#and Arden/Toni

[olympain]

Best Direction of a Musical — Michael Arden, Parade

[zilabee]

Three years earlier the Beatles had been second on the bill to Little Richard at the New Brighton Tower Ballroom, just outside Liverpool. [...] They loved Little Richard, despite the fact that he could be a bit weird and a bit of a prima donna.

I was there that night when I saw “a look” pass between him and Brian, a kind of recognition. Nothing was said, everything was cool. Don [Arden] frowned, but he didn’t work it out because he didn’t understand the subtleties of gayness. He thought something secret was going on, that Brian was trying to lure Little Richard away to sign with him.

Don didn’t understand someone like Brian at all. Brian would never dream of luring anyone away from their agency, unless sorely tried. But that’s the way Don always thought. He once broke Robert Stigwood’s desk with a single blow with a giant ashtray, and then hung him out of the third floor window of his office when he thought Stiggy was trying to steal the Small Faces. [...]

In New Brighton that night, Don started an argument with Brian over Little Richard. In fact he went crazy. Brian didn’t respond. He just stood, quietly gazing into space and when Don had run out of steam, Brian said quite mildly, “I will be calling your employers on Monday and demand that they terminate your employment.” This was Brian’s sophisticated version of today’s, “Your ass is grass.”

Still, it stopped Don dead in his tracks. He said he’d been all over the world and nobody had ever talked to him like that. Politely. He was even more incensed, when Brian actually did book Little Richard a couple of weeks later at the Liverpool Empire.

Tony Bramwell - Magical Mystery Tours

[datshitrandom]

maybe it's not a happy ending after all 🤖💔😔

the source of my broken heart

[lizardson]

happy "I'm a faggot with a tony" day to all who celebrate

[whizzvin-welcome-here]

Watched Michael Arden’s Tony acceptance speech and immediately went to put my rage in this meme

[starberry-cupcake]

absolutely ecstatic about this, congratulations bonnie milligan, alex newell and j harrison ghee

[insertawkwardpeacesignshere]

I use cc and the closed caption said: “I used to be called the f word more times than I can count but now I’m a f*ggot with a Tony”

[midmorninggrey]

Tagged by @saladruiner and then @dungeons-and-dragon-age to make some OCs in this Picrew. Thanks!!

Featuring Gillian Hawke, Celeste Trevelyan (post-DAI), Warden Antonia, and Arden Trevelyan.

Tagging (with absolutely zero pressure) @carnalapples @theaceofdragons @contreparry @miladydewintcr and anyone else who might want to play dress-up with their OCs!

Self-Indulgent OC Trivia under the cut

Gill would love Picrews, ok? She doted on her dolls when she was little. As a teenager, she claimed she'd given them all away, but she really kept them hidden beneath her bed, and some nights she would take them out and play with them again. Then one day Carver found them and cut off all their hair. Gill never forgave him.

She also fought the Arishok one-on-one in her stocking feet. This is because she had to shuck off her high heeled boots right before the duel (Gill has never loved a practical shoe.)

Celeste is a picky eater. Cheese sandwiches and pumpkin pie (just the custard not the crust!!) are her main food groups.

During her time as the Herald, Cece had a bit of a crush on Krem. She's still a little embarrassed about it 10 years later.

Toni had not one, but two Mabari tattoos. (And yeah, she could make them both bark.)

Toni was also a pretty good seamstress. She had a pair of patchwork pants that she originally made when she was twelve and just kept mending and altering over the years. Arden was convinced they were held together by magic.

Because of Cece's taste for cheese sandwiches, Arden has learned to fry up a good one (even though he doesn't eat dairy himself.) They may have become a bit of a cult classic among the Inner Circle.

On a sentimental (and possibly drunken) whim, I think Dorian gave Arden a pair of turquoise earrings. He was appalled when Arden actually wore them and he couldn't convince him to switch to emeralds.

I also made Loran and Mags because I have no self control but I'm hiding them down here

[maleclownenemyofthestate]

I don’t know who cares abt this but Michael Arden just won a tony award and during his speech he said "Growing up, I was called the F-word more times than I could remember. And all I can say now is I'm a faggot with a Tony” on live TV and I think that’s so fucking punk-rock and i can’t stop thinking about it

[dwsavideos]

Krysta and Andy at the Tony Awards after party in 1968- I mean 2023

[illiana-mystery]

1995

[ilovetheater24601]

Michael Arden won!! Michael Arden won!!! Michael Arden won!! Im soo happy!! He has been my absolute favorite director for a long time now (as well as my favorite Peter) and he 100% deserved this!

[constantcompanion]

[reachingfortheday]

TONY AWARD WINNING DIRECTOR MICHAEL ARDEN!!!!!

[improperingenue]

PSA

If this isn’t the year that Michael Arden gets his Tony I’m going to riot

[beansschool]

Few people have made an enemy of an entire fandom as quickly as the lighting operator who gave Daniel Durant his queue too early at the 2016 tonys