That, and the fact that it is vastly more dramatically effective, emotionally effective, and more original and the original score and original book are just better than the revision.

It destroyed me the first time I heard it, when I took this (my first) Follies album out from the public library — and it has crushed me every time since.

But the title song got reworked a bit (for the worse) in the rewrites— it would be one of mine but it can’t be anymore because most people don’t know (and can’t perform) the original version

The judges are too lenient!

Anyone Can Whistle.

(Also Ragtime, Cabaret, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Into the Woods, Sunday in the Park with George, Oklahoma, The Light in the Piazza, Jesus Christ Superstar, Hair, Camelot, Rags)

I would argue that Follies, Pacific Overtures, and Assassins are much more Pulitzer type shows, not to mention of course West Side Story which would have given him, Bernstein and Robbins Pulitzers (I think) for one of the most Pulitzer-tailored musicals ever made.

Much of both

I had no idea he married a man!

She’s amazing. There’s not a single other performer who sounds like her, and that’s something Broadway used to value highly. Sigh.

Let’s see that poster!

Sometimes I let my computer run out of battery just to watch something die.

I’d also like to be called on this day

Carrie Coon as Phyllis, Kelli O’Hara as Sally, in Follies, 2029 … campaign begins here and now.

It really was so much better than I expected and so much better than what we saw on the Tonys performance. It deserved more.

This is my experience with every theater podcast, especially the ones hosts by gays. It’s so infuriating.

I remember vividly! I wrote on this delightful and insane show. We did 2 glorious seasons, it was an absolute blast.

I don’t know what this means, but I do think people should bother their boyfriends more

This is what I thought it meant until I was probably 27. I still think it makes as much or more sense than the actual meaning. And I’m v smart. Go figure!

Yes it IS interesting! It was competing against A Chorus Line and Chicago, but it did win Best Musical from the Outer Critics Circle Award! Actually the entire original 1976 Hal Prince production was filmed for tv, it’s on YouTube. The entire show. It’s stunning. Here, I’ll show you…

Same. 10 years ago I thought I had a tenuous grasp on newer stars and singers, at least to have heard of them by the time they come into my sphere… now, it’s like 25% at best. But honestly, my actors and music stars were better anyway.

Except those of us you’ve met who didn’t make the circle

Why yes, I am avoiding work and googling “Gideon Grody-Patinkin shirtless?”

Broadway producers + marketing teams who aren’t on Hell’s Kitchen…I’m BEGGING you, buy ad space on the digital ad squares on the MTA New Haven line trains. I see nothing but Hells Kitchen ads… over&over, exclusively. No other Broadway shows. HK has cornered this market and my eyes. I’m BEGGING you.

Where are you moving to and what are you doing with your iPhone? Can I have it?

If you think I didn’t grow up in a town with a store that sold books on crystals and witchcraft, and that my mom didn’t buy me them and that I didn’t walk around with them in middle school so people would ask me about them, you’d be wrong.

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If there’s one takeaway from tonight’s Oscars, it is that Big Brooch runs this town. Make no mistake. Big Brooch runs Hollywood.

My “discover” feed is 90% porn and thirst traps, and to be perfectly frank, BlueSky… I’m exhausted. And bored.

They should make supplements for men. Supplements.

Bud Frump? Frump will play it the company- play it the company- Frump will play it the company way.