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Is that true? How do you know?

I think Audra Mcdonald would be amazing at it... but then it becomes a show about race.

Also, Fanny Brice wasn't black.

I guess I just want to hear her do Don't Rain On My Parade...

Whenever I listen to the Company 2006 revival recording of "You Could Drive a Person Crazy", Raul saying "She is... fun" when he introduces Marta sounds EXACTLY like Brian Stokes Mitchell saying "She is my goods, etc." at the beginning of the title song from the 1999 revival of Kiss Me Kate. I've noticed it since I first heard the Company recording, and I was wondering if anyone else hears it?

That being said, are there any other moments like this you've noticed during obsessive listeni

Taking for granted that Jekyll & Hyde is a bad, bad show, I've always had a fondness for Murder, Murder. I think it's a great number, but what always sticks out to me is:

"To kill outside St. Paul's
Requires a lotta balls!"

Seems a little modern and not like something someone in the 1880s would say...

When I was eight, I saw Hairspray, the night after opening, for my first broadway show. I didn't even know what a musical was. When Harvey Feirstein entered for the first time, the audience applauded for long enough that Marissa Jaret Winokur and Kerry Butler sat down and waited it out instead of staying in the scene. That was the moment I knew I loved theatre... I'll always remember the whole show, but that moment stands out for me.

I'll also always remember Elaine Stritch's monologue