Before I get started I have found something really fun... transposing music! My band teacher taught me how because he didn't have music for y Alto, and it's an E flat instrument. It's actually really fun.

Anywho... musicals. I love 'em. And well... I have nothing better to do because people at my table are either insane, want to be a furry, or unconversational. That's not even a word.

So umm... opinion and suggestions?

Les Meserables

Yeah... that's probably misspelt.

This is my favorite musical ever. If for some ungodly reason you've never heard it, listen to it! One weekend while I was cleaning the house, I put it on shuffle and sang along for pretty close to five hours.

I have issues...

Fun fact... I saw this on Broadway.

Hamilton

I like it. I like it a lot. It's fun, catchy, and it annoys my father when I play it.

I also listen to this on shuffle when I clean. But unlike Les Mes, I don't have most of it memorized (I have Act one and most of act two down with Les Mes... fear me...). I would like to see it. Also this is one of my favorites.

Spamalot

Me going to listen to this: I like Holy Grail, maybe this will be just as funny!

Me afterward: Ummm... okay... defiantly some missed opportunities... not as funny...

Is it fun to listen? Yes. Do I love it? Yes and no.

Rent

This is one of my top favorites. So far... I've only listened to the entire thing twice but, I love it. I don't wanna watch the movie though. I hum this one a lot...

Something Rotten

This one is fun. Welcome to the Renaissance was pretty catchy. I laughed my ass off at A Musical. Other than that, some of it's funny, and some of it is weird, but defiantly worth a listen.

High Society

Defiantly one f my favorites. So far I've listened to it once... but damn I love it. It's rich people stereotypes, takes place on the 1930's and is fun. It follows two reporters covering a wedding, that the wife's ex-husband is trying to stop.

This music is fun, there's supposed to be a lot of dancing too. Just listen! It's also rather quite funny.

Assassins

This... not enough credit...

Assassins follows different assassins through out American History and ends with all of them singing with Lee Harvey Oswald. This was fun, and really interesting because it talks a bit about their motives. It stars with the entire cast singing, then John Wilkes Booth. Each assassin has one to two songs, and it's really enjoyable.

Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat

Apparently every single song in the musical is from a different genera!

I'm very in between about this musical. I don't like the first couple songs, but after that, I really like it. The variety is fun, the songs become catchier and it can be really funny at times.

As a non-religious person I did not expect to enjoy it, but I did. I do suggest you give it a listen.

Book of Mormon

Last of my favorite musicals. This is from the creators of South Park and the guy who wrote Let it Go from Frozon.. and oh dear God, this is a fucking comedy gold mine!

The first couple songs produce a few laughs but after that... you die. It is funnier on your second listen through.

But you might wanna bleach your soul after this...

Oh so worth it... so worth it...

Wicked

I've seen it live twice... I've listen to it a million times... I no longer like it...

Cats

Cats is okay. It's okay to listen to. Meh. It's better live because of the dancing. That makes it worth it. If you ever have the chance to see a professional production of this, do it. The dancing... damn. I'll see if I have a picture of the stage.

Shrek the Musical

This exists. It actually exists. They used to have it on Netflix... don't know if they still do. Farquad is amazing in it because the actor has to walk around and dance on his knees.

The music was actually decent, and makes you feel bad for Shrek and the way he was raised, giving some more depth to his character, also, it has Donkey... and he's pretty good.

Newsies

I only liked one song... that was it. I watched the Broadway recording on Netflix. The dancing s good... but I really didn't like it. It's a tad bit overrated.

Mamma Mia

It's been way to long since I've listened to this to give a proper opinion. Although my crew friends and I are thinking about talking to our director so we can do this next year.

I did see a professional production of this though.

Grease

I like it the first time I ever saw it. But try working crew for it... I know every song and I cannot stand it... I no longer like this musical.

Chicago

Oh yes oh yes oh yes oh yes oh yes oh yes oh yes they both reached for the gun the gun-

Ummm... sorry. It's catchy. Now the movie spud track has the better Roxy, other than that Original Recording all the way! I was supposed to see it, we got my mother tickets to it for her birth day... but I was sick... and she didn't want to tell myStep Dad she herself wasn't feeling the best.

Okay... I'm missing some...

Aha!

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Fun fact, in collage my mother played Drood in the show.

Drood is inspired by the unfinished Charles Dickens story of the same name, and the audience votes on the endings, so there's multiple endings.

I didn't get a chance to finish listening, but I liked it.

Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812

I was actually really disappointed with this one. First, from where I left off, what a waste of Josh Groban's voice. And second... it was mediocre.

I should finish listening to it though. I just got really bored.

Dear Evan Hansen

I like that this is a thing.

I am in no position to say it the topic was handled well or poorly. But I really do like some of the songs.

Jekyll and Hyde

As some one who read the original story by Robert Louis Stevenson, I was really hoping it'd be close to the story.

I'm nine songs in and let's just say... I'm a little disappointed. I just wanted to see something close to The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

There story had been changed a lot, the music was really good though. But if I really want to enjoy this musical, I have to get past my enjoyment of the original story.

Heathers

It was fun to listen too. My Dead Gay Son, I hate to say it, was probably the best song in the show for one line.

They changed a few things, like Veronica wasn't always in their group, and she was the girl desperate to be popular. JD they tried to make his more sympathetic. Also, Veronica is the one that climbs through JD's window instead of JD crawling through her window. But it both situations they end up being foolish high schoolers and screw.

Well that is all.

Our parade last week got rained out, and we have to hope Memorial Day doesn't get rained out too, or else we won't have a single parade under our belts before the big competition.

I don't know how, but I became a box leader, meaning I and one other check every uniform in the box to make sure it's hung up correctly and track down people who don't do it right.

But we really aren't ready...

There's this one trombone who's new... and even when the drums are tapping, he's still out of step. No one in his line is helping them, and I can't break rank to do so.

It's really bothering me...

And of course after band, I can't find him so... yeah.

It just seems like this year, the middle schoolers don't care. That same kid doesn't even hold the trombone properly.

Now I'm done with this. But I was thinking... I need some side quest ideas for a Dark Fantasy D&D campaign. Note the genera.

Vampires and werewolves... you name it.

So I was thinking... of each of you guys come up with one, who can be the NPC that my players talk to about the issues... and one of you can chose to be a Demi-Lich.

Here's some of my quests:

-The children of the town are weaker than usual and look drained. People are getting rather concerned, and players who hang around town late at night see a hooded figure walking around. The village midwife, Helga asks the players to watch over her Granddaughter for a night to make sure she's not harmed. The players an always start investigating this themselves. Eventually the players come to the conclusion that it's a nocnista and kill her.

Nocnista's are from Slavic Mythology.

-A halfling who moved to town last year has been seen yelling at no one in the streets, and he has a strange shadow. When the players investigate they learn that where the man came from, there was a plague, and he believed his wife had contracted it, and killed her so she would not have to suffer... but she wasn't actually sick.

The creature haunting him is a Hym. A demon that makes people go crazy and feeds off them.

-The players are hired by an oddities merchant to deliver a message to his old friend in a city not to far from here, because she has a contact she buys magical items off. The woman reveals her contact has gone missing, and her only lead is the members-only tavern he went to, that they players have no way to join. Eventually they should figure out about an old ruin he went to, and they explore it. Turns out it's being run by a Demi-Lich, and the man was after a magical mirror.

Once the Lich is dead, the spirit of the man encourages the players to take it.

This leads into a second quest where the male curio merchant has been cursed by the mirror. He's seen an Oracula, a wraith that's pretty similar to Bloody Mary, and they kill people who've seen them in mirrors after a while.

He attempted to smash the mirror to no avail... because two days later it was perfectly intact.

This campaign is set in Barovia some time after Strahd was killed. Just a note.

Err uh... Thanks...

My cat follows my down stairs and sat at the kitchen table while I did my homework.