I’ll just… never understand creators of musicals specifically making their followers feel guilty for watching a bootleg. Like sure, it’s one thing for creators of movies to be like “Can you please just pay $5 to go to the movie theater to see this so we get paid for our hard work?”. But your tickets cost $1000 a piece because it’s always sold out and require hundreds of dollars in traveling and hotel fees, Lin.
How bout instead of “You’re disrespecting me” try “I’m so sorry you have to watch this shitty quality recording of this art I made that you’re literally dying to get your hands on, thank you so much for loving what I created and I promise I’m trying to get it to you affordably asap so you can truly experience it.”?
But idk, that’s just me.
I’d also like to add:
Why not make recordings and sell them through you, so you get the money you deserve and you art can still be appreciated? If someone can’t afford to go to a show, they probably won’t be able to afford it for the next few years, even if they would save up as much as they possibly can. Moreover, I don’t think that anyone who can afford it would rather buy a recording than see the real deal. With that you would also be able to capture many different shows over the years and still be able to watch musical that have gone out of production for new ones for example, and you could still profit off of them.
In light various recent events and the decades old arguments, I felt this would be a nice game that one can play when actually daring to talk about representation.
Let’s be frank, if you EVER talked about Queer representation anywhere, you WILL have come upon at least ONE of those answers(or all of them). These lines have become the go-to argumentation for intentionally or unintentionally homophobic. At least I at this point heard most of these dozens of times to the point that I can’t take them seriously, at all.
people need to stop attacking teenage girls who write poetry about turning into wolves and having flowers growing in their ribs bc there are literally grown men writing celebrated poems and novels about how much they hate women
I would rather read 20 hours of teen Halsey-like angst than read another story about some dicksack crying about how betrayed he feels because the women he bought dinner for didnt suck his dick
last night I had this dream where everyone hated hillary and donald SO MUCH that we just wrote in Alexander Hamilton’s name and he actually won?? and then this news reporter person was like “The winner of the 2016 Election is Alexander Hamilton but he’s dead, and the scientists are still working on time travel so he can’t actually be president yet” (NEVER GONNA BE PRESIDENT NOW THAT’S ONE LESS THING TO WORRY ABOUT) and then this other reporter was like “wait!! can’t we just elect that man who wrote the musical?” and then the first reporter was like “no, he’s too busy filming a tv show, no one even knows where he is! he might not even be on earth anymore!” and then everyone was desperately tweeting @linmanuel and trying to find him and eventually he showed up the day before Inauguration Day and he rapped his presidential speech. and then he changed the national anthem to the opening song Alexander Hamilton and he made it against the law to NOT know the entire soundtrack so everyone was trying to memorize it
and then my school was the first school to sing Alexander Hamilton (after it became the national anthem that is) and Lin was at our performance bUT NO ONE TOLD ME and I was really mad because I wanted to meet him, and eventually I did meet him just as he was about to leave (he was also leaving in a rocket ship for some reason??) and he signed my phone case and everyone at my school was like “the president signed your phone case!! what the fuck why didn’t he sign mine!!” and I was like “well you guys are the reason I almost didn’t get to meet him because no one TOLD ME he’d be at the choir concert so honestly I think it’s fair.” And then this one student pointed to the football field and was like “whatever. Did you know that this place was exactly where he got shot all those centuries ago?” and I was like “you’re wrong, that was in Weehawken.” and the student was like “ok meet me there tomorrow” but it turns out he actually didn’t want to duel me, but rather use me as a sacrifice to try to summon Lin in front of this A. Ham statue? and Lin showed up and was like “stop hurting her, she did nothing wrong, YOU’RE the reason her heart is broken, she almost DIDN’T GET TO MEET ME.” then the student just ran away and Lin stared at me for awhile and was like “I hate my Vice President. Do you want to be vp” and i said yes and that was about where my dream ended I think
it was wild but in all honesty I would not be opposed to that scenario happening in real life
fun fact about american history: george washington was apparently so sexy that when he was 17 he went swimming a river and some girl that had a crush on him stole his clothes and watched as he walked around naked looking for them
aaron burr, the guy who shot alexander hamilton and also the second vice president of the united states, tried to start an empire out in texas
marquis de lafayette literally had to sneak out of france to come aid america and while some versions of the story claim that he disguised himself as a commoner, other versions say he dressed up like a woman
literally all the founding fathers had daddy issues, specifically alexander hamilton who refused to even befriend george washington initially because he didn’t want to grow close to someone who had the potential to become a father like figure to him
thomas jeffereson kept a bust of alexander hamilton in his house at monticello for no reason other than the fact that hamilton was his sworn enemy and he felt as though he needed a very expensive bust of his sworn enemy in his house
I love all of this please keep going.
they didn’t let hamilton try this one course of study at king’s college because it was so intense that it made one student literally get sick and have to go home for months on end and that student was james madison
starry-eyed 