Projections are a necessary evil in the theater world.
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Tag: New York City Serenades
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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Life’s A Bitch. Art’s A Bitch. Related?
Macbitches wrestles with the always-zeitgeisty question of whether art that depicts immorality leads to a perpetuation of that depicted immorality outside of art, for audiences and the participating artists alike.
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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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What’s That Sound (Design)
By definition, a production’s sound design is meant to be heard.
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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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Creation and Consumption
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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Hats on Hats on Hats
There’s a fundamental storytelling problem at the heart of jukebox musicals:
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Two in One
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
And now, a Write All Nite pastime:
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