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The only reason Jimmy Fallon is hanging on the way he does is because he’s barely running a late night talk show at all: he’s running a goofy sketch/variety show hybrid with guest chat. He’s generating material for socials and streams, not longform content. 
 

The “Wicked Rap” went so viral it almost became part of the movie in public consciousness. There are hundreds of bootleg copies uploaded as podcasts on Spotify since it wasn’t an

I think A Chorus Line’s brilliance is also part of what dates it: it’s a documentary performed live, plus with musical numbers. That sort of meta textual fourth wall breaking blending of fact, fiction and the mundane is revolutionary, but it had such an impact that today it feels not that groundbreaking. 
 

In today’s media language, it’s Nathan Fielder esque, especially the final “twist” that their high stakes life or death passion pr

I'm not a huge believer in the traditional incubation process, having developed show three ways (commissioned, incubated at Theatre Barn and NYMF, and just "do the thing"). But also, I live in Pittsburgh, where you're close enough to NYC to be connected, but things are significantly cheaper and less crowded. I had the luxury of spending two years writing and revising a show, then rented a concert hall for a weekend and ran a bare-bones version of that show with ten actors, s

Freddy is a hard role because it's somewhat underwritten. There is SOMETHING going on with him- is he a drug addict, a closeted gay man, mentally ill? But most versions of the book just make him an enigmatic jerkass of a cipher. 

I read somewhere that there's a certain amount of overlap in the characters of Freddy and the Arbiter, and they were differentiated arbitrarily into two different lead roles during the writing process. This explains why Freddie becomes a ches

I think there’s always been the implication that taxi dancer is like “escort:” the work they are nominally getting paid for is not the work they are primarily doing. 

I have always assumed the answer to Oscar’s question is “yes, Charity has sex for money, but she is doing it from a place one level removed.” The same way so many strippers and go-go dancers are pressured or choose to “do extras” simply because in this economy they can&

I’ve never loved the interpretation that Brad is a closeted gay man who suddenly gets liberated and lives his truth in the castle. It seems to miss the point of the queering of gender roles: Janet gets liberated and gets to live the “male” experience of sexual freedom and empowerment, while Brad gets coerced into sex, shamed for it, and thoroughly emasculated by the experience. All the same things guys like him do to girls on the outside.

The order to make Rocky Horro

If we're concerned for the show's legacy and not the producers' pocketbooks, there are "four quarters" to a show's success in the long run: a major New York or London production, a cast recording, a national tour or major regional production post-launch, and licensing availability at one of the major houses. Boop has already secured the first two quarters, and the last two seem inevitable (since I can't imagine Foster and company wanting this show to go away a la