@DisasterMusical
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#SethsBwayCruise
🚢LOVES dogs! He/him/his
9 May 1932 | German Jewish girl Margrit Hedwig Steinweg was born in Dortmund.
She arrived at
#Auschwitz
on 11 February 1943 in a transport of 1,184 Jews deported from Westerbork. She was among 1,005 of them murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
Sondheim has left us. But, oh man, he left so much behind for us. He was the bridge from the golden age to modern musical theater.
#Sondheim
#StephenSondheim
BREAKING: Democrat Jon Ossoff wins election to U.S. Senate from Georgia, beating incumbent Sen. David Perdue.
#APracecall
at 4:16 p.m. EST.
#GAelection
The wonderful KING AND I star, Ruthie Ann Miles, is pregnant and was severely injured when she was hit by a car. Her four-year-old daughter was killed. It’s something difficult to even think about. You can help here:
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Tears in my eyes. So stunning. I would play in the orchestra and melt when the brilliant ensemble comes on that Ooh and then obsess over that gorgeous last chord with the tenors sustaining an A.
And we must all laud Stokes & Audra who are STARS
Shout out to
@SirTimRice
for the lyrics to “I Don’t Know How To Love Him”. Amazing understanding of the complexity of wanting yet fearing intimacy. And remember how young he was when he wrote it!
#JesusChristSuperstarLive
Wow. This is amazing to watch again.The celebration after the Bway strike and I got to conduct the orchestra and REHEARSE ANGELA LANSBURY!!! Listen to that voice! Like hearing the OBC album! (I *think* you hear me singing from the pit the one time she stopped.)
She was BROADWAY
This performance of We Need A Little Christmas (featuring
@StephanieJBlock
in her full Elphaba attire and
@KerryButlerNyc
on rollerskates) is pure musical theatre madness and I love it.
1. PLEASE be outraged everytime you see a paltry sum of musicians referred to as an "orchestra". They are a BAND. This kind of mislabeling by respected so-called critics is one of the reasons we have lost full orchestras on Broadway. Cont.
Wanna go to
#StephenSondheim
's celebrity-studded birthday party?
Wanna attend the Faux-pening party for the
#Company
revival?
You're invited:
Right after
@Rosie
's triumphant talk show return.
It's a BIG NIGHT for
@TheActorsFund
My friend died yesterday of Covid. He was unvaccinated. 6 weeks ago he was young and healthy, but Delta put him in the ICU for a month before his life was taken.
#GetVaccinatedNow
Nick Cordero, the Tony-nominated actor who created leading roles in the Broadway musicals Bullets Over Broadway, Waitress, and A Bronx Tale, has died at age 41 after an arduous, lengthy battle with the coronavirus.
1. This is
#CameronMackintosh
defending cutting the
#PhantomLondon
orchestra from 27 down to 14.
I have many things about to say, but I will focus on these two sentences: he finds it odd that “musicians want to keep doing the same thing year after year”.
I’ll never forget seeing a workshop of InTheHeights & asking where they got the brilliant lead.Then I found out he WROTE THE SCORE,TOO! He is walking talent.Happy Bday
@Lin_Manuel
Here’s me,
@joshuahenry20
@JuliaMurney
@TheAndreaBurns
having fun w/ ur song
@SethRudetsky
just casually saying "I'm going to text Chita" is such a mood. Like, I wish I could be famous enough to just casually text Broadway legends...
#FosseVerdonFX
(This is actually more about
@Lin_Manuel
's video breaks, but still)
.
@Lin_Manuel
live tweeted
#FosseVerdonFX
& here’s my text to Chita & response!
👉Theater history; during the 1st week of CHICAGO rehearsal,Fosse had a heart attack at lunch. Chita had moved to NYC w/her daughter. Show’s cancelled.Chita’s friend said no choice but to go shopping
Here's our
#Broadway
#Inauguration
medley!
@JamesWesleyNYC
@ScheleWilliams
& I got the OK on Friday afternoon and asks went out Saturday nite. It was so last-minute, but Broadway performers are BRILLIANT and GET IT DONE! All credits in the description
The great
#MarinMazzie
has passed away. The love she and her husband
@JasonDanieley
had for each other was so inspirational. I will also never forget how OBSESSED I was, sitting in the RAGTIME pit, hearing her brilliant performance. "The house on the hill was MOTHERS' domain..."
#CameronMackintosh
‘s comments about trans artists playing roles in musicals are unbearably ignorant. Please know that things are changing and people like him can’t stop the positive momentum.
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
.
@LaraSpencer
& her fellow
@GMA
hosts find a boy taking ballet laughable. Why?I guess ballet is for girls and it’s a joke if a boy likes it. Morons. FACT:
Art, theater, music, dance, appreciation of beauty etc is for EVERYONE.Take your antiquated homophobia & sexism and shove it
Ok just watched the clip. Yeah
@LaraSpencer
seriously there’s no excuse. That’s what you want to teach our kids? That ballet is laughable? Really? Please bring me and all my amazingly gifted male ballet dancer friends on your show so we can school you into reality. 🤦🏻♂️
As broadway dimmed its lights for the great
@MarinMazzie
, the ladies of
@AnastasiaBway
paid tribute on our fire escape holding sunflowers, her favorite. 🌻🌻 How grateful we all are to have known her, to have witnessed her talent. We are truly the lucky ones.
My Broadway debut. THE RITZ by the late, great Terrence McNally. A pioneer. A true man of the theater. All his comedy had pathos. And boy, did he love musicals. He made his mark. And he will be missed.
Romeo just watched the trailer and started in on a LONG story about two callbacks and how he didn’t have the right shoes and then cracked on a high note because his allergies were crazy that day and I just nodded and walked away...
I’m hosting a virtual
#Hamilton
reunion on SiriusXM with
@Lin_Manuel
and some faboo original cast members on Wednesday afternoon June 17th. Join up!
Info at Facebook.con/SethRudetskyBway
Tonight there wlll be a special Stars In The House dedicated to the beautiful, brilliant, talented and joy-filled human we knew named Chita Rivera.
8pm ET
#ChitaRivera
In my opinion, we can stop this continuing destruction of orchestras:
The musicians union has to EDUCATE with live demos. THIS is the sound of a full string section. THIS is the sound of that same phrase played on a synth. Which is worth your money?
Obsessed. First of all, the exact same piano vamp yet the diversity of songs/characters is amazing.
Second, what is a "kitchen witch"? That's my favorite one!
Third, BRAVA!
James and I got married ten years ago today! I am REALLY happy I met him at the “singles game night” that
D J Salsbury put together in December 26, 2006.
He’s made my life so much better. 💖
@JamesWesleyNYC
@juliwesley_
I’m doing TWO concerts tonight with Jessica Vosk in Provincetown. Here is her final “Defying Gravity” where she lets loose with some “I can’t get fired” riffs at the end! I myself am obsessed with her hard R on “no wizaRd”!
@ptownarthouse
for tix!! (First show SOLD OUT!)
We’re getting ready to receive the Medal Of Honor from
@TheActorsFund
!
@jameswesleynyc
got a whole new outfit. My jacket and shirt are courtesy of “Will & Grace” (I bought my costume)
VERY EXCITED!
@BuzzFeedNews
How devastating and real this makes it to me. It’s so easy to see victims as just names. But OBERLIN meant so much to me. For me to think how wonderful his life could have been for the next four years is making me weep.
Below is my fave lyric that I wrote for
@Rosie
for the ‘98
#TonyAwards
!
When Rosie asked me who the divas should be I immediately said PATTI, JENNIFER & BETTY! Writing that number was the thrill of a lifetime!!!!!
What the full brilliance of those women:
Here is my dream! Perhaps the
#TonyAwards
being canceled will put focus on Broadway around the world. Media focus it doesn’t normally have. Since Bway cannot promote their shows on the Tony award telecast, I am wondering if there is a NEW way for Broadway to promote their shows👉
Please remember! Medicare and Social Security are NOT entitlements! “I have paid for my Social Security throughout my working life. My Social Security is taxed, and my Medicare payment is subtracted from my Social Security check each month.”
Musical theater majors! All of BROADWAY wants to make sure you
#Vote
! Take a pic of yourself after you vote & tag your favorite star and we’ll make them retweet it!!!!
#BettyWhite
Again, I loved when she played passive/aggresive.
Sadly, as performers get older, they often get roles that are one note.
I hope people haven’t forgotten what a great actress she was. Here she’s playing the more succesful sis of Eunice,the brilliant Carol Burnett
At my
#JessieMueller
show at Emerson Colonial theatre,
#JessieMueller
& I sent this to
@ShoshanaBean
to find out if
@WaitressMusical
onstage flour is still gluten free (started because Jessie was allergic). Shoshana investigated and texted me back: YES! Still GF!
@kprather88
@CDCDirector
WHAT IS WITH THE
@CDCDirector
? Why would you POSSIBLY not mention clean indoor air and wearing a mask. Why have you eroded our trust of the CDC?
Music Man is a brilliant show. They are BOTH brilliant and innovative. The idea of dialogue becoming a song (i.e. the opening number, Trouble etc) paved the way for
@HamiltonMusical
YES! Lillias White receiving SO MUCH LOVE and ADORATION during her Hadestown bow. An INCREDIBLE performance!!! Go to
@hadestown
asap! Brava
@DIAMONDLILLIAS
PLEASE join! Change isn't made by sass on Twitter, change is made by phone calls, emails and protests IN PERSON! This can make the difference we all want!
Thank you to everyone who came out tonight and to everyone who couldn’t but continued to spread the word. Tuesday 7 PM at the White House it gets bigger.
#OccupyLafayettePark
Omg! “The Last Of Us” showrunner Craig Mazin gave this interview to
@vulture
and my inbox is overflowing! I have always been obsessed with
#GaryWhite
‘s amazing music and lyrics. And
#LindaRonstadt
‘s incredible interpretation!!! Thank you, Craig, for using it.
@TheLastofUsTV
Happy anniversary to one of my FAVORITE shows ever:
#InTheHeights
! Here’s a hilarious LEGALLY BROWN episode that
@Lin_Manuel
asked me to do. This one features the brilliant Hunter Bell
Digitizing my junior recital from Oberlin and here is JUST the coda from the 1st ballade (Chopin’s fyi). Holy cow. SO fast (too fast?)! BUT I hit 98% of the notes! I am SO impressed with my 19-year-old self.
I do NAWT think I could play this now!!
I found the text exchange between me and Craig Mazin for
#TheLastOfUs
so g recommendation. And he just the second photo! So glad people are learning what a stunning song it it.
Yes! We spent an amazing time with CAROL BURNETT at her lovely home!!! Recorded an entire episode of SETH SPEAKS for
#SiriusXM
all about her incredible career AND to get people to rally so a theater can be named after Hal Prince. Let’s make it happen!
#TheMajesticIsFitForAPrince