I can’t be objective, as Cinco Paul is a childhood friend, but now that critics have weighed in I feel I can join the chorus of praise for SCHMIGADOON, an embarrassment of riches full of wit, heart, craft, and joy. Indeed, aside from the new CATS, it’s the most joyful night to be found on Broadway.
As I think Mel Brooks once said: Tragedy is when I have a minor sniffle, comedy is when you contract leprosy and all your limbs fall off.
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I’m sure there’s a video out there on YT somewhere…
There was a production of a ‘Baby Jane’ musical too, I think with Millicent Martin as one of the sisters!
If any followers pick this up, I want to hear your picks too! The more the merrier!!
Gypsy.
Gypsy.
A photo of the Playbill for Schmigadoon at the Nederland Theatre
What I love most about Schmigadoon is that it shows how parody can achieve emotional resonance. It's a clever, hilarious, metatheatrical parody, AND a sincere, deeply affecting example of the thing that's being parodied! Brilliant work by @cincopaul.bsky.social, delivered by a knockout cast.
Not to forget Rags (the last 4 part rhyme still packs a goddam punch), and Beauty and the Beast!!
I’m rather fond of Mame and Dreamgirls!
historic rejection of JD Vance
im not religious but I am a Costco member
Single best capture of this moment, and it's in The Onion. Duly noted.
Liza and Goldie should’ve done the film of Chicago in the 70’s directed by Fosse
Judy Garland in Mame!
We might as well go home now, I don’t think this can be topped.
Oh hell yes!
Does Sammy Davis Jr as Alexander Hamilton count?
I know he was long gone by the time Hamilton came along but still…
Yep!! And getting in the way of good Slater storylines
She’s one of the worst additions to the cast. Completely unsympathetic and unlikeable.
Yip Harburg and Fred Ebb sharing a birthday should be at least as big a deal as Sondheim and Lloyd Webber sharing theirs.
NEW: Two women just joined the lawsuit seeking to overturn Arkansas' abortion ban. One had an ectopic pregnancy and was sent away by three emergency rooms in two states and another—refreshingly—didn't want to be pregnant. Both forced to go to Kansas. First case since Dobbs showing broad harm of bans
So pro-life means jailing women who miscarry but shrugging when the deranged president says “a whole civilization will die tonight.” Do I have that right?
Oh Betty Blue Eyes is such a delightful little score!
It’s terrible but I’ve always been fond of ‘Twang!!’ Yes there were TWO exclamation marks!
A scan of a film frame showing the hand-painted color version of Georges Méliès Le Voyage dans la lune/A Trip to the Moon. The frame is arguably the film’s most iconic image: a man in the moon struck by a bullet-shaped rocket in the right eye surrounded by a bed of rolling clouds. The moon is panted yellow, the rocket a vibrant rust, and the clouds in shades of slate. Four sprocket holes run along the left side of the frame.
Like so many silent films, A Trip to the Moon has a wild story. The hand-painted color version of the film was thought to be lost for more than 90 years. A deteriorating print was discovered in 1993, setting off a restoration project that took nearly two decades to complete.
"This time, performers long kept at the margins can step into the spotlight, not as ornament, but as a force reshaping the stage itself."
Betty Buckley writes thoughtfully about Cats: The Jellicle Ball:
The final trailer for 'The Devil Wears Prada 2' has been released.
In theaters May 1st.
[📽 via 20th Century Studios] #TheDevilWearsPrada2
Perhaps the greatest musical written, and it’s Original Production, never bettered. It’s my top ‘if I could’ve seen’ show.
