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Patti LuPone - Ladies Who Lunch (Sondheim's 80th)

[derekklenadaily]

broadwayplus: Ahhhh @iamjojo’s first bows as Satine & @derek_klena’s return as Christian @moulinrougebway!!! 🤩👏

#moulinrouge #moulinrougebroadway #theatre #bows #debut

[whyisstarkidfollowingmeshoo]

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[confuseuniverse]

Reno Sweeney save me from this world

[girlishwhimsies]

wlw marbit is in my head sooooo bad tonight…..

[honeyywoods]

the Davey in my head is like a mix of Ben Fankhauser, Ben Diamond, and Ryan Kopel in appearance but like 60% Ryan, 20% Ben Fank, and 20% David Moscow in attitude/demeanor. and with curly hair like David Moscow (and Ryan) but thick/fluffy and dark like Ben Fank’s hair. and he’s like 6’4 because he’s a little (actually not so little) freak like that. he’s also super lanky and has freckles :P

[make-friends-with-the-rats]

Why did the stage musical adaptation make Jack Kelly an artist?

Well, you can thank or blame Harvey Fierstein.

When tasked with re-writing Newsies for the stage, Fierstein decided that he "wanted to make at least one cogent argument defending print media." The object of argument that he landed on? The political cartoon.

I'll let him speak for himself:

Throughout history the political cartoon has kept the record of our follies and triumphs. They have leveled the mighty and motivated the seemingly powerless... Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate. (...) Here was the argument I could put forth in a family musical about the newsboy strike of 1899. I turned the hero of Newsies into an untrained artist who chronicles his world with sketches, and those sketches become the rallying cry for political and social change. - Harvey Fierstein, Reimagining the Story of Newsies, 2012.

From the above article, the change from cowboy to artist had nothing at all to do with Jack Kelly himself, or even about polishing the plot of Newsies. The change was made in an attempt to convey a new message to a new audience. I suppose this message is articulated by Pulitzer in the final five minutes of the second act:

Newsies stage musical script, page 46.

Was this addition of the political cartoon necessary? I'd say it wasn't. Was it effective in what it set out to do? I guess that depends on the impression that it's left on its audience.

Either way, I'd encourage y'all to give Harvey Fierstein's full confession/argument/defense/explanation a read.

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@old-timmy - I found the source for you! :)

[pinazee]

It sounds like theres some interest in rerunning/rebooting one of the old starkid shows!

So out of curiosity,

[toooliix]

hey bitches who like symbolism what if i told you mischa isnt in the ballad of jane doe choreo

[chippedshake]

Okay but what if Far Away From Tulsa happened at the same moment as in canon (before Darry hits Ponyboy) and instead of Ponyboy and Johnny it's Ponyboy and Darry singing, Ponyboy about his dream of living in the country without social classes and prejudice and Darry singing about leaving, getting out of Tulsa and going to college (both for himself and for Pony). And then the great expectations part would mean wanting to go to country but also Darry wanting Pony to leave and make something of himself and then when it fades out of the song we see Pony fall asleep next to Johnny like in canon and Darry stressed out as fuck because Pony isn't home and he can't make sure Ponyboy's safe if he gets into trouble and the state takes him away and where the fuck is he and he keeps on getting more and more stressed and then the scene ends but you can still see Darry pacing/aggressively doing laundry in dim lighting and we see Ponyboy wake up next to Johnny groggily and take off and go home (alone) and since FAFT in a way would have picked up the message from RITFR, they have the same conflict as in the book bc we already know Darry's motivation now and then Pony runs off to the park with Johnny and that's when the Socs attack.

[river-blue]

This will forever be my favorite peice of Rusame content. It's been 3 years but it's still so good 😭 I could watch it forever

[crowleybrekkers]

the queens of six: the musical

[godnattakatta]

bonus: the demebombalonzo agenda

[loganslowdown4]

Some updates from another trip to NYC!

Terrence???

Writing for Roman????? ❤️❤️

ROLESLAYING????

DODIE?! 😆😆😆😆

[girlishwhimsies]

unfortunately i have to yap more on the economic divides.

just there are so many implications and complications when it comes to generational wealth vs cycles of poverty. cycles of poverty my beloved in fiction and beloathed in life

i yapped a lot in the tags of my last post so read those too but i will be yapping so much here too!!! the way it affects familial relationships consumes me, two bits father leaves and suddenly now his mom has to go work and she sure as hell can’t get a great job cause she’s a greaser so she probably doesn’t have much education and she’s an asian woman in the 60s!! she’s now a single mom with kids to take care of. so she ends up working as a waitress or something similar and uses that money to scrape by, food stamps were starting to become a thing in the 60s as well so she def used those. and then she has two children. she can’t get them through college and two bit knows he has to step up and be the man of the house and that means finding some way to make money so he has to drop outta school cause he needs to get a job. that’s what greasers do and that’s what was always gonna end up happening to him. the cycle didn’t start with him or end with him but it has to keep going l

ace and steve too. bounced around to different homes, never having one home with a steady flow of income, having to find ways to get through it. ace who didn’t trust any men, especially when money was involved, and only trusted those close to her!!! the cycle of poverty hits them all again as her and her brothers can’t rely on a father to bring in income. god plus the way that poverty creates addicts due to the stress of it all and then addiction further fuels poverty since you have to buy your vices. some addicts can’t hold a steady job which makes it even worse. all cycling in on itself over and over again. and that’s not even mentioning the clear redlining that tilly mentions in her ace backstory (this may even be a whole other post tbh) the town is designed to keep the poor poorer and the rich richer.

johnny who in my mind is clearly food insecure (y’all saw the way that boy snatched that food from dally and hid it away immediately right) never quite sure where he is gonna get food from besides the curtis’s since his parents spend most of the money on alcohol. the anxiety that would bring him and it impacts his story so hard cause he always is at a disadvantage due to that. there is a reason that boy looks so small

dally has always travelled, choosing to steal to get what he needs cause he never stays long enough anywhere to get a full job. he’s been labelled a hood since day one anyway and wouldn’t get a great job anyway cause of his skin color so he decides to lean into it and do what he has to do to get by.

then we have the curtis brothers. who were so close to getting out of tulsa. they were able to try to break the cycle and send darry off to college after he was one of the first to get through high school and make it out just for him to have to come straight back. no matter how hard darry tried he couldn’t ever end it but at least he can try to get pony through school and get him a better job that he can succeed in and love comfortably with

more various thoughts i couldn’t fit into any one greaser story- a lot of the kids were most likely mistakes and/or teen pregnancies that they really couldn’t afford to have but had to go through with it anyway. the cycle of addiction that runs through these families. the parents hopes and dreams of getting out never getting fulfilled. the way race plays into poverty as well

then you have the socs who have all the money they need, who have the opportunity to get out and choose not to take it cause tulsa is a source of pride for them. they benefit from the cycle too even if the kids don’t always realize it. just ugh. the way all of it comes into play with the overarching story

[fatty4cid]

I WANNA WATCH THE WORLD BUUUUURNNN I BROUGHT THE GÆSOLINEEEEE 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥