While we’re on the subject of musical lineages for Broadway beltesses:
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Author: Steven Strauss
This Way to the Missionary
In my 32 year lifetime, has anyone converted more adolescent disciples to the religion of Musicals than Idina Menzel?
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Just a Tip
Remember when Lincoln Center and the Park Avenue Armory imported the Royal Shakespeare Company for multiple productions performed in repertory about a decade ago?
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Starring Staring
Noémie Merlant is becoming cinema’s foremost starer.
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Something in the Nope
How would 21st century cash-strapped Americans respond if they encountered the supernatural?
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Mueller?… Mueller?… Mueller?
There’s a noble tradition throughout the annals of musical theater history that I like to call the “Now, Ulla belt!”
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Topdog/Underselling
I try to avoid shilling for individual pieces of art.
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Revitalizing the Canon
One of the foremost pleasures of religiously following the theater world is being able to track generational canonization in real time.
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Allow Me to Reintroduce Myself
My name is critique, oh!
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Make It a Quadrilogy
Why have I been so drawn to unconventional uses of curtain calls lately?
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Write All Nite 