the writers of the lightning thief musical just clearly Get so much abt the books..the fact that luke and percy’s stories are paralleled to the point where luke reprises percy’s “i want” song in the end before he runs.. the fact that when thalia turns into a tree the special effects are literally just annabeth and luke standing behind her with their arms outstretched to form the branches bc a part of them was left with her…the fact that sally has consistently been played by a black woman since day ONE,, they’re deep in the text and i appreciate it
i forgot the fact that in bring on the monsters silena and luke sing “we’ll make em listen to us, we’ll make em listen” like BITCH!! we barely even see silena in this musical and don’t even touch that storyline and YET!!!
the fact that luke has the very first line and introduces us to the world of gods so OF COURSE we trust him from the very beginning, the fact that the entire cast is double cast so when a hooded figure appears at kronos’ side in percy’s dream who happens to sound exactly like luke we don’t think twice about it, the creators of this musical understand the complexity of luke’s entire role in the story so well and they take full advantage of the medium they’re working in to bring the audience to luke’s side without them suspecting a thing it’s brilliant it’s breathtaking THIS is drama
