okay but can we cherish this week. like, we have all gathered here about 9 weeks ago to solve the double murder of ben glenroy /w mabel and her dads, and now it’s all coming to an end and while we’re going to live it for a while, we’re all going to slowly fall apart till some next big announcements next year maybe probably
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2024 Best Musical World Cup Alphabetized List
Listed below is the 128 musicals that have qualified for the 2024 Best Musical World Cup Bracket.
& Juliet
25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
35MM: A Musical Exhibition
A Chorus Line
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
A Little Night Music
A Strange Loop
American Idiot
Amélie
Anastasia
Annie
Annie Get Your Gun
Assassins
Avenue Q
Bare: A Pop Opera
Beauty and the Beast
Beetlejuice
Billy Elliot the Musical
Bonnie and Clyde
Bring it On
Cabaret
Camelot
Carrie
Cats
Chess
Chicago
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Come From Away
Company
Death Note: The Musical
Dreamgirls
Elisabeth
Evita
Falsettos
Fiddler on the Roof
Firebringer
Frankenstein: A New Musical
Fun Home
Funny Girl
Ghost Quartet
Godspell
Grease
Guys and Dolls
Hadestown
Hair
Hairspray
Hamilton
Heathers
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Hello, Dolly!
Holy Musical B@man!
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
In The Heights
Into the Woods
Jekyll and Hyde
Jesus Christ Superstar
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Kinky Boots
La Cage aux Folles
Legally Blonde
Les Misérables
Little Shop of Horrors
Little Women
Man of La Mancha
Mary Poppins
Matilda
Mean Girls
Merrily We Roll Along
Monty Python's Spamalot
Moulin Rouge
My Fair Lady
Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812
Nerdy Prudes Must Die
Newsies
Next to Normal
Oliver
Once
Once on this Island
Parade
Pippin
Ragtime
Rebecca
Rent
Ride the Cyclone
School of Rock
Seussical
Shrek the Musical
Singin' in the Rain
Six
Something Rotten
Spies Are Forever
SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical
Spring Awakening
Starlight Express
Starry
Starship
Sunday in the Park with George
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Sweet Charity
Tanz der Vampire / Dance of the Vampires
The Addams Family
The Book of Mormon
The Color Purple
The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The King and I
The Last Five Years
The Lightning Thief
The Lion King
The Music Man
The Phantom of the Opera
The Prince of Egypt
The Producers
The Rocky Horror Show
The Secret Garden
The Sound of Music
The Trail to Oregon!
The Wiz
The Wizard of Oz (1987)
Tick Tick Boom
Tuck Everlasting
Twisted: The Untold Story of A Royal Vizier
Urinetown
Waitress
West Side Story
Wicked
You're A Good Man Charlie Brown
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(via Lisa Lane, Chess Champion Whose Reign Was Meteoric, Dies at 90 - The New York Times)
Lisa Lane, an early star of American chess who was a two-time United States women’s champion and the first chess player to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated, died on Feb. 28 at her home in Carmel, N.Y., in Putnam County. She was 90.
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Hi! I finished up the list of songs that made it in, I still need to make the brackets, and will post those once they’re done! Complete list under the cut
A Little Fall of Rain - Les Misérables
A Little Priest - Sweeney Todd
A Musical - Something Rotten
Agony - Into the Woods
All you wanna do - Six
Another National Anthem - Assassins
Another Suitcase in Another Hall - Evita
Anthem - Chess
Any Kind of Dead Person - Ghost Quartet
Anything you can do (I can do better) - Annie Get Your Gun
Balaga - Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812
Being Alive - Company
Belle - Notre-Dame de Paris
Brain Dead - A New Brain
Burn - Hamilton
Cabaret - Cabaret
Carnaval del Barrio - In the Heights
Carrying the Banner - Newsies
Cell Block Tango - Chicago
Chant - Hadestown
Come what may - Moulin Rouge
Confrontation - Jekyll & Hyde
Costume Party - Come from Away
Dead Girl Walking - Heathers
Dead Mom - Beetlejuice
Defying Gravity - Wicked
Dentist! - Little Shop of Horrors
Die Schatten werden länger - Elisabeth
Don’t Rain On My Parade - Funny Girl
Drink with me - Les Misérables
Dust and Ashes - Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812
El tango de Roxanne - Moulin Rouge
Epic III - Hadestown
Epiphany - Sweeney Todd
Esmeralda - the Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Everybody’s got the right - Assassins
Feast or famine - Black Friday
Feed Me (Git It!) - Little Shop of Horrors
For Good - Wicked
Get Down - Six
Gethsemane (I only want to say) - Jesus Christ Superstar
Giants in the sky - Into the Woods
Glory - Pippin
Go Tonight - The Mad One’s
Good Kid - the lightning thief
Heaven on their Minds - Jesus Christ Superstar
Holding to the Ground - Falsettos
How Can Love Survive - The Sound of Music
I’m Alive - Next to Normal
I’m Breaking Down - Falsettos
Ich gehör nur mir - Elisabeth
If I had my time again - Groundhog Day
If I were a rich man - Fiddler on the Roof
Inevitable - The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals
Independently Owned - Shucked
Joseon Swag (조선수액) - Swag Age: Shout Out, Joseon! (스웨그에이지: 외쳐, 조선!)
Judas - Clown Bible
Juntton - Gambämark
King of New York - Newsies
Land of Yesterday - Anastasia
Le Monde est Stone - Starmania
Les Rois du Monde - Roméo et Juliette, de la haine à l’amour
Let it out - The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals
Letters - Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812
Lilacs - Preludes
Loser Geek Whatever - Be More Chill
Losing My Mind - Follies
Love will come and find me again - Bandstand
Madame Guillotine - The Scarlet Pimpernel
Michael in the Bathroom - Be More Chill
My Grand Plan - the lightning thief
No One Else - Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812
No One Remembers Achmed - Twisted
Noel’s Lament - Ride the Cyclone
Nonstop - Hamilton
On My Own - Les Misérables
On the Verge - Women on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown
Once and for all - Newsies
One Day More - Les Misérables
Place, je passe - Mozart l’opéra rock
Popular - Wicked
Prologue - Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812
Prologue: Tradition - Fiddler on the Roof
Quartet at the Ballet - Anastasia
Quiet - Matilda
Rebecca Reprise - Rebecca
Requiem - Dear Evan Hansen
Revolting Children - Matilda
Ring of Keys - Fun Home
Santa Fe - Newsies
Seize the Day - Newsies
Sick to Death of Alice-ness - Alice by Heart
Skid Row (Downtown) - Little Shop of Horrors
Solo - Octet
Starchild - Ghost Quartet
Sweet Transvestite - Rocky Horror Show
Talia - Ride the Cyclone
Telephone Wire - Fun Home
The Ballad of Jane Doe - Ride the Cyclone
The I Love You Song - The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
The New World - Songs for a New World
The Opera - Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812
The Pitiful Children - Be More Chill
The Point of No Return - The Phantom of the Opera
The Song of Purple Summer - Spring Awakening
The Starry Night - Starry
The Thrill of First Love - Falsettos
The Torture Tango - Spies are Forever
The Turning of the Key - The Clockmaker’s Daughter
There! Right There! - Legally Blonde
This World Will Remember Us - Bonnie & Clyde
Time Warp - Rocky Horror Show
Tonight (Quintet) - West Side Story
Touch Me - Spring Awakening
Twisted - Twisted
Unlikely Lovers - Falsettos
Usher Pt. 3 - Ghost Quartet
Wait For Me - Hadestown
Wait For Me (Reprise) - Hadestown
Waving Through A Window - Dear Evan Hansen
Wenn ich tanzen will - Elisabeth
What would I do - Falsettos
When the going gets tough - Spongebob Squarepants
Wilkommen - Cabaret
You Gotta Die Sometime - Falsettos
Your Daddy’s Son - Ragtime
Your Fault/Last Midnight - Into the Woods
30/90 - Tick, Tick… Boom
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New Releases
A whole bunch of books releasing today to get us ready for our summer beach reads. Which of these is on your list?
Hot Boy Summer by Joe Jiménez
MTV Books
Mac has never really felt like he belonged. Definitely not at home—his dad’s politics and toxic masculinity make a real connection impossible. He thought he fit in on the baseball team, but that’s only because he was pretending to be someone he wasn’t. Finding his first gay friend, Cammy, was momentous; finally, he could be his authentic self around someone else. But as it turned out, not really. Cammy could be cruel, and his “advice” often came off way harsh.
And then, Mac meets Flor, who shows him that you can be both fierce and kind, and Mikey, who is superhot and might maybe think the same about him. Over the course of one hot, life-changing summer, Mac will stand face-to-face with desire, betrayal, and letting go of shame, which will lead to some huge discoveries about the realness of truly belonging.
Told in Mac’s infectious, joyful, gay AF voice, Hot Boy Summer serves a tale as important as hope four gay teens doing what they can to connect and have the fiercest summer of their lives. New friendships will be forged, hot boys will be kissed…and girl, the toxic will be detoxed.
Better Must Come by Desmond Hall
Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Deja is a “barrel girl”—one of the Jamaican kids who get barrels full of clothes, food, and treats shipped to them from parents who have moved to the US or Canada to make more money. Gabriel is caught up in a gang and desperate for a way out. When he meets Deja at a party, he starts looking for a way into her life and wonders if they could be a part of each other’s futures.
Then, one day while out fishing, Deja spies a go-fast boat stalled out by some rocks, smeared with blood. Inside, a badly wounded man thrusts a knapsack at her, begging her to deliver it to his original destination, and to not say a word. She binds his wounds, determines to send for help, and make good on her promise…not realizing that the bag is stuffed with $500,000 American. Not realizing that the posse Gabriel is in will stop at nothing to get their hands on this bag—or that Gabriel’s and her lives will intersect in ways neither ever imagined, as they both are forced to make split second choices to keep the ones they love most alive.
Bite Me, Royce Taslim by Lauren Ho
Disney Hyperion
Agnes Chan never expected to be the punchline of her own life . .
But how else do you explain getting accidentally run over and seeing a lifetime of careful preparation, endless training, and all your hopes of a track scholarship to college destroyed in a split second? Not to mention the only witness to your humiliation being your #1 archnemesis, Royce Taslim.
So, when Agnes finds a new answer to her scholarship predicament in the form of an international stand-up comedy contest for teens, the last person she expects to be up against is also the last person she wants to - Royce. Because for years Royce has represented everything Agnes extreme privilege, popularity, and physical perfection (ok maybe she doesn’t hate that part so much).
Behind the scenes, though, Royce’s flawless façade fades away, revealing someone Agnes never expected—someone who shows her that perhaps the best parts of life are the ones you aren’t prepared for—and as the competition heats up, so do things between these two rivals. But will the pressure to win be too much for them to handle—or will Agnes (and Royce) get the last laugh?
Spin of Fate (The Fifth Realm #1) by A.A. Vora
G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers
The world is governed by Toranic Law, an ancient magical force that segregates people into upper and lower realms based on their morality. It’s said that if the sinful lowers commit themselves to kindness, their souls will lighten, allowing them into the blissful upper realms.
But Aina, one of the few lowers to ever ascend, just wants to go back. Desperate to reunite with her mother, who remains stuck in their horror-infested homeland, Aina joins the Balancers—a group that defies Toranic Law by bringing aid to those condemned to a life of suffering in the lower realms.
Alongside Aina are two new recruits: Aranel, a spoiled noble spying for the upper authorities; and Meizan, a ruthless fighter trying to save his clan from extinction.
Before long, Aina, Aranel, and Meizan find themselves in the midst of a brewing war. On one side, a violent lower king is bent on destroying Toranic Law; on the other, the upper authorities will do anything to stay on top.
The trio must face both sides head-on if they want to stop a conflict that could break not only Toranic Law… but the universe itself.
Death’s Country by R.M. Romero
Peachtree Teen
Andres Santos of São Paulo was all swinging fists and firecracker fury, a foot soldier in the war between his parents. Until he drowned in the Tietê River… and made a bargain with Death for a new life. A year later, his parents have relocated the family to Miami, but their promises of a fresh start quickly dissolve in the summer heat.
Instead of fists, Andres now uses music to escape his parents’ battles. While wandering Miami Beach, he meets two photographer Renee, a blaze of fire, and dancer Liora, a ray of sunshine. The three become a polyamorous triad, happy, despite how no one understands their relationship. But when a car accident leaves Liora in a coma, Andres and Renee are shattered.
Then Renee proposes a radical idea. She and Andres must go into the underworld to retrieve their girlfriend’s spirit and reunite it with her body—before it’s too late. Their search takes them to the City of the dead, where painters bleed color, songs grow flowers, and regretful souls will do anything to forget their lives on earth. But finding Liora’s spirit is only the first step in returning to the living world. Because when Andres drowned, he left a part of himself in the underworld—a part he’s in no hurry to meet again. But it is eager to be reunited with him…
In verse as vibrant as the Miami skyline, critically acclaimed author R.M. Romero has crafted a masterpiece of magical realism and an openhearted ode to the nature of healing.
Blood at the Root by LaDarrion Williams
Labyrinth Road
Ten years ago, Malik’s life changed forever the night his mother mysteriously vanished and he discovered he had uncontrollable powers. Since then, he has kept his abilities hidden, looking out for himself and his younger foster brother, Taye. Now, at 17, Malik is finally ready to start a new life for both of them, far from the trauma of his past. However, a daring act to rescue Taye reveals an unexpected connection with his long-lost a legendary conjurer with ties to a hidden magical university that Malik’s mother attended.
At Caiman University, Malik’s eyes are opened to a future he never could have envisioned for himself— one that includes the reappearance of his first love, Alexis. His search for answers about his heritage, his powers, and what really happened to his mother exposes the cracks in their magical community as it faces a reawakened evil dating back to the Haitian Revolution. Together with Alexis, Malik discovers a lot beneath the surface at feuding covens and magical politics, forbidden knowledge and buried mysteries.
In a wholly unique saga of family, history and community, Malik must embrace his legacy to save what’s left of his old family as well as his new one. Exploring the roots and secrets that connect us in an unforgettable contemporary setting, this heart-pounding fantasy series opener is a rich tapestry of atmosphere, intrigue, and emotion.
Queerceañera by Alex Crespo
HarperTeen
Joaquin Zoido is out and proud of it. And while he knew his dad and sister, Carmen, would be super supportive, he wasn’t quite ready for them to surprise him with a queerceañera, a coming out party to celebrate him. Between all the talks of tastings and venues, and the chirping of his family’s RSVP texts, the question of who will be his chambelán is on everyone’s minds.
What Joaquin is decidedly trying to not think about is whether his mom is going attend or if she’s finally replaced him with her favorite godson, Felix—the boy who made Joaquin realize he was gay and who was his first kiss. But when an impromptu lie snowballs into a full-fledged family-group-chat rumor, every Zoido from Texas to Mexico starts believing that Felix is not only Joaquin’s chambelán but also his brand-new boyfriend.
To avoid the pity and sympathies of an ill-timed breakup, Joaquin and Felix strike a deal—they’ll stay fake boyfriends until the party. Yet, as the day draws nearer and old feelings spark anew, Joaquin will have to decide whether a picture-perfect queerceañera with a fake boyfriend is worth giving up the chance of something real.
The Unboxing of a Black Girl by Angela Shanté
Page Street YA
Written as a collection of vignettes and poetry, The Unboxing of a Black Girl is a creative nonfiction reflection on Black girlhood. The debut YA title, by award-winning author Angela Shanté, is a love letter to Black girls set in New York City and serves as a personal and political critique of how the world raises Black girls.
As Shanté navigates the city through memory, she balances poetry with vignettes that explore the innocence and joy of childhood eroded by adultification. Through this book, she illuminates the places where Black girls are nurtured or exploited in stories and poems about personal and political boxes, love, loss, and sexual assault. Many entries are also studded with cultural footnotes designed to further understanding.
This Book Won’t Burn by Samira Ahmed
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
After her dad abruptly abandons her family and her mom moves them a million miles from their Chicago home, Noor Khan is forced to start the last quarter of her senior year at a new school, away from everything and everyone she knows and loves.
Reeling from being uprooted and deserted, Noor is certain the key to survival is to keep her head down and make it to graduation.
But things aren’t so simple. At school, Noor discovers hundreds of books have been labeled “obscene” or “pornographic” and are being removed from the library in accordance with a new school board policy. Even worse, virtually all the banned books are by queer and BIPOC authors.
Noor can’t sit back and do nothing, because that goes against everything she believes in, but challenging the status quo just might put a target on her back. Can she effect change by speaking up? Or will small-town politics—and small-town love—be her downfall?
The Boy From Clearwater: Book 2 by Yu Pei-Yun, illustrated by Zhou Jian-Xin, translated by Lin King
Levine Querido
After his imprisonment in Green Island, Kun-lin struggles to pick up where he left off ten years earlier. He reconnects with his childhood crush Kimiko and finds work as an editor, jumping from publisher to publisher until finally settling at an advertising company. But when manhua publishing becomes victim to censorship, and many of his friends lose their jobs, Kun-lin takes matters into his own hands. He starts a children’s magazine, Prince, for a group of unemployed artists and his old inmates who cannot find work anywhere else. Kun-lin’s life finally seems to be looking up… but how long will this last?
Forty years later, Kun-lin serves as a volunteer at the White Terror Memorial Park, promoting human rights education. There, he meets Yu Pei-Yun, a young college professor who provides him with an opportunity to reminisce on his past and how he picked himself up after grappling with bankruptcy and depression. With the end of martial law, Kun-lin and other former New-Lifers felt compelled to mobilize to rehabilitate fellow White Terror victims, forcing him to face his past head-on. While navigating his changing homeland, he must conciliate all parts of himself – the victim and the savior, the patriot and the rebel, a father to the future generation and a son to the old Taiwan – before he can bury the ghosts of his past.
Rising from the Ashes: Los Angeles, 1992. Edward Jae Song Lee, Latasha Harlins, Rodney King, and a City on Fire by Paula Yoo
Norton Young Readers
Paula Yoo’s latest is a compelling, nuanced account of Los Angeles’s 1992 uprising and its impact on its Korean and Black American communities.
On April 29, 1992, following the acquittal of four police officers charged with the beating and arrest of Rodney King and the earlier killing of teenager Latasha Harlins, the city of Los Angeles erupted in violence. Many of these events were centered on the city’s Koreatown, where tensions between the Black and Korean American communities had simmered for years, fueled by economic challenges and redlining and enflamed by sensationalized and racist media. Based on more than 100 personal interviews, Rising from the Ashes follows these events through the eyes and experiences of the families of King, Harlins, shooting victim Edward Jae Song Lee, and dozens of business owners, journalists, police officers, firefighters, activists, and other community members. Deeply researched and compulsively readable, this is a vivid, propulsive, and moving story of a pivotal moment in recent American history that continues to resonate today.
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Pupils at P. S. 106 at 1328 Putnam Avenue, Brooklyn, under the direction of teacher Anne S. Frankie, collect mostly canned food for their annual interfaith Thanksgiving project, 1952. The food was distributed to the Little Sisters of the Poor, the Menorah Home for the Aged, and the Lutheran Inner Mission. The tall kids are Richard DiStepano, 11, and Maureen Kidwell, 10. The little ones are Jessie Conlon, 6, and Gene Cadaro, 5.
Photo: Brooklyn Daily Eagle via the Brooklyn Public Library
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Jan - Jun 2023 Reading List:
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. Dear Ijeawele, or, A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. We Should All Be Feminists. New York: Vintage Books, 2014.
Bartky, Sandra Lee. Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression. New York: Routledge, 1990.
Bittel, Carla. Mary Putnam Jacobi & The Politics of Medicine in Nineteenth-Century America. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
Bolen, Jean Shinoda. Goddesses in Everywoman: A New Psychology of Women. Perennial Library, n.d.
Brownmiller, Susan. Femininity. New York: Open Road Media, 2013.
Chesler, Phyllis. Women and Madness. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 2018.
Christ, Carol P., and Judith Plaskow. Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religion. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1979.
Daly, Mary. The Church and the Second Sex. New York: Harper Colophon Books, 1975.
Davis, Elizabeth Gould. The First Sex. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1971.
Doyle, Sady. Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers. Brooklyn: Melville House Publishing, 2019.
Dworkin, Andrea. Intercourse. New York: Basic Books, 2007.
Ehrenreich, Barbara, and Deirdre English. For Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Experts’ Advice to Women. Garden City, NY: Anchor Press, 1978.
Firestone, Shulamith. The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1970.
Gowrinathan, Nimmi. Radicalizing Her: Why Women Choose Violence. Boston: Beacon Press, 2021.
Hawthorne, Susan. In Defence of Separatism. Mission Beach: Spinifex Press, 2019.
Jeffreys, Sheila. Anticlimax: A Feminist Perspective on the Sexual Revolution. Spinifex Press, 1990.
Jeffreys, Sheila. The Spinster and Her Enemies. Chicago: Spinifex Press, 1997.
Johnson, Sonia. Going Out of Our Minds: The Metaphysics of Liberation. Freedom: Crossing Press, 1987.
Johnson, Sonia. Wildfire Igniting the She/volution. Albuquerque: Wildfire Books, 1989.
Lerner, Gerda. The Creation of Patriarchy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
Love Your Enemy? The Debate between Heterosexual Feminism and Political Lesbianism. London: Onlywomen Press, Ltd., 1981.
Miles, Rosalind. Who Cooked the Last Supper?: The Women's History of the World. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2001.
Reed, Evelyn. Woman’s Evolution: From Matriarchal Clan to Patriarchal Family. New York: Pathfinder Press, 1975.
Sjöö, Monica, and Barbara Mor. The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering The Religion of the Earth. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2013.
Smith, Joan. Home Grown: How Domestic Violence Turns Men Into Terrorists. London: Riverrun, 2019.
Solanas, Valerie. SCUM Manifesto: With an Introduction by Vivian Gornick. London: Olympia Press, 1971.
Spender, Dale. Women of Ideas and What Men Have Done to Them. London: Ark Paperbacks, 1983.
Srinivasan, Amia. The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
Stone, Merlin. When God Was a Woman. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978.
Ussher, Jane. Women’s Madness: Misogyny or Mental Illness? Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1992.
West, Lindy. The Witches are Coming. New York: Hachette Books, 2019.
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Buckle up people, I’m about to tell you who’s this season’s killer
It’s Donna.
Why, you might ask? Nothing up to this point actually let to her, right? Wrong!
Have you ever seen that musical, The Producers?
The Producers’ plot is really simple. There’s this guy Max Bialystock, who - with help from this other guy, Leopold Bloom - scheme a plan of how to make 2 million dollars in profit from a total and utter disaster of a play. They think of this amazing five stages of a plan, which only the first two will be useful for us.
Step One: Find the worst play ever written.
Step Two: Find the worst director in town.
So, what does it mean for us?
Death Rattle (the play) is this ridiculous murder mystery where the main suspect is a baby. It’s, it’s just ridiculous, right? Step one speaks for itself.
Okay, but what about step two?
We know that there were at least two directors signed for this play: Jerry Blau and Oliver Putnam. Now, I’m not a critic, but I do have a feeling like both of them can be seen as a disasters just waiting to happen. We’re talking about people who are either a) living in the theater cause they’re broke and too proud to go back home, b) director of Splash! The Musical (2005). Like I said, not a critic, but doesn’t seem like a money making machine for me.
Okay, but what about it? It might as well be a coincidence that it fits, right? Wrong.
There are two real life people cameos in this season - opposed to last two ones, where we got just one per each. This time, we got this silly little guy, (who’s extremely talented and funny) Matthew Broderick, and this other silly guy (who’s more famous and more accomplished than any other star cameo in the series) Mel Brooks. What do they have to do with it, you might ask?
Well, it’s time to skip to the year of our lord 2001, and the Broadway premiere of The Producers, whom were written by silly guy number two, Mel Brooks. It had an amazing cast, everyone was so talented, and later nominated for Tony’s. One of which, was this silly guy number one, Matthew Broderick, for the role of Leo Bloom. Unfortunately, he lost in his category to his co-star, our own Teddy Dimas, Nathan Lane, who’s suspiciously absent from this season (sure, he was having some other, Broadway related play gig, but hey).
And you might say, okay, they got Broderick, and what? Well, let me tell you: not every show got a chance of Mel Brooks’ cameo. I mean, come on, Broderick has an incredible filmography and stage career, why The Producers out of all of them? Why Mel Brooks?
Okay, so you might ask now, if you’re still not convinced: what was her motive? What, was it money? That doesn’t make sense! And you’d be right. I think, that her motive was something far more important to her: Cliff, her son.
Up until last Tuesday I was convinced she wanted Death Rattle to fail. I mean, that was meant to be Cliff’s debut, and if it would turned out to be a hit, he would most probably leave her - or so she thought he would, so she poisoned the cookies, and left them for show’s biggest name, knowing Ben wouldn’t resist to try them.
But now I know, or at least suspect, that that’s not the case, thanks to one scene from this week’s episode.
While in the bathroom, Donna did said to Loretta, that a mother would do everything to protect her child; now, we were meant to be focused on Loretta and her struggle, but what if there’s more to that scene? What if she wanted her son to succeed, and the show to be a hit, but sensed that Ben Glenroy was a threat to not even her, but her baby, and his Broadway debut?
This week’s episode was about mother who was able to confess to a crime she didn’t commit, just so she could protect her baby. I think that this seasons murderer is a mother, who committed said crime, just so she could protect her baby.
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Because generational change will be an important theme in our story, we should pause briefly here to consider how social change and generational change are interrelated. As a matter of simple accounting, any social change - from the rise of rap music to the decline of newspapers - is always produced by some combination of two very different processes. The first is for many individuals to change their tastes and habits in a single direction simultaneously. This sort of social change can occur quickly and be reversed just as quickly. If large numbers of Americans, young and old, fall in love with sport utility vehicles, as they did in the 1990s, the automotive marketplace can be quickly transformed, and it can be transformed in a different direction just as quickly. Sociologists sometimes call this type of change "intracohort," because the change is detectable within each age cohort.
The second sort of social change is slower, more subtle, and harder to reverse. If different generations have different tastes or habits, the social physiology of birth and death will eventually transform society, even if no individual ever changes. Much of the change in sexual mores over the last several decades has been of this sort. Relatively few adults changed their views about morality, and most of those who did actually became more conservative. In the aggregate, however, American attitudes toward premarital sex, for example, have been radically liberalized over the last several decades, because a generation with stricter beliefs was gradually replaced by a later generation with more relaxed norms. Sociologists call this type of change "intercohort," because the change is detectable only across different age groups. Precisely because the rhythm of generational change is slower paced, it is more nearly inexorable.
(Bowling Alone, p35)
This is fucking nonsense!!! Literally what are you talking about old man!!!! Sexual norms didn’t “relax” with a new generation because young people are ontologically more progressive than their parents - if this was the case we would all be polyamorous kinksters today, especially given that church attendance and Christian affiliation is at all time historic lows. Like maybe this has more to do with no-fault divorce becoming legal and the necessity of women to work outside the home as a result of neoliberal economic policy and liberal feminist pushes for (white!) women to earn a wage independent of their husbands, which resulted in a change in the way we view sex outside of marriage (along with a bunch of other factors!!).
Similarly, trends in vehicle consumer preferences are not these random events that just “happen” because a bunch of individuals spontaneously and independently decided that they liked sports cars all at the same time. the necessity of vehicle ownership in places like America are the end result of rapid post-war low-density suburban development that pushed for homeownership as a way to shore up middle class interests as a bulwark against proletarian class conscious (to paraphrase William Levitt, homeowners are too busy to be communists), which was part of the broader policy regime of McCarthyism. This was coupled with the neoliberalisation of the state in the 1970s and 80s, resulting in the gutting of public transit and the selling off the public roads to private companies, further necessitating vehicle ownership and subsequently placing a large cultural emphasis on the prestige of owning a car, which can be easily flaunted in public as a display of personal wealth. and finally, the land available to do this rapid development & privatisation was the result of centuries of settler genocide and racial slavery which produced a perfect “terra nullius” for whites to build an empire on top of. So a preference for what vehicle someone thinks looks cool is far downwind of this historical context, none of which is apparently important to Putnam when weighed against the titanic explanatory power of “generational change”
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Armchair Character Psychoanalysis of Peter Simmonds from Bare: a Pop Opera (Peter's Motivation)
I don't know the specific creative process that went into this show. Peter's parents being divorced could have been a detail thrown in there via spitballing, like Aaron Wells from fifth grade or the option to send Peter to Conversion Therapy camp. It could have been what details stuck versus what was cut depended on the vibe at the time to the power of what the rest of the show could get out of it—not necessarily that the choice of this detail was a deliberate statement or message.
I do want to say that I find a strikingly coherent thread that explains a lot about Peter Simmonds, if we read between the lines about his home life.
His grandmother is still alive and on chatty-lunches-out terms with his mother, if Claire is to be believed on that point, and in some versions Peter has a sister implied to be younger than him. I think that's the Holy Trinity that Peter thinks of as home, which is why his first prayers in the show and the plot-significant religious hallucinations are Marian venerations, rather than visions of Jesus like in the Putnam County Spelling Bee or Hamlet 2. (He switches to the Pater Noster prayer after the anachronistic and Roman Catholic Canon Law-breaking nightmare of a woman officiating his wedding, replaced by a priest officiating Jason's wedding. I think that symbolizes Peter's leaving boyhood behind and stepping into a role of maturity, that he's going to take initiative and charge on ahead completely alone instead of needing support and approval to get more approval and more support: "See Me" and "Absolution". But this is a tangent.)
If Claire's asides are anything to go by, it takes plenty of nagging to get Peter's father involved and as we can guess from "Epiphany", Peter might still feel that his father's rejection and absence in Peter's life is Peter's fault.
Unlike Jason (who provided "an escape grown from seeds that you planted" and slew all Peter's giants), Peter's father seemingly never provided Peter any reassurance or closure regarding the abandonment/divorce upheaval.
This point about what Jason did right—getting Peter to feel okay with his own gay even as they pray—is about to become very, very important.
Catholic culture rather prides itself on orthodoxy, so I would think there would be plenty of social stigma that Peter actually internalizes when it comes to being from "a broken home". Obviously he loves his mother, because he tells her almost everything, but there's things he can't tell her and I think that fact weighs in his heart right beside the concept of "divorced families are broken homes to the children" stereotype that pervades the culture of many Catholic communities.
Ever wonder what might fix that feeling? An idea that's just wild and crazy enough to work, and worth the risk to Peter? Because Peter still gets nightmares about his friends calling him out about his parents, his dad, and his broken home for some reason. Wonder what will ever undo the sense of brokenness that marred his life and sense of wellbeing for at least 10 years without relief?Wonder if there's anything that can be done to make this family be whole and complete, such that Peter won't so desperately need emotional validation from his dad anymore?
Introduce boyfriend to mom.
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Justice THT Style - Part 2 - Nick Blaine
Today we're looking at the enigmatic Nick Blaine and his road to true justice. Let's get started.
For 5 seasons Blaine has been wandering the streets of Gilead as an Eye and now a military Commander, his very job description determines that like it or not, he’s a source of Gilead justice. He might not say a Hell of a lot but if you live in Gilead, its definitely not a promising sign when he turns up at your door if you’ve misbehaved. He’s constantly quoting bible verses that have a very “fuck around and find out” quality to them, in fact dear old Fred got a mouth full of the whole “reap what you sow” business, just prior to his demise. In season 1 Nicks sense of justice seems more procedural rather than retributive but he’s green and yet to see what Gilead will do to the love of his life. “No ones above the law” he says in S1 but this is fanciful idealism, these commanders are rotten to the core and he’ll have to drown himself in blood to get them to behave like virtuous men. He’s a peaceful man, restrained and noticeably stoic, but watching the various ways that the Waterfords and Gilead tortured and crushed June, is more than he can stomach.
When Nick joins June in those dark woods handing Fred over for the revenge she so desperately craves, he doesn’t take part in the Salvaging, it’s a ritual only performed by Handmaids and as such he knows it’s not his place. Instead he silently marches Fred through the woods, ignoring his pleas, to deliver him to June and leaves.
Historically when it comes to acts of justice and revenge Blaine acts as more of an intermediary, justice will be served, not directly by his hand, but he does make sure that everyone “gets to the church on time”. But lately we’ve seen the sands shifting, from season 4 we’ve witnessed instances Blaine will directly take a pound of flesh and I personally wish him well. In season 4 ep 10 he back hands a mouthy Fred, a call back to a slap Fred previously delivered to June, as Nick stood there horrified and helpless. With that one gesture he redresses the balance and takes back his power.
In Season 5 he shot Putnam for raping a handmaid, and while under the guise of Gilead justice, Blaine was more than happy to oblige for his own reasons. In Ep 10 he became enraged at an attempt on Junes life, ending with a bit of a throw down with Lawrence in front of the evil Commander McKenzie. This moment crystalized that Nick Blaine was becoming both increasingly dangerous and unpredictable. It also foreshadowed the Battle Royale we can expect between these three in season 6.
With Blaine being such a purveyor of New Testament scripture that espouses forgiveness and love, he’s inclined to feel a great deal of guilt over any act of revenge. It suits him, a sense of guilt gives a character an aura of contemplation and depth, something that Blaine seems to swim in. Comparatively, a lack of appropriate guilt makes a character seem sociopathic and superficial. Blaine’s “tried to be nice about it” as they say, but unfortunately he lives in Gilead and well, Gilead’s gonna Gilead, so as Lawrence would say “enough of the carrot, time for the stick”.
It’s been interesting to note that scenes of Blaine at war were cut, participating in a war against a peaceful country sits poorly with a character who has such a balanced sense of justice. There is always a difference between referring to a character at war and actually SHOWING one picking up a gun and shooting it at an innocent. Showing these types of acts makes an effective redemption arc almost impossible to survive and lowers the chances of welcoming that character back into the fold at the end of the day. The fact that these scenes were cut significantly increases Blaine's chances of coming home.
Until season 4 we never saw Blaine engage in any acts of direct violence that weren’t as a result of self defence, when he did commit them, they could be traced back to his feelings of anger at witnessing June’s abuse. In Season 5 he became increasingly dark and lost hope, ala Godfather style, because he’d lost the one glimmer of light in his life: June.
It would have been unusual for writers NOT to show him descending into a place of darkness without her. She’s everything to him and now with Tuello holding out his hand he can just see her again standing on the distant horizon. God help whoever stands in his way.
Next up Serena and the Nick Blaine of Canada: Tuello.
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2023 League of Musicals Alphabetized List of Musicals
Below is the full list of musicals in the League of Musicals sorted by Division.
Division A
Alice By Heart
Annie
Assassins
Avenue Q
The Band's Visit
The Book of Mormon
Cabaret
Cats
Chess
Chicago
A Chorus Line
Come From Away
Company
Falsettos
Fiddler on the Roof
Firebringer
Fun Home
A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
Ghost Quartet
Guys and Dolls
Hadestown
Hair
Hairspray
Hamilton
Hello, Dolly!
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
In The Heights
Into the Woods
Jekyll and Hyde
The King and I
Kinky Boots
Legally Blonde
Les Misérables
The Lion King
Little Shop of Horrors
Matilda
Moulin Rouge
Mozart, l'opéra rock
The Music Man
My Fair Lady
Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812
Newsies
Next to Normal
Octet
Once
Once on this Island
The Phantom of the Opera
Pippin
The Producers
Ragtime
Rent
Ride the Cyclone
The Rocky Horror Show
Something Rotten
The Sound of Music
Spies Are Forever
SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical
Spring Awakening
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Twisted: The Untold Story of A Royal Vizier
Waitress
West Side Story
Wicked
The Wiz
Division B
25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
42nd Street
1776
Adamandi
American Idiot
American Psycho
Anastasia
Applause
Bare: A Pop Opera
Beetlejuice
Be More Chill
Billy Elliot the Musical
Bonnie and Clyde
Bye Bye Birdie
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Cinderella (Rodgers and Hammerstein)
City of Angels
Damn Yankees
Dear Evan Hansen
Death Note: The Musical
Evita
Fosse
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Grease
The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals
Hallelujah, Baby!
Heathers
Holy Musical B@man!
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Jersey Boys
Jesus Christ Superstar
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Kiss Me, Kate
Kiss of the Spider Woman
La Cage aux Folles
The Lightning Thief
A Little Night Music
Man of La Mancha
Memphis
Monty Python's Spamalot
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
A New Brain
Nine
The Pajama Game
Passion
The Prom
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Singin' in the Rain
Six
South Pacific
Starship
A Strange Loop
Sunday in the Park with George
Sunset Boulevard
Tanz der Vampire / Dance of the Vampires
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Tick Tick Boom
Titanic
The Trail to Oregon!
Tuck Everlasting
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Urinetown
The Will Rogers Follies
The Wizard of Oz (1987)
Division C
& Juliet
21 Chump Street
35MM: A Musical Exhibition
1789: Les Amants de la Bastille
Aida
Allegiance
Amélie
Annie Get Your Gun
Anything Goes
The Art of Pleasing Princes
Bandstand
Beauty and the Beast
Big Fish
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
Carousel
Carrie
The Color Purple
Contact
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dogfight
Dracula, the Musical
Dreamgirls
Elisabeth
Evil Dead: The Musical
Finding Neverland
Frankenstein: A New Musical
The Frogs
Funny Girl
Godspell
Groundhog Day
Gypsy
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Jane Eyre
The Last Five Years
Lizzie
The Lord of the Rings
Love in Hate Nation
Love Never Dies
The Mad Ones
The Magic Show
Mary Poppins
Mean Girls
Merrily We Roll Along
Miss Saigon
Mozart!
Oklahoma!
Oliver
On the Town
Ordinary Days
Parade
The Pirate Queen
Preludes
Pretty Woman
The Prince of Egypt
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Rebecca
Roméo et Juliette: de la Haine à l'Amour
The Secret Garden
Seussical
She Loves Me
Shrek the Musical
Starry
Wonderland
You're A Good Man Charlie Brown
Division D
13: The Musical
Ablaze
The Act
Ain't Misbehavin
An American in Paris
Anne & Gilbert
Anyone Can Whistle
Av. Larco
Back to the Future the Musical
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Big River
Bran Nue Dae
Bright Star
Bring It On
Calvin Berger
Caroline, or Change
Clown Bible
Crazy for You
De 3 Biggetjes
The Dolls of New Albion
Dorian Gray
The Drowsy Chaperone
The Fantasticks
Fiorello!
Fly by Night
Follies
Frankenstein (Wang Yeon Beom + Brandon Lee)
Hans Christian Andersen
Hoy no me puedo levantar
In Transit
Jagged Little Pill
Jerome Robbins' Broadway
Kimberly Akimbo
King's Table
Kismet
Lady Bess
La Légende du roi Arthur
Le Passe-Muraille / Amour
Le Roi Soleil
Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
The Light in the Piazza
Made in Dagenham
Magic Tree House: The Musical
Mentiras el musical
Notre-Dame de Paris
Once Upon A Mattress
On Your Feet! The Story of Emilio & Gloria Estefan
Phantom (Yeston & Kopit)
Raisin
Redhead
Sarafina!
School of Rock
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1964)
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Show Boat
Sidd
Siete veces adios
Soldaat van Oranje
The Spitfire Grill
Starlight Express
Starmania / Tycoon
Tarrytown
The Threepenny Opera / Die Dreigroschenoper
Timéo
Wiedzmin
The Wild Party (Lippa)
The Woman in White
Wonderful Town
[title of show]
Émilie Jolie
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Hm, on one hand your post irritates me because I did pretty poorly in my STEM degree but unequivocally Learned Things, but on the other hand I would have definitely Learned More Things if I didn't have to come up with thousands of dollars every year for tuition and transportation. Don't you think failing everyone who gets a C- or less is a bit extreme?
This might have been specific to my experience or to physics rather than all of STEM, but the people who were getting a C- weren't getting a 70% on all of their exams, everything in upper level classes was necessarily graded on a curve. Which is the correct way to do it imo, it's hard to design an exam so that people who "know" the material all score exactly in the 70-100% range on the exam. Usually this is accomplished by erring on the side of challenging the students more rather than less, where 50% or so of the material on the exam is something you expect anyone would know, and the remainder is more challenging and requires an actual synthesis and understanding of the material, and often this gets you a nice distribution. But sometimes the professor messes up and they need to salvage an exam that was accidentally too challenging, where the class average was in the 60s. I even had an E&M exam that was so hard the professor refused to tell us anything beyond "none of you got a passing grade so I'm not counting it." So despite the appearance of numerical data, evaluation is a lot less of an exact science than one might expect!
But to illustrate the point, we had the opposite problem happen once with a newer professor, he accidentally screwed up and made the (take home!) midterm so easy in senior-level Intro to Quantum Mechanics that the median score was 100. This was, admittedly, complicated by the fact that due to our program's research specialties in AMO meant that at least a handful of us already knew everything there was to learn in that class before we took it. But despite this median score, which was achieved by more than just the kids who already knew the material, the lower mode of people still scored poorly! So there wasn't really much to do other than make the final nigh-impossible, which meant that all of those C and D kids failed to graduate on time anyway and had to "retake" quantum the next year when the curve would be more forgiving. I'm skeptical from having talked to and worked with many of them that they actually learned anything beyond intro physics.
However, I am probably being somewhat unfair in ways I don't realize due to, quite frankly, immense privilege. I came into college with two years worth of credit from AP exams and still took a full courseload and graduated in four, not only summa cum laude, but #2 in my class, despite basically taking no freshman and barely any sophomore-level classes to pad my GPA with. I thrived on the stress and conflict of test-taking and laughed (while still crying) about take-home exams that could and did take an entire weekend. I took the Putnam exam "for fun" my sophomore year and got a 10, beating all the math majors who took it that year. I was an obnoxious asshole about all of this, which I should probably regret more than I do. But by all accounts this means I'm the entirely wrong person to know what causes people to struggle with exams even if they do know the material. Throw sharp and heavy things at me, I probably deserve it.
But despite all that... I still feel that I didn't learn all of the physics as well as I probably should have? Many of those curves were strongly weighted in my favor because I happened to be the first or second highest score, which meant I got basically the same final grade in a class whether I slacked off a bit or not. And yeah, I think part of it is that Physics is really hard, and a four-year undergrad program with rigidly scheduled exams is not going to be remotely accessible or accommodating to anyone with a severe disability or extenuating life circumstances.
But when it's the same kids every semester who are barely passing, I think that at some point you have to say that even if the system *is* fundamentally broken and unfair, it's both of those things in a way where the people it's failed really haven't learned anything and so shouldn't receive a degree saying they have? Possibly they often don't even know what they don't know? I think that most physics classes form roughly discrete packets of curriculum, but as someone who has written and scored exams, I don't think 70% on an exam doesn't imply that even close to 70% of the knowledge was mastered. I'm not sure that any exam I took was ever that comprehensive, and I don't think that "learned some things" rather than nothing is really enough to cut it.
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