#mitch hansen band

[baldursgatedatingsim]

I am so annoyed!!! Why is Endless Day listed under THE Mitch Hansen Band on Spotify, but Twilight Hour is under just Mitch Hansen Band??? I've been listening to it with ads on YouTube like a dumb bint because I only ever found the Twilight Hour album on Spotify ahhhhh

[chthonicdivinebard]

I hope every time the Mitch Hansen Band gets a royalties check for their Twilight fan album, they know it’s all me.

[notafraidofstopping876]

Fan video for Twilight to "Number Three" by The Mitch Hansen Band

[shiny-volvo-stupid-owner]

I walk to the edge. I look at the sea. 

Never imagined how easy it'd be You leave me no choice To hear your voice I feel so free 

[empathetic-cowboy]

did we all forget about the mitch hansen band or was that just me??  idk how I ever forgot because twilight hour slaps tbh like La Push has come to shove and I’m through with you??? the future’s bright but she is brighter?? this rose has thorns??? eternity can wait awhile i’ll miss the way you blush when you smile?? lyrical genius through and through

[rose-lily-hale]

I see it in your eyes They're as black as night Here is the surprise: One, I know it probably should chill me Two, I think you probably want to kill me Three, I know I want to spend my life with you You'd never hurt me And of all of these The only one I fear is number 3 

Anyone else remember The Mitch Hansen Band?

[threebooksoneplot]

Episode 16: "Dates and Dateline" (Show Notes)

listen along here

Content warnings for discussion of suicide (33:10 — 36:17) and pedophilia/murder (1:21:21 — 1:27:45)

[00:01:39] The Tumblr Q&A for Life and Death in which Stephenie Meyer admits to trying to name Carine "Carlyle"

[00:02:20] It's "levi-OH-sa," not "levio-SAH"

I'm so sorry for 2023 harry potter reference but cmon

[00:04:58] G was not kidding about South Park being "a weird little Wild West town with like, cutouts of Cartman"

[00:05:38] Info on the South Park episode "Tweek x Craig," in which said characters get together

[00:06:13] Chatzy, apparently still going strong

[00:06:35] The Urban Dictionary entry for TwiMDB

[00:08:50] The CW's Nancy Drew (2019)

[00:12:41] Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight saga playlists

[00:14:47] The MTV article about Mitch Hansen + the band's Spotify

[00:15:28] The "Twilight Hour" album

[00:16:44] Jacob Black.mp3

[00:17:32] A World Without You.mp3

[00:17:59] Thorns.mp3

[00:18:12] I Don't Know.mp3

[00:18:42] She is Brighter.mp3

[00:19:09] Shannon's Twilight SAT book

[00:19:21] Nabokov’s Favorite Word is Mauve, the book that contains the “statistical analysis of Stephenie Meyer's word choice in the Twilight books” G is talking about (a recommended read!)

[00:20:28] The Bella Cullen Project

[00:21:44] Snag the download for Shannon’s "Then and Now (Alice’s Lullaby)" song here after you donate to the Quileute tribe's Move to Higher Ground fundraiser! (Don't forget to take a screenshot.)

[00:22:32] The "Edward playing music for Bella" meme

[00:23:46] Filk

[00:26:32] Shannon’s summary:

On a scale from 1-10, how weird is to hear all about your brand new girlfriend’s mom’s suicide attempts? Just asking for a friend. Beau might only be on Date #3 if we’re counting the sexy ravioli date, but he’s unlocking the first of much family trauma during this trip to the Cullen household. There’s ugly carpets, old paintings, and books and music galore! Beau is rolling with the punches in today’s chapter, and by punches I mean “tackles” because when Edythe tries to scare him, he just gets turned on about it. They make fun baseball plans with Archie and Jessamine, and if you’re quiet enough you can just barely hear Supermassive Black Hole playing in the distance. Things only get more exciting from here and I can’t wait to see the mess!

[00:31:13] G’s Animal Crossing: New Horizons recreation of Carlisle’s study, complete with Volturi painting

[00:34:16] The Groundhog Day suicide montage (obvious content warning here)

[00:39:06] Francesco Solimena, and a few examples of his work:

[00:39:38] The painting of Carlisle and the Volturi, as shown in New Moon and in the New Moon graphic novel

[00:40:57] G is incorrect—Edward has not told Bella he’s killed people yet. She’s getting mixed up with the movie, in which he does tell Bella he's a murderer during the meadow scene.

[00:54:20] Shannon’s Hot Topic jalice shirt, G’s Cullen crest and Bella rings (also from Hot Topic)

[01:16:11] The What We Do in the Shadows episode "The Orgy" (+ trailer)

[01:36:38] Follow Liza on instagram here!

Another action-packed show notes! Hope you enjoyed this week's adventures in music and art :))

[haletwinsstan]

i found this album called Endless Day by The Mitch Hansen Band and it’s not just a great example of late 2000s music but ALSO all songs are inspired by twilight and i’m LOSING IT

like how do you expect me hear “i need you the same to keep me from going off the edge, no wait! it’s too late! i’m already dead!” and not scream

but then in world without you they say “i started dying when the future saw you fall” what is the truth guys

number 3 is such a fucking funny description of bella’s feelings

“1, i know, it probably should chill me, 2, i think, you probably want to kill me, 3, i know, i wanna spend my life with you [...] and of all of these the only one i fear is number 3″ why is this such a great formulation

"you look at me, it’s plain to see that maybe you would like me dead” bench what

jacob black is such a banger but by god do i hate the lyrics

yes to the epic electric guitar pre-chorus, no to all the dog mentions

love stay with me like “sometimes i wish you could read my mind” i see what you did there

after much reflection i feel like i don’t know may be a rosalie/emmett song (i first thought ed/bella and then alice/jasper)

“can i live an endless day” like emmett’s the only one who became a vamp after his girl?

then again all the references to the future make me think of alice and jasper?

please tell me your thoughts

not to go all sappy over bella and edward but lullaby??? so sweet

“calm down, your safe with me, i love you more than you can see, you need your rest and so i wrote you this lullaby” i am Soft

and my personal fav: she is brighter

i’ll let you guess who that’s about from this quote: “you don’t even know, the things she can see, it’d be clearer if you made up your mind”

why is that the funniest sentence i’ve ever heard oh my word

“her past is sketchy but that’s alright” no words why am i laughing at this

they somehow manage to spend so much time talking about not relying on the weather forecast while also writing the most adorable song ever???

“she doesn’t walk she’s always prancing, only when she isn’t dancing”

“share your woes she’ll make them minor, the picture’s bright but she is brighter”

i’m crying thanks

[twihard-diehard]

Okay so who wants to know about some awesome Twilight fan art that you can take everywhere with you???

Go find The Mitch Hansen Band. They have two albums: Twilight Hour and Endless Day. On YouTube music one album is under the band name with The at the beginning and the other is missing the The. I load they seem to be the same album with updated sounds on Endless Day.

Oooo it makes me so happy...I purchased ALL of their stuff when it was first released ages ago and I love it!!

[ferreandhiscat]

Okay while I’m on this Twilight kick. The Mitch Hansen Band’s Twilight Hour album is FUCKING AMAZING and I was amazed to find that ten years later I still knew every single word to “Number 3″ 

[notafraidofstopping876]

The Mitch Hansen Band + Twilight Saga films

“Lullaby” Part 3

[twihard-diehard]

Thank you @nerdciti

5 Songs You've Had On Repeat

Possibility: Lykke Li, The Line: Battles, Mind Over Matter: The Mitch Hansen Band, Dance Dance: Fallout Boy, Closer: The Corrs

Last Movie

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Currently Watching

Fruits Basket(anime), Stargate SG1, Loki, Candy Land Baking Battle

Currently Reading

Count of Monte Cristo, Twilight Saga, LOTR, Fruits Basket(manga), HP & the Sorcerer's Stone, and I'm listening to an audiobook on global mythologies. (I have ADHD so I like to bounce around)

Hey @teambella420 @glockpaperscissors @bellascactus want to do this too?

@perhaps-mr-collins-has-a-cousin tagged me in this, thank you!

Five songs you've had on repeat:

Open Eyes by Jake Scott, Down by Mokita, Stuck by Villain of the Story, Memory by Dear Agony, Stranger by Silent Hearts

Last Movie:

The Lady Vanishes (1938) by Alfred Hitchcock. Oldie but goodie. The sarcastic quips are relentless.

Currently watching:

Dragonheart. Saw it once as a kid but pretty much forgot all about it. We'll see how it goes.

Currently reading:

Wuthering Heights. I enjoy coming back to it every now and then. I've yet to find a film adaptation that I truly love, but it's bound to happen some day.

I'm tagging @itspileofgoodthings @freenarnian @thebossofcute @ilovevanillatea @priscillawrites @tea-and-bullets and anyone else who wants to play!

[morganbelarus]

50 Photos That Show Just How Insanely Cold It Is In America Right Now

Extreme weather events are becoming more and more common, with records shattered down under during Australia’s recent heatwave, and now, at the opposite end of the spectrum, the ‘polar vortex’ bearing down on Midwestern U.S.

The polar vortex is a band of strong winds, high up in the atmosphere that keeps bitterly cold air locked around the Arctic region. Sometimes, like this year, it can drift further south than usual and envelop highly populated areas of North America. Chigaco has been particularly hard hit, with its notoriously windy location on Lake Michigan bringing wind-chill temperatures down to record-breaking lows.

With much of the Midwest on lockdown and people urged to stay indoors, some people have been braving the plunging temperatures to take incredible images of the effects that the vortex is having on their daily lives. From exploding toilets to icy hairstyles, this list compiled by Bored Panda will give you chills just from looking at it!

#1 How Cold Is It In The Midwest? Bubbles Are Freezing

#2 My Brother Was On One Of The Few Flights Into Chicago This Morning. He Took This Photo Of Frozen Lake Michigan From The Plane

#3 After Two Days Of Freezing Rain, This Mold Came Out

#4 Meanwhile In Minnesota. The Tank Exploded

#5 My Sister Opened Her Car Door In Chicago

#6 Trying To Make The Most Of This -40 F Weather

#7 Lunch In Chicago Today. I Like Mine Al Dente

#8 A Firefighter After Working In The -40° Polar Vortex

#9 My God. We’ve Reached The Day After Tomorrow

#10 “Is Iowa Really That Cold?”

#11 Current Level Of Snow In Madison: One Whole Mingo

#12 Pray For The Homeless During This Time! Give To Your Local Shelters. Most Are At Full Capacity

#13 It’s So Cold In Chicago They Set Commuter Train Tracks On Fire To Warm Them

#14 Eye Lashes On Fleek! Is That A Thing? Is This The New Winter Running Fashion Statement?

#15 It’s So Cold In Iowa That We Froze Antifreeze

#16 What Happens When You Blow Bubbles In A Freezing Weather

#17 Meanwhile In Wisconsin

#18 Freezing Our Pants Off In Minnesota

#19 When These Are The Inside Doors… You Know We Are Polar Vortexing

#20 Landlord Decided To Turn Down The Heat Today In My MN Apartment As It Reached -40°

The idiot must have forgotten he pays my electric and doesn’t realize that I value my comfort over safety or energy conservation.

#21 Going To Daycare When It’s -30 Outside

#22 Cadillac Michigan The Light Poles Are Shivering. Science Mannn

#23 Frozen Chicken Eggs

#24 You Know It’s Cold When The Toilet Paper Is Frozen In The Outhouse

#25 The Detroit River, Frozen All The Way To Canada

#26 We Had A House Fire South Of Cameron Today. Our Chief Mitch Hansen Thought It Was A Splash Park

#27 Got So Cold Last Night That Our Vodka Froze! For Reference The Freezing Point For Vodka Is -16

#28 Letting My Car Heat Up During The Polar Vortex

#29 Minnesota’s Officers

#30 House Is Freezing From The Inside During The Coldest Day In A Decade

#31 This Flash-Frozen Fire Hydrant

#32 The Beauty The Cold Brings To South Dakota

#33 This Door At Work In Minnesota

#34 A Sheet Of Ice Formed Between The Glass Panes Of This Door

#35 Polar Vortex Lesson: Don’t Try To Hang Dry Your Clothes Outside

#36 Polar Vortex (Temp. 16 F /-9 C)

#37 My Neighbor’s Furnace Exhaust Is Creating An Interesting Icicle

#38 My Parents Sent Me This Pic Of Our Peephole (From The Indoor Side)

#39 One Cold Rowdy Dog On The Bulkhead. Still Looking For Leftover Canteen Snacks

#40 I Just Wanted To See How Long It Would Take For An Egg To Freeze Outside And Also What Would Become Of My Egg

#41 Cold Spell

Yes, that is ice on the inside of our house. It’s not the first time that ice has formed around our door. We’ve talked to our landlord and hope to get a new door and door frame in spring when we don’t have to worry about getting frostbite about people outside for five minutes. It would really help with our utility bill as well.

#42 Ice Is Freezing As Soon As It Comes Out Of Our Faucet Because It’s So Cold

#43 It Was So Cold In Chicago That The Paint Came Off My Car

#44 This Is My Buddy Jesse At The Arrowhead 135 In Mn Yesterday. Day Time Temp Was -26 °F

#45 “No, Believe Me, ‘Tis Very Cold; The Wind Is Northerly”

#46 In A Matter Of 2 Minutes Walking Across Campus, My Glasses Started To Frost/Ice Over

Everyone’s been talking about how cold Chicago is right now. The upper Midwest (I’m talking Fargo area) had windchills up to -60 below zero, ten degrees colder than Chicago. In a matter of 2 minutes walking across campus, my glasses started to frost/ice over.

#47 My Wall Is Freezing In My Bedroom. There Are No Pipes Behind It. Chicago

#48 So My Soap Is Frozen In My Shower

#49 It’s So Cold Here In Iowa That There Is Now Frost On The Inside Of My Door Hinges

#50 My Beard Froze While Waiting Bus. I Wish It Would Be Summer Already

Original Article : HERE ; This post was curated & posted using : RealSpecific

50 Photos That Show Just How Insanely Cold It Is In America Right Now was originally posted by MetNews

[twihard-diehard]

Twilight Chapter By Chapter

Okay I had to do some serious digging because Google Play likes to delete my playlists when I change phones...very inconvenient. I’ve even given you a link to my Google Playlist.

Here’s the list if you want to listen another way, be aware at lease one song is only available via the link... And there are several by Twilight bands, as  in bands that specifically make Twilight fanart in the form of music!!! Also I listen to almost every genre of music so if you want to know where a song came from ask! Some of the songs are chose by one specific lyric in the song so see if you can figure them out.

Send me some feedback. I have most of the songs I had for New Moon just not in order so that one will be harder to recreate.

First Sight  - Closer by The Corrs

Open Book - Walking With A Ghost by Tegan & Sara

Phenomenon - The Suffering by Coheed & Cambria

Invitations - Sadie Hawkins Dance by Relient K

Blood Type - Claire De Lune by Midnight Sun(Twilight Band #1)

Scary Stories - Many Funerals by Eisley

Nightmare - Eternal by DJ Dee M

Port Angeles - Adore by Renee Stahl

Theory - Number 3 by The Mitch Hansen Band(Twilight Band 2, I own all their work)

Interrogations - Take Me There by Rascal Flatts

Complications - Vindicated by Dashboard Confessionals

Balancing - Jeepers Creepers by The Puppini Sisters

Confessions - Just Like Heaven - Deadsy

Mind Over Matter - (Two options because I couldn’t decide then and I won’t decide now) Lullaby by The Mitch Hansen Band/ Lullaby by Billy Joel

The Cullens - Mysterious Family by Ritsuko Okazaki (This is only available via Youtube or the link)

Carlisle - Far Away by Libera

The Game - DOA by Foo Fighters

The Hunt - Fox on the Run by Deadsy

Goodbyes - Butterfly Kisses by Bob Carlisle/ There Goes My Life by Kenny Chesney (Again two choices for various reasons)

Impatience - Moonlight Shadow by Missing Heart

Phone Call - Almost Lover by A Fine Frenzy

Hide and Seek - Broken by Seether & Amy Lee

The Angel - Heaven by DJ Sammy & Yanou An

Impasse - Best I Ever Had by Gary Allen

[theconservativebrief]

Gettin’ the Band Together, now playing on Broadway at the Belasco Theatre, is an original musical about a down-and-out stockbroker who gets his high school band back together in time to face off against his old rival in his New Jersey hometown’s Battle of the Bands.

That’s it. That’s the whole show. On paper, it sounds pretty boring: a stockbroker? An all-dude rock band? From Jersey? Is this really what the world needs in 2018?

But I suspected there must have been some reason that in this age of high-glitz adaptations of movies and other blockbusters, this unassuming original rock musical had struggled its way from a small-town Jersey stage to Broadway, and so I set out for the Belasco hoping to find magic and wisdom and a reflection of the self, or at the very least a fun evening.

The onstage story of Gettin’ the Band Back Together is a basic battle of good and evil — of following dreams versus settling for mundanity — playing out in song and dance. As a fellow theatergoer who’d already seen the show described it, it’s basically the movie Dodgeball but with rock music. And that’s not a bad thing, unless you hate fun.

Gettin’ the Band Back Together is a warm, infectious delight. Yes, it’s true that the show has been prominently panned because its shamelessly tropey plot is packed with dorky, improv-style humor that constantly pelts you with silly jokes, visual gags, cheesy puns, physical comedy, and references to other rock musicals. But it works anyway, because it’s performed with deep joy, it’s extremely well-sung, and it’s delivered with charm by an ensemble having the time of their lives. If you let all of these things speak to you, as you should, then at some point during the performance, you will inevitably reach that wonderful moment where you are laughing purely because you are laughing.

It’s this feeling that illustrates what ultimately made a lasting impression on me as I alternately laughed and cringed my way through the show: not the onstage battle between bands, but an offstage one. The musical that Gettin’ the Band Back Together is trying to be is distinctly at odds with the current Broadway culture — embodied by an unmoved audience at the performance I attended — that unfairly expects it to be something more.

The truth is that Gettin’ the Band Back Together is a delightful show. But even if it weren’t, I would be writing this review with my heart on my sleeve to tell you all to go see it, because it’s one of those musicals that earnestly strives to be exactly what it is: a good-hearted, shamelessly self-indulgent trope factory built on fun and silliness. And in this age of problematic faves and anxiety-laden media consumption, this show, practically wholesome in its throwback juvenilia, is the rare offering that isn’t going to make you feel bad for liking it — even though it’s inane.

In that spirit, it’s reminiscent of another recent tropey, heartwarming cultural offering: Netflix’s To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before. On some level, Gettin’ the Band Back Together is the movie’s Broadway equivalent — a sort of To All the Bands (or Least Rock Musicals) I’ve Loved Before. So what if its storyline is familiar? So what if it openly embraces every clichéd tale of down-and-out has-beens getting their groove back? Just like To All the Boys, its execution is solid, and its cast is charismatic. In essence, it’s a “cheesy cover band” equivalent of a rock musical. And that’s perfectly fine; after all, there’s a reason people love cheesy cover bands.

Put another way, Gettin’ the Band Back Together is one giant dad joke, if your dad were still a kid at heart, and that kid was a giant Nickelodeon fan who never got over Ren and Stimpy going downhill after season two, who secretly cried when My So-Called Life ended before Angela and Brian got together, who definitely got drunk at Bonnaroo and wrote “fuck Nickelback” on a fence while stoned; someone who, in adulthood, probably owns a Blu-ray of Drumline because he wants to be close to that movie in a physical way; someone who just wants his kid to be happy and kind and motivated by love rather than by a capitalist reading of the American dream.

The show sports a decently catchy, fun score by Mark Allen, making his Broadway debut. The cast — led by the charmingly winsome Mitchell Jarvis as Mitch, our stockbroker-cum-band reuniter, lover, dreamer, and Alex Brightman impersonator — performs it with loud conviction. But the real star of Gettin’ the Band Back Together is the book, which comes to us via veteran producer Ken Davenport and the improv comedy troupe Grundleshotz, in a literal “Hey, gang! Let’s put on a show!” process. (Among the Grundleshotz improv performers is Jay Klaitz, who doubles as Mitch’s MILF-obsessed, stoner best friend Bart.)

Grundleshotz, Davenport, and Allen have infused Gettin’ the Band Back Together with so much energy that it leaks out of the stage at random moments, punctuating an endless stream of jokes that succeed due to the sheer enthusiasm and dedication of the show’s cast, and to their own shameless silliness.

Writing down the jokes can’t translate their onstage effectiveness as a litany of Dadaist dork humor, but here are a few: There’s a dead cat. There’s a “nuns and roses” quip. There’s an R&B singer who turns love songs into domestic disputes. There’s a character whose only purpose in life is to take selfies. There’s a spray-tanned villain who drives a Pontiac Solstice and just wants to be loved. There’s a love ballad composed entirely of bad puns about police. There’s a running “your mom” gag. There’s every kind of New Jersey in-joke you can wedge into a two-hour running time. There’s a one-liner that’s such a cute, absurdist mix of juvenile humor and randomness that it literally stops the show.

I should repeat that: The songs are solid and fun, but it’s the jokes, not the songs, that you’ll remember.

Taken on their own, the jokes in Gettin’ the Band Back Together are nothing unique or exhilarating, but they work because the cast is so committed to selling them. In fact, I have rarely seen a more committed, joyous ensemble work so hard to win over a dead audience than I did during my Thursday night show. I’ve never seen a cast sing their hearts out with more glee and vibrance in the face of a crowd that clearly rejected the kind of show they were attending. Thank god for my seatmates Tyler and Bradley, who were there to see the show for the second time in a week, and who were living for Gettin’ the Band Back Together the way only we queer Broadway fans living through the homophobic cake years can.

“This is the kind of show I can take my Trump-voting brother to and we’ll bond over it,” Tyler told me before the show started.

“I cried,” Bradley added.

“It’s so dumb,” Tyler gushed to me at intermission. “It’s so dumb, isn’t it amazing?”

This show is so dumb, and it is amazing. It is so funny, so soft and joyous, that during intermission, I texted a friend who refused to come see it with me solely to upbraid her for her mistake. Meanwhile, my betrayer audience sat unmoved by the endless adorkable hilarity playing out in front of them. And every second that the sea of unenthused faces around me refused to be swept along by the ebullient hopes and dreams of a bunch of New Jersey ’90s kids who just wanted to have fun again, I resented not only them but the modern theater industry itself.

After all, only Broadway could build an American musical legacy out of exploiting camp for its cultural mileage, and yet somehow wind up increasingly abandoning ironic forms of entertainment — including “so bad it’s good” enjoyment.

In recent years, Broadway has conditioned audiences to expect either high-budget remakes with canned messages and blatant crowd-pandering (last season’s Spongebob comes to mind) or high-budget sophistication à la Dear Evan Hansen. Hell, even Gettin’ the Band Back Together, with its crop of references to aging rock artists, was designed to appeal to a certain crowd of baby boomers, to its detriment and their apathy.

But at heart, this isn’t a musical for boomers; instead, it represents and caters to the kind of media-savvy fan who fully embraces absurdity and silliness in their pop culture (the sillier, the better). As such, Gettin’ the Band Back Together desperately needs a younger audience, or at least a better older one.

Who were these people sitting around me who refused to show any enthusiasm for a stellar ensemble that served up some of the strongest group vocals I’ve heard since Evan Hansen? Who were these people who sat largely unmoved while our band of heroes rocked a bar mitzvah, reminisced about the roller coasters at Six Flags Great Adventure, and overcame numerous trials and obstacles to not only find love and happiness but receive a deus ex machina from none other than a fictional version of Aerosmith’s Joe Perry?

As it happened, a good portion of my fellow audience members had apparently come to see Gettin’ the Band Back Together because they’d received comped or discounted tickets as part of Broadway deal websites like Show Score. Through these kinds of watch-and-rate deals, some theatergoers — thanks to retirement, or sheer determination — are able to see upward of five shows a week.

That’s great for them, and ostensibly it should be good for shows that open in the summer, like this one. Late-summer Broadway openings tend to be rare for New York, because the tourist crowd doesn’t gravitate toward new releases that don’t already have strong buzz; you need New Yorkers to see those shows, and in August, they’re often away.

So these websites help fill seats during the offseason, which is a win. But it’s easy to see how they can hurt shows like this one, which wind up being viewed by an assembly line of people looking for deals first and feels second. It struck me that while teenage audiences were being encouraged, off-Broadway, to Be More Chill, on 44th Street, the cast of Gettin’ the Band Back Together was pleading with their older, middle-class audience to be less chill. And, miracle of miracles, eventually the audience at my show thawed out; gradually, more and more of them seemed to open their hearts to the silliness and sincerity of this show, its complete lack of irony and pretense, its sheer eagerness to make you laugh.

But they couldn’t have done it without my dudes Bradley and Tyler, whose constant laughter kept the orchestra section on life support all night. Late in the third act, veteran Marilu Henner, who plays Mitch’s mom with brassy warmth, came halfway up the aisle just to film the two of them — cast members breaking the fourth wall to film the audience is not an infrequent practice on Broadway these days, but rarely is it done with such specificity — as they lost their minds over the big finale number, when Mitch and the band finally play the Battle of the Bands. It’s exciting!

I was happy for them both, these pure-hearted theater lovers receiving a pure-hearted musical blessing, and feeding all their love and energy back to this hard-working, earnest cast. That is what we come to the theater for. That is Broadway at its core, stripped of size and massive budgets and pretension, until all that remains is love and communion.

At intermission, I’d overheard one of the comped five-show-a-week people say, with a shrug, “Maybe it’ll run for a few weeks.”

Fuck that.

Go see Gettin’ the Band Back Together. Enter with love and leave with laughter. May it, and all the other plucky, misunderstood musicals of its ilk, run forever.

Original Source -> Why critics are scorning new rock musical Gettin’ the Band Back Together — and why it deserves your love

via The Conservative Brief