#stephen webber

[bemusedlybespectacled]

Because that other one left out WAY too many formative musicals (at least for anyone older than, like, 20). I'm definitely still leaving out a lot but I made an effort to cover a wider range of musical history.

[b-dangerous]

I'll take you for a ride. I'm a garbage truck.

[ilikestuff69]

The fact that 2 revived Sondheim shows got so many Tony nominations this year while Andrew Lloyd Webber got zero just proves that even in death, Stephen Sondheim does it better.

Sondheim is just simply that guy.

[nitw]

scott being a single year older than stephen is actually criminal i will forever refuse to believe it. we need to do something abt this stupid twink

[bestmusicalworldcup]

The other night I had some free time and so I went on the IBDB (Internet Broadway Database) and calculated the following statistics:

There have been 41 productions of Stephen Sondheim musicals on Broadway, 25 productions of Rodgers & Hammerstein musicals, and 20 productions of Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals.

However, there have only been 13,860 performances of Sondheim shows compared to 15,656 performances for R&H and 30,328 performances of ALW shows, with 13,981 being from The Phantom of the Opera alone.

On average, Sondheim musicals have ran for 338 performances on Broadway, R&H musicals last 626 performances on average, and ALW musicals last 1516 performances on average, but if you remove Phantom then ALW's performance average lowers to 860.

ALW and R&H both have had 4 productions run 1,000+ performances, while Sondheim has had 0. By contrast, Sondheim has had 7 productions run less than 100 performances, while ALW has 3 and R&H 1.

ALW's longest running show is Phantom, Sondheim's is the OG production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (964 performances), and R&H's is the OG Oklahoma! (2,212).

ALW's shortest running show is By Jeeves (73), Sondheim's is Anyone Can Whistle (9), and R&H's is the 1949 revival of Carousel (32).

The following disclaimers:

I did not count revues or the short New York City Center productions from the 60s that are listed on IBDB. I counted shows where Sondheim only wrote the lyrics (such as West Side Story), but I did not count shows where he only wrote additional music or lyrics (such as Candide). I only counted shows that Rodgers and Hammerstein did together, and not those that either of them worked on individually.

[cashthecomposer]

If your favorite musical already has a proshot, just mark the one that is the case for that particular proshot! If it's available for free, mark the maximum you'd be willing to pay for it if it wasn't. ❤️

[you-belong-among-wildflowers]

The word diva to me means doing something supernatural with something natural.

- Patti LuPone (b. April 21, 1949)

[tasteofcaviar]

POV: ur watching greys anatomy

[cuartoretorno]

Scott Pilgrim | Official Teaser | Netflix 2023

[musicaltheatregirlsandsongs]

Hi! I finished up the list of songs that made it in, I still need to make the brackets, and will post those once they’re done! Complete list under the cut

A Little Fall of Rain - Les Misérables

A Little Priest - Sweeney Todd

A Musical - Something Rotten

Agony - Into the Woods

All you wanna do - Six

Another National Anthem - Assassins

Another Suitcase in Another Hall - Evita

Anthem - Chess

Any Kind of Dead Person - Ghost Quartet

Anything you can do (I can do better) - Annie Get Your Gun

Balaga - Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812

Being Alive - Company

Belle - Notre-Dame de Paris

Brain Dead - A New Brain

Burn - Hamilton

Cabaret - Cabaret

Carnaval del Barrio - In the Heights

Carrying the Banner - Newsies

Cell Block Tango - Chicago

Chant - Hadestown

Come what may - Moulin Rouge

Confrontation - Jekyll & Hyde

Costume Party - Come from Away

Dead Girl Walking - Heathers

Dead Mom - Beetlejuice

Defying Gravity - Wicked

Dentist! - Little Shop of Horrors

Die Schatten werden länger - Elisabeth

Don’t Rain On My Parade - Funny Girl

Drink with me - Les Misérables

Dust and Ashes - Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812

El tango de Roxanne - Moulin Rouge

Epic III - Hadestown

Epiphany - Sweeney Todd

Esmeralda - the Hunchback of Notre-Dame

Everybody’s got the right - Assassins

Feast or famine - Black Friday

Feed Me (Git It!) - Little Shop of Horrors

For Good - Wicked

Get Down - Six

Gethsemane (I only want to say) - Jesus Christ Superstar

Giants in the sky - Into the Woods

Glory - Pippin

Go Tonight - The Mad One’s

Good Kid - the lightning thief

Heaven on their Minds - Jesus Christ Superstar

Holding to the Ground - Falsettos

How Can Love Survive - The Sound of Music

I’m Alive - Next to Normal

I’m Breaking Down - Falsettos

Ich gehör nur mir - Elisabeth

If I had my time again - Groundhog Day

If I were a rich man - Fiddler on the Roof

Inevitable - The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals

Independently Owned - Shucked

Joseon Swag (조선수액) - Swag Age: Shout Out, Joseon! (스웨그에이지: 외쳐, 조선!)

Judas - Clown Bible

Juntton - Gambämark

King of New York - Newsies

Land of Yesterday - Anastasia

Le Monde est Stone - Starmania

Les Rois du Monde - Roméo et Juliette, de la haine à l’amour

Let it out - The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals

Letters - Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812

Lilacs - Preludes

Loser Geek Whatever - Be More Chill

Losing My Mind - Follies

Love will come and find me again - Bandstand

Madame Guillotine - The Scarlet Pimpernel

Michael in the Bathroom - Be More Chill

My Grand Plan - the lightning thief

No One Else - Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812

No One Remembers Achmed - Twisted

Noel’s Lament - Ride the Cyclone

Nonstop - Hamilton

On My Own - Les Misérables

On the Verge - Women on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown

Once and for all - Newsies

One Day More - Les Misérables

Place, je passe - Mozart l’opéra rock

Popular - Wicked

Prologue - Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812

Prologue: Tradition - Fiddler on the Roof

Quartet at the Ballet - Anastasia

Quiet - Matilda

Rebecca Reprise - Rebecca

Requiem - Dear Evan Hansen

Revolting Children - Matilda

Ring of Keys - Fun Home

Santa Fe - Newsies

Seize the Day - Newsies

Sick to Death of Alice-ness - Alice by Heart

Skid Row (Downtown) - Little Shop of Horrors

Solo - Octet

Starchild - Ghost Quartet

Sweet Transvestite - Rocky Horror Show

Talia - Ride the Cyclone

Telephone Wire - Fun Home

The Ballad of Jane Doe - Ride the Cyclone

The I Love You Song - The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

The New World - Songs for a New World

The Opera - Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812

The Pitiful Children - Be More Chill

The Point of No Return - The Phantom of the Opera

The Song of Purple Summer - Spring Awakening

The Starry Night - Starry

The Thrill of First Love - Falsettos

The Torture Tango - Spies are Forever

The Turning of the Key - The Clockmaker’s Daughter

There! Right There! - Legally Blonde

This World Will Remember Us - Bonnie & Clyde

Time Warp - Rocky Horror Show

Tonight (Quintet) - West Side Story

Touch Me - Spring Awakening

Twisted - Twisted

Unlikely Lovers - Falsettos

Usher Pt. 3 - Ghost Quartet

Wait For Me - Hadestown

Wait For Me (Reprise) - Hadestown

Waving Through A Window - Dear Evan Hansen

Wenn ich tanzen will - Elisabeth

What would I do - Falsettos

When the going gets tough - Spongebob Squarepants

Wilkommen - Cabaret

You Gotta Die Sometime - Falsettos

Your Daddy’s Son - Ragtime

Your Fault/Last Midnight - Into the Woods

30/90 - Tick, Tick… Boom

[comradesummers]

Just remembered that weirdly bitter obituary of Sondheim that the Guardian published. Like seriously, wtf was this?

Like the man had just died. Why are you so mad bro?

[starchildrenofdustand-ashes]

all the musicals about god are legit so camp I love it

[behindthemirrorofmusic]

My interview with Hans Peter Janssens is now available to watch.

Hans Peter Janssens is known as a classic European Phantom, both in the Netherlands and Belgium, in The Phantom of the Opera and for being the only actor to play the roles of Jean Valjean and Javert in Les Miserables on the West End.

He also starred in rare Dutch language versions of Jekyll and Hyde, Sweeney Todd and Tanz der Vampire, Follies Man of La Mancha, Evita and more.

[faefox9]

can I be stupid for a moment

ok so we all just saw the new of Andrew Lloyd Webber announcing he’s made a new musical, and here I was thinking that Andrew Lloyd Webber died in the 1960s, like it feels like this guy should be older y’know? And Sondheim died in 2021 but I thought that bitch would’ve been kicking around in the mid-late 1800s, there’s no real point to this post other than I always thought musicals and their creators were so much older than they really are.