i wish i could sing like that

Revelation

It was a cast whom I just adore and I think will always adore. It was the time in which we were telling the story which seemed so vitally important. It just was perfect.

With ninety-six thousand, I’d finally fix housin’ Give the barrio computers with wireless web browsin’ Your kids are livin’ without a good edjumication Change the station, teach ‘em about gentrification The rent is escalatin’ The rich are penetratin’ We pay our corporations when we should be demonstratin’

Louis, I’d even pray for you.

March is National Reading Month. Celebrate with a look at Broadway shows that originated from books.

fanart of ghost quartet, which is extremely good

Happy birthday Phillipa Soo! (May 31, 1990)

for good

‘Cause I am so much better than before!”

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…and as we danced, he pressed my waist and hand — and told me i was bewitching. ”

The pride of sacrifice gathers in my soul. And he forgets things, he falls asleep at the table. His napkin drops to the floor, his shaking head sinks over his plate. He is old and feeble, and I dared to judge him. I disgust myself. I disgust myself.

           Yet, I feel closer to you than I ever had with any other man.

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It’s the very devil! Here, feel how it beats!

I just want to talk about this moment really quick. This is Tony nominee Ari’el Stachel son of Middle Eastern immigrants, who after 9/11 got bullied so much that he would pretend he wasn’t of Middle Eastern descent. He changed his last name and shortened his first name to make it sound less ethnic, and didn’t go to his high school graduation so his classmates wouldn’t see his parents. He almost thought that acting wasn’t for him until he saw a listing for The Band’s Visit and auditioned. Now he’s out here proudly proclaiming his heritage for the first time in 8 years, in every interview he’s in and got a nomination for his character Haled, in the 1st authentic Middle Eastern musical written by actual Middle Easterners. This is the kind of representation I’m living for from this season!

Clip of Joshua Henry performing “Soliloquy” in the 2018 Broadway Revival of Carousel as Billy Bigelow.