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“ That really bothered me too in "Love Thy Neighbor". ”

 

That was particularly the scene I was thinking of, yes. Especially since it started BEFORE the singing even began. And it was throughout the rest of the film as well. Murphy couldn’t let the camera just rest on people.

The age thing is a little weird. One of the aspects of the character is that he took a bus to NYC and saw her in one of her first shows. Their romance is like... Someone who’s always been in her life but never has, if that makes sense? There’s a better way of saying it, I’m sure. Making him 20 years younger puts a different tone on it, to me. It’s not a missed opportunity from another life, it’s just her boinking a fan.

Also, Ryan, you can do things with t

Okay, that mincemeat pie recipe they gave out is trash because it literally just says to buy a jar of store-made mincemeat. Here, from memory, my recipe, which never fails me.

2 or 3 large apples, peeled and cut into chunks (I recommend Granny Smith, but whatever your favorite is is fine. But not Red Delicious, which is trash)

2.5 cups of dried fruit, split into five different half-cup servings. This year, I used dark raisins, golden raisins, currants, dried cranberries, an

Hey, y'all. I made something short and ridiculous today, and I figured I should share it with the online community most likely to appreciate it. Hope you're all doing what you need to stay sane in this troubled time, even if it's recording terrible parody songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bTUqO3A8wA

That's the one. Who is it? Why is it so prominently placed? Why hastily put on the fridge with packing tape? IT IS A MYSTERY.

1 - Caught two references to Rosie's running gag crush on Tom Cruise, which I've always thought has aged rather strangely given what we've since learned about Rosie AND Tom Cruise.

2 - Did like the reference to her Koosh thing.

3 - Most importantly, what the HELL was with the t-shirt taped to Chenoweth's refrigerator?

These are great suggestions. Definitely adding Carrie and Spider-Man, and while I won't do revivals independently unless they severely revamp the show (Cabaret, for instance), I do love the suggestion to mention the late 90s stunt casting surge.

kdogg36 said: "Out of curiosity, why did you note “sequel” with Next to Normal?"

I think that must have been me typing the notes in a hurry. I meant to put that note on Love Never Dies below. Musical sequels are such a rarity at all, and Phantom was such a huge hit, I think the failure of its sequel is very interesting.

Any I can delete on there? I like the idea of keeping it at 100. I don't need the Scarlet Pimpernel, I'm sure.

Ooh, Shuffle Along is perfect, because I was thinking of adding something to reflect the proto-musical revue shows, and that fits the bill just right in addition to the historical import.

See? Perfect example! How the **** did I miss Les Mis? The other two I can forgive, at least a bit. 

Maybe they were lost to time. I made this list a while back for a different thing, and I tried to keep it roughly even in terms of time. Counting forward from Oklahoma, if you split the timeline into quarters, there's about the same amount in each chunk. It's not perfect, but it's about there. Perhaps Music Man and Guys and Dolls got lost in that shuffle. But Les M

By the way, quick clarification on that Drood note, that "entirely by one person" refers to Holmes doing the book, music, lyrics, AND orchestrations. Plenty have done the first three, I think the only ones to have done all four are him and Dave Malloy.

Hello! I'm a drama teacher who is going to be teaching remotely for the next three weeks at least due to the virus, and I thought it would be fun to do a little post for my students every day about a musical. You know, when it came out, who wrote it, what the best song is, if there's a movie, stuff like that.

To make it more educational, I decided to be sure to focus at least in part on musicals that are in some way "significant", and discuss their importance to

A Director pretty much covered it, though I would point out that in "It's A Scandal", they did change "just one hen" to "just one cock". But how could you blame them? Really, it's the best Oklahoma I've ever seen. The show usually - and this is not a criticism, it's something that happens to a lot of pioneering shows - plays a little cheesy, a little trite. But this production really found the emotional core. And it wasn't just the "

Speaking as a high school theater teacher, I would say there are very few shows that SHOULDN'T be done in high schools. I can only think of three categories.

1 - Sexuality. This is not just rude jokes, people. Lots of the shows y'all have claimed are "too sexy" are able to be done with just some different costumes and choreography. But there is the occasional show where the sexuality is too present to avoid. Pippin is doable. Chicago is doable. Rocky Horror isn

Cordon could be Munkustrap.  The character doesn’t have much of a personality, but does seem to be the one organizing everything. I can see Corden playing him as a sort of harried party planner type. 

Maybe he's a sociopath, maybe not. He's definitely an asshole. And the people saying "who cares, he's fictional" must lead pretty dull lives if they think fiction can't be discussed.

Great Comet got a new recording, too.

I'm a teacher, and before every show I see, I take a shot of my program with the stage in the background to post to my school Twitter. Not one usher has stopped me thus far.