#The Ghost of Stephen Foster

[gengarghast]

Songs that you might like if you're into Will Wood

The Ghost of Stephen Foster by Squirrel Nut Zippers

2. Dance Like an Idiot by Figment 2

3. Fuck I ran out of songs

[theotherblueeyedtallest]

A WIP

Another concert pic , this time it's The Ghost of Stephen Foster c:

[mythigal1966]

Squirrel Nut Zippers - Ghost of Stephen Foster

[rustbeltjessie]

Well, grab your drink and clear a space I think it's time to torch this place Now the girl's in overdrive But some of your pals want to stay alive! I'll put a lid on it I'll put a lid down on it I'll put a lid down on it, save it for another night

Met the Ghost of Stephen Foster at the Hotel Paradise This is what I told him as I gazed into his eyes Ships were made for sinking Whiskey made for drinking If we were made of cellophane, we'd all get stinking drunk quite faster ha, ha, ha

[chasdesvoeux]

MUSTER LIST UNDER THE CUT Note that a) there are likely others I have not accounted for moving outside Charles circle who have yet to be added, but also b) it looks like a long list but by no means are all spots taken. If you want to join in just make a blog/sideblog and start interacting and I'll add you no questions asked. If you want a list of who all *isn't* taken, dm me and I'll forward you a guide to the AMC Cold Boys. Also c) some links might not work as blog names occasionally change. Please let me know if one is broken and I'll update it. Enjoy!

Anon, Peach - Peaches

Armitage, Thomas - Gunroom Steward (Terror)

Asleepmottley, Ash - Surgery Apprentice (Terror)

Blanky, Thomas - Ice Master (Terror)

Bridgens, John - Officer's Steward, Captain's Steward (Erebus)

Cracroft, Sophia - Fumbler (England)

Collins, Henry Foster - Second Master (Erebus)

Crozier, Francis Rawdon Moira - Captain (Terror)

Des Voeux, Charles Frederick (You Are Here) - Mate, 12 Year-Old Father (Erebus)

Fairholme, James Walter "Walt" - Third Lieutenant (Erebus)

Fitzjamie, Jamie - Commander, Captain (Erebus)

Franklin, Jane - Widow (England)

Franklin, John - Former Captain (Erebus)

Gibson, Billie - Officer's Steward (Terror)

Goodsir, Harry - Surgeon's Assistant, Anatomist (Erebus, Terror)

Gore, Graham - First Lieutenant (Erebus)

Hickey, Cornelius - Caulker's Mate (Terror)

Hoar, Edmund - Captain's Steward (Erebus)

Hodgson, George Henry - Second Lieutenant (Terror)

Irving, John - Third Lieutenant, Holy Ghost Boy (Terror)

Jopson, Mary - Former Mother (Marylebone)

Jopson, Thomas - Captain's Steward, Third Lieutenant (Terror)

Le Vesconte, Henry Thomas Dundas "Dundy" - Second Lieutenant (Erebus)

Little, Edward - First Lieutenant (Terror)

MacDonald, Alexander - Surgeon's Assistant (Erebus)

Peglar, Henry "Harry" - Captain of the Foretop (Terror)

Pilkington, William "Pilk" - Private (Erebus)

Ross, James Clark - Rear Admiral (Enterprise)

Silna "Lady Silence" - Strongest Soldier (Nunavut)

Stanley, Stephen - Surgeon (Erebus)

Tozer, Solomon "Sol" - Marine Sergeant (Terror)

Fagin (Erebus)

Jacko (Erebus)

Rats, The (Erebus, Terror)

Tuunbaq (Nunavut)

Will be updated as new members join the club, let me know if links don't work!

[d-criss-news]

How Sondheim and Burnett Got Darren Criss to Provincetown

Provincetown hasn’t been compared to The Godfather or Star Wars very often, but those are the examples actor and singer Darren Criss names in acknowledging that his July 21 town hall appearance will be his first visit here.

“Provincetown is like that movie that you haven’t seen but you don’t want your friends to know you haven’t seen, so you don’t incur their wrath and ridicule and disbelief,” he says, noting that several of his good pals visit often. “I don’t bring up that I haven’t been there because my friends will give me crap. I haven’t avoided it — I’ve really wanted to go. Finally, the stars aligned quite nicely.”

Maybe the stars had a little help from Carol Burnett.

Host and accompanist John McDaniel, a Grammy and Emmy award-winning musician, says he invited Criss to be part of his summer Broadway series here after Criss performed on 2023’s Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Love + Laughter TV birthday special. McDaniel was the music director.

Criss’s best-known roles are his breakout portrayal of Blaine for five seasons (2010 to 2015) on Glee in a milestone-for-mainstream-TV gay romance with Chris Colfer’s Kurt, and his 2018 Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning turn as spree killer Andrew Cunanan in The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story. (Both roles came thanks to producer and Provincetown part-timer Ryan Murphy.)

In addition to acting and singing — including Glee’s “Teenage Dream” cover that climbed the Billboard charts — Criss is a songwriter. He first won notice for co-writing and starring in 2009’s A Very Potter Musical parody for the Chicago-based StarKid Productions, which he co-founded. Criss’s A Very Darren Crissmas generated national holiday tours.

Shortly after Criss wrote the opening number for the 2022 Tony Awards, his friend Paul Miller, director of the Burnett tribute, asked him to refashion Stephen Sondheim’s “Side by Side” from Company into an homage to Burnett’s famous duets with celebrity guest stars.

In what he called “one of the coolest things I’ve ever gotten to be a part of,” Criss performed “Burnett’s Duets” for the star-studded birthday-party special with Broadway’s Sutton Foster. That came after he meticulously dissected Sondheim’s music to fit new lyrics and fine-tuned the arrangement with McDaniel.

“When I was doing this,” Criss says, “in my mind, I was going, ‘What would the ghost of Sondheim be OK with?’ ”

More Broadway music will be on Criss’s mind in Provincetown for what he says will be an unusual program because it likely won’t include original work or him playing guitar or piano; McDaniel will accompany him. Criss prides himself on not performing the same live show twice and plans to include Broadway songs he’s not yet sung in public.

That said, he recognizes fans might want to hear something connected to his own Broadway star turns. Those include — besides the nonmusical American Buffalo in 2022 — How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying in 2012 and 2015’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Plus, earlier this year, Criss starred in off-Broadway’s Little Shop of Horrors.

In September, he’ll originate a Broadway role for the first time, headlining Will Aronson and Hue Park’s musical Maybe Happy Ending. Criss plays an outdated, retired robot in futuristic Seoul who explores the nature of love with another retired robot (Helen J. Shen). To try to help boost its U.S. profile, Criss is also a producer of the musical, which has been a hit in Korea, China, and Japan. Its Broadway debut will be directed by Michael Arden (2023 Tony Award for Parade, Spring Awakening), a longtime Criss friend who directed the English-language debut in 2020 in Atlanta.

Criss is excited but nervous about the piece; he says it’s intimate and epic at once. “There’s an excitement about the uniqueness and specialness of this show that I’ve never encountered before,” he says. “So that’s either going to crash and burn and blow up in our faces or catch on. I don’t know, but the prospect is very thrilling.”

Criss, who is straight, made headlines this spring for comments at a Chicago expo about being “culturally queer” because of his admiration for the LGBTQ community. “The things in my life that I have tried to emulate, learn from, and be inspired by are 100 percent queer,” he said then, later adding that “it was in queer communities that I’ve found people that I idolize, that I want to learn something from.”

“That had to be the slowest news day ever,” Criss says about his comments getting attention — especially because he’s talked many times before about similar things, including how much it meant to be part of Glee’s Blaine-Kurt relationship story.

Beyond Provincetown and Broadway, in August Criss’s voice will be heard in an unusual spot: on season 10 of Netflix’s Gabby’s Dollhouse, a children’s show, as the new Marty the Party Cat, magical host of the Party Room. It’s a voice role Criss says was planned long before his two-year-old daughter and seven-week-old son were born to him and his wife.

Marty is described by Netflix as a lovable, “exuberant goofball” who has a big heart and the ability to laugh at himself.

“He’s a fun guy,” Criss says. “I’m aspirationally Marty the Party Cat.”

[embervoices]

It's between Skeleton Dance and Haunted House, but they always make me think of The Ghost of Stephen Foster, which is of course an homage much later:

[doctorofmagic]

So Stephen said he invested a piece of himself in 47 dol-- erm, I mean, figurines.

Since I'm insane, I'm gonna try to figure out which teams/heroes/anti-heroes/villains have one.

Misty Knight (confirmed)

The Bar With No Doors

Doctor Voodoo

The Avengers

Scarlet Witch (I know she's with the Avengers but she's also working solo atm)

Iron Man (same as above)

Magik (New Mutants included)

Silver Surfer

Namor

Hulk

The Fantastic Four

Hellcat

Hellstrom

Adam Warlock (and the Infinity Watch)

Black Widow

X-Men (whoever is the current leader)

Professor X (for Illuminati shenanigans)

Deadpool (he'll regret it later)

Howard the Duck

Black Panther

Blade

Wiccan & Hulkling (Young Avengers return when)

Daredevil

Moon Knight (Clea forced him)

Luke Cage

Alpha Flight

Valkyrie (Jane Foster)

Black Bolt

Man-Thing

Spidey (he will also regret that later)

Ghost Rider

Loki (only because Thor agreed to supervise them)

Elektra

She-Hulk

Storm

Black Cat (another poor decision)

Ms. Marvel (Champions return when)

Iron Fist I (Lin Lie)

Iron Fist II (Danny Rand)

Spider-Woman

Blue Marvel (and Taaia)

Gamora (Guardians of the Galaxy)

Nick Fury

Agents of Atlas

Cloud

Elsa Bloodstone

Moon Girl

Got his offer rejected by: Nico (she doesn't want adults supervising her Runaways), Doom (got suspicious and said Doom doesn't require any kind of aid -- although felt tempted to accept it deep down), Wolverine (told him he hates magic $#%&$*#).

Did I forget anyone?

[fixated-on-something]

heres another (hopefully daily) magicians question!! this one isn't really a question but uh just go with it-

assign a song to each of the magicians main characters, like a song that fits them and could be their 'theme song' of sorts

Oooooo shit… ok

I’m gonna have to do multiple for some of these cause it’s just impossible for me to capture my feelings about these characters in one song

So some of these are gonna be songs from the actual show because the association is very strong but some of them will just be vibes or lyrics

Quentin: Falling Apart by Slow Pulp, Kaleidoscope by Chappell Roan, Postdoc Blues by John K Samson, Someone New by Hozier

Eliot: Chinese Satellite by Phoebe Bridgers, Can’t Cool Me Down by Car Seat Headrest, Time To Pretend by MGMT, Phone In A Pool by Ben Folds

Alice: Philosophy by Ben Folds Five, Perpetuum Mobile by Penguin Café Orchestra, ballad of a homeschooled girl by Olivia Rodrigo

Julia: Are You Satisfied? By MARINA, The Suburbs by Arcade Fire

Margo: Beautiful Dreamer by Stephen Foster, Man’s World by MARINA, Bad Reputation by Joan Jett & the Blackhearts

Penny: Ghosting by Mother Mother, Pleasure Delayer by BETWEEN FRIENDS, Run Boy Run- Instrumental by Woodkid

Kady: Lovesick in Public by Zoe Ko, Blame Brett by The Beaches, Song 2 by Blur

Josh: You Make My Dreams (Come True) by Daryl Hall & John Oates, Break My Stride by Matthew Wilder

That’s not even half of it and I’m blanking for some of this- I’m sure I’ll have additions later

I could literally make a whole playlist for most of these guys

And remember before you say “that song doesn’t thematically fit that character” some of these just musically sound like that character to me, the lyrics have nothing to do with it

Plus some of these characters have songs to me that represent their pairings with others? Like of course Quentin and Eliot will always be Evolve by Phoria to me, Either Quentin and Alice or Quentin and Julia’s dynamic reads as Thérese by Maya Hawke imo, Julia and Quentin’s dynamic early on to me is Cheetah by Deux Visages, Eliot and Margo are a BUNCH of things including $20 by boygenius, Penny and Kady are kinda OMG by Suki Waterhouse but more in a musical sense not in a lyrical sense IDK MAN THERES SO MUCH AHHHH

[grilledpook]

so about stolen babies-

i took the very limited amount of footage made for the unfinished animatic and tried to put together these characters' appearances.

animatic in question:

fun fact: the boards were drawn by raymond persi!! the ghost of stephen foster codirector guy.

[doyourememberrocknrollradio]

Squirrel Nut Zippers - Ghost of Stephen Foster

[bearvanhelsing]

Tagged by @outeremissary Thank you Emi but omg my name is so long too lmao I cannot promise cringe won't make it on here. Gonna try and do this mostly with my Halloween playlist Jay's Spook Juke because that sounds fun.

Rules: Pick a song for each letter of your URL and tag that many people.

B lue Moon - The Marcels (my family's stupid running gag is we all burst out into this song when someone brings home a 24 pack of Blue Moon beers)

E yes Without a Face - Billy Idol

A ve Satani - Jerry Goldsmith

R emains of the Day - Danny Elfman

V irgin State of Mind - K's Choice

A Forest - The Cure

N osferatu - Blue Oyster Cult

H alloween Theme - John Carpenter

E arth, Wind, Fire and Air - Moon Sisters

L ife at Last - Ray Kennedy

S quare Hammer - Ghost

I t's Terror Time Again - Nate Wants to Battle

N o One Lives Forever - Oingo Boingo

G host of Stephen Foster - Squirrel Nut Zippers

[daisiesandgiggles]

Squirrel Nut Zippers - Ghost of Stephen Foster

[the-radio-demon-blog]

Alastor! It's nearly 4 am and I can't sleep. Sigh. I envy you that you don't need (much? any?) sleep. How do you do that? 😴

So I come to you with another song recommendation. I think you'll like the video as well. It's animated in the style of cartoons of your day...but the darker ones. (The Stephen Foster referenced wrote songs like Camptown Races and Oh Susanna, but you might have known that.) You might like Squirrel Nut Zippers other music, too. They're a swing/jazz band. They even have a song called Hell! Haha

https://youtu.be/xfkShimyhRE?si=bvTAvmvO3fE4PzRz

I think tumblr ate my last ask I sent on Sunday morning and I can't remember what it was anymore...other than I sent you a photo I took. 🤷‍♀️

After while crocodile 🐊

No, darling, I do not need any sleep at all! Hah!

Oh my, what a delightful little cartoon! A bit odd yet endearing. I loved the jazz bit of it. There is a certain charm to older bizarre looking cartoons that have a certain pizazz to it. I quite enjoyed the picture show and the music paired together surprisingly!

Yes I shall go browse the Squirrel Nut Zippers other music when I get a chance!

Met the Ghost of Stephen Foster at the Hotel Paradise This is what I told him as I gazed into his eyes Ships were made for sinking Whiskey made for drinking If we were made of cellophane, we'd all get stinking drunk quite faster ha, ha, ha

Ghost of Stephan Foster is the song of the day, folks!

My apologies, dear, I am slowly getting to everyone's asks. I simply need time but I shall get to them! I do like to think about an ask whenever I get it to craft the perfect response and then spend a bit of time writing it.

See you later, my dear, crocodile!

[sillyname30]

How Sondheim and Burnett Got Darren Criss to Provincetown

The songwriter and star of Glee makes his local debut in Broadway-centric concert

By Kathi Scrizzi Driscoll Jul 17, 2024

Provincetown hasn’t been compared to The Godfather or Star Wars very often, but those are the examples actor and singer Darren Criss names in acknowledging that his July 21 town hall appearance will be his first visit here.

“Provincetown is like that movie that you haven’t seen but you don’t want your friends to know you haven’t seen, so you don’t incur their wrath and ridicule and disbelief,” he says, noting that several of his good pals visit often. “I don’t bring up that I haven’t been there because my friends will give me crap. I haven’t avoided it — I’ve really wanted to go. Finally, the stars aligned quite nicely.”

Maybe the stars had a little help from Carol Burnett.

Host and accompanist John McDaniel, a Grammy and Emmy award-winning musician, says he invited Criss to be part of his summer Broadway series here after Criss performed on 2023’s Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Love + Laughter TV birthday special. McDaniel was the music director.

Criss’s best-known roles are his breakout portrayal of Blaine for five seasons (2010 to 2015) on Glee in a milestone-for-mainstream-TV gay romance with Chris Colfer’s Kurt, and his 2018 Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning turn as spree killer Andrew Cunanan in The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story. (Both roles came thanks to producer and Provincetown part-timer Ryan Murphy.)

In addition to acting and singing — including Glee’s “Teenage Dream” cover that climbed the Billboard charts — Criss is a songwriter. He first won notice for co-writing and starring in 2009’s A Very Potter Musical parody for the Chicago-based StarKid Productions, which he co-founded. Criss’s A Very Darren Crissmas generated national holiday tours.

Shortly after Criss wrote the opening number for the 2022 Tony Awards, his friend Paul Miller, director of the Burnett tribute, asked him to refashion Stephen Sondheim’s “Side by Side” from Company into an homage to Burnett’s famous duets with celebrity guest stars.

In what he called “one of the coolest things I’ve ever gotten to be a part of,” Criss performed “Burnett’s Duets” for the star-studded birthday-party special with Broadway’s Sutton Foster. That came after he meticulously dissected Sondheim’s music to fit new lyrics and fine-tuned the arrangement with McDaniel.

“When I was doing this,” Criss says, “in my mind, I was going, ‘What would the ghost of Sondheim be OK with?’ ”

More Broadway music will be on Criss’s mind in Provincetown for what he says will be an unusual program because it likely won’t include original work or him playing guitar or piano; McDaniel will accompany him. Criss prides himself on not performing the same live show twice and plans to include Broadway songs he’s not yet sung in public.

That said, he recognizes fans might want to hear something connected to his own Broadway star turns. Those include — besides the nonmusical American Buffalo in 2022 — How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying in 2012 and 2015’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Plus, earlier this year, Criss starred in off-Broadway’s Little Shop of Horrors.

In September, he’ll originate a Broadway role for the first time, headlining Will Aronson and Hue Park’s musical Maybe Happy Ending. Criss plays an outdated, retired robot in futuristic Seoul who explores the nature of love with another retired robot (Helen J. Shen). To try to help boost its U.S. profile, Criss is also a producer of the musical, which has been a hit in Korea, China, and Japan. Its Broadway debut will be directed by Michael Arden (2023 Tony Award for Parade, Spring Awakening), a longtime Criss friend who directed the English-language debut in 2020 in Atlanta.

Criss is excited but nervous about the piece; he says it’s intimate and epic at once. “There’s an excitement about the uniqueness and specialness of this show that I’ve never encountered before,” he says. “So that’s either going to crash and burn and blow up in our faces or catch on. I don’t know, but the prospect is very thrilling.”

Criss, who is straight, made headlines this spring for comments at a Chicago expo about being “culturally queer” because of his admiration for the LGBTQ community. “The things in my life that I have tried to emulate, learn from, and be inspired by are 100 percent queer,” he said then, later adding that “it was in queer communities that I’ve found people that I idolize, that I want to learn something from.”

“That had to be the slowest news day ever,” Criss says about his comments getting attention — especially because he’s talked many times before about similar things, including how much it meant to be part of Glee’s Blaine-Kurt relationship story.

Beyond Provincetown and Broadway, in August Criss’s voice will be heard in an unusual spot: on season 10 of Netflix’s Gabby’s Dollhouse, a children’s show, as the new Marty the Party Cat, magical host of the Party Room. It’s a voice role Criss says was planned long before his two-year-old daughter and seven-week-old son were born to him and his wife.

Marty is described by Netflix as a lovable, “exuberant goofball” who has a big heart and the ability to laugh at himself.

“He’s a fun guy,” Criss says. “I’m aspirationally Marty the Party Cat.”