tay !!

name: tay

current obsession: the guy who didn’t like musicals: reprised, smosh

what i post: fanart and textposts!

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fav characters/people at this exact moment in time:

jon matteson and basically every character he’s ever played (starkid)

damien haas of smosh. he’s so funny. wtf

REPRISE SPOILERS!

8-10-25

okay so i was right because holy shit? some notes heading into this

- they took some of jeff’s songs down a key and kept some the same but he is a FORCE on stage oh my god. genuinely sounded amazing the entire time i gotta give him props because i loved ALL OF HIS SONGS this time around. mind you i’ve only ever really liked two since i saw the show for the first time FOUR YEARS AGO

- yes okay fine i get show stopping number now. both because 1. it’s SO MUCH BETTER IN PERSON and the changes they made were insane and 2. will branner is insane on stage but i fear we knew that. he does play hidgens incredibly well but are we surprised? no

- let it out. oh my GODDDDDDD

- i love this cast man. i love what they do with ted and bill, charlotte’s somehow even MORE dorothy-y than she was in the og, curt and mary-kate did great work, and fuck it lets rank this

1. let it out - THE SET. THE SETTTTTTTTT and the song of course, amazing. choreo, amazing. curt didn’t opt up like jon did at the end BUT he did hold out an insane note (aka the “it” and “out” were the same note) so i can’t even be mad, they have different vocal ranges. the ending went fucking crazy. THE SET

2. this one’s hard now! wow okay let’s go with america is great again because i loved a lot. how they march in through the aisles and onto the stage in unison. no blood pack for ted :( but the choreo is really cool and dramatic. there’s almost a freeze frame with paul and emma reaching out towards each other as the infected drag them apart…like chefs kiss. so good

3. show stopping number (what? the song i said would shoot up shot up? crazy) mkay like i said already it is so much better in person. i love will and what he does with hidgens so much. i dont think i have a better word for this, but he kind of plays him like a babygirl if that makes sense? like for the “mind if i give you the pitch” line he’s standing off to the side looking pitiful it’s really funny um he and ted have like a surprising amount of tension here so that’s something, corey knows the choreo, the aliens have no fucking idea what football is (jeff mimics golf, corey mimics basketball, it’s great), oh and when they rip his guts out it is way more graphic because they gave him a rib cage. five stars

4. inevitable - so they confirmed it’s a loop. time loop i mean because emma wears a different shirt for the opening number than her uniform shirt. why? because that’s the shirt she’s wearing at the end! she’s infected! ITS A TIME LOOP also they went through the trouble of having jaime and mary-kate be charlotte and melissa again for this number which i can appreciate because now it’s all significant characters surrounding emma. curt killed the delivery of “the apotheosis is upon us” line. hidgens just straight heaves emma over his shoulder multiple times to carry her i love it. and im just gonna talk about the set because they layer all of the set pieces together to create this conglomerate of the whole story and it’s just so smart

5. la dee dah dah day - frank princely, max, and ruth are here now, so that’s sick. max and whoever jaime’s supposed to be slap paul on the ass. amazing. (this didn’t happen in the pro shot!)

6. join us and die - you know what’s crazy? i’ve watched this show like ten times and know it like the back of my hand, but was genuinely surprised when the paul and emma convo got interrupted by charlotte. i was that invested. but obviously jaime kills it. jeff kills it. oh and THE LIGHTING they actually do this thing where they put blue on their mouths to show the infection and when they light it in a specific way it glows it’s SO COOL. hidgens appears from a terrace to shoot them now so that’s fun

7. what do you want paul - what. how is this up here. easy! it’s like a million times better live. not only is the key slightly lower so jeff can hit the shit out of every note, but they took the comedy up to like 1000% which i thought was impossible. davidson does the too many curves thing but they actually added the “that’s too many!” line into the dialogue. when he’s introduced he slams one foot onto his desk, then the other incredibly loudly and it’s great. best part was definitely this new bit they threw in where davidson is so caught up in what he wants that he starts wrapping the phone cord around paul’s neck, so when he stands up paul starts fucking choking it’s hilarious. also they added a bit where he actually didn’t forget what he was gonna say, just chickened out. jeff is a powerhouse in this song and every song. i love it now. this is insane

8. show me your hands - this one’s fun. the lighting hardcore carries but they add this bit where everyone’s running in slow motion and another where they all look like they’re crammed into a cop car and swerve around. after “her cat is dead” they all go “awww.” i just love the rap

9. the guy who didn’t like musicals - THE TRAIN IS BACK THEY ADDED THE TRAIN BACK GUYS. um this was super hype just because it’s the opener. choreo was very fun, murder dabbing is gone. also they use rollie chairs to spin the girls around in near the end. they really like chairs in this production lemme tell you

10. not your seed - i heard they made this higher, but i think they kept it in the same key for mary-kate because it sounded the same. uh idk, i love mary kate but there’s usually just something about mariah that makes this number hit for me. they do have this really sad part where she’s leaning into bill and bill just looks devastated. also the aliens pick up the gun and give it to bill now, so that’s horrible

11. you tied up my heart - jeff’s wig fell off lmao. this was actually good. lighting does so much for this show i swear. there are comedically long pauses between sections of the bridge. this was the other one they lowered for jeff btw

12. copc - it’s like exactly the same. the customers (including pete now) do slump to the ground, then reanimate which is cool. but like other than that no changes

13. corc - again, the same.