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I would like to thank Delightfully
EAGER BINGE READER
@furislupus for READING and LIKING
LONDON 1812
Science Fiction, Alternate History
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Opening night Donmar Great Comet video from WhatsOnStage
#natasha pierre and the great comet of 1812#great comet#donmar great comet#declan bennett#chumisa dornford-may#cat simmons#jamie muscato#maimuna memon#cedric neal#dave malloy#tim sheader#donmar warehouse#Youtube#great comet london#the great comet
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Donmar Comet had its first previews and oh my it looks very snazzy indeed. Spoilers gleamed from first reactions under the cut
Easily the most modern set design I've seen for the show
Everyone's in contemporary alt garb, mostly black with hints of muted colour
The giant light up "M SCOW" sign in the back
What I assume is the comet is like, a big ol halo above the stage
In the corner there are these "Bride" and "Groom" masked characters. Unclear if these are actors or just dolls but they are weird in the best way
Apparently the bears from the rehearsal photos make sense in context
I have also heard that there is at least one (1) new Danatole kiss.
I really wonder if this increased anachronisms will be reflected in the arrangements but I'm still to hear anything besides that prologue clip
This production looks like it fucks severely I'm afraid
#natasha pierre & the great comet of 1812#np&tgco1812#donmar warehouse#london theatre#west end#malloysicals#dave malloy#donmar comet spoilers
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IF I WERE NOT MYSELF, BUT THE BRIGHTEST, HANDSOMEST, BEST MAN ON EARTH, AND IF I WERE FREE, I WOULD GET DOWN ON MY KNEES THIS MINUTE AND ASK YOU FOR YOUR HAND AND FOR YOUR LOVE!!!!
#natasha pierre and the great comet of 1812#npatgco1812#war and peace#i have finished book 2 part 5 of war and peace#and i watched the london production on the 23rd#and im feeling generally very unwell about it all#pierre bezukhov#natasha rostova#leo tolstoy
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only took half a decade of obsessing over it to finally see great comet on stage and i’m reviewing it this all worked out well
#great comet#natasha pierre and the great comet of 1812#musicals#west end#mt#npatgco1812#the great comet#LONDON DEBUT BABBYYYYY
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A gilded ship on the cover of The Square-rigged Cruiser, or Lorrain's Sea-sermons by Alfred M. Lorrain. This is the same War of 1812 veteran whose autobiography The Helm, the Sword, and the Cross describes his time at Fort Meigs.
Lorrain is clearly drawing on the "helm" portion of his experiences for his sermons, and an introduction to the book mentions the near-universal appeal of "every thing belonging to the watery world." I couldn't find anything in the text directly referencing his time as a soldier [ETA: there is a brief mention], but he made an interesting choice on the title page:
"Free grace and sailors' rights"??
"Free grace" is a reference to the Christian theology of God's blessings and salvation being a free gift, but more to the point it's an obvious riff on the American slogan Free Trade and Sailors' Rights that was a pro-war rallying cry during the War of 1812.
Lorrain's autobiography was written 10 years after The Square-rigged Cruiser, at the end of his life. Maybe he was still trying to make sense of his war experiences in 1853; it's obvious that he was traumatized by what happened at Fort Meigs. There's a shadow of war even in his book of sermons.
I can't help but compare Lorrain to another War of 1812 veteran whose trauma seeps into his writing: Captain Frederick Marryat. Some of the best parts of Diary in America are Marryat revisiting "the late war."
#war of 1812#age of sail#alfred lorrain#naval history#free trade and sailors' rights#lorrain really did hate the british#(although seemingly for being rude and mean when he visited london and not because of impressment)#i love you mister lorrain#still trying to find a uniform reference for the petersburg volunteers#described#frederick marryat
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thank you @mistressaccost for the tag! 💙
here’s the first ten songs that came on when i shuffled my spotify ‘on repeat’ playlist
1. Dust and Ashes — The Great Comet of 1812
2. Dance Macabre — Ghost
3. The Ballad of Sweeney Todd — Sweeney Todd
4. Cirice — Ghost
5. Spirit — Ghost
6. Lovesong — The Cure
7. Overture — Phantom of The Opera (alw musical)
8. Deus in Absentia — Ghost
9. Sacrifice — London after Midnight
10. Kiss the Go-Goat — Ghost
I tag @kissing-the-abyss @unamazing-sheep21 @brontes @burningvelvet @danielkahndyke
#its basically just ghost and then some musicals and goth music#music#eva rambles#the band ghost#the great comet of 1812#phantom of the opera#london after midnight#the cure
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n262_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: A companion to Mr. Bullock's London Museum and Pantherion [London] :Printed for the proprietor,1812. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28995358
#Catalogs#Catalogs and collections#London Museum (1812-1819)#Zoology#Smithsonian Libraries#bhl:page=28995358#dc:identifier=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28995358#Corals#Thorny Woodcock#flickr
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First performance of great comet in London has been postponed due to needing more rehersal time. 😭😭😭 I managed to get opening night tickets as well, and now need to find a way to get another seat! Can't believe this, sobbing.
#great comet of 1812#natasha pierre and the great comet of 1812#great comet london#natasha pierre and the great comet of 1812 london#cut to me frantically bashing the keyboard searching for any new tickets being released
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GREAT COMET COMING TO LONDON?!?!
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ohmygod ohmygod how do i get to london holy shit
great comet west end this december who else is crying and shaking and screaming
#musicals#natasha pierre and the great comet of 1812#great comet#group trip to london anyone? ahahaha i cannot live without seeing this
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I would like to thank Delightfully
EAGER BINGE READER
@furislupus for READING and LIKING
My whole MASTER STORY INDEX SECTION,
finishing off the MLP Fan Fiction
section moving on to Classical Fantasy
And from thence to Science Fiction
T'LASS’ QUESTION (Parts 3 to 4 of 4)
WAR DECLARED! 1812
SUBMARINE! 1812
LONDON 1812
Beginnings - Spies! 1812
Sir Clarion Maldimer - 1812
Finishing with the Alternate
History/Science Fiction, he moved on
to Dirkhan in the Desert
SLAG
The Treasure and the Serpent - a poem
Carnelian Carvings - the poem
CARNELIAN CARVINGS
THE GOD'S FANGS
THE HOLY DAY
THE LOTTERY
IN THE DESERT
THE MERCHANT'S CURSE!
Finished with Dirkhan in the Desert
He moved on to the Bizarre Borderland
MAD - IRRITATED SCIENCE!
TRIGGER TREATS
MEETING WITH A STRANGER
GENII’S JUNK
#@furislupus#T'LASS' QUESTION#Parts 3 to 4 of 4#Science Fiction#WAR DECLARED! 1812#SUBMARINE! 1812#LONDON 1812#Beginnings - Spies! 1812#Sir Clarion Maldimer - 1812#Alternate History#SLAG#The Treasure and the Serpent - a poem#Carnelian Carvings - the poem#CARNELIAN CARVINGS#THE GOD'S FANGS#THE HOLY DAY#THE LOTTERY#IN THE DESERT#THE MERCHANT'S CURSE!#Dirkhan in the Desert#MAD - IRRITATED SCIENCE!#TRIGGER TREATS#MEETING WITH A STRANGER#GENII’S JUNK#Bizarre Borderland#Written by De Writer
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"The most exciting part about doing a musical at the Donmar is doing a musical at the Donmar"
I didn't know what to expect from this, but I loved it. I hadn't seen the show before, and had listened to the OBC recording in preparation. I'm still not sure about some of the costuming choices and their effects; I liked the set more than I thought I was going to after reading about it online. the lighting was amazing, as lots of people have said already. the band was great, and this CAST, holy shit. hearing them in that intimate space of the Donmar was just magical. it's press night tonight and I am more keenly interested than I thought possible in how the critics are going to respond.
#great comet#natasha pierre and the great comet of 1812#the great comet#donmar warehouse#great comet london#not doing a great comet wrapped but it would include#songs cried during: 4#songs ugly cried during: 1#images still stuck in my head: many#Youtube#great comet donmar
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Ein Diamant, der Leben fordert
Ein neuer spannender Fall für Sebastian St. Cyr Dieser Text kann Werbung enthalten Die Geschichte: Sebastian St. Cyr wird in seinem neuen Fall gebeten, in einem Mordfall zu ermitteln. Das Opfer: Daniel Eisler, berüchtigter Diamantenhändler mit Kontakten in die obersten Gesellschaftskreise. Verschwunden ist ein großer äußerst seltener blauer Diamant. Russel Yates der, über die Leiche gebeugt…
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Historical house tours are so confusing. They’ll be like, “When we head upstairs, pay special attention to the Blue Room, where Colonel Thomas J. Shmoshington carved a suggestive message on the bedpost.”
And you’ll walk into a room with bright blue walls and be like, “Oh, I guess this is the Blue Room?”
And they’ll be like, “NO! This is the Red Room! It’s called the Red Room because of the red velvet curtains and canopy bed!” Then they take you into a white room with yellow floral wallpaper trim and go, “THIS is the Blue Room!”
And when you humbly ask why it’s called the Blue Room, they’ll scoff at you like you were born yesterday (rather than in 1789) and be like, “It’s called the Blue Room because it USED TO BE blue! The entire mansion is painstakingly restored to its appearance in the year 1812, which happens to fall during the two-year span in in which Abigail Shmaddison redid the room in white and yellow in a flight of fancy. After spending some time away in a sanitarium, she regained her senses and changed it back to blue. An archaeologist found an original scrap of the yellow wallpaper beneath 13 layers of paint and we were able to match it perfectly with this pattern, which was of course developed by Q.B. Zippitydoo & Sons in London and available for purchase only in 1812. Any more questions?”
So you hold your tongue until you enter a big green room that is so incredibly green that it can’t possibly be anything but the Green Room. It has acid green walls. It has bright green curtains. It has forest green tablecloths. There are ivy motifs carved in the ceiling. Cautiously, you venture, “So this is the Green Room?”
And they say, “NO! This is the parlor!”
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Cotton dress, 1812-18
From the London Museum
#dress#fashion#fashion history#1812#1818#1810s#1800s#19th century#regency#georgian#(the style of the dress feels earlier than 1812 to me?? but maybe it was just made for someone not on top of changing fashion trends?)
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