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dramaturg + producer for hire, having Theater Opinions / 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇺 / she/her / currently working in licensing, formerly @nytw79

New York, NY
Joined June 2012
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“feels very passionately”
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Daniel Radcliffe feels very passionately about his cast mate Jonathan Groff potentially winning a Tony Award.
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bringing back my favorite screenshot
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Rolling Stone
1 year
Don't ask Ben Platt about the nepo baby conversation.
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the 1975 concert became a taylor swift concert ????????
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i got a message about the dear evan hansen trailer while watching it and wanted to be like “haha i’m watching too” and i accidentally got the best fucking screenshot imaginable
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2 years
i am wearing my tick tick boom sweatshirt to the airport and my dad just very sincerely said “do you think maybe that’s not the best sweatshirt to wear through airport security”
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i want this to play on a loop in my brain when i close my eyes
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@alisousa4
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3 months
worse cinderella
@WhatsOnStage
WhatsOnStage
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Andrew Lloyd Webber reveals he’s completed his next musical
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2 years
in march i saw this pizza place while on a walk and i was like “that can’t possibly be allowed” and i walked past it again this afternoon and laughed out loud
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2 years
overjoyed to see that hadestown’s perspective on casting appears to be simply “fuck it, what’s the coolest choice”
@hadestown
Hadestown
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We are ecstatic to welcome the beloved Tony and Grammy Award-winning legend, Lillias White, to Hadestown on Broadway as our new Hermes beginning September 13th!
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4 months
my girlfriend won’t stop singing apple bottom jeans to the tune of master of the house
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3 years
man, ben platt really does not look like a high schooler
@KFILE
Andy Kaczynski
3 years
Really dig the outfits Bernie Sanders wore in old C-SPAN clips.
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this job posting on playbill is objectively so ridiculous i cannot stop laughing
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2 years
i cannot believe a new Patti LuPone “Who Do You Think You Are” Audience Member Smackdown video just dropped
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@alisousa4
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2 years
did ariana debose say “all the swings” or “all the twinks,” my tony viewing party is split
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2 years
honestly the easiest way for lea michele to end the illiteracy rumor would be for her to lean into it bc then it would be cringe. if she really wanted to stop it she would do a hooked on phonics collab or something and everyone would drop it immediately
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i am obsessed with 1) “lea michele can’t read” being in the times, 2) lea michele saying that people thinking she’s illiterate is misogyny, thank you NYT for this gift
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7 years
oscar isaac just accidentally threw lasagna at a woman in the front row of hamlet. i love live theater
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2 years
a teenager outside hadestown is passionately trying to explain the relevant myths to her mom as quickly as possible before this 7:30pm curtain
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1 year
girl dinner
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Tall Greg Art
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My Oil Painting of Wine and Goldfish
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the hero of the tony awards dress rehearsal is the woman standing in for recipients who has prepared elaborate, personal speeches for each one even though none of this matters special tony for her please
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2 years
not to be like In My Day!!! but less than ten years ago i could get rush or lottery tickets to a broadway show for $27 and the fact that some shows charge up to $70 for *rush tickets* is unconscionable a diversity of price points enables access! cheap rush seats are important!
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just wondering does anyone have $1200-$1800 i could borrow. you can come over and play the game i promise
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5 months
glad this person seems to be fine but “pedestrian hit by expensive car during gatsby red carpet” is almost too on the nose
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2 years
realized last night that a lot of act 2 of into the woods is just the trolley problem
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2 years
i’m sure i’ve said this but i cannot believe there’s not a princess diaries musical yet. like i know we’re all sick of movie musicals and disney owns the rights so that’s annoying but this would be The Most Perfect Musical, please, it’s so obvious
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3 years
why am i on “muny legally blonde dance call self tape” tiktok and how do i leave
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ugh god i don’t even want to get involved in this bc i don’t care but i am very surprised that none of the theater news sites writing about the bridgerton situation are including the fact that they *turned down a license offer*
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@OhFredrik
Reynaldi
1 year
Dear Evan Hansen winning the Best Musical Tony over Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812.
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really did not think "$256 student rush tickets" could be topped but "masks required in the mezzanine and balcony while the orchestra is the Mask Free Celebrity Zone" is now the funniest possible announcement the tony awards could have made
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The Hollywood Reporter
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Tony Awards Will Require Tests, Not Masks for Nominees at Radio City
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2 years
why would you hand this easy of a joke to critics. i am dying
@MichaelPaulson
Michael Paulson
2 years
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s newest musical, now called “Bad Cinderella,”’will start previews on Broadway Feb. 17, the night before the scheduled final performance of “The Phantom of the Opera.” He’s had a show running on Broadway since 1979.
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can somebody smart please put anne hathaway in a broadway musical. please
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popculture
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when anne hathaway sang it on the kelly clarkson show and gagged kelly 😭
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SHRIEKED for dan, SHRIEKED at “first place he could be an actor and not harry potter,” scream laughed at groff’s TWO crying shots
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the problem with transitioning from teenage theater fan to adult theater professional is that right now i realized a woman whose performance i ADORED in [redacted regional theater production in 2014] is coming to my home to buy my furniture off facebook marketplace
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2 years
the museum of broadway’s targeted exclusion of laura osn*s is one of the funniest things i have seen in recent memory (thank u @samelhar for capturing this moment)
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8 months
the kennedy center production of tick tick boom has attempted to answer this question
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4 years
once again finding myself wondering what the green green dress looks like in tick tick boom if it has 20 buttons AND a strap
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1 year
oof
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10 months
new comedic monologue just dropped on the playbill job board
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2 years
can’t wait for the broadway transfer of the beloved musical Into Woods
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2 years
shoutout to this broadwayworld user for taking out my group chat with this comment
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@BroadwayWorld
BroadwayWorld
2 years
. @MusicManBway has announced that a limited number of standing room tickets will be available for every performance
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lmao this is bananas no musical is worth $699! i say this as someone whose goal in life is to produce musicals! theater needs young audiences’ sustained interest for it to survive but none of us have this kind of money to spend on a MUSICAL
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Carl Woodward
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insane to think Merrily on Broadway has $699 tickets - some people won’t earn that in a month 🫣we can’t afford to price a generation of theatre goers out like this
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“opening night coverage of this best musical contender is sponsored by its competitor, and you can buy their tickets at this link” is so funny to me
@BroadwayWorld
BroadwayWorld
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Head back to Tulsa, 1967 tonight at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre! Say hello to the principal cast of #TheOutsiders . Opening night coverage is sponsored by @bwaygatsby - a new Broadway musical starring Jeremy Jordan and Eva Noblezada. Get tickets here:
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oh my GOD hello this is me and i am fucking astonished that somebody photographed this
@TabCityDiary
Tab City Diary
3 years
NYC subway strangers, a couple decades apart in age, chat after realizing they’re wearing the same shirt. #1train #NYCSubway #MTA
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@bwaysummers
Liv ♥️
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Behind every hot person is an obsession with a musical that closed way too soon
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imploring all writers of musicals to treat the book of a musical as a play instead of just the string connecting their songs together, please
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cabaret on the west end is dark and sexy and weird and thrilling, with a preshow that’s giving sleep no more x great comet; if this doesn’t transfer to broadway i will fucking scream
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who was responsible for this
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did genuinely say WHOA!!!! out loud when maria friedman DIDNT win
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this woman has never met a girl who had a triangle shirtwaist factory fire phase in middle school
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Joyce Carol Oates
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are there instances of women becoming obsessed with historic events? definitely a male preoccupation with certain phases of history (Civil War, Nazis, Hitler) & reenactments of battles. women may obsess over reading, music & dance, kitties, doggies, clothes, gardening, men.
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now what exactly is a “no view seat,” dare i ask
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saw the les mis remaster last night and 1) eddie redmayne is good you guys are just mean 2) suddenly is still deeply fucking funny, why did they do this 3) even russell crowe singing like a muffled foghorn can’t make stars a bad song
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there’s an interesting conversation to be had (probably not on twitter) about off-broadway transfers + the notion that something “should” go to broadway + the fact that some work is arguably better suited to smaller, not-broadway venues and a transfer wouldn’t make sense
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jonathan groff thanking everyone from spring awakening oh i am Weeping
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no, netflix, i don’t want to skip the intro to the great british bake-off, these zoomed in shots of powdered sugar being sprinkled with charming music underscoring them are the only source of peace in my life
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not to be mean but if you are in my replies saying “i wish the tony awards dress rehearsal was livestreamed” the event you are hoping to watch is in fact the tony awards which are live. hope this helps
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do people on here really think you can just make money off someone else’s IP and have that be chill and fine like there’s a reason why you need the rights to something before you make a musical out of it, if you didn’t i’d be halfway to making a princess diaries musical already
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fuck it’s so funny to see these football guys be like “seeing a play? it’s great”
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the way the internet is responding to the sweeney casting you would think jeanna de waal was the only person in the press release lmao
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$25 lottery tickets, finally some sense in the world
@BroadwayWorld
BroadwayWorld
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Cabaret @kitkatclubnyc has announced its $25 digital lottery policy!
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thought i was hallucinating due to barely being awake but no my bodega really is blasting the glee cover of like a virgin
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if only
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@girlnamedmarley
marley 🫧
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astrologers said go back into your photo album to see what you were doing in august 2017 and thats what you will be doing very soon
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legally blonde and heathers both have had tiktok in a chokehold for a period of time, so clearly they like laurence o’keefe — the question now is when will it be bat boy’s day in the sun!!!!
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a guy got off the 1 train with a literal quiver of arrows and i have many questions
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grateful for that shot of jeremy strong thoughtfully observing illinoise
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asking a question about the PLOT of HEAD OVER HEELS at broadway trivia should be illegal, nobody on earth remembers the plot of that musical
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ok i’ll confess i made fun of this when i saw it in the globe gift shop but “is butter such as may be call’d a carb?” made me laugh so much. who’s gonna produce shakespeare mean girls
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@RoninJoey oh absolutely same this was a non-negotiable win
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lmaooooo thrilled i missed the “broadway tickets aren’t expensive you just don’t know where to look” discourse
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the fact that the tony awards challenge simply has “yes” or “no” for aaron tveit has me cackling (here’s a regular category as well for contrast)
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absolutely unbelievable instagram message request i just received, thank you to my double
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it got deleted but screenshots are forever
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ok this did make me laugh out loud
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i’ve never watched the show or listened to the musical, i truly don’t care about this as a specific piece of art, but it’s important to acknowledge that if *somebody else* created the thing you’re building your career on you cannot do it without proper permission
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the welsh have figured out the prettiest pride flag and i would like to export this to america
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i am once again asking what this means and why we’re doing it lol
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“opening night coverage of this best musical contender is sponsored by its competitor, and you can buy their tickets at this link” is so funny to me
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L M A O it is BANANAS for broadway world to run this headline and frame it as if daniel radcliffe is the one with the objectionable views ??????? what’s even going on over there
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in seriousness though the freedom in casting that this show displays is really fucking cool to see!!!! the puzzle pieces that comprise hadestown can be different every time as long as the end result feels justified and in line with the show and that rocks
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2 years
“kids night on broadway at leopoldstadt” sure is a phrase
@kkassal
Kobi Kassal
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It’s @BroadwayLeague ’s Kids Night On Broadway! @Leopoldstadtbwy
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i’m getting like, 1% worried about the “scan this QR code for a playbill” practice that’s become more common in covid-times
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uber driver: what are you doing tonight? me: i’m going to a play! driver: what’s it about? me: it’s about these two guys who meet online and that’s all i know! driver: well there’s more than two people right? me: i don’t know, probably not? driver: only two people?! that’s a SKIT
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i miss in-person broadway show lotteries so much; the spontaneity of "i guess i'll walk by this theater and enter because i'm free and already in the area" is so much better than me trying to remember to enter the sweeney lottery a day in advance lol
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how i’m feeling currently
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if you liked the 2009 tony awards unhinged mashups a la “bewitched bothered bewildered i’m alive”………the second half of this year’s opening number is for you
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taking psychic damage repeatedly from this paragraph
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this comment on a facebook post about kimberly akimbo has me on the ground. DISTASTEFUL AND MORALLY SUSPECT
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two takeaways from my first time seeing fun home since it closed on broadway 1) fun home is one of the most structurally sound, well-written shows of the 21st century 2) changing my major hits you like a fucking bus once you have experienced falling in love
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going to a show with a 9:30 curtain
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2 years
the garth drabinsky v. actors equity lawsuit has everything: a full page of celebrities he’s worked with who are “inordinately demanding”; a reveal of who was not fully vaccinated by opening night; a page of sheet music from old man river
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2 years
“mike faist brokeback mountain stage adaptation” is an ai generated phrase to kill me instantly
@WhatsOnStage
WhatsOnStage
2 years
Confirmed: Brokeback Mountain stage adaptation to run in the West End with Mike Faist and Lucas Hedges
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3 years
please……it is not this easy and i am begging this website to understand that
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2 years
renaming our apartment the museum of broadway
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tony award for best special theatrical event goes to @SquareOneBway , 10AM-10:45AM (very limited run)
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like it’s just irresponsible imo! nobody on this website will ever google anything that isn’t handed to them so to exclude the fact that they had a route to do these performances with permission and refused it just furthers the like “oooo corporation bad” of it all w/o context
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i don’t mind something a little unconventional in an application — my office is hiring an intern rn and one of the questions is “how many theater owners are there on broadway” which is an unusual but legitimately useful question — but this is just too much
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this year i left NYTW for a broadway job that made me cry every day my first week and i got laid off within four months. so i’m going into 2023 unemployed (lol) but really clear-eyed on what i want out of my work and what i won’t tolerate and i’m really happy about that
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i am certainly sad to see a strange loop close, but to everyone asking “why” or “how” or “i thought it was doing well,” the grosses are publicly available every week — keep tabs on them if you want to start to understand decisions like these, it’s an easy way to stay tuned in
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i am flipping out rn, obviously
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2 years
“there are no gay children” ok explain this
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there are so many cool things at the sondheim auction and i am flipping out
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would just like to say as a close friend of margaret’s that i staunchly stand behind her original account and that this is 1) not fair to her 2) not the full story; if playbill’s going to do actual journalism then they should stand by their writers
@thedailybeast
The Daily Beast
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EXCLUSIVE: Playbill pulled an investigation into Broadway audience misbehavior from its website after the renowned theater mag’s CEO complained it was “too salacious,” Confider has learned.
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2 years
baby’s first broadway playbill :^)
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no funnier couple than “woman at marie’s crisis passionately singing wicked to her boyfriend, who is observing silently and politely”. there are at least two here rn
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