#Suffs Slime Tutorial

[miss-tribulationperiwinkle]

Why I Hate Suffs.

Spoiler alert, but in the movie “10 Things I Hate About You”, Kat Stratford reads a poem in front of her class in which she mentions all the reasons why she hates a guy and at the end she says “But mostly, I hate the way I don't hate you. Not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all.” And, well, that’s exactly why I hate Suffs.

I really tried hating Suffs. I live on the opposite side of the continent from the Music Box Theater. On the side where we consider ourselves “Americans” just by living on this land, even if we don’t live in the wealthiest country and where Christmas is spent wearing shorts and eating by the pool. Because of that, seeing Suffs this year was not an option for me. I love musical theater with every part of my being, but I’ve learnt that I have to ignore certain shows if I don’t want to spend months being sad because I can’t see them.

The problem was that I knew I was going to like Suffs, even if just a little. So my plan was to hate it instead. I believed every lie I read on the Internet about it that would help me with it. I ignored the cast album even when Spotify thought I should try listening to it. I didn’t even check the reviews when they came out because what would I do if they were good? 

Everything was going perfectly, I convinced myself that Suffs was the worst show on Broadway, the kind that deserves bad reviews and empty seats. But then, I watched the Tony awards and I saw Shaina Taub win her second Tony of the night and curiosity got to me. The following day, I listened to the Cast Album for the first time. 

Now, because I don’t live near Broadway, most of the knowledge I’ve gotten about shows comes from listening to cast albums. I’m one of those people who believe that music and lyrics are one of the most important parts of a musical. If they aren’t good, I don’t care if you put the Empire State Building on stage, I will not like the show. If you don’t make me feel something through words and sound, you won’t get my attention. 

The first song I listened to was “Let Mother Vote” and it got my attention. Then everything else came and I just knew I was screwed. There was no way I was going to hate that musical after listening to the full album. It was smart, it had different styles, and it spoke to me in a unique way. Now, I wish everyone was willing to listen to it speak to them.

Suffs doesn’t tell my story, it doesn’t even tell the story of my ancestors. But even so, it fills my body with an array of emotions and my eyes with tears every time I listen to it. It would have been great if it had been a boring, educational show about politics. I would have been able to hate it. But the thing is that it’s so much more than that. 

It’s a show that made me realize that women are not powerless like some people make us think we are. It’s convenient for them that we buy that lie, but it’s simply not true and Suffs proves it by showing the achievements of women who were deemed insane just because they wanted to be heard and seen. Women who not only believed in themselves, but also in collective power. They believed in having each other’s backs when the world turned theirs to them. Suffs showed me that we don’t have to be the same person, or think alike, to be able to fight for what is right. It showed me that even when we think we are alone, a woman next to us will hold up the sign and march with us. Women are powerful, especially when we are united. Especially when we decide to show the world that we are. 

I wish I’d been able to hate Suffs. If I had, I wouldn’t have cried on Friday learning the news that the show will be closing in January. I wouldn’t be so mad at people who believed lies and built their opinions on nothing and won’t give it a chance when it’s such a relevant show -even if that was my original plan. I wish I could yell in their faces and ask them to pay attention, because if there’s a musical that needs to be seen and heard by everyone, it’s this one. 

I recently saw a video of their cast album presentation and I cried seeing women from different generations there. That’s what Suffs is to me, a musical that’s not about being a certain age or from a certain historical time or from a specific country, it’s about being a woman. We know what that’s about, we know it’s not easy, but we are powerful, we are not alone and we have to keep marching for the ones that came before and the ones that will come, we can do it. I just love Suffs.

[mijnlevenisvanmij]

trading bootlegs!!

third time's the charm so. is anyone interested in trading bootlegs? i have almost 600 musicals (and some plays too). if you want to trade dm me and i'll send my list

i am also selling my entire collection btw (individual shows too!!)

[megnotwilkins]

Hillary Clinton and Malala Yousafzai are producing a musical about the suffrage movement and the woman who played the pilot/Annette in the Come From Away obc is going to be in it. Can someone put this into the Castiel meme format for me

[autistichalsin]

I am once again asking if anyone has a Suffs slime tutorial

[shelfthe-reader]

alright cabinet, if the only musicals i've watched are spring awakening, dear evan hansen, hamilton, and the percy jackson musical, where should I start?

So I’m not the BIGGEST slime tutorial (iykyk) person so I have NO CLUE the best links for those but here are my favorite movie-musicals you can find on Streaming

Disney+

Newsies (1992)

Newsies (2017) These two would help you understand some of my reblogs lmao

Hamilton

Into the Woods (contrary to popular belief, it’s not as bad as it could have been, and this is the only role James Corden has EVER been decent in)

West Side Story (one of my all-time favorites; I love this version more than the OG)

MAX

In The Heights

Singin In The Rain

Mamma Mia

The Color Purple (2023)

Hulu

Mamma Mia/Here We Go Again

The Color Purple (2023)

As for cast albums, here’s a playlist of the “official” opening songs to all of MY favorites (this IS NOT a finished playlist, especially since people keep dropping cast albums) (you will NEVER see Phantom or Les Mis or Chicago etc etc on here) (But again, this is an ever-evolving playlist on opening numbers so who knows)

Right now, the albums I have on repeat (Note: NOT the same as favorites) are Hell’s Kitchen, The Outsiders, Suffs, 35MM, Bonnie & Clyde, Water for Elephants, and Almost Famous

My ABSOLUTE FAVORITES are Come From Away, Newsies, The Outsiders, West Side Story, RENT, Parade, and & Juliet (as of Monday July 1st)

The Shows I’ve Seen on Broadway (in order)

School of Rock

Come From Away

Hadestown

Six

Paradise Square

& Juliet

Aladdin (music is Menken so thats all it had going for it lmao) (Michael you were great tho)

Parade

The Outsiders

The Heart of Rock and Roll (music was good, plot was out of pocket)

National Tours

Six

Anastasia

College Theter

Newsies

Rent

Into the Woods

Community Theater

Anastasia

Newsies

Beauty and the Beast

Bye Bye Birdie

Aladdin Jr.

School Musicals

Godspell

The Sound of Music

Newsies

Frozen Jr

Shrek Jr

And I was in Tuck Everlasting (Youth Edition) so that’s fun too

I think I’ve covered all my bases so if you have ANY QUESTIONS please ask me also if you want to do like a listening party for any of these I wouldn’t say no lmao

[miss-shirley]

help, all I want now is a Broadway Suffs slime tutorial because I cannot live without it I think 🥲 is there one already??

[mijnlevenisvanmij]

selling my bootleg collection!

not sure if anyone will see this, but. i am selling my entire bootleg collection. i have links to almost 600 musicals, mostly new. none of them are youtube rips. if anyone's interested, pls feel free to slide into my dms for more details!!

i am also open to trading as always <3

[miss-tribulationperiwinkle]

How can you build a community from an island?

Lately, I’ve found myself in a place that I thought I had left some time ago. I’m standing again in the middle of this deserted island where no one speaks the same language I do and the mainland seems to be very distant, beyond a huge body of water that I cannot cross because my boat has sunk and it’s not time for a new one to come around and save me yet. So, here I am. Alone. Singing in my mind to keep my spirits happy, but crying because of the impossibility of reaching the land that carries my tune. 

And, as I let this island take the best of me, I think to myself, how can something you love be both your blessing and your curse? When I tell you what I am talking about, you’ll think I’m the embodiment of hyperbole. The most exaggerated person on earth. And maybe I am. But I’m stuck on this island, and if I don’t write about it, I’ll become the crazy person who talks to a ball with a face. 

My blessing and my curse is my love for musical theater. I wasn’t born loving it, but I’ve grown to love it with all my heart. I’m from a small town, where my island forms every so often, and where no one knows anything about musicals. No one knows who Rodgers and Hammerstein were, or Stephen Sondheim, or Jonathan Larson. They don’t know what a Playbill is or what magic place a Stage Door can be. Living on this island, I learnt to build different boats that would help me get closer to that mainland I longed to discover. My boats took different shapes, the Internet, Wikipedia, Youtube, Bootlegs (I know, sorry, but yes), Cast Albums! 

For a long, long time, these boats gave me hope and helped me create new maps that I could use to navigate the mainland once I got there. And one day, I did. I got to see the magic of Broadway with my own two eyes and, most importantly, I got to feel it. I felt so blessed that I knew I wanted to keep navigating the waters to get there.

But, the truth is, I live too far away from it. So, I designed a plan. I was going to build a bigger boat and I was going to reach the mainland and stay there for a longer time. And so I did. And I got there and for months I was able to spend my Saturdays crying and laughing inside theaters. Ah, there was that blessing again, I could feel it move inside of me. The joy, the happy tears, the sense of belonging. 

And then, a huge hurricane came. Everyone had to stay inside, no one could escape from it. No place in the world was safe from it. My boat came to get me before the waters were still. And once again, I was on my island. Hopeless, cursed.

But, you see, the thing is that there was the boat again. Once more, bringing hope and blessings to my life. And it took me again to the place where I belonged. We made a deal, if everything was fine, it would come and get me to take me to the mainland every so often. Once a year, for a couple of months. And then, it would bring me back to my island. 

These past years, that boat became my ally and my best friend, everything was working perfectly. Every time I returned to my house, I was happy to put my Playbills and memories away for a little while. I would listen to cast albums, but knowing that I had gotten the chance to experience the magic they told in person, surrounded by people who were moved by the same songs and stories. 

I never got a full sense of community. Even on the mainland, sometimes an island appears around me. Besides the fact that I’m very, very shy, how can you build a community when you know that a boat is coming to get you soon? I tried to build one, but it’s so hard to do when you know you come from an island they don’t know, an island where no one speaks their language and no one knows who Stephen Sondheim was. But even so, every time I got into a theater, I felt a bit of that community form around me. I was crying in the same room where other people were also crying because we were all reacting to the same story, even with our different backgrounds.

For a while, I started to think that maybe my island was growing and I wasn’t so far away from the mainland as I used to be. I didn’t feel so alone anymore, I could see the skyline from my island and enjoy my time while waiting for my boat to come. 

But this year, it changed. When I put away my Playbills, I knew there was a show that was going to start performances days after my return and that it would make me miss the mainland even more. I tried to ignore it. But then, Shaina Taub won two Tony Awards for it. 

I heard the Suffs cast album and the body of water around my island grew bigger than before. I started longing to have a community, to get to know people that are as excited about learning about the show as I am, but how can I do it when I’m stuck in the middle of my island? How can I get that sense of community if I’m sitting on my desk alone instead of breathing next to someone inside of a theater? 

Sometimes, I feel pretty lonely here. Sometimes, there’s a breeze that makes me feel hopeful. I just can’t wait for my boat to turn this curse into a blessing again. In the meantime, I guess I’ll have to figure out a way of building a community from an island. 

[mijnlevenisvanmij]

Hello! Do you have a bootleg of Suffs? I just saw it and loved it and really want to show people! I don't have much to sell but I would buy it potentially! Thank you!

hello, i do! i even have two :) send me a dm and we can talk

[autistichalsin]

Does anyone know if there is a Suffs slime tutorial?