“I’ve never smoked marijuana. I ate a brownie once at a party in college, it was intense. It was kind of indescribable actually. I felt like I was floating. Turns out, there wasn’t any pot in it, it was just an insanely good brownie”
alright who do i have to fight to keep beetlejuice in the winter garden theatre? i am small and fragile but willing to throw hands for my favourite netherworld demon
Musical Theatre Tropes/Things I Never Get Tired Of
The Runaway New Yorker - mc wants to leave NYC because they feel like they aren’t achieving anything there. Like a typical New Yorker, they want to leave for someplace warm and sunny (probably Santa Fe). They almost leave when they lose hope, but then they realize that their home is in New York City with their friends-turned-family.
Ex.Usnavi(In The Heights),Jack Kelly(Newsies),Mark, Roger, Angel, and Collins (Rent)
Kickass Female Trio - probably have a song where they sing about how powerful they are and how everyone bows down to them. Adored by the whole fandom. They also have this iconic pose that everyone can recognize. Also have a distinct colour palette among their outfits. The leader is the most powerful, popular, and feared of them all and is in the center of their pose & the main singer of their song. She’s somehow defeated in a later part of Act 1. The second-in-commandtakes over for the leader and is at her right. The innocent sidekick is at the leader’s left & she’s very youthful and childlike. Has yellow somewhere in her outfit. She’s likely to be an alto.
Ex.Angelica(leader),Eliza(2nd-I-C),andPeggy(IS) - the Schuyler Sisters (Hamilton) | H. Chandler (leader), H. Duke (2nd-I-C), H. McNamara (IS) - the Heathers(Heathers) | Regina(leader),Gretchen(2nd-I-C),Karen (IS) - the Plastics(Mean Girls)
The Seductress Song - hot young woman breaks into lead male’s house in her own song where she belts some mad vocals and then flirts with him cause she wants him.
Ex.Mimi Marquez - Out Tonight(Rent),Maria Reynolds - Say No To This(Hamilton),Veronica Sawyer - Dead Girl Walking(Heathers)
The “My Life Sucks and I’m Struggling Because I’m Poor and I Have To Work and I’m Too Young For That BS, but life goes on” song - It’s probably a bunch of oppressed New Yorkers singing that.
Ex.In The Heights(In The Heights),Carrying The Banner(Newsies),It’s A Hard-Knock Life(Annie),Rent(Rent)
The romance between the Girl Who Has It All and the Boy Who Has Nothing trope - also self-explanatory. The girl’s father is probably wealthy or respected.
Ex.Alexander & Eliza(Hamilton),Jack & Katherine(Newsies),Nina & Benny(In The Heights)
The Silly Little Banter Between Two Love Interests song - the two characters are lowkey into one another, but they’re like, fighting-flirting.
Ex. I Never Planned On You (Don’t Come A-Knocking)(Newsies),Light My Candle(RENT),Anything You Can Do(Annie Get Your Gun)
The “Let’s Have Some Fun In The City!” song - super upbeat instrumentals and ensemble, the characters are exploring the city and having fun.
Ex.When You’re Home(In The Heights),One Short Day(Wicked),The Schuyler Sisters(Hamilton)
The Badass Revolution Song - the song that makes you want to take down capitalism and scream something at the top of your lungs. take down the oppressors. the poor kids are taking over now.
Ex.The World Will Know(Newsies),One Day More (Les Misérables),My Shot(Hamilton),Yorktown(Hamilton),Defying Gravity(Wicked)
our lord and savior mike faist on our other lord and savior ben tyler cook’s instagram story for west side story. they’re having Quality Bro Time™️ at the beach. newsies forever!
a concept: a Broadway musical production held in the Nederlander Theatre in West 41st St., Manhattan about a group of New Yorkers living in the slums of Manhattan, who protest against this guy - who cares deeply about one of the female leads - and his capitalist agenda, which is to sell something that will make the characters more broke than they already are. The main character is an artist who’s full of angst and nearly runs off to Santa Fe, but then realizes that their home is in New York. The characters also sing a song about their New York ideals while dancing on a table in a restaurant in an upbeat number. It’s also set at the end of a decade.
iconic musical theatre world performances with links!
hopefully theres something here for everyone [esp new fans!], i included lots of popular/iconic performances and some less talked about ones : )
let’s start with run away with me! every male broadway tenor has performed this, including: grant gustin [x], jeremy jordan [x], aaron tveit [x], michael arden [x], ben fankhauser [x], matt doyle [x], etc… here’s a playlist of all of them [x] [there’s 42 covers??? jesus]
bonnie milligan and matt doyle together is always perfection but i esp. LOVE their version of tell me [x] and their 90’s medley [x]
andy mientus + kings of leon with krysta rodriguez and jeremy jordan as backup? dont complain just sit and listen [x]
bonus here’s aaron tveit singing the same song [x]
mandatory jeremy jordan its all coming back to me now link [x] also him singing sam smith [x] and radiohead [x]
now onto broadway’s boyfriend aaron tveit in THAT rent performance ft gavin creel [x], popular [x], and seven wonders [x]
baby joshua colley singing valjean better than hugh jackman at age 13 [x] + him singing godspell w/ dustin from stranger things [x]
NOW. older!joshua colley absolutely killing go the distance [x], she used to be mine [x], and seventeen from heathers [x] [he reminds me of that dude from enola holmes? is that just me]
ben fankhauser singing belief (the alexander sage oyen/fankhauser combo is godly) [x]
THE BRO DUET ft george salazar/jason gotay (no homo song) [x]
anything deaf west spring awakening, but special shoutout to their renditions of word of your body [x], word of your body reprise [x], touch me [x], and their tonys performance [x]
also ben fankhauser singing a christmas song, riffing into a key change, and playing the melodica in between? [x]
speaking of, his wake me up/touch me mashup with him also playing the piano! talented man [x]
aaron tveit loml singing hozier is one for the books [x]
drew gasparini! andy mientus once again in love with jeremy jordan! hit list! perfect! i just really like this song [x]
