if amber gray was singing about how outrageously attractive and how i should show myself off i would simply fall in love with her. rip to natasha but i’m different
the biggest crime in great comet was that Natasha's affair was with Anatole (the most basic white fuckboy to walk the earth) and not Helene (literally Amber Gray)
I texted my friend the link to this and the following conversation happened: Her: Wait she ends up with Natasha right? Me: Well, no Her: WHAT THE HELL WHY NOT ME: BISH IDFK
When she says Chamante (french for pretty) she pronounced it incorrectly (the e at the end shouldn't be heard). Is this trying to prove how she isn't as sophisticated and fancy as she thinks she is?
In Russian novels you'll often find characters who make a show of speaking a little bit of French, like “comme il faut” and “mauvais ton.” When the characters speak French well, the author will show the French phrases in French. If the character doesn't speak French well, the phrases will be transliterated like "komilfo" and "movyeton."
@cheezedoodlezz 1020 You pronounce it more when you sing it than when you speak it, yes, but it'd still sound nothing like it does in the song-"charmante" should sound like "sharmantuh" if sung correctly, but in making it "ay" instead of "uh" they're showing that the character is trying to seem sophisticated without having the knowledge to back it up. (An "ay" sound in French would need an accent, so would be spelled "é," not a normal "e.") Amber Gray, of course, is pronouncing it exactly as it's meant to be pronounced for the song, and knocking the whole thing out of the park :)
me after watching this video: in case you hadn't noticed, i'm gay. i'm a lesbian. i'm not "straight," and i don't want to be "straight." have you ever seen me not being gay? that's gay!
Ria also Anatole and Dolokhov make out a little bit at the beginning of Balaga! I love thinking is their reconciliation after their argument at "Preparations" cuz after that, they're just dancing and singing together happily as if nothing had happened
Anatole is Hot yup actually Dolokhov apologized to Anatole for being mean during preparations then Dolokhov starts kissing his neck and they make out lol
Yeah, I saw her as Eliza in Hamilton. It’s amazing to see her center stage where she belongs( she’s an amazing actress and singer, even though it’s hard to tell since she’s in the ensemble here)
Now I've got to decide whether I want to buy this version of the song or the version from the Off-Broadway cast album. So many subtle differences, I can't decide which I like better!
Alli Stull so late to the party here, but I'm eternally curious why they changed the pronunciation of "Moscow" for Broadway. It's like that in the entire show, so it's clearly not just Amber Gray thing, but I've never seen anyone address it.
I GOT THIS FROM GENIUS AND ITS DAVE MALLOY'S WORDS. A lot of people have asked about why the pronunciation of Moscow changed between the two albums, from “MosCOW” to “MosCOH.” Many of these questioners propose that one or the other is incorrect; and many find either “COW” annoying or “COH” pretentious. A quick hop through your friendly local internet rabbit hole will quickly tell you that either pronunciation is technically “correct,” or that indeed either pronunciation is in fact “incorrect,” as Russians say Москвá, or “Mosk-va.” Which can then just send you down a whole weird hole of trying to understand why languages change the names of places in other places in the first place, and then why so many American immigrants anglicize their/their children’s names, and then but actually why is it so hard to pronounce/remember things that don’t use your language’s sounds, and then longing for Esperanto, or that amazing children’s language that literally uses EVERY SOUND from every human language ever, and shouldn’t all kids be learning that, ingraining those sounds in those critical early childhood development years, and then so many of the world’s problems would be solved in 50+ years, and we would all roll our Rs and pitch our words like songs and do cool clicking sounds, and we could just tear down all the borders, all the walls, oh but still keeping each culture really preserved and intact and honored and loved, but somehow not diluted, what with the whole borders being gone thing and then entropy in general and when all the colored sand mixes together you just get a kind of dull ugly gray/(grey!) that doesn’t really inspire any kind of celebration of life or sublime contemplation of beauty or enlightenment, and what is wrong with us humans anyway? I grew up saying “MosCOW,” like a good midwesterner (my Bostonian wife still cringes at my use of the word “pop”); but in doing more and more research for Comet, I noticed that more English-speaking Russians (and both national and international news sources) seem to say “COH” than “COW.” And I just find “COH” more beautiful (ie less midwestern dipthongy). So that’s why! (Slightly related to this is people asking me why I’ve misspelled “Andrey,” as opposed to using the “correct” “Andrei”, “Andre,” or “Andrew”; But again the only correct version is “Андрей”).
quick question: does anyone know how amber does her hair? I've been trying for ages but i just can't get it right. anyone knows? btw: yES MAMA AMBER WE'RE GAY FOR U
