People being like “How can you change your body??? God made you that way for a reason!!!” then TAKE OFF YOUR GLASSES KATHY GOD WANTS YOU TO BUMP INTO A TABLE
Obvi I'm pro-orig stuff but Mamma Mia! is maybe the best musical ever. This lady's like, "I had 3 delightful flings right around the time of your conception, no clue who ur dad is!" And her kid's like, "how FUN! let's make this a lil GAME!" and then they sing ABBA songs. 10000/10
Consider, for a moment, calming down about trans and queer people existing peacefully and instead being mad about vans of masked nazis trying to kill us
NEW: A U-Haul with masked neo-Nazi white supremacists was pulled over near a Pride event in Idaho— an officer said they were detained en masse on suspicion of conspiracy to riot and had weapons in the truck, per
@thedailybeast
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Do you know what is so FUCKED UP??? Not only does the Enchantress curse the Beast, she curses ALL HIS EMPLOYEES???? Like what the FUCK??? They had a shitty boss, they were just doing their jobs, and she turned them into TEA CUPS
Hello Pixar, I don’t know all the details yet but it’s a vegetable dramedy about a mischievous scallion who wants to be a rapper. guess what it’s called
"I don't like musicals" - no, you're letting the bad ones drag down the potential of an entire medium full of artists working really hard to tell meaningful stories skillfully woven with music that aren't allowed to see the light of day cause people keep degrading the form
As someone who worked for a crisis hotline for LGBTQ youth and talked to many trans kids, I have to say JK Rowling calling trans identities “luxury beliefs” is a whole new kind of sick. I’ll say her full name in this, I don’t give a fuck.
now that I’ve learned mamma mia’s plot is based on something, I still think the seamless colliding of 2 completely unrelated things is a triumph. If I managed to make a musical with like the plot of Donnie darko and the music of Kesha I would deserve accolades and celebration
What more did you want out of a musical called “Cats”!!!!!!!!! They’re cats, they’re singing and dancing!!!!!!!!! They delivered and if you don’t like it that is 100% YOUR problem!!!!!!!!!
Watching the Last of Us and I’m like, damn, I really just want them to be ok. I want a show that has little to no conflict. And now I am fully understanding why Emily in Paris is so successful.
A Broadway stage is not the place for a creative team’s misinformed learning experience to play out. If a show can’t handle the actual gravity of the topics it thought it would be ~exciting~ to take on, then the team was not prepared to tell this story in the first place.
The fact that there is actually a song called “legally blonde” in the legally blonde musical and they literally sing about being legally blonde? kills me, absolutely stunning
I think a reason many are shaken by the “Broadway’s just a job” candor is the idea Bway is a “gift” actors should be grateful/groveling for allows consumers to excuse systematic abuse & pulling the veil back would reveal too much disturbing shit for them to still “enjoy the show”
I’m sorry but there will never be a Spider-Man movie better than the one where the entire b-plot was Kirsten Dunst getting fired from a Broadway musical for not being good enough
I forgot - how much in Dear Evan Hansen do they follow up on how “You Will Be Found” is actually a tragic song because in reality he was *not* found and he is describing a fantasy? Then show goes on to offer 0 tools on how to actually seek help and support yourself in a crisis?
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@netflix
pls buy my reality show “Easy Bake” where contestants get stoned as hell then compete against each other making complex recipes in an Easy Bake Oven
Even if decades had passed since I last saw her and she looked a little unkempt, I certainly hope I would still pretty quickly realize the beggar woman screaming at me in the street had once been my beloved wife
rainbow capitalism is a slippery slope but Twix coming thru with an entire short film about a gender nonconforming kid and their goth witch nanny is gonna have me eating a Twix today
Is anyone doing a BwayCon panel called "Transphobia on Broadway and Why You Should Stop Telling Me to "Just See the Show First" Cause the Show Is Usually Even Worse Than I Thought It Would Be and You Should Listen To Trans Ppl Before Making a Harmful Show You Then Tell Us To See"
Do they do other musicals at the High School Musical: The Musical school? Like can we get High School Musical: The Seussical: The Series? Is Olivia Rodrigo ready
Me (is terrified of performing, can’t really sing, never auditions, doesn’t ever plan to audition, has no intention of being in musical theater): Oh no, soon I’ll be too old to play Pippin!!
If a show or performance gets cancelled because a cast or crew member's life is in danger, that is a GOOD THING. That means people are being TAKEN CARE OF so they can SAFELY TELL STORIES. I do not want to consume UNSAFE STORIES why would I want that?!?!?
There are a lot of musicals where troubled young men “learn lessons” at underexplored young women’s expense, and it makes me sad that high schools will do those shows.
There is no "trans debate", there's "transitioning is how we keep trans people alive" and then people who hate trans people going "counterpoint: I don't like that"
love tweeting this and being scared I’ll get targeted by a famous billionaire for saying kids in crisis who are thinking about ending their lives because they have no choice in their identity deserve support and compassion 🙃✌🏻
Everything Everywhere All at Once must be nice if you like art to pander, flatter your vanities, authorize your attitudes, preserve you from exposure to anything that is not a positivist jamboree with the pacifying succor of pert little morals—so many readymades—lying in store
You can criticize theater and still love it. You can want the best from it and know we're not seeing that right now. It is only beneficial to challenge what is dangerous in things we love.
John Mulaney is not only responsible for platforming DC, but for yet another wave of cis assholes yelling at trans people that we're overreacting and we deserve this treatment and cruelty. Fuckin sucks!!
Disney remakes are always like “we can’t wait to bring this beloved story you know and love back to life with all your favorite classic songs and also one deeply incongruous contemporary pop ballad that will hopefully win us an Oscar 🤞🏻🥰”
#SB1646
, Perry, which would change the definition of child abuse to include supporting a transgender child with puberty blockers and later with hormones, was just passed to engrossment. Third reading tomorrow.
#TXlege
That show is so *lucky* it has a cast member who dared to be honest about their experience. I WANT to support honest artists!! I will RUN to celebrate authenticity in a business drowninggg in fake smiles and forced positivity!! I am suddenly *enthusiastic* to be in that theater!!
Tootsie winning best book followed IMMEDIATELY by Jagged winning book is a slap in the fucking face. Broadway has no intention of respecting trans people any time soon. Feels fucking hopeless. Look for our stories away from those stages, they’re out there and they’re beautiful.
"But there are no trans writers! There are no trans performers!!"
Um NO there are over 80 trans and nonbinary artists *IN MY INBOX ALONE* right now and I am BLOWN AWAY BY THE TALENT. Literally. I AM OVERWHELMED. I need to plan MULTIPLE CONCERTS.
I muted a post where people had the audacity to tell me "JK actually isn't transphobic, she's trying to HELP trans people" but let me just say as one of many DEFINITIVE examples:
AS LONG AS SHE MOCKS THE IDEA THAT PEOPLE WHO AREN'T WOMEN CAN MENSTRUATE, SHE IS **TRANSPHOBIC**
once again I am begging the broadway community to get together in en masse, in some high profile way, and do *something* to support the trans community
Someone please stop me from writing a musical where the Republican Broadway people try to put on a show that speaks to their values and it fails SPECTACULARLY