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A documentary series for those who love musicals and those who know nothing about them. New video on how 6 Costumes that Stole the Show!⬇️⬇️⬇️

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Wait in the Wings

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From Ice Queens to Pop Queens, musical theater costumes are rarely cut from the same cloth. They help us learn more about the characters on stage, drop us in the middle of history, and transport us to different worlds. Here are 6 costumes that stole the show!

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Who Should Play John, Paul, George and Ringo in the Beatles Movies?

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Audiences when "A Cautionary Tale" starts in Mean Girls:

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Studios are avoiding marketing musicals as such due to feedback from test-audience focus groups, @DEADLINE reports: “test-audience focus groups generally hate musicals and the only way to get people into the theater with one is to trick ’em.”

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This was my multiverse of madness

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I guess there's no better time than now to tell you a story that just speaks to the character of MatPat As many of you know, I don't really get invited to things. I don't know why, just the nature of the beast I guess. So imagine my shock when I got this message on twitter : (1)

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One of my favorite parts of Tony Night was Josh Groban walking on stage, laying down in the fog, and then waiting to get pulled up by the ensemble.

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I don't know what you mean. Wicked Part 2 looks dope.

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I seriously can't get over this cast list for Into the Woods.

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I like to imagine Ben Platt just woke up in the middle of the night and saw Judy Garland staring over him shouting "CLANG CLANG CLANG WENT THE TROLLEY"

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I just howled. Sir, you are delulu 💀

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Jason Robert Brown getting cut off by the Phantom chandelier feels like a metaphor for Broadway.

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Jeff Blim spent 10 years trying to write a musical based on the computer game Oregon Trail, but time was running out. This is the story of StarKid's biggest gamble and a radical attempt to make a song about dying of dysentery. This is the story of The Trail to Oregon.

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Gonna tell my kids this was the 2023 Sweeney Todd revival.

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Ended the Q&A session of my @bwaycon panel with a question of my own.

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Beefs don’t work in any other genre. Can you imagine 21 pilots and imagine dragons writing diss tracks about each other

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Well, that’s the worst musical number I’ve ever seen.

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I’m just saying…we can resolve this with three simple words: Meet. Their. Demands.

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Breaking: The #TonyAwards will not be televised on June 11 due to the WGA Strike.

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The tortured poets department

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Mean Girls made $104 million on a budget of roughly $36 million (including marketing costs)

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I hate that Mean Girls The Musical The Movie flopped because Legally Blonde The Musical The Movie would've saved lives and now it'll never get made

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Now imagine this same technology, only instead of a camera flying around the theater, it’s a man dressed in a spider-man costume.

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Anyway, I thought of this while vacuuming today.

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Phase 1 for the Wicked Cinematic Universe is gonna be LIT

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‘Wicked Part Two’ will now release on November 26, 2025.

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Pick a flop musical from each row

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The Door McAllen Church when they realize there’s a whole musical about people trying to be saved from the Underworld.

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I mean, if you really think about it, this isn't the first time someone's allegedly been kicked out of Beetlejuice for vaping 👀

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The most heartbreaking moment of Beetlejuice's closing night coming up in 3...2...1...

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This is more than just a video recapping the closing night of @BeetlejuiceBway . It's a look at how the show changed over time and how we changed with it. This is a Post Mortem breakdown of Beetlejuice the Musical.

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RIP🪦

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. @ChicagoMusical has become the longest running show now playing on Broadway.

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In 2016, Fox attempted its own take on the Live TV musical genre and it turned out exactly as you'd expect. Dangerous golf carts, awkward silences, and enough random celebrities to make Oppenheimer say "well, wop bop a loo wop!" We need to talk about Grease Live...on Fox.

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I'm not touching that Hamilton Church musical with a ten foot pole lol

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The musical we're all waiting for...

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It’s because they didn’t market it as a musical.

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‘MADAME WEB’ earns $6M in the film’s domestic opening day. Read our review:

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No joke. I thought this was announcing the national tour of Bad Cinderella

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The new trailer for ‘BRIDGERTON’ season 3 debuts tomorrow.

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You don’t HATE musicals. You just haven’t found yours yet.

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Angela Lansbury's first role on Broadway in 1957's "Hotel Paradiso" and her last role on Broadway in 2019's "The Importance of Being Earnest". There's 62 years between these two photos. If that's not enough for legends status then I don't know what is. Rest in piece.

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What's more, without him I never would have met @luvu2golka , I never would have met @gamerfrommars (we still need to see Shucked PS), and most importantly...I probably never would've started making videos again. Long story short, Matthew Patrick deserves the fucking world. (6)

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Book this match now @WWE

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King Kong the Musical was on Broadway longer than Kevin McCarthy was speaker of the house.

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OBSESSED with these alternate Hadestown posters.

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This is like giving Titanic the Musical 4 stars because the boat sinks at the end.

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not the biggest voice for theatre journalism reviewing hadestown 4 stars because they felt it should have a happy ending and it doesn’t as if the ending hasn’t been written for 2,500 years like…it is a greek myth adaptation, can we please be serious

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Coming to The Majestic Theater in Fall 2023…

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Can't believe we just collectively forgot this happened.

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Wedding in the Wings 💜

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Am I…am I really on the way to the Tony Awards right now!?

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Give Milky White all the Tony Awards

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It’s so hot and we can’t get out 😅

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Considering Wicked was raking in millions of dollars and played to legions of fans, everyone assumed it would easily win the best musical Tony award in 2004. A gaggle of puppets had other plans. This is the story of the greatest upset in Tonys history.

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To get to be there for Alex Newell’s first standing ovation with Shucked to the standing ovation they got for this Tony Awards is something I’m honored to have witnessed.

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I'll take "comments that didn't age well" for 500.

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Even the producers of Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark don’t admit they were producers on Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark.

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SCOOP: George Santos told some potential donors he was a producer on the Broadway Spider-Man Musical. Turns out, that wasn't the case.

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Rest in Peace Jonathan Larson, you would have loved Back to the Future the Musical.

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Logan Paul says he walked out of a production of 12 Angry Men. "Everyone's just talking"

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This is my Barbenheimer.

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Shucked intermission report: Alex Newell blew the house DOWN with this huge, out of now where power number, and the entire house erupted into a standing ovation. Also, the people behind me are on the worst first date I’ve ever suffered through.

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A little context that I'm not even sure MatPat knows, Film Theory played a HUGE role in me deciding to give Wait in the Wings a shot. His videos gave me the confidence that as long as you were enthusiastic and genuinely cared, the most obscure topic could be entertaining, (2)

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Marriott Marquis doesn’t care about your grieving period. 🖕🏻

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Patti LuPone reading this "correction"

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@nytimesarts

New York Times Arts

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A previous tweet misstated the history of “Sweeney Todd” productions in New York. This Broadway revival is the first time a fully staged production of the musical will run in New York in 43 years, not the first time the musical has been seen or heard in New York for 43 years.

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⭐ FIRST LOOK - WICKED - FILM ADAPTATION - PRODUCTION PHOTOS ⭐ Here's our very first look at the Wicked film ✨ X x x

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Do you guys ever think about what happened to the Broadway staircase for Rebecca the Musical?

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Wait...is that?

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Near the end of the chat, I told him how much it meant to get the invite because that just never really happens to me, and his response blew me away. I guess he had a with the Shuberts, and at one point he straight up asked "Why aren't we doing things with Wait in the Wings?" (4

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This energy is even CRAZIER than reopening. At intermission and Beetlejuice has already had SEVEN STANDING OVATIONS.

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“The sun better come out tomorrow or so help me god…”

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Fast forward to Grey House. It very well could have been a handshake and a quick thank you for the invite. Instead, we stood and talked for a good 15 minutes about Broadway, the channel, and Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark (3)

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Natasha, Pierre, and the Green Comet of 2023

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A once-in-a-lifetime green comet will be at its closest proximity to Earth in 50,000 years later today. The comet, which will be visible to the naked eye, was last seen during the Stone Age.

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Here's looking at you King Kong and American Psycho 🍷

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They say don't meet your heroes, and I'll admit I was terrified he was gonna be a jerk, but that night will stay with me forever. Having MatPat, someone I've looked up to for years, do something like that is one of the most humbling things I've ever experienced. (5)

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King Charles reveals a stunning new portrait that many underestimated:

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I accidentally butt dialed @MatPatGT on New Years Eve so I feel partly to blame for this. But seriously, I can't wait to see all he achieves in this next chapter <3

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Not wordle, just the West End poster of Chess.

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We made it!!

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You didn’t actually think I’d miss this did you?

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The real Titanic took two and a half hours to sink. Titanic the Musical took nearly four. This is the tumultuous history of the attempt to bring Titanic to Broadway and the countless icebergs that tried to sink it.

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Okay...but why didn't they just call it "SIN-derella"?

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The Academy is reportedly looking into why Jeanna de Waal failed to receive an Oscar for Diana the Musical on Netflix. The issue will also likely be raised at the board of governors meeting this Tuesday.

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It. is. time.

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This afternoon at @SweeneyToddBwy , Jeanna de Waal ( @thebigdewaal ) makes her DEBUT in the role of Mrs. Lovett! #standby

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Super nice of the Beetlejuice cast and crew to lend the Academy their set ❤️

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This year’s Oscars set design:

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Did they get permission?

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I did not have Barlow & Bear composing for Moana 2 on my 2024 bingo card.

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I often think about the Sondheim lyric "Sweeney heard music that nobody heard" and how that was also the conceit of the musical episode of Scrubs

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Ticketmaster's resale feature is the worst thing to happen to Broadway accessibility since The Producers introduced premium seats.

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I've never laughed during interviews as much as I have with this upcoming StarKid doc.

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Lol imagine there's no "Into the Woods" Broadway transfer and the social media manager is freaking out because their tweets keep getting taken the wrong way. 😅

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If they released “Cats” now it would’ve made billions.

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Taylor Swift received an 8-minute standing ovation from the crowd at her Eras Tour in Los Angeles tonight.

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You didn’t think I’d miss the last performance of @BeetlejuiceBway did you?

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For as much shit as I give the music man, that was a class act move.

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Gustavo Gutierrez

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Bravo @RealHughJackman and The Music Man Cast & Crew! #Broadway #understudies #swings #heroes

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It’s funny because Viacom and Stephen Hillenberg only agreed to green light SpongeBob the musical if it was an original, creative story that built on the character. Out of all the IP musicals, SpongeBob is probably the worst one to call a cash grab 😅

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Meghan

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Okay okay since I retweeted the OG tweet I just wanna say, I totally get this person and agree. BUT SpongeBob, regardless how fun it might be or the music, just should not be a musical imo. & I feel like it looks bad on the industry too cuz it’s all about $$$ not good stories

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Immediately after the first preview for Bad Cinderella, I knew I *needed* to talk to @MickeyJoTheatre about it. We sat down and talked about the wild history of the production, the differences between Broadway and the West End, and the "doody" joke heard round the kingdom.

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Look between the "t" and the "u" on your keyboard

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This is straight up Rolling Stones energy. #BeetlejuiceBway

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And the Tony Award for fastest stage cleanup goes to…

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The Broadway musical pileup claims another casualty. Beetlejuice closes on January 8th, 2023

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If they put this in Bad Cinderella it would've ran for 34 years.

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12 years ago, victoria justice released 'best friend's brother'

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@Crimson_Mayhem_ Speaking from experience, Schaffrillas is hands down one of the nicest people I've ever met.

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On Saturday, June 10th, I was planning on watching the Tony Awards curled up on my couch. On Sunday, June 11th, I wound up inside the actual ceremony. Let's crash the 2023 Tony Awards.

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Angela Lansbury and Stephen Sondheim at the recording session for Sweeney Todd (1979)

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Movie studios finishing the trailer in 2026:

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Variety

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Broadway's 'Shucked' Set for Feature Film Adaptation From Mandalay Pictures

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@HamiltonMusical

Hamilton

@HamiltonMusical

1 year

A brand new way to experience Hamilton. Check out the Hamilton Simulator, now on @Roblox !! #HamWeek

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Before there was Rent. Before there was Tick, Tick...Boom! The voice of a generation was struggling to be heard. Three years to the day since start of the channel, "WitW: Superbia" premieres on Sunday April 10th!

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Who's gonna tell them?

@Variety

Variety

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Do-re-mi-fa dys-en-ter-y! A musical adaptation of the classic computer game “The Oregon Trail” is in the works from the team behind “Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile.”

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This Spielberg guy might have a future in directing movie musicals.

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Yep. This comment wins.

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Well, that’s one way to get ahead of the reviews. #BadCinderella

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