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There once was a man from Nantucket, whose……..
You know this limerick…. It goes on to rhyme ribald, naughty words like “dick” 😲 and suck and sexy stuff like that. It’s a joke. It’s a joke you can’t tell in a theater anymore. Per an agreement by Actors Equity and the Broadway League, which included pay concessions, this was added to the Production…
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I don’t really do Twitter much… but I recently got cyber jumped on …which is part of the Twitter thang I suppose…. by the thumb brigade. Don’t worry, I made it out! I kept my digits to myself for the most part after I had tweeted a response to this: Ahh, this is better. My…
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Fameish
Back in the 90’s, yes the 1990’s, I was riding the wave of being a rock star… ok a musical theater rock star in the hottest show in the world. I was in the First National Tour of “Les Mis”.. I had just taken over one of the two leading roles I had been understudying…
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Mental Gymnastics
It seems the topic of the day at the water cooler… mostly the virtual one I guess, ok sorta both now, is mental health. Simone Biles dropped out of the Olympics to “focus on her mental health”. Naomi Osaka cited mental health issues in refusing interviews and withdrawing from the French Open. Actors Equity is…
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YOURS, ALW
I believe the transformation of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber into Erik, his prized Phantom of the Opera, is complete. I played Andre, the opera manager, on the First National Tour of “Phantom” and I can’t help but see the similarities in his latest missives and the ones I got as the hapless opera impresario. The…
Robert DuSold
Using my voice
Robert DuSold 