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Wasn't it gonna be the two of us? Weren't we birds of a feather?

HEY, LITTLE SONGBIRD Kim Woo-hyung & Kim Soo-ha

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Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024 • 9 p.m. EST: James Gant, Holly-Anne Hull & Matt Blaker (London 2023)

This is! such! a good! performance!! It was incredibly popular the last time I streamed it, and it's also Holly and Matt's last show.

As always, the stream will be on cy.tube and shy anons are welcome. For more info, please see the Saturday Streams FAQ! Link and password will be posted here at 8:45.

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there is SO much depth and beauty in the stories we hear in sweeney todd. a murderer who was once a doting father, so blind with hatred and anger towards the world that he couldn’t even see his own wife and daughter, staring him right in the face. a woman down on her luck and in love, trying so desperately to make a connection with a deeply broken and disturbed human. an unfortunately innocent and unknowing boy who ended up being the one who could sense the dark truth. a love at first sight that refused to die, even when torn apart by the disgusting perversion of a greedy abuser. sweeney todd is about all of these people, doing absolutely horrible things, all out of some form of love. that’s the beauty of sweeney todd. sweeney killed for a father and husband’s love. lovett baked real people with real lives into pies to maintain a shallow, lustful relationship she impossibly dreamed would bloom into true romance. turpin destroyed an innocent family because he could not contain his ‘love’ for a pretty woman and her daughter. toby slit a throat because his mother figure was all he had, and he loved her, simply and purely, as an innocent child loves a mother. their love is the purest of all in the story.

but my point is — yes, sweeney todd is about a murderer and his accomplice who cannibalizes and sells his victims. but it’s not. sweeney todd is about love. how love is even stronger and more dangerous than the deepest hate. it’s about how love can destroy people. this show is so beautifully, deeply, disgustingly human. and this dark, telling tale is somehow warped into some of the most gorgeous music to ever be written and made hilarious, lovable, and entertaining. musical theatre is truly magic. human nature is love and filth and greed. sweeney todd perfectly embodies both of these ideas.

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I was rambling on the issue of museums and human remains and how certain populations are more likely to have their bodies put on display to be gawked at and then went "well I guess the Pompeii casts were of Europeans. there are bones in there right?" and Googled it to make sure, at which point I confirmed that yes there are bones in there, but more interestingly DNA testing revealed that a cast of an adult holding a child everyone assumed was a mother and child were, in fact, a man and a kid entirely unrelated to him. Honestly that's more moving to me. Maybe they were connected in a way other than blood, but maybe a stranger saw a child when the world was ending and thought the one thing he could do was hold them.

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grantaire & gavroche 😭😭😭

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exr tension ooooo

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Kyle Adams as Grantaire × The Brick.

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Opera Streams: Mid-Late November 2024

15th: Rameau's Platée from Garsington Opera. Featuring Samuel Boden, Robert Murray, and Henry Waddington. Free!

15th: Rossini's Il Turco in Italia from Teatro Galli Rimini. Featuring Nahuel di Pierro, Elena Galitskaya, and Francisco Brito. Free!

17th: Verdi's Giovanna d'Arco from Malmö Opera. Featuring Ania Jeruc, Bror Magnus Tødenes, and Fredrik Zetterström. Rental.

17th: Handel's Theodora from Teatro Real. Featuring Julia Bullock, Joyce DiDonato, and Iestyn Davies. Subscription.

19th: Bizet's Carmen from San Francisco Opera. Featuring Eve-Maud Hubeaux, Jonathan Tetelman, Christian Van Horn, and Louise Alder. Rental (according to their website that is, but last time they just... didn't charge me).

22nd: Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress from Den Norske Opera & Ballett. Featuring Thomas Atkins, Mari Eriksmoen, and Aleksander Nohr. Free!

30th: Verdi's La Forza del Destino from Gran Teatre del Liceu. Featuring Anna Pirozzi, Brian Jagde, Artur Rucinski, and John Relyea. Free!

Plus: all of the Met's Puccini recordings, video and audio, are FREE through the end of the month!

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I’ll begin this post by saying I do not support bullfighting in the slightest, but im doing research for a project and wHat in the absolute hell compelled them to go this fucking hard on the outfits?!!

Like who’s executive decision was it to really round out that matador ass with high waisted, gorgeous, meticulously bedazzled and patterned fabrics¿¿¿

such a cruel sport does not deserve this level of fashion

Is bein’ thic a requirement? Im???

Like godDAMN?!  I just wanna know what the thought process was here? “at least when I finally get impailed by a bull, my sparkling glutes will shimmer and shine in the sunlight”?????????

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https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/theyre-not-human-how-19th-century-inuit-coped-with-a-real-life-invasion-of-the-walking-dead

Indigenous groups across the Americas had all encountered Europeans differently. But where other coastal groups such as the Haida or the Mi’kmaq had met white men who were well-fed and well-dressed, the Inuit frequently encountered their future colonizers as small parties on the edge of death.

“I’m sure it terrified people,” said Eber, 91, speaking to the National Post by phone from her Toronto home.

And it’s why, as many as six generations after the events of the Franklin Expedition, Eber was meeting Inuit still raised on stories of the two giant ships that came to the Arctic and discharged columns of death onto the ice.

Inuit nomads had come across streams of men that “didn’t seem to be right.” Maddened by scurvy, botulism or desperation, they were raving in a language the Inuit couldn’t understand. In one case, hunters came across two Franklin Expedition survivors who had been sleeping for days in the hollowed-out corpses of seals.

“They were unrecognizable they were so dirty,” Lena Kingmiatook, a resident of Taloyoak, told Eber.

Mark Tootiak, a stepson of Nicholas Qayutinuaq, related a story to Eber of a group of Inuit who had an early encounter with a small and “hairy” group of Franklin Expedition men evacuating south.

“Later … these Inuit heard that people had seen more white people, a lot more white people, dying,” he said. “They were seen carrying human meat.”

Even Eber’s translator, the late Tommy Anguttitauruq, recounted a goose hunting trip in which he had stumbled upon a Franklin Expedition skeleton still carrying a clay pipe.

By 1850, coves and beaches around King William Island were littered with the disturbing remnants of their advance: Scraps of clothing and camps still littered with their dead occupants. Decades later, researchers would confirm the Inuit accounts of cannibalism when they found bleached human bones with their flesh hacked clean.

“I’ve never in all my life seen any kind of spirit — I’ve heard the sounds they make, but I’ve never seen them with my own eyes,” said the old man who had gone out to investigate the Franklin survivors who had straggled into his camp that day on King William Island.

The figures’ skin was cold but it was not “cold as a fish,” concluded the man. Therefore, he reasoned, they were probably alive.

“They were beings but not Inuit,” he said, according to the account by shaman Nicholas Qayutinuaq.

The figures were too weak to be dangerous, so Inuit women tried to comfort the strangers by inviting them into their igloo.

But close contact only increased their alienness: The men were timid, untalkative and — despite their obvious starvation — they refused to eat.

The men spit out pieces of cooked seal offered to them. They rejected offers of soup. They grabbed jealous hold of their belongings when the Inuit offered to trade.

When the Inuit men returned to the camp from their hunt, they constructed an igloo for the strangers, built them a fire and even outfitted the shelter with three whole seals.

Then, after the white men had gone to sleep, the Inuit quickly packed up their belongings and fled by moonlight.

Whether the pale-skinned visitors were qallunaat or “Indians” — the group determined that staying too long around these “strange people” with iron knives could get them all killed.

“That night they got all their belongings together and took off towards the southwest,” Qayutinuaq told Dorothy Eber.

But the true horror of the encounter wouldn’t be revealed until several months later.

The Inuit had left in such a hurry that they had abandoned several belongings. When a small party went back to the camp to retrieve them, they found an igloo filled with corpses.

The seals were untouched. Instead, the men had eaten each other.

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when the period cramps start hitting so bad you have to pretend that you're on a barricade in 19th century france bleeding out from a wound dying in the hands of an unrequited lover

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Have fun in the war dumbass I’ll be at home fucking military wives

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Do not share outside of tumblr

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maidens if you are going to flee dramatically from my castle in the middle of the night once i reveal my true nature to you please leave your candelabra on the little ledge by the portcullis we are running out of them

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oh I’m obsessed with this little moment I found!!! cosette (eden mau) THANKING javert (nick rehberger) during the robbery!!

I love all the interesting little layers and implications!! she’s literally thanking javert for protecting her father. OH IF SHE ONLY KNEW

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grantaire and feuilly being silly during red & black

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