#the great comet musical

[trashpidgeon48]

Musicals are time loops. Every night, the same thing happens except for a few minor differences. It always ends the same. If you want the characters to do something different or to make better choices, too bad. The actors are bound by the script and the score. The only way for the time loop to end is for the show to close. But you (the audience) don't want the show to close, nor do the actors who would like to be employed. It's a lose/lose situation. For the actors, audience, technicians, and for the characters, who are forever stuck in the same stretch of time.

[milo-igidk]

put your clothes back on were going to talk about how musicals are the best media to adapt books in cause its the only one that allows the characters to express their feelings and internal monologue as they do on page

[cowpokezuko]

A helpful chart

EDIT: Stop pointing out I made a typo. I know.

[bookofmac]

Dave Malloy Musicals + Recovery

The Forest | Prayer | Epilogue | The Field

[grapery]

i tried to add more but my graphic design skills are limited

[cascadeoceanwave]

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

[kittyoperas]

wanted to draw some tender Great Comet of 1812 AU Hawke and Anders because they are so very special to me!!!

[tamaruaart]

🎶 ~ And what about Pierre? Dear, bewildered and awkward Pierre? What about Pierre? Rich, unhappily married Pierre? ~ 🎶

[nojaloart]

time travelling back to 2017 bc i’m watching a production of the great comet tonight :3

[screechingfromthevoid]

This is the long one. Because I am long winded in everything I do

[dykexenomorph]

[threetrenchcoatsinatrenchcoat]

Dave Malloy has announced he's next going to be writing musical adaptations of that really old movie with the train, the encyclopedia britannica 1955-1971, roblox, the classic joke "knock knock who's there orange you glad i didn't say banana", the kalimantan borneo cave paintings, the smell that passes through your dreams when you are almost asleep and think of the first time you felt truly unsafe, and Ghost Quartet by Dave Malloy

[towertea]

Well, here are the beginnings of it.

Feel free to reach out however you want if you'd like to help out or suggest anything!!

[ironicandpunny]

in honour of pride month, here’s some musicals that feature/star LBTQIA+ characters that have not aged like milk:

Falsettos

Fun Home

A Strange Loop

Company

Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812

Ghost Quartet

Come From Away

Cabaret

35MM

A New Brain

Spies Are Forever

Firebringer

[swingingthehatchetnow]

Okay so here’s my Broadway nerd coming out, but if a Starkid show (especially hatchetfield) ever made it to Broadway, I think they should have the stage be something other than a standard proscenium stage.

What else could they do, you may ask. Well let me introduce my good friend: Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812.

Check this shit out:

And if it’s not clear, here (marked in blue) is where some of the audience seats are:

One of my favorite things is the Starkid actors interacting with the audience. If they did something like Great Comet did, this would allow for that, because with Broadway theatres, it’s so much harder to go from the stage to the audience and back.

In fact, part of me really really wants to make my own blocking for NPMD using the layout of the Great Comet stage.

This specific design worked well for Great Comet because they had a lot of spectacle and many more actors, and I believe this stage was built specifically inspired by Russian designs for the time, so it wouldn’t be the best option if, for example, NPMD went to Broadway with the cast size it had with Starkid. But, I really think this would be a really cool way to watch a Starkid show, if they got a funky stage like this.

Just imagine watching Hatchet Town, and when the blame is going around, not only is it going around in front of you, but the blame going around AROUND you. Max chasing Richie all around. Think about Ruth singing Just For Once, moving all around that big empty space meant for like,, two dozen or so people dancing, but she’s the only one. Ugh. I love theater.