I Would Be The Worst Spy Of All Time Because On One Hand I Overshare Like Hell, But On The Other Hand

#it's funny because when people are guessing where I'm from depending on my accent it's like. Two options.

#you must be from the south! Was told to me excitedly by an exchange student from Brooklyn

#are you from the west? Tentatively asked by a few other American exchange students

#I have also been told that I have an Italian accent though the only Italian I know is how to perform Il e bello com' el sol from NDDP 😂

Very different pictures, yet somehow a similar vibe...maybe just because I'm so used to Oedo being Rudolf that I see this as a crossover 😂

On the parentage of Esmeralda

SO, we know that in the Notre Dame De Paris, Esmeralda isn't the kidnapped daughter of Paquette (La Chantfleurie), since Paquette isn't in the musical and also Esmeralda doesn't have her amulet with the baby shoe on her. Which begs the question; who are her parents supposed to be?

Esmeralda does not look like Clopin's gang, even if Phoebus calles her "mon ange noir" I still see Esmeralda as a white-ish girl (thank you casting committee). With that in mind I suggest that she is in fact NOT a gypsy, but got accepted into the gypsy tribe because they knew her mother. Well then, who was she?

Allow me to present my theory on that. For those who watched the musical Don Juan, they will remember the girl called "Belle Andalouse", the dancer at the tavern, with whom Don Juan spent the night and then left behind, even though she wanted him to stay.

(Proof ^^)

Now then, what does Esmeralda tell Phoebus about her parentage? Only that her mother (!) was a Spaniard (!!) who told her about Andalousia (!!!).

(Proof ^^)

So, here's my theory: after Don Juan seduced La Belle Andalouse, she became pregnant, and lost her job at the tavern, maybe because she had to stop dancing, maybe because they didn't have paid maternity leave, or maybe because they had the same policy as Monsieur Madeleine in his factory. Who knows.

So the Andalusian Fantine loses her job, and, in my theory, meets the gypsies. How, I do not now. Maybe she was seeking shelter and they took her in. Maybe she was kind to them earlier, and they remembered. Anyhow, Clopin decides to take her in, and they bond. Soon after, Baby Esmeralda is born, and Andalousian Fantine goes back to dancing. Gypsies are a tolerant folk, and they happily accept a good dancer. So, Belle Andalouse travels with them, as does Baby Esmeralda.

Somewhere among the road Belle Andalouse, sadly, dies, and so we are left with Esmeralda entrusted to the care of Belle Andalouse's good friend Clopin, as seen in "Esmeralda, tu Sais"

(Proof ^^)

Here again, Clopin confirms that the girl who bore Esmeralda was Andalousian.

Bonus: I think this theory also explains why Esmeralda was irresistible to every man in a 5-mile radius; her father was none other than the most charming Don Juan!! ;)

#vEmpire

#very small one but eh

#if they all reside in one huge Transsylvanian castle it's like an empire for them

#especially if it has a back yard

Okay I need some answers, so please share this if you can :)

#so how's little Herbie doing?

#oh he found a friend? How lovely!

#I know exactly how you feel

#"oh daddy my bf is SOOooooo great" all day long...

#but enough about the kids, how have you been?

Fantober 2024 Day 21 - "Evening Drink"

Drac and count Von Krolock hanging out

alternative take: Pamina and Papageno in that scene where they sneak out of the castle with Papageno going "hush hush hushhhhh"

monostatos and the queen of the night heading to the sun temple

This is Empty Chairs at Empty Tables if Jean Valjean decided he didn't like the recovered Marius and left for England anyways

Brave little Frog, we love you 💚

“no more after me”, a mini comic about the now-extinct golden toad. featuring lyrics from deuteronomy 2:10 by the mountain goats

since Microsoft doesn't allow parentheses as of the late, after a lot of swearing and cursing the name would be changed to Creature_Final_FINAL -this one!-_3_

"Zero chemistry" is so mildly put 😂

For the ones who only saw the award video - this is like, a 122% better than what happened in the production on stage.

On stage they just. Took two ends of a rope. And pulled a bit. À la whip-pulling from the German staging. But with a think rope. Except of that no eye contact or touching whatsover save for ONE moment when Der Tod stroked the cheek of a kneeling Rudolf with the butt of the gun

(@fitzrove about Rudolf - I suspect he has a condition, because one side of his face is like "frozen"; especially visible in interviews)

Hi there! The Dutch Musical Awards were yesterday evening, and they always include some performances from the nominated shows and what else is in the theatre at the moment. And they did "Er valt een zwarte schaduw" (which is "Die Schatzen werden langer" in German?) From Elisabeth the musical! The performance is on YouTube, check it out:

https://youtu.be/Q8nhMQvxxNQ?si=2ujwn4F6NR1e8lpV

Thanks for the link!

Milan sure is doing something (tm) as Death (he's fine, there have been much worse ones in Germany - not sure about that falsetto opt up lmao but idk, he's decent) but wow, these people have zero chemistry😭😭 I don't think the guy that plays Rudolf is even acting or trying to show what the character is feeling in this scene, he's just kind of there???