#fiddler west end

[magicisrealandsoismyblog]

Feel free to either roast my taste or, better, recommend me more shows similar to these in the tags! I am always happy and excited to get to know more musicals

[ebiemidnightlibrarian]

GARETH SNOOK as LAZAR WOLF in the 2017 Chichester Festival Theatre Production of Fiddler on the Roof

[behindthemirrorofmusic]

My interview with West End Madame Giry performer Heather Jackson is now available to watch. She performed the role for nine year.

It's part 3 of The Phantom of the Opera specials to celebrate 115th years since the original novel by Gaston Leroux was released.

This week Dannii Cohen talks to Heather Jackson performed the role of Madame Giry on West End for nine years.

In this interview we talk about how she created her interpretation of Madame Giry, how the book influenced her and ask her some questions by fans (including her thoughts on "Love Never Dies.)

Next to her years as Madame Giry Heather enjoyed a varied career with roles in My Fair Lady, Fiddler on the Roof, Oklahoma, High Society, The Boyfriend, Stepping Out and much more.

[reflection-s-of-stars]

The ending of Gideon the Ninth destroyed me so here’s what I think the Canaan House crew’s favorite musicals would be

Judith: Resident musical theater disliker of Canaan House. Would probably not hate something like Come From Away if you dragged her but is opposed to musicals on principle.

Marta: We don’t know much about her but I think she’d like Wicked!

(EDIT: Now that I’ve read As Yet Unsent, I’m gonna switch my answer for Marta and say Chicago! Idk why it’s just vibes)

Coronabeth: West Side Story! Tragic, romantic, gorgeous score, and she likes puns so she’d love Sondheim.

Ianthe: Cats. @wegottagetouttahere

Naberius: Hamilton guy for sure. Thinks most other musicals are super pretentious.

Isaac and Jeannemary: I’m putting them together because they bonded over Rent. Isaac gives off big theater kid energy to me, and Jeannemary likes rock for sure. They sing Take Me or Leave Me together.

Abigail: Would love a classic like Camelot. Wouldn’t judge the teens in a million years, but she doesn’t really get modern musicals.

Magnus: Fiddler on the Roof! He’s the most likely of the crew to really love musicals imo. Sings to the teens to embarrass them.

Palamedes: Pirates of Penzance. That is a man who loves a good patter song.

Camilla: Would probably just say Pirates of Penzance too, because it’s Pal’s favorite and she doesn’t really get musicals. Would probably like Hamilton a lot but she’d be chill about it.

Dulcinea: Like Marta, we don’t know much about her but I think she’d like Hadestown!

(EDIT: I just came back from seeing Moulin Rouge on tour, and now that I’ve read Harrow I can confidently say that Dulcie would go fucking crazy for that show.)

Protesilaus: Loves Les Mis and has the best voice at Canaan House. You can pry this one out of my cold dead hands

Silas: Lloyd Weber enjoyer. Thinks the eighties were the peak of musical theater and refuses to listen to anything made afterwards.

Colum: Into The Woods I think! Silas has heard him do Agony one too many times. He’s surprisingly good!

Gideon: Newsies fan. Santa Fe makes her feel feelings. (Newsies fandom I’m giving you my best girl because you guys are SO nice)

Harrow: Would dislike theater on principle, Judith-style, but might like something like Hadestown as well if you made her go. Eventually she gets into Malloysicals

Bonus Cytherea: Sweeney Todd if we’re being thematic, but really she’d be a Rodgers and Hammerstein girlie

Bonus-bonus Teacher: You just know if he was real he’d be an opera buff.

[princesssarisa]

Reasons why the original "Little Shop of Horrors" ending flopped

I've been thinking of the various possible reasons why test audiences reacted badly to the original ending of the film version of Little Shop of Horrors. Off-Broadway audiences hadn't objected to the end of the stage version, where Audrey and Seymour are eaten and Audrey II wins in the end. So why exactly did the movie's test audiences find that ending so upsetting, forcing a new, happier ending to be shot?

Frank Oz has always cited two big differences between theatre and film as the main cause:

*Film has close-ups. They make the audience engage more closely with the characters' emotions than they do in live theatre, so we care more about Seymour and Audrey.

*At the end of a live theatre performance, the actors come out for a curtain call. That's an immediate reminder that they didn't really die. Whereas in a movie, while rationally we all know it's just a performance, it feels like they're really dead.

Here are some further arguments I've read in various places:

*Orin and Mr. Mushnik's deaths are rewritten in the film to tone down Seymour's guilt. Without the stage song "Now (It's Just the Gas)", Orin dies more quickly, without giving him much time to beg Seymour for help, and we don't hear Seymour cold-bloodedly debating whether to save him or not in his mind. Later, Mushnik holds Seymour at gunpoint and tries to blackmail him into giving him the plant in exchange for his keeping quiet about Orin's murder, while onstage he just threatens to have him arrested. In response, Seymour only backs Mushnik toward the plant (possibly even by accident – it's vague) instead of tricking him into looking inside its jaws, and then tries to warn him about it at the last moment, too late. These changes make a big difference in whether the audience thinks Seymour deserves comeuppance or not.

(There are alternate film takes, though, where Orin's begging for help is more drawn out, and where Seymour clearly backs Mushnik toward the plant on purpose and doesn't try to warn him about it. I read somewhere that those changes were made after the negative test screenings to make the new happy ending work better, but I don't know if that's been confirmed or not.)

*Rick Moranis has too much inherent likability as an actor. With or without the above rewrites, he gives off too much of a sweet, innocent vibe to let the audience stop rooting for Seymour.

*Showing Audrey's fantasy of married life with Seymour during "Somewhere That's Green" makes the audience sympathize more with her dreams. When she only sings about them, it's easier to laugh at how she romanticizes stereotypical '50s suburbia. But seeing her fantasy onscreen, even though it's still played for laughs, makes us root all the more for her to achieve it.

*The stage version of "Don't Feed the Plants" is less bleak because it ends at the very beginning of the plants' conquest, without leaving the shop or showing any massacres. It's just a warning: don't feed the plants, or else they'll destroy the world. Showing giant Audrey IIs already destroying the world leaves us feeling more hopeless.

*While the final "Don't Feed the Plants" sequence is visually spectacular, it drags on for too long.

*In 1986, people didn't expect a musical to end tragically. The rise in popularity of dark, tearjerking musicals in the mid-to-late '80s and '90s hadn't taken off yet in the US, so the ending was more of an unpleasant shock. (Personally, I'm not sure if I agree with this theory. The stage ending wasn't criticized in 1982, and plenty of musicals already existed with dark themes and with sad or bittersweet endings: The King and I, West Side Story, Fiddler on the Roof, Sweeney Todd, etc. Although I'm sure it was a shock for some people to see a campy musical comedy end tragically.)

I'd like to add some more suggestions of my own:

*Onstage, depending on the production, Audrey's death can be played more for dark laughs, more as a spoof of melodramatic movie death scenes. On film, the medium's comparative realism forces the sadness to be played straighter. This is enhanced by Seymour's attempted suicide afterwards, which doesn't happen onstage.

*The addition of "Mean Green Mother From Outer Space" makes Seymour's death much more brutal. Onstage, he's eaten fairly quickly, and he goes down fighting. But on film, we have to watch Audrey II playing a slow game of cat-and-mouse with him while singing a gloating song and destroying the shop, then wrapping him in its vines and slowly lifting him into its jaws, with closeups of his terrified face all the while.

*Onstage, during "Don't Feed the Plants," Seymour, Audrey, Mr. Mushnik, and Orin all reappear as flowers sprouting from Audrey II and sing to the audience. Thus, even before the curtain call, they're not portrayed as really "dead." And the fact that it makes no sense in-universe – maybe Mushnik and Seymour could have survived being swallowed, but Orin and Audrey were already dead when the plant ate their bodies – reminds us that this is only a show.

Basically, I think a perfect storm of factors combined to make audiences dislike the original, tragic film ending, even though there was no such objection to the stage ending.

@ariel-seagull-wings

[thejewishguyscompetiton]

The Jewish Guys of All Time!

It's time to meet the competitors, as they have been selected! Polls probably won't be up till after next week as I have finals next week. Reminder that the competitors were selected based on nominations and they can be canonical, headcanon, or coded! Only 2-3 at most from a source and I decided to take some lesser known or talked about ones in the nominations! So now that thats all out of the way!!!

If you have any propaganda for this competition please tag this blog in it and/or use the tag #jewishguyscomp2023

Welcome the contestants!

Barney Guttman (Dead End Paranormal Park)

Cecil Gershwin Palmer (Welcome to Nightvale)

Peter B. Parker (Spiderverse)

Spock (Star Trek)

Moon Knight (Marvel)

Magneto (Marvel)

Benjamin Grimm (Marvel)

Billy Kaplan (Marvel)

Adam Birkholz (Omg Check Please!)

Alter Rosen (The City Beautiful)

Annie Edison (Community)

Isabella Garcia-Shapiro (Phineas and Ferb)

Grunkle Stan (Gravity Falls)

Jake Peralta (Brooklyn 99)

Kronk (The Emperor's New Groove)

Launchpad (Ducktales 2017)

Ragman (Rory Regan) (DC)

Nati (Srugim)

Nadia Vulvokov (Russian Doll)

Yanki (HaSodot)

Avram (The Frisco Kid)

Herschel (Wholly Moses)

Adam F. Goldberg (The Goldbergs)

Coyote Bergstein (Grace and Frankie)

Walter Sobchak (The Big Lebowski)

Eli Moskovitz (Cobra Kai)

Nick Ganz (Mighty Ducks Game Changers)

Worf (Star Trek)

Artie Nielsen (Warehouse 13)

Booster Gold (DC)

 Brucie Kibbutz (Grand Theft Auto IV)

 Buddy Sorrell (The Dick Van Dyke Show)

 The Baudelaires (ASOUE)

Lemony Snicket (ASOUE)

 Mabel and Dipper (Gravity Falls)

Harley Quinn (DC)

Jeremy Heere (Be More Chill)

Tegan Jovanka (Doctor Who)

Muscle Man (Regular Show)

 Schmidt (New Girl)

 Michael Moscowitz (Princess Diaries)

Spike Spiegel (Cowboy Bebop)

 Sonic the Hedgehog (The Sonic Movie)

 Toby Ziegler (The West Wing)

 TK Strand (911 Lone Star)

 Scanlan Shorthalt (Critical Role)

 Patsy (Spamalot)

 Nathaniel Kurtzberg (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Chat Noir)

 Miriam Maisel (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel)

  Mendel Weisenbachfeld (Falsettos)

 KJ (Paper Girls)

 Libby Stein-Torres (The Ghost and Molly Mcgee)

 Noah Puckerman (Glee)

 Motl (Fiddler on the Roof)

 Otacon (Metal Gear Solid)

 Mabel Rose (Diviners)

 Isidore Latham (Chicago Med)

 Fran Fine (The Nanny)

Jerry Seinfeld (Seinfeld) 

Greg Focker (Meet the Parents)

Davey Jacobs (Newsies)

 Dr. Alan Strauss (The Patient)

Tevye (Fiddler on the Roof)

Little Ash (When the Angels Left the Old Country)

ROUND ONE MASTERPOST

ROUND TWO MASTERPOST

[conradscrime]

Hamilton John Doe (2007)

January 09, 2023

On April 7, 2007, in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, the skull of an unidentified man was noticed by some neighbours at the end of their driveway. At first, one neighbour believed the skull was an animals. Not thinking anything of it, another neighbour kicked the skull across the road where it went into a ditch. 

On April 9, 2007, at 6:30 pm, a Glanbrook resident was walking their dog on Glancaster Road when they saw an object in the ditch just off the west side of the road. The individual looked closer and saw what appeared to look like a human skull. A forensic anthropologist was eventually called who came to help identify the skull. 

On April 18, around 10am, the Hamilton Police searched the area for any clues that could be related to the skull found, calling on the Ground Search and Rescue Team as well as cadaver dogs and volunteers in the community. 

One hour into the search, cadaver dogs found additional human remains near the intersection of Glancaster Road and Fiddlers Green Road in a forested area in the community of Mount Hope.

An autopsy revealed that the additional remains belonged to the skull that was first found. The date of death was estimated to be the Summer of Fall of 2006. However, it is possible the death occurred as early as Fall of 2005 or Spring of 2006. Foul play was not suspected. 

DNA was extracted from the femur of the remains however police have been unable to match this individual to similar missing persons cases. 

Hamilton John Doe has been described as having grey/white hair, 2-3 inches in length, likely wearing an upper full denture and possibly a lower partial denture. The man’s teeth were poorly cared for and he had no upper teeth, likely for many years before his death as the sockets had been healed. 

Hamilton John Doe had 6 teeth present, one canine and two premolar teeth on each side of the lower jaw. He had a chronic abscess on both the right and left teeth, no fillings and had untreated cavities. 

The John Doe had blue denim “Wrangler” brand jeans that were a size 34x34, a “Fitrite” brand shirt in a size large, blue denim “Kinswood” brand, long-sleeved button down shirt, size large, a black belt, white “Fruit of the Loom” brand underwear, white left running shoe in a size 9 and a half, a blue face “U.S. Army” brand wristwatch that was silver, water resistant worn on his left wrist. 

He also had a silver folding knife in a black sheath attached to the belt, with a 7.6 cm blade, and a stainless steel, black handle. The wristwatch has been available since 2003 and is believed to have cost between $300-$450 at the time. 

The man also had a “Bic” brand lighter, chrome “Zebra” brand pen, “Trim” brand nail clippers, a pack of chewing gum, and $12.99, with one discoloured coin of unknown denomination. 

Hamilton John Doe is a white male estimated to be between 40-65 years old at the time of his death, but likely 50-65 years old, between 5′6-6′ feet tall with other sources saying between 5′7-6′1 feet tall, and his cause of death is currently unknown. 

If you recognize this man or are from or know anyone who lived in the area of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada in 2006/2007 who might’ve known Hamilton John Doe, you can contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (1-800-222-8477), you can stay anonymous. 

You can also email the National Centre for Missing Persons and Unidentified Remains at: canadasmissing-disparuscanada@rcmp-grc.gc.ca

[nicklloydnow]

“You've done this afore, said Tobin.

The kid wiped his nose with a swipe of his greasy sleeve and turned the piece in his lap. Not me, he said.

Well you've the knack. More so than me. There's little equity in the Lord's gifts.

The kid looked up at him and then bent to his work again.

That's so, said the expriest. Look around you. Study the judge.

I done studied him.

Mayhaps he aint to your liking, fair enough. But the man's a hand at anything. I've never seen him turn to a task but what he didnt prove clever at it.

The kid drove the greased thread through the leather and hauled it taut.

He speaks dutch, said the expriest.

Dutch?

Aye.

The kid looked at the expriest, he bent to his mending.

He does for I heard him do it. We cut a parcel of crazy pilgrims down off the Llano and the old man in the lead of them he spoke right up in dutch like we were all of us in dutchland and the judge give him right back. Glanton come near fallin off his horse. We none of us knew him to speak it. Asked where he'd learned it you know what he said?

What did he say?

Said off a dutchman.

The expriest spat. I couldnt of learned it off ten dutchmen. What about you?

The kid shook his head.

No, said Tobin. The gifts of the Almighty are weighed and parceled out in a scale peculiar to himself. It's no fair accountin and I dont doubt but what he'd be the first to admit it and you put the query to him boldface.

Who?

The Almighty, the Almighty. The expriest shook his head. He glanced across the fire toward the judge. That great hairless thing. You wouldnt think to look at him that he could outdance the devil himself now would ye? God the man is a dancer, you'll not take that away from him. And fiddle. He's the greatest fiddler I ever heard and that's an end on it. The greatest. He can cut a trail, shoot a rifle, ride a horse, track a deer. He's been all over the world. Him and the governor they sat up till breakfast and it was Paris this and London that in five languages, you'd have give something to of heard them. The governor's a learned man himself he is, but the judge. . .

The expriest shook his head. Oh it may be the Lord's way of showin how little store he sets by the learned. Whatever could it mean to one who knows all? He's an uncommon love for the common man and godly wisdom resides in the least of things so that it may well be that the voice of the Almighty speaks most profoundly in such beings as lives in silence themselves.

He watched the kid.

For let it go how it will, he said, God speaks in the least of creatures.

The kid thought him to mean birds or things that crawl but the expriest, watching, his head slightly cocked, said: No man is give leave of that voice.

The kid spat into the fire and bent to his work.

I aint heard no voice, he said.

When it stops, said Tobin, you'll know you've heard it all your life.

Is that right?

Aye.

The kid turned the leather in his lap. The expriest watched him.

At night, said Tobin, when the horses are grazing and the company is asleep, who hears them grazing?

Dont nobody hear them if they're asleep.

Aye. And if they cease their grazing who is it that wakes?

Every man.

Aye, said the expriest. Every man.

The kid looked up. And the judge? Does the voice speak to him?

The judge, said Tobin. He didnt answer.”

- Cormac McCarthy, ‘Blood Meridian; or, The Evening Redness in the West’ (1985) [p. 111 - 113]

[ryqoshay]

Putting on Hairs: Post Production - Promotional Posters

Primary Pairing Trio: MariKanaDia Rating: G Words: 636 AU: Theater, Monsters Fandom: Love Live Sunshine Time Frame: Sometime before the main story Event: Promptober 2023 Event Source: Idol Fanfic Heaven channel on Discord Prompt: Roommate

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Author's Note: Primary entry for the 7th

Summary: Mari brings Dia a gift

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“Di~a~”

Dia sighed, but stopped walking and turned toward the sound of her name being called.

“Salutations, Mari-san.” She said, bowing politely.

Mari pouted. “Still not dropping the -san?”

“…”

Dia wasn’t sure how to respond to the question, even knowing it was coming. Honestly, she still wasn’t sure how to react to the situation as a whole. Sure, she had relented and accepted Mari’s patronage of the theater; with the sums offered, she and Umi had been able to appreciably accelerate their agenda. But then Mari had moved to Tokyo, with Kanan in tow, wanting to rekindle the fire the trio had back… so far back… in high school. Dia couldn’t deny a flame still lingered, but she wasn’t sure if she was ready to restoke it.

“Anyway, I come bearing gifts!” Mari announced, bouncing back to her usual cheerful self.

“I don’t…”

“For the theater!”

“… Alright…”

“Kanan!”

“Almost there.” Kanan replied, rounding the corner.

“Kanan.” Dia scolded. “You weren’t outside like that, were you?”

“Of course not.” The krakan laughed before setting down several boxes and retracting her squid-like arms. She then pulled a cutter out of her jacket, knelt and opened a box.

“Are these…” Dia knelt beside Kanan “what I think they are?”

“Take a look.” Mari prompted.

Dia popped the end off one of the tubes and gently slid the rolled poster partway out. Her breath caught in her throat. She was looking at what seemed to be an authentic, original promotional poster for Fiddler on the Roof. Not only was it a famous Broadway play, but it had been surprisingly popular here in Japan as well; something about daughters resisting tradition and arranged marriages appealing to younger generations and whatnot. And it was in nigh pristine condition.

She snapped the cap back on and opened another. Phantom of the Opera. Original performance at Her Majesty’s Theater. Another. Les Misérables. Another. South Pacific. Ah, some other older ones in there apparently. I Married an Angel. Dia wasn’t familiar with that one and made a mental note to research it later.

“Mari…” Dia looked up at her friend. “Where did you find all of these?”

“I have my connections.” Mari boasted.

Of course.

“Are they all from Broadway or the West End?” Dia couldn’t help asking.

“Most.” Mari replied. “Their posters were the easiest to come by, after all. But this box is all Japanese productions. And these two are from other theaters around the world. And they’re from all ages, from modern to vintage to antique and everything in between.”

Were there other age distinctions within that range? Dia wondered.

“So, do you like them?” Mari asked, a bit of hesitant hopefulness tinted her tone.

Dia smiled, stood, stepped toward her childhood friend and pulled her into an embrace. “Very much so. They’re wonderful. Thank you, Mari.”

Mari’s sharp breath indicated she had caught the dropped honorific. Silently and slowly, she returned the hug.

“Are you two going to stand there like that all day or are we going to start putting these up?”

Dia looked over Mari’s shoulder to spot Kanan, arms filled with more boxes. “There’s more?”

“Nah, these ones have frames and mounting material.”

“I see.”

“So,” Mari slowly pulled away, “can we put them up… together?”

All of the day’s schedule ran through Dia’s mind, but she immediately dismissed it. There was nothing that couldn’t wait until tomorrow or later. Apparently, more important things needed to be done today.

“Alright.”

Mari smiled. “And I promise I won’t even pester you about moving in with me and Kanan to be roommates.”

Dia closed her eyes and let out a slow breath. It was fine. She would let Mari have that one.

“Alright,” Kanan said, opening a box and pulling out a display box, “let’s get to work.”

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Author's Note Continued: My initial idea was to write a followup to last year's entry about Dia and Kanan giving Mari a bomber jacket to celebrate her starting a mercenary guild in my Unstable World AU. But as I thought more about it, somehow I kept coming back to the trio in my monster theater AU instead. So I wrote this.

Mind you, I may yet come back to my original idea if I can find time to write it between now an the next prompt being posted. Or I can forget this prompt for said followup and do it with a different prompt. We'll see. Either way, I doubt this will be the last MariKanaDia entry for this year's Promptober event.

Also, another primary entry with all three prompts. Vintage was from '21 and Jacket was from '22. I'm doing far better at my self challenge than I originally thought. Of course, looking at some later days, and remembering some of the difficulty I had just combining two, who knows how much longer I can keep this streak going.

[ijustwantedtobeoneofthestrokesuk]

Gentrification Kills Creativity

London

Good things always come to an end and the London that The Libertines built was knocked down (literally, to a point), but that doesn’t mean a new London for lost creative kids doesn’t just exist (it’s just not in Soho after 11pm).

The future wasn’t bright for London’s nightlife when Crossrail and gentrification came along and swept it away. The Soho of the 2000’s went hand-in-hand with the music scene. It was gritty and a little dangerous but it was wild, hence why there were so many club nights selling cheap booze. 

Jay (Beans On Toast) “The gentrification of Central London created East London.” 

Soho is also in the heart of London, a capital city that attracts people with money and tourists so as the first decade of the 21st century ended it started to become gentrified. The late-night bars were replaced by chain restaurants and the venues and clubs such as the Astoria, the Mean Fiddler and Metro were demolished. Not only was central London being cleaned up but Crossrail was being built too, destroying a community that bred creativity to build a new underground line and stations in a compact and condensed area of the city.  

Crossrail 

When it comes to getting around, London’s transport is particularly good but it's also dated. Not only is it old but it wasn’t built for the population that London now has, Crossrail was built to help it but, it has come at a cost. Plans for the new line (which goes east to west) were approved in 2007 and work began 2 years later. It was expected to be finished in 2018 but that came and went, the project was way over budget and it’s hard to know its true value is, even now that the Elizabeth Line is open. 

Despite destroying some of London’s most iconic venues in Soho to build a central station, it has improved connections in the East, where the creatives had already migrated too…

NEXT CHAPTER

[neurotheatre]

thanks for the tag, this is fun!! considering the vastness of my liked songs, this is a solid selection

@greysunreliable @gay-vampire-with-a-violin @geewaysgreendayhoodie

Challenging you all!

Put your music library on shuffle, then list the first five songs that come up in a poll to let people vote for which one they like the most!

Then tag Tumblr friends to keep the game going!

[ufonaut]

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF WEST END REVIVAL IVE SPENT MY LIFE WAITING FOR THIS MOMENT

[leaguepremsinfo]

NOA MAZUR. 21. west end star, generally funky little guy. julia garner.

The two older Mazur siblings were football mad, the two of them chasing after a ball from the second they could manage more than a slow, stumbly walk. Noa was not the same – when she was born, her oldest brother was six and her sister was five, they’d already established themselves as football fanatics, their parents pushing the two of them to follow in their father’s broad footsteps.

She found a love of music young, then a love of acting following that - by five, she would put on little performances for their mother after school, making up songs and dances and skits involving her toys.

Deciding to invest in their youngest child’s interests, Fil and Bethany put her into every drama club, every extra curricular that they could, harnessing her skills and attending all the shows they could manage. 

She got her first job at the age of five, playing Gretl Von Trapp on the West End’s revival of The Sound of Music, this was due to her burgeoning talent and her mother being incredibly pushy with the youngest Mazur, the run lasted 4 months. It wan’t long before she got her next lead role in Matilda the musical when she was seven. The next job came quickly, an advert for Arsenal this time, eight year old Noa had her first (and only) nepotism job. A small role in a CBBC show, some episodes when she was nine on Eastenders, before her next lead role in Matilda the musical when she was ten, then small BBC roles after that. 

When she was twelve, shortly after her Bat Mitzvah, she found out that a show she had been workshopping with David fucking Bowie was going ahead.. she had landed the role of The Girl in his musical Lazarus.. She got to work alongside the man himself, doing a run in New York before London.. It was amazing. She was deeply hurt by his loss, of course.

Years pass, she’s gone low-to-no-contact with their mother - this was due to her mother lashing out at the youngest Mazur for being a disappointment for not remaining at the top of her profession like their father. 

She’s recently graduated from LAMDA, where she spent a lot of her first year staring as the lead in 42nd street, the summer of her second year at edinburgh fringe getting rave reviews and now, she stars as Hodel in her and her brother’s favourite musical: Fiddler on the Roof. 

Noa is a star in her own right, she supports both West Ham and Richmond (that might be because of a few choice crushes she finds herself with) and lives with her big brother in his three storey South Ken abode. She’s very involved in football still and often finds rows of theatres being packed out with her brother and his Prem Friends.

[meanwhileinstasiville]

Dunn ranch all the way

You know, it's like "someone's juice has juice" or that's supposed to be a message. So, here's the thing; college and churchill hall went in to combat what the Dunn's were doing and had done prior: being where skilled labor and experts *came from*. Doctor? Dunn associated. Lawyer? Dunn associated. Finance, farming, ranching, representation in Congress, teachers in school (bellview the Dunn school), cops, city employees, mayors/council people etc.

Same Wexford county stuff but out west. A cooper every few hundred feet walking distance? Are we being formally occupied by another government? Yellow and street signaling that synchs up with a playlist; like I'm the fiddler of Dooney or something.

I want to say england convinced latinos at some point that *royal is white* and all empire duchies could then be *theirs* along with "true whiteness". Which is fine, even if completely documented as the business end of that former empire; join up and fight their enemies at your own risk and expense and familial spilled blood. A citizen of the empire though, right? Right???

Chine cultural inundation, it's sometimes called what I'm seeing. Speaking of coopers and yellow, shirt which drew back to the "red honda" at idle at every corner of years past. Serious shit. After all of a couple days commitment to that ranch legacy.

(I'm not receptive to any font or facet of this stuf; religious, "would-be" menacing by cartel turned civil people about town, death threats, a cultural inundation with no upshot in sight; a flag planted by soldiers on a desert island is about all you can expect)

And all crime is long organized so I guess that makes it a good fit for Chinese bribery institutions of governance of a rough sort. Nobody cares about it and nobody *wants anyone to care about it* and *from as far away as Chicago even*

[thejewishguyscompetiton]

ROUND 1 MASTERPOST

Well we have our matchups made! for round one! here they are! Links will be added when the polls are up!

And tag any propaganda with #jewishguyscomp2023 and tag the blog!

Avram (The Frisco Kid) vs Michael Moscowitz (Princess Diaries)

Moon Knight (Marvel) vs Brucie Kibbutz (Grand Theft Auto IV) 

Worf (Star Trek) vs Herschel (Wholly Moses)

Spock (Star Trek) vs Magneto (Marvel)

Barney Guttman (Dead End Paranormal Park) vs Harley Quinn (DC)

 Noah Puckerman (Glee) vs  Otacon (Metal Gear Solid)

Annie Edison (Community) vs Little Ash (When the Angels Left the Old Country)

Muscle Man (Regular Show) vs  Mabel and Dipper (Gravity Falls)

Schmidt (New Girl) vs The Baudelaires (ASOUE)

Cecil Gershwin Palmer (Welcome to Nightvale) vs  Sonic the Hedgehog (The Sonic Movie)

Jeremy Heere (Be More Chill) vs Peter B. Parker (Spiderverse)

Coyote Bergstein (Grace and Frankie) vs Lemony Snicket (ASOUE)

Adam Birkholz (Omg Check Please!) vs  Toby Ziegler (The West Wing)

Grunkle Stan (Gravity Falls) vs Nadia Vulvokov (Russian Doll)

Patsy (Spamalot) vs Booster Gold (DC)

Kronk (The Emperor's New Groove) vs Ragman (Rory Regan) (DC)

Davey Jacobs (Newsies) vs Isabella Garcia-Shapiro (Phineas and Ferb)

Nick Ganz (Mighty Ducks Game Changers) vs  Nathaniel Kurtzberg (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Chat Noir)

Launchpad (Ducktales 2017) Adam F. Goldberg (The Goldbergs)

Tegan Jovanka (Doctor Who) vs Artie Nielsen (Warehouse 13)

Yanki (HaSodot) vs Walter Sobchak (The Big Lebowski)

 KJ (Paper Girls) vs  Scanlan Shorthalt (Critical Role)

Billy Kaplan (Marvel) vs  Motel (Fiddler on the Roof)

Mendel Weisenbachfeld (Falsettos) vs Nati (Srugim)

Greg Focker (Meet the Parents) vs Jake Peralta (Brooklyn 99)

Mabel Rose (Diviners) vs Jerry Seinfeld (Seinfeld) 

Eli Moskovitz (Cobra Kai) vs  Miriam Maisel (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel)

Dr. Alan Strauss (The Patient) vs Spike Spiegel (Cowboy Bebop)

Buddy Sorrell (The Dick Van Dyke Show) vs  TK Strand (911 Lone Star)

Isidore Latham (Chicago Med) vs  Libby Stein-Torres (The Ghost and Molly Mcgee)

Alter Rosen (The City Beautiful) vs Tevye (Fiddler on the Roof)

Benjamin Grimm (Marvel) vs  Fran Fine (The Nanny)

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I made a master list of every Broadway show I’ve ever seen.

I’ve seen 46 unique shows (does not count repeats). ASK ME ANYTHING!

I’ve seen six shows more than once (Avenue Q, Fiddler, King &I, Les Miz, Phantom, and Rent).

Phantom and Rent are currently tied for most seen. Phantom will surpass rent soon.

Rent: Broadway, West End, Kennedy Center (DC)

Phantom: Tour (Boston, 1995), Broadway, Italy

Fiddler/King & I are doubled up because of school productions.

Les Miz I saw both the original Broadway production and the 21st Century version (NA Tour, Kennedy Center)

The earliest shows I saw were Peter Pan (w/ Cathy Rigby) and Fiddler (w/Topol). Since both were in 1990 I don’t know which I saw first. I remember them both, especially Peter Pan. I have a distinct memory of a balcony view of Cathy Rigby flying across the stage.

Showboat I randomly saw during its Toronto pre-Broadway run. Show list below the cut line.

Obviously, I have some clear favorites. But from the below, for favorites that are not much talked about? Brian D’Arcy James in Titanic.

1776

American Utopia

Annie

Annie Get Your Gun

Avenue Q

Book of Mormon

Brigadoon

Bye Bye Birdie

Crazy for You

Damn Yankees

Evita

Fiddler on the Roof

Funny Girl

Grease

Guys and Dolls

Hadestown

Hairspray

Hamilton

Hello Dolly

Here LIes Love

How to Succeed in Business

Jekyll & Hyde

King & I

Kiss Me Kate

Les Miserables

Lion King

Merrily We Roll Along

Moulin Rouge

Oklahoma!

Oliver

Once Upon a Mattress

Pajama Game

Peter Pan

Phantom of the Opera

Rent

Showboat

Sound of Music

Spamalot

Spring Awakening

Starlight Express

Sweeney Todd

The Fantastiks

The Producers

Titanic

Wicked

Candide