"Hello, Hell? It's me.

". . . what do you mean, 'who'? Who else gets to leave?"

There are, as with any popular musical, countless productions of Damn Yankees to draw from in characterizing Applegate. The 1994 revival also substantially revised the story and streamlined portrayals of various characters; while I continue to take inspiration from multiple productions, I prefer the story as told in stagings of the revival, and so ( Read more... )

Gavrilo Princip sits in the café, reliving those five seconds over and over again. The blast of the bomb, the assumption of success in killing that bastard Ferdinand . . . and Ferdinand's car barreling past, with the Austrian heir and his wife as alive as can be, clinging to each other as Princip, stupid Princip, stands gaping and lets them fly ( Read more... )