#i mean tbf 'one night in bangkok' is a fucking BOP

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hihihi its dolls house anon again and i am obsessed with chess the musical in a deeply unhealthy way and see a lot of commonalities between it and tdp, and i’ve always envisioned viren and harrows early relationship to be very similar to florence and freddy’s, what with the codependency, and insults and sexual tension of it all

HA HA YES OMG they're both so much about people being traumatized and messy and look idek I just love it, I took my in-laws to see it the other night bc it was in their city and I was SO VALIDATED when my MIL (former English professor) was like "whoa that was actually really good, I don't know why it isn't more well-known" because it always sounds so completely insane when you try to describe it to someone

like "well it's a rock opera with music by half of ABBA, set during a chess tournament (based extremely loosely on Fischer vs. Spassky) as a proxy for late Cold War political conflict, but I cannot emphasize enough how much it is actually somehow NOT about either chess or politics also there's one uncomfortable song that leans on stereotypes regarding sex tourism in Thailand that no one's ever willing to cut because it was the concept album's big radio hit"

and holy shit YES I was so wrapped up in my Lissa feelings that I didn't even think of that but you're so right, like "Why this humiliation?/Why treat me like a fool?/I've taken shit for seven years and I won't take it anymore" ha ha ow and I just thought about "Nobody's Side" and hurt myself

but yeah maybe since the Freddie at this performance was kind of meh and the Svetlana was REALLY good I was just in full Viren/Lissa feelings mode, like "Someone Else's Story" has never been my fav but somehow this just hit me like a truck:

Sadly she realized She'd left him behind And sadder than that She knew he wouldn't even mind And though there's nothing left to say Would he listen if I stay?

like idek man all of the "love" songs are essentially about love's fleetingness rather than its permanence which is just *clenches fist* so "You And I" also hit me hard like:

This is an all too familiar scene Life imperceptibly coming between Those whose love is as strong as it could or should be. Nothing has altered Yet everything's changed. No one stands still Still I love you completely and hope I always will.

...just fucking kill me, okay

ANYWAY YEAH THIS IS ANOTHER THING I'M COMPLETELY NORMAL ABOUT like I'm certainly not ready at literally any moment to drop a full TED talk about "What Is Wrong(tm) With Anatoly" and/or "Detailed Comparisons Between the Original British Stage Version and the New 2018 Book for Tim Rice's Anticipated Revival" or anything ha ha haaaaaa