Broadway’s Summer, 1976 crisscrosses with a myriad of other art from this past year (and beyond), at least in a TLDW sort of way:
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The Little Aid
While we’re on the subject of natural vs. microphoned voice projection, a horrifying thought occurred to me while suffering through The Little Mermaid:
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Projecting
Being able to project your voice without the help of microphones is considered a lost art for actors of the stage today.
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Pulling a Nora
While we’re on the subject of A Doll’s House, it’s time to unleash my treatise on how many other shows overuse Ibsen’s iconic-cum-cliché ending, a tradition I’ve dubbed Pulling a Nora.
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Her Boots Are Made for Walking
Is it possible to spoil theater’s most famous ending?
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Roving
No matter how many shows you see, stagecraft can always surprise, even through the simplest riffs on established norms.
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A Very Obsessed Man with Enormous Curtain Calls
Should I change Write All Nite’s name to Write All Curtain Calls?
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Rest in VO
“Hii, I’m Todd Haimes.”
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TLDW: Regretfully, Other Cudi
TLDW for Playwrights Horizons’ Regretfully, So the Birds Are, the new movie Other People’s Children, and Kid Cudi cameos:
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Roll Curtain
It also me, the nonsensically-obsessed chronicler of curtain-call norms.
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Write All Nite 