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[bookelfe]

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

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[copinggoggles]

I was lucky enough to see the recent revival with Alan Cumming on Broadway

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Becca, unless you go back in time and switch with me, we can no longer be friends. >:|

[bookelfe]

I can only hope you will forgive me in time, because this is a thing I CANNOT DO. *clings to precious memories*

(Athough ahahaha I am also slightly terrified to realize that my definition of 'recent' here is 'over ten years old.' @___@)

[bookelfe]

It is true! Musicals are a broad category. (Though even with the most over-the-top and ridiculous ones, I think there is always a part of me that just revels in the ginormous spectacle of it all in a totally unironic way. THERE, I HAVE CONFESSED.)

[innerbrat]

I unironically love ridiculous things. I'm Kurt like that.

[gramarye1971]

I used to be much more into musicals than I am now, but I'm still fond of my favourites, even if I'd generally pick tickets to a play or an opera over a musical. The shows I like most these days are the very self-aware ones, like Avenue Q and Jerry Springer: The Opera or even the South Park movie, that are more meta than musical when all's said and done. But you could still get me into the theatre to see The Lion King or The Who's Tommy, I'll never not get choked up a bit during 'Anthem' from Chess, and if given the chance I would play Javert in a cross-cast production of Les Miserables without the slightest hesitation or embarrassment.

[bookelfe]

It's honestly a bit weird to me that most of the things I've liked best this year have been straight plays; I used to be the person who would opt for a musical over ANYTHING. (And in my heart I think I really still am mostly that person, I have just broadened my horizons a little.)

Also: YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU HAVE JUST DONE, because I am now determined that if we are both ever at D*C at the same time I am talking you into being a Javert to my Enjolras >:D THE ULTIMATE IN NERDERY

[gramarye1971]

if we are both ever at D*C at the same time I am talking you into being a Javert to my Enjolras

...well, I'm sold on it. ^o^

[bookelfe]

WE'RE DOING THIS. *____* The epic hat and hilarious vest are reasons IN AND OF THEMSELVES. I also vote giant cardboard signs reading things like "DO YOU HEAR THE PEOPLE SING" and "I AM THE LAW AND THE LAW IS NOT MOCKED!"

(I think we have found the one set of costumes more ridiculous than Newsies.)

[arefadedaway]

but the truth is I have absolutely no ironic distance from Les Mis. I could try to make myself look cool by pretending but the truth is that every time I see it live I get that throat-tightening wanting-to-cry-for-no-reason feeling that for whatever reason only emotionally manipulative musical theater ever brings out in me.

YOU UNDERSTAND ME

YOU UNDERSTAND ME

*fistbump of completely unironic musical solidarity*

I feel you, lady, I do. Les Mis is my unabashed favorite for that reason. Also practically anything by Sondheim, but especially Into the Woods and Sweeney Todd (ALL MY LOVE FOREVER), and Rent, and whooo boy so many.

[bookelfe]

COMRADE! *fistbump of REVOLUTIONARY MUSICAL FERVOR*

Sweeney Todd almost made it up into these top five! But I decided one Sondheim was probably enough (though really there is never too much Sondheim) and nothing can inch out Into the Woods for me. IT'S SO EXCELLENT THOUGH.

[e_mily]

I was into musicals even before I worked in theatre. *_*

Also, I am an unapologetically unironic huge fan of Andrew Lloyd Webber.

[bookelfe]

Haha, I probably did all the theater stuff in high school and college because I was into musicals really. (Still my dream to work on costumes for a production of Les Mis!)

OH ALW. My love for him . . . has a strong ironic tinge to it, I will admit. *giggling* That said, I can still sing more huge chunks of most of his musicals than I like to admit even to myself.

[e_mily]

It's a divided love.

I love a lot of his stuff. But I also hate a lot of his stuff. Especially the "I need more money" stuff. But a lot of the early bulk of his work? Oh ALW.

I. Um.

MayormaynotbeabletosingtheentiretyofthePhantomminusnotesIcan'thit. And very close with Joseph, and JCS.

[bookelfe]

Oh man, Joseph was another one of those shows that I spent six months listening to every night as I went to sleep, and is therefore buried somewhere terrifyingly deep in my psyche FOREVER.