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Whizzer voice: I was trained in karate

@sincerely--you

I love Ben Platt
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jeanduck

Reasons why The Great Comet shouldn’t close

1. The staging is magnificent

2. THE LIGHTS LIKE H O L Y S H I T

3.  Denée Benton

4. DUMPLINGS

5. EGG SHAKERS

6. Lucas Steele

7.  lucas steele’s butt

8. the hardworking amazing ushers

9. the music directors. idk how they do it really

10. *clinks glasses with audience members*

11. WAIT first we must sit down

it is a russian custom

12. accordions. accordions everywhere

13. Anatole’s jacket

14. Prince Bolkonsky’s powdered wig

15. Sonya is the original cinnamon roll

16. Marya = chaotic good

17. strobe lights

18. GLOW IN THE DARK PROPS

19. theatre to club back to theatre in three seconds

20. The entire cast works very hard every night to ensure everything goes well and runs smoothly. With all the running and the stairs I’m impressed. It really sucks that this groundbreaking production has to close early. I’m very fortunate to have seen it. 

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concept: radio city music hall. i just won my award for best actress. i smile and thank my family, the atw and my fellow peers. i then thank my wife. i pause for a moment, then grin. my wife’s expression turns from glowing to scared. i take the mic and say, “finally, id like to thank the unsung heroes of musical theatre: those who sit and record bootlegs”. chaos erupts. my wife starts crying. the upper mezz is on fire. andy mientus and lmm faint in their seats. patti lupone shakes her head at me. my wife hands me the divorce papers. the atw takes my Tony and gives it to bette midler for her role in the tenth revival of dolly

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fun fact: in the original version of falsettos, mendel was never given a last name. in the script, when he picks up the phone in please come to our house, he’s supposed to just say “yes?” but brandon uranowitz wasn’t satisfied with that, so he wrote in “this is mendel weisenbachfeld” to remind all of us that mendel is Very Jewish

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get you a musical who can do both

Hamilton: I catch a glimpse of the other side. Laurens leads a soldier's chorus on the other side, my son is on the other side! He's with my mother on the other side! Washington is watching from the other side! Teach me how to say goodbye, rise up, rise up, rise up, Eliza... My love, take your time. I'll see you on the other side.
also Hamilton: I'm a general! Wheeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Spring Awakening: All things he ever lived are left behind. All the fears that ever flickered through his mind, all the sadness that he'd come to own.
also Spring Awakening: Bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla, bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla. Totally fucked
Spelling Bee: I think Dad is angry, Mom, and I do not know what to do... I think he takes out on me what he wants to take out on you. Mama, Mama, Mama! How I wish you were home.
also Spelling Bee: My unfortunate erection is destroying my perfection
Next to Normal: Do you wake up in the morning and need help to lift your head? Do you read obituaries and feel jealous of the dead? It's like living on a cliffside, not knowing when you'll dive. Do you know, do you know what it's like to die alive?
also Next to Normal: Valium is my favorite color
Dear Evan Hansen: I guess I wanted to believe, 'cause if I just believe, then I don't have to see what's really there. No, I'd rather pretend I'm something better than these broken parts. Pretend I'm something other than this mess that I am, 'cause then I don't have to look at it.
also Dear Evan Hansen: iF i sTOP SmOKInG CrACK-
Falsettos: What more can I say? How am I to face tomorrow, after being screwed out of today? Tell me what's in store. Yes, I'd beg or steal or borrow if I could hold you for one hour more.
also Falsettos: I'm bitching, he's bitching, they're bitching, we're bitching, bitch bitch bitch bitch funny funny funny funny bitch bitch bitch bitch bitch bitch
Great Comet: So easy to close off, place the blame outside. Hiding in my room at night, so terrified. All the things I could have been, but I never had the nerve. Life and love I don't deserve!
also Great Comet: says the mean old man in his underthings
In the Heights: "Alabanza" means to raise this thing to God’s face and to sing, quite literally, “Praise to this.” When she was here, the path was clear. And she was just here! She was just here...
also In the Heights: he's packing a stretch limousine
Groundhog Day: I thought the only way to better days was through tomorrow, but I know now, I know. Yes, I know now that I know... nothing.
also Groundhog Day: suck my balls i'm out
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Natasha is young

Denée Benton as Natasha Rostova 
Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812
I guess this marks the start of another series of musical theatre portraits! Who should I draw next from the cast? Send me an ask and let me know!
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What she says: I’m fine What she means: I came out to my parents when they discovered gay porn on my computer while I was at my friend Nicole’s house choreographing a hip hop dance. I was shocked because I thought they already knew but, I got a call when I was like, mid shoulder-brush, from my mother being like, “Where are you?” and I was like “I’m at Nicole’s house!” and she was like, “You need to come home now.” And I went home. I can’t believe i’m telling this story. Anyway, I went home after we finished the dance. She drove me home in her Infiniti SUV and I walked into the house and it’s pitch black, and I just see the like back-lit shadow of my mother in the corner of the kitchen just like…

She brings me down and rather than having a nice “let’s talk about this”, she starts like bringing up, she starts like opening up all the websites and I don’t know what to do and I’m like: “Ew what is that? That’s disgusting!” Meanwhile I’m like: “Yep Tuesday, yep Wednesday, Thursday I didn’t do anything, and Friday.” And like my dad comes downstairs in his tighty-whiteys and is like “Bran, If it’s yours, just tell us.” Well, hold on, hold on. They found this like weird fax, like a document nobody recognized and I was like: “Well, obviously someone hacked into our computer!” And they believed me.

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