#The Gypsy Way

[multixfan]

Obsessed with the 2008 version of Gypsy!! the smirk at the end of the clip oh my godd..

[resident-dumb-fuck]

every stephen sondheim musical ranked by number of ao3 hits it has

[rickybaby]

Genuine question as I am curious — I know it’s pretty obvious with his expressions/ body language that Daniel seemed shy/insecure(?) about having his braces, but has he ever outright said anything about feeling that way with them? Just out of curiosity as I am new around here!

“I feel very different in terms of looks. Fortunately, experience also bought me better looks. I’m not really too fond of showing people photos of me when I was younger”

[gay-little-axolotl]

*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

[izzystradlindoesitforme]

Happy Birthday to the Man Who Started it All

"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.

"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 ...

"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

All of my love. Happiest of birthdays, Izzy. You have my heart. (My heart says yes!)

[pinnyguin]

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

(musicals and images listed below)

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)

[divinekangaroo]

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.

[djuvlipen]

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

[cantevenbeachhere]

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?

[surviving-the-hiatus]

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.

[iguessweallcrazyithinktho]

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

[ohwhatagloomyshow]

a friend asked why my url across platforms is always ohwhatagloomyshow & I explained that I had the honor of meeting Stephen Sondheim in 2013, where I built up the courage to thank him for his work and tell him the revival of Follies was the first show I’d ever seen on Broadway. He smiled and said kindly, “oh, what a gloomy show!” because I’m a 19 year old newborn baby praising a show about midlife crises.

Anyway, I told the friend it’s probably Sondheim’s gloomiest show, but that’s probably a debatable opinion! I would love to hear any arguments against it! I would say that of all his shows, it’s the one that ends with the least amount of hope. My definition of “gloomiest show” is most dependent on how you feel when you leave the theater, and in this case I do think Follies takes the cake, personally!

Full disclosure, the shows I’m least familiar with of Sondheim’s are Merrily & Passion.

[sondheims-hat]

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.

[divinekangaroo]

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.

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

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.