#Brooks Ashmanskas

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Something Rotten! (2015, Broadway) - Digital Booklet Pics

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Does anyone have the bootleg of Spamalot (2005) and I’m also looking for The Prom thats not the 2016 version I really want the closing night version but any one you have is great!

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God, I so envy people who have the once in a lifetime opportunity to go and watch Broadway musicals...

*sigh*

Watching the best version of "The Prom" or "Dear Evan Hansen" live on stage, whereas mortal commoners like me have to torture themselves with the mediocre cinema or streaming versions...

Maybe someday I'll be there... I'll dance...when we

Build a prom for everyone

Show them all it can be done

If music blares and no one cares

Who your unruly heart loves

Build it now

Make people see how the world could one day be

It might come true if we take a chance

But 'til that day comes

I say cue the drums

It's time to dance!

🎶🎵💃🏻🕺🏻🪩🌈🏳️‍🌈

...until then I'll be just standing on the side and be waving through a window...

On the outside, always looking in Will I ever be more than I've always been? 'Cause I'm tap, tap, tapping on the glass I'm waving through a window I try to speak, but nobody can hear So I wait around for an answer to appear While I'm watch, watch, watching people pass I'm waving through a window, oh Can anybody see, is anybody waving back at me?

🎶🎵��🏻🪟

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Shuffle Along, or, the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed opened on Broadway in 2016, with a stellar cast - Audra McDonald, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Brandon Victor Dixon, Billy Porter, Joshua Henry, Brooks Ashmanskas, and Adrienne Warren.

This spectacular musical featured a phenomenal score by Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle, choreography by Savion Glover, was directed by George C. Wolfe and received 10 Tony Award nominations.

Unfortunately, it had an abbreviated run on Broadway, closing after 38 previews and 100 regular performances, due to Audra McDonald's pregnancy. The producers decided that it would not be able to sustain the show without her.

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Many years ago I saw a production of 1776 in Washington DC with Brooks Ashmanskas as John Adams (he would have made a better Hancock tbh) and at that time, I didn’t like it because it was too long and I had a very hard time following the story. I was 9 for Christ sake.

But looking back on it, I probably should have watched the movie before seeing it live. I went in head first without knowing anything.

But now many years later, I am completely head over heels in love with it and it is my favorite musical ever. I adore it to bits. There is not a single flaw.

Brooks actually reminds me of David Ford a little bit. Both alcoholics, both have deep voices, the only difference is that Brooks is an ass hole, David was not, as far as I know.

I met Brooks twice and the second time he wasn’t nice to me. He’s very talented but he’s not super nice. Which was odd because the first time I met him he was very nice. I���ve heard stories about fans meeting him and saying that he was so rude. I can see that.

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Once Upon a Mattress

ONCE UPON A MATTRESS by Mary Rodgers, Jay Thompson, Marshall Barer & Dean Fuller, adapted by Amy Sherman-Palladino, directed by Lear deBessonet, choreographed by Lorin Latarro: Like the recent revival of INTO THE WOODS, this production of the musical adaptation of “The Princess and the Pea” started at Encores before moving to Broadway. It has a revised book by Sherman-Palladino with more contemporary references and some gender play, including the suggestion the jester (Daniel Breaker) seduces the Wizard (Brooks Ashmanskas) to find out how Queen Agravayn (Ana Gasteyer) plans to test whether Winniferd the Woebegone (Sutton Foster) is a true princess.

The play is essentially a clown show, and in this case much of the clowning is quite good. Foster has great comic timing and pulls of some good physical bits. Gasteyer is a treasure, with inspired line readings. And Michael Urie’s Prince Dauntless is a match for them. I was also impressed with Nikki Renee Daniels, who made Lady Larkin a lot more fun than usual (the conventional love story often feels like a drag on the action). There are a few moments where the urge to get a laugh gets in the way of a character’s throughline. Not every moment has to be a socko comic bit. But as staged by deBessonet and choreographed by Latarro, some of the second act numbers, which feel like marking time before the princess has her final showdown with the pea, are gracefully staged. One of my favorite moments occurred when the very good chorus, dressed in the medieval version of white tuxedos, joins Breaker for “Very Soft Shoes,” with one touchingly playing the Jester’s father.

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Regular and Recurring LGBTQIA+ Characters in series on TV & Streaming Video

These are characters who have first appeared or been revealed as LGBTQIA+ during the 2022/23 season, or whom I’ve recently learned about or whom I hadn’t mentioned in previous posts of this type (that is, on my old blog). Needless to say, this list is also highly arbitrary and incomplete.

Netflix

Uncoupled

Michael Lawson (portrayed by Neil Patrick Harris)

Stanley James (portrayed by Brooks Ashmanskas)

Billy Burns (portrayed by Emerson Brooks)

Colin McKenna (portrayed by Tuc Watkins)

Jack (portrayed by André De Shields)

Jonathan #1 (portrayed by Colin Hanlon)

Jonathan #2 (portrayed by Jai Rodriguez)

Tyler Hawkins (portrayed by Nic Rouleau)

Continuing the tradition from my old blog (which has been unceremoniously deleted by tumblr without much of an explanation why) I’m doing daily posts during June to celebrate LGBTQIA+ pride by showcasing openly LGBTQIA+ celebrities and various content about or created by LGBTQIA+ people such as music videos, characters on TV shows, movie trailers, …

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Showtime Picks Up ‘Uncoupled’ Following Netflix Cancellation

Neil Patrick Harris‘ comedy series Uncoupled has found a new home. Netflix had canceled the show about a month ago but Showtime has now decided to revive it for a second season. Uncoupled hails from MTV Entertainment Studios, which like Showtime is part of Paramount Global. The news also comes hours after another series — Ripley, based on Patricia Highsmith’s Tom Ripley novels — went the other…

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SMASH INDUSTRY READING CAST ANNOUNCED THIS IS A NATIONAL HOLIDAY TO MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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2015 - The Something Rotten! cast reads some Mean Tweets

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"Welcome to the Theatre": Diary of a Broadway Baby

Once Upon a Mattress

August 21, 2024 | Broadway | Hudson Theatre | Evening | Musical | Revival | 2H 30M

The first twenty or so minutes of this show is so quaint and charming. And then she bursts onto the scene and it's all downhill from there. Any enjoyment I had for the Encores version is gone. I hated every minute Sutton Foster appeared on that stage. This time, knowing I didn't like her in the Encores production, I took along a friend who adores everything Sutton Foster is in and didn't say a word against her beforehand. And wouldn't you know it? My friend was as irritated by it all as I was. It's too much. Sutton is still doing far too much. If you shaved off even half of her mugging, you'd be able to take off ten minutes from the runtime. It's worse on Broadway in every way. Drawn-out, excessive, unfunny. Is it like a thing for her where she gets some kind of thrill out of shoving things into her mouth in front of an audience of a thousand people?

Anyway, never mind her. I've already been mean enough in my Encores review. Here's what's changed since the Encores concert. A mostly-new cast of principles with Brooks Ashmanskas just kind of there, but hey, it's a paycheck before Smash this spring; a new Jester who has been out; Will Chase as a very stupid man; and Ana Gasteyer as the Queen. Cleavage impeccable, wig a delight, acting choices and accent...a little baffling, but sure. I don't know if I liked what she was doing, or hated it. It kind of feels like every single actor was given a separate director, and no offense to the amateur theatre circuit, but it's very reminiscent of a bunch of community theatre actors who rehearse for an hour after work once a week.

Now, the regular Jester actor has been out recently, leaving the understudy to struggle through the show as best as he can, occasionally script-in-hand. And he's doing great. Good for him. There were several nail-biting moments where he went up, but all things considered, props to him. Now, having seen J. Harrison Ghee in the role, I think the understudy's take was more appropriate for the part as written. The Jester is meant to be a novice with the Wizard as a senior figure. J. had a lot of confidence and swagger the whole time, making it difficult to believe they were some young kid fresh on the scene. The regular Jester on Broadway is a 44-year-old man to Brooks's 55 years, and I don't know how that dynamic plays. The understudy is 25, and seems far more appropriate, but then again, everyone is too old in this cast. And I'm saying that.

Verdict: A Long Slog to Curtains

A Note on Ratings

I know the estate probably had a hand in revitalizing this on Broadway to get more traction in regional and community circles, but god this should not be on Broadway. You could easily chop an hour off this show and it wouldn't lose an ounce of cohesion. Almost every song is filler, and Mary Rodgers knew it.

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Broadway Barks 2023 rundown:

Terry Sims, Robert Levine, JOEL GREY, Michael Musto, and Patti and Harvey Cohen were all present

Thirty minutes to showtime I start noticing Brooks Ashmanskas, Michael McCormick, Julie Halston, Kate Buddeke et al and only when Pam Remler takes a selfie with everyone together does my brain piece together that they're there as a mini 20th anniversary of Gypsy

It's important to note that while Gypsy cast was onstage Kate started talking to Bernadette about playing the trumpet. How do I know that? Because the two of them just kept doing like air-trumpet-fingering back and forth as they talked.

Vicki Clark took a selfie with Bernadette that she should post.

Paolo Mantalban took a selfie with Bernadette that he should post.

"Who would've thought we needed a musical about corn?" - Bernadette

Two Laurie Metcalf/Bernadette hugs <3

Is Bebe Neuwirth adopting a cat today??

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70th Annual Tony Awards 

Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed

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‘I’d Give It All’ from Songs For A New World is a Javey song to me