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One of my prized recordings is a bootleg of Quidam, the Cirque du Soleil show. It has one of the greatest scores I've ever heard, but the official album absolutely butchers it and cuts most of it out, in favor of making more of a "new age" pop album. 

I've been to two productions in the past that actively discouraged audience participation, saying "I want audiences to see the show Richard O'Brien wrote, not the show that the audience wrote."

Neither one was any fun.

They SEEM to, but you see these pop up mostly in fringe cases like defunct bands, prolific composers, or Broadway/studio vocalists for hire; since these tags either aren't being policed, or are often popping up tagged in disparate projects, the security seems looser.

In particular, "Peter Allen" has been prolific lately.

This is a universal issue Spotify has been plagued with recently. AI spammers can release music using an existing Spotify artist tag, get it posted as “by them” and then rake in streams.They haven’t plugged that hole yet but they’re working on it.

And Ashley is still technically a featured player, having not finished her usually-mandatory two-year "internship" with the company. It's just rare that a featured player becomes a cast mainstay, even a star, this early on. 

You know who I'd LOVE to see as Mary, if it ever works with her schedule? Ashley Padilla.

Jay Lerner-Z said: "I don't mean this as a slight, but is Ariana DeBose a household name?

I think there is no such thing as "household name" anymore.

Just an aside."

They exist, but we make LOTS less of them than we used to. Ariana deBose is not one. Hell, not even a pop superstar like Chappell Roan is one. Sabrina Carpenter, probably.

It's a lot harder to be ubiquitous in every quadrant than it used to be.

Next two cards: Anita and Breathless!

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/TarotDecks/comments/1r9iey5/two_more_cards_for_my_sondheim_musical_tarot/

joevitus said: "BrodyFosse123 said: "This is the original Playbill cover for the original 1975 Broadway production and the 2 different ones issued for the 2000 Broadway revival:

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The original is deservedly iconic. The trouble with the other two is that they seem to be referencing the famous lips--which are a visual from the film, not the stage show. I like the new logo better than either of these two, though I'm still not crazy about it."

The red lips predate the film, though it made them the most famous: the stylized black-and-white figure with the red lips dates back to the Roxy production (which sometimes used a color version as well), if not earlier. If anything on earth is synonymous with Rocky Horror, it's the red lips, and I don't consider it a movie-exclusive image.

It's very much like the Star Wars conundrum: audiences historically love Star Wars, but historically HATE any other (non-anime) science-fantasy/space-opera. So it has become, in the mainstream, more or less a genre of one.

I wonder if there's some legal thing going on where they don't have the rights to any of the classic iconography or fonts? It's also notable that they aren't billing the show as "Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show," which I believe has been the official legal billing for the last twenty years or so.

My understanding from talking to Filipino friends is Here Lies Love is to them much like West Side Story is to modern Puerto Ricans: they allow and appreciate it, but don't exactly EMBRACE it, and they think a Filipino creative team certainly wouldn't have created a fun musical about the Marcos regime, let alone enthusiastically revived it.

New card prototypes this week: Into the Woods, A Little Night Music, and a double dose of Evening Primrose! (I got a sneak peek of what's coming next, and Dick Tracy will feature in the next drop.)

https://www.reddit.com/r/TarotDecks/comments/1r1hvie/im_continuing_making_art_for_my_sondheim_musical/

He's a podcaster; I'd heard of his show but I hadn't heard of him. It's going to be an interesting experiment, because like I mentioned earlier, the format for this is "big budget podcast/NPR," so I wonder how someone whose work is IN that genre will do with the stage show.

This show is going to sell like crazy in licensing, but is probably going to be put on somewhat rarely, because the music rights will make licensing the show prohibitively expensive for many companies.

Between the costume stylings and the overly saturated "bisexual lighting," they look like the love interest characters from those Chinese sci-fi dating sims (Love and Deep Space, etc.)

I sent the photo to the two girls I know who play those, and they both agreed with me.