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The revolving door of villain exposition.

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There’s so much I want to say about this.

This little dance they do is a work of genius by Joe Stribling born out of our extremely limited time on set. If you’ll notice in the whole of Poe Party, there aren’t many single closeups on characters. That’s cause we didn’t have time to shoot closeups on everyone. Hence, group shots. This three-person villain monologue scene is long. On the page with no action, it could be tedious. And it would require a lot of time to shoot each villain explaining their bit. So instead, Joe had them each weave in and out of center focus during this very long shot, and I think it works incredibly well.

Somehow this simple blocking challenge brought out all these new dynamics between the three of them–namely, that Charlotte and Eddie have this weird sexual touchy thing going on (which I have no idea if Ashley and Ryan planned that or what, but it was a surprise to me) and Anne feels awkwardly third wheel. It’s so fun and delicious, and in my opinion, whatever Charlotte and Eddie’s villain love affair thing is, it makes them both all the more yucky. And I love it.

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Hidden Gems of a Webseries: Edgar Allen Poe’s Murder Mystery Dinner Party

It’s so rare to find a canon that not only balances delightful humor with the macabre but also affectionately pays respect to the ever-present literary spirit (pun totes intended). The first webisode cements this balance in its well-crafted soundtrack - seriously, listen to each and every introduction and how the lyrics shift to personify each author that crosses that threshold.
It’s no mistake, mind you, that the score screeches to a halt upon the door opening to Emily Dickinson (or that the opening titles never quite have her grace our screens. No wonder she has to carve out her presence! She’s a real, live person!!).
The creative team’s gone above and beyond in peppering their work with literary jokes of all stripes (from Dostoyevsky’s “spirit for a spirit!” to even Oscar’s portrait rearing its beautiful head and Eliot insisting that she!! is!! a!! man!!!!) - after all, it makes sense that Lenore’s speech patterns are the only ones resembling ours. She escapes time and place; she’s not bound to history. She’s transcended it, much like a certain H.G. Wells and his (not-quite-yet-invented) Time Machine.
#ILovePoeParty not only because of its sharp wit (”Did someone say murder?”) but because of each and every loving detail. How a show manages to become better upon rewatching it, I have no clue, but Poe Party does it with such finesse that you notice new things (and reactions!) every time.
Seriously, if you’re not watching it - and it doesn’t take forever to catch up, given that each episode’s ~7-10 minutes long: Give it a whirl already!!
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Poe Party musical but as an opera and with a stage a la Great Comet of 1812

Music is probably about the same as Great Comet but less Russian and more Dylan Glatthorn

Different parts of the stage are different rooms but may be altered for whatever is necessary during the scene, main stage is the dining room.

First song is Edgar and Lenore singing about themselves and preparing for the dinner party and then all the guests come in and introduce themselves. I kinda want the introductions to be in the style of Prologue but I don’t know how that would really work so oh well.

When everyone is at the table there is a moment of silence like in the show. No music or anything, just an awkward silence that goes on for a bit too long.

I was gonna say HG raps at one point but I got this better idea that instead at the moment where he makes that chart to determine who killed Eddie and Louisa he does that fast singing Dolokhov does in Preparations.

There are probably another instance where he does this like in explaining the camera or whatever long explanation he gives. The music shifts accordingly every time.

Audience participation? Of course. How? Hell if I know!

Lenore and HG absolutely get a duet about them realizing they are falling for the other and are suprised since they just met each other. To clarify, they aren’t singing to each other but rather it’s to themselves/an aside.

Throughout the opera you see figures moving around and you see one of them leave the vault. The lighting in those areas and the way they are dressed ensures that you can not tell who they are and it is choreographed in a way that makes their movements barely noticeable to the audience.

Maybe Eddie instead breaks the bottle on a table or something to make it so that it could be used as a weapon and then later on he breaks it completely on Ernest’s head (if sugar glass works like that). Cuz where’s he gonna throw the bottle??? Into the audience??? Lawsuit waiting to happen.

The fight scene would be so sick.

And that’s all the ideas I have for this! Feel free to reblog and contribute your ideas!

I’m gonna throw some ideas in the ring

  • Everyone has a different singing style though the music stays the same (a la the score adding instruments and tones for all of the characters)
  • Edgar doesn’t sing or dance and is the only one who abstains, and he even points out people singing (“why is everyone singing?”)
  • (except a song with Annabel as she dies and it’s only one line, and the song at the end it’s only a verse or two)
  • Lenore is super modern and fast paced
  • Think Heather Chandler in Heathers
  • Ernest Hemingway sings in a very 1950s style
  • Louisa May Alcott sings in a very old fashioned way, more Rodgers and Hammerstein style (and in a comically bad way that’s on purpose)
  • Mary Shelley sings in a dark and weird artsy way (fc: Gelsey Bell)
  • Charlotte Bronte is very old fashioned, but she actually does it right
  • Oscar Wilde is ridiculously complicated but amazing. He still makes the weird noises though.
  • HG is either like Dave Malloy during his duets with Lenore or just speaking super fast for his solos. Think “I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General”
  • Emily Dickinson doesn’t sing much either, but with only one exception: when she leaves to follow Krishanti, she has one solo. It’s operatic and beautiful with amazing lyrics and it’s super soulful. Then it ends and everyone’s just like “I’m sorry did you say something” and she huffs off.
  • George Eliot tries to sing like a man but keeps failing. Then when she dies she sings a solo in her regular voice and it’s gorgeous.
  • Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a bass. His songs are very Russian.
  • Annabel is a soprano. And she sings tiny little songs in between moments, or sings in the background of other songs, or joins in on big group songs. She doesn’t have her own song until she dies.
  • Eddie sings like Frank Sinatra. And he sings one introductory song before he “dies” and then when he returns he explanation is a song.
  • Guy de Vere is a bass as well. He has two songs: a duet with Lenore and a part in the Ghost Song at the seance scene
  • Krishanti is also very Gelsey Bell (but Mary Shelley is more “The Photograph” and Krishanti is more “Soldier & Rose”)
  • Jim and Jimmy only sing, and only in a very operatic and comical fashion.
  • Anne Bronte is constantly overridden by Eddie and Charlotte
  • The entries are all in the opening song. They each have the same tune but all sing in their different styles.
  • The flashbacks are all songs
  • As are the attic scenes
  • And the deaths are preluded by final swan songs
  • They occur in the dark save for a few exceptions (Mary Shelley, George Eliot, and Annabel Lee, to name a few)
  • The Ghosts’ Song during the seance is several layers of the ghosts singing their stories or poetry followed by Guy making his accusation and briefly reprising his duet with Lenore. They all wear dark veils.
  • The fight scene is just a giant dance.
  • The final song is all of the “survivors” (Ernest, Oscar, Edgar, and Lenore) singing in the same style about the night.
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