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⌈ Secret Post #2189 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

Speaking as someone who has seen both Phantom (on Broadway and the West End) and Les Miserables (West End and community theatre) onstage--more than once, even--I get kind of twitchy when theatre fans bitch about "the masses." The masses are what keep dinosaurs like Phantom and Les Miserables running; without tourist dollars, Phantom would have closed by now, and the original Broadway production of Les Miserables has been closed for years. I live in neither New York nor London, and currently can't afford to travel to either place, even though I'd like to. Also, I doubt every actor or actress currently on a Broadway or London stage was born in London or New York, some of them were probably born in Topeka, and their love of theatre might have been born in a poky high school production of Oklahoma. For every thousand screechy renditions of "On My Own," Broadway or the West End probably gains one or two new actresses. They have to come from somewhere. I get being pissed at having a fandom invaded by newbies obsessed with the sex appeal of people who aren't actually that good of singers, but Les Miserables at least won't flood the internet with paens to Gerald Butler's "sexy rockstar voice." Jackman may have done a terrible job of imitated Colm Wilkinson, but he won a Tony, so he's not hopeless, unlike every lead in Phantom with the exception of Patrick Wilson. And one more thing--don't try and be a snob about any of the British invasion, jukebox, or Disney musicals, because the Sondheim fans will all glare through their metaphorical monocles at you.

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT but it sounds like they'd be fine with tourists. It would be those who never bothered to visit that would be the problem (in their esteemed opinion, of course).

My HS drama club had one talented girl and two talented boys. The rest of the girls carried stuffed animals around, wrote on their sneakers, claimed to be related to Hanson (alright that was only one of them) and thought it was funny to give you a ~*random!!*~ answer like "toaster" when you asked them what time rehearsal let out. (Being ~*random!!*~ showed how creative you were and was very popular.) The rest of the boys were there because they were friends with the two that had talent. I kept telling myself that the three talented kids and the college application boost made it worth it.

[(Anonymous)]

Either we went to the same high school or this was a common thing. We had a Hanson who sort of looked like them (it was most unfortunate on a girl) and she told people they were her "father's sister's kids" and that she had only met them once. Upon people realizing that her father's SISTER'S children were unlikely to also have the last name of Hanson, this story was never told again.