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other Alice by heart nerds exist???? What?????

hi there

back on Tumblr after a bit (theater kid/school overachiever here)

Thank you so much for the morsels of love on my Alice By Heart post! I will always (and I mean ALWAYS) take invitations to talk more about Alice By Heart and its story so I am taking prompts related to the show (I.e, specific song analysis, character analysis, headcanons, parallels, more stuff about the book, etc, etc) if anyone is interested :)

I will also take suggestions for the following other musicals:

-Into The Woods

-Hadestown

-Beetlejuice

-The Outsiders

-Legally Blonde

-Newsies

-Merrily We Roll Along

And many moreeeee

Also I would love to engage in fun little threads about these instead of just ranting lmao so hit me up with those suggestions ok thank you g'bye and live laugh Alice By Heart

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does anyone have a link to the slime tutorial of the LA production of Bare: A Pop Opera with Lindsay Pierce? I know it used to be on Youtube and got taken down but I wanted to see if anyone has it in their drive cause I want to watch the whole thing SO bad

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You know what I think the saddest thing about npmd is? The fact that Max was right about Richie. When he sings the whole "who will pray for me" bit, it sounds like some ominous yet sad villain bit. But then act II starts and no one is even talking about Richie not being at school. In fact, when they find out he's dead, their main concern is that Max is back. His death is never brought up in a mournful way again. So, Max was right about no one praying for Richie when he's gone. Richie is my favorite character so this bit always makes me so sad :(

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Alice By Heart tells its characters in the most interesting way I've ever seen.

I once read a review of the show saying the characters were barely developed in the beginning, in an offhand comment about the show being confused.

I say to that the reporter was probably stupid.

We're not going to learn everything about these characters before we get to the wonderland bit. The audience came for an Alice In Wonderland story. So we learn about the characters as their Wonderland persona.

We learn that Angus is a stoner who copes with his regret and grief through...well, smoking.

We learn about *potential* romantic relations in the lobster dance.

We learn about Dodgy through the whole duchess scene, which is deeper than it seems and would probably need a whole lot more explaining to show what it says about his character, but basically, Dodgy is very clearly gay or even trans and, well, this is 1941.

Harold's little "riddle" in the tea party scene tells us his whole story, and we of course see his PTSD on display in the first scene.

Nigel, I feel, we learn more about in the real world scenes. All we learn from his Dormouse role is his childlike behavior.

Dr. Butridge has seen many patients and soldiers "sign up to die" in his time.

Tabatha has lost things (like her sister) and through her Cheshire Cat role wants to help Alice learn how to cope with loss.

There's a post somewhere on Tumblr that talks all about the symbolism in "Your Shell Of Grief" so go read that because it's great. (They did one for Brillig Braelig too) "Your Shell Of Grief" is also the song where we actually get deep with Clarissa's character. The rest of the time she's kinda a snob who believes she's above everything.

"Isn't It A Trial" is I believe targeted toward Alice's innocence of loving the sweet little fantasy book slipping away, but I believe the Red Cross Nurse is singing it because, unbeknownst to Alice, she's been through all that too. (And because the Queen Of Hearts in Alice's mind but we all knew that)

My point is, as opposed to letting us know these characters completely in the beginning and then putting them on an adventure, we spend the show learning these fascinating characters living in this difficult situation through the eyes of Alice's beloved storybook. And I love these characters deeply.

Also, read the book. You learn even more about them.

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rip noel gruber

you would have loved season 2 of schmigadoon

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Constance: Who else is hiding in the laundry room trying to listen to Ocean and Noel's convo? Ricky: Me. I'm in the laundry basket. Penny : I'm in the washing machine. Mischa: I'm in the closet. Ricky: We accept you Mischa. <3 Mischa: No I'm literally in the closet. Ricky: Love is love. <3

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no because this is my new favorite thing

i think i found the best fanfic tag in history

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Sanders Days

So ya know what I really love? The musical Ordinary Days.

Ya know what I love even more? Sanders Sides.

I would absolutely love a fic or animatic or whatever with Sanders Sides and Ordinary Days with the following cast:

Patton As Warren

Logan as Deb

Roman As Jason

Virgil As Claire

It has a touch of Prinxiety and platonic Logicality. If anything, just listen to Ordinary Days with this cast in mind. It's amazing.

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*Ahem*

Little Miss Perfect as a Perciver song

That is all.