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Author: Steven Strauss

Creation and Consumption

On August 3, 2022August 3, 2022 By Steven StraussIn Look Over Yonder See Them OFF-BROADWAY Lights, Remember All the Movies, Terry, We'd Go SeeLeave a comment

Even though both cinema and theater are predominantly observational mediums, they sure do like to avoid steeping the audience in observing the minute face of the act of artistic creation and audience consumption.

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What Does Lars’ Fox Say?

On August 1, 2022August 1, 2022 By Steven StraussIn Books, Remember All the Movies, Terry, We'd Go SeeLeave a comment

Scripts — or is it audiences? — are too wedded to cause and effect. 

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Hats on Hats on Hats

On July 28, 2022July 29, 2022 By Steven StraussIn Look Over Yonder See Them OFF-BROADWAY LightsLeave a comment

There’s a fundamental storytelling problem at the heart of jukebox musicals:

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Two in One

On July 27, 2022July 27, 2022 By Steven StraussIn Boogaloo Down BROADWAY, Books, Remember All the Movies, Terry, We'd Go SeeLeave a comment

I’ve been thinking more about how art mingles with an attentive audience’s sense of perspective, specifically the differences to this equation posed by various mediums.

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The Call is Coming from Inside the Orchard

On July 26, 2022July 27, 2022 By Steven StraussIn Further On (Up the Road), Look Over Yonder See Them OFF-BROADWAY LightsLeave a comment

And now, a Write All Nite pastime:

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Perspectives

On July 22, 2022July 22, 2022 By Steven StraussIn Books, Remember All the Movies, Terry, We'd Go See1 Comment

Art is about exchanges of perspectives.

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Title on Top

On July 19, 2022July 19, 2022 By Steven StraussIn Books, Remember All the Movies, Terry, We'd Go SeeLeave a comment

The physical canvass of a book is each and every page of said book.

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Patti Cakes

On July 15, 2022July 15, 2022 By Steven StraussIn Boogaloo Down BROADWAY, Look Over Yonder See Them OFF-BROADWAY LightsLeave a comment

Recorded on May 11, 2022:

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Jukebox Rearrangement

On July 13, 2022July 13, 2022 By Steven StraussIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

There’s a silver lining to the pox of jukebox musicals.

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Stand Up

On July 12, 2022July 13, 2022 By Steven StraussIn Boogaloo Down BROADWAY, Look Over Yonder See Them OFF-BROADWAY LightsLeave a comment

When you think “stand-up comedy theater”, the Cherry Lane probably comes to mind, a cul-de-sac venue that has cornered the market — er, block? — on shows that mix stand-up comedy and theater.

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