hilariously the tickets were cheaper than regular screen theaters in the city, I guess since it's half an hour away location really is everything there
I think I'm gonna start canon reviewing for Apollo while I'm at it... I have the AJ trilogy on Steam and I know I can probably blast through the first game since I know it so well
as someone who never got to see the play live (I saw a shitty bootleg video of it), being able to follow the story in a gorgeous detailed movie was def like.... the best alternate option
as much as I would've loved to see the play, not everyone lives in places that show the big ones and it's still extremely rare for plays to be filmed legally
but the casting for everyone was perfect, the songs were perfect, the new twist at the end I... don't remember from the play but I'm pretty sure was in the book??
(and tbh. tbqh. when boiled down this first movie really is just a fantasy version of 'this is what it's like to get woke in college and have your first lesbian crush')