Trump looks to be unconscious as Linda McMahon winds down her remarks

Judy was a great hoofer. She could never do what Helen or Gwen or Cyd or Chita or Ginger could.

@bebeneuwirth.bsky.social This whole site is insane, but you will freak at Helen Gallagher's dancing.
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@bcdreyer.social I can't get over Helen's dancing.
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Was Lehman still teaching?

This is amazing. In honor of Adolph Green's birthday, here's over 11 minutes of silent footage from the original production of ON THE TOWN. Betty and Adolph's replacements are doing their roles), but it's their show, and an absolute masterpiece.

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It's going to the Winter Garden and will require production numbers.

Not that I would ever read either, but this whole affair is what the movie version of HEARTBURN should have been - a black comedy about two celebrity hustlers that fall in love and out-hustle each other.

‘There was rage and pain and iron in him’: Patrick Marber on the great hits – and fond smokes – he had with Tom Stoppard The director worked with theatre colossus Tom Stoppard on two smash hits. Here, he remembers their heated rehearsals, the night they stayed up watching Jaws – and the last four cigarettes they smoked ...

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The first Rockefeller Christmas tree was erected in 1931, purchased with money pooled by workers laboring on the construction of Rockefeller Center, which opened 2 years later, when the first tree lighting ceremony occurred.

Trump Launches Into Massive, Deranged Late Night Posting Spree The president made over 160 posts and reshares in just a matter of hours including one "WILD" claim from far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.

Not that we need to be told or even need reminding, but he is out of his mind. If it was anyone else, he'd be locked up in the psych ward (gild it, for all I care), getting shots of Thorazine.
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Children, this may be impossible to believe, but once upon a time before the internet there were things called "bookstores" (pronounced 'buk-storz' ). Manhattan's Fourth Avenue (here in 1928) had 48 of them and was called "Book Row".

Institute of the American Musical Releases Decades of Unprecedented Broadway Footage, Spanning 1931-1973 - TheaterMania.com The Ray Knight Broadway Theatre Films collection, featuring 16mm silent films of 140 Broadway classics, is free online.

Wow. Just wow.
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Happy Warren William's Birthday!

🎭🎞️🎶🎂Happy Adolph Green's Birthday!

🎭🎞️📺🎂Happy Julie Harris's birthday!

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The Judi Dench Absolute Hell is absolutely fantastic.

I now believe that every Boucicault play is supremely entertaining, but having seen The Shaughran at the NT, I know this one is. As is London Assurance, though you'd never know it from the recent NT production. The RSC version with Donald Sinden remains one of the delights of my teenage years.

When I was growing up, if someone had said to me, Broadway will not die, but the movies will, I would have insisted they were out of their mind.

Somewhere Carolyn Leigh and Dorothy Fields are raising another highball.

And to a Van Druten play yet!

Judy Holliday was working with Gerry Mulligan on a musical version when she died. A perfect part for her.

Easy rule of thumb - if it's worth putting on your list, Arthur had nothing to do with it.

Loos/Happy Birthday

Mary Rodgers wants to have a word about your freely awarding authorship of Turtle to Arthur. And it's not a friendly word.

If only Lily Rabe and Hamish Linklatter weren't slightly too old.

He means he has to go somewhere before hell.