"Human embodiment of Theater Kid Energy, Lin Manuel Miranda" got a good laugh out of me.

@JohnnaReviews

3 жыл бұрын

Right same cause it’s so true 😂😂

@chunellemariavictoriaespan8752

3 жыл бұрын

Hell I smiled at that too...

@allisonbergh4429

3 жыл бұрын

Very much same

Knowing Lindsay, we all knew this episode was coming eventually

@reaperhb97

3 жыл бұрын

We all knew I was commming eventually

@r.coburn3344

3 жыл бұрын

João Victor Ferreira it is my honor to be the six hundred, sixty-sixth like on this comment. It’s good content, you oughta be proud.

If Lindsey doesn’t talk about Phantom at least once a month, she ceases to exist.

I was disappointed to learn that this musical episode was, in fact, not a musical.

Wow, is that NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Lindsay Ellis?!

pbs: "stop that stop that, you're not going into a song while i'm here."

@atticwindowful

3 жыл бұрын

They have the biggest tracts of land in Britain!

@benvoliothefirst

3 жыл бұрын

@@atticwindowful Shut yer noise, you.

“According to The Oxford Handbook of the British Musical... a thing that exists” is peak Lindsay.

@Targemq8

3 жыл бұрын

Nothing is likely to make me happier today than her mentioning this very nerdy book which I own.

Saw the thumbnail, saw Lindsay with her Phantom *INSTANT CLICK AND LIKE*

Lindsey, this was just an excuse to talk about Phantom again, wasn't it? We see you.

@jbvader721

3 жыл бұрын

It's Lindsay's Law. Everything always comes back to either The Phantom or Transformers.

@danstiver9135

3 жыл бұрын

@@jbvader721 Or Disney

@jbvader721

3 жыл бұрын

@@danstiver9135 "I'm losing to a bird!" or "See how I glitter!" comes to mind.

@Lord_Of_Night

3 жыл бұрын

@@jbvader721 Hal, it's about water is the metaphor

@jbvader721

3 жыл бұрын

@@Lord_Of_Night I ate the whole plate. The WHOLE plate!

"...the love.. is still there." so what you're saying is: the love.. never dies.

@itamarolmert3549

3 жыл бұрын

PAAAAAAAAAINT NEEEEVER DRIEEEEEEESS...

@cbpd89

3 жыл бұрын

And might I add... Ten years OOOOOOOOOOLLD!!

@bibliophilecb

3 жыл бұрын

I could feel get straining not to say it

@herestia_photography

3 жыл бұрын

@@itamarolmert3549 OMG XDDDDDD

@CryBlueofZ

2 жыл бұрын

The music was good but the plot was horrible

With Lindsay involved, there was always going to be a musical episode at some point. PBS couldn't stop it.

@SEAZNDragon

3 жыл бұрын

Probably in the contract

Looking forward to Axiom's End: The Musical!

@seanmcwatt9818

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, only three copies on the shelf behind her.

@christophertrainor282

3 жыл бұрын

Would it be ironic if a musical adaptation of said book went on to be the next Hamilton?!?

@cliffarroyo9554

3 жыл бұрын

Better title Goodbye, Axiom!

@janbonne

3 жыл бұрын

So axioms end the book will always have axiomatic superiority over its musical

@addammadd

3 жыл бұрын

So basically, Phantom of the Space Opera?

We know its lindsay when Phantom gets more time than Hamilton

@LittleMongoosie

3 жыл бұрын

And that's the quality content we come for lol

*Human embodiment of theater kid energy* 😂

@gennybaratta2460

3 жыл бұрын

I mean she’s not wrong

@odd-ysseusdoesstuff6347

3 жыл бұрын

@@gennybaratta2460 Yep!

Les Miz: *Hundreds of pages of French history* Shönberg: “I’d rather... rather... SING...”

@oindri1999

3 жыл бұрын

Waterloo by ABBA plays aggressively in the background

@clansiri

3 жыл бұрын

Also Shönberg: I won't insult a French audience by assuming they don't know Victor Hugo well enough to fill in the gaps.

I grew up hating musicals. I thought they were too silly and it's stupid that people randomly start singing. I now really enjoy musicals. I think what changed is that I started reading comic books, an equally silly medium. If I can find meaningful stories in a medium in which a completely acceptable response to seeing your parents murdered is to dress like a bat and punch criminals and one of my favorite characters is an illegal immigrant who is taught American values and represents our greatest potential who can also fly and shoot lasers from his eyes, I can also accept a medium in which characters burst into song and dance around the stage.

@chunellemariavictoriaespan8752

3 жыл бұрын

... Wow... Like, I hope the boys around me can think like that... I mean, most of the (straight) boys around me hate it or think of it as silly and boring but they rave about comics and Anime like there's no tomorrow...

@MiMiLaXMiMi

3 жыл бұрын

That is the best description of superman I have ever read... I’m stealing that

@anonb4632

3 жыл бұрын

Most of them are awful. They're operas for people too thick to understand opera. Not that I'm much into opera or musicals... As for comic books.... ffs grow up. Too many (wo)manchildren wandering around.

@thecleitom9497

3 жыл бұрын

@@chunellemariavictoriaespan8752 straight boys can't sing because it hurts their masculinity

@lil_bit_dramatic

3 жыл бұрын

you need to check out Bronwyn Elvis Comics www.etsy.com/ca/shop/BronwynElvisComics She makes graphic novels for musicals!

This is the most on-brand video Lindsay has ever made. But I'm KINDA salty that Great Comet didn't get mentioned!

@gigi3843

3 жыл бұрын

and hadestown! you cant just ignore rachel chavkin!!

@NeoWocky

3 жыл бұрын

She hasn't seen it (or even heard it) so that's probably why.

@katie3603

3 жыл бұрын

Gerard Guzmán Sandoval She’s definitely heard of Great Comet ...

@NeoWocky

3 жыл бұрын

@@katie3603 I'm not saying she's never heard OF it, I'm saying she hasn't heard the album itself, she said she was waiting to see it live but then Covid happened

@cbpd89

3 жыл бұрын

It certainly is worth a mention! I freaking love great comet! Maybe is musical adaptations part 2...

When I spotted the first couple Axiom's Ends, I was hoping it would be a gag where each time the camera cut back to her, there'd be more copies appearing behind her throughout, a la Seth Meyers' The Thorn Birds.

@dsharkey5569

3 жыл бұрын

Fingers crossed for this to Easter Egg its way onto her channel.

And the musical lives on ... disney plus.

Lindsey: “the love is still there.” Me: Are you saying that... love never dies?

Parasocial relationship notwithstanding there are times when I really feel like Lindsay and I are people that aren’t actual friends by sheer bad luck

You know you’re a theatre nerd when two bars of any Les Mis song gives you goosebumps. 🤣🤷🏼‍♀️

The “Disney Musical Formula” took from actual Broadway, Ashman was a theater guy who adopted the musical theater formula of Rogers&Hammerstein into animation.

I could hear Lindsay talking about musicals all day, to be honest. And, by the way... Love the Miss Argentina shirt!

Whelp, looks like I'm never getting a musical named after me. ::Droops head sadly and walks away::

@itwasagoodideaatthetime7980

3 жыл бұрын

ROTFLMAO! 🤣 You never know someone could be writing an Eric the Viking musical as we speak. ⚒ 🇳🇴⚒

@VegimorphtheMovieBoy

3 жыл бұрын

​@@itwasagoodideaatthetime7980 True XD 🇳🇴 Tusen takk

@hogfather22

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe not a musical, but Terry Pratchett's Eric has been turned into a theatrical play.

@VegimorphtheMovieBoy

3 жыл бұрын

@@hogfather22 I've been meaning to check out his work. I keep hearing about the Discworld series but haven't gotten to check it out yet. Need to do that ASAP

@jaybonn5973

3 жыл бұрын

LMMAAAOOOOOOO

We need a longer episode of this on Lindsay's channel examining the differences between good musical adaptations of books (like the ones she listed) and bad ones (Carrie the Musical). Also, there was a Lestat the Musical and where was I?

@lovesplus3879

3 жыл бұрын

Rami Ungar the Writer let’s add the poorly made Riverdale episodes.Especially when they decided to use the worse take of untrained actors. Add nothing to the plot. The entire staff hates shooting them.

@hectorrobertocontrerasmiranda

3 жыл бұрын

She kind of does that on her podcast

@jbvader721

3 жыл бұрын

Lindsay does a podcast called "Musicalsplaining" where she "splains" musicals to her friend Kaveh who hates musicals. She did a full episode on another bad musical "Love Never Dies" where she compares it to "Battlefield Earth" where it is a bad musical but it is entertaining in how ludicrous it is.

@ayindestevens6152

3 жыл бұрын

Yup it was a thing....

@cerrida82

3 жыл бұрын

You're not wrong. You might enjoy the channel Waiting in the Wings, where he covers What Went Wrong with musicals (and sometimes, in the case of SpongeBob SquarePants, what went right).

My inner smug opera singer has to say: Donizetti, not Donzinetti.

Im a simple woman; i see Lindsay in a thumb nail, i click

@malaikarose2985

3 жыл бұрын

Peak parasocialdom

How Lindsay got through this whole episode without bringing up CATS, I will never understand...

@TheBibliophiliac

3 жыл бұрын

TS Elliot's cats got the shrug.

@jbvader721

3 жыл бұрын

I would've been more worried if she didn't mention The Phantom of the Opera. If there is one musical that occupies more free rent space in Lindsay Ellis' head more than CATS, it's Phantom.

@syystomu

3 жыл бұрын

Well I assume the screenshot at around 1:35 was part of the script so she kinda did. But yeah I guess she got it out of her system with the earlier video

@laurafinaldi5296

3 жыл бұрын

I haven't stopped bringing up CATS in every single conversation for months.

1. Yay the It's Lit episode we all wanted. 2. Am I the only one who scanned to see if Kaveh would do a cameo. Just me? Oh...

@andredarsie

3 жыл бұрын

He did a cameo in spirit, when Lindsay laughs to clarify that book musical is "not a musical based on a book".

3 copies of Axiom's End on the shelves... Lindsay must be a fan...

@TheBibliophiliac

3 жыл бұрын

I know I am...

“human embodiment of theater kid energy” 😭☠️☠️

Anyone not keeping up with Lindsay's podcast MusicalSplaining with her friend Kaveh is really missing out.

Lindsay. Stahp. That Stephan impression had. everything. It had context It had deep dive It had literary trashcan, Phantom... 💜

Musicals and Stage Plays are huge here in Japan. Pre-Pandemic, I went to one almost every week.

@odd-ysseusdoesstuff6347

3 жыл бұрын

I wish we had that. There's not a single theatre in my place.

@neilagangitlog

3 жыл бұрын

I'm jealous ☹️. I wish i have that here

@Svengali764

3 жыл бұрын

Same here in India. In multiple languages. I am biased though. My language has the most interesting musicals.

@CuteCuteJames

3 жыл бұрын

I was thrilled the first time I saw videos of the Sailor Moon stage musicals. I would love to see that live someday.

"Snobbery." "A snobbery?" "Yes! A snobbery!" o.o

Three copies of your own book in the background is *chef's kiss* a beautiful flex.

"And of course it would not be an episode I co-wrote without a mention of it sad boy...." That's because the Phantom of the Opera is there.... Inside your mind.

Fun fact: it was literally cheaper to see Les Mis on the West End than it was to buy a copy of the book in the British Library bookstore (£28 vs £35). It was one of the greatest theatrical experiences of my life, by the way.

I love It’s Lit. I’ve seen every one of Lindsay’s videos, both on this channel and her own

I took French in high school, and my friend and I noticed a theme in all the books our teacher had us read. We read abridged versions of The Phantom of the Opera, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Cyrano. The theme we found was that all three stories had a beautiful female lead, with a bunch of suitors, and one of them was considered a deformed, at least in the case of Erik and Quasimodo, French man. So we decided they were a band called The Deformed Frenchmen, or The DFM.

13:52 I love that an ad saved us from Lindsay singing. Then the closing credits did the same.

This novel has everything...? I see what u did there, stefon!

kinda confused as to why Crazy Ex Girlfriend wasn't mentioned here, especially since Rachel Bloom recently published "I want to Be Where the Normal People Are" so, you know, it would technically be on the topic of literature.

3:49 “(not a musical based on a book)” ... looking at you Kaveh 👀

@syystomu

3 жыл бұрын

I understood that reference

13:06 video: yet, when the chips are down- me: oh no the Fates, always singing in the back of my mind: *whatcha gonna do when the chips are down, nooooow that the ch*

@TabbyeLynne

3 жыл бұрын

Oh, my aching heart... 🎶🎶

@itamarolmert3549

3 жыл бұрын

@@TabbyeLynne whatcha gonna do when the chips are down? Now that the chips are down!

“Whatcha gonna do when the chips are down, now that the chips are down” “See Phantom again, I guess”

You could almost say the time we’ve been expecting a musical themed episode feels like... teeeen yeeeeeaaaaars OOOOoooooOOoOoOOLD

Of course Michael Billington originally trashed Les Mis. That man is my nemesis. If we ever meet irl its on sight

I'll be honest. I kinda suspected that the dialog would be sung.

@jbvader721

3 жыл бұрын

It's Lindsay. What did you expect?

@benjaminwilliams8030

3 жыл бұрын

Lets work together rot turn all of the dialogue into a musical!

@Demolitiondude

3 жыл бұрын

@@jbvader721 the film length documentary of musicals.

@Demolitiondude

3 жыл бұрын

@@benjaminwilliams8030 problem. I'm a disciple of metal.

@benjaminwilliams8030

3 жыл бұрын

Paladin Demo there are some metal musicals. I’m currently drawing a blank, but I’m sure they exist

Love the quick rundown of musical theatre and the validity of adaptation, learned some new things!!

"Compositor/lyricist/human embodiment of theater kid energy Lin-Manuel Miranda" You forgot literal ray of sunshine.

"It's Lit: The Anime" next?

@aFangirlsVideoMania

3 жыл бұрын

or Manga

PBS contractually forbad Lindsey from singing 😂 Brilliant vid!!!!

I see 3 copies of Axiom's End

@brandonmelling771

3 жыл бұрын

I wonder if there's some bias there

@3kids2cats1dog

3 жыл бұрын

@@brandonmelling771 I don't know, but I'm waiting for the audiobook / musical 😒

@Ben-qv7zj

3 жыл бұрын

I was looking for this comment

@hectorrobertocontrerasmiranda

3 жыл бұрын

I can't find the third one😭 (never mind, I just did)

I really thought she was gonna say "if the success of hamilton on disney tells us anything, the LOVE... NEVER DIES"

Lindsey I am BEGGING you for a video on Lestat the musical. Or a musicalsplaining episode. I feel so cursed to have grown up ten years too late to see it 😭😭

LINDSAY SAW LESTAT???!!!! That is absolutely AMAZING!!! It only had 39 performances!! I Want More is such a powerhouse song.

@kp263109

3 жыл бұрын

You should listen to her podcast Musicalsplaining she mentions it a few times. And it does not disappoint. twitter.com/musicalsplainin?lang=en

Love the SNL shout out.

I am mainly just chuffed to learn we have similar tastes in Star Wars Literature

Thank you for this! Such a concise and important history of musical theater. I've learned about it before, but never in such a linear way.

That Axiom's End book to her right looks interesting. Is Lindsay going to do an episode on that some time soon?

I love Hamilton and i didn't know anything about the book! Thank you for the video, i learned a lot more than i thought

I love Lin-Manuel so much 😩 He's just so amazing. That Stefan impersonation though!!

Music to my ears

Loving that Miss Argentina shirt!

A wonderful video, and I’m gonna say that whoever is handling the audio and music is doing a fantastic job! The melodies are lovely!

I caught the popular line from the musical and loved it. Also great song by Mika.

I hadn't noticed the Honor Harrington books on her shelf before, I love that. I want a close look at the shelf!

You channeling Stefan was everything I didn't know I needed.

Your videos are always so informative and compelling. I also saw Lestat twice - once in previews and once after opening. I was hoping they would have fixed the beginning of Act Two (among many other things. Many.) so upon the second viewing when the curtain rose on what I like to refer to as the stage set of Dawson’s Creek, I uttered “No! (though not as vociferously as Anakin Skywalker it was a bit louder than i would like to admit). As someone who was working on a vampire oriented musical at the time (an adaptation of Salem’s Lot) I had many many thoughts about Lestat. Many.

OMG crying at the Stefon impression

Loving all the different editions of 'Axiom's End'...

Me a few minutes in: Huh, I'm surprised she hasn't elaborated more on Phantom Me at 10:38: Ah, there it is

I love that there are two copies of Axiom's End in Lindsay's background. I'm reading it right now, I'm close to the end and I love it.

Oh bless I've been waiting for this one

Lindsay, I'm not sure if you owe Star Wars Legends novels like the ones in the background but just the sight of you with them made me love you even more (I'm odd)

When you can see Lindsay's thoughts as: It finally came true!!!

This is lovely, thanks. FYI, you probably know this production, but in 1979, Sylvia Fine Kaye gave us a three-part PBS presentation on the history of the Musical: "Musical Comedy Tonight". In addition to being humorous, knowledgeable, and empathetic, this also gave us some wonderful cameos of great performers like Elaine Stritch and Kaye Ballard singing classics. If you can get your hands on it, I highly recommend it. We watched it when it first came on, and hungered for it ever after. I do have a DVD of the three parts.

I love you, Lindsay!

I need videos like this to get through covid

I got into musical genre with Cats in my childhood and phantom in my teenage years. God, I thought my DVD would burn playing phantom all day.

NGL, though I love this episode with all my heart... kinda sad there was no song....

I really really thought that she would end by saying "the love...never dies"

You mentioned the Waterloo chapter, and I had flashbacks to reading the first four pages and giving up in a mess of crushed ambitions.

Wow. I was just watching Showboat clips and then this got uploaded!

Hey, the “no close encounters” picture is the theatre in my hometown! I grew up on that stage!

Thanks for sharing!

Lindsay will not waste any opportunity to talk about Phantom and we love it

So when can I expect a musical adaptation of "Axiom's End"?

So, is this like a "Where's Waldo?" thing with the different copies of your book in the background, or it supposed to be some sort of subliminal marketing thing? Just curious. 😂

"The love is still there." I guess you could say the love...never died?

You can see the musical fan girl break through the professional presenter water in this a few times and I love it when it happens.

I love the prominently featured Star Wars EU books, especially the Zahn's Thrawn triology and duology.

"The love... is there" Stop that, stop that, you're not breaking into Love Never Dies while I'm here!

I was literally waiting hand and foot for this episode! P.s: listening to her Podcast has significantly increased my knowledge of musical, realising just now.

*In Seth Myers voice*: STEFON!

I will also consider this a “How To Musical” shorthand for lovers of musicals 🤓❤️

100% LIVING for the Stefan reference! Im dead

Brilliant!!!