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Post by 49thand8th on Apr 15, 2020 15:01:07 GMT
Go on spoil my day why dont you all! That's the only thing I had left to look forward to. It was going to happen, anyway, though...? Time to look to 2021!
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Post by 49thand8th on Apr 14, 2020 23:03:20 GMT
I am always careful on Twitter only to tag in creatives or performers when I am making positive comments. Unfortunately someone replied to a comment of mine, which said I wasn't keen on an opera production, & tagged in the director. So I'm now getting tweets from the director, who is annoyed with me. Hell. Snitch-tagging is THE WORST. If you had wanted to tag someone, you would have. It's not up to the repliers.
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Post by 49thand8th on Apr 13, 2020 22:33:17 GMT
it's back!
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Post by 49thand8th on Apr 13, 2020 13:56:19 GMT
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Post by 49thand8th on Apr 12, 2020 17:44:08 GMT
Meanwhile...
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Post by 49thand8th on Apr 11, 2020 5:12:22 GMT
I saw the production in Central Park twice. It was a lot of fun, but I can see it being unwieldy on Broadway. I wouldn't be surprised if they aim for it to go straight to being licensed for all sorts of groups — school to regional.
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Post by 49thand8th on Apr 9, 2020 17:19:40 GMT
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Post by 49thand8th on Apr 9, 2020 17:19:14 GMT
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Post by 49thand8th on Apr 2, 2020 15:10:04 GMT
Lea was on Seth Rudetsky's Stars in the House last week!
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Post by 49thand8th on Apr 2, 2020 15:08:39 GMT
Aline Brosh McKenna wrote a wonderful post about him here:
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Post by 49thand8th on Mar 30, 2020 2:25:52 GMT
Here's Danny Burstein (not Bernstein)'s post about it:
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Post by 49thand8th on Mar 27, 2020 16:39:54 GMT
variety.com/2020/legit/opinion/critics-notebook-the-night-before-broadway-went-dark-1203546641/My trip was like a surgical strike, in and out of Newark airport in 48 hours, long enough to catch both parts of “The Inheritance,” and also to squeeze in one other show for good measure. That’s how I managed to see a preview performance of “Hangmen,” a wonderfully macabre feat of wit and wordplay from my favorite voice in contemporary theater, Martin McDonagh. (He’s the Irish chap who wrote the astonishingly bloody “The Lieutenant of Inishmore” for the stage and a sinister little dark comedy called “In Bruges” for the screen.)
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Post by 49thand8th on Mar 27, 2020 16:25:44 GMT
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Post by 49thand8th on Mar 27, 2020 16:15:59 GMT
This is a fun follow, too.
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Post by 49thand8th on Mar 27, 2020 0:12:58 GMT
I know THAT, but I really don't get it if you don't have a large platform. Then it's just griping but adding a public sheen. If I want to complain to the NY subway (or ask them anything), I know they're going to respond without others having to see it. I personally think it comes across as constant moaning if you decide to tweet every time something goes wrong and you add the dot very time. We get it, your train company sucks, (random example) we don’t need to see it on your feed. I actually had to mute the name of a transportation agency for a while because a friend kept tweeting complaints about it. But her account was private, so they'd never see it. Even though she tagged them in it. Why?! UGH.
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Post by 49thand8th on Mar 26, 2020 18:52:01 GMT
I know THAT, but I really don't get it if you don't have a large platform. Then it's just griping but adding a public sheen. If I want to complain to the NY subway (or ask them anything), I know they're going to respond without others having to see it.
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Post by 49thand8th on Mar 26, 2020 14:50:00 GMT
Yeah, I find a lot of people who complain about a particular experience on a social media platform are ones who do "obligation" follows. (Not saying this is you, OP.) A social media feed is something of your own making. If someone you're friends with IRL is fun IRL but annoying on twitter, you don't have to follow them. Constant gif-replying is incredibly annoying. Trite jokes repeated ad nauseam is annoying. I've been on Twitter since 2007. I mute people and move on. It's fine. The thing I find most annoying that I can't always let go are tweeted screencaps of interesting or crucial news stories without a LINK to that story. Sometimes it's true negligence; sometimes it's just a mentality of "everyone else is talking about this story right now, so why bother"? (I see this a lot on theater twitter.) No! Just include a link! It makes tracking things down 400% easier. I hate people who complain to companies via Twitter especially if they put the dot in front of the @ so everyone in their feed can see it. For what it's worth, sometimes the social media team of an airline can get something done for you faster than if you called or even went to an airport help desk. This has happened to me on a few occasions. But yeah, putting the . before the @ to make sure EVERYONE sees it requires careful consideration, which not a lot of people bother with.
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Post by 49thand8th on Mar 26, 2020 14:48:37 GMT
...and my big bugbear is people who have accounts seemingly simply to retweet things, no original thoughts or insight. That seems odd. Bots. A longtime online friend (we're talking late '90s message boards) does this ALL the time. She's 100% a real person because she replies to me on occasion. But if you just look at her feed sans replies, you would think she never had an original thought.
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Post by 49thand8th on Mar 26, 2020 5:03:27 GMT
I'm the opposite, I love Twitter. I have less than 200 followers and am choosy about who I follow, and many of them are friends. I find the celebrity, and in fact, everybody showing off is far worse on Instagram, with all the nobodies thinking they are somebody, and that the world is interested in what they had for breakfast. Wild horses wouldn't get me on there. I find it easy to avoid the rubbish on Twitter by just not reading it! Yeah, I find a lot of people who complain about a particular experience on a social media platform are ones who do "obligation" follows. (Not saying this is you, OP.) A social media feed is something of your own making. If someone you're friends with IRL is fun IRL but annoying on twitter, you don't have to follow them. Constant gif-replying is incredibly annoying. Trite jokes repeated ad nauseam is annoying. I've been on Twitter since 2007. I mute people and move on. It's fine. The thing I find most annoying that I can't always let go are tweeted screencaps of interesting or crucial news stories without a LINK to that story. Sometimes it's true negligence; sometimes it's just a mentality of "everyone else is talking about this story right now, so why bother"? (I see this a lot on theater twitter.) No! Just include a link! It makes tracking things down 400% easier.
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Post by 49thand8th on Mar 22, 2020 16:36:23 GMT
American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco had to cancel its entire run of the play Toni Stone (one of three women to play professional baseball), but you can buy a ticket to stream it (and keep ACT alive)! I plan to do so: secure.act-sf.org/gloria-tonistone-streaming/1375
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Post by 49thand8th on Mar 22, 2020 16:17:44 GMT
I’m afraid I think they will have to ban all people going out as people always have the same idea to go to the same place.....just look at bank holidays. I know it’s hard and I love walking (alone!) in the countryside but we need t understand that this is necessary. No travel. Cancel caravans etc travelling, close campsites, everyone just sheltering in their homes for a bit. It is not a holiday. Deliver food boxes to those who cant go out. War footing required. Not nudge stuff....not quick enough. Just look what Miami had to do when stories started coming out of people partying at the marina: www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article241404096.htmlI went for a walk around lunchtime yesterday here in my neighborhood in Queens. It was a pretty nice, sunny day, and people were out but not necessarily in crowds. Most people I saw together appeared to be couples or parents with kids (so people who are presumably already living together). I did hear that in the areas nearby with a younger population (mine is fairly residential), people were still out in clusters and hanging out very close to each other while waiting for takeout. Now our governor is saying things like this, and NO, it is not a photoshop! For what it's worth, I went out again close to midnight and it was like a blizzard. I saw maybe three people total while walking down the busiest street on my block in a span of maybe 8 blocks, when on most Saturday nights close to midnight I'd see 30-40.
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Post by 49thand8th on Mar 22, 2020 3:19:06 GMT
OK, anyone who was possibly spat on by the cast in the first row during the end of the run, hmm...
A link to the whole livestream:
Be well!
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Post by 49thand8th on Mar 20, 2020 22:03:41 GMT
This was the end of the longest time I've ever worked from home. At least some of my regular lunch buddies and I had Slack video calls to keep in touch. And last night I got on a Facebook group video chat with friends in California. We played some games and caught up!
Stir-crazy, but could be worse.
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Post by 49thand8th on Mar 20, 2020 22:02:16 GMT
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Post by 49thand8th on Mar 18, 2020 20:59:50 GMT
There's a whole thread here on musicals you can watch on YouTube (no bootlegs, but some of "dubious legality"). Enjoy!
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Post by 49thand8th on Mar 6, 2020 15:57:57 GMT
A lonely white twink with social anxiety - we love relatable content! 4 stars LOL
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Post by 49thand8th on Mar 3, 2020 22:55:35 GMT
Bumping this because I thought it was a thought-provoking read: www.theguardian.com/stage/2020/feb/26/relaxed-performances-theatre-families-disabilityFew people have tested the theatrical atmosphere more doggedly than Maxine Smiles, who last year set out to visit each of London’s 300-plus theatres (she managed 298), blogging with verve as she went. Capricious box offices, creepy ushers, bewildered punters: they’re all here, at theatres vast and teeny. West End houses should be beacons, she believes, “because that’s often people’s first visit to the theatre, that’s how you get hooked. Yet, because they don’t depend on return trade, they treat their audiences abysmally.” She mentions the Tina Turner musical at the Aldwych, with its prominent signs requesting that punters refrain from singing and dancing. “You walk in and they’re already telling you: no. To a 15-year-old kid making their first visit to a real theatre, that’s extremely off-putting.” Small fringe theatres with an insider vibe are also problematic, she says. “You’re like, am I allowed to be here?” The warmest welcome? That was at the tiny Pentameters in Hampstead. Leonie Scott-Matthews, who has run the theatre since 1968, “grabs on to you the moment you walk through the door, establishes you’re a newbie and looks after you through the whole thing. On the way out she said, ‘Now you know where we are, you can come again.’”
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Post by 49thand8th on Mar 3, 2020 17:07:41 GMT
It’s wrong to describe Come from Away as feel good. It's not wrong if the person calling it "a feel-good show" felt good while at the show.
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Post by 49thand8th on Mar 3, 2020 17:05:23 GMT
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Post by 49thand8th on Mar 2, 2020 22:19:24 GMT
The most dramatic works I've seen lately have all been off-Broadway: Cambodian Rock Band, Rags Parkland Sings the Songs of the Future, Soft Power. (I'm not entirely sure the latter counts, either.)
But yes, I echo the previous mention of Hadestown.
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