Rye 🦋

“There’s no dialogue tag after this sentence, so end it with a period rather than a comma.” She frowned, suddenly concerned that the entire post was as unasked for as it was sanctimonious.

“If you’re breaking dialogue up with an action tag”—she waves her hands back and forth—”the dashes go outside the quotation marks.”

It’s all just microaggressive as heck. Y’all wanna sound like us and dance like us but when we get on that stage all those things are suddenly a problem. I’ve seen these comments made about many Black performers, but primarily Black women. Most recently it’s been Audra McDonald, who is a trained classical singer and the most awarded Tony winner in history, and Michelle Williams from freaking Destiny’s Child. Like I genuinely hope that y’all know that even if Gypsy was still open and Audra’s contract ended at some point, the next Mama Rose was still going to be a Black woman. Same goes for Joy Woods and Jordan Tyson. Yes, the show originally starred white performers but the way it was produced and directed for this revival was specifically for Black performers. All of Michelle Williams’ understudies in Death Becomes Her are Black. When her contract is up another Black woman is going to take on the role of Viola. Like…y’all have to get over yourselves and come to terms with the fact that your opinion, and I say that loosely, is not the end all be all.

HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH 🖤🫶🏿

Happy Black History Month to us!!

I better see the black!reader tags skyrocket this month!!!

the creators put so much thought into this musical, and you can tell. “justice for tulsa” is so scary bc it’s based in historical reality that’s happened to BIPOC since the very beginning of this country. i love jordan chin for continually reminding us all of this fact.

“back to Darrel”