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Bandstand National Tour

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Happy Opening Night Hadestown 4.17.19

its an old song, its an old song from way back when. its an old song and we gonna sing it again

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get in losers we’re reviving bonnie and clyde the musical

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promotional shots of marie, dancing still

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why all at once my heart took flight  ….

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When Lilli argues that she’s just a “realistic actress,” we can’t fault Fred for responding, “You’re a thug!” What she isn’t, in Ms. O’Hara’s interpretation, is a punching bag or a flirt. Her Lilli, more refined and less broadly comic than some, is a haughty diva who must learn humility, not because she’s a woman but because she’s too proud. How she got that way is never really explained, any more than the source of Kate’s “irksome, brawling” nature is in Shakespeare. But we see the answer in Ms. O’Hara’s cautious eyes, always on the lookout for adoration or mistreatment — and, men being what they are, often finding both. We also hear the contradiction in her delicious renditions of the Porter songs, so that a merry operetta spoof like “Wunderbar” hints at ambivalence, and a formal beguine like “So in Love,” sung so gorgeously it almost melts the theater, touches a kind of terror. Even her scalding take on Kate’s “I Hate Men” (“he may have hair upon his chest but, sister, so has Lassie”) is subtly shaded to demonstrate that hate is only part of the problem.

EMILIO MADRID-KUSER for BROADWAY . COM | JESSE GREEN for THE NEW YORK TIMES

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She called your name before she went, but I guess you weren’t listening. No. Just how far would you go for her? To the end of time, to the end of the earth.

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And still I’m incandescent. And like some adolescent, I’d like to scrawl on every wall I see. She loves me! She loves me!

↳ theatre meme: songs [2/8] ↝ She Loves Me (She Loves Me)

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Katrina Lenk performs “Omar Sharif” on The Tonight Show

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The audience walks into this place post-hurricane. Garbage is everywhere, but then we turn these bits of garbage into things that are helpful and beautiful, to uplift the spirit. So even subliminally, I feel like there’s a sense that even out of the rubble, the human spirit and everything that goes along with it triumphing are going to be elucidated and elevated while we do this—while we pick up the rubble. And it sends a message that we are not stuck in our despair. We can rise, and we can do it by helping each other.

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We were the wrong age for love and yet it was all we could think about.

Brendan Cowell (via quotemadness)

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get to know broadway’s stephanie styles! 

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Check Out Photos From Broadway’s New Kiss Me, Kate, Starring Kelli O'Hara and Will Chase

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I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled toward absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion of us becomes a substitute for the broader opinion of the world.

Glen Cook (via quotemadness)

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theatre challenge: 1/7 scenes

→ bonnie’s poem (from bonnie & clyde)