Escape to Margaritaville is my platonic ideal of a single-artist, non-biographical jukebox musical.
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Category: Further On (Up the Road)
Studying Unders
I assume most of you know that English-language movies are dubbed in countries where English isn’t the primary language.
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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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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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Continuity By Discontinuation
A character’s absence in a play can say more than if they strutted and talked across the boards for its entire duration.
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The Call is Coming from Inside the Orchard
And now, a Write All Nite pastime:
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Intentionally Mala
There’s a contradiction at the heart of one-person plays about trauma.
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Circling the Drain
A musical version of Romeo and Juliet.
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Fuck Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber is a terrorist.
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‘Member the Aughts
Maybe there’s some credence to the theory that nostalgia kicks in roughly two decades later:
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Write All Nite 