So, I mentioned Dangerous Beauty in a Twitter conversation the other night. This morning, I got a notification that I was being followed by the musical.

How in the name of all that is wholesome and delicious did I not know this show existed? Particularly since it apparently workshopped at Northwestern?? (While I was doing costumes for Shrew. Okay ( Read more... )

Love this movie so, so much. Of course, TCM had to run it while I was at the theatre today. (Remember, five more performances of A Midsummer Night's Dream!)

( Say what you will about Jefferson, he played the violin )

First, an amusing (at least to me) observation: I remember when Jordache and Sasson were the must-have jeans I couldn't afford. Now they're sixteen bucks at Walmart, and a single pair of 6-long Levis is the Holy razzmfrazzm Grail ( Read more... )

Link via neadods and filkertom: Les Misbarack.

Can we stage "One Day More" without a turntable? YES WE CAN.

TiVo is a marvelous contraption, for it caught Sunday's Live From Lincoln Center broadcast of the NY Phil's semi-staged Camelot, which I had no idea was happening on account of life-on-spin-cycle. Last night I decided to take an evening to sit down and watch it and decompress rather than try to Get Stuff Done, with the result that I think more ( Read more... )

After a soul-suckingly hellacious couple of days in Corporate America, I submit the following Facts of My Tuesday:

• I remain happily up to my eyebrows in a fandom that has somehow managed to avoid descending into a snarling weasel-pit of shipwars. With a canonical triangle, yet. I have no earthly clue how this has happened, but I'm so not ( Read more... )

Okay, so on Fandom Wank (yes, I still skim it occasionally, despite its being primarily a morass of petty pointlessness), there's a post about some wankfest erupting from a post by some guy who was all indignant about seeing the actor playing Flotsam in The Little Mermaid on Broadway sitting outside the stage door in partial costume, smoking ( Read more... )

Really must get around to checking on something that's been bugging me for, like, 30 years.

See, I love Godspell beyond the telling of it. I knew every note of it by the time I was four, making up my own words in place of a few I didn't quite get. I learned the very concept of harmony by following the different vocal lines. And "By My Side" in ( Read more... )

Josefina Gabrielle is the cutest Laurey EVER.

That is all.

I'm sure Jack O'Brien is going to get taken to task for that one any minute, but I'm not going to be the one to do it. Anyone who's up for making the best theatre they can instead of whining about it gets my support. Is it easy for him to say, with the Lincoln Center's resources? Sure. Is that an excuse for the rest of us? Not a chance ( Read more... )