It also feels bad when me and one other person are the only active people in a community and I’ve already advertised. I want to advertise again but don’t want to come off as an annoying spammer.

I’m taking the risk I’ll be annoying—I’m specifically referring to !musicals (@musicals or musicals@kbin.social in case the link does not work for you—kbin has been having a bug that makes !communityName@instance links like the one I just wrote not always federate out properly from kbin).

Here’s a non-YouTube link from Playbill.com covering the same thing.

She is the (or at least an) understudy, and was set to be able to return on time. Her delayed flight changed that. I can’t find why the other people capable of covering the role were unavailable.

Not sure why it’s a YouTube video, but here is a non-video link from Playbill.com covering the same thing. I’m pretty sure it’s legit.

Pretty pleased to see one of my favorites doing well, especially when its original run flopped. At least according to Wikipedia, that was because of its plot and themes, which I find surprising since it’s the plot and themes that made this a favorite for me. Maybe because it can be depressing, despite (or for some, maybe partially because of) the final song?

I’m also a sucker for how the reverse chronology interacts with reprises. Our last encounter with the song is the characters’ first time with it. We know what happens the next time this song comes up in the characters’ lives, what happened the last time we heard this song, and probably can’t help but compare what’s in store for these characters with where they are now. Most reprises I can think of at the moment don’t make you painfully aware of dramatic irony, although I’m sure there have to be some reprises outside of Merrily that do.

Before I saw anything of this show, I thought the title song would be a version of Mary Had a Little Lamb because I’ve heard that tune done to the lyrics “merrily we roll along.” Wikipedia backs me up on those lyrics having been set to the Mary Had a Little Lamb tune before:

The “Merrily We Roll Along” chorus has the same melody as “Mary Had A Little Lamb”.

all the news content posted by the mods will be entirely readable on Lemmy.

I don’t even like Forza but came here anyways to say props to you for that, seems like it’ll be a great community for Forza fans

I remember reading about this in one of the earlier posts and it catching my interest! Glad to read more about it now.

I’ve never heard of this tradition! Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

The link in the post is worth reading: it let me know it is also controversial whether this tradition should exist. (The linked blog post argues in favor of its existence.)

Hobby Community Discussion will be like the subreddit’s Town Hall

Might want to change that to “community” now that we’re on the Fediverse

Epic Games, prompted by a message from the creator of the dating sim Hatoful Boyfriend (in which all the dateable characters are birds), says that they are “looking into” why the creator has not received any royalties for the game in two years.

Headline is misleading because not all the dateable characters are pigeons.

“sexually oriented performance” as… “a male performer exhibiting as a female, or a female performer exhibiting as a male, who uses clothing, makeup, or other similar physical markers and who sings, lip syncs, dances, or otherwise performs before an audience.”

Critics point out [the law] was written so broadly that unintended targets such as the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders could be subject to its restrictions for wearing suggestively skimpy costumes.

So speaking of unintended targets… non-professional musical theatre has a shortage of interested men, even moreso when it’s musical theatre put on by a high school or a younger age group. The way I usually see things done is that once you run out of men to cast in male roles, you offer the remaining ones to women if their vocal range can handle it, and sometimes even if they can’t—their parts would just be moved up an octave. (You usually wouldn’t look into changing the character’s gender to match that of the actor, because the show rights usually say something about not being allowed to do that.) This never came across as something subversive or trying to make a statement about gender, just as “we have to fill the role with someone”. Now with this law, the countless middle school girls who get offered minor male roles because maybe 5 boys tried out for the show are legally said to be putting on a “sexually oriented performance”. After all, it’s a female performer exhibiting as a male, using clothing and makeup and singing and dancing and acting before an audience. But somehow I doubt the middle schooler wearing a too-big suit and saying their three lines a little too loudly is meant to inspire sexual desire in the audience.

Although, I think if the lawmakers were aware of this practice for amateur theatre, they’d probably want it killed too, no matter how nonsubversive it is, because it’s a person stepping out of their assigned gender role. Nevermind that an actor’s job is to portray someone they are not.