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Forgiving yourself is peace
things in musical theatre that always gets me that I realised during a road trip
- that bit in waitress, “you’re my dOCterr”
- the harmonisation in what’s inside
- when dawn goes “I’m not defensive!”
- that bit in hamilton where everyone sings over each other in non-stop
- “I hope that you… burn”
- when john sings the rise up bit in my shot
- “SIT DOWN JOHN YOU FAT MOTHER F*CKSTICK”
- Angelica. everything she says and does.
- the choir in once upon a december
- “hey balaga, ho balaga, hey hey ho balaga, hey hey hey balaga, the famous troika driver”
- Lucas Till going “WOOoooOOooOOooOOOooooOoOOooOoooOOOoooOAH”
- that bit in the duel “DRINK WITH ME MY LOVE, FOR THERE’S FIRE IN THE SKY, AND THERE’S ICE ON THE GROUND, EITHER WAY MY SOUL WILL DIE” - relatable
- and when everyone goes “corpulence”
- honestly everything piere says like yes hand me the existential crisis
- and whenever amber gray opens her mouth goddamn
- when everyone sings over each other in 96,000
- “the only room with a view is a room with you in it”
- literally everything the piragua guy says
- “Hey guys, it’s me! The biggest disappointment you know.” - nina is me
- basically whenever Mandy Gonzalez sings tbh
- in 21 chump street when naomi sings “take the money justin, please just take the money”
- and in cousin where justin goes “looooooooooove”
- in a day in falsetto land when they all sing over each other frick yes
- “AND STILL THE BASTARD DIVORCED ME”
- “EVERYTHING WILL BE ALRIGHT” and then when you realise it won’t be
- “god you’re a pAIn in the aSS”
- literally whenever the lesbians from next door speak
- when they harmonise in “the tango maureeeeeen” in tango: maureen
- when joanne goes “so be wise ‘cause this girl satisfies”
- all of seasons of love, every version, it’s beautiful and iconic and frick if that song didn’t define my childhood
- when kevin goes “i’ll do something inCREDible that blows gods frICken mIND” in you and me (but mostly me)
- “I CAN’T BELIEVE JESUS CALLED ME A DICK”
- the harmonisation in poor thing
- when everyone sings together in arabian nights
- the genie’s rendition of tale as old as time - petition to get James Monroe Iglehart to sing a full version
- “Why shouldn’t I fly so far from here?”
- heather chandler going “you’ve come so far why now are you pulling on my dICK”
- allllll the harmonisations in candy store
- and blue
- in come from away when they go “I am an Islander”
- when bev mimicks the wwii pilots “Hey lady, hey baby, hey! Why don’t you grab us a drink?”
- and then, “well they can get their own drinks” and that cute lil laugh after
- “suddenly there’s nothing in between me and the sKYYYYYYYYYYYYYY”
- “And that’s how we started speaking the same language”
- when everyone is praying together holy shit that moves me every time
- “cause I’m freaking out, you’re freaking out and we’re all 👏 freaking 👏 the 👏 fuck 👏 out”
- anytime someone says “you are there and I am hereeeeeeee”
- “hot towel, hot towel, c o l d towel?”
- in legally blonde, elles voice crack when she says “some girls were just meant to smile”
- “and with the chance I’ve been given I’m gonna be dRIvEn aS hELL”
- “with fear and shock and aWEEEEEEE”
- when they’re all singing at the end of blood in the water
- the entirety of Ireland and the reprise
- the blatant subtext jokes in take it like a man
- “ ‘cause i feel so much better than befOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRE”
- in Miss Saigon “and now I’ll leave remembering heRRRR,, just heeeeerrrr”
- tbh whenever the engineer has a solo, I mean he was an arsehole, but it was the only fun thing in that musical
- “I still believe he’ll come for me” - kim, my heart, my only wish was for her to happy and safe goddammit
- the literal entirety of “ascot gazette” in my fair lady
- and show me
- “READY, AIM, FIRE!!”
- the humming in wouldn’t it be lovely
- allllll of heaven on their minds in jesus christ superstar, it’s literally the only song that hasn’t been done wrong in any version
- “HOSANA, HEY SANA, SANA, SANA, HOSANA, HEY SANA, HOSA N A”
- “JESUS CHRIST, SUPERSTAR, DO YOU THINK YOU’RE WHAT THEY SAY YOU ARE?”
- also everythings alright
- okay there’s so much for newsies so this’ll be short but “Newsies on a mission! Kill the competition! Sell the next edition! We’ll be out there, CARRYING THE BANNER”
- “strike! strike! strIKE STRIKE STRIKE STRIKE STRIKE OOOOOOOOOOOH S T R I K E”
- dear evan hansen in waving through a window going “WAVING, WAVING WOAAAAAAHHHHHHH WOAHOHOHOH”
- “has been hard (hard) has been bad (bad) has been rough. (KINKY!)”
- “if I stop smoking crACk”
- alll of you will be found
- “DONT BE A PENIS THE MAN IS A GENIUS” - iconic from something rotten! every. fucking. time
- all of it’s hard to be a bard
- in do you hear the people sing “IT’S THE MUSIC OF THE PEOPLE WHO WILL *NOT* BE SLAVES AGAIN”
- “who am i? TWO FOUR SIX OH ONEEEEEEEE!”
- “AS LUCIFER FELL”
- frick literally all of les mis is iconic
Okay that’s pretty much all I got through before my phone went flat and then the trip was boring but yeah