#heather lang

This number is one of the most genius things ever. Highly recommend watching

I just watched the show live the other day and so here is my contribution to the fans. Spoilers, obviously. Trigger warning for drugs and sexual abuse.

In Smiling, everything moves backwards. It starts with Mary Jane buying street drugs and an ensemble member brings out a trash bag, she picks it up and the set moves to the kitchen and she puts the bag in the trash can and pulls out a receipt, then grabs bags and goes to the store and everything moves backwards its so cool.

When MJ actually overdoses, the lights flash in and out and every time the lights come up its different and they move so fast and god it's like my favorite part of the show.

When Jo walks in on Phoenix and Frankie having sex Phoenix jumps up to sitting and says basically "hey I'm Phoenix he have biology we dissected an earthworm together!" And then when Steve and MJ walk in you see Frankie pulling on her shirt and there's some dialogue then Steve says "there was a boy here you had sex" (Jo told him) and Antonio Cipriano is running through the audience holding his clothes and desperately trying to pull up his pants while waving awkwardly to the stage and to the audience.

I got to stage door (my first time ever stage dooring a show) and I got to compliment every one who came out, including telling Antonio that he has pretty eyes and he said "aww thanks you no one's ever told me that before" And yea I just wanted to share that.

The orchestra deserves the world, and every award, being made part of the show, on stage, and generally amazing.

The ensemble seriously carries the show. Without the ensemble it would be totally different. There is so much dancing and set moving and it's all so well choreographed and I live for it.

In Uninvited MJ is alone on stage on the couch with an ensemble member, I think Heather Lang, wearing the same clothes and they have a beautiful routine of them fighting and it's so beautiful I wish I could describe it.

In the party scenes John Cardoza is shirtless with BeaSt written on his chest (the S is also backwards) and a bear mask.

During Hand In My Pocket when Jo says the line "one hand in my pocket and the other is holding a peace sign" Frankie says "a peace sign? What is this the 60s?" And Jo replies "what? We need it now more than ever."

Because the songs don't really tell the story as much on an album as they do seeing it on stage, during No there is a part were ensemble members are singing/talking one at a time about being assaulted, half the ensemble is stand-in arounding them holding protest signs and the other half is touching them and it's really a theatrical masterpiece.

Also in No, some of the signs included are:

Rape effects all genders

My silence is not a yes

Clothing doesn't matter

And I'm drawing a blank because it's a few days later but I loved all of the signs. It carries such a great message I wish it was conveyed better in the music.

A senior executive at the ratings giant Sustainalytics—who spent years working at an anti-Israel advocacy group—announced last week that she is stepping down amid scrutiny of the company's reliance on sources that critics say lead to bias and discrimination against Israeli companies.

Heather Lang, a onetime official at the anti-Israel activist organization B'Tselem, announced last week her departure as a senior vice president at Sustainalytics, a subsidiary of the corporate-ratings giant Morningstar, after 18 years at the company.

"Tomorrow is my last day at Sustainalytics after an incredible 18-year journey!" wrote Lang in a social media post last week. "It's been an absolute privilege to work with such wonderful colleagues and friends."

The news comes as Sustainalytics—one of the major ratings agencies that score companies based on their environmental, social, and governance practices—has faced allegations that its scoring system is biased against Israel and that it downgrades companies that help the Jewish state's national security operations. Prior to joining Sustainalytics, Lang worked at B'Tselem, a self-described human rights group that asserts that "Israel's regime of apartheid and occupation is inextricably bound up in human rights violations," according to its website. NGO Monitor, a watchdog group that monitors Middle East organizations, describes B'Tselem as "part of a network of NGOs that promote artificial and manufactured definitions of apartheid to extend the ongoing campaigns that seek to delegitimize and demonize Israel."

Morningstar enlisted law firm White & Case to conduct an internal investigation into potential anti-Israel bias at Sustainalytics. This came after the Illinois Investment Policy Board, a state commission, launched a probe into whether the company was in violation of Illinois laws against anti-Israel boycotts.

Heather Lang, author of Fearless Flyer: Ruth Law and Her Flying Machine, a 2017 Amelia Bloomer List Selection

Heather Lang, author of Swimming with Sharks: The Daring Discoveries of Eugenie Clark, a 2017 Amelia Bloomer List Selection