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Profile: Pittsburgh-based lyricist, librettist, composer and journalist.


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Stage adaptation of Jerry Herman’s MRS. SANTA CLAUS to premiere at Goodspeed in 2025!
 Jul 19 2025, 02:40:21 PM

The use of so much apparent AI on the key art makes me think either the show was cancelled or is not all the way there in development, so much that the phase of "commission key art that we can potentially use in perpetuity" has not been reached yet.


CBS to cancel ‘Late Show With Stephen Colbert’
 Jul 18 2025, 11:26:01 PM

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


Jesse Green: ‘A Chorus Line’ and ‘Chicago’ at 50: Who Won?
 Jul 18 2025, 05:53:46 PM

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


NYT: The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, an Indispensable Theater Incubator, Faces a Troubled Future
 Jul 15 2025, 10:59:43 AM

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


Why couldn't boop extend a few more weeks?
 Jul 13 2025, 02:31:00 PM

Four radish milkshakes…


Best Chess Recording
 Jul 11 2025, 01:00:20 PM

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


Disney will launch North American tour of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST in 2025
 Jul 10 2025, 10:22:10 AM

tomorrowBIGLITES said: "linus84 said: "I saw this in Schenectady and can confirm No Matter What, Maison De Lunes, and The Battle are cut. New overture featuring A Change in Me

New dance arrangements for Gaston, Be Our Guest, and Human Again.

New dialogue woven into a few scenes, some cuts made to dialogue/ characters (ex: three silly girls appear in Belle number but no longer have dialogue/scene with Gaston before Me, Wardrobe character given more)


Best Chess Recording
 Jul 8 2025, 09:36:32 PM

It’s hard material but also that’s just what Zubin Varla sounds like.


BOOP! TO BE FILMED?
 Jul 8 2025, 12:26:38 PM

I'm sure it'll wind up at one of the four licensing houses and do some regionals and school productions, eventually becoming one of those shows like Tuck Everlasting that pops up every now and then. It didn't do so badly that it's going to get Lestated from the record and absolutely suppressed. 


Sweet Charity Ending Question
 Jul 5 2025, 10:02:04 PM

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&


Return of Heathers?
 Jul 3 2025, 10:28:22 PM

It’s not a perfect show, but the rewrites for London and licensing tapped into rage and nastiness in a way the original didn’t. It’s not the tone of the movie, but at least it’s grown some teeth and a less sentimental heart.


Cole Escola as Dr. Frankenfurter
 Jul 3 2025, 05:49:30 PM

I honestly think of Rocky Horror’s plotting as Gilbert and Sullivan gone seventies: an eccentric but square world gets inverted and all rules of status and conduct go topsy turvy. What happens isn’t as important (or coherent) as the theme of All Fools.


Cole Escola as Dr. Frankenfurter
 Jul 3 2025, 12:31:14 PM

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


Cole Escola as Dr. Frankenfurter
 Jul 3 2025, 10:42:32 AM

Another name to throw into the ring: Wayne Brady. He came out as bi recently, and was an audience favorite in Kinky Boots. Plus, given Rocky Horror’s long standing link to improv elements, having a Mount Rushmore improviser in the cast can’t hurt.


Cole Escola as Dr. Frankenfurter
 Jul 2 2025, 10:28:08 PM

If we get rotating narrators again, please sign James Austin Johnson up.


Cole Escola as Dr. Frankenfurter
 Jul 2 2025, 09:55:08 PM

My suspicion, and this is JUST a gut feeling, is that Escola will fall through (if they were ever an actual option), and we'll be seeing Mason Alexander Park, who has played Frank everywhere and is becoming more of a fixture. 


Save Boop
 Jul 1 2025, 09:47:15 AM

…three milkshakes.


Save Boop
 Jun 30 2025, 11:10:23 PM

Unfortunately, every time someone says Save Boop, not only does the show lose a thousand dollars, but Jasmine Amy Rogers has to drink a milkshake with radishes in it. 


Man and 'Superman': David Corenswet, the new Man of Steel, recalls his theater roots
 Jun 30 2025, 04:56:07 PM

The minute they said "James Gunn," I knew they'd cracked the code for Superman. Gunn's mix of extremely intense, heightened emotional melodrama with optimistic, goofy comedy and sharp action sequences is exactly the flavor Superman needs.


Saving BOOP? #SAVEBOOP?
 Jun 30 2025, 09:42:52 AM

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


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