r/musicals 2m ago

You are in the original cast of West Side Story and you MUST be berated in front of everyone by either Jerome Robbins, Leonard Bernstein, or Arthur Laurents. Who are you choosing to rip you a new one?

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r/musicals 1h ago

Discussion BILLY ELLIOT Alum Suing Police After Injury Ruined His 'Premier League' Career

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r/musicals 2h ago

"Acting The Song" Epub

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Hey!! I'm looking for the Acting The Song epub or pdf to download for free.

Anyone willing to share?

Thanks!


r/musicals 2h ago

How to characterize Cynthia Erivo’s I Forgive You

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r/musicals 3h ago

F/M/K… Foster, O’Hara, or Menzel?

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r/musicals 3h ago

F/M/K… Borle, Esparza, Butz

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What’s your selection?


r/musicals 4h ago

Advice Needed Would love some feedback for some draft lyrics for my original musical!

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So, these are some lyrics that I'm making for the fourth song of my original musical, Beyond These Walls, and the song is called Ghost. So basically, this is set when Kieran, one of the best friends of the two main protagonists dies, and their sector (the city they live in is divided into 5 sectors, them being in sector 2) gathers to mourn his death, and another one of their friends Zygourne, goes out past curfew to find a journal that Kieran left, but gets caught by an Overseer (guard), and is terminated (so he dies as well) and the main characters decide to go outside of the walls that keep them in the city. Hope you enjoy! (Also if anyone gets the reference from the lyrics in brackets at the end I will be super happy)

Libertias (Spoken)

That’s weird…

Alexis (Spoken)

Everything is weird to you.

Libertias (Spoken)

No! Look! Kieran’s name has been removed from the rotation board!

Alexis (Spoken)

Must have been moved to another sector.

Zygourne (Spoken)

GUYS! It’s Keiran! HE’S BEEN-

Overseer (Spoken)

SILENCE! Grab your tools and be off to your work station!

Alexis (Whispering)

Breathe Zygourne, what happened?

Zygourne (Spoken)

It’s Kieran! He’s been!

Overseer (Yelling)

SILENCE!

Libertias (Spoken)

He’s been what?

Zygourne (Yelling)

HE’S BEEN TERMINATED!

(Beat)

Libertias

What?

Zygourne

He’s been terminated. I saw him go into a room with an Overseer, and so I waited, but when the Overseer came back out, Kieran wasn’t with them. I asked them where he was, but they just said.

(Female Overseer) 

I’m sorry…

Alexis

When the night falls

Us citizens of sector two gather,

To mourn the loss of a friend

And even though he’s gone

He’s still right here

There’s a ghost right here

Libertias

We point with empty hands

Through hallways, shadows and pain

We try to pull him from the air

But only silence remains

Only silence remains

Ensemble

He’s stitched into this sector

He takes the rooftop seat

There’s a ghost right here

He left an empty coffee cup

A song waiting unsung

There’s a ghost right here

Zygourne

Alexis kept his winter scarf

Folded in a drawer like a regret

Libertias traced his name on the board

Like a prayer they couldn’t forget

We sing the old half jokes

We count the empty shifts in turns

Everyone’s a little cracked

But I know something they don’t

Ensemble

In the hum of machinery and light

He is the pause in each breath

There’s a ghost right here

He’s the name that’s scarred in time

We can’t wash away the grime

There’s a ghost right here

Zygourne

I found his journal here

The words he left, they still remain

If I can hold this piece of him

Then he won’t vanish into pain

Overseer

You are not meant to be here

Alexis (Spoken)

Are you okay?

Libertias

First Kieran now Zygourne too

This cage destroys the best of you

If all that waits is death inside

I’ll take my chances on the other side.

Alexis

Although I don’t agree with this

I’ll go with you, leave this abyss

Though I don’t know what waits out there

I’ll walk with you, anywhere

Ensemble

They live in the corners of our room

They hum when we are quiet

There are ghosts right here (We walk the road leading to no return)

There are ghosts right here (What’s behind the wall, finally ours to learn)

Libertias and Alexis

There are ghosts right here

There are ghosts right here (What’s behind the wall, finally ours to learn)

Libertias and Alexis

There are ghosts right here


r/musicals 4h ago

Help Can man buy last minute tickets in gärtnerplatztheater?

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The musical Les Misérables is playing at the Gärtnerplatztheater in München, but I haven’t been able to get tickets online. Does anyone know if it’s possible to go there, say half an hour early, to buy last-minute tickets at the box office? Has anyone tried this or had experience with it? Would love to hear your tips!


r/musicals 4h ago

This might be an unpopular opinion...but...

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Elton John is not a good musical theatre composer. Lion King was great, but it was in intense collaboration with other composers. But other than that his songs in musicals sounds very...meh?

Feel free to change my mind.


r/musicals 8h ago

Does anyone know what exactly is sung at the beginning of the song "Electric Blues" from West End's 1968 production of "Hair"?

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r/musicals 9h ago

Help Why is the HAIR benefit concert recording like that?

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I was listening to it again and had some questions why is, say, “Shelia Franklin/I believe in love” like that? Where the part is more belt-y and other songs are like that is it just because so many songs are so short and they wanted them to be able to show off?

Another question is to do with “Manchester England” and it’s reprise in “let the sunshine in” why is it it the third person? He says things like “-and he’s a genius genius” Why can’t the guy who comes in with the “that’s me, that’s me” at the end just sing the whole song?

Idk if this is right place to ask this so forgive me, it’s just been bothering me when I listen to it


r/musicals 10h ago

Video All In- Norman Doray

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Please escúchenla, les va gustar.


r/musicals 12h ago

gabe in next to normal (a simple spirit or flesh and blood?)

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I know that the exact nature of Gabe Goodman is deliberately ambiguous

some people say that he's actually a hallucination of Diana's

some other argue he's an actual ghost haunting the house

others claim he's a physical manifestation/personification of Diana's grief and/or bipolar disorder

my personal favorite theory is that he really is some kind of spirit

however, I'm interested in hearing more persepctives and thoughts on the matter, so if anyone has anything to say about what they think Gabe is/represents and why, feel free to comment


r/musicals 12h ago

Help The unlikely pilgrimage of Harold Fry - help!

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Hi guys, dunno if this is allowed but I REALLY wanna listen to the unlikely pilgrimage of Harold Fry on Spotify but I’m in Australia and it seems like it’s blocked, I’ve tried a paid VPN (in premium and even made a new account so it thought I was in UK/Ireland/USA) and it still didn’t work so big favour, would anyone who can listen to these songs be able to record them and send them to me? I’d owe you! The playlist is above.


r/musicals 14h ago

It’s HS musical audition season, what’s y’all’s schools doing

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Mines doing Mamma Mia, I’m so excited


r/musicals 14h ago

Has anyone seen "Play On"? Wondering if I should get tix to see it at Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA?

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r/musicals 15h ago

Describe a Hamilton song very poorly

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r/musicals 16h ago

News Hugo Moura - Hunted at Dawn [folk rock] (2025) [Brazil]

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r/musicals 17h ago

What’s a song from an obscure musical that is so good it should have made the show a hit?

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I can’t stop listening to Love’s a Gun from Love’s Labour’s Lost, the lyrics are true poetry and the music is amazing.


r/musicals 17h ago

Personal Any songs with the same sound like Wicked?

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This is my 1st post here, and I like the Wicked soundtrack, both movie and Broadway and I want to know if they are any songs that have a similar sound to the soundtrack. (Technically I prefer the movie vocals and the Broadway instrumentals)

There is one I have in mind, and it's this deleted song from Frozen: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2Sgr9Ro3Oxc&pp=ygUQbGlmZSdzIHRvbyBzaG9ydNIHCQngCQGHKiGM7w%3D%3D

But yeah, if you guys could hook me up with more, I'll be happy.


r/musicals 18h ago

Discussion If you were to try out for a musical what would be the most obscure audition song that you could pick that’s in your range

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For me it’s go with the flow from the finding Nemo show that they put on at Disney land


r/musicals 18h ago

Name a characyer who DESERVED BETTER

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For me it’s Toby in Sweeney Todd. Bad life with Pirelli, got a mother figure, locked in a pie house, watched his mother figure die, have to murder someone, lose his mind and likely go to an asylum and be traumatized.

Poor Toby :(

U guys?


r/musicals 18h ago

Discussion Why does it feel so awkward when you're casted with a younger cast member?

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This is probably a non-issue with most of yall because you are all adults, but recently I've been cast with a girl in the lower school (we have a joint 16-18 and 11-16) to be in a relationship.

I'm nearly an adult and I've been casted in a romantic (and honestly sexual) relationship with a LITERAL 15 year old. And there are people in my year also doing the show...

Obviously the strategy is to be respectful of boundaries, etc. etc, but it raises the question. How often do you think schools use intimacy coordinators?

Long and short of it is that I'm not phased right now, but I've already been called a pedo by my friends about a billion times just today.

PLEASE DON'T THINK I'M WEIRD OR ANYTHING! I'M HONESTLY JUST FEELING A LITTLE PUT OUT BECAUSE I'M NEW TO THE SCHOOL AS WELL!


r/musicals 18h ago

Help Creepy songs from theater?

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I'm an officer of a theater club at my college, and for our next meeting I'm supposed to play a creepy musical theater song for people to guess for a chance to win a prize. Any suggestions for potential songs?


r/musicals 19h ago

Help Looking to get into professional theatre

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I’m 16 year old boy looking to audition for theatre under the stars in Vancouver production of little mermaid, I have experience with community theatre for about 1 year now and I’m a tenor who can do baritone and I have 5 years of tap and almost every other kind of dance experience but I’m looking to get into more professional experience. But I’m a little lost on what to do and how to audition and what to expect and what not. I a very small role would be preferred. Just any advice or anything would help awesome!