#bloody bloody andrew Jackson

[pealeii]

no one gets being absolutely sweaty and covered in blood like musical theatre

[pranklinfierce]

I left my mark on the NYC Public Theater weird metal signing table

If bbaj has a revival you know who to thank

[anachronous-cetacea]

Bryce Pinkham is Henry Clay in BBAJ's original cast！u can see the vibe 10 years before he do the voice acting for Stolas in Helluva Boss.

[doodle-blight]

I made a BBAJ animatic (Public Life) a few months ago but privated the video recently

Maybe I’ll put it back up? If I can sit through it, I might

[doyouknowthismusical]

[certified-hater]

what do u guys think spotify is trying to tell me here

[floofyquenchiest]

😭🙏

[aaaaaa-musical-trash]

why don’t you just shoot me in the head cause you know i’d be better off dead

if there’s really no place in america for a celebrity of the first rank

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN

GOVERNOR

ANDREW

JACKSONNNNN YEAH

[problematic-president]

Watching I Made America after having recently seen Hamilton live in west end.....i have incoherent Thoughts (incoming rambling)

In so many ways Hamilton could be considered the perfect musical but a TERRIBLY flawed historical adaptation. Meanwhile IMA has the opposite problem, it's not as flashy or polished as Hamilton but i think it works better as a historical adaptation. Right now for me this discrepancy is....quite hard to explain. I have a Hamilton analysis in the works (no idea when, or whether i'll get it finished). Maybe Hamilton was too ambitious, maybe the sillier concept of IMA made it inherently easier for the writers to adapt the historical aspects, maybe it's that Hamilton had a set of ideals it was trying to push which directly contradicted its purpose of existing in the first place (not elaborating on that but if you know YOU KNOW). Idk man.

But something about IMA felt different. Something about Alexander Hamilton's rant in the episode People Hate Bastards really struck a chord with me and made me understand the man better than Hamilton the musical ever could, even though the latter literally covers his entire life story. It's truly fascinating.

Funnily enough i've observed historical adaptations that "try less" to be faithful end up being better at adapting the source material. Classic example of this is Blood Bloody Andrew Jackson. Historical accuracy is NON EXISTENT in that musical but look at that!!! It provides a hard hitting depiction of Andrew Jackson which both perfectly shows how much of a POS he was while also getting the audience to care about him!!!!! It's crazy to me!!!!!

Honestly this is such a fascinating recent social phenomenon and i think it should be studied more

[pealeii]

i’m sorry

[ebp-brain]

So we’ll ruin the bank, and we’ll cripple the courts

And we’ll take on the world for America’s sake

And we’ll take all the land, and we’ll take back the country

And we’ll take, and we’ll take, and we’ll take and we’ll take

And this country I’m making cannot be divided!

The will of the people won’t stand in my way!

How can I tell you how deeply I’ll make them all bleed?

And so I’ll sing the saddest songs

Of enemies who did me wrong

And the war will go on and on and on

And on and on and on as long as we need!

[dancingthroughlife05]

If I had a nickel for everytime benjamin walker played the main character in a broadway flop who covers themselves in blood I would have two nickels which isn't a lot But its weird that its happened twice

[benwalkerupdates]

do you have any links for watching bloody bloody andrew jackson?

i do! unfortunately my original link has since been deleted, but recently i’ve been revisiting another one! the quality isn’t the greatest but still thankful for its preservation of history 🙏 LOL and of course there are also various great smaller performances that i also will recommend for their hard work :)