#elsie 2024

[datshitrandom]

Darren Criss performs on stage at the 7th Annual Elsie Fest Broadway's Music Festival | September 8, 2024 | 🎥 via Nicole Testa

[shegoestoeleven]

HBD to meeee! 🎉

[datshitrandom]

"The festival will feature additional performances and appearances from Broadway shows [...] as well as the Prime Video animated musical series 𝑯𝒂𝒛𝒃𝒊��� 𝑯𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒍 from A24 and FOX’s Bento Box Entertainment" "[...] the Prime Video animated musical series 𝑯𝒂𝒛𝒃𝒊𝒏 𝑯𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒍 from A24 and FOX’s Bento Box Entertainment" "[...] the Prime Video animated musical series 𝑯𝒂𝒛𝒃𝒊𝒏 𝑯𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒍" "[...] animated musical series 𝑯𝒂𝒛𝒃𝒊𝒏 𝑯𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒍" "[...] 𝑯𝒂𝒛𝒃𝒊𝒏 𝑯𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒍"

Rachel Zegler, Jordan Fisher, Darren Criss, More Among 2024 Elsie Fest Performers

A host of stars of the stage and screen are slated to perform at the this year's Elsie Fest, the first after a two-year hiatus. The return of the Broadway-themed music festival will be held September 8 at The Rooftop at Pier 17. Performers will include Golden Globe winner Rachel Zegler (West Side Story, Romeo and Juliet), global touring artist Lizzy McAlpine, Jordan Fisher (Hadestown, Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen), Emmy and Golden Globe winner Darren Criss (Maybe Happy Ending, Glee, Hedwig and the Angry Inch), Tony winner John Gallagher, Jr. (Swept Away, Spring Awakening), Tony and Oscar nominee Will Butler (Stereophonic, Her, Arcade Fire), Joy Woods (The Notebook, Little Shop of Horrors, Six), RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars season two winner Alaska Thunderfuck (Drag: The Musical), and other surprise guests.

The festival will feature additional performances and appearances from Broadway shows Death Becomes Her, Maybe Happy Ending, Swept Away, and Drag: The Musical; as well as the Prime Video animated musical series Hazbin Hotel from A24 and FOX’s Bento Box Entertainment. The famed West Village piano bar Marie's Crisis will also return to lead showtune sing-alongs. “We’re very happy to announce that Elsie Fest is coming back this September 8 with a kick-ass lineup of Broadway-inspired artists hailing from the worlds of theatre, music, TV, film, and comedy,” festival co-founder Criss said in a statement. “After a two-year absence, I wanted to resurrect our festival with a powerhouse list of performers and match it with an equally exciting new venue. And with so many singular talents on this year's bill, combined with the one-of-a-kind NYC atmosphere of the Rooftop at Pier 17, I think we got the right ingredients together to bring Elsie Fest back with a bang.” Elsie Fest is produced by Criss, Ricky Rollins, Eleni Gianulis, Jeff Jernigan, Jordan Roth, Dr. Sidney J. Stern, and Corey Lubowich, alongside Live Nation. Elsie Fest was co-founded in 2015 by Criss, Rollins, Roth, and Lea Michele. The festival's 2024 return will mark its seventh iteration. Past performers have included Nick Jonas, Leslie Odom, Jr., Cynthia Erivo, Ariana DeBose, Olivia Rodrigo, Sutton Foster, and many more. Visit ElsieFest.com for tickets.

[the-irreverend]

IS IT JUST ME OR ARE THESE TWO DORKS ARE ON THE SAME WAVELENGTH?

[bangbangwhoa]

books I’ve read in 2024 📖 no. 008

Heartless by Elsie Silver

“Cade is all scowls. All thick arms and broad chest and furrowed brow. Dirty boots. Muscular thighs. Cowboy p0rn with a frown.”

[anomalyaly]

MCOctober Day 30: What is your MC's costume?

I have to thank @dom1re for creating this lovely picture of Elsie dressed as a pirate! She looks AMAZING, and she's definitely ready to party it up this Halloween and try lots of magical treats (as well as keep the tricksters away with her badass sword *ahem* Peeves)

[shegoestoeleven]

q: is he cute?

a: the cutest.

DARREN CRISS - iHeartRadio Broadway | August 26, 2024 | 📷 Rachel Kaplan

[kayselyn-axe-the-third-goddamnit]

Inktober day 12: Remote

Featuring Elsie and Phaadene 💜💛)

[imonthemoonitsmadeofcheese]

Destinytober24: Day 4 - Reunion

Always wondered wtf Shin Malphur was doing during Beyond Light. This was as good an excuse as any.

Link to Ao3 if you prefer to read it there

"Looks like Stranger's got company," the Drifter said over his shoulder to Eris Morn, riding behind him on the same sparrow.

It had been dark when they had left with Eris driving, but now the light glinting off the snow was blinding. Days and nights on Europa lasted 85 hours. Due to Eris's excellent night vision and the Drifter's keen eyes during the day, it made the most sense for them to drive a single sparrow together when they were out on patrol through sundown or sunset.

"A guardian, perhaps?" Eris asked.

The Drifter licked his lips and smiled, glad his rebreather was hiding the lower half of his face. The sound of her voice right by his ear was such a turn-on, even with the wind whipping the warmth and steam from her lips away from them.

The Drifter brought their sparrow to a perfect sliding stop sideways next to the other vehicle near Elsie's yurt. His stomach lurched as he looked it over.

"What is it?" Eris asked, feeling him tense.

"I know that sparrow."

"Clearly."

They both disembarked and he put his hand on her arm. "Do me a favour, Moondust?"

"That depends upon what the favour is."

"Let me do the talking and let me stay between you and him."

"Why?"

"Long story. Tell ya later. Please?"

Eris tilted her head. It was the first time he had ever asked her something ending with the word "please." His voice was gentle. Gentler than he ever spoke to her. His eyes were cold. His body had become eerily relaxed, in a way that felt… dangerous. Like a snake, loosely coiled, ready to strike.

Whatever this was, the Drifter was afraid. But… Eris observed… not for himself.

Even now, their friendship only recently and loosely established, their time on Europa only recently begun, Eris could tell when the Drifter was readying himself for… something. She was learning his moods, his body language. His behaviour now was almost… protective.

"Hmmm…" Eris frowned. She loathed being protected. And yet… it was unlike him to behave in such a manner. He had never done so before. This was different.

"Very well."

As they entered the shelter Eris saw Elsie nervously fidgeting with a coffee cup at the small table where they took their meals. A hunter sat across from her. He was dressed in black leather with a wide-brimmed hat tilted low over his face, obscuring it. A cup of coffee sat in front of him on the table, steaming. It looked untouched.

Elsie looked up sharply as the two entered. The glow from her eyes settled first on the Drifter pulling his rebreather off, and then immediately looked behind him to fixate on Eris.

The elder Bray sister was never nervous and yet she clearly was exhibiting symptoms of nervousness now. Her Exo frame was tense with agitation, but Eris only noted this in passing.

Eris' three eyes zeroed in on the man across the table from Elsie, or rather, the tendrils of Darkness she could see wafting around him with her Hive-augmented sight, tendrils in a distinctive shape she'd only ever witnessed coiled around one other person.

"Hey," the Drifter said, his voice friendly as he tossed his rebreather onto a heap of equipment near the door.

Eris watched the Drifter shift his stance as the man at the table turned to look at them. She wondered if the movement to place even more of his body between herself and their new guest was even conscious at this point. She could feel him reverting to instinct. A dangerous wild animal facing off against another of its own kind.

"Hey," the man at the table responded. A gruff practised friendliness. And then his head tilted up slightly and she saw his eyes.

She knew them instantly. "Eyes like mana in the desert," the Drifter had once described them to her. It was an apt metaphor. Eyes that could see through anything. Eyes that could lead a cult. Eyes that could summon the Light with enough power to form a gun that would leave its victim nothing but a shadow on a wall. Captivating. Beautiful. Very old and very young at the same time.

Those eyes bored into her. Eris' mouth formed a thin line. Her three Hive eyes met his gaze through her bandage without flinching and bored right back. Analysing. Observing. Feeling the Darkness within him shifting and writhing.

The two Hunters stared each other down and sized each other up over the rogue Lightbearer's shoulder.

"What'cha up to out here, friend?" the Drifter asked, his voice extremely casual as it broke the tense silence.

"Might ask you the same thing," the man responded.

"Doin' my job. Just like we agreed." Eris noted how the Drifter was careful to keep his empty hands where everyone could see them while simultaneously hiding what her own hands were doing.

"That's funny. I seem to remember your job is runnin' Gambit."

"Gambit's doin' just fine, thanks for askin'. But you didn't come out here just cuz I cancelled a few matches now, did ya? Seems like an awful lot of fuss."

"Nah." The man didn't even look at the Drifter. His eyes never left Eris'. "Just wanted to check in on my friend's new… friends."

Elsie looked back at Eris sharply, concern on her face.

"We're doin' just fine." Eris could feel the Drifter's disarming smile in his tone as he spoke.

"Are you sure about that, friend?" The man at the table leaned forward slowly. The Drifter moved in a way that was barely perceptible. The coffee cup trembled between Elsie's hands.

The tone was gentle but Eris felt the threat behind it. A threat directed not at the Drifter or at Elsie, but squarely at her.

"Yeah… friend," the Drifter replied.

"Wouldn't want you to be getting too attached to anyone out here in the cold," the man at the table continued. "Might compromise your judgement." He continued to start at Eris.

"Why? You gettin' jealous?"

Eris and Elsie both looked at the Drifter in surprise. True to form, it was the last thing Eris had expected to come out of his mouth in this situation.

The man at the table laughed with his mouth but not his eyes, but he did look away from Eris to the Drifter when he did so. "Not of you."

"Always a bridesmaid, never a bride," the Drifter said with a fake wistful tone.

"Yeah, well," the man at the table looked back at Eris. "You ain't the till death do us part type."

"Damn straight. You know how much I like breathin', brother."

"Oh…" The man at the table stood up, or rather, he flowed to his feet. Elsie spilled a small amount of coffee onto her hand. The Drifter took a half-step back, lightly bumping against Eris. Eris rocked onto the balls of her feet and willed her Ahamkara bone to frost over behind the Drifter's back.

The man in black stepped toward the Drifter and Eris.

The temperature in the room dropped several degrees.

Elsie's hand dropped down to rest her fingertips on her No Time to Explain pulse rifle slung over her shoulder.

The Drifter turned slightly, nudging Eris back and to the side with one shoulder, away from the door.

"I'm countin' on it," the man said as he stepped in close to the Drifter, finally staring into his eyes.

The Drifter raised one arm slightly in a shielding motion to the side as he stepped back again. Eris growled quietly but followed the Drifter's lead, stepping away from the door and, as he had requested, keeping him between her and his 'friend.'

"Last thing I want is to have to come clean up your mess," the man said quietly.

"Aww… come on… you know how much I love gettin' dirty." The Drifter punctuated his response with a lascivious smile and a wink.

They stood, their faces inches apart, the Drifter smirking, the other man not reacting at all. Waiting.

"Seriously though, we're fine here," the Drifter broke the silence. "You do not need to be here now, and you don't need to come back. Ever."

The man looked from Drifter's eyes over his shoulder to Eris and then back again.

"See that it stays that way."

The Drifter's lips made an exaggerated kissing motion twice as the gunslinger stepped past him through the door, out into the snow.

The door slid shut and all three of them heard the sound of a sparrow leaving. The Drifter closed his eyes and let out a long slow breath, still leaning slightly into Eris as he relaxed.

"Was that… who I think it was?" Elsie asked.

"Uh… yup," the Drifter answered, blinking slowly. "The one and only." He turned to Eris. "Thanks. I know you probably wanted to stab him in the face."

Eris' three eyes narrowed. "The three of us could have taken him."

"Maybe" The Drifter sighed with a smile and stepped away from her. "Maybe. Still not very good odds. And I am very glad we didn't have to find out."

"Is this normal?" Elsie asked. "Does he just periodically show up and… threaten you?"

"Eh… one man's threat is another man's foreplay. He's… very dramatic. Probably comes with the territory when you're a myth walking around on two legs."

"Hmmm…" Eris intoned as the frost left her Ahamkara bone and the room began to warm up to its regular internal temperature.

"Anyway. That's over. I'm still alive and so are both of you." He pointed his index finger on his left hand at Elsie and the index finger on his right at Eris. "I'm calling that a win." He took another deep breath and let it out slowly. "Fuck I need a drink. Surely we got something in here that's stronger than coffee…"

Link to the entire month's worth of prompts on Ao3, posted daily.

[dorothy16]

iheartradiobroadway Portraits with our friend @darrencriss 📸🎭🎶 This is now a Darren Criss fan account 🫶⭐️

[shegoestoeleven]

if she does this at the kennedy center, i can’t be responsible for my sobbing drowning out the audio

also, how can i get Darren to cover this at Elsie? or, how can i get Darren to get Sara to sing this at Elsie??

[datshitrandom]

Darren Criss at Elsie Fest Broadway's Music Festival | 2015 ⇢ 2024

[hmvw2015]

An Uzi sketch from early 2024!

[d-criss-news]

x x x | Elsie Fest (September 8th, 2024)

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DARREN CRISS - ♪ Teenage Dream | 7th Annual Elsie Fest at The Rooftop at Pier 17 in New York, NY | September 08, 2024 | 🎥 bwaySHO

[ipwarn]

Ok Elsie Fest potential guests:

(Damn Darren for waiting until after Merrily closed)

Helen J Shen

Rachel Zegler

Shoshana Bean

The woman from Modern Family who is currently in Little Shop?? can't remember her name but she's friends with Darren and Mia

Solea Pfeiffer

Jasmine Amy Rogers

Brief return of Adrienne Warren and Nick Jonas?

Voice actors from Hazbin? Erika or Amir

Jon Jon Briones

Grant Gustin

Ben Barnes (bring him into the Bway world at last!)