#first national tour

[springawakeningfan]

15 YEARS since SPRING AWAKENING'S FIRST NATIONAL TOUR OPENED on August 15, 2008 at The Balboa Theatre in San Diego, California

[tinartss]

dapg lore goes crazy

+ the sticker sheets i made to hand out at my show and give to dnp! :) i have about 15 extra i'm planning to put up on etsy or kofi at some point in the near future (i was hoping this month but it is looking less and less likely </3 but i will keep you all updated!)

+ many bonus sections incoming LOL guys they are so beautiful and sweet irl feeling ill and sick i love them dearly.....like actually so sweet and very beautiful.....

+ their very cute reactions to my stickers and art !!!! 😭😭😭

overall i had such an amazing time!!! so happy to receive a ton of bracelets and give out some stickers :) made a lot of very sweet friends and trauma bonded by freezing with other phannies at the stagedoor waiting for their phus to leave HAHA

and one last thing i recorded the preshow! it's here although there is most definitely a better recording somewhere else LOL

[midnightspunisher]

“take me out and take me home”

lover, taylor swift; lover (2019) dir. taylor swift; cornelia street, taylor swift; my tears ricochet, taylor swift; eras tour visual (2023); ivy, taylor swift; eras tour visual (2023); the alcott, the national ft. taylor swift; dear reader, taylor swift

[mcxcuseme13]

This might be bold, but I think Taylor will not use "there will be no explanation, there will just be reputation" to announce Rep tv. I almost can guarantee that she's using "and in the death of her reputation, she never felt so alive."

[baby-girl-aaron-dessner]

If The Alcott was on Folklore/Evermore people would’ve eaten it up.

Have I become one of your problems?

Everything that's mine is a landmine.

Did my love aid and abet you?

We moved on WAY too fast from this masterpiece.

[deadpresidents]

President Rutherford B. Hayes (far right), First Lady Lucy Webb Hayes, and their party visiting Yosemite -- which was still ten years away from becoming a National Park -- on October 21, 1880. President Hayes was not only the first President in American history to visit the West Coast of the United States while in office, but he was the first incumbent President to travel west of Salt Lake City and only the second to travel west of the Rocky Mountains (his immediate predecessor, Ulysses S. Grant had visited Utah in 1875).

The President's "Great Western Tour", which lasted from August 26-November 6, 1880 took the Presidential party through Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming Territory, Utah Territory, Nevada, California, Oregon, Washington Territory, Arizona Territory, New Mexico Territory, Colorado, and Kansas en route to the Hayes family home, "Spiegel Grove" in Fremont, Ohio in time for Hayes to cast his ballot for fellow Ohioan James Garfield to be his successor.

[barstoolblues]

the total lack of acknowledgment on this site that robbie is first nations is also wildddddddddddd

[moritzakgae]

how do u feel abt blake bashoffs rendition of moritz?

(i have not seen the first national tour cast in full, this is mostly based on his time on broadway!)

i think he is great! particularly in the first act where most of his characterisation relies on the comedic neuroticism. truly mastered the art of existential nervousness. his don’t do sadness/blue wind in my opinion isn’t as exhausted (?) as i personally read it. like i don’t feel the complete submission to his fate of not doing sadness. like he has too much life still in him. does that make sense. overall i think he is really great as moritz though. i am not exactly qualified to critique a performance at all. my opinions mean nothing. but thank u for asking for it!

[agirlwiththoughtsandnegativity]

what is taylor spelling. why are we getting a word a day. this is so ominous and I’m scared.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Peter Montgomery at Right Wing Watch:

The New York Times profiled the MAGA movement organization America First Policy Institute this week. AFPI was created as a sort of Trump administration in exile after voters dumped Donald Trump from office. AFPI has provided jobs and salaries to a lot of Trump loyalists, who are working to put Trump—and themselves—back into power. And they’re preparing to make the most of that power. AFPI’s own version of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 agenda for a new administration reportedly includes nearly 300 executive orders for a returning Trump to sign. Right Wing Watch reported last year on an AFPI summit called “Laying the Groundwork for the Next America First Administration,” at which the group’s president Brooke Rollins bragged about the “revolutionary” nature of its ambitions to “seize control of the administrative state and use it—while also dismantling it,” describing “an America First confrontation against anti-conservative institutions.”

Now that there’s bad blood between MAGA insiders and the Heritage Foundation over the unfavorable publicity Project 2025 brought Trump’s campaign, AFPI is positioned to be in control of the transition team and domestic policy agenda if Trump wins. One example of what that could look like: the Times reports that AFPI’s plan to allow Trump to fire federal employees and replace them with political loyalists is even more radical than Project 2025’s proposal—it would essentially turn the entire federal workforce into a political patronage system. 

One important aspect of AFPI’s work that this week’s Times story did not explore is AFPI’s partnership with dominionist Lance Wallnau and his “Courage Tour” to turn out conservative Christian voters in crucial swing-state counties in the upcoming election. As the Times noted, one of AFPI’s funders and board members is Texas pastor-billionaire Tim Dunn, whose funding and theocratic vision have been aggressively pushing the Texas Republican Party further to the far right. 

Right Wing Watch has reported that the Courage Tour blends religious revivalism, spiritual warfare rhetoric, right-wing politics, and targeted voter turnout work all designed to overcome “demonic strongholds” and put Trump back into the White House. Some other media reports on the Courage Tour have noted the partnership and described the participation of America First Works—AFPI’s political action affiliate—and its voter registration efforts. Wallnau and AFPI have focused on 19 crucial counties in swing states that they believe could swing the election for Trump with increased turnout from MAGA-minded Christians. 

The extent of the partnership between AFPI and New Apostolic Reformation dominionists like Wallnau is revealed in video from a Michigan stop on the Courage Tour in May. Wallnau described AFPI as “the group I work with,” adding that it “is holding the key appointment for the hoped-for Trump administration….They’ve got all the placeholders for who’s going in.”  Wallnau introduced Richard Rogers, who is affiliated with Georgia-based MAGA pastor Jentezen Franklin’s Free Chapel church, and who is serving as AFPI’s national director of faith engagement. He got that assignment, Rogers said, when AFPI called Franklin saying that the movement did not have enough resources on the ground to actually do the necessary voter registration and turnout in those targeted counties. Rogers went to work, he said, and now AFPI has a “faith department” that has been built “to put boots on the ground to motivate the voters in those states to turn the tide on the election in 2024—and we’re doing it.”

The America First Policy Institute (AFPI) has an agenda that is more radical than even the discredited mess that Project 2025.

[octoagentmiles]

octonauts ATLA au 🤲

Barnacles is an EXTREMELY powerful waterbender from the North Pole, with a strong love for icebending—he defaults to it most of the time. He can use all subforms of waterbending, but they're a bit harder.

Kwazii's the Avatar, but he's still a pirate AND he's a natural firebender, so he still has that "scary and dangerous" reputation. He's afraid of using his firebending, because he hates it. Barnacles is teaching him waterbending, and he's pretty good at it. So far he sucks at earthbending, and his airbending is okay, but if he gets worked up it can accidentally come out as fire... which, yeah.

Peso is an airbender, and the first one in his family. He's not very skilled at bending, and he can't fly very well, and sometimes wishes he was a waterbender, like Barnacles. That way he'd be "stronger", and could utilize its healing abilities. He has an epiphany later on in the middle of S3 that makes him realize how powerful he really is, and he learns to fly :)

Tweak is an earthbender, which she inherited from her dad (maybe*). Like Barnacles, she has a love and preference for a specific subtype—in her case it's metalbending. She's very good at it. It's how she builds GUPs so fast.

Shellington is a waterbender. He doesn't use it very much, mainly because he's Not Great at controlling it—so you'll either end up getting lightly spit on or completely drenched in a tsunami by accident.

Dashi is a non-bender (with water tribe ancestry), which puts her at a disadvantage during some missions. However! She has all of her skills from the Canon Universe, plus the extra adaptiveness seen in non-benders in ATLA (Sokka, Suki, etc).

Inkling is also a non-bender, but he has studied the elements and different bending techniques his whole life. He's Kwazii's Monk Gyatso but with less dying.

Octoagents! ���

Calico Jack is Kwazii's Uncle Iroh. I needn't explain further. His main goal is to teach Kwazii to be less afraid of his firebending.

Natquik is a waterbender, who taught Barnacles everything he knows. He got his penchant for icebending from him. He pretty much invented it. He survived Antarctica by ✨ Becoming One With The Ice™ ✨. He doesn't just study icequakes, he can make them. He can probably spiritbend.

*I'm TORN between making Marsh be an earthbender or a waterbender. If he's an earthbender, then he can't metalbend like Tweak can, but he's still very strong. Like, scarily strong 👀. IF HE'S A WATERBENDER, then he's a swampbender, full stop.

Tracker is an airbender, mainly because of how he's clearly paralleling Peso's arc in AnB. He was the only airbender in his Polar Scouts troop, and he got picked on for it a bit—but Barnacles thought it was cool as heck, and that's how they became friends.

Do I need to explain Paani being a waterbender? No I do not. He's probably VERY powerful, but very chillax about it. He successfully freaks out everyone who witnesses him bend every time. He can part the seas like freaking Moses.

Pearl is a waterbender like Shellington; she's not super strong, but she has a LOT more control over it than he does. Peri will be a waterbender as well, but he hasn't unlocked it yet. He's trying very hard because he wants to be like his mum and uncle SO badly.

Min could easily be a bender of any kind and it would make sense, but I kinda wanna say she's a non-bender. Just cuz ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Earthbender Ryla. That's all. It makes it a lot easier to get out of caves when she's stuck. She's very casual about it. So casual, that most people either forget or don't even realize she's a bender until it comes up. Then they're like "oh yeah." as she literally moves mountains.

Airbender Pinto, who has no clue how to control it. Whenever he gets frustrated with himself, he accidentally creates small tornadoes. He can also fly! He likes to brag about it. a lot. mainly to Peso.

Waterbender Koshi, who hasn't discovered that about herself yet. She's in for a fun time when she figures it out. Remember how happy she was when she got her Octowatch? Yeah :) 10x that. I also imagine their family is full of late bloomers, but because of Dashi she has pretty low expectations for herself right now.

[everytaylorswiftsongisaboutcats]

Surprise Song o’ Clock: Vancouver Night 2

Dress: Purple ✨

Guitar:

GRACIE ABRAMS collab

I Love You I’m Sorry x Last Kiss

“You were the best but you were the worst, as sick as it sounds, I loved you first, I was a dick, it is what it is. A habit to kick, the age-old curse, I tend to laugh whenever I'm sad. I stare at the crash, it actually works. Making amends, this shit never ends. I'm wrong again, wrong again… — So I'll watch your life in pictures like I used to watch you sleep, And I feel you forget me like I used to feel you breathe. And I'll keep up with our old friends just to ask them how you are. Hope it's nice where you are, and I hope the sun shines and it's a beautiful day, and something reminds you you wish you had stayed. You can plan for a change in the weather and time… but I never planned on you changing your mind… The way life goes, joyriding down our road, Lay on the horn to prove that it haunts me, I love you, I'm sorry. — So I'll go, sit on the floor wearing your clothes. All that I know is I don't know, how to be something you miss… The way life goes, I wanna speak in code. Hope that I don't, won't make it about me… I’m wrong again, wrong again… And I'll keep up with our old friends just to ask them how you are… Hope it's nice where you are (hope that I don’t won’t make it about me) I love you, I’m sorry”

Piano:

The Tortured Poets Department x Maroon

“Sometimes, I wonder if you're gonna screw this up with me? But you told Lucy you'd kill yourself if I ever leave, and I had said that to Jack about you, so I felt seen… Everyone we know understands why it's meant to be, 'Cause we're crazy. So tell me, who else is gonna know me? At dinner, you take my ring off my middle finger, and put it on the one people put wedding rings on, and that's the closest I've come to my heart exploding… who’s gonna hold you? Nobody. No fucking body. And I wake with your memory over me. That's a real fucking legacy, legacy (it was maroon) And I wake with your memory over me, that’s a real fucking legacy to leave.”

[anastasiamusicalupdates]

The cast of the First National Tour performing Learn To Do It and Once Upon a December.

[jonnylovers-in-neverland]

Coldplay backstage with a First Nations group in Vancouver

[baby-girl-aaron-dessner]

I really need The Alcott to win this Grammy.

[pyro-0-lez]

my wonderful friends (a tale in five pictures)