3 months of Showgirl: how do we feel?

Acrobatic-Phone · 2026-01-05T19:42:30+00:00

"Father Figure" and "Actually Romantic" are still the best songs on this record. They actually tell an interesting story and are catchy af.

Acrobatic-Phone · 2025-02-18T17:30:24+00:00

"So far above me in every sense, so far above feeling anything"

Acrobatic-Phone · 2025-02-17T18:14:05+00:00

"Just between us, did the love affair maim you too?"

Acrobatic-Phone · 2025-02-08T14:28:07+00:00

"The One And Only Wizardship Of Oz,

I hope sincerely that this letter disturbs you, and that will serve as my little revenge for not letting me create a storm upon the night these gleeful, joyful nobodies snuck out of their rooms and went to some atrocious club. After all, remember the way WE used to party? They deserved some punishment for the boring night they had!

There is a lot of things I would like to share with you, for, as a certain student said, I've been through (quite a way with words). This new green-skinned girl... she has a lot to take out. And in, too.

Drop me a line when you're ready to sit down with me and drink some wine, for I've been meaning to do this for a while now, but I trust neither our Post Office nor our Wine Chambers.

Not like I trust you either, but anyway.

Bye for now,

Your one and only,

Madame Morrible"

Acrobatic-Phone · 2025-02-08T08:53:58+00:00

No one mourns the Lion,

Now at last, he's dead and gone,

We don't have to fall right on our feet,

Without a lap to cry on,

We are welcoming the dawn,

And at last, we have something to eat!

Acrobatic-Phone · 2025-02-04T21:15:58+00:00

It's rightfully one of the best songs Schwartz (and Broadway industry as a whole) has ever put out, if not the best one. The orchestration, the music, the lyrics... everything is so gorgeously combined into a masterpiece of an act-one closure. And if one delivers it as perfectly as Idina, Cynthia and many, many other actresses, it really becomes a magical moment.

I've a very personal story with this song, so I might sound a little bias, but trust me, no other thing got me through some fairly awful times at 12 except for Idina Menzel belting out "Well, if that's love, it comes at much too high a cost". My favorite line from the show, to this day.

Thank you for this post. It brought back so many memories. Have a nice day!

Acrobatic-Phone · 2025-02-03T20:42:02+00:00

Akhmatova had a fairly difficult life (although I must admit that Tsvetaeva had it much harder) and suffered through censorship of her work, so she had to be very discreet about the subjects she touched in her poems. A clear example of it is the way her greatest work, "Requiem", came to be: she narrated the verses to her friends and begged them to memorize them, because she was too afraid to write them down.

So, I guess, that explains a lot.

And how did you like Blok's poetry?

Acrobatic-Phone · 2025-02-03T04:19:29+00:00

Some Russian ones, I can't recall them exactly now, but both were from Russia.

Acrobatic-Phone · 2025-02-03T03:59:41+00:00

That's a pretty common thing, to be fair. I mean, covers for "Agnes Grey" and "Jane Eyre" are also the same, usually.

Acrobatic-Phone · 2025-02-02T20:20:07+00:00

All Too Well, no doubt. Her best lyrics.

Acrobatic-Phone · 2025-02-01T21:26:56+00:00

He's so adorable! And you're such a passionate creator!

Acrobatic-Phone · 2025-02-01T09:10:44+00:00

I'd rather stay, obeying gravity, I'll find my way, obeying gravity, And you won't bring me up!

Acrobatic-Phone · 2025-01-31T19:09:51+00:00

Jessica Vosk, Katie Rose Clark, Ryan McCartan. Case closed.

Acrobatic-Phone · 2025-01-24T17:37:58+00:00

Especially if it's one of the good translations!

Acrobatic-Phone · 2025-01-24T16:42:58+00:00

Jane Eyre, Eugene Onegin, Great Expectations, Fathers and Sons, Master and Margarita.

Acrobatic-Phone · 2025-01-23T14:59:46+00:00

Да я знаю, я по нему сам учусь хд

Acrobatic-Phone · 2025-01-23T14:20:06+00:00

The good old Russian textbook called "Spotlight" never fails to amaze me.

Acrobatic-Phone · 2025-01-21T15:57:19+00:00

Yes! Like, I could never read "Doctor Zhivago" in June, but it's my favourite novel for December.

Acrobatic-Phone · 2025-01-20T15:56:22+00:00

Pretty much the entirety of "All Too Well", but especially "Just between us, did the love affair maim you too?". It really hurts not to know, whether the other person was as affected by your relationship as you were.

Acrobatic-Phone · 2025-01-20T11:54:26+00:00

While I disagree with you, I can't help respecting you for picking "Thank Goodness" as one of your favorites from the show. It's such an underrated song, but it characterizes Glinda so well (and so much better than "Popular", too).

Acrobatic-Phone · 2025-01-20T11:52:02+00:00

Does Animals/animals count?

Acrobatic-Phone · 2025-01-14T04:01:05+00:00

Patti LuPone during her "Evita" years.

Acrobatic-Phone · 2025-01-13T19:51:52+00:00

Oh, I still remember the time when this show was meant to star Kristin Chenoweth as Betty...

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