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Intermission at a Sondheim Show
As a giant Sondheim fan, I’ve noticed that sometimes the second acts of his shows are very different from the first acts. I don’t know, the tone is different… and it seems they’re sorta mismatched with the first act, or go on tangents that aren’t entirely clear to me. I’ve always wondered, after seeing so…
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Me n’ Actors Equity: The Good, Bad, and the Ugly Or Why I Keep Standing Naked Before You
My Equity card was my ticket. My brass ring. My way out. In 1982, I had left college. My parents had already retired, and moved to Green Bay. I was 22, living in Cincinnati, feeling left behind and trying to carve out not only a career but enough money to put gas into my Ford…
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GET ANGRY FUCKERS… or maybe not.
I’m watching a documentary series on Apple TV called “Visible: Out on Television”.I recommend it… it’s remarkable to see recent queer history unfold through the lens of pop culture and tv coverage.It’s a big reminder.Of course, it got me thinking about the current state of affairs… and the thing that strikes me now is the…
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Oxygen
Impeachment. An unprecedented corrupt administration. Democracy hanging in the balance….or already fallen and can’t get up. Help…. The Senate vowing to hold a fake trial for a fake president. A Russian con man implicating the president, vice president, attorney general, and leading republican on the House Intelligence Committee in a criminal conspiracy on TV because…
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Demeter was raped
As I sat in a rather large rehearsal studio in midtown Manhattan in the early 90’s on a rather small, metal folding chair, by myself, I was wondering if they were gonna make me dance right away. I mean, I was in this cavernous dance studio for my first day of rehearsal for “Cats”. Why…
