#Matthew Sklar

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Petition for Chad Beguelin and Matthew Sklar to rewrite The Wedding Singer musical where Robbie is a butch dyke short for Roberta played by Sara Ramirez

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Title: The Prom

Author: Saundra Mitchell, Bob Martin, Chad Beguelin, Matthew Sklar

Series or standalone: standalone

Publication year: 2019

Genres: fiction, LGBT+, romance, contemporary

Blurb: 17-year-old Emma Nolan wants only one thing before she graduates: to dance with her girlfriend at the senior prom...but in her small town of Edgewater, Indiana, that’s like asking for the moon. Alyssa Greene is her high school’s it girl - popular, head of the student council, and daughter of the PTA president. She also has a secret: she’s been dating Emma for the last year and a half. When word gets out that Emma plans to bring a girl as her date, it stirs a community-wide uproar that spirals out of control. Now, the PTA - led by Alyssa’s mother - is threatening to cancel the prom altogether. Enter Barry Glickman and Dee Dee Allen, two Broadway has-beens who see Emma’s story as the perfect opportunity to restore their place in the limelight...but when they arrive in Indiana to fight on Emma’s behalf, their good intentions go quickly south. Between Emma facing the fray head-on, Alyssa wavering about coming out, and Barry and Dee Dee basking in all the attention, it’s the perfect prom storm. Only when this unlikely group comes together do they realise that love is always worth fighting for.

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The stress of having to spin lies to your best friends from 400 years ago when you are time-travelling with an modern American witch pretending to be from Cambridge. Looking at Lord Percy and Lord Raleigh's sceptical faces, I am not sure they are buying it 🤣

Poor Matthew Roydon, this is only the start of his troubles.

📷 Sky/Bad Wolf Discovery of Witches (2021) s2:01 my edits

I made a TGIF gif just in case, it seems to be the appropriate face.

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 #ElEscenarioDelMundo

🎭🎼 Teatro Musical: “LA PROMOCION” 💃🎙️🍎

✍️ Dramaturgia: Jack Viertel (Estados Unidos)

🎵 Música: Matthew Sklar (Estados Unidos)

✏ Letra: Chad Beguelin (Estados Unidos)

📝 Libreto: Bob Martin y Chad Beguelin (Estados Unidos)

🗯 Cuatro actores de Broadway que lamentan sus días de fama tras el fracaso del estreno de su último musical Eleanor. Así, viajan a la ciudad conservadora de Edgewater (Indiana), para ayudar a una estudiante lesbiana a la que se le ha prohibido llevar a su novia al baile de graduación de la escuela secundaria.

👥 Elenco: Pilar Rivera, Noelia Pimentel, Fernán Landeo, Ximena Suarez, Dulce Bejar, Ana Sophia Sotomayor, Camila Encinas, Joao Tapia y Anibal Samos.

📢 Dirección: Gerardo Fernández

🗣 Dirección Vocal: Xiomara Izquierdo

💃 Dirección Coreográfica: Paloma Liendo

🕺 Coreografías de Tap: Carlo Pineda

💡 Iluminación: Camila Battistolo

© Producción: Escuela de Teatro Musical Esencia [ETME] y Kay Producciones. @camilabattistolo.art @palomaliendo @gerardoivanfer @ana_sofia_sotomayor

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🏡 Sala Ana Loli del Espacio Teatro Esencia (av. Miguel Grau 069, altura de la estación Estadio Unión del Metropolitano - Barranco) @teatro_esencia 

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📱 WhatsApp: 960693076

📧 DM: @etmesencia / @kayproductora 

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The Prom: A Festa de Formatura - Saundra Mitchell, Chad Beguelin, Bob Martin e Matthew Sklar

Descrição do livro

O livro inspirado no musical de sucesso da Broadway que será uma megaprodução da Netflix, com Kerry Washington, Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman e Ariana DeBose, que estreia em dezembro

Elas só queriam dançar, mas acabaram começando uma revolução...

Emma Nolan é uma talentosa musicista que tem apenas um sonho antes de se formar no ensino médio: dançar com sua namorada na festa de formatura. Mas o que parece um pedido simples é praticamente impossível na cidadezinha onde mora. À primeira vista, Alyssa Greene é o estereótipo da garota popular: bonita, amiga de todos e presidente do conselho estudantil. Mas ela tem um segredo: namora Emma há mais de um ano. Quando a notícia de que Emma planeja levar uma garota para a formatura se espalha, a cidade entra em polvorosa, com a Associação de Pais (liderada pela mãe de Alyssa), ameaçando cancelar a festa por completo. É aí que aparecem Barry Glickman e Dee Dee Allen, duas estrelas decadentes da Broadway que assistem a um dos vídeos de Emma no YouTube e decidem transformar o desabafo da garota em uma causa. Quando eles chegam em Indiana para protestar, porém, as coisas saem ainda mais do controle. Com uma narrativa tão hilária quanto emocionante, The Prom: A festa de formatura é uma história necessária sobre diversidade e respeito, mas, sobretudo, sobre amor.

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Day 17: JOMPBPC: Required Reading

I didn't know what to do for this prompt, so I took a photo of this beautiful book! 💜

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SHELF-CONFIDENCE BOOK PHOTO CHALLENGE | JUNE 28, 2020: YOUNG LOVE

The Prom by Saundra Mitchell with Bob Martin, Chad Beguelin, and Matthew Sklar is a novelization of a musical that I love about two girls who have to fight for their right to go to their high school prom together. I’m excited to see how it translates from stage to page!!

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“The Acceptance Song” is the sixth song in the 2018 musical The Prom. With music by Matthew Sklar (Elf), lyrics by Chad Beguelin (The Wedding Singer), the book by Beguelin and Bob Martin (The Drowsy Chaperone) was based on a concept by Jack Viertel. It was nominated for seven Tony Awards, including Best Musical.

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Things I didn’t know I needed: Izzy McCalla singing If I Told You from The Wedding Singer

Please tell me there will be a full video of this somewhere 😍

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caitlin.kinnunen 11:30pm. About to record Unruly Heart for the cast recording. My favorite song and a favorite moment in time. @sklarbar73 wrote some of the most beautiful music for this role and it has been an honor to sing it for the last 4.5 years.

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In their chat with host Rebecca Milzoff, Beguelin and Sklar discuss their longstanding creative partnership, and the foursome tell the hilarious behind-the-scenes stories about the evolution of The Prom's fake flop show, Eleanor: The Musical, explain the challenges of making comedy seem spontaneous onstage, and remember their own high school proms.

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REVIEW: "The Wedding Singer" at the Mac-Haydn Theatre

REVIEW: “The Wedding Singer” at the Mac-Haydn Theatre

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Day 121/365 - The Wedding Singer

By Matthew Sklar, Chad Beguelin and Tim Herlihy

Robbie Hart, a wedding singer, lives with his Grandma Rosie in Ridgefield, New Jersey. He and his band play a great wedding gig (It’s Your Wedding Day). During his usual "warm-up-the-crowd routine," Robbie proudly announces that he will be married to his beloved fiancée Linda the next day. At the wedding gig, Robbie meets a waitress named Julia Sullivan, who can't wait to get married (Someday). Afterward, Robbie tries to write a sweet - eventually corny - love song to Linda, with help from Julia, whom he had just met during the previous wedding (Awesome). The following day, however, Linda dumps Robbie at the altar, with only a note claiming that she wants to be the wife of a rock star and not just a wedding singer (A Note from Linda). Meanwhile, an anxious Julia goes out to dinner with her Wall Street banker boyfriend, Glen Guglia, hoping he will pop the question, which he does (Pop!).

Robbie falls into a deep depression (Somebody Kill Me), but is urged by his bandmates Sammy and George, and even his grandmother (A Note from Grandma), to use that intense emotion to get back on his feet. However, the angry Robbie does nothing but enrage the guests at the next wedding gig (Casualty of Love), and he is soon thrown into the dumpster by the groom and an angry crowd of wedding guests. With some convincing from his friend Julia, Robbie does "Come Out of the Dumpster", but changes his singing gigs strictly to bar mitzvahs (Today You Are a Man). After the Shapiro bar mitzvah (George’s Prayer), Julia convinces Robbie to help her register for her wedding, as her fiancé Glen is, as usual, busy with business-related affairs (Not That Kind of Thing).

While at the mall, Robbie and Julia meet up with Julia's cousin and best friend Holly, who convinces the "faux duo" that Julia needs to practice her wedding kiss. Robbie and Julia awkwardly and lovingly kiss, only to be interrupted by the reality that Julia is marrying Glen. After seeing the kiss, Holly decides that she should go out with Robbie. Julia, still shocked by the kiss, hastily agrees with Holly. Much later that night, Robbie, Holly, Julia, Glen, Sammy, and George go to a club in New York City (Saturday Night in the City). Here Robbie finally realises that Glen is a cheater and that he, Robbie, loves Julia. Holly realises this too and tells Robbie that Julia is marrying Glen because of his money and security. Upon hearing this, Robbie says, "Well, I‘m in big trouble, then. But maybe I could change."

The next morning, Robbie visits Glen at his Wall Street office to get a job and learn how to be like him in order to secretly impress Julia (All About the Green). Later, Julia and Holly recall the events of the night before and Julia begins to question if rich men are truly better people (Someday Reprise). Sammy arrives and tries to woo Holly, but is given the cold shoulder, but Holly can't help but feel that despite his flaws, there is no other man who could replace Sammy (Right in Front of Your Eyes). Later in the evening, a "Glenified" Robbie finds Julia at his doorstep and tries to woo her. When that doesn’t work, he accuses her of marrying Glen for his material possessions. Julia is stung and walks away from Robbie, throwing a present in his face: personalized blank sheet music. After all, Julia truly cares about Robbie and wants him to sing at weddings again, especially her own.

Robbie realizes what he's done and drinks his sorrows away at a local bar (All About the Green Reprise). Sammy and George go to the bar and try to convince Robbie that staying "Single" is the right thing to do. Inadvertently, Sammy and George end up persuading Robbie into going to Julia's house to tell her how he really feels. Meanwhile, at Julia's house, Julia is with her mother, Angie, trying on her wedding dress, but is having doubts about marrying Glen because of recent events with her and Robbie. Julia's mother reassures her that Glen really is "Mr. Right" and questions why Julia would leave him for a wedding singer. But Julia still has doubts. Robbie looks into Julia's window and sees her trying on her wedding dress and smiling at her reflection. He thinks it's because she's marrying Glen, but Julia is smiling only because she's imagining being Robbie's wife (If I Told You). Robbie goes home drunk and dazed only to find Linda in his bed, wanting him back (Let Me Come Home). Before she can fully apologize Robbie falls into a deep slumber.

The next day, Julia goes to Robbie's house to tell him how she really feels, only to find Linda instead. This scares Julia into eloping with Glen to Las Vegas. Meanwhile, Robbie wakes up and promptly kicks Linda, the "psycho” out. At Grandma Rosie's 50th Anniversary party, Robbie finds out from Holly what happened to Julia. Only then do Robbie and Julia realize that they may never see each other again, and they may never get to tell each other what’s on their minds (Not That Kind of Thing / If I Told You Reprise).

With urging from his grandmother and Sammy, Robbie goes to the airport and gets on the next plane to Vegas (Move That Thang). With the help of a group of Vegas impersonators, Robbie crashes Julia's and Glen's wedding at the Little White House Chapel and sings his new song to Julia (Grow Old With You). Glen is outraged that Robbie and Julia still have feelings for each other and blurts out that he cheated on Julia with hundreds of women. Upon hearing this, the impersonators beat Glen up, and Robbie proposes to Julia. She says yes, on one condition: "Will you sing at my wedding?" The answer is a resounding "Yes!" Later, Mr. and Mrs. Robbie Hart are wed (Finale).

Oh this is so cheesy but I LOVE it! I like the whole set up that Robbie’s career revolves around weddings yet he hasn’t much luck around them! A good friend introduced me to this musical about 5 years ago and I remember the songs clear as day despite only having heard the soundtrack once - it’s that good.

Favourite Songs: It’s Your Wedding Day, Someday, Awesome, Somebody Kill Me (joint fave), Today You Are A Man, If I Told You and Grow Old With You (other joint fave)

Favourite Character: Robbie

He’s so honest with himself. He’s clear about what he wants and when things go wrong for him he isn’t scared to show his feelings. But he also cares about Julia deeply and is entirely honest with her also. A very realistic character.

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The Prom (2020) Review

The Prom (2020) Review

A group of self obsessed Broadway stars who are struggling to get another job after a flop production decide to jump on a story about a school Prom being cancelled because a girl wants to take her girlfriend in Indiana. They figure using this to build some positive buzz for themselves. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (more…)