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BP4: Broadway

 Angel De Quinta’s blog Stage Door had a lot of broadway titles, many of which I had never heard of before and some titles which I was familiar with but as a movie and not as a broadway show - such as Sweeney Todd. Out of the broadway titles that I saw on the blog a few that I would label, in this context as my "favorites", meaning the titles I would be interested in seeing more of would be The Color Purple, Barnum, and Pippin. The biggest reason is that from the few clips and/ or the blog context that De Quinta had referring to them (from the few blogs I read De Quinta's blog seem to focus mainly on the people within the broadway show rather than talking about the show itself?) the storylines interested me and some of the song pieces I really liked. Especially with the song clips from The Color Purple, the woman from the old and newer productions all had gorgeous vocals (even if De Quinta seems to think the newer production is lacking). My interest in The Color Purple, and Barnum also stem from my limited knowledge of their movie counterparts. With the The Greatest Showman, which came out last year being Barnum's counterpart - I am obsessed with the soundtrack for the movie even though I have yet to actually see the movie.
Talking about broadway titles that, I did not see/ find on De Quinta's bog, but are my personal favorites I would have to list Phantom of the Opera, Dear Evan Hansen, Heathers, Wicked, Be More Chill, and Hamilton. Most of which are my favorites solely based on their soundtracks - although I have seen clips, if not the entire show, online from all of them. With the exception of Phantom of the Opera which I was lucky enough to see live. A lot of my favorites also have a bunch of animatics online, which is how I learned about most of them. And I really love seeing how each animator will interpret, through their animation, the story, emotions and action within each song. I love how much emotion and how much of a story broadway songs tend to have.
And since I literally have a youtube list filled with animatics based off of broadway musicals (and this post is about Broadway) here are a few of my favorites - since it was because of animatics like this that I became interested in the actual broadway titles they are about;

Dear Evan Hansen - Waving Through A Window (animatic by kjbionicle)



Heathers - Shine a Light (Reprise) (animatic by scribs)




Be More Chill - UPGRADE (animatic by Claudia Cacace)



Hamilton - Congratulations (animatic by Chiino)



link to Angel De Quinta's Stage Door >> http://angel-stagedoor.blogspot.com/

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