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skygiantsFor Festivids this year I made "Sunset Curve Never Gone Tour" for bessyboo, a Julie and the Phantoms vid about the power of friendship and nineties pop-rock!
On Tumblr | On AO3
(I am very grateful for TRULY invaluable beta commentary fromshati and bluestalking which ensured that this vid was not ENTIRELY three minutes of incomprehensible dance numbers.)
For those of you who have not previously experienced Julie and the Phantoms: this show is an all-Kenny-Ortega-all-the-time spectacular (Kenny Ortega being the mastermind behind eternal classics Newsies, Hocus Pocus, and the High School Musical trilogy, among others) about a nineties boyband that suffers a collective tragic demise after an encounter with some bad hot dogs on the eve of their breakout performance.
Fortunately, they get a second chance when teen musician Julie accidentally summons their ghosts twenty years later, and they make the subsequent discovery that they can appear to the public IF and only if they are Jamming Onstage with Julie. Hijinks, ghost shenanigans, and large number of enthusiastic dance numbers ensue!
Subplots include but are not limited to:
- the band helping Julie reconnect to music after losing her groove in the aftermath of her mother's death
- a probably-doomed romance between Julie and a ghost boyband member
- a possibly-doomed romance between a ghost boyband member and a fellow ghost lad
- warm family and friendship vibes between Julie, her best friend (eventually ghost-aware), her little brother (ghost-suspicious), and her dad (completely ghost-oblivious but very supportive!)
- an evil ghost hotelier who wants to compel the band into an eternity of musical ghost indentured servitude!
Obviously if you put "Kenny Ortega" and "ghost shenanigans" into the same sentence I am always going to be there with bells on, but I would genuinely recommend the show to anyone looking for some warm quarantimes entertainment. Eight half-hour episodes in season 1 and each of them is a solid 20% bops!
bessyboo, a Julie and the Phantoms vid about the power of friendship and nineties pop-rock! On Tumblr | On AO3
(I am very grateful for TRULY invaluable beta commentary from
shati and bluestalking which ensured that this vid was not ENTIRELY three minutes of incomprehensible dance numbers.)For those of you who have not previously experienced Julie and the Phantoms: this show is an all-Kenny-Ortega-all-the-time spectacular (Kenny Ortega being the mastermind behind eternal classics Newsies, Hocus Pocus, and the High School Musical trilogy, among others) about a nineties boyband that suffers a collective tragic demise after an encounter with some bad hot dogs on the eve of their breakout performance.
Fortunately, they get a second chance when teen musician Julie accidentally summons their ghosts twenty years later, and they make the subsequent discovery that they can appear to the public IF and only if they are Jamming Onstage with Julie. Hijinks, ghost shenanigans, and large number of enthusiastic dance numbers ensue!
Subplots include but are not limited to:
- the band helping Julie reconnect to music after losing her groove in the aftermath of her mother's death
- a probably-doomed romance between Julie and a ghost boyband member
- a possibly-doomed romance between a ghost boyband member and a fellow ghost lad
- warm family and friendship vibes between Julie, her best friend (eventually ghost-aware), her little brother (ghost-suspicious), and her dad (completely ghost-oblivious but very supportive!)
- an evil ghost hotelier who wants to compel the band into an eternity of musical ghost indentured servitude!
Obviously if you put "Kenny Ortega" and "ghost shenanigans" into the same sentence I am always going to be there with bells on, but I would genuinely recommend the show to anyone looking for some warm quarantimes entertainment. Eight half-hour episodes in season 1 and each of them is a solid 20% bops!
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Date: 2021-02-06 09:14 pm (UTC)And I LOVED Newsies!
Hocus Pocus, on the other hand, did nothing for me.
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Date: 2021-02-07 12:17 am (UTC)I have not seen this show, but my godchild mainlined it earlier in the quarantine and then proceeded to retell it to me in enthusiastic, not always linear detail, so I feel very fondly toward it on principle.
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