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he'd keep being like "darry darry throw me!!!" and then darry tosses him out into the water and pony comes right back and begs darry to do it again

He would. Sometimes he’ll hit the water particularly hard and get a little bit winded but give him two minutes and he’s just …🧍‍♂️ Darry. Again.

Oh god. I’m currently in the middle of a re-read as I was too busy taking notes the first time to actually take it all in lmao. So I’ll go off what I recall/have been reading through.

For favorite I’m stuck between

When they gang save Pony and are introduced. It’s a nice little moment of getting to know everyone but also their dynamics as they hang out a little bit. Also the line that’s like “You just don’t cry around Darry. Not unless you’re hurt as bad as Johnny was and compared to him I wasn’t hurt at all” goes crazyyyyy

But I think my ultimate favorite scene towards the end is when Pony’s head trauma and trauma trauma come to a climax and he was genuinely going to use that bottle on a soc. The “you’re not like us” hits hard. How pony losing this sort of innocence and goodness the others lost a long time ago hits them, how pony barely recognizes it. And it doesn’t just come out of nowhere or his head injury, some of it does but it’s been brewing for a LONG time. In the early chapters he has this resentment and anger that the other guys have and it’s growing, he’s still largely himself and different but it’s there. It’s only a matter of how he’s going to react to that trauma/anger/being grease… he even talks about how he’s a little scared because he doesn’t want to cut himself off like Dally, make it a joke like Two bit or just live with it like Steve etc etc. But then he’s so tired… hot whomped in the head and he’s internalizing Dally’s rant and it’s *chefs kiss*

I’m a little scared honestly because I’ve seen people be real weird about it no matter what you like 😭

I will say shipping is not my top priority here so I don’t have many and dunno if I’d write them or not

Jally fascinates me and their relationship textually helps a lot. No matter what way you interpret it- absolute brain worms.

That being said Dally and Two bit could just be straight up fun to explore as an idea. Two of the older boys who tend to be loners, I dunno.

Not a ship but Pony’s crush on Cherry is adorable.

Hi hello!! Thank you so much!! I love yapping about them, obviously.

(And also thank you for creating AMAZING ask prompts!)

7. Do you have a favorite lighting/ sound effect from the show?

Honestly, I think it has to be the red light for Buck Merrill’s place! I remember being particularly struck by it at La Jolla and being so glad they kept it for the Broadway production. I think it just is so different from everything else in the show, and it’s so striking and memorable.

9. Favorite bit of choreography/ staging?

Hello my dear friend! How you flatter me 🥹

I actually just answered 9 and 12 in my last few posts, ironically enough 😂 HOWEVER

19. Do you have any other musicals/ musical theater songs that always remind you of The Outsiders?

Oh boy howdy I sure do! It will probably be easier to limit this question to songs that remind me of certain characters, so here we go:

Ponyboy: We Raise Our Cups and If It’s True from HADESTOWN, Corner of the Sky from PIPPIN, Those You’ve Known from SPRING AWAKENING

Johnny: Not While I’m Around from SWEENEY TODD, Don’t Do Sadness from SPRING AWAKENING

Darry: No More from INTO THE WOODS

Sodapop: I’ve Been from NEXT TO NORMAL

Two-Bit: Drink With Me from LES MISERABLES, Nobody from BANDSTAND

Dally: One Song Glory from RENT

Ponyboy & Johnny: For Good from WICKED

Cherry, Marcia, & Bev: A Soft Place To Land from WAITRESS

The Gang: Boho Days from TICK, TICK…BOOM!

12. What's a song/ line/ scene that you have an emotional reaction to basically every single time?

Okay, so this one was REALLY hard because there are so, so, so many moments that really hit home for me. But I decided to go with a line that I never really hear anyone talk about, which is when Bob points at Ponyboy after Cherry breaks up with him and says: “You’re fucking dead, loser.”

Because to me, that’s the beginning of the end. That’s the moment where it’s clear that Bob’s going to make sure Ponyboy doesn’t get to get away with talking to his girl. To me, that line means it’s no coincidence that the Socs come across Pony and Johnny in the park. They were out looking for them that night. And it feels so ominous to me every time Bob says it, knowing what’s coming next.

14. What is something you are glad is different in the musical from the book or movie?

yes I agree

Ty for presenting this hc to me

(Me too let’s be fr)

extension on this: he defo like when he gets them it’s like the kind where you can barely form a sentence because all you can think about is how bad it hurts.

if somebody even *breathes* in his direction while he’s got one, it makes it worse

he can like sense when they’re coming so like when he wakes up in the morning he can go “my heads gonna hurt later”

he refuses to take medicine for it and WILL lie and say he’s taken something just to escape having to take it for reals

he gets them randomly sometimes but they usually come from him being stressed