Broadwaystuck

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TitleBroadwaystuck
Fandom(s)Homestuck
Composer(s)Broadwaystuck (the group)
Date(s)April 2012
See alsoList of Homestuck Terminology, Fansong, Musical
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Broadwaystuck is both the name of a Homestuck fan album of fansongs and a coalition of fan musicians, some of whom were featured on the album. The general premise of Broadwaystuck is to give popular songs Homestuck lyrics. While the transformed lyrics generally still contain the same theme and subject matter, such as in l0ve me dead, they sometimes diverge, such as in Drinkin' It Down. In this specific fanmusic organization, one participant took the name of one or more Homestuck characters to sing under, such as Broadway Karkat. There would not be multiple people singing under the same character name once it was "cast", which contributed to drama over exclusivity and creative direction that contributed to the group disbanding.


"Broadway Homestuck" is an unauthorized for-profit reupload of some Homestuck fanworks. Some of the works created by Broadwaystuck and other similar projects, published on Tindeck.com under creative commons noncommercial licenses to redistribute with attribution, have since been reuploaded to pay-per-stream websites like Spotify and iTunes by persons unknown and unaffiliated with these creators. They are doing so under the nonsensical, never-used mashup of keywords "Broadway Homestuck". No one mentioned below on this page has ever produced any work under the handle, title, organization, or stage name "Broadway Homestuck". Works rentsought by "Broadway Homestuck" also include entirely unrelated musical projects such as Kylee Henke's Stuck This Way album, produced totally separately from anything she did with Broadwaystuck.

History

Cast and contributors

"Official" Broadwaystuck cast list (or, "officially involved at some point") before it disbanded in April 2012 Note - multiple names listed are aliases of the same person AFAIK. Broadwaystuck didn't last long enough for recasts to really stick.

  • Broadway Karkat - broadwaykarkat, broadway karkat, superspecks, cantabileGato, Teddy. Formerly known as Z***y. All the same person. (NOT case/casejackal/askkarkatvoice, or Casey Mongillo. In this fandom of several hundred thousand, there are in fact multiple people that do Karkat voices.)
  • Broadway Batterwitch (briefly) - same^^ (aka Minicondesce)
  • Broadway Vriska - Kylee Henke
  • Broadway Nepeta - SequinedCatnip
  • Broadway Roxy Lalonde - Inky, inkystuck
  • Broadway Di-stri (Dirk Strider) - Heartfelt, Rabbit
  • Broadway Rufio - broadwayrufio, ArlenAdelai
  • Broadway Tavros - adolfhipster
  • Broadway Sollux - broadwaysollux, broadway2ollux tindeck
  • Broadway John Egbert - Pingchow, broadwayegbert
  • Broadway Aradia - broadway-aradia, lily, princetavros, became Off-Broadway Aradia solo
  • Broadway Eridan - broadwway eridan, canonAntiphony, bestifusedby, solo as The Fisher Prince
  • Broadway Signless - actorsAllusion, Ryan, became Off-Broadway Signless solo, also did some Karkat
  • Broadway Feferi - broadwayfeferi, broadwayfeferi tindeck
  • BroadwayHarley (Jade Harley) - lizliz
  • Broadway Terezi - fuzzlekins

At the time, Broadway Karkat kept all the neat "broadway______" tumblr URLs and discouraged unaffiliated users from calling their singing aliases "Broadway [Character]". Largely, this was respected at the time and most extant music from 2011-2013 attributed to a "Broadway ____" character was affiliated with the group. The confusion begins with the variety of divergent aliases, especially "Off-Broadway ____", which was used both by users never affiliated with Broadwaystuck and by users formerly affiliated with Broadwaystuck. E.g. Broadway Feferi and Off-Broadway Feferi were two people, but Broadway Aradia and Off-Broadway Aradia were the same person (Lily/Princetavros)

Broadwaystuck works

The most complete archive of Broadwaystuck works, post-Broadwaystuck works by Broadwaystuck participants, and other Homestuck vocal fan content is the Lotus Time Capsule, a 17GB+ archive by someone that attempted to download, sort, and label all Homestuck fan vocals stored on the defunct music hosting site Tindeck. Many, but fewer, tracks are also extant on Youtube, though very few were original uploads since the original tracks were primarily uploaded to Tindeck, and to Tumblr as audio posts.

Not every Homestuck fansong is Broadwaystuck, though the term has since comic's end been largely genericized to refer to any Homestuck parody. "Broadwaystuck Works" should include the albums and collaborations published by a member while they were in the group, usually in albums titled Broadwaystuck. You Can't Fight the Homestuck by Kylee Henke is not Broadwaystuck, it was not produced in that group.

Fanworks inspired by Broadwaystuck

Broadwaystuck didn't invent the art of fannish parody or filk, but they did spark a trend of groups attempting to recruit auditions and then formally cast many Homestuck characters with dedicated performers for specific roles. The most successful of these would probably be Melodystuck, which recruited the talented and prolific likes of TotalSpiffage.

In alphabetical order, these groups over the years included:

In June 2019, a cover/tribute project called [S] Broadwaystuck: Remember was produced and streamed as a panel for SAHcon.

In 2023, an all-new "revival" cast took up the idea again on Tumblr under the original Broadwaystuck name. None of them participated in the 2012 group, and works from the new group should not be misattributed to the old group, and vice versa.

References

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