Profile for ThaddeusBristol

Lin-Manuel has struck gold before with even more unlikely material. It seems unnecessary cruel to tease the public at large with such a lightning bolt of genius and not follow through: http://www.vulture.com/2018/04/lin-manuel-mirandas-the-room-april-fools-prank-is-so-good.html

There's this strange dichotomy between people who have the time and luxury to examine every aspect of Broadway from a home base and those of us who strategically plan our visits from abroad based on viewpoints (expert, and free of conflicting considerations (friends in shows, advertisers, industry gossip, etc.)) we consider genuine and heartfelt, something akin to our own inclinations...to experience an approximation of transcendence. In the past, the Times has been something sacrosanct in gu...

First time on board and having difficulty sorting through all the remarkable moments I was lucky enough to experience in a lifetime of theatregoing. First Broadway musical being On The Twentieth Century with Kahn, Cullum, Kline and Coco, hoofing and belting on Wagner's magnificent Art Deco train was the equivalent of mainlining heroin to an incipient pre-adolescent addict (remember floating out of that auditorium like a helium balloon). Subsequent hits of LuPone and Patinkin in Evita, Gielgud...