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I was lucky enough to today go to the last performance of the New York City Center week-long production of Parade. It was fantastic, and Ben Platt completely broke me. (And they really like to give Gaten Matarazzo roles where he gets to wave a flag.)
(And in news that my mutuals will be interested in, Darren Criss was sitting directly across the aisle from me. No sneaky photos, because I'm not that girl, but I did say hi to him on the way out and told him that Bluesy is adorable.)
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well you see professor i couldn’t do my homework. they posted a full video of this is not over yet from nycc parade rehearsal with jarb on piano
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okay but the moment Mary Phagan's balloon went into the rafters and she and Leo watched it I choked a little. It hurt me a little
#actually a lot#it hurt me a lot#mary phagan's balloon#parade musical#leo frank#parade nycc#nycc parade#this will be my only personality trait#im obsessed with this show#michael arden is a genius
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praying to the theatre gods that the ny city center production of parade transfers to broadway, cast intact, bc i truly have not stopped thinking about it (or listening to the obc recording) since i stepped out of the show last night
#am i a ben platt convert?#(not exactly but he was vv good - i used to dream of seeing the jeremy jordan performance live but platt def fits better)#parade#parade city center#parade musical#parade nycc#jason robert brown#loml
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one of my many toxic traits is that i kinda think ben platt is talented enough that it makes up for the nepotism and the deh movie.
#literally listening to an audio slime tutorial of nycc parade as we speak and he's good idk what to tell you#that whole debacle was annoying but what can i say the boy can sing#let's not talk about how formative pitch perfect was in my life
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I would have KILLED to see Gaten Matarazzo as Frankie Epps
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Broadway Divas Tournament: Round 2B
Bernadette Peters (1948)
“BERNADETTE PETERS (Sally Durant Plummer) reprises the role she originated in the Kennedy Center production of Follies. Her Broadway credits include A Little Night Music, Gypsy, Annie Get Your Gun, Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, Song & Dance. She has received two Tony Awards, a Golden Globe and two Grammy Awards. She has 20 feature films to her credit, including the upcoming Coming Up Roses, and has recorded six solo albums. Ms. Peters devotes her time to and talents to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and Broadway Barks, an annual star-studded dog and cat adoption event, co-founded with Mary Tyler Moore. She is the author/songwriter of two children’s books, Broadway Barks and Stella Is a Star!” – Playbill bio from Follies, September 2011.
Victoria Clark (1959)
“VICTORIA CLARK (Sally Durant Plummer. Encores!: Bye, Bye Birdie. Broadway: The Light in the Piazza (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics, Joseph Jefferson Awards), Titanic, How to Succeed…, Cabaret, Urinetown, Guys and Dolls, Sunday in the Park… Carngie Hall: Stephen Sondheim: Opening Doors. Film: Cradle Will Rock. TV: “Law & Order: SVU.” Off-Broadway: The Agony and the Agony by Nicky Silver, Marathon Dancing. Concert: American Songbook Series, Allen Room. Regional: Long Warf, Goodman, Intiman Theaters. Director: 92nd St. Y Lyrics and Lyricsts, Mack Gorden. Faculty, Yale University. www.victoriaclarkonline.com” – Playbill bio from NYCC Encores! Follies, February 8, 2007.
NEW PROPAGANDA AND MEDIA UNDER CUT: ALL POLLS HERE
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"Bernadette Peters: Broadway's Hottest GILF. Seventy-six years old and still performing sold-out concerts in gorgeous Bob Mackie gowns with her titties on display. Broadway Barks is the best charity event of the summer, and I dread the day I won't be able to watch her parade around with a bevy of the sweetest shelter animals you've ever seen."
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"Victoria Clark in a blue dress receiving a Tony Award almost twenty years apart. Her 2005 dress was scandalously backless and I *love* it, but her 2023 dress had me swooning. I love this woman, and I know she's doomed, but I still need my adoration on the record."
#broadwaydivastournament#broadway#broadway divas#tournament poll#musical theatre#bernadette peters#victoria clark#round 2b
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Don't want to rain on anyone's parade today and I loved the scene as much as the next person. But I am very worried about E6. I read a review that said that Daryl is hesitant to leave at the end of the episode. So he spent 5 episodes trying hard to get home, trying to find a radio, keep his promise, etc. but all of a sudden he doesn't want to leave? So what happens on E6 that makes him hesitate about going home?
I think, much like 105, there are going to be things we love and also things we strongly detest about the finale, which will make it difficult to piece it all together for ourselves. But I guess we'll cross that bridge when we get there. Right now I'm just hoping NYCC will bring some much needed joy to those who have been having a hard time these past several weeks.
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((I would love to hear more about your horses and cosplay as another fan of both of those things.))
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I've mentioned before I've got two horses - Arwen, my 20 year old quarter horse who I bought to continue doing dressage but college and life got in the way, and unknown to me she came with a ton of baggage and a funky hip that we're still working on to this day, but she's never going to be not aggressive and she's always going to be distrustful of people and that's just that
and then I've got... Ahem... Lord Alphinaud Leveilleur (look no one told me I couldn't name him that). He's just turned five, he was an accident baby I bought last year from his original owners who were training him to be a Spanish parade horse, and he his the cutest sweetest most people friendly curious little big guy I've ever known, I love him so much and while having a young horse has been a challenge (he was a little shithead who didn't know boundaries when I first got him) it's also so fun and rewarding because I know he doesn't have issues, he doesn't have anything I need to fix and he'll be with me for a good 20+ years at his age. He's a mystery baby, mom was a thoroughbred and I met dad, he looked like a Percheron mixed with maybe a quarter horse? Absolutely massive lad but short.
(dont worry the noodle went away after he began to destroy it)
I haven't been able to ride due to health issues lately but I do dressage, but not like modern dressage but the real classical stuff. My trainer learned from a man from the Spanish riding school and it's just phenomenal, it's so different from most approaches but the results are amazing and soft and kind and as crazy as her methods sound they actually work.
As for cosplay, we've got... um, a week to finish Lucia and Aymeric and they are... not done. Not even close. My mom was going to go as Matoya as well but we just ran out of time. But we (mother, husband and I) have all been cosplaying together for 12 years! At the risk of sharing my face around here (I hate my face), I'll post some of my favorites...
Featuring my dork husband (he's the Hyth, the cat and the prince, and we've made adjustments to Hyth's wig in the meantime but that's the only photo I have)
And some bonus shots of my mother, who is way cooler than I am
i wish we had better photos but obviously with all of us being in costume we don't get to carry a camera around, so random photographer shots and shitty cell phone cam is the best I can offer!
I love taking a costume and bringing it to life as realistically as possible - fabrics are the most important thing to me, researching what's period accurate and finding the right weight and drape and so on. We used to compete and do all the big cons (SDCC, NYCC, dragoncon etc) but with the flying and the stress it just wasn't fun anymore so now we just do local PNW cons - Sakura con in Seattle is next! Depending on how kind people are I might share a photo of Lucia and Aymeric when they're finished.
Thank you for asking! If you've got any horse or cosplay stories to share I'd love to hear them too!
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listen not to go back to my most basic form but. the things i would do for a bootleg of the nycc production of parade
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More coherent gushing about NYCC Parade
OKAY it’s been 4 days since Parade, should be able to share thoughts that actually have a thru line now. On a production level, it was impeccable. It reminded me a lot of the Barrow Street production of Sweeney from a few years back - it did something with the material which was genuinely creative and new instead of just repeating past staging concepts. Michael Arden shines as a director and the cast is equally brilliant (can’t help but feel a bit smug, as Ben Platt has been my dream Leo for YEARS and I turned out to be right in putting faith in him.)
More importantly: on a dramaturgical/textual level. The one question that was drilled into my head during school is “why this play now?” What does this piece have to offer, what does it have to say. How can it make change. How can it be a paradigm shifter. NYCC Parade went out of its way to answer “why this play now” at every turn. It was acutely aware of what the Frank case meant and means, how the musical manifests in 2022 vs. 1998, how to transform the meaning of the piece and how to apply the extant meanings to a modern audience. At the talkback the cast hinted about the intense dramaturgy and behind the scenes work that went into the piece, but it was evident even without them pointing that out, which can’t be said for a lot of productions. NYCC proved that they know why Parade was relevant when it premiered, why it’s relevant today, and why it always will be. It was an expert production, on all levels and from all standpoints.
I’ve loved Parade for a very long time, and loving Parade has changed me as a theatremaker and a human being. My stakes going into this were very high, and honestly, I couldn’t have asked for more. It was everything I wanted and needed; everything that made me fall in love with Parade, and so much more.
#not speaking on a Broadway run#because my feelings on that are in the minority#and I want to CELEBRATE parade above all else#nycc parade#parade#ben platt#micaela diamond
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i need a parade at nycc audio or video more than anything rn
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People really do find ways to ruin all the fun. We were riding high from NYCC what happened?
LOL we were riding high from the trailer for what about 24 hours LOL? It's fine though I'm not joking when I say I'm muting people. No one is going to rain on my DK endgame parade sorry.
#Anonymous#Absolutely not#I guess at least people are laying off dragging Kory's wig for now so that's refreshing
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Rufus Sewell - An Actor Despairs (owltail.com)
VideoTripwire Magazine / Interview: In Conversation with Rufus Sewell (The Man In The High Castle s02, NYCC 2016) (audioboom.com)
"With film, so far, the more major the character, and the greater the writing, the less my chance to play in the role because of my position in the business. So, sometimes, I have to compromise and compromise, and see what I can do with a smaller part here and there. But, I like theater and my place in it because occasionally I get to play great roles.
I also like television because I can play generally better roles in television. So far, I would say that I would prefer theater and television to film, because when I am doing a film, often, it is a compromise and in some way I am trying to trick myself somewhere into a better part somewhere along the line.
rufus sewell parade com 2016
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saw parade on thursday and then hung out in midtown like a creep on friday & saturday trying to decide if i was going to buy an overpriced ticket to see it again so i’m doing great thanks
#have listened to nothing but the obc recording since thursday#and mentally have spent hundreds of dollars on tickets i sadly haven’t bought#cool cool cool#the vibes are chill#parade city center#parade#parade musical#parade nycc#i just love it the most
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a lot of people are going to be rooting for josh groban or christian borle to win the tony over ben platt because we were traumatized in 2017 but i beg of you look at this year's material.
#this is not dear evan hansen okay this is parade and it's an incredible performance#i listened to a fucking audio bootleg of the nycc run and i am haunted by it he absolutely deserves this award#and i love the others too esp josh and i won't be mad if josh wins but i also don't want to see any '2017 repeat' bullshit on here okay#let's THINK for a second let's CONSIDER
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