#broadway rants

[little-lovett]

there is SO much depth and beauty in the stories we hear in sweeney todd. a murderer who was once a doting father, so blind with hatred and anger towards the world that he couldn’t even see his own wife and daughter, staring him right in the face. a woman down on her luck and in love, trying so desperately to make a connection with a deeply broken and disturbed human. an unfortunately innocent and unknowing boy who ended up being the one who could sense the dark truth. a love at first sight that refused to die, even when torn apart by the disgusting perversion of a greedy abuser. sweeney todd is about all of these people, doing absolutely horrible things, all out of some form of love. that’s the beauty of sweeney todd. sweeney killed for a father and husband’s love. lovett baked real people with real lives into pies to maintain a shallow, lustful relationship she impossibly dreamed would bloom into true romance. turpin destroyed an innocent family because he could not contain his ‘love’ for a pretty woman and her daughter. toby slit a throat because his mother figure was all he had, and he loved her, simply and purely, as an innocent child loves a mother. their love is the purest of all in the story.

but my point is — yes, sweeney todd is about a murderer and his accomplice who cannibalizes and sells his victims. but it’s not. sweeney todd is about love. how love is even stronger and more dangerous than the deepest hate. it’s about how love can destroy people. this show is so beautifully, deeply, disgustingly human. and this dark, telling tale is somehow warped into some of the most gorgeous music to ever be written and made hilarious, lovable, and entertaining. musical theatre is truly magic. human nature is love and filth and greed. sweeney todd perfectly embodies both of these ideas.

[qprpbj]

i thinkkkk the broadway community at large needs to have a bigger conversation on health and wellbeing and capitalism and disability bc the whole brody missing shows thing is so much bigger than specifically just brody missing shows (whether u like brody or not! i don’t even care about the guy!!!) and yall expect everyday ppl who happen to have high profile jobs to work themselves to fucking death over fictional characters and literally harm and kill themselves for their work bc of some arbitrary “broadway standard”. it’s so insane

[crow2222]

random rant? but urghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i still can't get over how I SAW IT live. Outsiders is all I've been talking about for the past two years and I was so broken when my close ones told me I'd never see it and have to be realistic

well suck it. i did it

[a-leg-of-lambb]

Okay quick newsies rant:

Can we just talk about how amazingly talented the newsies live cast is at dancing? Like number one they are doing so many tricks and flips all at once and no one manages to hit anybody and they can go onto the next scene like it was nothing. I get there trained professionals and been doing it a while but still it’s impressive. Second in king of New York doing flips in TAP. SHOES. Tap shoes are slick enough as it is but also flipping and landing it easily in tap shoes is insane. Also last but not least the seize the day dance break. Personally my favorite dance break I’ve seen in all of musical theater. Dancing and spinning on newspapers seem so hard I’d probably fall on my face if I even attempted.

Yeah rant over I just wanted to fangirl over the cast because they’re so freaking talented.

[outsiderslore]

death’s at my door genuinely breaks my heart like wdym “i had no reason to live back in tulsa. sadness was all that i knew. i don’t believe in the death that you’re bringing, the reason i’m living is you.” umm what. bc johnny genuinely would do anything for ponyboy obviously INCLUDING k!lling someone for him. which is more then so many people can say about their friends. ponyboy was johnny’s family and it’s that aspect of their relationship that really hits me hard because they loved eachother more than anything.

[rantingaboutmusicals]

TAMMY FAYE IS CLOSING ON DEC 8TH

WHAT THE FUCK

MY HONEST REACTION(s):

WHY CHRISTIAN >>:'(

YOU BETTER BE IN A NEW MUSICAL BY THE TIME I GET TO NEW YORK😡😡😡😡😡

[disintegratingtrees]

some people really need to learn about a little thing called ‘creative differences’. yes, I’m talking about you gatsby musical haters. look I love this musical to death but I also understand how different is from the source material. i did some thinking and I’m pretty positive it was to appeal to a larger audience and to speed up the story so it wasn’t a solid 4 hours. some people who dislike this production also hate on the wonderful cast, which I find ABSOLUTELY unacceptable and unnecessary. keep in mind that most of these hates are theater ‘experts’ or people who take things WAY too seriously. it just absolutely bothers me that some people taking time out of their day to hate on a literal musical that was made for nice fun and to bring back big broadway. some people really just need to grow up.

[wh1zist1r3dasf]

What’s your favorite whizzer hc/ what are some fun hcs you have?

YESSS omg ask of my dreams

1- he loves Queen. trust.

2- He takes/used to take Marvin shopping every other week. He would pick out new outfits for Marvin that he thought (knew) were MUCH better than his usual ones. Marvin wore ONE outfit. ONCE.

3- Whizzer stopped smoking a little after getting back with Marvin because he thought his life was getting better. He would later find, during that fated racquetball game, that was not the case.

4- he both hates and loves his name. It's unique and sounds "cool", according to Jason and Marvin, but he's still literally named after a word for pissing. who names their kid that?? His father. That's who. Bastard.

5- he still HAAAATESSSSS Marvin's tie, but he's grown somewhat fond of it. He would still throw it out, if it werent for it being Marvin's favorite, though.

6- he knows the specific names for certain colors. "Oh, space cadet blue does NOT look good on you." "I wonder how this calypso orange would look on me..hmm.."

7- both a dog and cat person, but leans more towards dogs. Had a Jack Russell Terrier when he was little named 'Soda Pop.' (He didn't name him, his parents got him before Whizzer was born.)

8- He started smoking at age 15 after being peer pressured by one of his old "friends." This happened a few more times and eventually he got used to it and it became a bad habit. Sometimes it was the only thing he had/could do to keep him stable. He stopped after getting back with Marvin, as stated in hc 3

Some of these suck lmao but here they are. I have a lot more that I can't think about rn so I might do a ranting post about the rest lmaooo

[flowerringfangirlss09]

Whenever I see someone say or imply in YouTube comments (insert stage actress here) is the best Elphaba ever and no one else can touch them I'm just like for f*ck sake the musical has been around for well over 20 years in numerous countries at this point, you can have MORE than one Elphaba actress as we've had many wonderful performances from each of them. Like, BRUH!

[thecircularlibrary]

hear me out—i love enemies to lovers for sure. like i have NOO issue with it at all. but i see soooo many people overlook great couples and love stories for the other option JUST BECAUSE the other option is enemies to lovers. like if i see one more riara shipper anywhere i’ll cry. the story of anastasia is beautiful and musical fans overlook it bc they want gleb to end up with anya. people still ship averygrayson even though both avery and grayson have found their own perfect matches. its just si disappointing to see so many love stories regress down to whether or not the guy is broody or whether or not they hated each other first. again NOT THAT I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH EITHER OF THOSE THINGS. me personally, cardan and jude are one of my favorite ships on this planet. i’m just over it honestly. get it off my feed PLS.

[above-the-foldd]

do you ever just

wanna rant

but don’t wanna bother your friends

so you keep it to yourself

[cherrydipp]

melvin dipp with his insane and deeply-rooted internalized homophobia that he projects onto sergei.

getting stupidly drunk with the liquor stolen from trip while lying all sprawled out on melvin’s tussled bed sheets. talking about everything and nothing all at once through slurred speech — lazily passing the cold flask back and forth, back and forth. kissing each other for practice, too out of it to even realize what was happening before pale hands stirred up dark perfectly combed over hair.

bringing that night up when the two of them fight as an offensive move — a final twist of the blade as it stabs through sergei’s back. “it’s not my fault you’re a fucking faggot.” the remark cutting deep. it’s too late to take it back now. he won’t apologize. he can’t apologize.

(inspo from me nd my friends lore @flora wya glorious queen)

[alaskan-wallflower]

this is lowkey just my little rant on the outsiders fandom because it’s gotten a lot more toxic post tony awards and i wanna kind of address it

i feel like a lot of “bigger” blogs are held at too high of a pedestal. this fandom doesn’t feel like a group of people just enjoying something together. sometimes it feels more like a caste system in a way, where the bigger blogs/people who frequent the musical more at least are held in higher regards than those who have not. sometimes it feels like the smaller blogs aren’t heard as much, y’know? and i kinda find that funny for the outsiders fandom, where the book is literally about equality and how nobody is actually an outsider. but sometimes with these caste system esque viewings it feels almost like whatever they say has to be right. and i don’t think that’s fair.

another thing is the way the musical and the movie/book feel like they’re two separate fandoms. and i get it they’re different. but at the end of the day it’s the same story. and it feels like most of the toxicity from what ive seen comes from the musical fandom. and i get it, but i feel like what the cast says about their characters (to an extent) shouldn’t really be seen as canon. they didn’t make up the characters save for a few. hinton made them up. and therefore what the cast members say about their major characters is purely headcanon. i think people forget that sometimes.

another thing is i’ve had people confide in me and admit that they’re nervous to share some of their content because what if people don’t like it—like in all honesty i think the reason this fandom is so secretive is because of the way more well known/bigger blogs are put on a pedestal. i’ll admit, i too fall into this trap of being scared to say something because i don’t wanna get all these nasty messages. but the thing is, you don’t have to vaguepost about a blog or content you don’t like. you don’t have to send mean anons to people who don’t ship what you do. you don’t have to say people “don’t get it” because they don’t headcanon the way you do. and you know why? it’s because of the good ol block button! heaven knows i’ve used it with many bigger blogs on here and i assure you, blocking out people and content you don’t like or agree with is very helpful. it makes the fandom feel better.

anyway that’s my rant. agree or don’t. jsut had to get it off my chest. everyone has a safe space on my blog. i’m trying to create a space where people don’t have to be afraid to share their thoughts and opinions. just because there are bigger and more well known blogs on here doesn’t mean that there are special privileges that come with it. that’s a bigger problem in the fandom. just because you frequent the show and have a decent following doesn’t mean you deserve anything more than the rest of the poeple in the fandom.

that’s all. agree or don’t idc lol

[etherealpixie8]

okay I need to talk about this bc it’s actually pissing me off 😭😭

let’s make this clear - at the end of the day what celebrities do with their lives in NONE of our business. Hugh Jackman, Sutton Foster and Debbora Lee are NOT obligated to share anything about their personal lives whatsoever.

second, there is no solidifying proof that he cheated on his ex wife. do you know how many rumors explode when some divorces and gets with someone else? Hugh and Debbora have also been divorced since 2023, so that’s a considerable amount of time to get with someone else.

“oh, she (Debbora) liked a post (posted by a GOSSIP blog abt him cheating) about it from her private instagram!” how do you know that’s her account? is there any proof of that? just because Debbora’s friend says she’s gonna “move on” or whatever does not indicate he cheated on her. it’s literally making me so mad seeing people be like “oh, leaving Hugh behind” or “deleting all my posts!” LIKE STOPPPP AND PLEASE DO UR RESEARCH.

do you know how many celebrities have cheated on their spouses? it doesn’t make it okay, but when someone ACTUALLY cheats they fan base is still there, but when it comes to Hugh and it’s a RUMOR everyone is suddenly gonna dip??? like hello???

it’s the SAME thing with Barry and Sabrina. he literally had to deactivate some of his social media bc he was receiving sooooooo much harassment for it. for something that may not even be true!!! js bc a couple breaks up doesn’t automatically mean one of them cheated 😭

guys we learn how to not spread rumors, so can we like not? leave him alone and leave Debbora and Sutton alone? if Deb actually got cheated on then that really sucks. but again it’s THEIR PERSONAL LIVES and we have ZERO credible and solidifying proof that Hugh cheated.

sorry needed to rant bc it was making me so mad.

[a-leg-of-lambb]

Sometimes I wish we got more character development for the more background newsies like kid blink, Jojo and smalls in livesies and all of them cause I’d love to see their personalities and what they’re like they have like two lines and we never really get to see much of them. It makes me so sad man 💔💔

[sondheim-girly]

Dear socs they could never make me ignore your complexity and treat u like one dimensional characters