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    "not an idea",
    "sorry paper here i'm very interested in the musical/opera false dichotomy i've explained it a couple time on my personal"
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  "textContent": "WHAT?!\n\nbut also i kind of love the idea of adapting a 19th century book in an artform that would have existed at the time (the precurser to the jukebox musical, ballad opera)",
  "title": "i love that you brought up getting lots of moby dick asks and associating it with schools because it reminded me of the time back in high school in the 2000s where our class picked an abridged adaptation of moby dick as our year-end school play, except they turned it into a fucking jukebox musical where all the songs featured were nautical-themed parody covers of 90s-00s pop songs. at one point captain ahab even sings a parody of the Backstreet Boys’ “I Want It That Way” except it’s “I’m Huntin…"
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