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Birthday Musicals playlist

How very self-indulgent. But if you can't be on your Birthday when can you? I go on a Birthday trip to the theatre every year, as close as I can to the day. Here are some musicals highlights from the last 15 or so years. Because I'm old as balls.     1. She Loves to Hear the Music- The Boy From Oz Firstly, we stan a Queen SJB. Secondly, she's being LIZA. Thirdly, this was the year I moved to Montreal. I ran away to NY for my Birthday and clocked up the shows that took me to 10 times seeing this show. Zero regrets.  2. As Long As You're Mine- Wicked The only other show I saw that trip. Also zero regrets. And this is just a banger of a song. I will not be taking questions at this time.  3. Louder Than Words This one weirdly reminds me of my ex, but that's kinda ok, because we're friends (LESBIANS amirite?!) but also, I stand by this as my anthem for why we do this nonsense called theatre. I saw this show the month I moved to London to go to RADA, and well th
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Sing Along Playlist

Yesterday I decided to do a big old fashioned musical sing-along to cheer myself up. And this is what happened. They're mostly soprano type sing-alongs (sorry...I at least left out Phantom, just because I can hit those notes doesn't mean I should sing those songs) 1. I'm Not Afraid of Anything- Songs for a New World This song is the literal definition of convincing yourself you aren't afraid of anything by singing about it. 2. What Baking Can Do- Waitress Unpopular opinion, I like singing this one more than 'She Used to Be Mine'. And it's just..lovely. 3. Always Starting Over- If/Then How bitter am I that I didn't see If/Then? very. This song feels like Idina when she's REALLY good, and when she's good she's good when she's not..well. But also this song feels like my life. So I enjoy belting my face off to it. 4. Get Out and Stay Out- 9 to 5 When is Stephanie J Block telling a trash man to get the fuck out not a mood?
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Week 2- Pop Rock Musicals, Hair to Hamilton.

This week in honour of Hammy Ham, we're doing a journey through pop-rock musicals. This is a particular nerdy interest of mine, so forgive the level of nerding. It's not exhaustive, and there's a lot more to the formulation of pop-rock influences on musical theatre, but that perhaps is a book not a blog....but here's a start.... Playlist is here  1. Aquarius- Hair  Hair is generally accepted as the first 'Rock Musical' in that it went away from traditional musical theatre styles (Think Sweet Charity or Rodgers and Hammerstein) and used both pop-rock style music and a different style of storytelling...in the case of Hair not much storytelling as it's a series of vignettes style moments and nonsensical moments (don't do drugs kids). But it still plays by the musical theatre 'rules' with this opening number. (If you want Gavin Creel to break your heart, listen to 'Easy to be Heard' on this album, sublime). Those hippies get everywher
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List 1- My History 101

Oh hello welcome to yet another pointless blog project....yes I got carried away. Here is Week 1's playlist.  Playlist 1 My plan is to theme every week. And because obviously I love nothing more than talking about musicals, I will also do a little bit of writing about either each song, and the musical it's from or the overall list (depending on the list) The general aim is 'use my useless information to expand your libraries' But for week 1, because it seemed fun, I thought I would give you a few of my initial 'falling in love with musicals' examples...and a bit about them. You are free to judge me.  1. Close Every Door- Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat you were a child in the 90s, you sang this song in school, in Brownies, wherever. It is engrained on our consciousness. It was also the first musical theatre album I bought, on cassette, from Woolworths (are those words any of you know?!) and I listened
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