casey (not writing my dissertation flop queen)

gonna need at least one other person who’s both on phils bluesky AND remembers the “duran duran duran” joke from DIANA, THE MUSICAL. alas, i might be alone here.

of course we do, it’s “Cut to the Feeling” by Carly Rae Jepsen for the 9th summer running

John Kruk Visits The Franklin Institute

A president on the roof. Sounds crazy, no? But here in our little village of America, you might say every one of us is a president on the roof trying to enact a brutal agenda of revenge and self-aggrandizement without anyone noticing our brains are leaking out our ears.

the 1988 tony awards

everything you as a democrat hate about what trump is doing has been means tested on trans people. everything. the democracy you want to save, we were the test case for ending it.

and it started with making you angry about trans people in sports.

the trump administration is destroying ALL higher education but we only hear about the ivies because that's where the rich and powerful went or where their kids go. the obsession with them is missing the bigger picture.

oh for SURE, but even if the students did actually love it: what did they learn other than "oh boy, cool toy on computer"? stick figures my students actually drew themselves have so much more value than chatgpt 'art' and it's so sad to think an educator could disagree tbh

the students of delco deserve an actual education. you *know* this is not how students at villanova, haverford, or swarthmore are being taught, even if the schools incorporate those (ugh) tools.

it makes me feel insane every time someone writes about this obvious extortion racket like it's business as usual

even in new york, with all sorts of catholics, it doesn't really map the same way (although they have something close). "my teachers were in a union" has been the real heavy lifter for communicating the difference between aop schools and prep schools

i was really surprised to learn that non-prep catholic schools aren't really a thing elsewhere. i went to archdiocesan schools and am constantly explaining that those are different from the prep schools, which are different from the private schools...

congrats!!!

berto how are we precisely opposite here, medieval lit almost got me changing courses until we finally got to chaucer 😭 (that professor was actually a miltonist though, and her Milton class WHIPPED, so i suppose it balanced out)

its not the 50s that make damn yankees a period piece, it’s the idea that the yankees are good at baseball, and i think that’s beautiful ❤️

(dramaturgically, though…)

While I have everyone's attention, the genocide happening in Palestine -- in Gaza AND the West Bank -- is a crime against humanity.

Please raise your voice in defense of Palestinian lives. They are depending on us to remind those with power that they have a right to live.

songs from 1989 i'm confident i would have known in 2004:
-wind beneath my wings
-i'll be there for you (bon jovi, my mom was a huge fan)
-like a prayer
-eternal flame (would not have gotten the artist though)
-if i could turn back time

All of these people need to be sent to the hague.

never could ❤️ our one true triple threat (sally, phyllis, and carlotta)

me too hahaha, i just live hear now!! she’s so good. but also it’s really “listen to your mother, those stage and movie people got there because they’re special” for me—my emotional support dancing soprano ❤️

donna mckechnie is such an underrated vocalist oh my GOD. on top of everything else, cassie is not an easy sing!!!

a thin white woman in head to toe lululemon screaming at these thugs makes me think ICE has jumped the shark

this is what i was skeeting about last night btw. the theatre kid version of a world series parade and i’m not kidding or exaggerating. simply beautiful to see 💛💛💛

thrilled about the number of phils fans i had to elbow for crowding the subway exit today ❤️🤍💙

at one point this thread had a thesis, but the lights are about to dim so just idk. i really love a chorus line, more than there are words for

acl is already about the intertwining of the deeply personal and the curated aesthetic, and it invites memories. some of mine:
-failing to learn the opening via youtube
-singing “what i did for love” in hs choir
-my first archival project
-my mt professor assigning non-actor me “d:10, l:3”

of course, i primed myself to. on the train ride there i put on the original cast album and started crying during part three of the montage (“my only adolescence”)

i went to the alum event at lincoln center today (with @allieglick.bsky.social and @emdashfurlich.bsky.social !!). almost didn’t go because it’s hot and muggy and i had 7:00 tickets across town. it was 20 minutes long and i could only see the tops of heads.

i wept.

one of the most beautiful human experiences imo is getting to reencounter a work of art that’s burrowed so deep into your bones that you take your love of it for granted

(this is about A Chorus Line)

not to put *too* fine a point on it, but juliet was also famously not yet 14. it's like the first thing we learn about her.