“We theatre fans truly don’t need TikTok to celebrate theatre. TikTok and China need us more. Theatre fans should feel good telling them: Support free expression in theatre and support the LGBTQ+ community, or go pound sand.”
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“St. Martin could have shown empathy. That’s what good spokespeople are supposed to do. Instead, if anything, she was defiant over the current business model that works for the rich and doesn’t work for everyone else.”
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“I need every theater organization that hired positions like mine over the past couple of years to understand that there was a real need for these positions to exist, and we must be allowed to do the work that is necessary.”
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“There have been colleges that fulfilled their promises of change over the past year. There have been programs that followed through on bringing a diverse first class to their campuses. But we fear there are plenty more that pledged such changes and failed. And we’re already seeing proof of that.”
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“Demand for shows is not what it was, and COVID is wreaking havoc on the country. Should Broadway delay its opening?”
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“Being a paid performer is a privilege, a wonderful, joyous privilege. With privilege comes responsibility, and yes, as someone who is receiving money from paying public customers, you do have a responsibility to treat their health as safely as possible.”
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“With a brand new movie musical “In The Heights” coming out in theaters and HBO Max on June 10th, OnStage Blog conducted a survey of its readers to find out how many people were planning on seeing the movie and whether they were going to venture back into theaters to do it.”
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“To me, if half the soundtrack stays with the audience after it ends, the movie musical succeeded. Is it a low bar? I guess, but ultimately, the goal of a movie musical is for the music to engage the audience long after the performance ends.”
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“Less than half said they would attend a show, regardless of whether safety protocols were enacted or not.”
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“Disney announced in March that the hit Disney movie trilogy “Descendants” is now adapted and licensed for schools to perform. Because the musical left off so many good songs, we wanted to get into the entire catalog and rank from best to worst. “
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“Everyone is free to like whatever song they like, but if we are going to try and be objective about songs aimed at 6-12-year-olds, can we at least be honest and say it was a fluke “Queen of Mean” got to be this popular and its not objectively better than a dozen other Descendants songs?”
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