VintageSnarker said: "@OlBlueEyes I've had just about enough of you. You do realize that Steven Reineke, the conductor of your beloved NY Pops, is a happily married gay man?
There were plenty of viewers when Hamilton was up for awards. I agree with Scotty about popular music. It's not like I think everything on Broadway should be trap or electronic but my disappointment with Mean Girls is that it could have so easily been a pastiche of more popular modern genres instead of whatever cacophony of noises that was in their Tony performance. A Meghan Trainor/Alessia Cara/Daya sort of sound would have been totally fine for Mean Girls and not stretched too far from contemporary musical theater. I hope Sara Bareilles continues writing for the theater because I thought she did great work blending her own style with traditional theater with Waitress."
Ah, Vintage Snarker, you old charmer. I know that you're just a softy inside. You're not one of those people who prevent 10,000 lurkers from gathering the courage to make their first post.
Yes, I know that Steven Reineke is a happily married gay man, and that he refers to his husband in his program bio. You think that this upsets me? I've been a subscriber for three years, and I met him and got to chat at the Pop's after concert party. I also got to chat for about 30 seconds with Lea Salonga, which was cool. I complimented her on the song that she had sung unamplified.
But I have learned my lesson today. This is your territory and that subject is not to be brought up in any context by an outsider. I won't touch it again.
But this really was meant to be about the Tony Awards program and being upset that no one watches it.
