i love everything about this musical of course, and it's getting its proper flowers in the comments section, but i really enjoy how nuts this audience is for the MTV broadcast. makes me feel the excitement every time and i bet the actors felt the love too
I feel like no one talks about how impressive Whipped Into Shape is because like? The breath support is crazy and the absolute triple threat you have to be to do that is crazy.
one of the most under-appreciated aspects of this musical is the delta nu girls, especially margot, pilar and serena, they are so enthusiastic about everything and all their actresses delivered amazing performances (it’s my annaleigh bias talking)
48:07 I love this moment so much, as it's the first time someone outside her stereotypical circle that someone finally sees her as a real person. He cracks a joke but the second she starts speaking it hits him that she's not a walking talking Barbie doll and realizes she has goals and emotions.
I remember somewhere in the Midwest, we performed directly before VK. Their #2 Bass pulled a head right then... so we let them borrow our #2 Bass. Our #2 was tuned a third higher than their #1... which made for an entertaining for us (we had seen/heard them 30 times by then). But then...it got better. We grounded our equipment and set blockguards (4 rookies with a death mandate). The VK guy stumbled into the block, to innocently give us back our drum, but our sweet little pit bulls were not having it. Yes, they were stupidly wrong... but god love them, they didn't know the big picture. That, Ladies and Germs, is old school drum corps. That is the blood that modern DCI is built upon. 'Now, on the starting line'.
I’m not joking, seeing Emmet go “oh my oh my oh my ohh myyy ohhh myy GODDDDDD” when Elle proposed gave me levels of satisfaction I didn’t know were possible
Something I’ve always liked about this musical is that near the end when Elle wants to leave Harvard everyone tries to stop her, like literally everybody. It’s like the universe knows that Elle belongs in Harvard.
