the fact that in ghost quartet, the song that fulfills the trope of an eleven o'clock number best, hero, is directly followed by a song titled midnight can’t be a mistake to me??? like hero is an emotional ballad that i cannot listen to without Sobbing and directly after that dave malloy decides to put midnight, which is a really odd choice musically? its not coherent but it wraps several story lines up and gives closure to the characters before the finale which makes sense for the title, especially after an emotionally fueled ballad and THE CALL BACK TO THE ASTRONOMER AT THE END OF THE SONG KILLED MY ENTIRE FAMILY, and on the live version of the wind and rain, the final song of ghost quartet, you can hear brittian ashford’s voice waver in a way that’s more reminiscent of hero than the messy yet calm tone of midnight as she says the track order and name, almost in fear of the end that was just softly embraced
how is it that i never noticed that pearl from the subway said that she pictured someone she loved very much before dying who was lying in bed clutching a teddy bear??????
not to be fake deep but side three track four usher part three two three four days and nights of bitter grief our son had fled to new york city with his cello the lady and i slept in seperate chambers as roxie lay dead in the vault beneath us the dead can sing sleep will not come theres a storm in the night theres a storm in the night the dead can sing i gasped and struggled bolted upright in my bed the terrible wind the song of the dead the storm the storm my wife rapped at the door can you hear her throw open the windows let the storm in we dont need moons or stars or god we have the wind the terrible wind my wifes maddness had grown to epic proportions the only thing that soothed her were fictions stories from our vast library let me read you a story let me read you a romance i will read you will listen and this terrible night will pass let me read you a romance i will read you will listen and this terrible night will pass i opened the book read the title book seven chapter ten the tale of pearl and the pusher and the subway driver and the photograph pearl stood on the platform playing a game on her phone trying to beat the boss at the end of the level and theres a man on the platform screaming about the apocalypse and behind her under the raving she heard the echo of a footstep and beneath me under the raving i heard a footstep in the house in the game on the platform pearl stood on the platform playing a game on her phone trying to beat the poss at the end of the level and the boss was a bear a great big bear how will you defeat him pearl went to the option menu selected the silver sword and theres a man on the platform screaming about the train coming pearl raised the silver sword struck the bear on the side and the bear shrieked and the bear shrieked a shriek so harsh and horrid and piercing and beneath me under the raving i heard a shrieking my little girl my little girl this has all happened before deep within the house of usher i heard a flashbulb rip and the dead stood in the doorway roxie theres blood upon my robes and the dead girl leapt upon her mother and her daughter and her sister and her lover with the rage of four generations and lady ushers heart burst exploded within her chest pearl stood on the platform battling the bear the bear breathed fire the bear had acid in his honey pot and the train was coming and the train was coming and the train was coming and the train was coming and the man on the platform screaming about the apocalypse the man we know as the pusher took a last drink steeled himself got behind pearl he got behind pearl and the pusher couldnt help himself and the pusher pushed pearl onto the subway track pushed me into the path of the screaming train i fell onto the track and everything slowed down all color got a little gray do you hear it do yoh hear it her footstep is on the stair i saw the train howling towards me its light was dazzling blinding i tried to climb out for just a moment but then i stopped i stopped and listened to the train the heavy and horrible beating of her heart she shrieks i tell you she is outside the door we have to put her living in the tomb and then i looked onto the platform and saw rose back from the dead standing there with her camera i lifted my head and smiled smiled for the camera you know that moment right before you die is such a gift because you get to choose exactly what goes through your head what your last song will be i thought of someone i love very much smiling in bed clutching a teddy bear and then i let the train rip through me
I’ve posted the Top 50 Musicals over the last couple of days, and now it’s time to look at all shows that have been submitted - 275 in total! Thank you for participating and submitting your lists, this was great fun
The scores (given in brackets) were calculated as follows: #1 received 10 points, #2 received 9 points,…, and #10 received 1 point, resulting in 55 points per entry/list. Incomplete and anonymous entries were discounted.
I ranked the musicals up to #102 (16 points), all shows which scored 15 points or less are merely listed. The logos you can see here represent musicals that weren’t mentioned even once.
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