Hamilton and other Broadway memes

I’m done.  I’m not dealing with this anymore.  I’m not really interested in doing anything with trading because of this.  I’m just…  So annoyed ugh.  I won’t be gifting (at least temp unless under special circumstances with DEH or BMC) since this has just bothered me too much.

If you happen to see a YouTube video or something with the full boot, please post this (or something similar)

Reasons for NFT and selling (repost)

29/04/18 - Hamilton West End on Instagram: We see you #PhilipTour. Hey @/hamiltonmusical Broadway Company. We’re calling you out. #SoYouThinkYouHamDance. (Credit: @/ghaney22 @/johnnybishop_1 @/lesliegbowman @/liagiven & @/curtisangus)

My first master of Hamilton from the 13th March 18

Hamilton the Musical-13th March 2018

Victoria Palace Theatre

Inspired by younger me, because I used to wear my dad’s clothes, which he wouldn’t wear ever again. I was a weird kid ok?

But the horrible person, I am I made some angsty Lams shit out of it. 👌🏼

What she means: Anastasia’s Stay, I Pray You is a remarkable, heart-wrenching piece on multiple levels. First is the fact that it is a quiet yet powerful nod to the Russian tradition of waiting by the door before a long journey; passengers are called to board the train, Vlad murmurs, “We should go,” and yet everyone pauses and looks on, off beyond the stage to the land, the home they’re leaving behind. They stand, some sit, all performing this Russian ritual of waiting before going off on their trip from which there will be no return. In the practical sense, this custom helps the traveler remember if they’ve forgotten an item they need; in this case, it lets these refugees remember their home, lest there come a day when they look back and forget even a single detail of their harsh and sweet and bitter time in Russia.

Secondly, the fact that Constantine Germanacos starts off the song (with nothing but vocals, letting his words and call for a moment be the sole focus at first); this is important because he not only plays the ill-fated Count Ipolitov but also the late Tsar Nicholas II, Anastasia’s father. In the Prologue and Once Upon a December, we see Anastasia/Anya dance with her father, and each time he bends down on one knee while she dances around him. Count Ipolitov gets down on one knee and kisses her hand. This is the prelude to Stay, I Pray You: Anya, in a way, connecting with her father from a lifetime before one final time. This introduction connects her (and us) with the past, ties together Anya’s previous life and current, before she sets out to find her future. Before they all set out to find their futures.

Thirdly is how true Stay, I Pray You is to the experience of leaving home, of leaving Russia. The entire spectrum of emotions is captured in this song. They all wonder, how could they possibly leave, how could they justify to their home that they can’t be there any longer? And so they beg for a minute- not to explain themselves, because they can’t even know where to begin; rather, they ask for a moment to do all that they can do: say goodbye. Goodbye to all of Russia, to the natural and the man-made; Russia’s native rivers and greenery, the bridges constructed to knit together a sweeping land, to a sky that should be the same everywhere but very much isn’t. They can’t ever look up at the sky the same way, because it won’t be from their native land, amongst all they’ve ever known. And though they ask how they can possibly break the tie, that’s all they do- ask, but don’t attempt it in this song, because for now all there is to do is remember and say farewell.

There was joy and sadness, as there is in life; the singers are honest, do not exclude anything negative from their experience in Russia because then they are not saying goodbye to all of Russia, all of their home. And through it all, through scars that won’t ever go away, they will bless and love and thank their home for the rest of their lives.

Anya, Dmitry, and Vlad further this trend of capturing every emotion during this farewell. Anya says “Never to return,” which we know to be a source of sadness for her not just because of the song Stay, I Pray You, but when she insists to Vlad “Russia is more beautiful” than France. She still loves it, it’s always a part of her, and to leave forever is something she has to face as one faces any other heartache. Dmitry, however, sees it as “finally breaking free,” because to him life in Russia is one of hardship; refugees can relate to this, and understand that remorse and fear of the unknown can coexist with an eagerness and readiness to flee a place. Vlad asks “how to close the door,” a nod to the lives they all had in their homeland.