Hey dude! Love your content! Thanks for taking such care in creating such an in depth video on our little show. I try to never comment on things like this, BUT since you asked a few times... here is the outline of "Utopia" we were working off of hahah Utopia is the story of Kaia, a teenage girl who longs to see what lies beyond the walls of Anbrathian, a mega-city built in what was formally the United States, and the last place on Earth that can sustain human life. Anbrathian was established in 74 BNW (Before Nuclear War), or 2950 AD as an experiment to see if humans could build a self-sustaining city to be used as a prototype for other planets. A dome was built to surround the city to completely cut it off from the rest of human civilization and the experiment began. Then, 74 years later, the rest of the world engaged in Nuclear war and all was lost except for Anbrathian, as the dome was built to withstand harsh conditions, including Nuclear War. When the aftermath of the attacks finally settled, Anbrathian set out a reconnaissance mission to see who survived; they found no one, leaving Anbrathian as the only human life left in the universe. It is now 124 ANW (After Nuclear War) and Kaia is about to be assigned one of the 4 roles - Watcher, Giver, Advocate, Thinker. She is given one of the most exclusive and important roles, a Watcher - the world has turned into a nightmarish place and the Watchers protect Anbrathian from the outside world and guard the dome. Kaia knows she must do her duty, but also has a longing that something must lie beyond the walls and beyond the dome. Eventually, she is on night watch and sees something moving close to the dome. She should call for help, but she’s drawn to whatever is on the other side. She is never allowed to open the gates, only the 4 High Watchers at the same time have the power - well, 4 High Watchers OR someone of royal blood. (Her Grandmother rules the city.) She goes against all of her instincts and opens the gate, and exits the dome, finally seeing what she has always longed for. Not until she is through the gates does she see that the world is not a burnt, ashy horror scene, it is in fact a beautiful and tranquil place. And the thing she saw through the dome was a handsome young man named Jarek. They chat, and while Kaia has always longed to see beyond the dome, Jarek, has always longed to see what was within. It’s forbidden to get close, but he couldn’t help himself he had to know what was hiding within the dome. Throughout the rest of the novel, they continue to meet in secret as they try to discover why Anbrathian was really made, and uncover the truth that lies within the dome, eventually freeing the people from Anbrathian and allowing everyone to go… beyond the dome.
Daniel, this is amazing! Thank you so much for watching, I respect the shit out of you, man. Keeping making dope stuff!! I can’t wait to see what you do next :)
@@coyoteartist in a vacuum it would be funny, but I've seen that meme so many times and seeing a somewhat real production rely on jokes that have already been told instead of writing their own leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
@@morgangunning30 yeah, it is a fun expression when used by real people semi-ironically but in a corporate product with full sincerity it is just hollow
Except if you think about it too hard it doesn't really make sense, surely the more notable thing Dorothy does is "melt" Elphaba.. And also, Dorothy didn't kill nessa in wicked, Morrible did. It'd be like describing wicked as the wizard of oz spin off (also spin off is not the right word) about the witch who put them all to sleep in the poppy field
@@n3wp0rtz no? The joke is that that "spin off" would be the wizard of oz which already exists. But within the universe of that joke it doesnt work because that is not how someone who had seen wicked but not Wiz would refer to Dorothy a character central (if offstage) to the climax of the second act. Also it doesn't work even if that was Dorothy's main action in the story because explicitly in the universe of wicked we know Dorothy's tornado landing on nessa wasn't an accident or perpetrated by Dorothy but was deliberate weather magic by Morrible
@@n3wp0rtz ultimately I don't think it's an important criticism or even that it makes the joke unfunny, just noticing that the only joke I laughed at doesn't really hold up if you think too hard
Ur so right, I literally expected him to list it in the musicals similar to it 😭 The high school musical focused plot, the main character slowly becoming an asshat while pursuing a nerdy girl. All landon needs is a best friend to abandon
Although this is a very small detail, I want to point out that the line "come on brain think of things" in the Tick Tick Boom inspired song is a reference to a Vine made by Lin Manuel Miranda.
Between Ratatouille and For You, Page, it seems that Danny K Bernstein prefers music making over storytelling. That’s 100% valid but a musical needs a healthy mix of both. He should probably look into finding a writing partner because the book is just dragging the music down with it.
I just realized, this musical is kinda TikTok propaganda, isn’t it? Like, it couldn’t end with the utopia musical failing like you suggested because that would make it seem like TikTok ISNT a meritocracy where all the hard working creative people get what they’ve hoped for. When, yknow, it isn’t in real life, but TikTok’s not gonna say that. I’m really curious now how much input TikTok as the commissioner had into what the script would be about.
Until the end of the video, I thought the "Utopia" novel in question was Thomas Moores 16th century novel, Utopia. I kind of just accepted that they were really nerdy history kids.
@@rpminergabe2953 that is true however they literally called them “factions” and the giver (i havent seen the hunger games so idk) doesn’t necessarily have a name for their groups. its also more likely a group of theatre kids has seen divergent than the giver
@@sevencents7 I dont necessarily agree. The giver is more likely to be assigned reading than Divergent, and The Giver and Taylor Swift and Meryl Streep, two icons to gays and the theatre kids alike.
Nothing can match my astonishment when my gamer boyfriend came across the tiktok musical playing LIVE (I didn't have the app myself) and I proceeded to watch it in disbelief for 45 minutes. Yes I'm a theatre nerd. Overall surreal experience
It's interesting that I LIVE on musical theatre tiktok and have literally never heard of this musical until now. The Ratatoille Musical was literally everywhere, but For You, Paige was no where...
Loved the video, very informative! The weirdest part of this musical for me is the ending. I wish they would've gone for a full powder keg. Like Landon can't finish a good song in time so they drop him and get someone in the industry, but the idea stops trending and loses steam so the plans are dropped all together. Then him and Paige write the musical anyway and put it one for their high school. Then you could have a message about how creating art is valuable even if it doesn't reach an enormous audience. Just a thought
In most theatre productions, you need 1 month of rehearsals, most of that is spent with leads to get their lines and solos comfortable before adding in ensemble pieces, choreography, and blocking. The last week leading up to performance is Tech week and that's when stage pieces, lights, and mics are added. For the actress to be peaking hard on her mic during the song at 27:53 definitely is a mic issue. Meaning they probably did not rehearse this song at full during tech week while she was miced. So the audio engineer didn't expect to bring her gain down when she belted like that, causing the off sound of her voice. Another thing that could contribute to this is her voice being so loud that the audio quality drops on whatever device they used to record and mix with everything else for the final cut.
I feel like there was a relatively easy fix to the ballad, which would be to have it recorded and posted in-universe. Much later in the show (probably around the time the venue is booked by Landon’s agent), Paige posts a rant, not expecting it to go viral (which could be a parallel to how Landon’s Utopia song goes viral). It may be difficult to bridge the gap between the backlash Landon would likely get and the happy ending, but as an audience member I would probably suspend my disbelief if I saw Landon reconcile with Paige and Paige posting an update that she’s now working on the show.
I thought the exact same thing! Having the ballad be an in-universe video/tiktok would create a larger conflict as the public turns on Liam and make the ballad pivotal to the story.
Sorry but even after watching countless videos I can’t get over the crux of the main song of the Ratatouille musical calling him “Remy the Ratatouille” even though it’s SO wrong. It’s not the focus of this video and the composer guy himself is truly impressive but that lyric still bugs me 😂💀
He definitely should have let this cook a little longer. If he was trying to chase the success of the Ratatouille musical, he was screwed from the beginning because i feel people immediately stopped talking about it the moment it dropped.
Ok. "Utopia" and the whole "the dome" thing is like.. LITERALLY the book The Giver... A world thats destroyed minus a dome where the government is controlling everyones daily lives and what they believe/feel, where the main character is a special person who is chosen to learn the truth - wich they even call her a "giver", oh yeah and the factions could even be the jobs they have because those are assigned to people(Idr remember that part tho its been a while since I read it). Anyways the mc gets curious and leaves the dome and finds out its actually fine- Only thing we're missing is the mc taking a newborn baby outside the dome with her and then dying in the cold with it👍
I love me a good Compound Productions video essay. I've been waiting for someone to make a video about For You, Paige!!! (And Daniel is an amazingly wonderful human being, I love him to death!)
A tiktok musical I like a lot that I think is actually good is the Epic one. It’s still in the middle of being made but it seems super promising. It’s by Jorge Rivera-Herrans
I haven’t finished the video yet so I am unsure if this is a point that he brings up, but what if they made Paige’s ballad a tiktok in the universe as well. This isn’t the most ground breaking idea and if the team had been given more time it could have come up. What if Paige being fed up with Liam and upset with him taking all the credit for the lyrics that she helped write makes a tiktok or a video of some sorts “exposing” him. I don’t know how in character that would be for her but it would also create more character conflict now that some of the pairs dirty laundry had been aired to the public and now people may start turning on Liam. It was a thought that crossed my mind that may have made that ballad more pivotal to the story. Can’t wait to finish the video!
Daniel mertzluft also wrote songs for the ATLA or Avatar: The Last Airbender fan made Musical. It got canceled probably because of copyright but they had really good songs. It was started by Katherine Lynn Rose when she wrote fan songs. You should check it out it’s pretty good!
As a very visual person I simply cannot get over the vertical aspect ratio. If you need to have two people on screen at the same time you have to zoom out so much that scenes that were supposed to be personal feel so distant emotionally and literally.
27:50 as a sound engineer and a vocalist, that is definitely her mic. Her voice is a little strained but it needs to be pulled away from her mouth, gained down, and compressed a bit less. Otherwise her sound is very clean tbh.
my god please go over the morbius musical if you have time . i have literally never heared of this until now and i am utterly fascinated by its mere existence
I have been waiting for this one! I loved the ratatouille musical review, you were so kind to it despite it's faults and I really enjoy your work. Positive yet critical in the right places, and extremely funny. Can't wait to see what you do next, keep it up and hope you're well!
I find this guy not even 1 day ago, finished watching all of his content, find his secret second channel a few hours after it is created and now he posts this when I’m out of content to watch. You are a great man Mr. Compound Productions
at first when you said the name of the musical I heard "For you, Paige" and I was like 'aww thats nice, it's about a bunch of people coming together for someone else'... and then I realised Edit: welp
THANK YOU HOLY SHIT. i fr thought this was a musical i dreamt and then i forgot about it after i deleted tiktok 😭 ALSO I SEE THE FALSETTOS VINYL !!! please make a video on falsettos it would be so good :( i love the way you explain things and falsettos is my favorite musical. i’d love to hear your take on it !
This give be more chill vibes. A nerdy high schooler who only has one close friend does something that sky rockets their popularity when they get popular they leave their best friend but after a while they realize there’s a problem and only there old best friend can help and it all ends with a theater production where they become friends again
I think a dystopian musical would be cool (I am not biased I am not biased I am not biased) I think how I personally would handle it is have the set and costumes and makeup make the world look really terrible and all the dialogue and story progressions and what not would agree with that, but the songs would be happy pop songs that totally glance over the problems of their world. But as the musical progresses, the main character's songs gradually become less poppy and also more genuine, as the characters around her continue to belt fun pop songs at her while she's spiraling into ballad territory. I think she should die in the end idk I want an unhappy ending
wild experience listening to this at work and getting jumpscared by the full name of a guy you went to high school with 😂 rj was such a cool dude I’m glad to hear he’s doing well for himself! I was a good friend of his sister in middle school and he deserves the recognition for his talent. I’m not a tiktoker so this is the first I’ve heard about other people knowing of him! crazy stuff!
Idk how much you read comments on your vids but you should talk about Epic the other tiktok musical that isn’t fully on stage but they released a whole soundtrack to it. I think it’s a cool juxtaposition from this musical that has super contemporary & therefore easily dated by a musical about Greek mythology that took a long time to come together
Can we just have utopia the musical? Like have it be an actual musical but done in a longer time frame to fully polish it I rather watch it than for you Paige I would love that
surprised that you both made jokes about the references and about lin manuel miranda getting into everything but missed that "come on brain think of things come on brain be so smart" at 32:19 is a reference to a LMM vine (so there are references to non tiktok things too i guess)
im new to ur channel, and i saw the March of the Falsettos cover! u seem very fun and involved in the musical theater community. im excited to be a new subscriber!!
the 'in my head' song that joe and andrew sang on that new album daniel made might be one of my favorite songs right now, and i had no idea daniel was behind that!!
Daniel mertzluff is an amazing guy. I go to JTF every year and one time we got to work with him to perform a song from dot and the kangaroo, a musical he wrote the musical for. Nicest guy I’ve ever met with great songwriting skills
you should do a video on starkid as a concept and their company because i feel like they’re very unique that it’s a production company with a fanbase lol
Don't know if I would call it a Tik Tok musical (not sure how we're defining that exactly?), but a musical that is being created on and helped in part by tik tok (and I am really really loving) is Epic the musical, which is a retelling of the Odyssey and is really really good. The creator is still working on it, but there are 17 completed songs already out (the musical is broke down into different 'sagas' with the Troy, Cyclops, Ocean, and Circe sagas already being out) with 5 more (the underworld saga) coming April 26, and there's clips of parts of songs from the rest of the musical out there too, though those parts are still undergoing edits and revisions. You can search up a compilation of all the completed songs and clips here on youtube very easily, and there are a number of animators who have made wonderful animatics for it. Highly recommend checking it out if you're interested!
I saw the thumbnail and, I'm jewish, and went "wow, a musical about adolf hitler, thats so stupid, its like "The producers' but unironic and then realized I saw the microphones, my brain saw them as hitler staches, then filled in the word hitler on the thumbnail and came to that assumption.
the welleman bit would have been just a bit less painful had they at least changed the lyrics to something relevant to the scene. "soon may the bell ring us out" or some shit like that idk
hey maxwell! i just discovered your channel recently and i just wanted to say you are doing so great man! keep up the good work buddy. -your biggest fan😃👍
Hey dude! Love your content! Thanks for taking such care in creating such an in depth video on our little show. I try to never comment on things like this, BUT since you asked a few times... here is the outline of "Utopia" we were working off of hahah
Utopia is the story of Kaia, a teenage girl who longs to see what lies beyond the walls of Anbrathian, a mega-city built in what was formally the United States, and the last place on Earth that can sustain human life. Anbrathian was established in 74 BNW (Before Nuclear War), or 2950 AD as an experiment to see if humans could build a self-sustaining city to be used as a prototype for other planets. A dome was built to surround the city to completely cut it off from the rest of human civilization and the experiment began.
Then, 74 years later, the rest of the world engaged in Nuclear war and all was lost except for Anbrathian, as the dome was built to withstand harsh conditions, including Nuclear War. When the aftermath of the attacks finally settled, Anbrathian set out a reconnaissance mission to see who survived; they found no one, leaving Anbrathian as the only human life left in the universe.
It is now 124 ANW (After Nuclear War) and Kaia is about to be assigned one of the 4 roles - Watcher, Giver, Advocate, Thinker. She is given one of the most exclusive and important roles, a Watcher - the world has turned into a nightmarish place and the Watchers protect Anbrathian from the outside world and guard the dome. Kaia knows she must do her duty, but also has a longing that something must lie beyond the walls and beyond the dome.
Eventually, she is on night watch and sees something moving close to the dome. She should call for help, but she’s drawn to whatever is on the other side. She is never allowed to open the gates, only the 4 High Watchers at the same time have the power - well, 4 High Watchers OR someone of royal blood. (Her Grandmother rules the city.) She goes against all of her instincts and opens the gate, and exits the dome, finally seeing what she has always longed for. Not until she is through the gates does she see that the world is not a burnt, ashy horror scene, it is in fact a beautiful and tranquil place. And the thing she saw through the dome was a handsome young man named Jarek. They chat, and while Kaia has always longed to see beyond the dome, Jarek, has always longed to see what was within. It’s forbidden to get close, but he couldn’t help himself he had to know what was hiding within the dome. Throughout the rest of the novel, they continue to meet in secret as they try to discover why Anbrathian was really made, and uncover the truth that lies within the dome, eventually freeing the people from Anbrathian and allowing everyone to go… beyond the dome.
Daniel, this is amazing! Thank you so much for watching, I respect the shit out of you, man. Keeping making dope stuff!! I can’t wait to see what you do next :)
Wow, why can’t this be an actual book series?
The man himself! Plot seems very interesting tbh. Make it a real book/musical
sounds interesting! not dissimilar to divergent imo
@@The-j-ester This is an actual book series. It's a couple dozen YA book series.
The out of context "you might have girlbossed too close to the sun" was so shocking it felt like a gunshot
I really don't want to admit I thought that line was funny.
@@coyoteartist in a vacuum it would be funny, but I've seen that meme so many times and seeing a somewhat real production rely on jokes that have already been told instead of writing their own leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
@@morgangunning30 yeah, it is a fun expression when used by real people semi-ironically but in a corporate product with full sincerity it is just hollow
no matter how hard this was workshopped, it was never gonna be Kevin Chamberlin singing Anyone Can Cook
That song is stuck in my head I swear
okay but what did he do for paige??? steal her lyrics? ok landon
The joke about a Wicked spin-off from the perspective of "the little girl who kills" Nessa was actually pretty funny
Probably the best part of the show
Except if you think about it too hard it doesn't really make sense, surely the more notable thing Dorothy does is "melt" Elphaba.. And also, Dorothy didn't kill nessa in wicked, Morrible did.
It'd be like describing wicked as the wizard of oz spin off (also spin off is not the right word) about the witch who put them all to sleep in the poppy field
@@matte5705pretty sure that’s the joke lol
@@n3wp0rtz no? The joke is that that "spin off" would be the wizard of oz which already exists. But within the universe of that joke it doesnt work because that is not how someone who had seen wicked but not Wiz would refer to Dorothy a character central (if offstage) to the climax of the second act.
Also it doesn't work even if that was Dorothy's main action in the story because explicitly in the universe of wicked we know Dorothy's tornado landing on nessa wasn't an accident or perpetrated by Dorothy but was deliberate weather magic by Morrible
@@n3wp0rtz ultimately I don't think it's an important criticism or even that it makes the joke unfunny, just noticing that the only joke I laughed at doesn't really hold up if you think too hard
Six the musical is also a great example of a short musical that is fantastic, it’s only like 45 minutes long
Really?! I watched it and thought it was longer. I guess it’s because I was on the edge of my seat the whole time:)
@@steaky6523 no i watched it live too, there is no way that was just 45 mins!
the premise of this musical kinda feels like be more chill but without all of the be more chill. if that makes sense
I was thinking the same thing
i was thinking the same thing lol i think its the highschool setting and the way some of the music sounds
Ur so right, I literally expected him to list it in the musicals similar to it 😭 The high school musical focused plot, the main character slowly becoming an asshat while pursuing a nerdy girl. All landon needs is a best friend to abandon
be less chill
@@eddietaylor7931 paige /is/ the best friend landon abandons
Although this is a very small detail, I want to point out that the line "come on brain think of things" in the Tick Tick Boom inspired song is a reference to a Vine made by Lin Manuel Miranda.
I still quote it to this day 😂
he controls all musicals whether they know it or not XD
LOL
Between Ratatouille and For You, Page, it seems that Danny K Bernstein prefers music making over storytelling. That’s 100% valid but a musical needs a healthy mix of both. He should probably look into finding a writing partner because the book is just dragging the music down with it.
“Also known for being in the American Psycho musical”
The WHAT?
Ohhhh yes, that exists. And apparently it’s great! Wait in the Wings did a video on it.
The bootleg is very easy to find
LMAOOOO
I imagine the live version of this musical just being some guy standing on stage while playing the musical on his phone
I just realized, this musical is kinda TikTok propaganda, isn’t it? Like, it couldn’t end with the utopia musical failing like you suggested because that would make it seem like TikTok ISNT a meritocracy where all the hard working creative people get what they’ve hoped for. When, yknow, it isn’t in real life, but TikTok’s not gonna say that. I’m really curious now how much input TikTok as the commissioner had into what the script would be about.
The “good soup” reference made me want to crawl into a ball and retreat…tHIS IS WHY WE CAN’T HAVE A TIK TOK MUSICAL.
32:16 “come on brain think of things come on brain be so smart” is a direct reference to a Vine made by none other than Lin-Manuel Miranda 😂
Until the end of the video, I thought the "Utopia" novel in question was Thomas Moores 16th century novel, Utopia. I kind of just accepted that they were really nerdy history kids.
This is the best interpretation, thanks
Ok so im pretty sure that “Utopia” is just the divergent series under a different name. The factions, cut off from the world, a dystopian city, etc
That was exactly my thought
that’s what i was thinking the whole time
It's a common theme amongst dystopian novels in general, like. Hunger Games, or The Giver
@@rpminergabe2953 that is true however they literally called them “factions” and the giver (i havent seen the hunger games so idk) doesn’t necessarily have a name for their groups. its also more likely a group of theatre kids has seen divergent than the giver
@@sevencents7 I dont necessarily agree. The giver is more likely to be assigned reading than Divergent, and The Giver and Taylor Swift and Meryl Streep, two icons to gays and the theatre kids alike.
Nothing can match my astonishment when my gamer boyfriend came across the tiktok musical playing LIVE (I didn't have the app myself) and I proceeded to watch it in disbelief for 45 minutes. Yes I'm a theatre nerd. Overall surreal experience
That sounds like a trip 😂
Thanks for shouting out Morbin' Time! We had a great time putting that show together.
Of course, I can’t wait to see what you guys do next!!
It's interesting that I LIVE on musical theatre tiktok and have literally never heard of this musical until now. The Ratatoille Musical was literally everywhere, but For You, Paige was no where...
i’m so jealous of you and your march of the falsettos vinyl
It is the best item I own, shouts out my uncle
im so jealous of you and your join us vinyl
I'm jealous of the little shop vinal
me too
It changed in the middle of the vid
Loved the video, very informative! The weirdest part of this musical for me is the ending. I wish they would've gone for a full powder keg. Like Landon can't finish a good song in time so they drop him and get someone in the industry, but the idea stops trending and loses steam so the plans are dropped all together. Then him and Paige write the musical anyway and put it one for their high school. Then you could have a message about how creating art is valuable even if it doesn't reach an enormous audience.
Just a thought
In most theatre productions, you need 1 month of rehearsals, most of that is spent with leads to get their lines and solos comfortable before adding in ensemble pieces, choreography, and blocking. The last week leading up to performance is Tech week and that's when stage pieces, lights, and mics are added. For the actress to be peaking hard on her mic during the song at 27:53 definitely is a mic issue. Meaning they probably did not rehearse this song at full during tech week while she was miced. So the audio engineer didn't expect to bring her gain down when she belted like that, causing the off sound of her voice. Another thing that could contribute to this is her voice being so loud that the audio quality drops on whatever device they used to record and mix with everything else for the final cut.
His name is Landon and her name is Paige. Landon. Paige. Landing Page?! This must have been done on purpose.
I kind of unironically love the "good soup" line. It's the only reference with any amount of subtlety
I feel like there was a relatively easy fix to the ballad, which would be to have it recorded and posted in-universe. Much later in the show (probably around the time the venue is booked by Landon’s agent), Paige posts a rant, not expecting it to go viral (which could be a parallel to how Landon’s Utopia song goes viral).
It may be difficult to bridge the gap between the backlash Landon would likely get and the happy ending, but as an audience member I would probably suspend my disbelief if I saw Landon reconcile with Paige and Paige posting an update that she’s now working on the show.
I thought the exact same thing! Having the ballad be an in-universe video/tiktok would create a larger conflict as the public turns on Liam and make the ballad pivotal to the story.
This is totally one of those 'We came up with the title and wrote the plot around that' cases.
Sorry but even after watching countless videos I can’t get over the crux of the main song of the Ratatouille musical calling him “Remy the Ratatouille” even though it’s SO wrong. It’s not the focus of this video and the composer guy himself is truly impressive but that lyric still bugs me 😂💀
My jaw DROPPED when I heard the horns doing the ratatouille motif
He definitely should have let this cook a little longer. If he was trying to chase the success of the Ratatouille musical, he was screwed from the beginning because i feel people immediately stopped talking about it the moment it dropped.
Now you have to talk about Epic: The Musical
“i’d get run over by a ford 150” i felt that in my soul
HA
Ok. "Utopia" and the whole "the dome" thing is like.. LITERALLY the book The Giver...
A world thats destroyed minus a dome where the government is controlling everyones daily lives and what they believe/feel, where the main character is a special person who is chosen to learn the truth - wich they even call her a "giver", oh yeah and the factions could even be the jobs they have because those are assigned to people(Idr remember that part tho its been a while since I read it). Anyways the mc gets curious and leaves the dome and finds out its actually fine-
Only thing we're missing is the mc taking a newborn baby outside the dome with her and then dying in the cold with it👍
I do not mean this in a harsh way but there are a lot of dystopian novels with that plot.
That ending was a turn. SHE DIED IN THE COLD WITH A BABY
I love me a good Compound Productions video essay. I've been waiting for someone to make a video about For You, Paige!!! (And Daniel is an amazingly wonderful human being, I love him to death!)
That’s so great to hear he’s actually super cool IRL! He’s crazy talented. Thanks for watching, Noah🙏🏻🙏🏻
A tiktok musical I like a lot that I think is actually good is the Epic one. It’s still in the middle of being made but it seems super promising. It’s by Jorge Rivera-Herrans
First Hamilton then Ratatouille now this beautiful masterpiece
Too me first watch Hamilton
I haven’t finished the video yet so I am unsure if this is a point that he brings up, but what if they made Paige’s ballad a tiktok in the universe as well. This isn’t the most ground breaking idea and if the team had been given more time it could have come up. What if Paige being fed up with Liam and upset with him taking all the credit for the lyrics that she helped write makes a tiktok or a video of some sorts “exposing” him. I don’t know how in character that would be for her but it would also create more character conflict now that some of the pairs dirty laundry had been aired to the public and now people may start turning on Liam. It was a thought that crossed my mind that may have made that ballad more pivotal to the story. Can’t wait to finish the video!
Daniel mertzluft also wrote songs for the ATLA or Avatar: The Last Airbender fan made Musical. It got canceled probably because of copyright but they had really good songs. It was started by Katherine Lynn Rose when she wrote fan songs. You should check it out it’s pretty good!
Utopia *is* a show and if you wanna know more, Pyrocynical has a 7 HOUR VIDEO about it.
Yes, I have watched it.
I LIKE UOUR MARCH OF THE FALSETTOS VINYL
As a very visual person I simply cannot get over the vertical aspect ratio. If you need to have two people on screen at the same time you have to zoom out so much that scenes that were supposed to be personal feel so distant emotionally and literally.
27:50 as a sound engineer and a vocalist, that is definitely her mic. Her voice is a little strained but it needs to be pulled away from her mouth, gained down, and compressed a bit less. Otherwise her sound is very clean tbh.
my god please go over the morbius musical if you have time . i have literally never heared of this until now and i am utterly fascinated by its mere existence
The plot is pretty much the Austin and Ally pilot but with theater kids 💀
I am ashamed to admit that I instantly got all the (mostly outdated) tiktok trend references the show made you highlighted in this
“and we’ve been talking about this for god knows how long and the only remarkable thing I can remember is when the dad said ‘good soup’”
👏👏👏
I have been waiting for this one! I loved the ratatouille musical review, you were so kind to it despite it's faults and I really enjoy your work. Positive yet critical in the right places, and extremely funny. Can't wait to see what you do next, keep it up and hope you're well!
I find this guy not even 1 day ago, finished watching all of his content, find his secret second channel a few hours after it is created and now he posts this when I’m out of content to watch. You are a great man Mr. Compound Productions
This story is weaker than aron burr’s emotional state in illegal hamilton
very good video! (i am just staring at your falsettos vinyl)
“Starkid did back in the day” put some respect on Starkid they’ve only gotten better with age 😊
The only TikTok musicals I’d heard of before this were the Bridgerton Musical and the (I think still being made?) Epic (Homer’s Odyssey) Musical
I LOVE YOUR MARCH OF FALSETTOS VYNL I WANT IT
at first when you said the name of the musical I heard "For you, Paige" and I was like 'aww thats nice, it's about a bunch of people coming together for someone else'... and then I realised
Edit: welp
Now that would've been a banger :D
Max can talk to me about Musical related content all day! Keep the brilliant vids coming 😊
Ok but I love your falsettos thing in the background, it’s like one of my fav musical and I thought I was the only one who knew about it 😭
THANK YOU HOLY SHIT. i fr thought this was a musical i dreamt and then i forgot about it after i deleted tiktok 😭 ALSO I SEE THE FALSETTOS VINYL !!! please make a video on falsettos it would be so good :( i love the way you explain things and falsettos is my favorite musical. i’d love to hear your take on it !
You need to talk about epic the musical!
Seeing Bertram in a chef’s hat and clipping back to you made my brain think I was looking at PJ Dunkin. And I feel like that needs to be shared.✨🤣✨
I love in seeing in real time Daniel having to explain to Andy Cohen what a for you page is lol
This give be more chill vibes. A nerdy high schooler who only has one close friend does something that sky rockets their popularity when they get popular they leave their best friend but after a while they realize there’s a problem and only there old best friend can help and it all ends with a theater production where they become friends again
I think a dystopian musical would be cool (I am not biased I am not biased I am not biased)
I think how I personally would handle it is have the set and costumes and makeup make the world look really terrible and all the dialogue and story progressions and what not would agree with that, but the songs would be happy pop songs that totally glance over the problems of their world. But as the musical progresses, the main character's songs gradually become less poppy and also more genuine, as the characters around her continue to belt fun pop songs at her while she's spiraling into ballad territory.
I think she should die in the end idk I want an unhappy ending
wild experience listening to this at work and getting jumpscared by the full name of a guy you went to high school with 😂 rj was such a cool dude I’m glad to hear he’s doing well for himself! I was a good friend of his sister in middle school and he deserves the recognition for his talent. I’m not a tiktoker so this is the first I’ve heard about other people knowing of him! crazy stuff!
saw the falsettos logo and got scared you were going to diss the love of my life
25:47
I'm pretty sure our guy just blanked on his line for a minute there, thats what that looked like.
Idk how much you read comments on your vids but you should talk about Epic the other tiktok musical that isn’t fully on stage but they released a whole soundtrack to it. I think it’s a cool juxtaposition from this musical that has super contemporary & therefore easily dated by a musical about Greek mythology that took a long time to come together
I might be an absolutely basic bitch here, but the line "You might've girlbossed a little too close to the sun this time" actually got me. Hilarious.
the references section was genuinely so painful to watch that i had to pause and walk away from my laptop for a second 😭
Can we just have utopia the musical? Like have it be an actual musical but done in a longer time frame to fully polish it I rather watch it than for you Paige I would love that
i knew i’d love this when i saw March of the Falsettos
surprised that you both made jokes about the references and about lin manuel miranda getting into everything but missed that "come on brain think of things come on brain be so smart" at 32:19 is a reference to a LMM vine (so there are references to non tiktok things too i guess)
im new to ur channel, and i saw the March of the Falsettos cover! u seem very fun and involved in the musical theater community. im excited to be a new subscriber!!
I don't know how but I successfully psychically picked up on this guy's TMBG fan vibes. favorite band jumpscare
I would love for you to cover the Bridgerton musical!
There actually is another Tic Tok musical called epic the musical based on the odyssey
absolutely obsessed with this flash in the pan failure who thought this was a good idea
The illegal Hamilton video was amazing! Keep this coming!
the 'in my head' song that joe and andrew sang on that new album daniel made might be one of my favorite songs right now, and i had no idea daniel was behind that!!
Daniel mertzluff is an amazing guy. I go to JTF every year and one time we got to work with him to perform a song from dot and the kangaroo, a musical he wrote the musical for. Nicest guy I’ve ever met with great songwriting skills
at 19:04 ITS LITERALLY ONCE ON THIS ISLAND WHY DID THEY DO THIE MUSICAL SO BADD ITS SO GOOD WHYYYYYYYY 😭
I love how you make these videos, they're so fun to watch!!! also is that a March of the Falsettos VINYL!!! so sick
you should do a video on starkid as a concept and their company because i feel like they’re very unique that it’s a production company with a fanbase lol
I was literally watching part one today! I can’t believe part two is here!
Don't know if I would call it a Tik Tok musical (not sure how we're defining that exactly?), but a musical that is being created on and helped in part by tik tok (and I am really really loving) is Epic the musical, which is a retelling of the Odyssey and is really really good. The creator is still working on it, but there are 17 completed songs already out (the musical is broke down into different 'sagas' with the Troy, Cyclops, Ocean, and Circe sagas already being out) with 5 more (the underworld saga) coming April 26, and there's clips of parts of songs from the rest of the musical out there too, though those parts are still undergoing edits and revisions. You can search up a compilation of all the completed songs and clips here on youtube very easily, and there are a number of animators who have made wonderful animatics for it. Highly recommend checking it out if you're interested!
I saw the thumbnail and, I'm jewish, and went "wow, a musical about adolf hitler, thats so stupid, its like "The producers' but unironic and then realized I saw the microphones, my brain saw them as hitler staches, then filled in the word hitler on the thumbnail and came to that assumption.
utopia sounds just like city of ember ill be real
I legit thought you said his name was Blandon 😂 also I'm heartbroken that you lied about the Cars musical
Still waiting for that ATLA musical 😪
every time i watch a video of yours i just learn that your music taste OWNS
I think you need to talk about the epic musical
yeah! epic seems like it's shaping up to be great imo
32:12 is a Lin Manuel Miranda reference ("come on brain, think of things...")! I think it was a vine or something but I'm not completely sure-
Good soup.
G o o d s o u p
No idea how I ended staying up all night watching your videos but I appreciate the consistent TMBG representation. Didn’t sleep though.
she get beyond my dome till i reach utopia
the welleman bit would have been just a bit less painful had they at least changed the lyrics to something relevant to the scene. "soon may the bell ring us out" or some shit like that idk
He’s posting consistently and it makes me so hyped
falsettos obc in the background…. heyyy
The good soup line kinda hits tho bc of the actor
hey maxwell! i just discovered your channel recently and i just wanted to say you are doing so great man! keep up the good work buddy. -your biggest fan😃👍
Thanks Jack, reach for the stars kiddo!!
@@maxwellgreenee anything you say father!!😃😃
I love the march of the falsettos vinyl (correct me if im wrong lol) in the background 😭
I love love love Assassins. Please make a 3 hour video essay on it unironically