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Kad said: "The big advantage that the NYPL has is its large archive that it has been building for decadesand its team of archivists, historians, researchers, and other staff. And if the NYPL is lacking in certain materials, it can easily work with peer institutions to obtain them to create an exhibit.It has legitimacy, experience, and collections that the MoB just lacks as a for-profit."

NYPL is a great nyc institution. I am always impressed by the exhibits, its

chanel said: ""Scherzinger's bold performance should make for gleeful gay bar conversation for years to come...You cansense the divahunger she's fulfilling for the Broadway crowd, who are anxious to have this icon back,and in a revelatory way."

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Musto's "Diva Hunger" is a good term for part of the audience's reaction to Scherzinger. But it is also a ritualized and somewhat automatic reaction. No

Such drama! The critics of this production aren't necessarily purists or conservatives because they don't like the production. As Auggie27 said this style of post-modern direction has been around since the 1970's. The question is does the director's departure from the text illuminate it or is it arbitrary?

In Lloyd's case I felt it did illuminate the text around half of the time in a satisfying way. The rest felt like he was throwing tri

Ensemble1728379893 said: ""- she LITERALLY called out the industry for never giving Nicole a platform to showcase what she can do and how fantastically talented she is."



I think this is a narrative that I have been hearing in the last couple of weeks that I believe is true but it may pay dividends in June.

And, like some of you, I was aware of who NS was, but never in a million years would have believed that a Pussycat Doll could give the g

I don't see Norma as a victim of trauma as much of an archetype of lost youth and glamour. Maybe that's from where I sit in my life. But the emotions that are stirred up by the music are ones of regret and the refusal to retreat and die. That's pretty universal. I think it's legitimate to read Norma as a victim of trauma but the tendency of the current era to wedge every story into a trauma narrative is a bit like an earlier generation trying to fit stories into some kind of F

binau said: "When I first joined this forum what feels like almost 20 years ago, if I recall correctly we had people who would actually give first hand accounts of seeing shows such as A Chorus Line, Ethel Merman in Gypsy and Mary Martin in the Sound of Music. At the time I don't think I appreciated how rare this was - now it's almost unheard of here and I'm sorry to say that given the likely age of these people I am assuming they are focussing on more important issues in

CreatureKitchen said: "I wonder if some of this disconnect is coming from Jamie Lloyd’s auteur status. The radical design, the experimental use of video, the actors not being allowed to smile during curtain call, the credits that emphasize Jamie Lloyd’s name, theinterviews he’s given wherehe says ge uses minimalism to focus on the characters and performances. It all seems like it’s meant to be taken very seriously, which doesn’t jibe with everyone saying