#LT Musical. Come From Away. Holding Achilles. Cats gets honorable mention for trash heap set but they have a big cast

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no but like. okay. a.) the music absolutely slaps, even the bonus tracks. b.) its an extremely faithful adaptation of the series/first book with tons of little nods and references and an incredible amount of detail accurate to the series. Thalia repeatedly appearing in the background of Percy’s dream sequences as a reference to Percy’s dreams about her in the books? Tree On The Hill having the same melody as the beginning of Time Of Your Life by Green Day because Thalia is a Green Day fan? Bianca saying the correct year for when her and Nico were put in the Lotus Hotel?

And c.) the show is so simple too! The set is just some scaffolding in the background that never gets swapped out and some vague projected lights and a bunch of props that get recycled in basically every scene in new ways. The costuming is super simple too cause it’s just normal clothes, or if you want to get fancy with it then it’s a bulk order of identical orange t-shirts and maybe some random leather armor, which is also every pjo cosplay ever. The minimum cast + ensemble size is like, eight!!! Eight people!! Maybe seven! That’s so tiny! And the off-broadway and broadway casts were delightful and perfect!

and the show translates so easily to like middle and high-school productions because of how simple it is! but it’s still such a detailed and faithful show!! And it’s totally built for a middle or high-school production because of how it’s formatted and the fact that yeah, it is basically just about a bunch of pre-teens/teenagers running around waving fake swords and shooting toilet paper across the audience with leaf blowers!

you can’t look at me and tell me that “Yeah we made an extremely faithful musical adaptation of the fun fantasy series about disabled kids and we made it extremely accessible, it has great music, and yeah at the end the main trio shoots toilet paper everywhere with leaf blowers” is NOT the most delightful pjo adaptation ever.

i’m thinking about the Lightning Thief musical again and crying a little bit everybody hold on