About that "F" Word... Time To Check With David Neiwert
Mark Sumner’s front page Pundit Roundup begins with a discussion of the “F” word — fascism. As he alludes in his discussion, there’s a lot of fussing over what is and isn’t fascism, according to...
View ArticleThe end of an era: Lin-Manuel Miranda leaving the Broadway cast of Hamilton...
As I publish this, Lin-Manuel Miranda (LMM) is finishing up his final performance on Broadway as Alexander Hamilton at the Richard Rodgers Theatre.I have been listening to the cast album at the same...
View ArticleWest Side Story--A Beautiful Movie/Musical that's Got Everything:
Hello again to everybody!! Can you stand another blog about West Side Story? Here’s hoping you’ll at least bear with me, since I can never resist writing about this great movie/musical. The original...
View ArticleDonald Trump- The Musical
The American musical theater has a rich history of combining entertainment with social commentary. It is, therefore appropriate (for me, at least) to imagine what Donald Trump- The Musical will be...
View ArticleDonald Trump's inspirational inaugural song.
Donald Trump is proving to be a great gift to comedians, cartoonists and songwriters. Mangy Fetlocks, (a.k.a. Bruce W. Nelson) felt inspired to reimagine a great American patriotic tune, providing a...
View Article"Please Release Your Taxes": A musical request
It seems that Donald Trump got so busy with saying ‘You’re fired!’ to members of his various transition teams, preoccupied with tweeting about movie stars and overwhelmed by his underwhelming welcome...
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IAN: Feb 15, 2017
Itzl AlertingAs you can see by Itzl's concerned look, this group is for us to check in at to let people know we are alive, doing OK, and not affected by such things as heat, blizzards, floods, wild...
View Article"Wellstone: A Minnesotan Musical" opens in just 12 days. Help us meet our...
The Minnesota Fringe Festival is an annual tradition in the Twin Cities. Well over a hundred theatre companies come together to present off-the-wall work. It can be comedic, dramatic, political,...
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Top Comments: Really Rosie Workshop Edition
(Information about the show comes from Wikipedia)Really Rosie is a children’s musical with book and lyrics by Maurice Sendak and music by Carole King. It centers around Rosie, a child living on Avenue...
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DK Quilt Guild: The Lion King
DK Quilt Guild: A place for quilters to gather, share ideas, projects, and to make the world a better place, one quilt at a time. Join us and share your thoughts, projects, questions, and tips....
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Moondai Furbutts Affirmation
The Moondai Furbutts team’s very first foray into musical stories was with the song Affirmation and they feel it would be appropriate to reprise this year in the month of Thanksgiving.Affirmation is an...
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What is your favorite musical of all time?
A funny thing happened on the way to the forum is beyond a classic. The songs just had to the greatness that is a fine comedy.Just to avoid giving away too much about the movie and its plot here is a...
View ArticleSaturday Night Loser’s Club, Vol. DCXXXVIII: Hamilton in STL Edition
In their concert reminder e-mail blasts of the last few weeks, the St. Louis Symphony has included this somewhat droll bit at the end of each such missive:“Additionally, expect heavy traffic congestion...
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Caturdai with the Peeps: The Battle of the Pekes and the Pollicles
Of the Awful Battle of the Pekes and the Pollicles, Together With Some Account of the Participation of the Pugs and the Poms, and the Intervention of the Great RumpusCat.….“Now on the occasion of which...
View ArticleWho is your favorite actor or actress from musical films?
Without a doubt my favorite is not even a close race.I love me some Zero Mostel.Below is a list of his extensive works...followed by a few clips that I love some of him singing, others of him acting....
View ArticleHalloween Movie Guide 2018 - Day 18: SWEENEY TODD
Musical theater is not exactly the natural place to find a Horror show. Drama and Comedy come naturally to musica ltheater, but Horror? Not so much. That changed when in the late 20th century,...
View ArticleMovie Review: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
SPOILER ALERT!Early in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, two men argue about which is the better form of entertainment, operas or movies, with one guy saying that he prefers movies, because he doesn’t like...
View ArticleWe Need a Little Yiddish, Right This Very Minute
This story was written by Robin Rothstein for The Clyde Fitch Report. CFR produces and publishes opinion and reporting at the crossroads of arts and politics.The massacre perpetrated by a white...
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Caturdai with the Peeps: Gus the Theater Cat
Gus is the cat at the theater door.His name, as I ought to have told you before Is really Asparagus. But that’s such a fuss To pronounce that we usually call him just Gus.His coat’s very shabby, he’s...
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PWB Peeps Tunes: California Furs
Good morning Peeps! Mopshell needs another week to get her house and life back in order after the Flood, so here’s a cheerful song for you from this side of the world.xxYouTube VideoWell east coast...
View ArticleMovie Review: The Phantom Empire (1935)
SPOILER ALERT!The Phantom Empire is the greatest serial ever made. It runs for 245 minutes, and footage from this serial was edited down to 70 minutes in order to make a movie out of it, alternatively...
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Caturday With the Peeps Open Thread: Old Deuteronomy
from Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by T.S. EliotOld Deuteronomy’s lived a long time; He’s a cat who has lived many lives in succession.He was famous in proverb and famous in rhyme A long while...
View ArticleARIZONA! (a pandemic parody).
As some of you know, or may soon discover, I have a very dark sense of humor. So I wrote a 6-page satirical script that makes fun of the way the health crisis has been handled in my adopted home state....
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Caturday With the Peeps: Jellicle Cats
From Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot.Jellicle Cats are black and white.Jellicle Cats are rather small.Jellicle Cats are merry and bright,And pleasant to hear when they...
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Caturday With the Peeps: The Battle of the Pekes and the Pollicles
Of the Awful Battle of the Pekes and the Pollicles, Together With Some Account of the Participation of the Pugs and the Poms, and the Intervention of the Great RumpusCat.A cat superhero legend by T.S....
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Caturday With the Peeps: Bustopher Jones, the Cat About Town
Bustopher Jones is not skin and bones,In fact he's remarkably fat.He doesn't haunt pubs, he has eight or nine clubs,For he's the St. James' Street cat.He's the cat we all greet as he walks down the...
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Caturday With the Peeps: Cat Morgan Introduces Himself
Cat Morgan Introduces Himselfby T.S. EliotI once was a Pirate what sailed the ‘igh seas— But now I’ve retired as a commissionaire:And that’s how you find me a-takin’ my ease And keepin’ the door in a...
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Caturday With the Peeps: How Do You Address a Cat?
by T.S. EliotHow would you address a Cat?…First, your memory I'll jog, and say,A CAT IS NOT A DOG…The usual dog about the townIs much inclined to play the clown.And far from showing too much prideIs...
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Caturday With the Peeps: Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer
From Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. EliotMungojerrie and Rumpelteazer were a very notorious couple of cats.As knockabout clowns,quick-change comedians,tight-rope walkersand acrobatsThey...
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Caturday With the Peeps: Combining Talk Like a Pirate Day with Growltiger's...
Ahoy, mateys! It be Talk Like a Pirate Day,and we will look in on a piratical cat of TS Eliot’s acquaintance, Growltiger.[Growltiger is sometimes omitted from performances of Cats, perhaps because of...
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Caturday With the Peeps: Gus the Theater Cat
Gus is the cat at the theater door.His name, as I ought to have told you before Is really Asparagus. But that’s such a fuss To pronounce that we usually call him just Gus.His coat’s very shabby, he’s...
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Caturday With the Peeps: Skimbleshanks
by T.S. EliotThere’s a whisper down the line at 11:39 when the Night Mail’s ready to depart,Saying “Skimble where is Skimble has he gone to hunt the thimble? We must find him or the train can’t...
View ArticleThe Worst Person,Ever. A Musical. Trump in his own words....
A new musical featuring Trump in his own words. Political satire, great music, and voice impressions of Trump, Biden,Obama,and Pence. Produced by The Compassionate Society for radio (audio only)....
View ArticleTrump Lampooned in New Satirical Musical Comedy
Artists have always been the voice of conscience in times of political turmoil. The artist Luminous has taken Trump’s own words to create a brilliant satirical musical comedy called, “The Worst Person,...
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10.31.2020 IAN: Halloween Radio Show.
As you can see by Itzl's concerned look, this group is for us to check in at to let people know we are alive, doing OK, and not affected by such things as heat, blizzards, floods, wild fires,...
View ArticleRandy Rainbow "Who Will You Vote For"
Not that there was ever any question. Hint not for the guy who puts children in cages! To Enchanted’s “That’s How You know”. On a side note that’s one of my guilty pleasure moviesxxYouTube Video
View ArticleLet It Go! Elsa's Frozen message to DJT Dec 2020 Musical parody
Sit back and enjoy! We already fired you any way!xxYouTube Video
View ArticleICYMI: By popular demand and force of events, Randy Rainbow gives in and...
In case you missed it, Randy Rainbow has given in and updated his parody of “Tradition” from Fiddler on the Roof with an updated version: “Sedition”— by popular demand. If the language is a little...
View ArticleI Got Maced, the Musical
A little comic relief for serious times...xYouTube Video “We’re storming the capitol! It’s a revolution!”Her name is Elizabeth, she’s from Knoxville Tennessee. Lock her up!
View Article"Tomorrow Belongs to Me"
The Donmar Warehouse production of Cabaret, directed by Sam Mendes and opening in the West End in 1993, is well-known to be very dark: much darker than the movie with Liza Minnelli. I hadn’t seen it...
View ArticleSaturday Matinee at the Theater: The Drowsy Chaperone
A lovely bagatelle, set in 1928 with a contemporary framing device. The narrator, known as Man in Chair, is not only a fan of old musicals, but also puts a contemporary gloss on them, as for example...
View ArticleSometimes you just need to enjoy what you love and so does Randy Rainbow
It’s so nice just to sit back and remember how nice life was before Individual ruined every night’s sleep and just enjoy a few of our favorite things. xxYouTube VideoNow get to work getting more and...
View ArticleIAN: Hairspray the Musical
How it got started:When the producer Margot Lion asked me to take a look at the John Waters movie Hairspray… I told her I thought it was a perfectly silly idea for a musical…. But Lion saw in it the...
View ArticleTick, Tick, BOOM! a 2021 American musical drama film directed by Lin-Manuel...
Once upon a time, RENT and Jonathan Larson inspired Lin Manuel Miranda to create art.Thanks to @intheheights , @HamiltonMusical and now with TICK, TICK...BOOM!Lin Manuel Miranda’s work has inspired,...
View ArticleMorning Open Thread ❧ with selections from the musical Rent
Good morning everyone and welcome to Wednesday’s Morning Open Thread.Morning Open Thread is a daily, copyrighted post from a host of editors and guest writers. We support our community, invite and...
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Join Us for Song and Dance... A Colorado State Open Thread, 12/12/2022
The Colorado State Open Thread is going to be short this evening, simply because I’ve run out of time and imagination. Please feel free to share your thoughts and interests; there are many things going...
View ArticleReport: At least 'a third' of Project Veritas' employees have asked that...
It has been a wild couple of years for the dirtbags over at Project Veritas, the right-wing organization best known for manipulating undercover footage to create the impression that liberal agents are...
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A show for the lizard in all of us
My online friend Red Wolf regularly gives me heads-up about anthropomorphic animal doings and similar news items he comes across, familiar as he is with my interest in the subject (not to...
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Megadrought! The Musical -- Strike for the Planet week 113
You can make a difference to the hurt being caused by climate chaos and the great extinction event in your town or your city! How? Reuse, repurpose, and recycle this information. You can push your...
View ArticleTrump, the Musical??
UPDATE: Monday, Feb 19, 2024 · 10:06:00 PM +00:00·CathyMSorry — the detailsThe four-week run began with previews last week and will run for the public through March 10 at Theater 555, an off-Broadway...
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