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[pureanonofficial]

CHESS - SAN JOSE CIVIC LIGHT OPERA/AMERICAN MUSICAL THEATER OF SAN JOSE (1992)

[unwelcome-ephestion]

One of my recent theses is that Aspects of Love is a concept musical masquerading as a book show, which is why it is so misunderstood. I thought I would outline this thesis here.

First, it starts with Love Changes Everything. Its 2023 revival moves the song to the middle of Act 1 in order to have it sung by Michael Ball, which is a key error (Ball plays George in the revival, rather than Alex, who he originated in 1989). The song is here:

It’s quite literally a thesis on love, extraneous to the book - Alex’s naive thesis on love. What’s interesting is that it is only the first thesis on love we get. When we first meet George, Alex’s uncle, who lives hedonistically and flits between lovers just as Alex believes that Rose is his one true love, he sings this:

Life goes on, love goes free is George’s philosophy. Both of these moments are much more typical of a concept show than a book show, and seem indicative of Lloyd Webber (as book writer, though not lyricist) being inspired by the Prince era in the States, and in particular I would argue A Little Night Music, where songs like The Miller’s Son highlight philosophies of love to be analysed within the context of the show. What is interesting about Aspects is that neither Alex’s nor George’s philosophy remains unscathed. By the end of Act 1, George is married to Rose, and Alex reprises Love Changes Everything on the way to the army, to destroy himself in his loss of Rose. By the end of the second act, it is George who will have died, destroying himself over his possessive incestuous love of his daughter Jenny with Rose, and Alex who rejects both Rose and Jenny in order to flit like George did with his old lover, Giulietta. The final reprise of Love Changes Everything is crucial (and foolishly omitted from the 2023 revival!) as heard below:

Heard at 4:40 on the above track, we hear the final line twice: love will never never let you be the same. When Alex originally sang this, it was a naive take on the power of one true love. With all we know now, the song has totally changed its meaning - love has the power to bouleverse everything in your philosophy and turn you inside out, Alex into a hedonistic cynic and George a man who dies for love. The ability of the one song and lyric to develop like that over time is much cleverer than it is given credit for and one of the reasons I think it works much better in context.

Although Aspects has a quintet of lovers, the final one who experiences that true bouleversal is Rose. Rose does not outline a thesis in the same way, but she scorns Alex early in the show, telling him that if he can do one thing it is “just leave me”. Later, close to the end of Act 1, she begins to show her inability to be vulnerable when she tells George that he must promise to answer whatever she asks him with yes, and ends up marrying him. Both of these lyrical and musical motifs are repeated in the culmination of Anything But Lonely, where (from 2:44) we hear:

Rose: Just promise one thing.

Alex: Alright, what is it?

Rose: Don’t ask me questions; you must promise this.

Alex: I can’t; I must know what it is.

Rose: Don’t leave me!

Whilst Rose doesn’t have the same thesis outlined, she is proof of the same fact that love changes everything. And whilst I have criticised song placement in the 2023 production, and would also argue that it tries to sideline the more uncomfortable aspects of the show (incest and age gaps) that are actually vital to its plot, it is still up there with Oklahoma! as one of the most interesting shows currently playing in the West End and definitely requires a visit before it closes next month. Aspects of Love as a title lays out exactly what this show is - a conceptual analysis - and the show has been much maligned, I think, by being misunderstood as a traditional book musical.

[aspectsoflove]

michael ball describing the travelator chewing up ann crumbs leg is honestly harrowing.

[perfettamentechic]

31 ottobre … ricordiamo …

31 ottobre … ricordiamo … #semprevivineiricordi #nomidaricordare #personaggiimportanti #perfettamentechic

2022: Andrew Prine, attore statunitense. Di lui si ricordano le numerose partecipazioni in film western. Dopo aver terminato gli studi laureandosi nel 1954 alla Andrew Jackson High School di Miami, iniziò il suo lavoro di attore tre anni dopo, mentre il primo ruolo importante arrivò nel 1959. Partecipò anche a diverse serie televisive fra cui Dallas e Visitors. 1974 decise di posare completamente…

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i'm just a ragdolly... :)

[hrhprincegalitzine]

NICHOLAS GALITZINE and ANNE HATHAWAY - The Idea of You (Sneak Peek)

[thomascromwelll]

Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Natalie Dormer

as King Henry VIII and Queen Anne Boleyn

in The Tudors (2007-2010) — S02E08 'Lady in Waiting'

[princessanneftw]

Sir Tim Laurence adjusting Princess Anne’s rain-soaked plume on the balcony of Buckingham Palace following the Trooping the Colour parade on 15 June 2024

[syrasenturi]

i’m unstoppable

[borgialucrezia]

David Oakes hosting the Wildlife Ball event accompanied by his wife, Natalie Dormer, in London, England on November 19, 2024.

[dannydbeeto]

I got reminded that owl house exists so i did the obvious thing and make an au of it

[dawntainbobbynash]

My brain still goes !!! every time it hits me again that we actually know Bobby’s parents and brother now

[arkhammaid]

I miss oscarina so much! When will they come back from war 😭😭😭

Please give us a crumb, anything 🥺🥺🥺

i'm with them, stuck in the trenches. girl!oscar and charlie is also with us.... we are currently planning on how to overwhelm the enemy.... all previous attempts haven't worked....

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Tubbo is in Piso's video! Watch it here

[ibeuchu]

….WOMEN 🧎🏻‍♂️🧎🏻‍♂️🧎🏻‍♂️

[defensivelee]

I see why Bentinck fell for William and fell HARD bc if the world's tiniest sickest miserable creature threatened my life the moment I first met him as a boy I too would never stop thinking about that