While we’re on the topic of looking as acting, and acting as looking:
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Category: Boogaloo Down BROADWAY
Ghosts of Stagecraft PastPresentFuture
The current Broadway production of A Christmas Carol utilizes different generations of stagecraft to bring this centuries-old tale back to life.
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WWTD
Sometimes, a movie adaptation of a play makes you realize new dimensions to a seemingly straightforward moment of stagecraft in the original production.
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Rituals
Stagecraft is a physical ritual of gesture and word.
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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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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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Make It a Quadrilogy
Why have I been so drawn to unconventional uses of curtain calls lately?
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Mr. Every Night
When an uber fan wants to preach the gospel of Broadway, they tend to focus on the best shows Broadway has to offer.
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Aftertures
An unresearched, armchair, modern history of what I like to call the afterture, or: when the end of the plot isn’t the end of the musical.
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& No Song List
When American theatergoers first visit London, they tend to report back on one crucial difference:
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Write All Nite 