Three Lesser Known Musical Recommendations · 7:56am Nov 5th, 2022
Copy pasted from my comment on BronyWriter's blog post https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/995303/underrated-musicals-not-musicals
I've got two for you. Shout out to my cuddle buddy for turning me on to the equal parts hilarious, legitimately moving (I cried I admit), and incredibly cleverly and elegantly constructed musical Twisted.
It simultaneously parodies Aladdin, Wicked (Obviously), and the Disney Corporation in general, while still standing solidly on its own merits as well, chronicling the hapless pragmatic and utilitarian Jafar's frustrated attempts to improve the lives of his constituents in the face of, well, you'll have to see. Just read the glowing comments in the trailer:
Then you can watch the entire thing on Youtube for free:
Then you can watch this video pointing out how brilliant its construction is here:
Second one is The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, which got slept on due to the pandemic, but is every bit as good as the first, again exploring familiar relationships through several layers of meta, and a full fledged musical. Here's the trailer:
and the standout track:
Highly highly recommend both!
Oh, a third! Before Hamilton, where Hip Hop is used to tell a historical story, there was Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, where a historical story is used to tell a 2000s emo/punk concept album. (that is to say the music as a style parody is great but the story is way less detailed and cohesive and polished than in Hamilton) shout out to my ex I'm still good friends with for turning me on to this.
Standout song:
playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL13222FB159C4B271
a regional theater staging:
And analysis of the broadway version:
an Aladdin-themed parody of Wicked sounds like a time :D
Andrew Jackson was several levels of incredible, in the original sense of "literally not credible, this is too absurd to have happened"
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Can't wait for like a hundred and seventy years from now textbooks saying that some shitty person who hasn't been born yet was the apotheosis culmination ubermensch highest form of whatever etc. of him and Trump
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Present perfect listen to me and listen to me closely, I need you to do two things. I need you to read Killing Me Softly and am willing to pay you to do so and review it if that's what it takes because I'm extremely proud of that story.
And I need you to watch Twisted you will love it so much it honestly it is like an aragon story in that it is a jealousy and arousal inducingly clever creative elegant and inspired amalgamation of humor and heart and a paragon of art as the Sublime manifestation of human spirit in all its tragedy and Triumph and lust and loss and love. Complete with a song about tiger fucking.
Remember that time Aragon wrote about his neighbor jacking off his dog? The neighbor's dog to be clear. Not Aragon's
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I do, in fact, remember that