#avengingactress92

I think it’s a combination of “maybe this time...” but also the inevitability. I go to Hadestown and Titanic when I need a good cry because I know what I’m about to put myself through, and that’s the best part of tragedy, in my opinion--despite how very sad those shows are, I always feel better after I’ve seen them, because catharsis. I confess I’m partial to the NYTW cast recording of Hadestown so I’ve only ever heard that version of the finale but I love how stripped down it is.

smells like a new au

Ooooh, that’s a thought. Honestly I think Booker when we last see him in the film does not have the self-awareness Pierre displays by the end of the song, but one of the things I love about Great Comet is that “Dust and Ashes” comes less than halfway through the show and Great Comet itself ends about halfway through War and Peace—for everything Pierre realizes about himself, about life, through the course of that story, there’s still space afterward. I do like that in regards to Booker. With a preternaturally long life, he still has space to get better.

the finale of In the Heights is one of the GREATS, “you hear that music in the air / take the train to the top of the world and I’m there / I’m home” is one of the best last lines of a musical ever.

Oh this is one of my favorite posts. Orsino is allergic to shirts!

I worked for the theatre department at my undergrad and got two free tickets to every show, so I saw about ten shows a year for free plus whatever was touring through my city plus whatever the opera theatre was putting on, and it breaks my heart that I live so close to all of those places again and can’t go to any of them (although it’s a problem Shakespeare would recognize). Very best of luck with graduate school! And thank you for yelling with me <3

Sweeney Todd is probably my favorite Sondheim but I also never listen to it for that exact reason, and you are absolutely correct about Johanna.

Great Comet was robbed full stop, but best score especially!! Site-specific shows have been adapted for tour and if I have faith in anyone I have faith in that creative team, so perhaps there’s still hope! I personally would like to be Marya Dmitrievna.