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Confiar, esperar, soñar y despertar

Confiar, esperar, soñar y despertar

Después de mucho tiempo, manteniendo barreras a la confianza, dando lo que se recibe, sintiendo superficialmente, encontrando en la amistad, en el amor alado el mejor refugio, tan lejos de una intimidad real como del sueño por alcanzarla, siendo tan racional y tan sutilmente feliz con ello, he errado de nuevo. Ha pasado pocas veces. Cuando el compromiso es total, después de muchas precauciones,…

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“I chose and my world was shaken

So what?

The choice may have been mistaken

The choosing was not

You have to move on”

(Move On, Sunday in the Park with George)

I found THEIR song!! “The choice” references Mike letting Will leave his house on November 6, 1983. “The choosing was not”….asking Will to be his friend and joining him on this adventure. Mike would do it all over again in a heartbeat, but they have to move on in order to heal. It’s time to put the past behind them and embark on their next adventure.

****I am in no way saying Will’s (or anyone else’s) feelings are invalid, but you cannot dwell on the past. The Upside Down will be stuck on November 6, 1983 until Will Byers accepts his past and looks bravely towards his future. Only then, can they begin to heal.

Sweeney Todd (2007)

Director: Tim Burton

Cinematographer: Dariusz Wolski

Tech Specs:

Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1

Cameras: Panavision Panaflex Millennium XL, Panavision Primo Lenses Panavision Panaflex Platinum, Panavision Primo LensesL

Negative Format: 35 mm (Kodak Vision2 200T 5217, Vision2 500T 5218)

Cinematographic Process:

Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format)

Super 35 (source format)

This is their entire dynamic

“When I showed [Stephen Sondheim] the finished film, he said, ‘You treated me gently and royally, for which I’m grateful,’” says [Lin-Manuel Miranda]. “And then he wrote me and said, 'But the last phone message to Jon, the language feels a little trite. I don’t feel like I would ever really say that. Can I rewrite it?’ I was like, 'Gosh, a rewrite from Stephen Sondheim — do I accept this?’”

There was only one problem — [Bradley Whitford] had already wrapped his work on the project and was unavailable to re-record it. Sondheim offered to record the new version for Miranda, and it’s his voice that audiences can hear in the final cut.

“It makes me weep to even think about,” gushes Miranda. “Because he was such a mentor to Jon and generations of songwriters. But yes, he rewrote that message and recorded it himself and just sent it to me." (x)

as always when a famous jewish person passes, i feel the need to restate that the correct jewish honorific in death is “may their memory be a blessing”

i don’t even know how to explain to non musical theatre people that we genuinely just lost shakespeare — i can’t even think of another comparison that may even remotely come close. there was no one like him and there never will be. a league of his own, the greatest of the greats.

I think that modern renditions of Sweeney Todd should have the shop have a cringy hobby lobby sign saying “our secret ingredient is our people” for a smidge of dramatic irony.

Also you’re a liar if you think that Mrs Lovett wouldn’t be a tacky live laugh love decorator.

Day 12. Scribbly as heck because the show on Friday is kicking my butt, but I did it anyway. HA HA TAKE THAT EXCUSES

Oh god I want to die right now.

(Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett, somewhere between stage and film)

Angela Lansbury - Sweeney Todd

Stephen Sondheim 🤝 Dave Malloy

Interrupting an incredibly dark story of murder and revenge with a song that's 100% silly wordplay about different types of people

They disappoint, they disappear,

… they die, but they don’t.

They disappoint in turn I fear, 

… forgive, though, they won’t.

SOMEONE NEEDS TO UPDATE THAT ONE SONDHEIM MUSICAL QUICK

So I remembered Sondheim existed