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theater kid (derogatory). rep'd by Lucy Powis @ Michael Moore Agency
New York, NY
Joined April 2010
the woman on the subway who yelled NONE OF THIS IS REAL!!!!!!! NONE OF US EXIST!!!!!!! and then looked me in the eye and yelled GAY!!!!!!! did have a few points to make.
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barista said “your usual?” and i said “yes please!” and he proceeded to make me a beverage i have never ordered in my life.
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my favorite footage of Dame Angela is always this of her recording “Be Our Guest.” not only is the acting craftsmanship exquisite, she’s clearly having so much FUN. what a life, what a legacy.
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that was a lovely hourlong break from sending emails to collectively experience a rare cosmic event that reminds us how minuscule and futile 90% of our daily concerns actually are! anyway now i'm required to go back to sending emails.
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this is an oldest sibling appreciation tweet. good evening to my fellow oldest siblings and my fellow oldest siblings ONLY.
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gay ppl everywhere cutting off their hair today like ten francs might save their poor Cosette
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ok muting now because there is a thin line between fun attention and stressful attention!! i love new york!!! have a great weekend!!!!! fuck TERFs!!!!!!.
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in 2011 at a performance of Follies my friends said “oh, Barbra’s here!” and i replied “Walters???!?” and i’m still being made fun of 😩😩
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in honor of her incredible win tonight i share my most favorite video of Sheryl Lee Ralph from her Wicked vlog in 2016, because i fear not enough of you have seen this
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there's no law that says a new musical's songs have to sound Like That fyi.
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for a small fee, i will attend your enemy’s new play reading and ask “but why this story now?”.
For a small fee, I will attend your enemy's recital and tell them at the end "Gosh, that's hard repertoire," while shaking my head half-sympathetically and half-judgmentally.
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this is fun and cool! ur boy got a taxpayer funded grant to write a new play that's a queer-as-hell adaptation of Little Women!! your tax dollars are helping bring canonical lesbian Jo March to the stage! i'll shout and start a riot, be anything but quiet etc etc etc!!!!.
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tomorrow my day job colleagues are going to ask me how my holiday weekend was and i’ll just be sitting on zoom like
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it’ll break your heart time and time again but i really do believe that loving musicals — i mean bone marrow deeply loving musical theater — is one of the greatest gifts our universe offers us.
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like the fact that it’s his own fucking words that we’re all turning to as we process what we’re experiencing. how.
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on the one hand, nothing annoys me more than a movie musical trailer with no music because it perpetuates that we should be embarrassed by musical theater (we should be, but that’s a separate conversation). on the other hand, Jon Hamm
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bring back broadway performers recording cast albums with a lit cigarette in their hand.
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what if i furnish my new apartment with only theater rehearsal cubes . you want a couch? push three together.you want a bar? stack two on top of each other.you want to reenact the Falsettos revival? say no more i am here for you.
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so many of these delegates are constantly fighting uphill battles in deeply red states and push tirelessly for incremental change and protections and tonight they get to cherish some collective optimism with a big dose of pageantry and i cry!!!!!!!!!!.
i love the roll call so much 😭😭😭😭.
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“In another life, I would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you”
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cashier at the wine store asked me if i work on Wicked because i’m wearing a Wicked shirt and i lied and said yes because i just wanted a quick glimpse of how it feels when all your dreams come true ok.
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do NOT invite me to your party if we aren’t going to Skip to My Lou!!!!! if we aren’t going to Skip to My Lou i am NOT INTERESTED
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two young people on my train were talking about how much they loved Moulin Rouge tonight and the man next to them is one of the pit musicians and now they’re asking him about how the show was made and how the production works and he’s so excited to answer anyway i’m crying.
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Orpheus if he slayed:.
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“Your Fault”. i don’t know a more powerful one minute and 39 seconds in a musical.
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walked past a group of teenagers and one was saying “can we please NOT talk about musicals for like 10 minutes”.
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the UNFRIENDLIEST LESBIAN COUPLE lives in my building and i adore them. their dog always says hello to me but they ignore me. i just saw them in the hallway and wished them a happy pride and they were both like 😐😐 i would die for them.
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so many young people in the quote tweets saying they didn’t know Jerry Orbach voiced Lumiere and i’m choosing to blame Betsy DeVos for the education crisis.
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went for an anxiety walk around the neighborhood because i have to go to bed before any results are posted and that is STRESSFUL but Berlin gave me this reminder and i wanted to share with you all
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the gays get a whole pride parade but look down on the Jellicle community celebrating themselves at a dumpster ball. hate to see it . it’s called Unashamed Felinity, sweetie, read a book. people died at the Jellicle Ball.
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i think i have to write a movie where Olivia Colman and Helena Bonham Carter adopt and co-parent a delicate homosexual boy (i will also play the delicate homosexual boy in the movie).
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also last night i was talking to a friend’s nephew who loves theater and he was like “i’m starting to get into older musicals like Wicked” and i was like “i mean Wicked is only 20 years old” and he was like “well yes but i’m 21” and once again i was humbled.
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when u see everyone tweet and tiktok about wanting to gather friends together to perform through their favorite musicals and u want to be chill and cool about it because what a fun idea but u also work for em tee eye
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my last pair of hearing aids cost over $4k out of pocket. i haven’t been able to get one fixed because they’re six years old and the technology is obsolete, but i can’t yet afford new ones, so i’m relying on an even older pair. this decision will literally change my life. wow.
F.D.A. Clears Path for Hearing Aids to be Sold Over the Counter
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them showing the Outsiders cast toweling off backstage. the middle america baby gays are being given so much this ceremony, back in my day we just had W*sley T*ylor singing one line in "don't stop believing".
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i gasped when “make your own kind of music” started. this film is going to heal us all.
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watching Greta’s Little Women and like. this film really is perfect.
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revive Waitress again for her.
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How do you serve cunt in a way supports public transportation?.
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they’re coming to arrest me
cashier at the wine store asked me if i work on Wicked because i’m wearing a Wicked shirt and i lied and said yes because i just wanted a quick glimpse of how it feels when all your dreams come true ok.
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Tim Walz is at Marie’s Crisis leading the room in “Sit Down, You’re Rockin’ the Boat”.
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if i were hollywood i would simply produce a film adaptation of the musical starring Kelly Clarkson and have Sara write a new song for her and give Kelly a writing credit and they both win an academy award and maybe we’ll all finally know happiness.
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can’t remember the last time a day was equally historic and FUN and also GOOFY and also COMFORTING and INSPIRING.
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no one fucking speak to me . Wordle 265 X/6. ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛.⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩.⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩.⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩.⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩.⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩.
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i truly don’t care that some people don’t like musicals because we all like what we like and at the end of the day my checks clear but the percentage of strangers who feel emboldened to inform me that they don’t like what i do *in our first conversation* sure is somethin.
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continuing my tradition of watching the Tonys completely alone surrounded by the comforting silence of my correct opinions.
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ok i got the keys and yes these high ceilings are absolutely about to become my entire personality
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Cole is brilliant and this play is marvelous and i will never not stand up and cheer when an artist who didn't start on 3rd base and who has worked their ass off for over a decade to sharpen their creative voice and build their audience is finally rewarded with smashing success.
BREAKING: Cole Escola's Off-Broadway hit @ohmaryplay is coming to Broadway for a summertime run .
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Wicked is a Thanksgiving musical in the sense that i am Giving Thanks for the musical Wicked.
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next summer i don’t want to go to Fire Island i don’t want to go to Ptown i don’t want to go to Palm Springs i don’t want to go to Rehoboth i WANT to go to the MINNESOTA STATE FAIR.
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every time i order “just the mild sauce, please” at my local empanada restaurant
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last night i was leaving Albatross at 2am when they decided to play the Seussical overture and i was the only one in the bar who knew what it was
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call me a broadway show because my weekly operating cost is TOO HIGH.
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how badly am i procrastinating today, you ask? well, i can now tell you that of all the full-time Elphabas on broadway, five (5) are Pisces and four (4) are Tauruses. there's never been an Aries, Scorpio, or Sagittarius Elphaba on broadway. the more you know!!!.
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i’ve regretted plenty of crushes in my life but never Daniel Radcliffe.
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in honor of Barbra’s birthday, her iconic bio from the Funny Girl broadway Playbill
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when i'm in the nursing home i will instruct the young gay nurse to press play on the Merrily pro-shot every single night after dinner but before jello.
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and i couldn’t help but wonder, when is Chris Harper going to start paying MY salary?.
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i’m sorry but this reads like the opening Roy/Joe scene in Angels in America.
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good morning i am SO excited to vote for Maya Wiley to be our next Mayor and i am SO excited to NOT rank Andrew Yang OR Eric Adams at ALL smash the like button if you agree!!!!!!!!.
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i bought a bottle of rosé but then discovered i had no bottle opener but THEN i remembered that straight boys used to live in this dorm room so i looked under the couch cushion and sure enough there was a pocket knife with a corkscrew! allyship occurs in the unlikeliest of places.
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.@GovTimWalz i just know you’ve taken your family to see Wicked but i need to know whether it was on broadway or the national tour and also the month/year.
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we ordered tacos for dinner and they made mine extra spicy and i'm struggling
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a man just walked down to the subway platform and looked at the arrival board and yelled “SEVENTEEN FUCKING MINUTES???!?!?” and let out a very primal scream and part of me is like stranger danger but the rest of me is like “same, girl”.
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this is, without question, one of the GREATEST THINGS TO EVER HAPPEN TO ME PERSONALLY.
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the fact that Pete Davidson has kissed more men in 2021 than i have is such an abomination.
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in this immediate moment i would like to explicitly invite my fellow cis gay men who won't ever need to worry about abortion access to donate to a local abortion fund in a state with trigger laws (info in next tweet).
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no one:. Countess Natalya "Natasha" Ilyinichna Rostova:.
The moon looks crazy tonight. Imma chill out here for a little and just visualize my success n vibe to the scenary.
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one thing we’re NOT gonna do in 2018 is shit talk Candy Corn. if you’re too fake to appreciate the autumnal glory, you can keep that garbage opinion to yourself!.
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i cannot overemphasize that if your local community or summer stock theater does Diana The Musical at any point in the next 25 years i will music direct it for free.
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after tonight, i'll have seen a performance in every single broadway theater (there are 41 of them!). it's a silly goal, but when i was a kid in NC i used to spend hours poring over my books about the architecture and production history of these buildings, so it feels special.
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Ian Armitage and Mandy Patinkin are having a last-minute argument about a tempo, Patti remembered she left the oven on, Christine Baranski changed her mind about the pearls, Meryl is frantically messaging Donna with questions about phrasing.
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