#not got it onstage

[misskattylashes]

New ring?

[qt-kt]

Achtung Baby~ 💖 Let’s Rock

This was supposed to be a sketch but it kinda got away from me lol I am not immune to Klavier Gavin

[jadelemonadee]

okay so what if mary hicks was in hamilton 😛

[nemmet]

‘CAUSE THERE’S MONEY IN OUR POCKETS, AND THE LLANDOGER’S IN SIGHT!! 🫖⚓️

[butchkaramazov]

NO WAY WE WON FIRST PLACE IN MUSIC

[bohemian-rhapsody-in-blue]

Rebecca is ready for the new school year and so am I!

[vodrae]

Headcanon of our favorite playboy Brucie Wayne :

Bruce took the mantle directly after his world trip when he was ~20, and Selina was one of his first encounter. She has seen every Brucie's antics live for the last 10-15 years.

But, when you get married to a billionaire, he can buy you everything so what wedding present could be more than special, something that mean something deep for them both ?

My girl calls every female who's not a batkid and somehow her bachelorette party and Bruce's bachelor party merged in the Iceberg Lounge where a wild Brucie like we didn't see him since he's a dad ride this polebar ! Eyes candy for those ladies and gentlemen !

[whistlingstarlight]

Shoutout to the kid playing Bruce in Matilda tonight for pausing a sec during Revolting Children, giving the most shit-eating smirk and flossing instead of doing the usual choreo bc good on him for having fun with it. Shoutout to the kid in the audience who whisper-shouted "No Matilda..!" when she confronted Miss Trunchbull just before Quiet, cracked up the whole theatre.

Callout to the parent during the intermission who, upon their kid realising they didn't actually like the flavour of ice cream they bought, told the kid "I bought it, so you have to eat it now". I've never seen a kid sad to eat ice cream before today. My brother in christ we've just witnessed The Cake Scene and you're doing that??

[youssefguedira]

the thing about fleabag is that now having seen the stage show i'm endlessly curious to see how it's adapted for television, cause like. the isolation is the point. the way it's just one woman and her chair talking to the audience. she does impressions of the other characters herself and is good enough that you almost start to forget, but it makes it all the more impactful when she says she's completely alone and the person she has technically been talking to within the show is just a voice over. even though, technically, there is another 'character' in the show, she is isolated from them entirely. all she has is the audience. and that's one of the most impactful parts of the show (i.e. moment where i felt like someone had punched me in the solar plexus). so i really don't know how that isolation is going to track to tv where there are like, actual people she interacts with

[it-wasntaphase]

suddenly it’s 2013, i’m searching ‘phan proof’ on YouTube and tøp is my most listened to artist. someone hide the black eyeliner, i’m waging my wars behind my face and above my throat

[natalia-lafourcade]

Went to an indigenous event today!!!1

[solastalgiart]

💛 oh say it ditto

[a-model-of-propriety]

I find it fascinating to trace the development of Jekyll and Lisa's relationship through the various versions of the musical. On the surface, not much changes; Lisa (or Emma, depending on the version) Carew, fiancée of Henry Jekyll, watches helplessly as he dives deeper into his obsession with his experiments, only discovering the true reason for his isolation when it is too late. Whether we look at the Lisa of the early demo recordings, the Emma of the Broadway productions, or any version in between, her role and her fate remains largely unchanged.

Even so, her relationship with Jekyll, specifically its portrayal in their song(s), underwent arguably the most rewrites of the entire show. While (very early drafts of) some songs, such as "Alive" and "Murder, Murder", appear as early as the very first demo recording in 1986 (and by 1987 Lucy's main songs make their appearances as well), Jekyll and Lisa's main duet of "Take Me As I Am" does not appear until 1994's "Gothic Musical Thriller" album, after which the song does not undergo any significant changes.

In TMAIA's place, the pair sing several different songs, including "Love Has Come of Age", a duet version of "Someone Like You", "The First Time", and several more. In the 1986 demo, half of the songs are duets between Lisa and Jekyll!

Out of all the rewrites and cut songs, why did "Take Me As I Am" manage to stick? And why was it the only true Jekyll/Lisa duet to survive revisions?

Though earlier drafts of Jekyll & Hyde devoted more attention to Lisa and Jekyll's relationship (which I, as resident Lisa fan, thoroughly enjoyed), the extra songs did very little, if anything, to progress the plot or develop the show's major motifs. Most early Jekyll/Lisa duets were generic love duets, serving no other purpose but to tell the audience that Jekyll and Lisa were, in fact, in love with each other. Most of these early duets exist mainly to serve this purpose, bogging down the story because they did nothing to address any other aspect of the story than their love and longing. The songs were, in the grand scheme of the show, redundant.

This is where "Take Me As I Am" stands out from the cut songs. While it still serves the important function of Duet To Show How Much They Love Each Other, TMAIA also speaks to the underlying motif of "known vs. unknown". The reason Lisa and Jekyll love each other, at least when we first meet them, is that they truly know, understand, and accept each other. Only when Jekyll starts hiding (pun intended) things from her does their relationship start to show cracks.

From the very beginning of the show, Jekyll's "need to know" the secrets of humanity is set forth as a driving factor of his character. It is in the pursuit of knowledge that he starts down the destructive road of the plot. His desire to know is central to who he is (and, through him, central to the show). Because "knowing" is central to Jekyll's character, Wildhorn centered his and Lisa's relationship on knowing each other. For Jekyll, Lisa is security. She is the only person that knows him, and he knows that he can depend on her to remain a constant in his life. She won't abandon him, no matter how far he dives into his experiments.

Where Lisa represents knowledge and stability, Lucy represents the unknown that Jekyll dives into as the show progresses. Lucy says herself that "no one knows who [she is]", framing her as the opposite of Lisa. Her life is foreign to Jekyll, and she is the person that inspires Jekyll to experiment on himself. Lisa is the known, but Lucy is the unknown that Jekyll desperately needs to understand.

Without "Take Me As I Am", Lisa loses the "known vs. unknown" significance that makes both her and Lucy more compelling characters. None of the earlier songs (with the possible exception of "If You Only Knew", which I desperately want more productions to include) provide that symbolism, which is why, in the end, TMAIA was the only one that could survive revisions.

[asclexe]

she carpe on my diem till i seize the day

[mjrtaurus]

Till onstage

Till irl