Getting friends in to musicals is hard because when they ask what it’s about you have to be like “15 year olds having sex” or “a plant from outer space that takes over the world” or “teenagers killing people for fun” or “Alexander Hamilton”
“7 minorities deal with crushing poverty and the looming specter of death by being a dick to their landlord”
“Sesame Street, but like… for adults”
“This one time in the 1830s a bunch of college students decided to fight the entire French government and…it didn’t go very well.”
“A nun and a retired naval officer fight Nazis with cute kids and the power of song.“
“A couple of guys stage the first-ever musical, and William Shakespeare is kind of a dickwad.”
“A transwoman rock singer recounts her escape from East Berlin in a case of WORST TIMING EVER.”
“It’s based on a John Waters movie…no not Pink Flamingos.”
“It’s the Bible by the guy that did Cats. No, no, it’s like…really angry.”
“Even if you’re struggling with finding your place in the world, you shouldn’t let a group of actors convince you to set yourself on fire.”
“Have you ever wondered how many people have tried to kill the president?”
“How to get away with murder, the speakeasy AU.”
“A only marginally accurate recounting of the opening of Japan to the west, with experimental musical styles meant to imitate the consequent shifting of Japanese culture, told with as little recognizable plot as possible.”
“It’s about how trains probably feel.”
“It’s a guy who’s, like, excessively single and all his friends are married and kind of invasive about it, tbh.”
“Fairytales. And it’s actually dark as fuck.”
“Cannibalism”