#Frankie Pulitzer

[hecatemoon87]

Choose an artist you like and use the names of their songs to answer these questions as closely to the truth as possible!

Thanks for the tag @rose-like-the-phoenix

I'm using a mix of his song titles from Falling on Your Ass 1999 and lyrics from collaboration with Czarface, Today's Special & The Czarlaac Pit.

Also, I'm basing these questions off of how his rap persona would reply, not my own. Enjoy!!

Artist: Face Puller aka Frankie Pulitzer (Tommy No.1)

What's your gender: That's the deal, flow hermetically sealed. (Because he id's as straight male, to him the discussion is closed)

Describe yourself: I'm deceptive on my feet. (him being an actor, he's gotta make people believe he's something else)

How do you feel: Attitude rude and brazen like a raven out the nest. (he's gotta be ready, alert for the world's he living in. Being an actor he gets harassed a lot, so he needs to stand his ground)

If you could go anywhere. Where would it be: Across the Gulf of Space (I personally just enjoyed listening to this track. Super mellow)

Favorite time of day: Sit your ass Down. (gotta find time to relax lol)

Who is/describe your best friend(s): Truly Amazing (I think true friends of Tom are really good people, otherwise he wouldn't waste time on them)

If your life was a TV show, what would it be called: Free as Fuck (Tom does what he wants. He's a good person, but he does a good job ignoring the shit around him)

What is life to you: To observe and reflect on it. (Tom has learned a lot from his life and has grown from it)

Relationship status: Yeah, we back again with it. (he's faithful to is wife. He'll always be by her side)

What do you fear: Treason (Tom hates fake people. He doesn't want to deal with a friend being two faced)

Check out Tom's rap music on Spotify:

[alfiestreacle]

A pretty cool video i stumbled upon on YouTube 🎤

[potter-solomons]

Facepuller aka Frankie Pulitzer.

Hoping this means new Tommy raps.

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[neuroticbrainwavez]

Friday Music: CZARFACE & Frankie Pulitzer "Frenzy in a Far Off World"

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[thejoyofviolentmovement]

New Video: CZARFACE Shares Mischievous Animated Visual for "Czarchimedes' Death Ray"

New Video: CZARFACE Shares Mischievous Animated Visual for "Czarchimedes' Death Ray" @Czarface_Eso @INSpectahDECKWU @virginmusic @grandstandhq

CZARFACE, the collaborative project featuring beloved underground hip-hop duo 7L & Esoteric and the Wu-Tang Clan’s Inspectah Deck. The project’s name is derived from a fictional character that the trio created that’s patterned after comic book super villains with aspects of the personalities and quirks of each individual member. Now, if you’ve been frequenting this site over the past handful of…

[hoodies-n-coffee]

Watch "CZARFACE, Frankie Pulitzer - Frenzy in a Far Off World (Lyric Video)" on YouTube

[pigeonwit]

hiii pidge! how are you? every time you post ask games im either asleep or in class :( im here now though!!

anyways… could we get a before the beginning for run boy run 👀

a month and a half later... it is done

(i think this specific ask game said that you could only do three lines? but i'm ignoring that 'cause this was too fun of an interaction)

“He still murdered a kid, Dave!” Jack says, play-shocked – he likes to do that, play up Davey’s scandalous nature. Davey thinks it’s ridiculous, but he’d be lying if he said it didn’t stroke his ego a little. “Don’t care how bad his dad is, Frankie Junior’s a grown man!”

“But he’s not, though!” Davey grins, the words jumping from his mouth like gleeful sparks. “Yeah, he looks like a grown man, ‘cause that’s how Frankenstein made him, but if you think about it, he was only born a few months ago! I mean – can you even imagine that?” A laugh bubbles out of him, barely containable mirth. “He’s basically a child with a fully developed brain! It makes you think, what someone like that might be like, how they’d think and rationalize, what…”

He trails off – Jack’s staring at him with those big puppy eyes, his painting eyes, staring at him the way he stares at a blank canvas, seeing what might be there.

“What?” Davey chuckles, feeling his ears begin to pink.

“You think about that a lot, don’tcha?”

Davey swallows, his stomach suddenly feeling empty, as if he’d been shoved without any warning. He takes a breath, calms the tremor that runs through him like instinct, and smiles. Jack wouldn’t shove him. Jack’s gentler than that, as much as he might deny it.

“I don’t know…” He shrugs, turning his gaze towards the moon. “I suppose. I think about a lot of things, if it’s interesting enough.” He sends a playful glance Jack’s way. “Why do you think I've been hanging around you for so long?"

Jack laughs, softening his voice so as not to break the blanket of comfort that hangs over the rooftop like a canopy.

“That brain o’ yours,” Jack smiles, “gonna take over the world, Jacobs.”

“You think?” Davey ducks his head with a bashful grin. “I don’t know if you heard, but I did go up against one of the king makers of New York, y’know.”

“Oh, didja, now?”

“I did! There’s a rather stunning article about it, actually – have you ever heard of one Katherine Plumber?”

“Hmm, she rings a bell…” Jack strokes his chin thoughtfully, which somehow pops the image of Jack with Pulitzer’s beard into Davey’s head, and it’s a thought so ridiculous he can’t help but burst into a giggling fit.

“What?!” Jack tries to sound indignant, but he’s laughing, too. “C’mon, what’d I do?”

“I don’t-!” Davey wheezes, clutching his sides. “I don’t know!”

[polis-fandom]

Throwback to Patrick Gibson staring as Jason in the "SWEAT" the Play at Donmar Warehouse Theatre in London in 2018.

From @/donmarwarehouse on Instagram.

@/donmarwarehouse: "Throwback to SWEAT, Lynn Nottage's play which we staged the UK premiere of in 2018. In 2011, Lynn Nottage began spending time with the people of Reading, Pennsylvania: officially one of the poorest cities in the USA. During the following two years, she dug deep into the forgotten heart of middle America, finding a city divided by racial tension and the collapse of industry. SWEAT is the Pulitzer Prize-winning play that Lynn Nottage wrote following her experience. Her tale of friends pitted against each other by big business, and the decline of the American Dream. It was directed by Lynette Linton, designed by Frankie Bradshaw, with lighting design by Oliver Fenwick and Sound Design by George Dennis. Those creative team members return for the European premiere of Lynn Nottage's CLYDE'S next month. We're back in Reading, PA, where Patrick Gibson returns as Jason; recently released from prison, he gets a job in the bustling kitchen of a run-down truck stop. Under the tyrannical eye of their boss Clyde, an unlikely team strives to create the perfect sandwich, as they dream of leaving their past mistakes behind for a better life. The full cast of SWEAT was Leanne Best, Patrick Gibson, Sule Rimi, Osy Ikhile, Wil Johnson, Stuart McQuarrie, Clare Perkins, Martha Plimpton and Sebastian Viveros. It won Best Play at the Evening Standard Awards and transferred to the West End the following year. 🎟️ Previews of CLYDE'S are sold out. Best availability from 20 October - link in bio 📸 Johan Persson "

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[birdlawco]

i think about tom hardy’s rap career often

[potter-solomons]

More Face Puller aka Frankie Pulitzer in the future, possibly an entire Czarface x Frankie album.

"what the fuck is this shit? I came here for a proper shootout."

[thejoyofviolentmovement]

New Audio: CZARFACE Returns with Swaggering and Mischievous "Czarimedes' Death Ray"

New Audio: CZARFACE Returns with Swaggering and Mischievous "Czarimedes' Death Ray" @Czarface_Eso @INSpectahDECKWU @virginmusic @grandstandhq

Over the past couple of years, i’ve written quite a bit about CZARFACE, the collaborative project featuring beloved underground hip-hop duo 7L & Esoteric and the Wu-Tang Clan’s Inspectah Deck.  The project’s name is derived from a fictional character that the trio created that’s patterned after comic book super villains and aspects of the personalities and quirks of each individual member, the…

[twh-news]

The 2020 Tony Awards Preview | Broadway Direct

Like the recent Olympics, the 2020 Tony Awards arrive after a lengthy delay necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic. And amid enduring uncertainty, they are all the more eagerly anticipated by fans of Broadway theater and the industry serving them.

This year’s ceremony, set for September 26 at the Winter Garden Theatre, will be different on several counts. The number of productions recognized has been limited by the March 2020 shutdown, which prevented a bunch of high-profile shows from opening, and rendered others — including Ivo von Hove’s staging of West Side Story, and Girl From the North Country, the acclaimed musical weaving Bob Dylan songs into a book by Conor McPherson — ineligible, as many Tony voters had not been able to see them.

On the other hand, a new arrangement that will make the entire event available on Paramount Plus, beginning at 7 p.m. ET — with longtime Tonys home CBS broadcasting from 9 to 11 p.m. ET — will enable viewers at home to see awards given out in categories such as design, orchestration, and choreography. “We haven’t had all of our creatives and the awards recognizing them on the special since before my time,” notes Charlotte St. Martin, president of the Broadway League, which presents the Tonys with the American Theatre Wing.

“The whole point of the show is to set an optimistic and realistic tone,” adds Heather Hitchens, the Wing’s president and CEO. “The theme of this show is that Broadway’s back — theater is safe if protocols are followed — and we have exciting new work for people to see.”

Both St. Martin and Hitchens point to the diversity of shows represented both in nominations for the 2019–2020 season as well as those premiering in the new season, which launched in August with the arrival of Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu’s Pass Over. Slave Play, another work by a Black playwright that transferred after earning praise Off-Broadway, is up for 12 Tonys, making it the most nominated play to date. Author Jeremy O. Harris was tapped for his provocative look at the roles race, gender, and sexuality play in contemporary relationships; director Robert O’Hara, leading actress Joaquina Kalukango, featured actors Ato Blankson-Wood and James Cusati-Moyer, and featured actresses Chalia La Tour and Annie McNamara are among the other nominees.

Tina – The Tina Turner Musical is also a contender in 12 categories, with celebrated Black artists including Adrienne Warren, who won raves for her performance as the titular rock and R&B icon, and this year’s Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Katori Hall among the nominees. The other productions up for Best Musical, Jagged Little Pill and Moulin Rouge! The Musical respectively collected 15 and 14 nominations; both combine books by noted writers — Jagged Little Pill’s Diablo Cody and Moulin Rouge’s John Logan — with established music — Alanis Morissette’s for Jagged Little Pill, and various pop songs tracing several decades for Moulin Rouge!.

Consequently, none of the five candidates for best original score is a musical production. They include Slave Play and fellow Best Play nominees The Inheritance and The Sound Inside and new stagings of A Christmas Carol and Tennessee Williams’s The Rose Tattoo. (The theatrical concert David Byrne’s American Utopia is being honored with a Special Tony Award, as Springsteen on Broadway was in 2018.)

Only three revivals made the cut for Best Revival of a Play: a production of A Soldier’s Play showcasing Blair Underwood, a nominee for leading actor in a play, and David Alan Grier, up for featured actor; a Betrayal, featuring Tom Hiddleston, a contender for leading actor; and Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune, starring six-time Tony winner Audra McDonald, nominated for leading actress.

Other stage and screen stars who are candidates at this year’s ceremony include Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge, both for leading actor in Best Play nominee Sea Wall/A Life, a pair of one-man pieces respectively written by Simon Stephens and Nick Payne, each told from the perspective of a young husband and father. In the category for leading actress in a play, Mary-Louise Parker is acknowledged for Adam Rapp’s The Sound Inside, an intimate mystery involving a cancer-stricken college professor and her alienated, prodigious student, also up for Best Play; and Laura Linney is nominated for My Name Is Lucy Barton, an adaptation of Alice Munro’s novel tracing a complex mother-daughter relationship.

Matthew López’s The Inheritance — up for 11 awards, and focused on gay men living in a New York haunted by a pandemic of the recent past, AIDS — yielded nominations for John Benjamin Hickey, for featured actor, and Lois Smith, for featured actress. (Cast members Andrew Burnap and Paul Hilton are nominees for leading and featured actor in turn, with Linda Vista’s Ian Barford also up for leading actor.) And a fifth Best Play contender, Grand Horizons — a comedy that dares to look at sex and marriage in the golden years — and the Broadway debut of Bess Wohl earned a nod for another duly cherished veteran, Jane Alexander, also for featured actress.

Musical theater favorites recognized include Danny Burstein, who earned a seventh Tony nomination for his featured performance in Moulin Rouge; Moulin Rouge’s Karen Olivo and Jagged Little Pill’s Elizabeth Stanley, completing the leading actress category; and Moulin Rouge’s Aaron Tveit, who, as a result of the relative dearth of musical productions in this abbreviated season, was the only performer nominated in the leading actor field. (He needs the approval of 60 percent of Tony voters to claim the prize.)

In vying for Best Direction of a Play, Slave Play’s O’Hara will face stiffer competition from lauded British directors Stephen Daldry (Inheritance) and Jamie Lloyd (Betrayal) and equally accomplished Americans David Cromer (Sound Inside) and Kenny Leon (Soldier’s Play). The directors tapped for their work on musicals are no less distinguished: British film and stage vet Phyllida Lloyd (TINA), Pill’s Diane Paulus, and Moulin Rouge’s Alex Timbers, who, between the two of them, have helmed some of the most admired musical productions of the past decade both on and Off-Broadway.

And thanks to this year’s multiplatform format, fans of the three musicals will get to see awards handed out to their choreographers and orchestrators — one of each, anyway. The nominees include Moulin Rouge’s Sonya Tayeh, whose collaborators have ranged from the Martha Graham Dance Company to Miley Cyrus, and Jagged Little Pill’s Tom Kitt, whose many credits as a composer include Next to Normal, for which he won both Tony Awards and a Pulitzer Prize.

Variety writer and podcast host Gordon Cox adds that the 2020 Tony nominations would likely have presented “an entirely different race” had the rush of productions originally scheduled to open in late March and April of last year had been able to do so. Still, he believes there are “a significant group of people who think the Tonys can be a celebration, not just of a season that got overshadowed by the pandemic, but of a return to performances — to being able to sit in theatres, knock on wood. There are people looking for an opportunity to celebrate theater in general.”

[outoftowninac]

FUNNY FACE

1927

Funny Face is a 1927 musical composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, and book by Fred Thompson and Paul Gerard Smith. It starred Fred Astaire and his sister Adele. 

It was in this show that Astaire first danced in evening clothes and a top hat.

The show has the distinction of not only being partly set in Atlantic City, but also trying out there as well. 

THE STORY: Jimmy Reeve is the legal guardian of three pretty sisters, Dora, June and Frankie, whose prize belongings he keeps in his safe. June's pearl necklace is locked in there, and so is Frankie's diary, after having been confiscated by Jimmy. However, the diary contains very incriminating things, so Frankie convinces the aviator Peter Thurston to steal it from the safe. But somehow he manages to steal the pearls instead, setting off a merry chase that takes the cast to Atlantic City. 

The score includes such Gershwin classics as “’S Wonderful”, “He Loves and She Loves” and “What Am I Gonna Do?” 

Originally called Smarty, it first premiered in Philadelphia on October 11, 1927, to poor reviews. This led to major rewrites and caused critic-humorist Robert Benchley, who had contributed to the script, to walk out. The rewrites and changes continued as the musical moved to Washington D.C. on October 31st.

It then arrived in Atlantic City on November 7th, playing at Nixon’s Apollo Theatre for one week. 

There were still script problems and daily changes. Fred Astaire said to his sister and co-star, 

“I hate flops, and this is one. We might as well face it. This damn turkey hasn’t got a prayer.”

The show had one more stop before heading to Broadway, in Wilmington, Delaware on November 14th. By now the show had been renamed Funny Face. 

It opened on Broadway on November 22, 1927, as the first show performed in the newly-built Alvin Theatre, named for owners Alex Aarons and Vinton Freedley, who were also producers of Funny Face. It is now known as the Neil Simon Theatre. 

It became a major Broadway hit, and after 244 performances, the whole company transferred it to London, where Fred and Adele Astaire had had a successful run of Lady, Be Good! just before starting the rehearsals of Smarty in Philadelphia.

The 1957 film musical Funny Face also features Astaire, but only four songs from the 1927 show survived, now in a totally different plot. 

ATLANTIC CITY & NEW JERSEY

George Gershwin and Atlantic City were not strangers. When not there for professional reasons, he was also found there for personal ones.

“Atlantic City suits me to a ‘T’ right now and I am loathe to leave.” ~ 1919

His Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Of Thee I Sing (1931) is partly set in Atlantic City. 

Funny Face played a week of out-of-town tryouts in Atlantic City at Nixon’s Apollo Theatre. 

The plot of the musical takes us to an inn located in fictional Lake Wapatog, New Jersey, before visiting the very real seaside resort of Atlantic City. 

Book writers Thompson and Smith give the locations names that are similar to, or pun on, actual places. Lake Wapatog, for example, may be a reference to the very real Lake Hopatcong, or any number of communities with names inspired by native American tribes. 

Fred Astaire’s character, Jimmy, is said to be from Silver Brook, New Jersey. Except for a small body of water in Morris County, there is no town of Silver Brook in the Garden State. Late in Act Two of Funny Face, the Silver Brook Police Department follow Jimmy to Atlantic City. Silver Brook may be a reference to Green Brook, a real town in Somerset County NJ. 

The Paymore Hotel in Atlantic City is likely a satirical name for the Traymore Hotel. The Traymore (located at Illinois Avenue and Boardwalk) catered to an upscale clientele, and was described in 1924 as "the Taj Mahal of Atlantic City" so the pun “pay more” was apt. The hotel was demolished in 1972. 

The show is also set on the Two-Million Dollar Pier in Atlantic City, obviously a verbal swipe at the famous Million Dollar Pier (1906 to 1981).  The pier was also known as Playground Pier, and later Ocean One, a shopping complex. 

The 1983 Broadway musical My One and Only claimed to be a revival of the original musical, but contained only some of the songs and had a very different plot. It did, however, succeed in bringing Gershwin back to Atlantic City when the show was produced at the Claridge Hotel in 1985. 

‘S wonderful when things come full circle!