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[ghost-comets]

This just might be my favorite photo of the Comet cast, and it’s 90% bc of Gelsey and Grace’s expressions

I mean look at them

[they-are-there-upon-his-head]

great comet ensemble appreciation post (and costume references!)

[allons-y-to-hogwarts-713]

EEP!

[viikarious]

Ken Clark, Mary Spencer Knapp, Ashley Pérez Flanagan, and Lauren Zakrin in a new photo feature for the Great Comet by Matthew Murphy for Broadway.com

[chaaliapinz]

first of all I think Cathryn and Mary should start an emo accordion synth cover band and second of all this is four minutes and twenty seconds long why.

[dykevillanelle]

my books read in 2018!

# books: 120, totaling 34,695 pages!! the shortest book i read was 44 pages, while the longest book i read was 771 pages!

top 5 (1 is best): 

testo junkie (p.b. preciado)

rose of no man’s land (michelle tea)

what you are getting wrong about appalachia (elizabeth catte)

i, mary maclane: a diary of human days (mary maclane)

their eyes were watching god (zora neale hurston)

bottom 5 (5 is worst):

a marriage in dog years (nancy balbirer)

mindset: the new psychology of success (carol dweck)

the right to be out: sexual orientation and gender identity in america’s public schools (stuart biegel)

to the bridge: a true story of motherhood and murder (nancy rommelman)

love in the time of cholera (gabriel garcía márquez)

full list under the cut! **stars** are the ones i recommend!

Shrill: Notes From A Loud Woman (Lindy West) A Farewell to Walmart (Carly J. Hallman) ***Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era (P.B. Preciado) *Tango: My Childhood Backwards and in High Heels (Justin Vivian Bond) **When Breath Becomes Air (Paul Kalanithi) Acting Out! Combating Homophobia Through Teacher Activism (edited Mollie V. Blackburn) *White Teeth (Zadie Smith) Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything (Lydia Kang and Nate Pedersen) *Lucy (Jamaica Kincaid) *Understanding and Teaching U.S. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History (edited Leila J. Rupp and Susan K Freeman) The Color of Kink: Black Women, BDSM, and Pornography (Ariane Cruz) The Right To Be Out: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in America’s Public Schools (Stuart Biegel) Season of Migration to the North (Tayeb Salih) **Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf) LGBTQ Youth & Education: Policies & Practices (Cris Mayo) **Supporting Transgender & Gender Creative Youth: Schools, Families, and Communities in Action (edited Elizabeth Meyer) Halsey Street (Naima Coster) Time It Right (Siera Maley) Forget Her Not (Elle Spencer) On the Outside (Siera Maley) The Edge of Normal (Hana Schank) ***I, Mary MacLane: A Diary of Human Days (Mary MacLane) Feast: True Love In and Out of the Kitchen (Hannah Howard) ***The Argonauts (Maggie Nelson) The Art Forger (B.A. Shapiro) **Sister Outsider (Audre Lorde) Secondhand World (Katherine Min) The Intuitionist (Colson Whitehead) House Made of Dawn (N. Scott Momaday) Monsoon Mansion (Cinelle Barnes) A Marriage in Dog Years (Nancy Balbirer) *To The Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf) The Birdwoman’s Palate (Laksmi Pamuntjak) Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation (Rev. angel Kyodo Williams, Lama Rod Owens, Jasmine Syedullah) ***Kindred (Octavia Butler) **Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Lisa See) ***Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston) *A Room of One’s Own (Virginia Woolf) *Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (Audre Lorde) ***What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia (Elizabeth Catte) One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel García Márquez) I’ll Drink to That: A Life in Style, With A Twist (Betty Halbreich + Rebecca Paley) Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs (Caroline Knapp) The Girls Next Door: Into the Heart of Lesbian America (Lindsy van Gelder + Pamela Robin Brandt) Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (Carol Dweck) To the Bridge: A True Story of Motherhood and Murder (Nancy Rommelmann) Ten Women (Marcela Serrano) Grit (Angela Duckworth) A River in Darkness: One Man’s Escape From North Korea (Masaji Ishikawa) The Gray House (Mariam Petrosyan) Go: A Coming of Age Novel (Kazuki Kaneshiro) Keeping You A Secret (Julie Anne Peters) ***Rose of No Man’s Land (Michelle Tea) Whisper Me This (Kerry Anne King) Take Me With You (Andrea Gibson) Of Fire and Stars (Audrey Coulthurst) Wildsky (Magnolia Robbins) *Circe (Madeline Miller) *Policing the Black Man (edited by Angela J. Davis) Transgender History (Susan Stryker) Mean (Myriam Gurba) Hunger (Roxane Gay) **Hunger (Lan Samantha Chang) The Rules Do Not Apply (Ariel Levy) The Cooked Seed (Anchee Min) for the broken (Shenaia Lucas) ***Another Country (James Baldwin) **Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity (edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore) The Storyteller’s Secret (Sejal Badani) The Goldfinch (Donna Tartt) Sugar Rush (Julia Burchill) *Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement (Angela Y. Davis) Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) (Mindy Kaling) Beast (Brie Spangler) The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett (Chelsea Sedoti) *The Power (Naomi Alderman) Fortification Resort (Lynn Crawford) Heartbreaker (Maryse Meijer) **The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd) **I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter (Erika L. Sánchez) Born Confused (Tanuja Desai Hidier) **The Hate U Give (Angie Thomas) *Lizard Radio (Pat Schmatz) Being Jazz: My Life as a Transgender Teen (Jazz Jennings) Swing Time (Zadie Smith) The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Malcolm X + Alex Haley) Why Not Me? (Mindy Kaling) Leah on the Offbeat (Becky Albertalli) Six of Crows (Leigh Bardugo) The Girl on the Train (Paula Hawkins) *Annie on My Mind (Nancy Garden) *Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race (Reni Eddo-Lodge) Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel García Márquez) Five Quarters of the Orange (Joanne Harris) Scrappy Little Nobody (Anna Kendrick) *Room (Emma Donoghue) *The Language of Flowers (Vanessa Diffenbaugh) Ferguson and Faith: Sparking Leadership and Awakening Community (Leah Francis Gunning, editor) **Educated (Tara Westover) Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom (bell hooks) ***Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol (Ann Dowsett Johnston) Icy Sparks (Gwyn Hyman Rubio) Out of Orange (Cleary Wolters) *You Can’t Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have To Explain (Phoebe Robinson) *Men We Reaped (Jesmyn Ward) Unthinkable: An Extraordinary Journey Through the World’s Strangest Brains (Helen Thomson) Purple Hibiscus (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie) Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef (Gabrielle Hamilton) The White Tiger (Aravind Adiga) Pedro Páramo (Juan Rulfo) Born a Crime (Trevor Noah) *Sweetbitter (Stephanie Danler) Speak No Evil (Uzodinma Iweala) ***The Sawbones Book (Justin McElroy & Sydnee McElroy) Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls: A Handbook for Unapologetic Living (Jes Baker) Commonwealth (Ann Patchett) *Cupcakes, Pinterest, and Ladyporn (Elana Levine, edited) Buzz: A Stimulating History of Sex Toys (Hallie Lieberman) **The Beautiful: Collected Poems (Michelle Tea) Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide (Kay Redfield Jamison)

[druid-for-hire]

i’m afraid i don’t have any pictures, but these are the names listed in my playbill from last summer!! 

those in the ensemble were: sumayya ail, courtney bassett, josh canfield, ken clark, lulu fall, ashley perez flanagan, nick gaswirth, alex gibson, billy joe kiessling, mary spencer knapp, reed luplau, andrew mayer, mary page nance, azudi onyejekwe, pearl rhein, heath saunders, cathryn wake, katrina yaukey, and lauren zakrin!

the swings were: kennedy caughell, blaine alden krauss, brandt martinez, mary page nance, shoba narayan, and celia mei rubin!

(mary page nance was listed as both ensemble and standby? idk why but it’s the same person, not two different people with the name ‘mary page nance’, i believe!)

these are just the people from early july, tho- i think there were some people who were in the ensemble who left before i saw it!!

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wonderful; thank you so much!!

[dear-indies]

Hey there! I wanted to ask do you have fc suggestions to replace lili reinhart? Round the same age would be great. Thank you in advance! Model fcs are welcome too.

Alexis Knapp (1989) Cuban, Ecuadorian / German, English, Scottish, Irish, distant Dutch.

Carly Chaikin (1990) Ashkenazi Jewish.

Iskra Lawrence (1990) 

Cassie Scerbo (1990) 

Spencer Locke (1991) 

Jasmine Sanders (1991) African-American / German.

Gigi Gorgeous (1992) White, Lebanese - trans!

Gage Golightly (1993) 

Maika Monroe (1993) 

AnnaSophia Robb (1993) 

Witney Carson (1993)

Skyler Samuels (1994)  

Gracie Dzienny (1995) 

Kim Jiyeon (1995) Korean.

Josie Marie Canseco (1996) American, Spanish, Cuban. 

Noel Berry (1996) 

Maty Noyes (1997) Channel Islander (Jersey), Dutch, English, French, German, Irish, Italian, Scots-Irish (Northern Irish), Scottish, Swedish, Swiss-German, Welsh, Austrian, Danish, Faroese, and Patawomeck.

Peyton List (1998) 

Sofia Richie (1998) African-American, English, Scottish, French-Canadian.

Ashton Locklear (1998) Lumbee.

Harley Quinn Smith (1999) 

Sabrina Carpenter (1999) 

Levi Sophia (?) Cree, Chinese, English.

Also:

Brendan Jordan (1999) - genderfluid! 

-C with thanks to @gayagendarph​‘s and  @olivaraofrph‘s directories! 

[somecometlight]

hey cool thing you can do to support the great comet cast

most of them are singer-songwriters! buy their music! stream their music! they are about to face uncertainty with their careers, so please support their endeavors! ask them on twitter or go to their websites to see if they have music and please buy and/or stream! (i personally have been listening to more of grace mclean and pearl rhein right now.) 

CAST MEMBERS WITH MUSIC 

- grace mclean

- pearl rhein 

- brittain ashford 

 - mary spencer knapp 

 - azudi onyejekwe

 - gelsey bell

 - heath cliff saunders

 - lulu fall 

- courtney bassett 

- carthryn wake + more (that was from a quick search)

[buhbuhbilly]

Billy Joe Kiessling and Mary Spencer Knapp, June 11 2017, Great Comet After Party

[they-are-there-upon-his-head]

sketches of tim burton-style ensemble girls!!! i’m hoping to have the whole cast done by halloween!

[oboeditusrp-deactivated-blog]

can i please get some starfire and wondergirl fc suggestions?

Alright, Nonny! So here are my suggestions for the likes of Wondergirl and Starfire. I wasn’t clear as to which Wondergirl you were asking about, so I decided to give you options for both. And as for Koriand’r, Admin H and I agreed that any ethicity would work for her. Considering how she is an orange alien and redheaded FCs can be hard to find. I also tried to give you varied ages to play around with and see which of these lovely actresses suited your fancy. 

Donna Troy (Wonder Girl)

Alexandra Daddario, Alexis Knapp, Melanie Scrofano, Marie Avgeropoulos, Meghan Ory, Tatiana Maslany, Julia Voth, Adria Arjona, Kaya Scodelario, Jessica Stroup, Jessica Lowndes, and Emeraude Toubia

Cassandra Sandsmark (Wonder Girl) 

Eliza Taylor, Chole Moretz, Willa Fitzgerald,  Johanna Braddy, Julianne Hough, Skylar Samuels, Emily Kinney, Elisha Cuthbert, Claire Holt, Spencer Locke, Abbie Cornish, and Dianna Argon

Koriand’r (Starfire)

Lara Jean Chorostecki, Naomi Scott, Laura Spencer, Esha Gupta, Paulina Singer, JoAnna Garcia Swisher, Lindsey Morgan, Aisha Dee, Sofia Boutella, Emily Deschanel, Diane Guerrero, Freida Pinto, and Priyanka Chopra

If you need more help, feel free to ask! 

[unofficialgreatcometcast]

Some highlights from Azudi Onyejekwe’s December 1 show at 54 Below featuring Ashley Perez Flanagan, Lulu Fall, Mary Spencer Knapp, Lulu Fall, Erica Dorfler, and Denee Benton

[soundworksrecny]

RIO by Cumbia River Band

RIO by Cumbia River Band

Kamilo Kratc Audio Recording Audio Mixing Audio Mastering

Worked With: Sonia De Los Santos: Voice & Guitar  Mary Spencer Knapp: Accordion & Voice  Chris Rodriguez: Percussion & vocals  Juan F. Montoya: Drumset  Ben Stapp: TUBA Martin Vejarano: Clarinet & Compositions & Production