#broadway posters

[phanblog]

My phantom stuff

1-3: a phantom cup signed by some of phantoms closing cast

4: a pin made from the fabric of Erik’s costume

5: a necklace made from the fabric of Christine’s costume

6: a poster from the original toronto cast

7: my phantom playbill

NOT PICTURED: my phantom hoodie and shirt that i need to find

tagged-

@def-not-kaz-brekker since you seemed very interested :)

[wekiaam]

"You wanna see a place I seen, huh?"

Dramatic lighting my beloved <3

[sunshineraccoon]

Day 10: Les Misérables as Catch Me If You Can

[the-golden-vanity]

Original poster art for Swept Away at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre, designed by Midnight Marauder.

[middlemanon]

[mags2theythem]

[newyorkthegoldenage]

When the theaters go dark, the brooms come out, 1954. The poster directly behind the sweeper is for The Pajama Game.

Photo: Marvin E. Newman via the Bruce Silverstein Gallery

[tenshichan1013]

frozen broadway coming to disney plus 2025

[artbyblastweave]

Thinkin’ about The Siberian

I was sitting on a draft that said something to the effect of “Worm AU where Manton pulls an NBC Hannibal and moonlights as The Siberian on top of being a globally respected parahuman studies researcher. Is this anything.”

Then I thought about this a little more and realized that this might not be far off from what actually happened. There’s a throughline in Manton’s interests, in his trajectory through life, where he’s trying to figure out what you can use powers to get away with doing to people- about identifying constraints and overcoming them. 

He’s the guy who somehow credibly catalogued, and got his name associated with, the fact that powers generally can’t be used to pop people like balloons, and he did so reasonably early in the timeline, in the nineties at the latest. That’s.... an interesting direction to take your research! When people are just coming to terms with the fact that parahumans are real he’s out there taking careful note of whether they can manifest their powers inside people to instantly kill them. How did he test that? What capes did he collaborate with to test that? What did those conversations look like? Did the IRB at a minimum issue any revise-and-resubmits?

And then, of course, he gets picked up by Cauldron (also known as the infinite untraceable victim depot) to work on improving the vials- gaining a sufficiently in-depth understanding of what they are, how they’re made, and what they can do to people that when Cauldron told Legend that Manton had gone rogue and was the one creating C53s, he found this plausible. You’ve got the guy who’d later become the backbone of the Slaughterhouse 9 basically systemically cataloging every conceivable way a power could violate someone’s physiology- first from without, and then, at Cauldron, from within.

Then, when he pulls the trigger and gives himself powers, the resultant ability is essentially a distilled refutation of the Manton Effect- a minion that can obliterate anything, eat anything, delete any material from existence, viscerally dismember people in a unity of conventional and esoteric, power-enabled violence. And he’s insulated from the consequences of his actions on two levels- in terms of Siberian’s invulnerability, but also in the discrepancy between his form and that of his minion. He mixed the vial that gave him that power himself.

Essentially- I don’t think Siberian is something that just happened after a psychological break following a messy divorce. I think Manton basically pre-committed to becoming something like The Siberian, spent most of his career working towards some form of transcendence through superpowers, and the messy divorce was downstream of the cracks starting to show as he got closer and closer to what he’d been chasing.

Now to segue into a complication that’s more directly supported in the text- it’s Worm, it’s always complicated- Master powers spring from loneliness. My theory is that while Manton wanted apotheosis, and while he’d probably been gearing up for a rampage for a while, he genuinely didn’t want to do it alone; he wanted a sidekick. Hence why he bothered pursuing a family in the first place, hence why he fed his daughter a vial, hence why his own projection ended up looking like his daughter after he accidently made her explode or whatever with the bad vial- a monkey’s paw restoration, giving him back a facsimile of the person he wanted to take along for the ride, and making his capacity for violence inseparable from her presence.

This is why he joined up with the Nine rather than remaining a solo act; it’s why he engages in a bad imitation of the Parent/Child relationship with Bonesaw; and it’s why he seeks out Bitch as a candidate. His interest in her candidacy parses to me as genuine- Even moreso than Bonesaw, even moreso than Jack, Bitch has arrived at a no-frills fuck-you-I-do-what-I-want outlook that’s very appealing to Manton. He wants to have a murderer-daughter relationship!

But Rachel got where she is the hard way, by having a life that sucked a lot, by getting near-constantly kicked around! She has a clear reason to be so angry! Even if all my postulations about Manton having a long game are complete bullshit, there are several stages at which Manton had to actively opt in to the same lifestyle and reputation that Bitch was forced to adopt as a basic survival tactic. He didn’t have to start eating people! He’s a tourist! His “freedom” is inseparable from his distance, his disguise. Rachel’s “freedom” is just the freedom of having nothing left to lose.

All of this to say- In an interlude in which Bitch has an extended internal monologue about how people with families have the opportunities to be assholes and monsters to a captive audience, it is absolutely not a coincidence that she’s scouted by a would-be parental figure who proceeds to be an asshole and a monster in front of a captive audience, before trying to buy her affection with a puppy. In rejecting Manton, Rachel dodged an esoterically-packaged but ultimately very familiar bullet.

[rodrigoincolors]

Tell them how I’m defying gravity!

Cynthia Erivo is Elphaba in “Wicked” (2024)

[mistress-of-gillikin]

The Wicked die alone.

(Original Photo of Glinda by Joan Marcus)

[dancingthroughlif3]

Put my outsiders poster up that I got Thursday

[gemshine]

Dear diary: I'm going steady Mostly he's awesome If a bit too “rock and roll” Lately he's bumped off Three of my classmates God, have mercy on my soul

[tonymarias]

RACHEL ZEGLER and KIT CONNOR for Playbill

[rabbits-of-negative-euphoria]

I'm never gonna be over this I have to say my piece:

if they simply had to cast Ariana Grande as Galinda, they should have honored her complexion and switched out the platinum blonde for a honey blonde with dark roots, the cool pinks for warm pinks, and the silver embellishments for rose gold, and for the love of all that is good and right in the world, left her eyebrows dark

but before we stop there, you may be thinking, "This just isn't Oz enough," so consider:

thank you and goodnight

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Dreamgirls (2006)