Got kicked out of a performance of Les Miserables after "The Confrontation" because I got the entire audience to chant for Valjean and Javert to kiss (they didn't)
RIP Robert Morse. A theatre legend who gave prestige television one of its most magical moments, with his unmistakable showmanship and a constant, mischievous twinkle in his eye.
Robert Morse succeeded by making it look like he wasn’t really trying.
Reeve Carney leaving the Walter Kerr Theatre after his final Hadestown performance and turning around for one last look, but then it drops into the earth and disappears.
The Nuns in The Sound Of Music: “How do you find a word that means Maria? A flibbertigibbet! A will-o’-the-wisp!”
Sister Margaretta: “A clown.”
The audience:
Just rewatched The Birdcage last night and while everyone does phenomenal work, Gene Hackman is often overlooked. He truly believes Albert is Val’s mother, and the way he listens to her with such stupid trust is so funny.
It’s not lost on me that Anyone Can Whistle ran for only 9 performances, and then 15 years later, Sondheim began Sweeney Todd with the loudest fucking whistle he could find.
Exiting a Broadway theatre is so special because, no matter which show you see, there will always be a line of pedicabs outside, all blasting "New York, New York," "Empire State Of Mind" and "Uptown Girl" simultaneously.
Janelle Monáe went to theatre school and has said she wanted to write her own musicals. When theatre doesn't make room for new ideas and new creators, it loses out. Those visionaries go elsewhere to thrive.
I understand that it actually happened and that it is based on real people, but to have a Broadway musical about conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton where they sing a power ballad called "I Will Never Leave You"-- it truly sounds like a 30 Rock B plot for Jenna.
I'm also sitting here thinking about the opening moments of The Little Mermaid where the sailors sing "Fathoms Below" while pulling in nets of fish. But then one fish escapes and swims downward as the camera follows.
Today is the first day you’ll be able to hear “Baby One More Time” and “…Oops I Did It Again” in two separate Broadway theaters. That’s a two-show slay.