Today I took a lightning trip down to New York so my brother and I could take our parents to go see the Into the Woods Original Cast Reunion at BAM.

The show opened with the host asking who'd seen the original Broadway show ... OK, who saw the original and the 2002 revival ... okay, who saw the revival, the original, and the 2012 Shakespeare in ( Read more... )

We interrupt this Yuletide to bring you: SOME OPINIONS ABOUT ( THE INTO THE WOODS MOVIE )

I got my Yuletide fic! It is a TWELVE THOUSAND WORD long Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun fic about the GSNK drama club putting on Hamlet, which is such a shining glory of a premise that I would already feel blessed even if it did not feel exactly like an episode of the show, WHICH IT DOES.

With Pen and Prop

“Then you may like Hamlet! It also has tragic ( Read more... )

December meme, Day 2:
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For December thirteenth,
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Okay, it seems it's about time: let's talk about the proposed Into the Woods movie cast as it looks to stand so far.

Johnny Depp as the Wolf: I mean, this could be fine, although it's weird to me that the Wolf and Cinderella's Prince are not going to be double-cast, because that is kind of an important layer of meaning that you lose. On the ( Read more... )

Today I pulled some very complicated procedures to get enough tickets for my whole family to see Into the Woods in the park! (Second time for me, first time for the rest of them ( Read more... )

First of all, your regularly scheduled reminder: fma_ladyfest signups are closing in two days! We have a multitude of awesome prompts already, and will continue to be ridiculously excited about this upcoming round until you are all sick of hearing about it and probably for a while after that. :D

Second, the last of moonyazu9's top five requests for me: top five ( Read more... )

Wow, it has been over a month since I did one of these Top Five posts! At this point I'm just hoping I get all of them answered less than a year from the time I originally did the meme.

Anyway, lacewood asked me for my Top Five Awesome Ladies, which aside from being impossible to narrow down also has to be distingished from Top Five Badass Ladies (and ( Read more... )

genarti, shati, and bookelfe present: THE REASON WE SHOULD NOT ALL BE ALLOWED IN ONE PLACE AT ONE TIME. (OR MAYBE WE SHOULD BE TRAPPED IN ONE PLACE AT ONE TIME ALL THE TIME. I DON'T KNOW!)

Alternate Title: Being a Presentation by Heroes and Buffy the Vampire Slayer of: Into The Graveyard: Agony: Reprise

( Imagine them shaking pom-poms while they sing. )