- Award Snub: Even with the COVID-shortened Tony season, the musical didn't earn a single nomination for the 74th Tony Awards. Particularly egregious are its exclusions from the Best Original Score category, populated entirely by straight plays despite The Lightning Thief being the only eligible musical with original music, and the Best Lead Actor in a Musical category, populated entirely by Aaron Tveit for Moulin Rouge! and Aaron Tveit for Moulin Rouge! alone.
- Awesome Music: Pretty much all the songs.
- Friendly Fandoms:
- With Hadestown, since they are both modern musical adaptations of Greek myths. During the limited Broadway run of The Lightning Thief in late 2019-early 2020, their theaters were even across the street from each other
. - With Be More Chill, since fan favorite George Salazar plays the best friend with a sad solo in both cast recordings. note
- With Hadestown, since they are both modern musical adaptations of Greek myths. During the limited Broadway run of The Lightning Thief in late 2019-early 2020, their theaters were even across the street from each other
- One-Scene Wonder: Clarisse in "Put You In Your Place". While she later sings in "Bring On The Monsters", "Place" is the only song in which she's the main singer.
- Win Back the Crowd: The musical has been much better received by the fandom than the movies.
- The Woobie: The main trio all get songs that present them as this: "Good Kid" for Percy, "The Tree On The Hill" for Grover, and "My Grand Plan" for Annabeth.
- "The Campfire Song" highlights how the gods have ruined the lives of the campers in some way or another. Poor Grover breaks down at the thought of Pan's disappearance.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/YMMV/TheLightningThief
FollowingYMMV / The Lightning Thief
Go To
