#The Gypsy Way
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Obsessed with the 2008 version of Gypsy!! the smirk at the end of the clip oh my godd..
#patti lupone#queen patti lupone#AND THE WAY SHE BENDS OVER THAT TABLE#the outfit drives me CRAZY#please guys I need more Rose Hovick fics 🫠#Gypsy rose lee#Gypsy 2008
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every stephen sondheim musical ranked by number of ao3 hits it has
#saturday night#anyone can whistle#the frogs#road show#do i hear a waltz?#pacific overtures#a funny thing happened on the way to the forum#passion#sunday in the park with george#a little night music#follies#gypsy#merrily we roll along#assassins#company#west side story#into the woods#sweeney todd#stephen sondheim
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*I am defining a “sondheim musical” as a musical that stephen sondheim was directly involved with and helped create (ex: sondheim did not compose the music in west side story, but he wrote lyrics for it therefore I still consider it a “sondheim musical”)
**he worked on NINETEEN musicals I couldn’t possibly fit them all in here
#stephen sondheim#musicals#musical theatre#west side story#gypsy#a funny thing happened on the way to the forum#company#follies#a little night music#ram sweeney#sweeney todd the demon barber of fleet street#sunday in the park with george#into the woods#merrily we roll along#assassins#assassins musical
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Happy Birthday to the Man Who Started it All










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"Patience"
Said, woman, take it slow, and things will be just fine
You and I'll just use a little patience
Said sugar, take the time, cause the lights are shining bright
You and I've got what it takes to make it
We won't fake it
Aw, I'll never break it
Cause I can take it
It doesn't matter where you are or where you go; it's always hot on April 8th. 🔥
Happy Birthday to the talented and respected, sexiest bastard on the planet.
Izzy Stradlin.







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"Think About You"
Somethin' changed in this heart of mine
You know that I'm so glad that you showed me
Honey, now you're my best friend
I wanna stay together 'til the very end
Ooh, it was the best time I can remember
Ooh, and the love we shared, is loving that'll last forever
I think about you, honey, all the time, my heart says yes
I think about you, deep inside I love you best
I think about you, you know your the one I want
I think about you, darling you're the only one ...
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"Dust N' Bones"
There's no logic here today
Do as you got to, go your own way
I said, that's right
Time's short your life's your own
And in the end we are just
Dust an' bones
Dust an' bones
Dust an' bones
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All of my love. Happiest of birthdays, Izzy. You have my heart. (My heart says yes!)
#Youtube#izzy stradlin#my gypsy troubadour ⚔️#happy 62nd birthday izzy stradlin#love respect and appreciation#izzy stradlin was put on this earth torture me and i wouldn't want it any other way#izzy stradlin and the juju hounds#guns n roses#gnr#izzy gnr#izzy juju#my heart says yes#guns n' roses#heart of gnr
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MR. SONDHEIM

The absolute king of musical theatre song writing. His scores are one of a kind, his ingenious lyrics and compositions make his songs one of the greatest in musical theatre history.
Go listen/watch one of his musicals
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962-1964)

Anyone Can Whistle (1964)

Company (1970-1972)

Follies (1971-1972)

A Little Night Music (1973-1974)

Pacific Overtures (1976)

Sweeney Todd:The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979-1980)

Merrily We Roll Along (1981)

Sunday in the Park with George (1984-1985)

Into the Woods (1987-1989)

Assassins (1990-1991)

Passion (1994-1995)

Roadshow (2003,2008)

Here We Are (2023-2024)
#And Andrew Lloyd-Webber I guess#Sondheim#a funny thing happened on the way to the forum#anyone can whistle#Company#company musical#follies musical#Follies#a little night music#Pacific overtures#sweeney todd#merrily we roll along#sunday in the park with george#into the woods#assassins musical#Assassins#Passion musical#Roadshow musical#here we are#Here we are musical#I know about West Side Story Gypsy and Do I hear a waltz but he just did lyrics.
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Was thinking while watching that scene where Pol tells Ada about her abortion.
Polly really doesn't take on the mum role in the family to my mind, or even the matriarch/aunt tbh. And I think, there was some summary somewhere that referred to her as the consigliere and while she does perform a certain bouncing-board, plan formation role with Tommy (and only with Tommy, and only with insight into certain parts of his plans; I'm struggling to think of times the others listen to her without Tommy backing her up, S3 as example of when they don't), her other behaviours in the family also mean this isn't her role at all.
She's the wild older sister who is loving and explosive and hurtful, and incredibly, incredibly fragile, afraid and she feels so very scared, vulnerable and alone, most of the time. She just wants all her loved ones to be happy and safe and in achieving that, Tommy is frequently as much of an obstacle as he is the vehicle to get her that. I do headcanon that Polly lives 99% of her life in fear and on that edge of breakdown, it's just that she's lived with it so long she probably doesn't even acknowledge it any more. Her reactivity is so high.
So yeah, it's no wonder Tommy sort of plays that joint patriarch-matriarch role (arranging marriages etc), because Polly is *not* playing the matriarch.
#her stories to ada about that feminine/mother trauma are all sort of--#--with this tone of 'please forgive me please say you understand please say my decisions made sense'#because polly isn't certain in herself#she *acts* certain#idk#wild older sister that everyone including the youngest all have to sort of take care of#some of the way she says things about tommy that help *not at all*#like “he used to sleep out as a kid” pretending he's not out there having a complete fucking breakdown and she doesn't know what to dooooo#(though she *wants* to help she does)#every time she explains his traumas as impossible to avoid because they're gypsy and that's their lot in life#...let me get out my postcolonial lens again#->noting this is also a belief set tommy's mother also had#my headcanon polly absolutely idolised tommy's mother because she lost her mother young; following t's mum around like *her* mum#imagining tommy's mum could 'do no wrong' in pol's eyes
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Just lived through the best class I ever had in my life. Romani language teacher invited a famous Sinti Public figure (can't disclose who BUT I WAS SO THRILLED) to teach some sinti language and he talked about some stuff that felt so cathartic to me. When it comes to background and culture I thought my family was an anomaly because none of us speaks Sinti and we are actually very mixed with a lot of different ethnic groups that we don't even know which ones, but he verbatim said that was a pretty standard experience like !!!! He said he himself had to relearn the language and that his grandpa (a very, very big jazz musicizn, cant disclose the name) did not speak the language either. He said that in my country, 70 years ago the new Sinti Generation came to think of the Sinti language as backwards and ugly so they rejected it. And then he played music with a Romanian Romani musician who was also there. Afterwards I got some coffee with that Romanian Rom and we complained about how being settled sucks and how many Romani people (he was talking about Romania, I was talking about my country) don't speak the language, and then we shared family pictures lmaooo
#I think I said it before but those classes are so cathartic and healing to me#so many things I thought my family was weird for or was an anomaly about are actually common experiences etc#And the way internet gypsies represent the 'authentic' r0mani experience is so far from lived reality#you can tell those internet people never log off and hang out w actual Sinti and Roma
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LIL GYPSY OR LIL MIKKI
WHAT! You want me to pick between two beautiful, wonderful, awesome baby horses??? Hooooooooooow?!
I guess……………if I absolutely like have to………
I guess Lil Mikki because like I’ve kept up with her status and her mama’s status for a long time.
Make me choose: this or that?
#mojo dojo casa mailbox#lostinwildflowers#play mode activated#the game backfired in a way I was not prepared for#this or that#make me choose#lil mikki#lil gypsy#baby horses
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Your addition to that one post about your grandma actually made me smile. I wish I had an eighth of her aura. Can't wait to be ancient and absolutely amazing. Tell her I'm a fan <33
XD I'm glad I can put a smile on someone's face during these times. We call her 'The Lady of Charm.' She is a firecracker, for sure. Not without the regular issues facing 96 yr olds, my mom goes over every day to check up on her. Basically, her body is breaking down faster than her mind, but damn, she is going to go out kicking.
Not that you need to know, but that whole side of my family is batshit crazy. We're Romanian Roma, on that side. So my great aunts all belly danced, and would do it on tables at parties, I had one who went after her husband with a butcher knife. All the women (myself included) are strong willed, stubborn and opinionated.
#Like gypsies are crazy#no joke#And this is way more info than you needed#but I hope if brings you some entertainment
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Y'all don't care about victims unless they're dead
Y'all don't care about victims unless they're dead
Y'all don't care about victims unless they're dead
Y'all don't care about victims unless they're dead
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September 1, 1990: After 55 previews and 633 performances, Jerome Robbins' Broadway closes at the Imperial. Sondheim was represented in the show by scenes from Forum, West Side Story, and Gypsy.
#sondheim#jerome robbins' broadway#broadway#west side story#gypsy#a funny thing happened on the way to the forum
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#37/366#i’m obsessed#…and I wanna rock your gypsy soul-just like way back in the days of old-then magnificently we will float-into the mystic…#spotify#just dance with me
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Not to mention the immense irony that the 'farewell' speech Tommy gives to his family opens exactly as would a politician’s speech about honouring his promises.
Emotion the enemy of oratory, etc.
#no lizzie and no arthur#must've really fucked him up that :( but he probably couldn't have said as much as he did if they were there#also rewatched that final scene with tommy and alfie and my god alfie is such an arsehole to him!#alfie is still furious for tommy's failure on the beach#alfie is furious tommy is the one who restored his authority#alfie went and found a Gypsy girl in a circus with blue eyes and black hair who has a stocky strong masculine build who happened to-#-have the same name as his mother Edna; alfie proposed instantly and fucks her while staring psychotically into her blue eyes#sent tommy 'i'm a little busy right now' shelby a personalised wedding invite and was ignored#alfie furious about that too. the number of times tommy's humiliated him now#it was supposed to be the other way around but alfie is oddly and repetitively impotent around tommy#alfie giving too much of a fuck then suddenly backpedalling and scornfully insisting he does not give a fuck#alfie's emotional state is permanently a sixteen year old boy just masked by extreme verbosity
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum but swap out "The House of Marcus Lycus" for "Gotta Get a Gimmick" from Gypsy.
#I'm ripping the 1996 cast recording off YouTube 1 track at a time since I can't find it on bittorrent.#RIP limewire#a funny thing happened on the way to the forum#stephen sondheim#Gypsy#Sondheim#Broadway#post o' mine
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#to clarify#im not tired in a#gonna fall asleep#kind of way#but in a#my eyeballs tingle and i have gypsy woman stuck in my head#but also totally content
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If you're paywalled, the entire article with its accompanying photos has been archived.
Legends of Broadway
Barbra Streisand, Liza Minnelli, Dick van Dyke and more legends of Broadway reprise their most memorable characters, for Vulture Photographs by Mark Seliger Interviews by Rebecca Alter, Julia Edelstein, Jason P. Frank, Rachel Handler, Devon Ivie, Molly Langmuir, Jackson McHenry, Mary Melton, Zach Schiffman, and Matthew Schneier
#oh‚ this is fabulous#Barbra Streisand as Fanny Brice in Funny Girl#Patti LuPone as Eva Perón in Evita#Bernadette Peters as Sondheim’s Women in Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends#Liza Minnelli as herself in Liza with a ''Z''#Rita Moreno as Googie Gomez in The Ritz#Idina Menzel as Maureen in Rent#Donna McKechnie as Cassie in A Chorus Line#Audra McDonald as Madam Rose in Gypsy#Whoopi Goldberg as Fontaine in Whoopi Goldberg#Betty Buckley as Grizabella in Cats#Lea Salonga as Kim in Miss Saigon#Cherry Jones as Sister Aloysius in Doubt#Mary-Louise Parker as Catherine in Proof#Estelle Parsons as Miss Margarida in Miss Margarida’s Way#Bebe Neuwirth as Velma Kelly in Chicago#Joanna Gleason as the Baker’s Wife in Into the Woods#Andrea McArdle and Sarah Jessica Parker as Annie in Annie#Vulture#April 2025
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