#Susan Blackwell

[jgroffdaily]

Jonathan provided a message about Gavin Creel to Susan Blackwell for an episode of her podcast ‘The Spark File’, which celebrated the legacy of Gavin Creel. The audio is above from the podcast and the transcript below is from MixOf_ChaosAndArt on Reddit.

“Gavin taught me the life-changing power of opening up your heart to love. Our romantic relationship changed the course of my life forever.

Even though I had come out as gay to my friends and my family in 2008, I still felt deep shame.

I had worshiped him for years as a performer but when I got to know him as a person in 2009 and the channel of love opened up between us, he gave me the gift of an all-consuming passion and my soul bloomed.

Public displays of affection used to make my whole whole body tense and suddenly I was all over Gavin on street corners without giving it a second thought.

Films, poetry, music, art. All of it came into focus.

But it was his activism that shook me to the core. He monologued with such purity and honesty about equality, rooted in his own struggles with his identity. He organized the Broadway Impact trip to the Marriage Equality March in DC.

I will never forget a specific moment of looking over at his shining face, with the purity of his heart beaming out of his eyes. The powerful light he radiated completely possessed me and snapped me into evolution. I turned from looking at him and immediately came out of the closet publicly.

The tidal wave of his passion for love burst my heart open permanently and I have never been the same.”

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Broadway Divas: Obscure Sondheim

To highlight how vast and varied Sondheim's roles and shows are, these five Divas have a singular Sondheim credit to their repertoire that are a little more obscure than most. So obscure that my dream of finding pictures to dazzle you all with was quickly shattered.

Bebe Neuwirth as Cinderella's Stepsister, Florinda, in a reading of Into the Woods for a 1994 movie that never came to fruition. This reading took place at director Penny Marshall's house and had a truly breathtaking cast: Robin Williams (The Baker), Goldie Hawn (The Baker's Wife), Steve Martin (The Wolf), Danny DeVito (The Giant), Carrie Fisher (Lucinda), and fucking CHER as The Witch. Bebe Neuwirth and Carrie Fisher as catty sisters tormenting Cinderella and getting their eyes pecked out. And then Cher trying to feed them to Danny DeVito. We were robbed of a masterpiece.

Judith Light as Joanne in a Reprise! presentation of Company at UCLA's Freud Playhouse. Though not known for her singing abilities, Judith was nevertheless part of an all-star cast for this two-week run in 2004. The only review I could find was...not favorable. It's been twenty years, and I, for one, think Judith Light deserves her chance at redemption.

Linda Emond as Mary in Merrily We Roll Along, 1988. The Seattle-based ACT company produced Sondheim's biggest flop musical through the month of May in 1988. Linda, then in her late twenties, played the female lead in a rare musical role for her. And I do have a picture thanks to ACT's fantastic archival system.

Pictured: Linda Emond (Mary) center, surrounded by Joseph Dellger (Franklin Shepherd) and Joseph McNally (Charley). And no, I cannot tell which man is which...

4. Susan Blackwell as The Giant in a 2019 one-night-only staged concert of Into the Woods. If you thought the recent Broadway revival was bare-bones, it had nothing on this staged concert at the Town Hall in NYC. There is one singular photo that includes Susan, and without knowing she was meant to be there, you'd never be able to identify her.

Pictured (L to R):

5. Paula Leggett Chase as Stella Deems in Follies, a one-night-only special event in Tangier, Morocco featuring a transcontinental cast of Divas. Since 2013 (excluding pandemic years), Rob Ashford has staged fundraising productions of shows such as A Little Night Music, The Crucible, and Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris. Confusingly, though Paula sang Stella Deems' song "Who's That Woman," she was credited in the program as Emily Whitman (presumably they just combined the roles for this production and gave them to the dancer in the cast?)

Pictured (L to R): The late Haydn Gwynn (Phyllis Rogers Stone, my beloved), Marisa Berenson (Solange LaFitte), Harolyn Blackwell (Heidi Schiller), Jenna Russel (Sally Durant Plummer), Paula Leggett Chase (Emily Whitman), Harriet Harris (Hattie Walker).

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The prank call section from Zachary Quinto's second time on side by side, uploaded Jan 8, 2014.

I'm dying at the answering machines and the dog.

But, they really went with Jesse's company and Christian's favorite comic book store; that is a level me and my friends never thought of.

and I wonder if Susan ever got to meet Chris Pine?

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I'm trying to do something and I have to choose an andrew pic for it

also if you have another one please share

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i fear this may be too niche but

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Day 94 — Side by side :)

Source: ☆

[11x13kyle]

kyle: i came out to my parents when they discovered gay porn on my computer while i was at tolkien’s house choreographing a hip hop dance. and i got a call from—

kenny: seems like a hat on a hat, i don’t know…

kyle: well, right! which is why i was shocked because i thought they already knew. but i got a call while i was like mid-shoulder brush from my mother being like “where are you?” and i was like “MMI’m at tOLkien’s house!” and she was like “You Need To Come Home Now.” and i went home—

kenny: they confronted you about this???

butters: well it’s PORN—

kyle: about finding porn on the family computer???

kenny: how old were you??

butters: 16? no?

kyle: like……15, 14…..

stan: well, yeah.

kenny: i guess so.

kyle: i can’t believe i’m telling this story……

cartman: give us alllll the details

kyle: i went home after choreo—we finished the dance, he drove me home in his infinity suv, and—

kenny: bougie.

butters: whaaaat????

kyle: and i walk into the house, it is pitch black, and i just see the backlit shadow of my mother in the corner of the kitchen just like…..she brings me down, and rather than just like having like a nice “let’s talk about this” she starts like bringing up, opening up all the websites

all: oooooh…..

kyle: and i don’t know what to DO, and i’m just going “EW! WHAT is that?! THAT’S disgusting!” meanwhile i’m like “yeah, tuesday, yeah wednesday, thursday i didn’t do anything, but friday—”

cartman: so dramatic

kenny: where was—

kyle: and then my dad comes down in like his tighty whities and he’s like “kyle, if it’s yours, just tell us.” and then—

stan: IF it’s yours?????

kyle: they found—well hold on. hold on. they found like this weird fax like a document that nobody recognized and i was like “wEll, OBVIOUSLY someone’s hacked into our computer!” and they BELIEVED ME.

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Hogwarts Cast + Fancasting + Other Characters - Pt 4

❤ = Original Actor

🩵 = Fan Cast

💘 = Original Character

Cedric Diggory ❤ Lucas Blackwell 💘

Ernie Macmillan 🩵💘 Anthony Bitterwood 💘

Susan Bones 🩵 Aura Silverthorn 💘

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my parents are watching madam secretary so half the time i walk into the kitchen im greeted with odo, lilith sternin, and cock sock guy

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Broadway.com starting up vlogs again with Lesli Margherita in Gypsy. Nature is healing.

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Letter from the National American Women Suffrage Association to Senator Charles Dick

Record Group 46: Records of the U.S. SenateSeries: Petitions and Related Documents That Were Presented, Read, or TabledFile Unit: Petitions and Memorials, Resolutions of State Legislatures, and Related Documents Which Were Tabled

[handwritten] Harriet Taylor Upton

National American Woman Suffrage Association.

MEMBER NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN.

Honorary President, Susan B. Anthony, 17 Madison Street, Rochester, N.Y.

[handwritten] 4

President, REV. ANNA HOWARD SHAW,

7443 Devon Street, Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, Pa.

Vice President at Large, CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT,

205 West 57th Street, New York City.

Corresponding Secretary, KATE M. GORDON,

1800 Pyrtania Street, New Orleans, La.

Recording Secretary, ALICE STONE BLACKWELL, 3 Park Street, Boston Mass.

Treasurer, HAPRIET TAYLOR UPTON [handwritten circle around name], Warren, Ohio.

Auditors {LAURA CLAY, Lexington, Ky.

CORA SMITH EATON, M.D., Masonic Temple, Minneapolis, Minn.

National Press Committee, ELNORA M. BABCOCK, Dunkirk, N.Y.

NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS, WARREN, OHIO. Nov. 17, 1904.

[stamp/seal partially illegible]

...grahical

UNION LABEL 2

...

Hon. Chas. Dick,

Akron, Ohio.

My dear sir;-

Well, now that the election is over and that

it was as much of a surprise to you as to any of us laymen,

I hope you can and will give your attention to a matter

about which I am writing. Please use our influence to have

the [begin handwritten underline] Territorial Committee strike out either the word sex [end handwritten underline]

in the clause of the Statehood Bill which classes women with

criminals and lunatics, or the whole paragraph. Some people

say if the word sex is stricken out it will foce the Ter

-ritories to consider the question of woman suffrage. Of

course I should not mourn if this were done, but I am not

asking the Territorial Committee to do anything so radical.

Territories have been admitted in the past without any such

clause, and, although it is true that we are politically

classed just this way, somehow it looks a little worse when

we see it in black and white. It is wonderful how stirred

up the conservative women, the club women, woman of missio-

ary societies and all that are over this action. I know

that if you reply to me that you will give this matter your

attention, you will do so. I am therefore not sending any

words in pressing you or in presenting any arguments to you.

Nobody knows better than you do that women of the great

southwest deserve something better than this classification.

Most truly yours,

[handwritten signature]

Harriet Taylor Upton

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The full interview from ‘Side by Side with Susan Blackwell’ where Jonathan is asked (at 8:40) whether he would rather receive a Tony, Oscar or Grammy. The interview was posted on 15 September 2011.

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Broadway Divas Tournament Bracket: Round 1B

Round 1B will commence tonight, March 9th at 6:00 p.m. EST. Send me your propaganda for any of the Divas on our list, but especially those about to make their entrance.

Round 1B: Lea Salonga vs. Christine Baranski Emily Skinner vs. Judy Kuhn Susan Blackwell vs. Harriet Harris Carmen Cusack vs. Vanessa Williams Beth Leavel vs. Donna Murphy Andrea Burns vs. Mary Beth Peil Judith Light vs. Tonya Pinkins Karen Ziemba vs. Marin Mazzie

Rules and Guidelines

Round 1A Winners

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The 2014 Glass Menagerie's Cast really had Christian Borle on the mind.

I'm also laughing at this accidental transition I made.

Video titles:

Tony Nominee Secrets! Looks Like "Glass Menagerie"'s Celia Keenan-Bolger's Got the Hots for Pirates

"Glass Menagerie'"s Zachary Quinto Hosts a Holiday Sleepover on "Side by Side by Susan Blackwell"

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The single most impressive fact about the attempt by American women to obtain the right to vote is how long it took. From its earliest beginnings in the public speaking of Fanny Wright in the 1820s and the Grimké sisters in the 1830s, through the complex history of equal rights suffrage associations led by such woman's-rights pioneers as Lucy Stone, Susan Anthony, and Elizabeth Stanton, it was indeed a "century of struggle" (Flexner 1959) before the suffrage amendment to the Constitution was ratified and women could first participate in a national election. Of the first generation pioneers, only Antoinette Brown Blackwell lived to cast her ballot in that first election in 1920.

-Alice S. Rossi, The Feminist Papers: From Adams to de Beauvoir

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theatre kids these days will never understand the cultural impact of falsettos side by side