love your reactions and analysis! so glad epic helped me find your channel <333

10:40 just wait

"So much baggage for such a small cast" should be the tagline for this show.

Idk if you saw the news but the og cast of Hadestown is performing in the uk and theyre doing a proshoot too!!

I love your reaction videos so much! You pick up a lot of little things that i love about epic that i dont see a lot of people recognize! Also the official animatics are so good, but the one for god games is top tier! Idk if youve seen any of them but Jorge has worked with some artists and sent reference videos for the poses and actions in animatics for the last few sagas (idk if he did for the earlier ones too)

Paul’s line after Zoey says fuck Clivesdale is a direct quote from Richie in Nerdy Prudes Must Die. And yes I scrubbed through NPMD to make sure it was.

Haha I just wanna yell through the screen to correct stuff haha. 🙃

We don't like Henry; we adore Henry. He's the best boyfriend in the history of musical theater.

Seeing you be all happy to hoods turned hero’s knowing the emotional wreck of the remaining songs hurts me

“Bob was not a jealous man” Also Bob:Tries to murder a 14 year old for holding hands with his girlfriend

10:36 Darry (the person singing this song) is brothers with Sodapop and ponyboy Their parents died in a auto wreck and Darry has to take care of them now

I listened to throwing in the towel 168 times in 3 days once..

YES I LOVE THE OUTSIDERS

You missed the best part of Gay or European 😭😭😭😭 Nikos: I'm straight! Carlos: You were not yesterday 😏😏😏😏 THAT ONE LINE WAS ENOUGH TO MAKE CARLOS ONE OF MY FAVS AND YOU MISSED IT!!!!!!! Hmmph

Would love to see a reaction to the 2003 recording, I personally think it’s a little better

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Saw it last week and went into it pretty sceptical of the art direction, as a huge fan of the show. Was leaving absolutely blown away and crying. Went back right the next day, since I was in London only for a bit and luckily got a returned ticket and an amazing seat too. Truly such a wonderful production.

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I saw this at NYCC Encores last year with Caissie Levy, Brandon Uranowicz and Joshua Henry, it was utterly sublime and I really hope it gets a full transfer!

omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg RAGTIME REACT!

Omg pls do reefer madness sometime!

I love watching you react to musicals lol! This was one of my favs from long ago. Houdini was also very much chosen because of the immigrant connection too. A very public successful immigrant figure.

What i think is most interesting is how this i all one continuous timeling because the cyborg in the future who created the time travel and the the evaporation pen and if he doesnt go back to 2004 he doesnt make himself passout and his youngerself ralks to her so the resaults of the time travel create the reason the begining of the loop happens

Drink with me, my love, for there's fire in the sky, and there's ice on the ground. Either way my soul will die ☄️ 🍸

WHERE DID YOU SEE IT?? 😭😭😭😭

I love seeing people only listen to a musical's soundtrack and guessing the plot. I need to see someone do that with Dear Evan Hansen. Edit: I found out they have a video watching Dear Evan Hansen. I'll watch that after this. I hope they'll do or did Fly By Night and Ordinary Days. My other 3rd and 4th favorite musicals. Heathers used to be 3rd, but it reminds me of my ex now, :(. But DEH is still my favorite because even though Sincerely, Me reminds me of my ex because we sang it together, it still comforts me, I love Evan. And 3r Questions quickly grew to be my second favorite because of my recent break-up.

*grins evilly* You should watch crazy ex girlfriend.... it's an amazing series. It takes a while to pay off and isn't so SFW sometimes but it's absolutely hysterical. I think it's the most hilarious musical thing I've ever seen... and it's also absolutely brilliant. you'll love it. You could just watch clips, but watching the full series is the best for context and you can film reactions to just the songs when you pop on.

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Fun fact, Jorge Rivera-Herrans's mother was playing the part of Odi's Mom in the Underworld.

Ahhh I knew I saw you there!! I passed you in the lobby but wasn’t sure it was you. Should’ve said hi lol. Anyways I’d never seen &Juliet before and I don’t normally like Jukebox musicals but this one was so much fun. I think the way it incorporated the songs was super clever and I loved Anne!! (Best girl.) All the cast were awesome and I hope you had a great time! 💜

I’m going to go see it in London in a few days! Can’t wait!😊

I NEED YOU TO LISTEN TO ROADSHOW BECAUSE ITS SO INCREDIBLE AND I LOVE AND AAAAAAAAAAHHHH

Since you asked for suggestions, and you asked us to think out of the box, and you love the Hunchback of Notre Dame... Please please please please, try watching the song Belle, from the french production. I didn't watch it as a whole musical, but as a one shot thing. But is so worth it...

Here's an excerpt I like from the original RAGTIME novel by E.L. Doctorow, about Harry Houdini and Sigmund Freud: "...Houdini never developed what we think of as a political consciousness. He could not reason from his own hurt feelings. To the end he would be almost totally unaware of the design of his career, the great map of revolution laid out by his life. He was a Jew. His real name was Erich Weiss. He was passionately in love with his ancient mother whom he had installed in his brownstone home on West 113th Street. In fact Sigmund Freud had just arrived in America to give a series of lectures at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, and so Houdini was destined to be, with Al Jolson, the last of the great shameless mother lovers, a nineteenth-century movement that included such men as Poe, John Brown, Lincoln and James McNeill Whistler. Of course Freud’s immediate reception in America was not auspicious. A few professional alienists understood his importance, but to most of the public he appeared as some kind of German sexologist, an exponent of free love who used big words to talk about dirty things. At least a decade would have to pass before Freud would have his revenge and see his ideas begin to destroy sex in America forever."

This was a good performance but don't deprive yourself of listening to the obc recordings as well. Specifically Wheels of a Dream, Your Daddy's Son, and Back to Before are some of the greatest recordings in existence by the incomparable Brian Stokes Mitchell, Audra McDonald, and tragically late Marin Mazzie.

I feel the urge to in fact, inform you that in another room in your head Alice tries to kiss Alfred that way they go down together which made me cry for literally two hours

I am so ready to hear your reaction to the vengeance saga and Ithaca saga the last 2 😢

Nicely done. The book it is based on was so sprawling. They did a great job finding the musical in it. I got a bit weepy. Always do with Ragtime. The original production helped make Audra McDonald the amazing star she is.

I love Ragtime and this reaction was so fun to watch!!! If you haven’t listened to “[title of show]” or “Now. Here. This.”, they’re both written by the same people and they’re both underrated gems. I think you’d have a really fun time reacting to them! They’re about the process of creating truthful art and the small moments throughout our lives that shape who we are as individuals, respectively.

M glad you discovered Ragtime, but i wish you had seen a better production. Ragtime is one of those musicals that need a lot of experienced singers for it to soar. This musical always sounds amazing in a concert setting.

There's so much I can say about Ragtime. Like how the musical is really the last third of the original book, or how the historical figures play a big part in the book. I could even mention how the only original characters who are given names outside of their relationship to others are Coalhouse and Sarah (Tateh is yiddish for Father). Or that in the movie Tateh is played by Mandy Patinkin (George in Sunday in the park with George, as well as Inigo Montoya in Princess Bride).I won't say all of that, I will say this show, and the book it is based on is the story of America.