#Evita Musical

[maisondecait]

face card never declined

[littlyamadeus]

OKAY, SO I JUST STARTED TO FALL INTO THE PATTI LUPONE RABBITHOLE- DAMN

Okay, I'll start from the beginning.

As someone who started to call myself a musical nerd, I want to listen to more and more pieces and enhance my knowledge. This is also important to me since I live in a non-western country, seeing Broadway someday is my dream. So I mostly spend my free time listening new recordings and fixating on them till I jump to another.

And then, Agatha All Along happened. And god, did Patti Lupone rock my world. Her voice is just so strong and even I can feel there is a huge technique and experience in her singing with my non-musician ear.

Then of course the re-discovery of her "Anything Goes" performance just blew me away. So, my musical obsession plus AAA, I decided to listen other musicals she was in.

AND EVITA!!! God, it is GOOD GOOD. I only finished listening "Good Night and Thank You," so I am still at the beginning, but I just NEEDED to write here. Patti has such a good technique of using her voice that you can immediately recognize her timbre.

I am obsessed, she isn't just a national treasure, she is the TREASURE. And if there is anyone who just started to discover her genius, go and listen the 1979 recording of "Evita"!!! I promise you won't regret.

[booplesnotts-art]

Traditional studies🖤

Some traditional drawings of films and productions I did for a daily journal exercise in one of my classes because I do also draw traditionally sometimes

The page for the Joan one got a little messed up which I’m very sad about and I had to turn up the saturation for the Patti one just slightly cause the red looks very muted on camera but they turned out alright in the end

(Also Rebecca we love Rebecca)

[behindthemirrorofmusic]

The Jonathan Roxmouth interview is available now!!

This weeks guest is Jonathan Roxmouth, known to many for his portrayal as The Phantom, or Erik, in the Phantom of the opera, both on various tours as well as South Afrika. He is also known for being worlds youngest Sweeney Todd and his various roles in Cats, Che in Evita as well as many other productions and concerts.

In this interview we talk Phantom, Stephen Sondheim, Cats, Evita, Sunset Boulevard his life and career and lots more!!

There will be a another very special episode with Jonathan coming in September when we will be celebrating a hundred and fifteen years since the first publication of the original novel by Gaston Leroux. In that interview Jonathan will go in full detail on everything Phantom, from the book to the character of Erik and his love for the show. There will be a short preview at the end of this episode!!

@wheel-of-fish

[ethanfreemanappreciation]

Ethan as Juan Perón and Simone Geyer as Eva in the 2010 Magdeburg production of Evta.

[rainsofcamelot]

remember when eva noblezada

[thewickedbohemian]

Dream Animated Movie Musical Tournament Seed Round Group D

For information on this tournament as well as the seed poll for group A go here

Why these musicals should be animated movies (in my opinion)

Evita: the way this musical fictionalizes her life is as much of a dark/more-adult fairytale as any given attempt at "adult"-ifying a classic fairy tale Disney made famous

Natasha, Pierre, And The Great Comet Of 1812: if this could be adapted to film at all (and if it could it would do better than you think thanks to potential appeal to the Bridgerton fans) despite the immersive elements of the stage production animation would both more suit any fourth-wall-breaking that could translate to film and suit how hard (in the freaking gorgeous sense) the aesthetic goes

Anyone Can Whistle: while its book might need a facelift if it can be done while keeping the core elements and themes of the story, it's one of Sondheim's most overlooked musicals and deserves the kind of second look Merrily We Roll Along got with its revival (it's just ACW is more obscure so it could need the hype of a movie not just a revival) and I feel like animation would suit the magical-realism of the story

Brigadoon: it's been seeing some renewed interest because of Schmigadoon (which some people unaware of all but the name might think this hypothetical movie would have something to do with) and despite how it's, well, kinda old-fashioned in some of its themes (but then again so's some classic Disney) it's got a certain fairytale-like quality that I think would lend itself well to an animated movie

Shucked: this is essentially a "modern classic" (not quite in fame yet but in the sense of modern musical in the style of classic ones) so it on the movie screen esp. in animation could straddle both worlds enough to appeal to a wide audience without losing what makes it special

Amelie: just like Anyone Can Whistle it's got the kind of magical-realist larger-than-life-ness that'd translate better to animation and just like a lot of musicals in this tournament was previously a movie so animation would help separate the movie-of-the-musical from the original movie

Beetlejuice: this is not just another separate-the-movie-from-the-movie-musical one as I think the musical is enough of its own separate entity but I do genuinely think it'd work better animated especially if we could get Laika on that shit

[morieli]

Do you think raúl laughed when he realized he was gonna play an Argentinian but this time it was a capitalist and not a communist??

(Credit to @pozimek 4 da first image :3)

[maisondecait]

EVITA GIFS!!!

there will DEFINITELY be more of these coming bc evita has to be in my top 3 fav musicals

now i know these aren’t the greatest quality, but the video is from 1980 so i did what i could 🙏🙏

[deusexlachina]

High Flying, Adored

Evita has a number of Feel Very Sad Please songs. Most of them don't really do anything for me. "She Is A Diamond" feels oddly maudlin for Peron, who is depicted as highly cynical and calculating.

"You Must Love Me," the movie exclusive, seems like a bizarre takeaway from the events of the film - is that the only thing you learned from all this?

The only Feel Very Sad Please song I like is "High Flying, Adored." It describes the situation of peaking early and not being able to sustain your success. Her life is a game that is now unwinnable. It's a very raw, relatable depiction of depression - so much so, and in a context where it's not an obvious part of the narrative, that I wonder if Tim Rice - who himself had found great success at a young age - was himself venting here.

You won't care if they love you, it's been done before/

You'll despair if they hate you, you'll be drained of all energy/

All the young who've made it would agree

[behindthemirrorofmusic]

Just read through the transcript of last Saturdays Ethan Freeman Night stream by @wheel-of-fish

So glad to see you all loved the documentary so much, and thank you for all your kind words, they mean a lot!!

The Ethan talks Phantom followup documentary will be out in September, to coincidence with the anniversary with the original Leroux novel's anniversary.

For anyone who missed it on Saturday, the full documentary is now on YouTube:

[waitingfortheday]

I'm playing the Mistress in a community theatre production of Evita. And I had a pretty good idea of what the character represented on my own, but I wanted to see what other people thought about her since she just shows up for one scene, sings the only female solo in the entire show that isn't sung by Eva, and then stops existing.

Weirdly, all I could find online was "oh Eva has a big costume change. That's the only reason that song is there."

??? No?

I mean yes, Eva does have a big costume change but

She has like 10 big costume changes and they don't invent a character to stall for any of the others

Che could have easily had another song instead, or Peron could have had a conversation with the other officers before Peron's Latest Flame.

So why the Mistress?

Honestly, I think she has two purposes. The first is she's there to show the audience that Eva has no respect or empathy for someone in the exact position she just got out of. And the second is her song has leitmotifs that get repeated later in the show.

The first ("I don't expect my love affairs to last for long. Never fool myself that my dreams will come true" / "the actress hasn't learned the lines you like to hear. She won't join your clubs, she won't dance in your halls") is when Eva sings that about letting the Aristocracy fade away as she, a former lower class girl, takes control. And the second ("Where am I going to?" "Don't ask anymore") is when Eva and Peron accept that Eva is going to die and it's all over.

The first represents resilience, the second represents hopelessness.

[ethanfreemanappreciation]

In 2010 Ethan returned to the world of Evita. This time taking on the role of Juan Perón alongside Drew Sarich as Che and Simone Geyer as Eva for the Magdeburg production.

Bonus: Ethan and Simone cracking up at Drew Sarich pulling pranks during the balcony scene.