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Maybe he wanted a celebration throughout Oz that's all to do with him?
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--Cartman: South Park
ATTENTION FANS: I will be played by James Barbour in the upcoming musical, "BroadwayWorld: The Musical."
In all seriousness, the fact that Kanye West, whose life story has no specific parallels to the storyline in Wicked, thinks it's "his story" goes to a lot of what makes Wicked so popular. An awful lot of people can relate to the storyline and characters -- it's not just tween girls.
"What was the name of that cheese that I like?"
"you can't run away forever...but there's nothing wrong with getting a good head start"
"well I hope and I pray, that maybe someday, you'll walk in the room with my heart"
I don't think he was doing a remix, and he didn't use Kristin herself, just the track from the cast album. I'm pretty sure he was sampling it for his new album.
Though all that's official is that he was messing with the sample as a beat in the above video, YouTube is full of unofficial mashups of the song and Kanye's work.
Here's another unlikely fan -- he's World #1 now and is in NYC for the US Tennis Open and has said in an interview prior to this that he listens to this song before every match.
>Courtesy of ABC News World tennis champ Rafa Nadal, whose biceps are practically Spanish national treasures, says the music that turns him on is a world away from the Shakira video that features his rippling muscles.
It's the theme song from "The Phantom of the Opera," called "The Music of the Night." Rafa said, "I love the musical. I was there in New York, watching that I think, six times."<<<
I figured his derrière would be Spain's national treasure. Honestly, I never really noticed his arms, but that boy has an ass that I'd love to bite and call an apple! (I'm a butt man, okay?)
Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiae
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
If there was not already reason enough to hate Wicked..
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
"Mandy, I'm gonna let you get back to your song in a moment, but I just have to say that Eden has the best Defying Gravity ever. Just sayin'."
"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." -Stephen Colbert