thegoosejuggler:

I’ll list three musicals per “genre” with a short summary of each and three songs per musical to give you a sense of the show. 

Spectacular Musicals:
These are musicals with huge, show-stopping numbers with the same feel as all your classic faves. You’ve probably at least heard of all of these.

• Newsies
• Newsboys strike when the prices of papers are raised
• Songs
• Santa Fe
• Carrying the Banner
• Seize the Day
• Anastasia
• Two charming Russian conmen try to pass off an orphan girl as the lost princess Anastasia
• Songs
• My Petersburg
• Once Upon a December
• In a Crowd of Thousands
• Wicked
• The Wizard of Oz told from the Wicked Witch’s perspective
• Songs
• The Wizard and I
• Popular
• Defying Gravity

Subtly Beautiful Musicals:
These are musicals without much flashy production value that just let their songs and stories simmer beautifully. For all of these, you really need to hear the whole show, but I’ll list three songs as a good starter.

• The Last Five Years
• The story of a doomed relationship told from two perspectives simultaneously, backward and forwards
• Songs
• Still Hurting
• The Next Ten Minutes
• If I Didn’t Believe in You
• The Band’s Visit
• An Egyptian band is sent to a tiny Israeli town by mistake and must spend the night there
• Songs
• Omar Sharif
• Something Different
• Answer Me
• Fun Home
• The story of a woman finding her identity and making sense of her relationship with her father
• Songs
• Ring of Keys
• Maps
• Flying Away (Finale)

Popcorn Musicals:
These are musicals to listen to and turn off your brain–the sort of show you can watch while munching on popcorn.

• Legally Blonde
• A ditzy blonde follows her ex to Harvard (not as sexist as it sounds)
• Songs
• Omigod
• Better than Before
• Take it Like a Man
• Heathers
• Two high schoolers go on a murder-spree
• Songs
• Fight for Me
• Our Love Is God
• Seventeen
• Catch Me if You Can
• A young man leads an FBI agent on a wild goose chase, assuming many fake identities
• Songs
• Live in Living Color
• Don’t Break the Rules
• Goodbye

Super Popular Musicals:
These are the musicals everyone always talks about. You probably know about them, but maybe you were never quite able to get into them, so here are songs do introduce yourself to them.

• Hamilton
• The (fictionalized) story of the life of Alexander Hamilton
• Songs
• Aaron Burr, Sir
• Satisfied
• The Room Where it Happens
• Dear Evan Hansen
• A teenager with anxiety finds himself in an unexpected situation when a classmate commits suicide
• Songs
• Waving Through a Window
• Requiem
• Only Us
• Les Mis
• The musical follows both a group of French revolutionaries and Jean Valjean, a supremely moral convict
• Songs
• Red and Black
• One Day More
• On My Own

Dark Musicals:
These are musicals that do not hit all the peppy beats typically associated with musical theater–have tissues handy.

• Spring Awakening
• Repressed 19th-century German teens try to cope with their burgeoning sexualities and the realities of their worlds
• Songs
• Mama Who Bore Me
• The Bitch of Living
• The Word of Your Body
• Next to Normal
• The story of a mother coping with depression and how it affects her family
• Songs
• Another Day
• My Psychopharmacologist and I
• I’m Alive
• Bare: A Pop Opera
• Two gay boys try to navigate their relationship at Catholic boarding school
• Songs
• You and I
• All Grown Up
• Bare

Unusual Musicals:
These are musicals that don’t quite fit in any other category. 

• Bright Star
• A young, ambitious man crosses paths with a woman, causing her to reminisce about her life
• Songs
• Bright Star
• Woah Mama
• Sun is Gonna Shine
• A New Brain
• A young composer is sent to the hospital after collapsing, causing his family and friends to rally around him
• Songs
• Frogs Have so Much Spring
• Sailing
• And They’re Off
• Great Comet
• A pop-opera version of an excerpt of War and Peace–a young, engaged girl attempts to elope with a married man
• Songs
• Prologue
• The Ball
• Balaga

afloweroutofstone:

tilthat:

TIL a rodent that was believed to be extinct for 113 years casually showed up on the handrail at the front porch of an ecolodge in Colombia and let researchers photograph it for two hours before disappearing into the night, after which it was never seen again

via reddit.com

Sneaky boy

nicoleartist:

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siobhanblank:

siobhanblank:

been watching livestreams of US news channels lately and

1) they have a LOT of commercial breaks

2) i didn’t realize that ads for medicine were actually like this

ppl keep reblogging this and asking “well what are the medicine ads like in your country” and like…there aren’t any? It’s literally illegal to advertise prescription medicine here?

All of America: God I wish that were me

So who’s gonna tell the Not America part of the world about our legal ads for class action lawsuits against drug companies.

*deep breath* the whAT NOW?

Yep. The ads run on tv like

“Hi. This is Rathford and Tyson law firm. We’re representing a class action lawsuit on behalf of people who were prescribed sybelifex for their asthma. It turns out that sybelifex can cause spontaneous bleeding from every orifice and also super cancer. If you or a loved one has been affected by sybelifex, please contact us at xxx-xxx-xxxx or go to our website at sybelifexmurderedmydog.com.”

Those are totally normal here.

If you or a loved one has been affected by Mesothelioma, you may be entitled to compensation. CALL NOW to see if you qualify!

Oh my god I heard it in the commercial’s voice.

welcome to america

I spent a week in America at a crappy motel and that was like, the bulk of the adds. “If you or a loved one has diabetes you may be entitled to compensation”

Were the other half car commercials?

starfleetrambo:

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It’s an hour to midnight here… who wants to hear about another odd story?

hhh ok

apparently, strange things have happened surrounding my grandma’s death.

tbh, aside from a happy dream I had on her funeral, I don’t remember much of it. These were all based on what my mom told me years later.

I was about four or five when she passed away. I don’t remember if she suffered at all. Maybe she was just good at hiding it from me and my siblings. A few days after she died, I had a dream she stepped into the kids’ room (my little brother was also there). She was looking the healthiest I’ve ever seen her, wearing her best clothes and her favorite jewelry. 

She was also smiling really big. She said she wanted to take us to McDonald’s. I was starting to list out all the things I wanted to order when I suddenly woke up.

Time skip more than a decade, while sharing random anecdotes with my mom over a cup of coffee, she told me about something odd that happened when they brought grandma’s remains back to her hometown (we kept switching to different topics and somehow it went to my grandma’s funeral). While aboard a large passenger ship, me and my brother disappeared for a whole hour which ended up involving the crew doing a full sweep of the ship only for us to come back by ourselves. When my parents asked me where we were, I only told them we were playing with grandma.

If that weren’t a shock already, I also told them she was hanging out in the ship’s cargo hold with a guy wearing a white uniform. I was not supposed to know that her coffin was kept there. She said that was the single creepiest thing she’s ever heard me say.

I honestly have no recollection of this. 

My mom neither spoke of nor visited her grave for years. I never asked her why. She only went back to her hometown when my grandma’s cousin passed away and that was the first in a long time she saw the grave again.

The cement covering her grave as well as the tombstone was cracked in half. There was a tree growing out of it. 

You might think it’s cool but you see it’s kind of different here. A tree growing out of a grave can only mean one thing. Grandma never rested in peace. 

renoa:

pr1nceshawn:

her friend is so embarrassed they’re never ever having sushi again