Can you name a single musical steeped in the Islamic tradition?
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The 80%
80% of Broadway runs lose money.
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In Around
Generally speaking — AKA, I KNOW THERE ARE EXCEPTIONS APLENTY — musicals are staged in bigger theaters than plays.
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Her Turn
Gypsy is about how art forms shift, and how the birth of the new requires an out with the old.
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Rise and Cry
What do you remember about Pixar’s Up?
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Resolute
The Shrouds isn’t the sole ending in theaters now that feels abrupt enough to have made both of my audiences guffaw at the sheer surprise of the credits rolling.
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Colummm
My eyes had the option of gazing upon the luscious sight of Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal sharing a stage in the flesh.
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Hold Your Applause
Most productions treat entrance applause as a mere break in the action, a pause to allow the audience to celebrate a luminary.
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Trigger Unhappy
The Years, or: when trigger warnings double as dramaturgy.
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Full Monties
The title number in Real Women Have Curves strikes a similar chord as the first scene of Act II in Bess Wohl’s Liberation.
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