#actually that i understand i also deeply dislike peking opera but that's more of a the pitch they sing in hurts my ears kinda issue | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

astranauticus · 1 year ago

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so i recently found out about my mothers villain origin story of hating all musicals and apparently it's because many years ago she (not a lot of english, mind, like functional/professional english at best) went on a business trip to london and for some reason her company paid for tickets to mama mia at (and i quote) 'one of those famous historical london theatres' and she fuckin hated the entire 3 hour experience like she couldn't understand what they were singing and she was bored out of her mind but the theatre was too bright for her to sleep through it like her exact thought when it ended was 'fucking hell its finally over' and ever since she's been firmly against the concept of musicals. anyway i'm obsessed with this story i think it's the funniest shit ever

#asto speaks #im laughing but what the fuck #she's described it as being a similar emotional experience as watching peking opera which #actually that i understand i also deeply dislike peking opera but that's more of a the pitch they sing in hurts my ears kinda issue #this is one of several reasons why i haven't watched many musicals in my life bc my dad doesn't know what musicals are #<- not a theatre kid but has lots of theatre kid friends and know far too many musical songs because of chinese variety shows #theatre kid by proxy??#somewhat relatedly ive recently joined my schools arts production crew so im learning stage lighting now and #when my friends found out one of them gave me a 'theatre kid in existential crisis' role on our friend group discord server #and now i think about that constantly #i *am* also a computer science major which i feel like falls on the opposite end of some kind of spectrum #asto's tales

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