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How It’s Going, How’s It Going?
How it started: How it’s going… https://variety.com/2023/legit/news/mark-taper-forum-cancels-productions-season-center-theatre-group-cutbacks-1235646230/ How it started… How it’s going… https://www.broadwaynews.com/several-tony-nominated-productions-suffer-lowest-grossing-week-as-box-office-slides/ How it’s gone… How it’s gone… https://www.oregonlive.com/entertainment/2023/06/oregon-shakespeare-festival-names-interim-executive-director-says-it-needs-73-million-to-finish-season.html How it went… “Judi Davidson said that she thought the Center Theater Group had become a bit too bland over the years. “It’s great that they want to be adventurous again,” she said. “I…
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Smoke and Mirrors
It’s Tony time! The celebrash is always around my birthday, or even on that very day some years. I would huddle around the console tv …with well, some of my family, in Waukesha Wisconsin ..when I was a kid and feed my dreams with every moment. The only way I could experience Broadway from Waukesha…
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How Lucky Can You Get
For the very few who know that song, it’s from “Funny Lady”..the sequel to “Funny Girl”… great song in a kinda weird movie. Another brilliant Kander and Ebb soliloquy… Satin on my shoulder how lucky can you getMoney in my pocket how lucky can you getEvery night’s a party where the fun never endsYou can…
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The Greatest Showdown
For the last few years, I was wondering if, or when, someone would file a lawsuit against Actors Equity for defamation, or interfering with employment, or maybe intentional infliction of emotional distress. Frankly, I thought it would be an actor. Of course, the irony is not lost on me, and hasn’t been for quite a…
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Broadway Sober
Well, today marks 802 days that I’m Broadway sober. I know, it hasn’t been easy… it’s taken some self reflection and awareness… but here I am. Since the pandemic shut down Broadway and most of the performing arts on March 12, 2020, I’ve tried to be rational and pragmatic about the theater industry that I’ve…
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Things I Didn’t Know
There’s a lot I don’t know about the Broadway show “Maybe Happy Ending”. I know it won the Tony this year for Best Musical. I know last week was its highest grossing ever. I know it’s a smaller scale musical, and from the press stuff it looked like a love story with 2 robots, or…
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Maplewood, the train has left the station.
A really interesting article came out today from the local Maplewood newspaper, that basically was ringing the alarm bell about the disappearing diversity here in a town whose calling card is, well… diversity. https://villagegreennj.com/home-garden/this-is-outrageous-maplewood-leaders-decry-soaring-housing-prices-as-hilton-home-sells-for-1-1m/?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwLmD-VleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHjhBAT5-EXBRnzOi7QfVDGhkA1RbKp8P1PAWCqmnZ-zx82rKsKWpqXK5Wilw_aem_-lE9gcc6tyxGEpP4zLq1Rw It’s outrageous that a home 2 blocks away from us went for $1.1 million, according to the town council. Part of…
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Patti, Pee Wee, Sally and Joe
Several years ago, I had what started out as one of the thrills of my life to have a show I created land at the Public Theater. After 10 years of work and sweat and love and arduous roller coaster rides, lawyers, more lawyers, agreements, rights, underlying rights, more agreements, some more lawyers, more money…
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Jane’s Rallying Cry
Jane Fonda, wholooksamazing, gave a rousing speech at the SAG Awards last night that defined actors and show biz..and SAG.. as creating empathy for change in this perilous time. WE are the beacons of hope to win this war. “Woke just means you give a damn about other people.” Empathy is the key. Empathy is…
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THAT’S WHAT FRIENDS ARE FOR
Well, there’s another controversy brewing in the theater world about… Racism. I know. From my thankgodI’msortaretired perch, I absorb the almost daily barrage of accusatory skirmishes in the entertainment industry with the same degree of dismal intensity that I watch political pundits discussing a presidential candidate eating cats. There’s something terribly not normal about the…
Robert DuSold
Using my voice
Robert DuSold 