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Watch the episode of Sesame Street starring Lin-Manuel Miranda, "It's a Habitat". Miranda plays "Freddy Flapman", a bird real estate agent trying to convince Big Bird to migrate to a new habitat.
It's absolutely wonderful, and Miranda gives it 110% all the way. Even his initial entrance is hilarious. He literally pops up from nowhere when Big Bird mentions it's kind of cold.
(Not really nowhere, but it's so funny to think of him scrunching behind the table while the other actors are doing their thing just so he can suddenly pop up on cue.)
Miranda did quite a bit on Sesame Street and The Electric Company, actually. That was my introduction to him because we have small kids.
Honestly? I think so! Eponine's love was unnoticed and unrequited. And she died pretty quickly after we got to know about it. Not like a lifetime of regret and unsatisfaction.
I stopped reading the book when the three men decided it would be a hilarious lark to fuck off an leave their girlfriends/fiances on their own. Like, Fantine wasn't even alone in that bullshit, she was just the only one who was accidentally pregnant all the time.
Yes, gentlemen. That was HILARIOUS. Good for you. Assholes.
Cosette doesn't have just one gentlemen caller. In addition to Marius, there is an older gnetlemen. Roughly 40? His name is Felix, and he thinks there's something familiar about Cosette when he sees her in her window.
For about a half second, she thinks he's pretty. Then, well, enter Marius and THANK GOD.
My experience of Eponine is forever modulated by the first staged performance of Les Mis I watched ... in which the actress playing Eponine had clearly simply decided, as her own canon, that Eponine was absolutely bad-ass.
She belted out "On My Own" as an anthem, without changing a note or a word: It can be read as completely void of self-pity. "I know he doesn't even know I exist. Of course I know. You think I'm an idiot. Still. I love him, and if that means loving him without having him? Hell yes. I love him, but only on my own."
Everybody says (and with much justice, reading straight from the libretto) "Oh, Eponine ... whatever. She's just sort of there to whine and be useless, right?" ... and I end up sputtering, saying "But ... but ... you don't know! She's the heroine! Don't you see?"
But seriously, try to find a video of Sesame Street - Frankly It's a Habitat ... it may be a challenge with YouTube taking it down sometimes, but try to search for "Sesame Street Miranda" or "Sesame Street Habitat" or something like that.
Miranda does a number of really catchy rap songs about different bird habitats and it's a lot of fun and a bit heartwarming.
don't modulate the key to ... soemthing .. with me. That's adorkable.
ReplyDeleteThomas Jefferson's coming home ...
ReplyDeleteThen refuse to debate with me
ReplyDeletehttp://genius.com/Lin-manuel-miranda-alexander-hamilton-lyrics
ReplyDeleteI'll listen to it at least twice before looking up lyrics. :-)
ReplyDelete/does not get Hamilton/
ReplyDelete~You'll be back~
ReplyDeleteI will send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love!
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Now that you've been sucked in, you will never be satisfied.
ReplyDeleteTrying to sing along with Satisfied, though...hey, at least I'm not trying to sing along with Guns and Ships...yet...
ReplyDeleteI want to be able to sing along to guns and ships. But there is no way.
ReplyDeleteMisha B Annotations are pretty great!!!
ReplyDeleteWhy can't I plus George Austin ! Now i can.
ReplyDeleteWho lives, who dies, who tells your story?
ReplyDeleteSomething happier: HELLO MY NAME IS ELDER PRICE
ReplyDeleteWELCOME TO THE CLUB
ReplyDeleteIt happened in the silence after. That's ... unexpected.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, now for a musical about friendship and love and NOBODY DIES.
Obviously Les Miserables, then.
ReplyDeleteNobody wants a world in which I listen to two sad musicals in a day.
ReplyDeleteBesides, for Les Mes, there's the question: 25th anniversary, 10th, international, or original broadway?
Too many options!
I'm pretty sure he was taking about RENT, Issac.
ReplyDeleteRent now makes me think about Say A Little Prayer, makes me think about the relief of drying and being held by Davey Cruz makes me tear up a little.
ReplyDeleteSean Leventhal Dude. Lafayette. Is. Impossible.
ReplyDelete.. where the roofs are thatched with gold.
ReplyDeleteDamnit. This one is sad, too.
ok. I need something happy to listen to. I'm still sad during "Man Up". That's not supposed to happen.
ReplyDeleteSo....cabaret?
ReplyDeleteJoe Zantek Maybe. I don't actually know Cabaret!
ReplyDeleteNo no no. Phantom of the Opera
ReplyDeleteOh God do not listen to cabaret then.
ReplyDeleteListen to Mayhem of the Music Meister.
Or Bye Bye Birdie. 90s tv movie recommended
Hm. All the Mormons and I'm still sad. I wonder ...
ReplyDeleteIs the cure for the Hamilton blues to listen to more Hamilton?
One way to find out.
The cure for Hamilton blues is to go on YouTube and watch Lin Manuel Miranda dorking his way around the media circuit like a goofball.
ReplyDeleteWatch the episode of Sesame Street starring Lin-Manuel Miranda, "It's a Habitat". Miranda plays "Freddy Flapman", a bird real estate agent trying to convince Big Bird to migrate to a new habitat.
ReplyDeleteIt's absolutely wonderful, and Miranda gives it 110% all the way. Even his initial entrance is hilarious. He literally pops up from nowhere when Big Bird mentions it's kind of cold.
(Not really nowhere, but it's so funny to think of him scrunching behind the table while the other actors are doing their thing just so he can suddenly pop up on cue.)
Miranda did quite a bit on Sesame Street and The Electric Company, actually. That was my introduction to him because we have small kids.
That just made me start choking up.
ReplyDeleteok, I'm trying Les Mis. I know it so well it should only have a healing effect on me. Because ... the truth that once was spoken ...
Yep. "Lovely Ladies" has mostly cheer me up: Come on Captain, you can wear your shoes. Won't it be a change to have a girl who can't refuse?
ReplyDeleteDon't they know their making love to one already dead?
Cheery!
You know, there was a little fall of rain on my drive home today.
ReplyDeleteIts the night that ends at last!
ReplyDeleteTo belatedly answer a previous question - any version which includes "Empty Chairs and Empty Tables".
ReplyDeleteWent with tenth, because of the post-epilogue where they redo one more day in a dozen languages. OMG.
ReplyDeleteAll I know is that when Japanese Valjean showed up on TV I had to do a double take because he was Iron Chef Chairman Kaga.
ReplyDeleteEVERY WORD HE SAYS IS A DAGGER IN ME
ReplyDelete.,, Yep, happier than Hamilton.
Honestly? I think so! Eponine's love was unnoticed and unrequited. And she died pretty quickly after we got to know about it. Not like a lifetime of regret and unsatisfaction.
ReplyDeleteDying is easy. Living - that's hard.
My feelings about Eponine will forever be tainted by the fact that all of my dramatic girl-friends as a teenager thought they were her.
ReplyDeleteI love him, but only on my own ...
ReplyDeleteSadness. I'm all sniffles, and its a sniffles to which I am accostomed.
Also, everyone's story in the novel is harsher. Hugo is a mean bastard to his fictional people.
Hamilton as apocalypse world, with the psychic maelstrom as the King of England?
ReplyDeleteLes Mis as AW, with seeing the face of god as the psychic maelstrom?
I stopped reading the book when the three men decided it would be a hilarious lark to fuck off an leave their girlfriends/fiances on their own. Like, Fantine wasn't even alone in that bullshit, she was just the only one who was accidentally pregnant all the time.
ReplyDeleteYes, gentlemen. That was HILARIOUS. Good for you. Assholes.
Oh, Cinnamon Bunny , then you don't know!
ReplyDeleteCosette doesn't have just one gentlemen caller. In addition to Marius, there is an older gnetlemen. Roughly 40? His name is Felix, and he thinks there's something familiar about Cosette when he sees her in her window.
For about a half second, she thinks he's pretty. Then, well, enter Marius and THANK GOD.
Oh my god. Ew.
ReplyDeleteJust now -- literally this second -- I realized I should have put a trigger warning on that.
ReplyDeleteMy experience of Eponine is forever modulated by the first staged performance of Les Mis I watched ... in which the actress playing Eponine had clearly simply decided, as her own canon, that Eponine was absolutely bad-ass.
ReplyDeleteShe belted out "On My Own" as an anthem, without changing a note or a word: It can be read as completely void of self-pity. "I know he doesn't even know I exist. Of course I know. You think I'm an idiot. Still. I love him, and if that means loving him without having him? Hell yes. I love him, but only on my own."
Everybody says (and with much justice, reading straight from the libretto) "Oh, Eponine ... whatever. She's just sort of there to whine and be useless, right?" ... and I end up sputtering, saying "But ... but ... you don't know! She's the heroine! Don't you see?"
Neat! And, Eponine is definetly more heroic than Cosette, who never takes positive action in her life.
ReplyDeleteBut seriously, try to find a video of Sesame Street - Frankly It's a Habitat ... it may be a challenge with YouTube taking it down sometimes, but try to search for "Sesame Street Miranda" or "Sesame Street Habitat" or something like that.
ReplyDeleteMiranda does a number of really catchy rap songs about different bird habitats and it's a lot of fun and a bit heartwarming.