Seth Christenfeld was thoroughly irritated by everything

where does he think the Filet-o-Fish comes from?

THE TRIBE by Bari Wood (golem, Holocaust) is pretty good.

There is an excellent short story I read once a couple of years back about a rabbi hired to conduct a burial service that may be for a vampire, but I can't remember the title or author.😕

I wish there were more.

I am nothing if not on-brand.

One more: "I Never Want to See You Again" from DANCE A LITTLE CLOSER (1 performance)

Same. It's one of the shows I wrote about in an independent study on forgotten musicals in high school.

Yeah, but it ran for three years in London first.

"All Things to One Man" from GRIND (71 performances)

"Model Behavior" from WOMEN ON THE VERGE... (69 performances)

"Do You Ever Go to Boston" from HENRY SWEET HENRY (80 performances)

I could do this all night, but I'll leave it there.

although the one I use most often in daily life is definitely "I am familiar with the works of Pablo Neruda."

MARGE: "Japan will be fun. You liked RASHOMON."

HOMER: "That's not how I remember it."

same.

The lyric is about a million miles long, incidentally

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Right in time for Yom Kippur, I've finished a draft of the lyric for the song I'm writing with Josh Freilich for this show that nobody is going to come to because it's the same night as the damn Bridges of Madison County and Boys From Syracuse concerts.

(please come.)

i don't understand conservative toughness, which involves being scared shitless of everything but also talking about how tough you are

Hegseth clearly missed his true calling, which is spending the rest of his life doing unlicensed community theatre productions of Glengarry Glenn Ross that add in Alec Baldwin’s character.

Man, he really hates the early work of Dave Malloy.

it didn't work the next time, I guess--Cho's been dead (again?) since 2021.

"At least in the Gilded Age they gilded shit." - Josh Bazell, WILD THING

(I applied to their musical theatre internship in 2001, when I was a senior in high school. They told me directly that they loved me but wanted to give the position to someone older. By the next summer there no longer was a musical theatre internship.)

the new AD at MTC is five years younger than I am and started there as an intern in 2009.

I know it's ethically a no-no, but I still think the New Yorker could make a fortune if they had a Cameo-like service where you could pay for Isaac Chotiner to call a friend saying he'd like to schedule an interview to ask them a few questions.

There are any number of queer Black composers and lyricists who could've made a meal of this material, but NOPE!

What about seasons 1, 2,and 4?

it's not a question, it's a statement. the lyric is not "What does the world need now? Love, sweet love." it's "What the world needs now is love, sweet love." nobody asked anything.

also, Hal David wrote that. Burt wrote the music.

man, I really need to find a synonym for "so far"

it's also kind of a dogshit season so far. the only Broadway show I even have tickets for so far is RAGTIME, and that's because I'm a Lincoln Center member. Everything else I've booked so far is off-Broadway.

A picture of actor/singer/Jewess Tovah Feldshuh.

L'shana Tovah, Yidden!