#musical: bandstand

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Bandstand: The Musical Sentence Starters

JUST LIKE IT WAS BEFORE

"Where does it arrive?"

"I need that cover."

"Grenade on my go."

"Mom has baked her special apple pie."

"Before you know it, it'll be just like it was before."

"The band is tuning up to play your favorite song."

"There are endless carefree days in store."

"It's like they popped a cork, the clubs are full again."

"Grab your sweetheart tight and take the floor."

"How long you been back?"

"Something'll turn up."

"The cream always rises to the top, kid."

"It's been far too long."

"It's good to have you back."

"Wanna cut a rug with me?"

"The life we left has been here waiting."

"Isn't that worth celebrating?"

"Shit, that must've been holy hell."

"I need a shot of whiskey. All's I got's an empty flask."

"We're on a winning streak and it will stay that way."

"Any bad news you can just ignore."

"Whole town's giving me the same run around."

"That's what they tell me."

"Why not believe it?"

"They want illusion and they achieve it."

"We all relive the past and never wanna leave it."

"The world is ending and we're pretending it'll be just like it was before."

DONNY NOVITSKI

"Come and get your prize."

"The trick is the delivery."

"The difference that I have is, I was there."

"All of that promise and none of the payoff."

"They say cream rises, but what if nobody tastes it?"

"I'm finally looking at one little crack in the door."

"This is a lifeline. A once a millennium shot."

"I need something to block out the memories and break this insomnia spell."

"Make it all worth it and give it a meaning."

"We're gonna win first prize."

I KNOW A GUY

"It's radio, what does it matter?"

"If we win, we get to be in the movies."

"I'll take my chances."

"Meet me at the Rio Lounge tomorrow night."

"We're ready to open."

"What wind blew you hither?"

"I'll tickle your catastrophe."

"I hope that means you're in."

"Is it happening?"

"I think it's really happening."

AIN'T WE PROUD

"Never guessed you'd be a hero."

"You'll forgive me for bragging a bit out loud."

WHO I WAS

"I just want to know what happened."

"What do you think that will get you?"

"You know what I want even more is to be just who I was before."

"It's a distinction that's redefining my whole life. Well, it feels like it does."

"I feel guilty because there are days where I just want to be who I was."

"I'm not saying I'd trade the life that I had with you for a minute."

"That was once in a lifetime love and I know I was lucky to win it."

"There is nothing remotely heroic about it."

"All the details of who I am, made irrelevant with one single telegram."

"That's what widowhood does."

"There are days where I just want to be momentarily free and happily who I was."

JUST LIKE IT WAS BEFORE (REPRISE)

"I think your dress looks great, as I am sure he'll/she'll/they'll say."

"I know it's not a date, so don't you look at me that way."

"You just deserve a break from staying home with me all day."

FIRST STEPS FIRST

"Dancing's more customary for a soiree."

"Isn't the band sublime?"

"As it happens I'm just in the mood to do a two-step."

"Do step out on the floor with me."

"I'm new here too, you see."

"Might you be charmingly coerced?"

"No need to be so shy."

"Why be all alone when music calls?"

"I have nothing more or less to prove."

"Unless we want a party full of flowers on the walls, someone has to make the very first move."

"Starting is daunting, true."

BREATHE

"Breathe through the end of the phrase."

"Putting up with you is an endurance test."

YOU DESERVE IT

"Go out and have a ball."

"I don't need a reason."

"Have a heck of a time."

"Act like tomorrow ain't gonna come."

"How 'bout a big parade?"

"You paid your dues and we owe it to ya."

"Now you got it made."

"I'm feeling the rush. I'm feeling the high."

"I'm feeling the rules don't apply."

LOVE WILL COME AND FIND ME AGAIN

"Once I thought forever was real."

"I thought my life was ideal."

"I thought that nothing could steal it, you see."

"I learned how wrong I had been, that sometimes dreams can cave in."

"I gave up ever wondering when love will come and find me again."

"It's almost like time has stood still. Like a lifetime iced under a frost."

"I know how much I've lost."

"The more you deny, the more you don't even try. The more the world passes by in a haze."

"Soon, you find you don't even know how many years you let go."

"The chance is wasted in so many ways."

"Lately, I've been thinking it's time to take a look at what I'm doing then."

"Maybe I should be planning for when love will come and find me again."

"Letting go of what might have been and letting something else in. Only then, love will come and find me again."

RIGHT THIS WAY

"We reserved this just for you."

"You've been waiting for this day. It's the least that we can do."

"Let me take your bags my friend."

"You've been carrying those far too long."

"Troubled times are at an end."

"You've arrived at last my friend."

"You've been fighting for far too long."

"I think that we are entitled to travel first class."

"This challenge will be met."

"We'll fight for ourselves now."

"All of the wrongs will be made right this way."

"We've been waiting for this day."

"It's the least that they can do."

"We've arrived at last my friend."

"We've been fighting for far too long."

NOBODY

"Get out of my way."

"Go find yourself someone else to smother."

"Find somebody else who gives a fig what you say."

"Last time I checked you were not my mother."

"You don't have what it takes and you will never reach the top."

THE BOYS ARE BACK

"They're going to New York!"

I GOT A THEORY

"You're better than the average Joe."

"It's time to let the whole world know."

"It's time to tell the world we count."

"Are we onto something here?"

"Nothing's gonna keep us down."

EVERYTHING HAPPENS

"I want to believe everything happens for a reason."

"Any reason as to why is a reason you supply."

"It just happens. Everything happens."

"It's not fate. No great plan. It's not destiny."

"Putting faith in that cliche gives your own free will away."

"You can waste your whole damn life assigning bits of philosophic meaning to the failures and misfortunes intervening."

"I'll tell you what you get. Just a lifetime of regret."

"The only sane response is to adjust. Not to wish it hadn't happened when it must."

"What matters when things happen is what happens after."

WELCOME HOME

"There's so much I didn't see, and I'm so sorry."

"Welcome home, my love."

A BAND IN NEW YORK CITY

"Take the moment in."

"It's the mythic location where they go to make their millions."

"We've got swell accommodations."

"It's the fantasy and we're living it in style."

"I owe you one. No, I owe you two or three."

"That's a hell of a view."

"I won't sleep with all those lights."

"This hotel's got the biggest beds I've ever seen in my life!"

"Just remember, tomorrow's a big day."

"Don't do anything stupid."

"There is only one first time."

THIS IS LIFE

"If we were in an MGM film, we would kiss and walk through that door there."

"If we were in a radio play, we'd admit we're friends but there's more there."

"This is life with the heartache it brings and we know that these things take time."

"I would ask if you'd care to stay."

"I'm wondering if we should play it a different way."

"We could write our on take on it. Or leave well enough alone."

"Shake on it."

"No one planned for a moment like this."

"At least for today, we should probably say goodnight."

THIS IS LIFE (REPRISE)

"We could be blacklisted, or worse."

"We've all been through worse."

"It's a gutsy risk we'll be taking."

"Times like this you hold onto what's real. That's the honest statement we're making."

"I'll march back into battle once more if I'm fighting it for what's true."

"What I feel for you is true."

"No matter how tough it is, no matter how much time it takes, I need to be with you."

"This is life with the craziness of, the reality of, the necessity of being madly in love with you."

WELCOME HOME (FINALE)

"I stand here trying with my private burden of grief to carry."

"You do your best, trying to pretend that what you don't talk about won't matter in the end."

"You don't sleep because the nightmares come."

"You want an answer, you look for absolution. And I'd give up anything if I could give you some."

"I stand here helpless, with my arms extended, knowing full well, darling, your war's not ended."

[cascadeoceanwave]

musical theatre challenge: 1/1 seasons | 2016-2017 (insp)

[citizenscreen]

“American Bandstand" began broadcasting nationally #OnThisDay in 1957.

The show that evolved into "American Bandstand" began on Philadelphia’s WFIL-TV in 1952. Dick Clark took over as host in the summer of 1956 and pushed for a national audience.

[the-river-rix]

Please please please send me some

[miasmultifandomdump]

Just Like It Was Before from Bandstand is SO GOOD because so much art from that era romanticized the idea of a post war-life and Bandstand takes that and then contrasts it with the gut-wrenching reality that soldiers were coming home from a harrowing and traumatic experience with scars both visible and invisible and with the loss of so many others in the war. It shows how hard everyone's trying but they're just failing because the goal isn't attainable. You can't send boys to battle and expect them to come back the same. It's fair that people just wanted things to go back to normal, but that was never going to happen.

[chaptertwo-thepacnw]

american bandstand |1969|

[lonelylittledot]

literally same exact energy

[derrydeer]

adam stanheight in saw the musical has the same vibes as donny novitski in bandstand

[ivys-head-is-spinning]

Get to know me!

Hello, my name is Ivy! I decided to do a get to know me thing so here we go.

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NEWSIES (mainly that's what I post about)

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Broadway and musicals- the one's I've seen live are Hamilton, Wicked, & Juliet, Lion King, Frozen, Hadestown, Little shop, Six, Aladdin, New York New York, Anastasia, RENT, The Devil Wear Prada musical, Without You (which is Anthony Rapp’s solo show), New York New York, Water for Elephants and The Outsiders. (and a few others but I was too young to remember.) The musicals I've seen online are Newsies (duh), Dear Evan Hansen, Heathers, The Prom, West Side Story, If/Then, Lempicka, Falsettos, Great Gatsby, Bandstand, Waitress, Legally Blonde, Bonnie and Clyde, 21 Chump Street, Ordinary Days, The Last 5 Years, In the Heights, the Mean Girls movie musical (the actual musical is next on my list) and Tick... Tick... Boom!

Julie and the Phantoms

Music! But only the very specific artists that I like. Some that I love include Age of Madness (Jeremy Jordan's band), Laura Osnes, Ben Platt, Sara Bareilles, Idina Menzel, All Time Low, Olivia Rodrigo, Chappell Roan, Eden Espinosa, Christy Altomare, RØRY, Disney, Shoshana Bean, Negative 25, musicals, really anything sung by Jeremy Jordan (or other broadway stars I like but that's a whole other list)

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Cheers!

Ivy

[haveyouseenthismusical]

[izloveshorses]

i don’t need to be rescued. what if i do?

[meiloorunsmoothie]

love will come and find me again just slapping me in the face out of nowhere

[the-river-rix]

Shout out to the like five other people in the how to dance in Ohio trenches

[courageisneverforgotten]

in discussions of Bandstand, I often see the argument that perhaps the narrative would have been better if Julia and Donny hadn't gotten into a romantic relationship. that this is expected, the easy way to wrap things up, the "boy and girl are protagonists so therefore must fall in love" schtick.

I am also a deep believer in narratives about platonic relationships and the beauty found in those. heck, before I watched the show and was only vaguely familiar with the soundtrack, I think I had some of the same thoughts. However.

I think Julia and Donny may be expected (to the audience), but they were not inevitable.

their romance is messy and beautiful and maybe a little weird to both of them. they are not drawn together immediately (not cheaply and obviously made romantic) except for the facts of Donny's promise to his best friend, Michael, and Julia losing Michael and becoming a gold star wife. it's awkward, they both feel like they're fumbling over words and actions, and yeah, to them, it is a little bit weird. especially when they start feeling more for each other.

I'd argue that the narrative of Bandstand is strengthened by their relationship with each other. the connecting reason for their circumstance is Michael, and it is devastating and ever-present. but they take that connection and carefully -- sometimes messily, usually imperfectly -- create something meaningful for both of them. they heal. they don't forget. they Live despite and because of it all.

there certainly could have been a deep platonic bond between Julia and Donny, but I feel that their romance adds truth to their characters, what they want and how they see the world. Julia's "love will come and find me again" is a beautiful display of longing and resilience, a statement that she does not know what's ahead for her (and Donny) but she will not be passive in her own narrative. and for Donny's part, when Julia tells him "I don't need to be rescued!" and he responds with "what if I do?", that simple statement is so emblematic of his character -- his longing to be seen wholly and wanted anyway.

the strength of platonic bonds throughout the show is arguably one of the biggest strengths of Bandstand. adding a romance between the two leads does not take away from this; it weaves through the narrative and adds another thread of strength. not inevitable, but wholly meaningful.