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Sometime Theatre Aficionado. Tony Awards Researcher. Tea Enthusiast. Alleged short king. Soprano Connoisseur. Raised on TCM. Cat Lover. He/Him

New York
Joined February 2009
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Kevin Daly
11 months
Let's hear it for 95-year-old acting legend Rosemary Harris, who was seen walking the SAG-AFTRA picket line outside of Netflix in NYC today.
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3 years
Norm MacDonald was a writer on Roseanne and he was responsible for Jackie's iconic "Dad's dead" moment, inspired by an experience in his own life.
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2 years
Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, was a lesbian.
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2 years
Ben Shapiro mocks the notion of queer astronauts going to the moon: "Lesbians on the moon. This is what we need. It sounds like a bad pornography"
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2 years
Lady Gaga's overwhelming respect for show biz legends is one of her superpowers.
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3 years
Farewell to the divine Olympia Dukakis.
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3 years
The perfect joke doesn’t exi—
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1 year
Camilla being crowned queen.
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7 months
‘Crying’ Virgin Mary statue with tears ‘flowing’ down her cheeks stuns churchgoers
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3 years
This is so dumb I can’t stop laughing.
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1 year
I constantly come back to the presentation of the 2011 Lead Actress in a Comedy Series Emmy. The sheer joyous comedy of it all.
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1 year
What is your favorite award show moment?
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4 years
While we're here praising Megan Hilty, let's not forget when she played Glinda in Wicked, she would opt up to the E6 at the end of "No One Mourns the Wicked"
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2 years
Angela Lansbury and Bea Arthur revisiting "Bosom Buddies" from Mame on the 1987 Tonys = instant serotonin
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3 years
Why call it Diana the Musical when Regally Blonde is right there?
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5 years
I was today years old when I first saw the stock photo they used for the Mamma Mia! logo.
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6 months
Excuse me while I go walk into the sea.
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6 months
MISERY LOVES COMPANY 😭 I present, Melissa Joan Hart as granny!
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2 years
The fact that people think Betty White improvised The Great Herring War while Bea and Rue corpsed (they were acting) is a testament to the strength of the writing and performances on The Golden Girls. Everything in that scene was written, blocked, and rehearsed.
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1 year
Except for two previous Broadway revivals, multiple presentations of Hal Prince’s original staging at NYCO from 1984 to 2004, two NY Phil concerts, and an immersive off-Broadway revival, the musical hasn’t been seen or heard in NY for 43 years.
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2 years
Farewell to the divine Angela Lansbury, an icon, a legend, a superstar, and one of the greatest actors of our time.
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2 years
Angela Lansbury and Bea Arthur revisiting "Bosom Buddies" from Mame on the 1987 Tonys = instant serotonin
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3 months
Kate Middleton’s fine. She sends her love.
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2 years
Julie Andrews, who turns 87 today, in a publicity shot for The Boy Friend, which opened on Broadway at the Royale Theatre the night before her 19th birthday.
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1 year
One thing about the My Fair Lady movie casting saga that isn't discussed nearly enough is how Julie Andrews and Audrey Hepburn were exceptionally gracious and kind to each other throughout the whole thing.
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1 month
“Say something else” sends me into the stratosphere.
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1 month
Jonathan Groff, Daniel Radcliffe, and Lindsay Mendez all scored #TonyAwards nominations this morning which delights me because I’ve been in love with their chemistry since Merrily’s delightful press tour
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3 years
Emma Thompson reuniting Adele with her beloved English teacher checks off several boxes for me.
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8 years
Animals always know. #NeverTrump #cats
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2 years
It’s like a one-woman Meisner exercise.
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7 years
Media: Did the Pope call Trump fat?! The Pope:
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2 years
I'm sorry, WHAT?!!
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Remembering Dame Angela Lansbury 🇺🇦
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Dame Angela Lansbury will make a final film appearance in #GlassOnion this December, playing herself alongside her friend and fellow genius, Stephen Sondheim. The film will now be dedicated to her memory. What a fitting farewell gift from Dame Angela to us all.
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4 years
Here's Bernadette Peters saying Les Miserables at the 1987 Tonys for your enjoyment.
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2 years
Swing your razors wide, folks. Sweeney Todd is officially coming back to Broadway.
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1 year
Stephen Sondheim and Bernadette Peters during the recording session for the original cast album of Into the Woods.
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3 years
I would have stolen the whole lobby sign.
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1 year
1970s SNL was wild: you could find Bea Arthur hosting an episode with musical guest The Roches singing an a cappella rendition of the Hallelujah Chorus.
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1 year
Bette Davis, on a press tour for Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte with Olivia de Havilland, weighs in on Julie Andrews and the 1964 Best Actress Oscar. (Also: "I have" 😂😂😂)
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2 years
This tweet is the funniest thing to ever happen in the history of the world.
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6 months
Reader, I—
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2 years
It's literally insane that Broadway doesn't go dark on Tony Sunday.
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2 years
A missed opportunity not putting Patti LuPone in charge of covid safety.
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3 months
Mary Todd Lincoln meets Mary Todd Lincoln
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4 years
RT this sainted image to bless your timeline.
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1 year
Thanks for the laughs, Cecily Strong
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6 months
Maria Callas, born 100 years ago today, ends the second act of Aida in Mexico City on a massive high E-flat, causing absolute pandemonium in the audience.
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2 years
No one: The ending of every musical theatre song of the last 25 years:
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Lorelei King❤
2 years
A friend just sent me this video of a cockerel and I am WEAK. 😂😂😂 I also feel seen. 😐
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4 months
Thinking about Sara Ramirez serving soprano vocals and enormous comedy in Spamalot's "The Song That Goes Like This," a devastating send-up of mega musical ballads in general, and ALW's Phantom in particular.
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1 year
Judy Garland was one of the finest film actresses we ever had.
her delivery here feels very modern
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3 years
Olympia Dukakis's delivery of "Old man, you give those dogs another piece of my food and I'm gonna kick you till you're dead" to her father-in-law in Moonstruck lives in my head rent-free.
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2 years
Jack's Mother in Into the Woods:
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Golden Girls Out Of Context
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17 days
Once again, it’s Gwen Verdon showing up and saving the day.
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Matt Baume
17 days
Reading about the making of Cabaret and how they wanted to make the dancers look UNSETTLING -- nothing looked quite right until Gwen Verdon showed them how to melt crayons in a spoon over a candle and then brush the melted crayon wax onto their eyelashes
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2 years
Every Oscar Hammerstein love song is like "What if we kissed? just kidding...unless 👀"
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6 months
We saw you from across the opera house and really dig your vibe.
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2 years
Julie Andrews, aka Good Cinderella, sips champagne out of a glass slipper after the triumphant live broadcast of the Rodgers & Hammerstein television musical on March 31, 1957, as Alice Ghostley, Edie Adams, and Kaye Ballard look on.
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1 year
Cinematic parallels. #TheWhiteLotus
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2 years
WHICH ONE OF YOU DID THIS???
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2 years
Cats opened on Broadway at the Winter Garden 40 years ago today and gave us this truly thrilling moment from @BettyBuckley .
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Kevin Daly
6 months
Today we say farewell to the divine Frances Sternhagen, one of the finest character actresses of her era.
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4 months
Chita Rivera and Liza Minnelli dance the "Hot Honey Rag" during a rehearsal for Liza's replacement stint in the original Broadway production of Chicago.
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@thedailybeast
The Daily Beast
7 months
Shocker: Justin Timberlake is “NOT happy” with Britney Spears’s memoir, "The Woman in Me."
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11 months
No one has ever committed to a character more than Mandy Patinkin did in this commercial for Evita.
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7 months
Merrily We Roll Along pulling in Hamilton/Wicked/Lion King-sized grosses on Broadway is a remarkable turnaround for one of the most devastating musical failures of the 1980s.
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2 years
Looking at all these costumes on The Gilded Age and I have only one question: where is she?
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LaChanze wins Best Actress in a Musical for playing Celie in the original Broadway production of The Color Purple at the 2006 Tony Awards.
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3 years
Caracals are just cats who majored in musical theatre.
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2 years
Big "I saw Goody Proctor with the devil" Energy.
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2 years
A flawless look, a devastating soprano tribute to Sondheim, an enthusiastic front-row cheerleader and champion for artists. Nobody does it like Bernadette. Nobody. #TonyAwards
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1 year
Leslie Kritzer as Carol Burnett as Princess Fred singing “Shy” on the series finale of Maisel.
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11 months
She's the lady in red when everybody else is wearing tan. Next question.
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6 months
For the love of Sondheim, swap the billing or swap the faces.
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9 months
Don't mind me, I'm just over here thinking about Robert Sean Leonard's incredible Playbill bio for the 2017 revival of Sunday in the Park with George.
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2 years
“She’s the Baker’s Wife,” Bareilles noted. “She is a possessive item by title! So I gave her a name. She’s Rebecca in my mind.” Protect Sara Bareilles at all costs.
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American Theatre
2 years
The 3 women who've played INTO THE WOODS' Baker's Wife on Broadway ( @SaraBareilles , @TheKerryOMalley , and @TheRealJGleason ) talk about what the character signifies, what she wants and learns, and oh, by the way, does she have a name?
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Someone cast Jean Smart in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? *please*
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I love her so much.
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3 years
Kelli O'Hara sings "You'll Never Walk Alone" on 9/11/21.
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7 years
A reminder: a ticket to a Broadway show entitles you to a Playbill and a performance and literally nothing else.
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2 years
Angela Lansbury gets emotional watching herself deliver "Rose's Turn" in Gypsy.
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2 years
A rare portrait of my birth parents. 🥰
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3 years
Dame Julie Andrews in the NY Times, on the passing of Stephen Sondheim:
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4 years
I've decided to marry one of you. More on this as it develops.
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2 years
My first exposure to Judy Garland, born on this date 100 years ago, outside of The Wizard of Oz was, incredibly, this astounding performance of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," sung in tribute to JFK a mere three weeks after his assassination.
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3 years
Meghan McCain and Joy Behar.
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1 year
All of us this November.
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Viking Books
1 year
We are thrilled to announce the long-awaited memoir by the superstar of stage, screen, recordings, and television, @BarbraStreisand ! 🌟✨ MY NAME IS BARBRA will be published on November 7, 2023. Learn more at:
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2 months
Okay but why is she dressed like a community theatre Norma Desmond?
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸
2 months
At Kari Lake’s fundraising event at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, Roseanne Barr told young people to “drop out of college” while pushing QAnon conspiracies: “It isn’t nothing but devil worshipping, baby blood drinking, Democrat donors.”
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Angela Lansbury's curtain call for Mame was absolutely extraordinary: she swept onstage in one last new costume as the ensemble sings the title song, kissed each principal—even the antagonists—like old friends, and then curtsied to her company *before* bowing to the audience.
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2 years
This was shared on Facebook by Isabel Omero, who was script supervisor on The Golden Girls from Lex Passaris’s personal collection.
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1 year
I don't know who needs to hear this but the sublime 1962 film adaptation of The Music Man has just been added to HBO Max.
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2 years
Me, every time I listen to Beyoncé sing "Love on Top"
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11 months
It's Audra McDonald's birthday today so let's celebrate that instead of Independence Day tomorrow.
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Just before exiting into the wings after playing Lady Bracknell in 2019, Angela Lansbury turned out and raised her cane in triumph. The audience lost its mind. A voice in my head told me this was going to be the last time we saw her on stage. And it was. Happy Birthday, Angie.
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Kevin Daly
3 months
Entering the era of Martyl.
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Meryl Streep and Martin Short grab dinner together after denying dating rumors
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1 year
Birthday tributes to the legendary Dame Maggie Smith that focus only on Downton or Harry Potter?
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Kevin Daly
2 years
Find someone who looks at you the way Patti LuPone looked at Donna Murphy on the opening night of Gypsy on Broadway.
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2 years
"It justifies the beans, David" took me OUT
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Rachel Lind
2 years
Broadway “justifies the beans” (and also some inspiration for more #IntotheWoods dream casting)
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Judy Garland gives Liza Minnelli a light during rehearsal for their London Palladium concert, November 1964.
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In the original Broadway production of The Sound of Music, the principal nuns had significant downtime in the first act so they would play poker in the dressing room.
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1 year
My eye roll could be seen from space.
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8 months
Sondheim working on the new lyrics for Company:
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Sophia Benoit
8 months
girl math ????? girl dinner? What’s next? girl car payment? girl shoes? girl being alive???
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7 months
When the songs in Wicked are great they are really great and when they are bad they're really baaaaaaaaad.
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Kevin Daly
3 years
I mean, I'm never *not* thinking about Rebecca Luker somehow finding the camera while singing "My White Knight" during a performance of The Music Man...
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3 months
To see Leslie Uggams, an 80-year-old Tony-winning musical theatre icon, show up for five riveting minutes in the first act of Jelly's Last Jam and deliver a tremendous powerhouse vocal performance with one song is worth the price of admission.
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Barbra Streisand in the original Broadway production of Funny Girl.
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Fran Drescher as Mameh and Mandy Patinkin as Tateh in the 1981 film adaptation of Ragtime.
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Meg Giry: Christine Daae could sing it, sir. Me: Yeah... down a third. 😒
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