#Rachel Tucker Wicked

[stillinthetimeloop]

I always forget how completely homosexual the start of loathing is until I listen to the wicked soundtrack again. no plausible deniability no interpretation that isn't these two are incredibly attracted to each other but are mistaking it for hate bc internalized homophobia. my pulse is rushing my head is reeling my face is flushing. yeah it is you gay fucks !!!!!

[it-may-be-dull-but-im-determined]

Another meta part of this is that original film stock being lost in fires was a thing that happened ALL THE TIME... Because the nitrate film stock itself was hellishly flammable and would literally burst into flames spontaneously. Vast parts of cinema history (including contemporary newsreels and material from the days when female directors and pre-Hayes subjects were the norm) were lost over and over again because the medium of storage was considered impossible for any kind of reliable preservation. Attitudes to preservation shape how we think about entire industries and how they reflect the way we lived at the time, and we've been looking back at film history through a very narrow lens because archiving was never taken seriously.

(tangentially, a trove of 533 nitrate film reels from the 1910s and 1920s were discarded underground in the dry cold of a tiny rural town in the Yukon, a leftover relic of the goldrush era demand for entertainment, and rediscovered in 1978 when a new community centre was being built. The film stock was still considered so flammable it had to be shipped to the Canadian National Archives in a special military plane, and there's a cool experimental documentary about it)

Look if there's one thing, just one thing, that I wish everyone understood about archiving, it's this:

We can always decide later that we don't need something we archived.

Like, if we archive a website that's full of THE WORST STUFF, like it turns out it's borderline illegal bot-made spam art, we can delete it. Gone.

We can also chose not to curate. You can make a list of the 100 Best Fanfic and just quietly not link to or mention the 20,000 RPFs of bigoted youtubers eating each other. No problem!

We can also make things not publicly available. This happens surprisingly often: like, sometimes there'll be a YouTube channel of alt-right bigotry that gets taken down by YouTube, but someone gives a copy to the internet archive, and they don't make it publicly available. Because it might be useful for researchers, and eventually historians, it's kept. But putting it online for everyone to see? That's just be propaganda for their bigotry. So it's hidden, for now. You can ask to see it, but you need a reason.

And we can say all these things, we can chose to delete it later, we can not curate it, we can hide it from public view... But we only have these options BECAUSE we archived it.

If we didn't archive it, we have no options. It is gone. I'm focusing on the negative here, but think about the positive side:

What if it turns out something we thought was junk turns out to be amazing new art?

What if something we thought of as pointless and not worth curating turns out to be influential?

What if something turns out to be of vital historical importance, the key that is used to solve a great mystery, the Rosetta stone for an era?

All of those things are great... If we archived it when we could.

Because this is an asymmetric problem:

If we archived it and it turns out it's not useful, we can delete.

If we didn't archive it and it turns out it is useful, OOPS!

You can't unlose something that's been lost. It's gone. This is a one way trip, it's already fallen off the cliff. Your only hope is that you're wrong about it being lost, and there is actually still a copy somewhere. If it's truly lost, your only option is to build a time machine.

And this has happened! There are things lost, so many of them that we know of, and many more we don't know of. There are BOOKS OF THE BIBLE referenced in the canon that simply do not exist anymore. Like, Paul says to go read his letter to the Laodiceans, and what did that letter say? We don't know. It's gone.

The most celebrated playwright in the English tradition has plays that are just gone. You want to perform or watch Love's Labours Won? TOO FUCKING BAD.

Want to watch Lon Cheyney's London After Midnight, a mystery-horror silent film from 1927? TOO BAD. The MGM vault burnt down in 1965 and the last known copy went up in smoke.

If something still exists, if it still is kept somewhere, there is always an opportunity to decide if it's worthy of being remembered. It can still be recognized for its merits, for its impact, for its importance, or just what it says about the time and culture and people who made it, and what they believed and thought and did. It can still be a useful part of history, even if we decide it's a horrible thing, a bigoted mess, a terrible piece of art. We have the opportunity to do all that.

If it's lost... We are out of options. All we can do is research it from how it affected other things. There's a lot of great books and plays and films and shows that we only know of because other contemporary sources talked about them so much. We're trying to figure out what it was and what it did, from tracing the shadow it cast on the rest of culture.

This is why archivists get anxious whenever people say "this thing is bad and should not be preserved". Because, yeah, maybe they're right. Maybe we'll look back and decide "yeah, that is worthless and we shouldn't waste the hard drive or warehouse space on it".

But if they're wrong, and we listen to them, and don't archive... We don't get a second chance at this. And archivists have been bitten too many times by talk of "we don't need copies, the original studio has the masters!" (it burnt down), or "this isn't worth preserving, it's just some damn silly fad" (the fad turned out to be the first steps of a cultural revolution), or "this media is degenerate/illegal/immoral" (it turns out those saying that were bigots and history doesn't agree with their assessment).

So we archive what we can. We can always decide later if it doesn't need preserving. And being a responsible archivist often means preserving things but not making them publicly available, or being selective in what you archive (I back up a lot of old computer hard drives. Often they have personal photos and emails and banking information! That doesn't get saved).

But it's not really a good idea to be making quality or moral judgements of what you archive. Because maybe you're right, maybe a decade or two later you'll decide this didn't need to be saved. And you'll have the freedom to make that choice. But if you didn't archive it, and decide a decade later you were wrong... It's just gone now. You failed.

Because at the end of the day I'd rather look at an archive and see it includes 10,000 things I think are worthless trash, than look at an archive of on the "best things" and know that there are some things that simply cannot be included. Maybe they were better, but can't be considered as one of the best... Because they're just gone. No one has read them, no one has been able to read them.

We have a long history of losing things. The least we can do going forward is to try and avoid losing more. And leave it up to history to decide if what we saved was worth it.

My dream is for a future where critics can look at stuff made in the present and go "all of this was shit. Useless, badly made, bigoted, horrible. Don't waste your time on it!"

Because that's infinitely better than the future where all they can do is go "we don't know of this was any good... It was probably important? We just don't know. It's gone. And it's never coming back"

[wickedlyqueer]

favorite Wicked actresses? Both in terms of individual performance as well as pairings with great gelphie dynamics

i mean having a good gelphie dynamic is one of the requirements for being a fav of mine. uhh anyway...

Glinda

Katie Rose Clarke

Megan Hilty, Kara Lindsay Ginna Claire Mason

I'm sure I've forgotten a few tbh I haven't watched a bootleg show in ages. All is to say, I'm very particular about my Glinda's. Top spot has forever been KRC for me and I doubt that'll ever change soon. She just got Glinda. She just got her and the role so fucking well.

Elphaba

Far less picky tbh, bc the role is so multi-interpretable and it still makes sense. But top favorites are (in no particular order):

Willemijn Verkaik (🇳🇱-pride), Rachel Tucker, Eden Espinosa, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Jennifer DiNoia, Lindsay Mendez.

I saw Alexia Khadime this summer (live!) and she murdered No Good Deed, absolutely obliterated it. And if it's one thing that makes you instantly go on top of my Elphie list, it's killing NGD.

I want that song to be as imperfectly perfect as you can possibly make it. Go absolutely insane over it. Show me how fucked up Elphie's mental state is right now!! I want an Elphie who truly and utterly believes she's a villain now.

Uhhhh anyway, before i go completely into my NGD-rant... it takes a lot to make me dislike / not appreciate an Elphaba tbh. :)

[thoughtfulfangirling]

2024 Reads

Another human invented marker of time has passed moving us from one year to the next. It's a good reason to start over my lists right?! XD 2023's list can be found here! 2024 starts below!

You Made a Fool out of Death with Your Beauty - Awaeke Emezi

Pussypedia: A Comprehensive Guide^ - Zoe Mendelson & Maria Conejo

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek -Kim Michele Richardson

Meru - S.B. Divya

The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South^ by Radley Balko & Tucker Carrington

Watching the Tree: A Chinese Daughter Reflects on Happiness, Tradition, and Spiritual Wisdom^ - Adeline Yen Mah

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong

The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg^ - Helen Rappaport]

Pride and Prejudice* - Jane Austen

Fresh Girl - Jaida Placide

Butts: A Backstory^ - Heather Radke

The Girl Who Chased the Moon - Sarah Addison Allen

The Silent Patient - Alex Michaelides

The Blue Sword - Robin McKinley

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex^ - Nathaniel Philbrick

A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico^ - Amy S. Greenberg

This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible^ - Charles E. Cobb Jr.

This Is Your Mind on Plants^ - Michael Pollan

The Silent Patient*~ - Alex Michaelides

Finding Me^ - Viola Davis

Wuthering Heights# - Emily Bronte

Exit Strategy~ - Martha Wells

The Girls Who Went Away:^ The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades before Roe V. Wade - Ann Fessler

Bowling Alone:^ The Collapse and Revival of American Community - Robert D. Putnam

Fugitive Telemetry%~ - Martha Wells

The History of Wales^*% - History Nerds

The War on Everyone^% ~- Robert Evans

Searching for Black Confederates:^ The Civil War's Most Persistent Myth - Kevin M. Levin

The Great Influenza:* The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History [2004] by John M. Barry

Network Effect~ - Martha Wells

Zelda Popkin:^ The Life and Times of an American Jewish Woman Writer - Jeremy D Popkin

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon

Medical Apartheid:^ The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present - Harriet A Washington

The Assassination of Fred Hampton:^ How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther - Jeffrey Haas

The Death of Vivek Oji - Awaeke Emezi

Mutual Aid:^% Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next) - Dean Spade

Passin' Through - Luis L'Amour

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store - James McBride

Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro

Histories of the Transgender Child^ - Jules Gill-Peterson

Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curiosu Man^ - Mark Kurlansky

When I Fell from the Sky:^ The True Story of One Woman's Miraculous Survival - Juliane Koepcke

Dear Senthuran:^ A Black Spirit Memoir - Akwaeke Emezi

Emma* by Jane Austen

Lud-in-the-Mist - Hope Mirrlees

Woman:^ The American History of an Idea - Lillian Faderman

System Collapse - Martha Wells

A Dark and Starless Forest - Sarah Hollawell

The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love^% - Bell Hooks

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks^ - Rebecca Skloot

Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America^ -Rachel Hope Cleves

The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle^ - Lillian Faderman

The Woman in Me^ - Brittany Spears

Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal & Sovereignty in Native America^ - Gregory Smithers

Being Huemann: An Unrepentant Memoir of Disability Rights Activist^ - Judith Huemann

The Unthinkable: Who Survives When a Disaster Strikes and Why^ - Amanda Ripley

The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone^ - Edward Dolnick

Utopia for Realists:^ How We Can Build the Ideal World - Rutger Bregman

The Echo Wife - Sarah Gailey

To Believe in Women:^ What Lesbians Have Done for America - Lillian Faderman

Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon

Tribe:^% On Homecoming and Belonging - Sebastian Junger

Freedom^% - Sebastian Junger

Our Wives Under the Sea - Julia Armfield

Nonviolence: 25 Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea% - Mark Kurlansky

Bridehead Revisited# - Evelyn Waugh

The Witch Elm - Tana Frencyh

Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin

HumanKind: A Hopeful History - Rutger Bregman^

Autumn at the Willow River Guesthouse - C.P Ward

From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World Find the Good Death^ - Caitlin Doughty

A Study in Drowning - Ava Reid

The Turn of the Screw - Henry James

Gideon the Ninth* - Tamsyn Muir

See What I Have Done - Sarah Schmidt

Plain Bad Heroines* - Emily M Danforth

Tell Me I'm Worthless - Alison Rumfitt

On Killing:^ The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society - Dave Grossman

Camp Damascus - Chuck Tingle

The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror - Daneil M. Lavery

The Night Gardener - Jonathan Auxier

The World of Lore: Wicked Mortals^ - Aaron Mahnke

The Willows% - Algernon Blackwood

Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones% - Alvin Schwartz

The Motion of Puppets - Keith Donohue

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow% - Washington Irving

Wisconsin's Ghosts^ - Sherry Strub

Trauma and Recovery^: The Aftermath of Violence—from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror - Judith Lewis Herman

An Enchangment of Ravens - Margaret Rogerson

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell* - Susanna Clark

Portrait of a Thief - Grace D. Li

The Five^: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper - Hallie Rubenhold

Countrymen: The Untold Story of How Denamrk's Jews Escaped the Nazis, of the Courage of their Fellow Danes^ - and the Extrondinary Role of the SS - Bo Lidegaard

The Road to Jonestown^: Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple - Jeff Guinn

The Scary Book of Christmas Lore^ - Tim Rayborn

On Tyranny^: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century - Timothy Snyder

The Old Magic of Christmas:^ Yuletide Traditions for the Darkest Days of the Year - Linda Raedisch

(last updated 12/15)

Currently reading: Christmas Truce (print), The Hogfather (Audio), HTN (with spouse), and Midnight Never Come (audio to fall asleep to)

Key: * = Reread ^ = Nonfiction ~ = Read with Empty % = Novella #= Doc book club

My goal for 2024 is for 40% of my reads to be nonfiction. I've had two years within the recent past where I managed 20% of my reads to be nonfiction, so I'm aiming to double that. THIS WILL BE HARD FOR ME! Not because I don't enjoy nonfiction but because I enjoy fiction a lot more and have a lot more practice reading it. Haha Also for me, I am in circles where I'm just going to have more awareness of fictional books that I'm likely to enjoy more so than nonfiction. I'm kind of hoping that this years journey will change that a bit too!

Okay, below the cut I'm putting the nonfiction books on my tbr, most of which I have the lovely people of Tumblr to thank for the recommendations!

1968: The Year that Rocked the World

The Age of Wood; Our Most Useful Material...

The Assassination of Fred Hampton

Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the...

Being Human

The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shelf

Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man

Bowling Alone

Brave the Wild: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped...

Butts: A Backstory / Evermore Recommended

The Cadaver Kin and the Country Dentist / Automatuck9

Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America

Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse...

Dear Senthuran

DisneyWar

Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with...

Finding Me (Viola Davis)

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed...

The Food of a Younger Land

The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women...

The Glass Universe

The Great Hunger: The Story of the Famine...

The Great Influenza

Helping Her Get Free: A Guide for Families and Friends of an Abused Woman

The History of Ireland

The History of Scotland

The History of Wales

How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

The Indifferent Stars Above

In the Heart of the Sea / ecouterbien

In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death...

The Last Days of the Romanovs / Automatuck9

Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical...

Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During the Crisis...

A New World Begins

Nonviolence: The History of a Dangerous...

This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get you Killed / Empty

Radium Girls

The Road to Jonestown

Paper: Paging through History

People's Temple

Pussypedia / Bookstagram Rec

Salt: A World History

Say Nothing

Sea Biscuit: An American legend

Searching for Black Confederates

This is Your Mind on Plants

Unmasking Autism

The Unthinkable: Who Survives when Disaster Strikes - And Why

Watching the Tree / found all by my little self

We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow we Will be Killed...

A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln and the.. / Rose

The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta...

I will actually add to this list as I get more recs and whatnot. And I still have some coming which I ordered from Thriftbooks. Once those are here, I'll add those. I'm a little sad there aren't more memoirs, but there's plenty of time for that yet! This is already 37 books, and given lately I've been reading about 70 (nonfiction may slow me down tho), these should give me plenty of ability to reach my 40% goal. Now it's just a matter of if I do it XD

[jtavington]

Keeping one eye on the Wicked fandom and everything is just so...surreal. I saw the original cast. I have a favorite Nessa and I have a list of favorites who've played the leads (Megan Hilty/Rachel Tucker dream cast). I have two copies of the book.

And now there's finally a movie and it at least sounds good (scheduling four hours to go to the movies is hard). No seriously they all sound great! And there'll be so much good stuff!

I just hope I can intro some of you guys to great Glindas and Elphies of the past so I don't feel like an old crone.

[it-may-be-dull-but-im-determined]

So it's been an entire week of Wicked-the-Movie-part-the-first being completely unavoidable and I am so.freaking.tired.

And why am I still going on about why I didn't love it? Because it's one of those things that people vaguely know I'm a fan of the show. So they keep asking me what I thought and I'm just overtired enough to still launch into an incoherent explanation of why it didn't work for me.

That explanation is entirely meaningless, because I am really not the intended audience. I never really thought I would be (probably from about the moment they cast Ariana Grande, if we're being honest). And mostly that's because I read the book multiple times 20+ years ago and I've seen the west end production 20+ times since then. I've sidetracked NYC trips to see it on Broadway and to San Francisco to see it at the original workshop theatre and I remain obsessed with the 2007 Broadway cast. I did indeed show up to the opening night screening dressed in pink and green and I have two different types of Chistery plushies sat on my sofa idk??

I'm a.. fan, to all intents and purposes. But I'm too much of a fan to want a new version that doesn't really add anything meaningful to how the show tells the story - part one is an hour longer than the show and yet it moves it further away from the book, if anything. It took me a LONG time to process how the show adapted the book back in 2006 but the show added that goddamn all time great soundtrack dammit. The movie adds pretty much.. nothing of note?

The things that bug me about the movie are not things that would ever occur to the people asking me what I thought it the film, and they're probably irrelevant to other people who consider themselves long term fans. Everyone is a fan in their own way, and that's great. It also means I reserve the right to want the character choices to make sense (they do not make sense. Why is Elphie being treated like a grown adult and not even enrolled at school?? Why is she wearing a version of her Act 2 dress TO THE OZDUST and not only undermining the costume reveal in Defying Gravity but also making the lyrics of Popular MAKE NO SENSE to the point they then ...have to invent the word 'froat' for absolutely no reason? This version of Elphie does not actually even need a makeover. Why are we even here, folks? I'm so confused 😭)

What I wanted was the damn film made fifteen years ago with a lot fewer intense close ups starring... Literally any of the show cast, idk? Idina and Kristen, Julia Murney and Kendra Kasselbaum, Kerry Ellis or Rachel Tucker, idk I have a lot of favourite Elphies?? Actually let's not get started on casting because *sob* Ariana Grande?? really?? And I will yet again be baffled why every other shot of the film was a close up of the actor's face. It's a musical. The songs are designed to be viewed from a distance. As per the show, the cast are very much decades older than the characters they are playing, but unlike the show this then becomes VERY OBVIOUS in close up on a cinema screen. In IMAX it was veering on fucking terrifying at times, and Ariana Grande becomes an abject lesson in how lip filler can go horribly wrong *shudder*

Here's the other thing: I know full well the show creatives were involved in the film as well, so I'm not sitting here complaining about John Chu per se (although I am also complaining about a fair few of his choices to over-egg the existing story). Stephen Schwartz is just as responsible for how the songs sound in the movie. The choices to keep the nonsensical points of the show plot but pad out the runtime to bizarrely now give you time to notice that the plot structure verges on nonsensical. There's a whole clash of sensibilities as to how they approached the work 20+ years ago compared to now, and to what it meant to me back then and now as well.

Yep everyone else loves it. Good for them. I'm just kinda being forced to keep having pointless conversations about why I didn't love it and it's giving me thinky thoughts about what the hell fandom means in that context idk.

[twigstarpikachutroll22]

*CLAPS*

OKAY. FAVORITE SONGS. HAIR WE GO. STRAP IN.

A Glacier Eventually Farts (And Don’t You Listen To The Song Of Life), by Christodoulou

Between Us and Them, by Malinda Reese

But You’ll Do, by Malinda Reese

CAN’T STOP THE FEELING!!, by Justin Timberlake

Christmas Pageant, by Amanda Fagan

Circus, sung by Lindsay Mendez

Countdown, by Brendan Blaber ft. Dawn M. Bennet

Crayons Can Melt On Me For All I Care, by Relient K

Don’t Look Back / Don’t Wait For Me, by trashyinferno

Drinking Song For The Socially Anxious, by The Amazing Devil

Eating My Computer, by elliotly

Error, by niki (specifically the English piano cover by Jubyphonic)

Fireflies, by Owl City

Get Back Up Again, from Trolls

Horses, by Tegan Marie

I See You, by Acezu

Just One Day, by 2winz^2

Just Sing, from Trolls World Tour

Kelly Time, by Owl City

the nameless song about Kisagari Station (I listen to Rachie’s english cover of it)

La Da Dee, by Cody Simpson

Lesbian Ponies With Weapons, by Vylet

Let Me Cry, by Laura Marano

Long Live, by Taylor Swift

Neon Pegasus, by Parry Gripp

Not The Villain, by S.J. Tucker

Peppermint Winter, by Owl City

Queens Don’t, by RaeLynn

Rainbow Veins, by Owl City

Rather Be, by Clean Bandit ft. Jess Glynne

See What You Want, by Rachel Rose Mitchell

Ship In A Bottle, by Steffan Argus

Shut Up And Fish, by Maddie & Tae

Something You Don’t Know, by Rachel Rose Mitchell

Struck By Lightning, by Sara Kays ft. Cavetown

Stuck With You, by Aurelio Voltaire ft. Amanda Palmer

Thank God You Introduced Me To Your Sister, by Sarah Barrios

The Disappearance of Hatsune Miku (I listen to the english cover by Rachie)

The Girl Who’s Never Been, by Escape Key

The Masochism Tango, by Tom Lehrer

The Old Witch Sleep and the Good Man Grace, by The Amazing Devil

The Other Side of the Storm, from Trolls: The Beat Goes On

The Perfect Pokerap, by Brian David Gilbert

The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny, by Lemon Demon

True Colors, from Trolls (yes I know it’s not originally from there it’s by Cyndi Lauper but it is very specifically the Trolls version within the context of Trolls that means everything in the universe to me)

Underground, by Cody Fry

Waiting for The End, by el

Why Do I, by Set It Off ft. Hatsune Miku

Wicked Girls, by Seanan McGuire

You Didn’t, by Brett Young

Your Stupid Face, by Kaden MacKay

Hey eyeone! I want to know what your favorite songs are, if you see this post you are CONTRACTUALLY OBLIGATED to reblog with at least 1 song you have listened to and enjoyed but if you have more you'd like to share then go ahead! Also tag your friends!

I'll start, I'm going to list 5 of my favorite songs

Dr Sunshine Is Dead by Will Wood

134340 Pluto by Cojum Dip

Vulture by Bear ghost

Dear John by I monster

And finally: playing places: Oceans by Cosmo Sheldrake

Here's the people I want to tag

@f4y3w00d5 @ashen-the-tiefling @terrencetheshark14 @underpaid-guard @blacktipreefsharkwizard @the-gnomish-bastard @thatgayforkcrow @lixorloveslicorice @yourlocalbreadenthusiast @agentldiddy @aileaxthevoidien @slutty-wizard-council @monsterfucker-research-wizard and anyone else who wants to play!!!

[cantstoptheimagines]

And I cast a spell over the west to make you think of me The same way I think of you

Bang the Doldrums - Fall Out Boy

send me a random song lyric & i’ll tell you a character it reminds me of 💗

was originally going to say arthur morgan, but then i thought of elphaba from wicked

and while we’re on the topic, who is your favorite elphaba? my heart’s been stolen by both rachel tucker and shoshana bean <3 anyway, here are a bunch of different elphabas for your enjoyment

[gelphiegifs]

Gelphie Femslash February Day 7: Height Difference aka tall!Glinda compilation pt. 2

[paradise-bi-the-dashboard-lightt]

MUSICAL THEATRE APPRECIATION WEEK 2021

↳ Day 2 → Favorite Stage Character/Arc, Elphaba Thropp

[raven-curls]

Rachel Tucker

X

[louuieferrignojr]

i was watching the wicked on pbs special tonight and if amber riley never gets cast as elphaba, i will throw a table.

THE RIFFS I CAN’T

[fuckyeahgifheaven]

‘Defying Gravity’ duet  with Rachel Tucker.

19. Oct. 2015

[theeveningmistfalls]

Wicked - West End - December 10, 2011 (Matinee)

Rachel Tucker (Elphaba), Zoë Rainey (Nessarose), Ben Stott (Boq)

muck-up matinee; penultimate performances for Louise Dearman (as Glinda), Mark Evans, Ben Stott, Zoe Rainey, Julian Forsyth and Clive Carter

[musical-dreamcasts]

Next to Normal - Rachel Tucker as Diana Goodman, requested by anon

Birthday: May 29, 1981 (age 39)

Birth Place: Belfast, Northern Ireland

Theatre credits include: Elphaba (Wicked), Beverley Bass (Come From Away), Meg Giry (Love Never Dies), Maureen Johnson (Rent), Dorothy Gale (The Wizard of Oz), Elly (Lazarus), Meat (We Will Rock You)

(Pictured on the right is Marin Mazzie, who played the role in the Broadway production)

[lonelylittledot]

You know one thing I love about Wicked?

It’s the fact that I get to start crushing on every Elphaba twice. I see her in the show first and I go “Ah, she’s gorgeous! I love her!”

And then I look up the actress to see what she looks like de-greenified, and I go “AAaaAA she’s so CUTE whAt”