He'll sail for a little...

Ship - coffincrafts on Etsy

Another ship pendant, another etsy item. It's looking like a lot of these posts will get their clothing half from Etsy, but given that there's so many different stores within it (read: variety!) and they're all indie and could use whatever shoutouts they can get, I don't see much of a problem with that.


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Spring Awakening 2001 Workshop - There Once Was a Pirate
(Sung by Lea Michele, Gavin Creel, and company)

My head's full of Spring Awakening today, and I'd been planning to work this entry into this Beach Week thing I'm doing anyway, so here you are. This is an early song that I think was still in the off-Broadway production of SA, but it was taken out when the show transferred to Broadway. The song "The Guilty Ones" was added in its place. I like both songs, and I sort of wish they'd managed to keep this one in the lineup somewhere, because there's this reference in the show about how the four main characters used to "play pirates" together when they were kids, and it'd be kind of cool to have a song in there that relates to that...

ANYWAY. This particular audio of "There Once Was a Pirate" is rather fancypants, since it features Gavin Creel singing as the lead character Melchior; he was the original actor in the role (before Jonathan Groff), though he was only involved very early on in the process. He's currently starring in the 2009 revival of HAIR.

(PS: DO NOT BE ALARMED by the random outburst from Lea at the end of the song! For some reason, the person who uploaded the video decided to conclude it by splicing in a few seconds of a scene from the show.)