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It seems that Darren Criss is returning to MHE in early November. Good to know.

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you can’t really read it from here but it says happy 26th darren criss. there’s a little heart. its says the sky’s the limit. i’ve done some crazy things and seen some crazy things in my life but this is probably one of the craziest. that is insane. i’m at work, i’m a paramount and that is really an amazing gesture. thank you from the bottom of my heart, all of you who put that together. that’s wild. they let me out from rehearsal just so i could see that with my own eyes. thank you so very much. i’m- without words. the sky truly is the limit guys. holy crap. thank you.

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1067litefm: 🎉 #BroadwayInBryantPark is back for its 25th year and we’re bringing the magic all July long 🎭🌳 Join us July 10, 17, 24, and 31 for free Broadway performances on the Bryant Park stage from 12:30 to 1:30 💃🕺 Festivities kick off at 11 a.m. with pre-shows and fun on the plaza 💙 Here’s what’s coming to the stage: ✨ July 10 — Hosted by @ radiodelilah Pre-Show: Taiwan Tourism Administration Performances by: & Juliet, Boop!, Hell’s Kitchen, Maybe Happy Ending, MJ the Musical, The Great Gatsby

✨ July 17 — Hosted by @ helenrlittle Pre-Show: AMDA College of the Performing Arts Performances by: Chicago, Death Becomes Her, Gypsy, Just In Time, The Book of Mormon, Wicked

✨ July 24 — Hosted by @ richkradio Pre-Show: AMDA College of the Performing Arts Performances by: Hadestown, Hamilton, Mamma Mia!, Moulin Rouge!, Six, The Outsiders

✨ July 31 — Hosted by @ paulcubbybryant & @ thechristinenagy Disney on Broadway Performances by: Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King

📍Bryant Park 🕰️ 11 a.m. festivities 🎶 12:30 p.m. performances Bring your friends and come sing along in the sunshine 💛

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Family Equality’s Night at the Pier Confirms Four Tony Nominees to Appear on Stage

Family Equality’s Night at the Pier has added some freshly minted Tony nominees to its program. Darren Criss (Maybe Happy Ending), Cole Escola (Oh, Mary), Megan Hilty (Death Becomes Her) and Nicole Scherzinger (Sunset Blvd.) will appear on stage at the fundraiser set for New York’s Pier Sixty on May 12. Per the nonprofit, Criss, Hilty and Scherzinger will perform while Escola will appear during a program that will also feature Demi Moore, Debbie Harry, Bill T. Jones, Jim Obergefell and Marlo Thomas.

https://www.nightatthepier.com/

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Today, like December 7, 1941, will go down in infamy. A cruel, vindictive, sexual predator, a fraud, obsessed with himself only, became US President. God help us all.

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Another review:

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A review:

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It’s a bit after 11 PM and I’ve just gotten home from a day trip with a niece to NYC to see Maybe Happy Ending. I am so impressed with this show and the entire cast.

Darren and Helen are obsolete helper bots discarded to await their eventual system failure. Oliver is a model 3, Helen a somewhat more recent model 5.

I won’t go into the details; it’s so nice to see something completely new. Suffice it to say that everyone in the audience enjoyed it. I saw no empty seats at all.

The story is sad, happy, funny and feels very real. The sets are amazing. The music is lovely and moves the story along. I highly recommend it.

I’ve seen Darren in three musicals. I wasn’t too impressed in How to Succeed, I thought his voice was not as strong as the rest of the cast and the musical felt dated. Hedwig was fantastic and Darren was astonishing in the role. Maybe Happy Ending ranks as high as Hedwig. His voice is strong and sure and his portrayal touches the heart. Helen J Shen is also marvelous. This is essentially a two person show and they carry it easily. Dez has a great voice and stage presence and Marcus Choi is also very good.

Well worth seeing.

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Here you go

Brad Fulchuk did an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. He was asked if he wishes he did anything differently on Glee, what lesson he learned and about a possible Glee reboot.

I don't know how to make a link to the article, but it's easy to find if you google it. I can say that a Glee reboot is unlikely in the near future.

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We are in a climate emergency. We must not allow right wing politicians to slow/stop the process of moving away from fossil fuels.

The Gulf Stream is almost certainly weakening, a new study has confirmed. The flow of warm water through the Florida Straits has slowed by 4% over the past four decades, with grave implications for the world's climate.  The ocean current starts near Florida and threads a belt of warm water along the U.S. East Coast and Canada before crossing the Atlantic to Europe. The heat it transports is essential for maintaining temperate conditions and regulating sea levels.  But this stream is slowing down, researchers wrote in a study published Sept. 25 in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.  "This is the strongest, most definitive evidence we have of the weakening of this climatically-relevant ocean current," lead-author Christopher Piecuch, a physical oceanographer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, said in a statement.

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Knowing our history is important.

Submission: Silas Soule (1838-1865). He was an abolitionist and a member of the Immortal Ten (a militant abolitionist group) with John Brown, but originally worked on the Underground Railroad. He also helped other abolitionists escape from jail, and was actually the guy who gave the Immortal Ten their name! (Cue 'fish fear me, women love me' but its confederates instead of fish and me instead of women)

Later he joined the army, and proved his bravery at the Battle of Glorieta Pass. His commander at Glorieta Pass was called John Chivington, and he was known as the 'fighting parson' due to his religious extremism (tw: discussion of genocide from now on. I try to avoid the details, but yeah. Bad shit happens). Chivington was ordered to kill Native Americans, and he did so gladly. This culminated in the Sand Creek Massacre, considered one of the worst atrocities ever committed by the US army. Silas refused to participate in the massacre, ordered his men to not fire, and even tried to rescue some of the Native Americans. Afterwards he wrote to his previous commander detailing the massacre, and Chivington left the army in disgrace. If it wasn't for Silas, nobody might have found out about Sand Creek. Silas was shot dead one night, presumably in retaliation for speaking out against injustice. His murderers escaped punishment.

So he's a personal hero of mine. Since I first learnt about the Indian Wars in school, I've always respected his moral strength and determination to tell the truth. As far as I'm concerned, he's gorgeous as well. Apparently he was super friendly too, and had a great sense of humour! What a guy! Probably one of my longest standing crushes XD. I never shut up about him, as proved by the length of this ask, which could have been summarised as 'he's cute and also not racist'.

Oh, and a plaque was installed where he died, and people still leave flowers at his grace (he's buried in Denver, and its a dream of mine to visit his grave) <3

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I saw an interview yesterday of Darren and an Australian morning show. It was lovely. He spoke about his daughter and his music. At one point he mentioned that some members of StarKid would be performing as well. I thought about the nasty (always nasty) remarks the tin hats made about them for performing with him in LA and Mexico.

I’ve never understood the hate but I’ve chalked it up to them believing he’s too good for his college friends - that and the fact they were at his wedding. But it has occurred to me that the hate has more to it than that. They cannot accept that he is loyal. Loyal to friends and colleagues, loyal to his loved ones, loyal to his fans. You see, if he is so strongly loyal then how can they explain his treatment of “the love of his life” Chris Colfer? How can he be loyal, and loving, when he has hidden this relationship for more than a decade. Truly, at this point in time, 13 years after they met, why wouldn’t he just say that he’s realized he is in love with Chris and finally come out into the open? Why is he so fiercely loyal to everyone but Chris? There are two possible answers: 1) he cares more for the money and his career than he does for Chris, or 2) the Criss/Colfer relationship does not exist.

It has never existed.

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So I haven’t been on tumblr go awhile as I’ve been recovering from surgery. Took a look at Cassie’s site and found this. Talking about spreading love rather than hate and the two posts immediately following are nasty and hateful.

There’s a distinct disconnect here. She seems to have no self awareness at all. She and the other tin haters should do some introspection, try to find their way back to reality.

Not likely however.

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Location, location, location. The closer you are, the higher the price. My youngest lives a 45 minute commute to where he works in DC. The same price house in DC gets you a much smaller place.

His reasoning for moving to HK is the exact opposite of a deadbeat father & husband. Sounds like they just recently moved. I’m sure AB was nerve wracking during the end of her pregnancy/newborn stage. You truly never know what could happen. Now he’s a short walk away. Also, so funny that they’re so concerned about Darren saying they’ve “downsized”, that could mean a million different things for a NYC apartment. They have a huge home in LA, and they travel a lot. I’m sure their child(ren) will be fine. 

CCers are so weird. Why comment when no one knows what is going on? They cannot seem to help themselves.

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Sorry to bother you. I know this is not your problem. I can see that Metaloma is still active because she reposted you story. But when I try to see her blog tumblr tells me it is a ghost blog that doesn't excist. And I can't ask her what changed. Maybe you know.

I honestly don’t know. She shows up on my feed. I’m sorry, at my age I’m not at all tech savvy