#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.

[oldmanbracket]

Sexiest Old Man Tournament: Round 1

Who is hotter?

[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

[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. ❤️

[marvelmaniac715]

A definitive list of my favourite musicals in no particular order:

Heathers

Sweeney Todd

Phantom of the Opera

ALW Cinderella

Jesus Christ Superstar

Into The Woods

Epic

Hadestown

Anastasia

The Lightning Thief

Come From Away

Beetlejuice

Carrie

Mean Girls

tick, tick… BOOM!

Twisted

The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals

Nerdy Prudes Must Die

Trail To Oregon

We Will Rock You

35MM

VHS Christmas Carol

Fun Home

Waitress

Next To Normal

Six

Mamma Mia

[magefelixir]

the difference between ALW and sondheim is ALW writes music like he hates women, and sondheim writes music like he hates EVERYBODY

[sondheim-girly]

We don’t talk about Harold prince enough. Like he directed and produced so many prolific musicals its kinda insane. Something that I think is super interesting about him is that Sondheim and alw are always pitted against each other but he worked on a lot of shows with both of them. Like idk I just find that funny for some reason

[weaversweek]

The Crystal Maze at 35

At this hour in 1990, Richard O'Brien asked a simple question.

Can you win a time crystal?

Climb over walls, or take out a giant screwdriver? Find your way through a mirrored maze, or drive a dune buggy by remote control?

For the viewer, it was incredibly simple. We got a few shots to see what had to be done.

For the players, it was anything but simple. Sploosh! as the contestant fell off the log into the drink. Splat! as they fired a catapult at some greedy gods. Zap! as they shot at a robot guard.

And when they failed to get out in time, that'll be a lock in - as my learned friend @becrystalamazed noted recently, every game show has some element of prison or public school, and The Crystal Maze had lots of both.

Richard left The Crystal Maze after four very successful series. His replacement, Ed Tudor-Pole, was a great character, and brought energy to the role; his only drawback was that he wasn't Richard O'Brien. The Crystal Maze came off air in 1995.

Picked up by The Family Channel, and a mainstay of successor channel Challenge, The Crystal Maze kept all of us entertained and beguiled. And there was the live attraction which opened in 2016, and which begat a television revival hosted by Stephen Merchant and Adam Conover and some other bloke.

TV reviewer Mark Lawson was rather impressed by the first episode.

An entertaining new game show appears to be an elaborate attempt to evaluate how many yuppies it takes to change a lightbulb. A group of smooth youths attempts each of four tests (physical, mental, skill, mystery) in each of four "zones" (Aztec, industrial, mediaeval, futuristic). The tasks involve much clambering around mazes and towers (a visual pun on upwardly mobile!) and arrangement of gigantic puzzles. Those who best survive the tests stand under a construction called The Crystal Dome and grab large pieces of gold hurtling out of a spout. The game might therefore be said to have a first round of Darwinism and a final round of Thatcherism.

How many yuppies does it take to change a lightbulb? Six, if we're lucky.

[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.