have been unavoidably detained by the world

In her short story collection The Girl Who Heard Dragons, Anne McCaffrey (yes, of Dragonriders of Pern fame) wrote a short story called Euterpe on a Fling. It's not a famous story, but the basic premise as I remembered it was that an opera singer sang a performance one night that was simultaneously broadcast on the radio, in the early days of the radio. And the audience in the theater was enraptured by the performance, and could not stop talking about how amazing it was even years later. The radio audience, however, apparently heard a disastrous performance from that one opera singer, to the point that the radio station actually stops the live broadcast. The opera singer dies that very night and the mystery is never solved. The implication I took away from the story is that there was something magical, otherworldly or at the very least hypnotic coming from the opera singer that night. Something truly special that only the audience experienced, something that didn't, or couldn't translate over radio. Every person in the audience remains grateful they saw a once-in-a-lifetime performance. Everyone who heard the radio broadcast remained hopelessly confused.

So. Let's talk about Anthony Boyle in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. ( cut for spoilers )

OMG OMG OMG LLM DID A HAM4HAM ABOUT THE OTHER HAMILTON BABIES THAT DIDN'T MAKE IT INTO THE PLAY. (Video here, lyrics here.)

:D :D :D :D

Now, make one for the other 12 Schuyler children. I'll wait. YES ALL TWELVE. THINK WE FORGOT ABOUT THEM?

When this fandom fades and everything online is lost, the next round of fans are going to be so unhappy that all they have is this (ground-breaking, awesome) piddly musical to see. It's going to be a graveyard of dead video links.

And I have to say, as someone who doesn't identify or consider myself as a Broadway fan, it's still delightful to watch how much we're getting to see the Broadway people having fun with each other. This video has the Fun Home kids and references to Fiddler on the Roof, The Sound of Music and, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. LMM bring people to Ham4Ham I've never heard of but make him SO EXCITED. Heck, I've rewatched the Les Mis audition/Welcome to Broadway video a few times I love watching fandoms be happy even when I have no idea WTF is happening.