The It’s Lit! Musical Episode (Feat. Lindsay Ellis)
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Some say that theater is dead, and that’s probably because most playhouses the world over are closed at the moment owing to a worldwide pandemic.
and yet the musical lives on… on Disney plus -- as the nation has been rapt with a filmed version of the Broadway smash hit, Hamilton.
This had us come to the realization that a lot of the bread and butter of musical theater is built off of books! And so, like every television program that starts looking for new ideas, it has finally come to this: The It’s Lit! Musical episode
Hosted by Lindsay Ellis and Princess Weekes, It’s Lit! is a show about our favorite books, genres and why we love to read. It’s Lit has been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor.
Interested in using this video as a teaching resource? Check it out on PBS LearningMedia: to.pbs.org/3GOjK2V
Hosted by: Lindsay Ellis
Written by: Lindsay Ellis, Angelina Meehan
Director: David Schulte
Executive Producer: Amanda Fox
Producer: Stephanie Noone
Editors: Derek Borsheim, Sara Roma
Writing Consultants: Maia Krause
Executive Producer (PBS): Adam Dylewski
Editorial Producer (PBS): Gabrielle Ewing
Produced by Spotzen for PBS Digital Studios.
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Knowing Lindsay, we all knew this episode was coming eventually
We all knew I was commming eventually
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.
I was disappointed to learn that this musical episode was, in fact, not a musical.
"Human embodiment of Theater Kid Energy, Lin Manuel Miranda" got a good laugh out of me.
Right same cause it’s so true 😂😂
Hell I smiled at that too...
Very much same
If Lindsey doesn’t talk about Phantom at least once a month, she ceases to exist.
“According to The Oxford Handbook of the British Musical... a thing that exists” is peak Lindsay.
Nothing is likely to make me happier today than her mentioning this very nerdy book which I own.
pbs: "stop that stop that, you're not going into a song while i'm here."
They have the biggest tracts of land in Britain!
@@atticwindowful Shut yer noise, you.
Wow, is that NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Lindsay Ellis?!
Lindsey, this was just an excuse to talk about Phantom again, wasn't it? We see you.
It's Lindsay's Law. Everything always comes back to either The Phantom or Transformers.
@@jbvader721 Or Disney
@@danstiver9135 "I'm losing to a bird!" or "See how I glitter!" comes to mind.
@@jbvader721 Hal, it's about water is the metaphor
@@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.
PAAAAAAAAAINT NEEEEVER DRIEEEEEEESS...
And might I add...
Ten years OOOOOOOOOOLLD!!
I could feel get straining not to say it
@@itamarolmert3549 OMG XDDDDDD
The music was good but the plot was horrible
We know its lindsay when Phantom gets more time than Hamilton
And that's the quality content we come for lol
Saw the thumbnail, saw Lindsay with her Phantom
*INSTANT CLICK AND LIKE*
With Lindsay involved, there was always going to be a musical episode at some point. PBS couldn't stop it.
Probably in the contract
Looking forward to Axiom's End: The Musical!
Yes, only three copies on the shelf behind her.
Would it be ironic if a musical adaptation of said book went on to be the next Hamilton?!?
Better title Goodbye, Axiom!
So axioms end the book will always have axiomatic superiority over its musical
So basically, Phantom of the Space Opera?
*Human embodiment of theater kid energy* 😂
I mean she’s not wrong
@@gennybaratta2460 Yep!
Les Miz: *Hundreds of pages of French history*
Shönberg: “I’d rather... rather... SING...”
Waterloo by ABBA plays aggressively in the background
Also Shönberg: I won't insult a French audience by assuming they don't know Victor Hugo well enough to fill in the gaps.
This is the most on-brand video Lindsay has ever made.
But I'm KINDA salty that Great Comet didn't get mentioned!
and hadestown! you cant just ignore rachel chavkin!!
She hasn't seen it (or even heard it) so that's probably why.
Gerard Guzmán Sandoval She’s definitely heard of Great Comet ...
@@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
It certainly is worth a mention! I freaking love great comet! Maybe is musical adaptations part 2...
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.
... 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...
That is the best description of superman I have ever read... I’m stealing that
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.
@@chunellemariavictoriaespan8752 straight boys can't sing because it hurts their masculinity
you need to check out Bronwyn Elvis Comics www.etsy.com/ca/shop/BronwynElvisComics
She makes graphic novels for musicals!
And the musical lives on
... disney plus.
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.
Fingers crossed for this to Easter Egg its way onto her channel.
Im a simple woman; i see Lindsay in a thumb nail, i click
Peak parasocialdom
Lindsey: “the love is still there.”
Me: Are you saying that... love never dies?
“human embodiment of theater kid energy” 😭☠️☠️
How Lindsay got through this whole episode without bringing up CATS, I will never understand...
TS Elliot's cats got the shrug.
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.
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
I haven't stopped bringing up CATS in every single conversation for months.
You know you’re a theatre nerd when two bars of any Les Mis song gives you goosebumps. 🤣🤷🏼♀️
My inner smug opera singer has to say: Donizetti, not Donzinetti.
The “Disney Musical Formula” took from actual Broadway, Ashman was a theater guy who adopted the musical theater formula of Rogers&Hammerstein into animation.
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
I could hear Lindsay talking about musicals all day, to be honest.
And, by the way... Love the Miss Argentina shirt!
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...
He did a cameo in spirit, when Lindsay laughs to clarify that book musical is "not a musical based on a book".
Whelp, looks like I'm never getting a musical named after me.
::Droops head sadly and walks away::
ROTFLMAO! 🤣 You never know someone could be writing an Eric the Viking musical as we speak. ⚒ 🇳🇴⚒
@@itwasagoodideaatthetime7980 True XD 🇳🇴 Tusen takk
Maybe not a musical, but Terry Pratchett's Eric has been turned into a theatrical play.
@@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
LMMAAAOOOOOOO
3 copies of Axiom's End on the shelves... Lindsay must be a fan...
I know I am...
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?
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.
She kind of does that on her podcast
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.
Yup it was a thing....
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).
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...
💜
"Snobbery."
"A snobbery?"
"Yes! A snobbery!"
o.o
Three copies of your own book in the background is *chef's kiss* a beautiful flex.
Musicals and Stage Plays are huge here in Japan. Pre-Pandemic, I went to one almost every week.
I wish we had that. There's not a single theatre in my place.
I'm jealous ☹️. I wish i have that here
Same here in India. In multiple languages. I am biased though. My language has the most interesting musicals.
I was thrilled the first time I saw videos of the Sailor Moon stage musicals. I would love to see that live someday.
13:52
I love that an ad saved us from Lindsay singing. Then the closing credits did the same.
"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.
This novel has everything...? I see what u did there, stefon!
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 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.
I love It’s Lit. I’ve seen every one of Lindsay’s videos, both on this channel and her own
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.
"It's Lit: The Anime" next?
or Manga
“Whatcha gonna do when the chips are down, now that the chips are down”
“See Phantom again, I guess”
3:49 “(not a musical based on a book)” ... looking at you Kaveh 👀
I understood that reference
"Compositor/lyricist/human embodiment of theater kid energy Lin-Manuel Miranda"
You forgot literal ray of sunshine.
You could almost say the time we’ve been expecting a musical themed episode feels like... teeeen yeeeeeaaaaars OOOOoooooOOoOoOOLD
I'll be honest. I kinda suspected that the dialog would be sung.
It's Lindsay. What did you expect?
Lets work together rot turn all of the dialogue into a musical!
@@jbvader721 the film length documentary of musicals.
@@benjaminwilliams8030 problem. I'm a disciple of metal.
Paladin Demo there are some metal musicals. I’m currently drawing a blank, but I’m sure they exist
Of course Michael Billington originally trashed Les Mis. That man is my nemesis. If we ever meet irl its on sight
I really thought she was gonna say "if the success of hamilton on disney tells us anything, the LOVE... NEVER DIES"
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*
Oh, my aching heart... 🎶🎶
@@TabbyeLynne whatcha gonna do when the chips are down? Now that the chips are down!
PBS contractually forbad Lindsey from singing 😂
Brilliant vid!!!!
I see 3 copies of Axiom's End
I wonder if there's some bias there
@@brandonmelling771 I don't know, but I'm waiting for the audiobook / musical 😒
I was looking for this comment
I can't find the third one😭
(never mind, I just did)
I am mainly just chuffed to learn we have similar tastes in Star Wars Literature
Love the SNL shout out.
"The love is still there."
I guess you could say the love...never died?
Love the quick rundown of musical theatre and the validity of adaptation, learned some new things!!
LINDSAY SAW LESTAT???!!!! That is absolutely AMAZING!!! It only had 39 performances!! I Want More is such a powerhouse song.
You should listen to her podcast Musicalsplaining she mentions it a few times. And it does not disappoint. twitter.com/musicalsplainin?lang=en
When you can see Lindsay's thoughts as: It finally came true!!!
That Axiom's End book to her right looks interesting. Is Lindsay going to do an episode on that some time soon?
I really really thought that she would end by saying "the love...never dies"
Loving that Miss Argentina shirt!
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)
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 😭😭
*In Seth Myers voice*: STEFON!
I love Lin-Manuel so much 😩 He's just so amazing.
That Stefan impersonation though!!
Me a few minutes in: Huh, I'm surprised she hasn't elaborated more on Phantom
Me at 10:38: Ah, there it is
OMG crying at the Stefon impression
NGL, though I love this episode with all my heart... kinda sad there was no song....
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.
"The love... is there"
Stop that, stop that, you're not breaking into Love Never Dies while I'm here!
Music to my ears
🎶*TEN YEEEAAAARRRRSSSSSS OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLDDD*🎶
You channeling Stefan was everything I didn't know I needed.
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.
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!
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.
I love you, Lindsay!
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
So when can I expect a musical adaptation of "Axiom's End"?
Loving all the different editions of 'Axiom's End'...
Oh bless I've been waiting for this one
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. 😂
Lindsay will not waste any opportunity to talk about Phantom and we love it
"Book Musical (not a musical based on a book)" *Kaveh leaves chat*
I caught the popular line from the musical and loved it. Also great song by Mika.
100% LIVING for the Stefan reference! Im dead
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.
I hadn't noticed the Honor Harrington books on her shelf before, I love that. I want a close look at the shelf!
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.
Lindsay doing Stefan about Phantom was the treat I didn't know I needed
I need videos like this to get through covid
Wow. I was just watching Showboat clips and then this got uploaded!
I love the prominently featured Star Wars EU books, especially the Zahn's Thrawn triology and duology.
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.
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 will also consider this a “How To Musical” shorthand for lovers of musicals 🤓❤️
I'm in love with Lindsay
She is just so gorgeous
I could watch her talk for hours