lin Manuel Miranda releasing two hip hop musicals right before we lose two crucial elections caused the problem but one must note the correlation

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anthropologist-on-the-loose

I'm as grateful for cellphones as the next person, but sometimes I think about how everyone having a phone on them at all times really did cause us to loose some things as a society. I mean - for example, kids these days will never experience their car breaking down and needing to find the nearest place with a phone they can use. They're never going to have the opportunity to tentatively approach a house only to discover that it's full of queer people having a party hosted by a transvestite to celebrate his creation of a sex homunculus, stay the night, and loose their virginity while unintentionally partaking in cannibalism. It's tragic, that kind of gay sexual awakening just doesn't happen these days because of cellphones.

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Local production of Assassins. I love this show so much, my god. Just to round up some stray thoughts:

  • To begin, the assassins all enter down the side aisles and hand money to the Proprietor for their guns before pulling on their costumes. The Proprietor then pauses at Booth's jacket on the wall with "there's our pioneer," takes off his carnival barker hat, and puts on Booth's costume himself. Very good, having Booth be this smart and tricky character.
  • The "damn my soul, if you must" verse in Ballad of Booth is just poetry, I newly appreciated it
  • The playoff after Byck's first monologue being America done in the style of Assassins is very fun
  • I generally think Unworthy of Your Love is fine, but given that Squeaky is just sort of abrasive and childish for the rest of the show, I like having a song with her being sincere and soft
  • Guiteau seeing Moore shooting: "Let me see your form." Moore, pulling her jacket over her chest: "My WHAT?"
  • In Ballad of Guiteau, Guiteau ascends to the scaffold before running back to where the Balladeer is waiting at the foot of the stairs. The Balladeer straightens his jacket and takes his hat for him before sending him back, weirdly cute gesture
  • Another National Anthem was loud enough to reverberate in my chest, and it felt so good. The entire show, but especially that song, just contains this coiled rage, and feeling the anger of these disillusioned people bodily was just. A lot.
  • Byck doing a jerk off motion as he walks off stage with "sure, the mailman won the lottery"
  • Booth telling Oswald "you just want people to care about you, to love you" and Oswald waiting a beat too long before saying "Yes"
  • When Booth says "why do these rednecks always have three names?" he added "John Wilkes Booth" with this little shrug, like it was a funny concession
  • I'm the only one who laughs at "I didn't come here to shoot the president." "He didn't come here to get shot."
  • I don't know why Zangara's speech in that scene is in Italian, except aesthetically, it holds the dialogue together nicely
  • No projection of the zapruder film or January 6 or anything during hail to the chief. (Actually no references to Trump at all thank goodness)
  • The assassins hang up their costumes before the Everybody's Got the Right reprise, and Booth puts the carnival barker hat back on. So they look slightly anonymous as they recess out the side aisles afterward. Booth stays on stage, and the one child in the ensemble wanders up the aisle toward the stage. Booth, hat pulled low over his eyes, extends his hand to the child, blackout.
  • I loved this ending, I know Encores ended with a kid shooting himself accidentally and that is also good but the malice in extending the promise of violence to children is just so pointed.
  • This is just. My favorite musical. I'm so happy this local theatre I love was committed to doing it and I got to see it this weekend particularly.
#assassins musical
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flibbertygigget

"marry me a little" company and "dust and ashes" great comet are the same song

sad man having an existential crisis saying he's ready to fall in love (he is not ready to fall in love yet)

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owlpuddle

I've considered this before, with Being Alive. I haaate the lyric "alone is alone, not alive" so much. Because it's what people say about aros and people otherwise not romantically attached, that we're broken or incomplete, and it's such a fucked sentiment. Hope Steve didn't believe it! And certainly he can make characters say anything he doesn't himself believe, but given its prominence in the finale, it feels like the entire culmination and thesis of the show. Company is just literally not for me, but I especially am averse to this ending that feels so antagonistic to me.

I also love Dust and Ashes. "They say we are asleep until we fall in love" sounds like a rephrasing of "alone not alive," but Pierre's arc isn't about romance. He wakes up by falling in love with being alive itself, and having tenderness and connection, and all of that is a more expansive (and more interesting to me) use of the word love than the romance that Company is concerned with.

#company musical#great comet
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