*_* thank you so much for linking this to me, I really enjoyed it, tremendously.
I think my favorite part was how Hades… shapeshifts the entire time? that part where he was like a monster-looking dude at first, but before he stepped into the shaft of light where she could see him, he looked thoughtful and turned into a man? And he kept looking different the more he spent in her presence? falling in love with a lonely big monster man with a handsome voice, THAT’S THE STUFF
I love how its take on the myth, that it’s really Demeter who needs to accept the change, and everybody is trying to get her to accept it. Zeus and Hermes are hilarious. Hades throwing shade about Zeus not understanding love. The costumes are gorgeous. I’m so happy….
I’m updating my list of musicals I’ve seen live. Looking forward to adding to this after next year’s Muny season!
Aida (2x)
Avenue Q
Beauty and the Beast (3x)
Cats (2x)
Fiddler on the Roof
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Grease
Hello Dolly (2x)
Holiday Inn
Into the Woods
Jesus Christ Superstar (2x)
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (like 80x I swear)
The Lion King
The Little Mermaid
Mama Mia
Miss Saigon
The Music Man
Oklahoma!
Once Upon a Mattress
Peter Pan
Pippin
Singin in the Rain
Spamalot
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Wicked
The Wizard of OZ
Young Frankenstein
time to eat chips and watch The Mask. who needs new movies anyway?
i hate “accurate” shakespeare productions where all the actors are white guys. the reason women didn’t act in his plays was because it was illegal in that time obv due to misogyny, and we don’t want that to carry over. there were characters of colour that shakespeare specifically wrote. for example, othello was a part for a black actor and yet there r MODERN productions of othello where othello’s actor is a white dude in blackface.
shakespeare would be thrilled if he knew that modern productions of his works featured diverse casts, complete with not only female actors, lgbt actors, and actors of colour, but interpretations that have been tweaked to showcase modern issues that black communities, gay people, women, etc. face.
if you want to do something, do it. a midsummer production where they’re all lesbians? a romeo and juliet production depicting racial tensions? a twelfth night production where viola is and is played by a trans women? shakespeare’s ghost will give u a thumbs up. (plus his works are out of copyright so u can do whatever the hell you want with them whether he’d want you to or not.)
Would the Takarazuka all female theater be enough? Cause they pretty much do ANYTHING especialy Shakespeare:
Oh yeah I mean, look at Van. He’s dear to my heart but is absolutely just gay tragedy porn. A product of what was unusual representation at the time perhaps, but still. In addition to the other concerns like not doing anything better in recent works.
Right. I mean for the time it was decent! It was, at least, present. And growing up I really latched onto them for that reason, but you want stuff like that to continue to grow with you and it just hasn’t. She’s still alive though so you can always say maybe. Me being me I would really want to see her do a lesbian couple in the Elemental Masters series because gay fairy tales are Always Good.
I’ve never considered the dragon thing but hey why not, consider it
canon now that femmy don’t drank.
As for Elf man… yeah it’s just shallow lol he’s a pretty elf dude/one
of the characters who’s actually old enough to objectify. I’m no
stranger to weird adoption of relatively minor characters myself! But
yaint wrong
LOL
I know part of it too is that the designs were available for a long time before the show came out. (also obviously I also have a habit of latching onto the most minor characters too!)
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