Little Shop of Horrors: An alien plant arrives on 1960s Earth, convinces a man of feeding her a dentist, eats him and goes on a rampage for world domination.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show: A pansexual alien transvestite builds a living sex toy, kills an undead delivery boy and is murdered by one of his servants after promoting a cabaret Floor Show on the basement of his spaceship-castle.Sweeney Todd: A barber and a piemaker are partners in crime. He’s a serial killer and she bakes meat pies filled with the flesh from his victims.
Les Miserables: A man can’t find a decent job for being an ex-convict, breaks his parole and is stalked for the rest of his life by a police inspector.
Wicked: Wizard of Oz fanfic that turns out to be better than the original material.Don’t forget:
West Side Story: Romeo and Juliet but with greasers
The Lion King: Hamlet but with lions
Chicago: Woman avoids murder charge and becomes a famous jazz singer by pretending to be pregnant and smiling a lot
The Frogs: God of booze tries to resurrect a playwright in order to save the world from…frogs????
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat: The Bible feat. Elvis
The Book of Mormon: The Bible feat. Homosexuality
Rent: The Gays’ rent is too damn high
Mama Mia: Dancing queen, young and sweet, only 17, sings Abba
Tag: theatre geek
songs that have an amazingly catchy and cool tune but really uncomfortable lyrics
I think we’re all thinking of the same thing but don’t dare speak its name for fear of summoning it.
The-song-that-must-not-be-named
We don’t talk about it
ARE THOSE BLURRED FUCKING LIMES
For me it’s every Eminem song
About 75% of Avenue Q.
this is my future
Yeah, but did you hear about this?
The audience member was catcalling all the female actresses and then started shouting homophobic remarks at one of the actors. That’s how the fight started, and after the audience member was removed from the premise, the actors carried on as if nothing happened.that makes it even better
source?
Source. The whole thing sounds exactly like a Christopher Guest film written to intentionally mirror the plot of the play (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof). The fact that the Big Daddy actor was the one who got violent! And the Brick actor quit in solidarity! And there’s continued drama about a whisper campaign to defame the Maggie actress, and debate about whether the heckler was a friend of hers and whether she was “on his side” all along! Presumably the Mae and Gooper actors are off-stage surreptitiously tweeting about the whole thing in an attempt to fan the flames and suck up to the producer.
I have so much love in my heart for the “source?” reblogs for shit that has to happen on at least a weekly basis somewhere in the world. Like, are you unaware that things like this occur on the reg, or did you try to google it and come up with five thousand results in the past year?
*sees broom*
*picks up broom*
“TELL THEM HOW I AM DEFYYYYYYYYYING GRAAAAAVITTYYYY”
*starts sweeping broom sadly*
“There is a castle on a cloud…”
*holds broom horizontally*
“Never need a reason, never need a rhyme. Up on the roof top step in time!”
*sweeps broom angrily*
“IT’S A HARD KNOCK LIFE!”
*begins waltzing with broom* I could have DAAAAANCED all NIIIIIGHT
*hits broom handle on the ground and tap dances* LOOK AT ME! IM THE KING OF NEW YORK!
*gently places broom against a wall* I’m the belle of the ball in my own little corner!
*broom starts dancing of its own accord*
BE.
OUR.
GUEST!so apparently musicals have a thing for brooms huh
Had fun on Twitter this morning with one of the Reduced Shakespeare masterminds.
Jessie Mueller and Laura Benanti sing “Agony” from Into The Woods at Miscast 2015 (x)
Brandy Norwood as Roxie Hart
(photo via majorcurtains)
Apparently my director went to see a production of West Side Story a few years ago, and the guy playing Chino forgot his gun before coming out for his final scene. Once it got to the big scene where he is supposed to shoot Tony, he screeched “Poison Boots” and kicked the actor playing Tony until he went down. The girl playing Maria then had to jerk the shoe off of Chino’s foot, and had to do the gunshot scene asking “How many kicks Chino? How many kicks, and one kick left for me”.
There should be a blog dedicated to theatrical urban legends. Like that opening weekend of Dracula where Dracula (still hungover) vomited all over the audience during the first stage direction that everyone has a friend of a friend that worked on the show and was there.
or the one where the bridge never came out for Javert’s suicide and so he just pretended to stab himself and then lay there until the lights went out
best story i heard was when a friend of mine saw a show where juliet forgot to bring the dagger out on stage so she just ripped the squib out of her chest and blood squirted everywhere
During a passion play a friend of my brother was supposedly in, one of the roman soldiers who was supposed to stab jesus on the cross and accidentally grabbed the wrong spear- he was supposed to grab one with a fake tip, but instead he grabbed one with an actual metal tip and, well
Jesus screamed “JESUS CHRIST YOU STABBED ME”.
Since that Jesus had to be taken down due to a bad case of stab-itis, the backup Jesus came in, but he weighed significantly less than the original Jesus- which would have been fine, except that at the end the cross was supposed to ascend upwards with Jesus on it, and the weights hadn’t been adjusted.
So Jesus, instead, ROCKETED UP into heaven (or, just, above the stage).
This is wild from start to finish
Well, basically there are two sorts of opera,’ said Nanny, who also had the true witch’s ability to be confidently expert on the basis of no experience whatsoever. ‘There’s your heavy opera, where basically people sing foreign and it goes like “Oh oh oh, I am dyin’, oh, I am dyin’, oh, oh, oh, that’s what I’m doin’”, and there’s your light opera, where they sing in foreign and it basically goes “Beer! Beer! Beer! Beer! I like to drink lots of beer!”, although sometimes they drink champagne instead. That’s basically all of opera, really.
Maskerade (Discworld) by Terry Pratchett (via lucybeetle)
Kimchi and Justice 