#hercules west end

[tellmemoretellmemorepodcast]

Obsessions EP89: Hairspray (2007)

This is a page dedicated to documenting the various theatre news, performances and the like that Lia and Odiesia mention in the “Obsessions” segment of the show. Listen to this episode here. You can also find our fave songs playlist here.

Lia

Moana 2 out this year

The Interestings musical adaptation in works with Sara Bareilles & Sarah Ruhl

Build Up: Korean Vocal Boy Group Survival Show (live with english subtitles every thursday @ 10:40 KST on MNET youtube channel)

Odiesia

‘Wait for Me (Reprise)’ from Hadestown for the Big Night of Musicals 2024

Extra Obsession

Zero to Hero from Hercules for the Royal Variety Performance

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Shoutout (not in episode post-show finds):

The White Gaze of Hairspray by Yhara Zayd

Ricki Lake and John Waters Look Back on 'Hairspray,' 'Cry-Baby' and More on TheWrap

[melanatedmedia2]

Get ready to experience the power of the gods as Hercules: The Musical debuts in London's West End – don't miss this epic journey! #Hercules #BroadwayMusical #D23 #Summer2025

[poirott]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, AGATHA CHRISTIE! (b. September 15 1890)

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, the murder mystery The Mousetrap, which has been performed in the West End of London since 1952. A writer during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Christie has been called the "Queen of Crime"—a moniker which is now trademarked by her estate—or the "Queen of Mystery". She also wrote six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. Guinness World Records lists Christie as the best-selling fiction writer of all time, her novels having sold more than two billion copies.

[genericpuff]

I’m gonna have to disagree with you that Kaos is any better than LO. It’s all the same bull crap.

Kaos just seems like live-action LO, both having a boring storyline with bad or fetishized characterizations of the Greek Gods and figures, and both looking artistically beautiful and some cool concepts, but badly executed. The only difference is that Kaos has more LGBTQIA+ themes than LO, has a tiny bit more Greek references, and gets much darker. That’s pretty much it.

As a Greek who studies our myths and stories extensively, I’m tired of the west trying to take and rearrange our stories and retell them ‘with a modern, western lense’. It’s exhausting and infuriating.

It’s time the west gets over its fascination with us and move on.

Fair opinion! Honestly, the initial post I made about it was after only watching the first couple episodes. Now that I've finished it, I can definitely see actual glaring issues with it, both in their characterizations as well as in how they kind of lose the intrigue after a few episodes of the setting and elements of them being gods. Which are all issues that LO have as well.

Though I will say, LO has those issues far more than Kaos does, but what really separates LO from Kaos, in my opinion - the creators of Kaos aren't pretending that Kaos is more than it is. To me, Kaos isn't in any way a singular Greek myth retelling, more so a fun "Greek epic" style story featuring the gods in a modern setting, the way LO could have been if Rachel hadn't tried to make it into something bigger than it was (and if she didn't put herself on a pedestal as a "self proclaimed folklorist"). I can watch Kaos and appreciate it as a fun Greek myth inspired piece of media because that's pretty much all it's trying to be. Meanwhile LO gives us middle-school-level writing with very little real Greek myth influence (aside from what it benefits Rachel to do so) that even goes so far as to outright disrespect the myths that they were based on... all the while people praise it as the greatest Greek myth retelling ever.

I think Kaos is miles better than LO because it at least tells a more coherent story than LO ever could have, with a lot more attention paid to the stylization of a Greek epic (compared to LO which tried and failed to implement those same things, such as the Fates, self-fulfilling prophecies, and witty narration as to retell a story that's already happened).

Granted, that story still takes a lot of liberties with the source material (some that I enjoyed, others not so much), but in that regard, I refer to the above - Kaos isn't trying to be an actual retelling like LO did, so I view it the same way I do as something like Hercules or Hades, where the people who made it clearly love Greek myth and wanted to do some Greek myth-inspired story with their own twists on the narratives, and it paid off in a story that, in spite of their flaws, still feels intentional and thought out.

LO, by comparison, is just a mess of ripped off half-baked ideas thrown at a wall and filled in with self-fulfilling power fantasy garbage written by someone who claims to have deeper knowledge of the myths but clearly doesn't. It's hard to enjoy LO in spite of its flaws because it's all flaws and they're so deeply-rooted in the context of Rachel's own biases and sexual preferences that you really can't separate it from that once you know if it.

I do have some criticisms of Kaos and some of its more creative choices - Hera cheating on Zeus with Poseidon (literally wtf lmao), Persephone still being the "I went down there willingly!" archetype (though at least she's not 19 in this, the casting for her and Hades was great), as well as the fact that things weren't wrapped up by the end of the first season which really bums me out because now it's up to the mercy of Netflix to give it that second season - but ultimately, from a story-writing perspective, Kaos absolutely did accomplish having an actual narrative with themes and goal-driven writing that LO failed in having. That comparison doesn't make Kaos a 100% perfect show without flaw, but I made the comparison initially anyways because much of what I enjoyed in Kaos was what I expected from LO (and ultimately didn't get).

That's just my own two cents though! And I need to make it clear - I am not a Greek person! I have no say or merit within the discussion regarding Greek myth and how it's been appropriated!! - so ultimately... my opinion of these things really aren't as valuable as someone who actually is Greek or studied heavily in it.

So that said, I can completely see the merit in your own arguments that a lot of these "modern retellings" tend to miss the point of the stories they're trying to retell (esp with the criticisms I outlined above) and are often chewed up through a Western lens. The lesser of two evils is still evil. But if we're purely talking Kaos vs. Lore Olympus here as modern entertainment that are both attempting similar things... I'd be way more likely to rewatch and recommend one over the other. Plus there are a lot of adaptions out there made by Westerners / non-Greeks that are incredible and are, at the very least, amazing stepping stones into the world of Greek myth for those who want to learn more about it. Out of the pool of ongoing modern Greek myth retellings/inspired works - Blood of Zeus, Hades/Hades 2, Kaos, Epic: The Musical, Hadestown, Hercules, Percy Jackson & The Olympians, and Lore Olympus - it's not hard to guess which one I'd be the least likely to recommend as gateways into Greek mythology. If those titles were organized in a list of best to worst, Kaos isn't at the top of that list, but it's sure as shit higher than LO 💀😆

[blueiscoool]

Ancient Warship’s Bronze Battering Ram Sunk During a Battle Between Rome and Carthage Found

Found near the Aegadian Islands, just west of Sicily, the bronze rostrum played a role in the last battle of the First Punic War, which ended in 241 B.C.E.

In 241 B.C.E., two empires faced off in a naval clash off the coast of Sicily. By then, Rome and Carthage had been fighting for more than two decades. Rome’s victory in the skirmish, officially called the Battle of the Aegates, brought an end to the First Punic War, the initial conflict in a series of wars between the two ancient powers.

Now, explorers have recovered a piece of that final battle: the bronze battering ram of an ancient warship. According to a statement from Sicily’s Superintendence of the Sea, the ram was found on the seafloor off the western coast of the Mediterranean island, at a depth of around 260 feet. To retrieve the artifact, the team used deep-water submarines from the Society for Documentation of Submerged Sites (SDSS) and the oceanographic research vessel Hercules.

The seabed off the Aegadian Islands “is always a valuable source of information to add further knowledge about the naval battle between the Roman and Carthaginian fleets,” Regional Councilor for Cultural Heritage Francesco Paolo Scarpinato tells Finestre sull’Arte. He adds that the find is yet another confirmation of the work of the late archaeologist Sebastiano Tusa, who spearheaded exploration of the seabed as the site of the 241 battle after a separate ram, also known as a rostrum, was first found there in the early 2000s. In the two decades since, researchers have recovered at least 25 rams from the seabed.

At the time of the Battle of the Aegates, Rome and Carthage had been at war for 23 years, fighting for dominance in the Mediterranean. As the Greek historian Polybius later wrote, the Romans sank 50 Carthaginian ships and captured another 70 along with their crews, taking nearly 10,000 sailors prisoner during the naval battle. Rome forced Carthage to surrender. But the fragile peace was short-lived: Over the next century, Rome would go on to fight a second and third war against the Punic people, winning each time.

“It was very costly, both in terms of human life and economically,” Francesca Oliveri, an archaeologist at the superintendence, told BBC News’ Alessia Franco and David Robson in 2022. “In the last phase, Rome even had to ask for a loan from the most well-to-do families to arm the fleet and build new boats.”

The recently discovered ram has been brought to Favignana, one of the Aegadian Islands, for further study. Though its features are difficult to make out because the object is covered in marine life, researchers have been able to discern a decoration on its front: a relief depicting a Montefortino-style Roman helmet decorated with three feathers.

The battering ram adds to the wealth of war relics found on the seabed, which also include 30 Roman soldiers’ Montefortino helmets, two swords, coins and many clay amphorae (large storage jars).

According to the SDSS, rams were the most important naval weapons of their time. They were placed on the bows of warships at water level so that sailors could crash their boats into enemy vessels, damaging and sinking them. The plethora of rams scattered on the seabed are testaments to the weapons’ effectiveness in ancient battle.

“We are finding so many things that help to illustrate a little better the world of the third century [B.C.E.],” Oliveri told BBC News in 2022. “It’s the first site of a naval battle, in the world, that has been scientifically documented like this, and it will continue to be documented—because the area of interest is very large. … It will take at least another 20 years to explore it fully.”

By Sonja Anderson.

[journeytothewestresearch]

JTTWR Story Idea Directory

I was influenced by @digitalagepulao's recent post to list my own collection of story ideas.

These are set in the Buddo-Daoist disc world system of the original novel.

1) The Origin of Sun Wukong

This provides three fictional origins for the Monkey King based on my past research. He is ...

The spiritual offspring of supreme ape immortals who have served as teachers of countless mortal and divine beings, the later including the Buddha and Master Subodhi. The couple rebels against the heavenly hierarchy for failing to keep an ancient promise.

The offspring of an ancient evil who intentionally bred him to destroy the gods.

A former hot-tempered, Vajra warrior-like Bodhisattva who is exiled from paradise for killing a being who seemingly offended the Buddha. He is punished to ten lifetimes as a figure of great strength who is continually bested and forced by circumstances to protect something or someone weaker than him.

Each origin has pros and cons.

2) Immortal Warriors and Shaolin Monks

Master Subodhi's mountain is the training ground for an immortal monastic army similar to Shaolin. Monkey gains combat experience as a monk soldier.

3) The REAL Reason Subodhi Expels Sun Wukong

Sun's much, much older spiritual brothers and sisters attack him out of jealousy for quickly climbing the ranks of the immortal monastic army. Forced to defend his position, Monkey's anger drives him to take on a monstrous, 100,000-foot-tall cosmic form to defeat his opponents. Subodhi fears Sun's limitless potential and great anger will lead him down the path of villainy, so he uses the pine tree incident as an excuse to expel him.

4) The Reason for Sun Wukong's Rebellion

Subodhi warns Monkey to protect himself when mastering the "Multitude of Terrestrial Killers" (i.e. the 72 changes) because said deities are considered baleful stellar gods who bring bad luck and disease. But the Terrestrial Killers exploit a chink in his spiritual armor and feed him small suggestions that have compounding effects on his personality, making him increasingly egotistical and combative. This eventually leads to his rebellion against heaven.

These are set on our Earth.

1) Sun Wukong vs Heracles/Hercules

Heracles, the Buddha's protector, is called in place of Erlang to end Monkey's rebellion. After the latter attains Buddhahood at the end of the journey, the Tathagata asks the son of Zeus to escort Sun through the Greek world system.

See the 07-08-22 update (refer also to section 3 for background info):

2) A Realistic Retelling of Journey to the West

The story follows the itinerary of the historical monk Xuanzang, and the various episodes from the original novel take place both on the way to and coming back from India. The disciples are acquired during the initial journey; however, their order is reversed—Sha, Zhu, and then Sun.

The past punishments of the disciples are still the same. But Monkey's history is changed because Taoism didn't exist in ancient India. Instead of becoming an immortal, he is a Hindo-Buddhist rishi who rebels against heaven.

See updates here and here.

[bestanimatedmovie]

Revenge of the Underrated, Round 2!

Round 1

The big players will start competing this round, so make sure to support your favorite unknown movie with propaganda and reblogs!

Also, this round we somehow ended up with more polls than round 1, so that will be fun 😅

Luca vs Ballerina

2. Mary and Max vs Tiger and Bunny: The Rising

3. The Bad Guys vs Miss Hokusai

4. Loving Vincent vs Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal The Movie Part 1

5. Pocahontas vs The Girl Without Hands

6. Hercules vs The Twelve Tasks of Asterix

7. Anomalisa vs Cats don't Dance

8. The Little Mermaid vs Felidae

9. It's Such a Beautiful Day vs An American Tail: Fievel Goes West

10. Paprika vs Pokemon Heroes

11. Sing 2 vs The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning

12. Wendell and Wild vs The Plague Dogs

13. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs vs Ice Age

14. The Hunchback of Notre Dame vs Strange Magic

15. Azur and Asmar: The Prince's Quest vs Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs

16. Mad God vs Rock and Rule

17. Batman: Mask of the Phantasm vs Titan A.E.

18. The Wind Rises vs The Adventures of Mark Twain

19. Sleeping Beauty vs Tarzan

20. Zootopia vs Robots

21. Monsters vs Aliens vs The Twelve Months

22. Robin Hood vs Phineas and Ferb: The Movie: Candace Against the Universe

23. The Case of Hana and Alice vs Revue Starlight: The Movie

24. Long Way North vs One Piece: Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island

25. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On vs Samurai Jack: The Premiere Movie

26. My Life as a Zucchini vs Lupin III: The First

27. The Fox and the Hound vs Minions: The Rise of Gru

28. The Three Caballeros vs Princes and Princesses

29. When Marnie was Here vs A Letter to Momo

30. Akira vs The Wild Thornberrys Movie

31. The Cat Returns vs The Boy who Wanted to be a Bear

32. Belladonna of Sadness vs The Swan Princess

33. Porco Rosso vs Patema Inverted

34. Rio vs Next Gen

35. The Lego Batman Movie vs Asterix: The Mansions of the Gods

36. The Aristocats vs Thumbelina

37. James and the Giant Peach vs Rainbow Magic: Return to Rainspell Island

38. Castle in the Sky vs Hey Arnold! The Jungle Movie

39. Over the Hedge vs Charlotte's Web (1973)

40. Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius vs The Princess and the Goblin

41. Redline vs Catnapped!

42. The Addams Family vs Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland

43. Epic vs Padak

44. Vivo vs Bartok the Magnificent

45. Barbie: Princess Charm School vs Night on the Galactic Railroad

46. Waking Life vs The Rabbi's Cat

47. Barbie as Rapunzel vs Seven Days War

48. Cool World vs Pippi Longstocking

49. When the Wind Blows vs Ruben Brandt, Collector

50. Summer Wars vs Winx Club: The Secret of the Lost Kingdom

51. The Black Cauldron vs Mars Needs Moms

52. The Red Turtle vs Underdogs

53. Ron's Gone Wrong vs Once Upon a Forest

54. Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade vs Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer

55. Arthur Christmas vs Help! I'm a Fish

56. Barbie of Swan Lake vs Sea Prince and the Fire Child

57. Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole vs Freddie as F.R.0.7

58. Pokemon: The Movie 2000 vs Rock-A-Doodle

59. Arthur and the Invisibles vs Unico in the Island of Magic

60. Barbie as the Island Princess vs Flatland: The Film

61. Mind Game vs Dragon Ball Z: Cooler's Revenge

62. Dragon Ball Super: Broly vs The Flight of Dragons

63. Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero vs Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children

64. Scooby-Doo! and the Cyber Chase vs Happily N'Ever After

65. On-Gaku: Our Sound vs Book Girl

66. Tiger and Bunny: The Rising vs Pokemon the Movie: The Power of Us

67. The Pebble and the Penguin vs The Magic Riddle

68. A Troll in Central Park vs Ico, the Brave Horse

69. Robot Carnival vs Blinky Bill

70. The Snow Queen vs The Legend of Manxmouse

71. Early Man vs Planetarian: Hoshi no Hito

72. Nocturna vs Junk Head

[vmpkai]

in honor of pride month i ended up making queer headcannons of the main hamilton characters because i like making everything queer so

lgbtq+ hamilton headcannons

disclamer: yes some of the sexualities are weird because i like weird identities, i use weird identities, and sometimes it just makes sense. not a fan? close the door on your way out. also this is sponsored by 3 am thoughts and lack of sleep. anyways, shall we continue?

alexander hamilton

- he / they

- bi + polyam + trans guy

- a fanfic gave me the poly idea and i absolutely love it

- also alexander is just a trans name and he has that tboy swag

- has a thing for both john ( he finds all of his friends to be very attractive and flirts with them all )

- very obnoxious about his identity ( as he should )

john laurens

- he / him

- demisexual + gay + cis

- it just works for him

- knew he was gay from birth he just needed some boys to kiss

hercules mulligan

- he / him

- bihet or unlabeled + demiromantic + cis

- makes and sells pride flags + has several pride stickers

- doesn't really care all that much, but find himself having a preference for women

- does have a major thing for laf though ( is way too shy to talk about it )

marquis de lafayette

- all pronouns

- pan + genderfluid + non binary

- so obnoxiously gay and it's wonderful

- definitely does drag in their free time ( and fucking slays it each time )

angelica schuyler

- she / her

- pan + aroace + trans woman

- if you even think anything queerphobic she will tear you a new one ( kicked a transphobe in the teeth cuz of a comment they made towards her )

- such a girlboss about it

eliza schuyler

- she / they

- bi + polyam + asexual + cis

- polyam idea also from a fanfic ( it was really good )

- alex helped her realize she was polyam

- has a big fat crush on maria lewis

peggy schuyler

- any pronouns

- lesbian + genderfluid

- blames all of her problems on homophobia ( as she should )

- the most lesbian to ever lesbian tbh

- reminds me of one of my irl friends tbh ( both give off the same vibes )

maria lewis ( reynolds )

- she / her

- bi lesbian + trans girl

- doesn't talk about her sexuality a lot cuz she hates explaining ( mood )

- eliza was lesbian awakening, alexander was bi awakening, james made her realize she did NOT like men. well cis men at least ( just like me frfr )

thomas jefferson

- he / him

- bigay + aromantic + cis

- label depends on the day, really

- flirts with everyone ( more or less to get what he wants cuz he puts his pretty privilege to use )

- secretly does drag and denies all accusations ( he'd make a fabulous queen )

james madison

- he / him

- gay + demiaroace + trans guy

- nobody actually knows he's trans aside from those with the transtuition

- in a qpt relationship with thomas

aaron burr

- he / him

- hetero + aromantic + cis

- he's a quiet ally who supports his friends

- does not have a queer opinion at fucking all ( as per usual ) #certifiedfencesitter

george washington

- he / him

- hetero + cis

- doesn't understand but he tried his best

- ( at pride with all his kids the revolutionary set ) stranger: "how many genders are there?" washington: "i dunno man, i just got here."

king george

- nameself pronouns / neos / he

- gay + cis

- is 100% both a drag king and drag queen ( he's just so cunty )

- has that roly west of energy ( please tell me that someone can see the vision )

[bestmusicalworldcup]

Disney's Hercules will play London's Theatre Royal Drury Lane beginning summer 2025.

This would appear to be the Hamburg staging, with both director and choreographer Casey Nicholaw and choreographer Tanisha Scott returning to work on the London production.

The musical features a book by Robert Horn and Kwame Kwei-Armah, music by Alan Menken, and lyrics by David Zippel.

I believe this is the first Disney musical since Mary Poppins to have a West End run without having first played Broadway. Whether Disney will give Hercules a Broadway run at all at this point remains to be seen.

[mask131]

If you told me I'd one day see a Disney movie adapting the legend of Sun Wukong, I wouldn't have believed you. And yet I did: I just watched Disney's Monkey King.

But here's the twist: it wasn't made by Disney. It was Netflix's all freshly released (yesterday) The Monkey King movie.

What I mean by that, is that the reuse of Disney codes to make this movie are very obvious to the point I want to call it an homage to the "Disney renaissance": just by looking at the main villain, the Dragon King, you find a strong influence from both Disney's Hercules (which also seems to have influenced the treatment of the plot in general), and from Disney's The Little Mermaid.

I will insist that THIS IS NOT A JUDGEMENT OF WORTH. I am not saying that the movie is either good or bad (though spoiler: it is not bad), and I reserve my actual opinion on it for later. But I am just pointing out that it felt strongly as if Journey to the West was getting the Disney treatment (which honestly was hilarious) - with even a bit of Pixar classics by the end. I also want to point out that they also clearly tried to stay as faithful as possible to the world and the characters of the original epic, while clearly simplifying the story and making the ensemble more suited for children and more different from previous adaptations - which might explain why they went the Disney-influenced route, as it has proven to be a good way to adapt dark and complex myths into simple but efficient and beautiful pieces mostly oriented at children while also enjoyable by adults.

And as I said above, watching Sun Wukong's world be presented throughout a Disney system IS actually funny as a viewer - at least it was funny for me, and not in a cringy kind of way.

But that's just my two yuanbao on the subject.

[sweet-caress-of-twilight]

Going off of one of my previous reblogs, i attempted to make a list of where in the world every Disney Animated Canon movie takes place

Antarctica:

Pablo the Cold-Blooded Penguin (The Three Caballeros) (Pablo starts out living in the South Pole and then he goes to Chile, Peru, and Ecuador)

Africa

The Lion King

Tarzan

Asia

Aladdin is set in a mishmash of Middle Eastern countries. It was supposed to be in Iraq, but because of the Persian Gulf War, Disney said no, so it takes place in the fictional country of Agrabah, which is inspired by Baghdad in Iraq.

Raya and the Last Dragon is set in a mishmash of Southeast Asian countries, but takes the most inspiration from Vietnam

China: Mulan

India: The Jungle Book

Europe

England: The Wind in the Willows (The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad), Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, 101 Dalmatians, The Sword in the Stone, Robin Hood, Winnie the Pooh, The Great Mouse Detective

France: Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, The Aristocats, Beauty and the Beast, The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Germany: Snow White, Tangled

Greece: The Pastoral Symphony (Fantasia), Hercules

Italy: Pinocchio

Norway: Frozen (Arendelle is heavily inspired by Norway)

Russia: Peter and the Wolf (Make Mine Music)

Spain: Wish (Rosas is inspired by Spain and located off the Iberian Peninsula)

Turkey: Pomp and Circumstance (Fantasia 2000) is about Noah's Ark, and many people believe that the ark landed at Mount Ararat in present-day Turkey

Ukraine: Night on Bald Mountain/Ave Maria (Fantasia) (the real Bald Mountain is Mount Triglaf, near Kyiv in Ukraine)

Wales: The Black Cauldron

North America

Mexico:

Las Posadas

Mexico: Pátzcuaro, Veracruz and Acapulco

You Belong to My Heart/Donald's Surreal Reverie (all from The Three Caballeros)

United States:

Different towns in Massachusetts and California have claimed to be the Mudville that Casey at the Bat (Make Mine Music) takes place in, but the author of the original poem said it has no basis in fact.

The Legend of Johnny Appleseed (Melody Time) - the real Johnny Appleseed (real name John Chapman) planted apple trees in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Ontario, and West Virginia

Lady and the Tramp could take place somewhere in New England

The Fox and the Hound looks like it takes place in Appalachia, so maybe Pennsylvania or Virginia

Home on the Range is somewhere in the Old West

Bolt takes place across America: starts out in California, the title character ends up in New York, visits Ohio, and is back to California by the end

Alaska: Brother Bear

California: Wreck it Ralph (Ralph Breaks the Internet reveals that Litwak's Arcade is in California), Big Hero 6

Florida: Dumbo

Hawaii: Lilo and Stitch

Louisiana: Blue Bayou (Make Mine Music), most of The Rescuers, The Princess and the Frog

Maine: Bambi (the forest was based on Maine and the animators traveled to Maine for reference)

New York: Johnny Fedora and Alice Blue Bonnet, The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met (Make Mine Music) (the Metropolitan Opera is in NYC), Little Toot (Melody Time), The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad) (the real Sleepy Hollow is in New York), The Rescuers (the Rescue Aid Society headquarters is in NYC), Oliver and Company, Rhapsody in Blue (Fantasia 2000)

Texas: Pecos Bill (Melody Time)

Virginia: Pocahontas

Washington, DC: Atlantis: The Lost Empire (Milo works at the Smithsonian

Oceania

The Rescuers Down Under: Australia

Moana: Polynesia

Pangaea

The Rite of Spring (Fantasia)

Dinosaur

South America

Argentina: Pedro, El Gaucho Goofy (Saludos Amigos)

Bolivia: Lake Titicaca (Saludos Amigos)

Brazil: Aquarela do Brasil (Saludos Amigos), Baia (The Three Caballeros), Blame It on the Samba (Melody Time),

Chile: Pedro (Saludos Amigos) (The title character delivers the mail in the Andes, between Santiago, Chile, and Mendoza, Argentina), Pablo the Cold-Blooded Penguin (The Three Caballeros)

Colombia: Encanto

Ecuador: Pablo the Cold-Blooded Penguin (The Three Caballeros) (Pablo goes to the Galapagos Islands, which is an archipelago in Ecuador)

Peru: Lake Titicaca (Saludos Amigos) (the lake is at the border between Peru and Bolivia), Pablo the Cold-Blooded Penguin (The Three Caballeros), The Emperor's New Groove

Uruguay: The Flying Gauchito (The Three Caballeros)

Unknown/does not take place in our world

Any of the package film segments not mentioned here

The Little Mermaid seems like it takes place in the Mediterranean Sea, but it could also take place in the Caribbean, which would explain Sebastian's accent

Fantasia 2000: "Pines of Rome" is set in the Arctic, so it could be anywhere from Canada to Alaska to Finland to Russia

Most of Atlantis: the Lost Empire, since the city of Atlantis is completely made up

Treasure Planet

Chicken Little

Meet the Robinsons

Zootopia

Strange World

[gothelsflower]

blah blah blah hercules on the west end blah blah tiktok inspired musical uhhhhhh whEre the FUCK is my Broadway version of the princess and the frog???

[broadwaydivastournament]

Broadway Divas Tournament: Round 1D

Tony-winner Lillias White (1951) made her Broadway debut in Barnun (1981), and has since gone on to do eleven additional shows, including Dreamgirls (1987), How to Succeed... (1995), and The Life (1997). Twice she has played Matron "Mama" Morton in Chicago. She recently finished up an 18-month engagement as Hermes in Hadestown. Lillias has performed her solo cabaret act across the country, and is one of the Muses in Hercules.

Ute Lemper (1963) is a German actress once known as "the new Marlene [Dietrich]." She played Velma Kelly in Chicago on Broadway in 1998 after winning the Olivier in the West End production. For nineteen years, before they replaced it with a twenty-something, her photograph hung above the Ambassador Theatre marquee. She is a world-renown concert and cabaret artist, selling out Carnegie Hall, Cafe Carlyle, and 54 Below (and that's just New York).

PROPAGANDA AND MEDIA UNDER CUT: ALL POLLS HERE

"More Lillias White Propaganda:

"Brotherhood of Man" from the 1995 How To Succeed in Business revival," - Video and propaganda submitted by @puppywritesthings

"She sings, she acts, she paints naked women, she's canonically had sex with other women, she's German. Ute Lemper is a bastion of Old Hollywood glamour who follows directly in the footsteps of the great Marlene Dietrich. In fact, when Ute was very young, she spoke on the phone with Marlene (then very reclusive), for over three hours, and made it her entire life. She has a gorgeous cabaret act called Rendezvous with Marlene where she recounts this life-changing conversation. It's irresistibly sexy."

[raptorsaurusmelain]

Let me show you... Youtube - chapter 28

*whistle* I am not on a roll...

Warning : no proof reading, English is not my mother tongue.

If you are interested in reading this fic, the tag "#twst lmsyy" will give you all the chapters.

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The following day, she decided to do some work. She needed to change some candles. God knows how long it was going to take since the school had like… a billion of them.

She looked at the hallway. She put on her headphones and muttered to herself. “Let’s do this sh*t.”

It was a long, very long afternoon. But at the end of it, she had changed all the candles of the west and east wings. She will need to do the main building tomorrow.

Speaking of tomorrow, it will be the day of her doctor appointment, and Victoria was quite happy with it. She had no accidents for the moment and ignored the voice successfully. But it was hard that day.

The voice began to speak to her when she was sweeping the floor. “Don’t you think you are being selfish, ignoring me like that ?”

She was particularly tired and answered. “No I am not… I am just ignoring you to not seem crazy. It is hard to have you around.”

It continued. “I am loveable.”

Victoria retorted. “Loveable enough to make me cry to sleep, a true lady killer.”

They continued back and forth while she had her headphones on. It seemed like she was on the phone, when she truly had no one to call.

Crewel found her speaking in the hallway next to his class. He slowly went to her, taking care of being in her sight so as not afraiding her. Despite that, she didn’t seem to focus on him. It was as if he wasn’t there. Or a ghost maybe.

When she was reachable, he gently waved his hand before her eyes.

Victoria jumped, surprised. She took off her headphones and asked “Professor Crewel ! What can I do for you ?”

He smiled gently. “I was wondering what you were doing on the phone, during your work hour/ In reality you were just thinking aloud, right ?”

Sh*t. Touché. “Erm… Yeah. I was wondering if I was loveable.”

He arched his eyebrows. “Of course you are loveable. Everyone is loveable.”

She looked at him, deadpanned. “Even serial killers ?”

He scoffed. “Of course not. But the woman sweeping the floor of NRC, while muttering her thoughts, is loveable.”

He went away. She was surprised. Did he mean it ?

The voice came back. “You should not have any hope. He is a boy. All boys are the same.”

Victoria muttered. “Who are you, Hades ? Do you think you are in Hercules ?”

She sweeps at full force and added. “I am a big girl, I am single, I can do what I want.”

And everyone seemed to forget that.

Victoria went back to the dorm that night, deciding to make curry for dinner. It was beginning to be cold those days.

Yuu welcomed her with some graded paper. “Look ! I had a good grade today !”

She had a weak smile. “Good job Yuu, I am happy to hear that. Continue like this, since exam season is near.”

Yuu tilted their head. “Are you alright ?”

She had a sigh. “I am sorry, I think I will do the food and go to sleep. I am very tired.”

Yuu nodded. “If there were anything wrong, would you tell me ?”

Victoria had a little laugh. “Of course I would.”

Tag : @boba-tea-fish @hipsterteller @1-randomized

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The LMK backstory for Sun Wukong and the Brotherhood hits me in a bunch of narrative spots. Its like "Hamilton Part 1" + "Disney's Hercules" but... it ends terribly for everyone involved.

Sun Wukong, the Hamilton and Hercules in essence, ends up alone. His former friends, sworn siblings, and his dearest off worse. Even growing emotionally throughout Journey to the West causes him to sacrifice what he had left from his old life in order to move forward. But he never truly does.

No wonder Monkey King "retired" after the DBK mountain incident. It was one too many losses to justify enlightenment.

Then cue MK barreling through Wukong's life like a loose golden retriever puppy. And bringing his own unique problems.

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Halls - Turbine Theatre - July 2023 (3) - Final Matinee Performance

The Lion King - West End - August 2023 - Filmed from the stalls

We Will Rock You - West End- August 2023 - Danny Natrass as Galileo

Phantom of the Opera - West End - August 2023 - Amazing stalls capture of the new cast

Hamilton - West End - August 2023 - Alex Tranters debut as King George III, Aaron Lee Lambert as Hercules Mulligan/James Maddison, Alex Sawyer as Alexander Hamilton

The Crucible - West End - August 2023 - An mostly unobstructed capture from the stalls*

Groundhog Day - West End - August 2023 - Filmed during the closing performance

Death Note: In Concert - West End - August 2023 - Filmed from the stalls

Frozen - West End - August 2023 - Laura Emmitt as Elsa, Ben Irish as Hans

Cabaret - West End - August 2023 - Sally Firth as Sally Bowles, Toby Turpin as Ernst Ludwig

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