Awesome Musicals I Want To See
- Assassins
- Les Mis
- Chicago
- Billy Elliot
- Thoroughly Modern Millie
- Gypsy
- Mary Poppins, The New Musical (which was here a couple of weeks ago, and I should have gone.)
- Jekyll and Hyde
- Into The Woods
- Phantom of the Opera
Many of these musicals are movies, and I have seen the movies, but that's not really good enough for me. I also want to see Assassins like whoa. Caroline saw it at Geneseo, and she loved it, and Sarah Vowell talks about it in Assassination Vacation. It sounds so completely brilliant! I don't like singing Sondheim myself, because he's an asshole who thought, "Maybe I'll make this song as hard as I possibly can! I mean, I am ludicrously talented, so why shouldn't I make five-minute songs composed of the same repeating phrase and wildly different accompaniment?"But listening to Sondheim- that I will do willingly. Plus, a musical about psychopaths. That just couldn't miss!
And now for something completely different.
I want to go to college. I know it's way difficult and probably not nearly as wonderful as I've made it out to be in my head, but I don't care. I want to learn interesting things, I want to go outside of my dorm and be surrounded by people that I don't know, I want to attend classes with people that weren't in my nursery school, I want to eat meat. (If you don't know me very well, that last thing may seem irrelevant, but it's not.) Most people probably don't realize how difficult it is to have to live your entire young life with the exact same people, day in, day out. It's very difficult. I want to make new friends who don't know what I looked like when I was in first grade, I want to hole up in the library for days at a time, studying for finals or doing research.
Listen, Santa. I only want one thing for Christmas, and it's very simple. Very light. I want six acceptance letters. Can you be a darling and do that for me?
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