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Songs that you might like if you're into Will Wood
The Ghost of Stephen Foster by Squirrel Nut Zippers
2. Dance Like an Idiot by Figment 2
3. Fuck I ran out of songs
#will wood#song recommendation#figure 2#squirrel nut zippers#The Ghost of Stephen Foster#dance like an idiot#i forgor
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Another concert pic , this time it's The Ghost of Stephen Foster c:
#invader zim#invader zim oc#almighty tallest#cerulean#before cerulean was a tallest#Ghost of Stephen Foster#Squirrel Nut Zippers
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Well, grab your drink and clear a space I think it's time to torch this place Now the girl's in overdrive But some of your pals want to stay alive! I'll put a lid on it I'll put a lid down on it I'll put a lid down on it, save it for another night
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Met the Ghost of Stephen Foster at the Hotel Paradise This is what I told him as I gazed into his eyes Ships were made for sinking Whiskey made for drinking If we were made of cellophane, we'd all get stinking drunk quite faster ha, ha, ha
#polls#music#squirrel nut zippers#put a lid on it#ghost of stephen foster#lyrics#i saw snz live twice#in the late '00s#and both times they put on one of the best live shows i've ever seen#Youtube
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How Sondheim and Burnett Got Darren Criss to Provincetown
Provincetown hasn’t been compared to The Godfather or Star Wars very often, but those are the examples actor and singer Darren Criss names in acknowledging that his July 21 town hall appearance will be his first visit here.
“Provincetown is like that movie that you haven’t seen but you don’t want your friends to know you haven’t seen, so you don’t incur their wrath and ridicule and disbelief,” he says, noting that several of his good pals visit often. “I don’t bring up that I haven’t been there because my friends will give me crap. I haven’t avoided it — I’ve really wanted to go. Finally, the stars aligned quite nicely.”
Maybe the stars had a little help from Carol Burnett.
Host and accompanist John McDaniel, a Grammy and Emmy award-winning musician, says he invited Criss to be part of his summer Broadway series here after Criss performed on 2023’s Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Love + Laughter TV birthday special. McDaniel was the music director.
Criss’s best-known roles are his breakout portrayal of Blaine for five seasons (2010 to 2015) on Glee in a milestone-for-mainstream-TV gay romance with Chris Colfer’s Kurt, and his 2018 Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning turn as spree killer Andrew Cunanan in The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story. (Both roles came thanks to producer and Provincetown part-timer Ryan Murphy.)
In addition to acting and singing — including Glee’s “Teenage Dream” cover that climbed the Billboard charts — Criss is a songwriter. He first won notice for co-writing and starring in 2009’s A Very Potter Musical parody for the Chicago-based StarKid Productions, which he co-founded. Criss’s A Very Darren Crissmas generated national holiday tours.
Shortly after Criss wrote the opening number for the 2022 Tony Awards, his friend Paul Miller, director of the Burnett tribute, asked him to refashion Stephen Sondheim’s “Side by Side” from Company into an homage to Burnett’s famous duets with celebrity guest stars.
In what he called “one of the coolest things I’ve ever gotten to be a part of,” Criss performed “Burnett’s Duets” for the star-studded birthday-party special with Broadway’s Sutton Foster. That came after he meticulously dissected Sondheim’s music to fit new lyrics and fine-tuned the arrangement with McDaniel.
“When I was doing this,” Criss says, “in my mind, I was going, ‘What would the ghost of Sondheim be OK with?’ ”
More Broadway music will be on Criss’s mind in Provincetown for what he says will be an unusual program because it likely won’t include original work or him playing guitar or piano; McDaniel will accompany him. Criss prides himself on not performing the same live show twice and plans to include Broadway songs he’s not yet sung in public.
That said, he recognizes fans might want to hear something connected to his own Broadway star turns. Those include — besides the nonmusical American Buffalo in 2022 — How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying in 2012 and 2015’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Plus, earlier this year, Criss starred in off-Broadway’s Little Shop of Horrors.
In September, he’ll originate a Broadway role for the first time, headlining Will Aronson and Hue Park’s musical Maybe Happy Ending. Criss plays an outdated, retired robot in futuristic Seoul who explores the nature of love with another retired robot (Helen J. Shen). To try to help boost its U.S. profile, Criss is also a producer of the musical, which has been a hit in Korea, China, and Japan. Its Broadway debut will be directed by Michael Arden (2023 Tony Award for Parade, Spring Awakening), a longtime Criss friend who directed the English-language debut in 2020 in Atlanta.
Criss is excited but nervous about the piece; he says it’s intimate and epic at once. “There’s an excitement about the uniqueness and specialness of this show that I’ve never encountered before,” he says. “So that’s either going to crash and burn and blow up in our faces or catch on. I don’t know, but the prospect is very thrilling.”
Criss, who is straight, made headlines this spring for comments at a Chicago expo about being “culturally queer” because of his admiration for the LGBTQ community. “The things in my life that I have tried to emulate, learn from, and be inspired by are 100 percent queer,” he said then, later adding that “it was in queer communities that I’ve found people that I idolize, that I want to learn something from.”
“That had to be the slowest news day ever,” Criss says about his comments getting attention — especially because he’s talked many times before about similar things, including how much it meant to be part of Glee’s Blaine-Kurt relationship story.
Beyond Provincetown and Broadway, in August Criss’s voice will be heard in an unusual spot: on season 10 of Netflix’s Gabby’s Dollhouse, a children’s show, as the new Marty the Party Cat, magical host of the Party Room. It’s a voice role Criss says was planned long before his two-year-old daughter and seven-week-old son were born to him and his wife.
Marty is described by Netflix as a lovable, “exuberant goofball” who has a big heart and the ability to laugh at himself.
“He’s a fun guy,” Criss says. “I’m aspirationally Marty the Party Cat.”
#darren criss#the provincetown independent#john mcdaniel's broadway series#darren criss with john mcdaniel#carol burnett: 90 years of laughter + love#john mcdaniel#stephen sondheim#maybe happy ending bway#c2e2#chicago comic & entertainment expo#gabby's dollhouse#marty the party cat#press#july 2024
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So Stephen said he invested a piece of himself in 47 dol-- erm, I mean, figurines.
Since I'm insane, I'm gonna try to figure out which teams/heroes/anti-heroes/villains have one.
Misty Knight (confirmed)
The Bar With No Doors
Doctor Voodoo
The Avengers
Scarlet Witch (I know she's with the Avengers but she's also working solo atm)
Iron Man (same as above)
Magik (New Mutants included)
Silver Surfer
Namor
Hulk
The Fantastic Four
Hellcat
Hellstrom
Adam Warlock (and the Infinity Watch)
Black Widow
X-Men (whoever is the current leader)
Professor X (for Illuminati shenanigans)
Deadpool (he'll regret it later)
Howard the Duck
Black Panther
Blade
Wiccan & Hulkling (Young Avengers return when)
Daredevil
Moon Knight (Clea forced him)
Luke Cage
Alpha Flight
Valkyrie (Jane Foster)
Black Bolt
Man-Thing
Spidey (he will also regret that later)
Ghost Rider
Loki (only because Thor agreed to supervise them)
Elektra
She-Hulk
Storm
Black Cat (another poor decision)
Ms. Marvel (Champions return when)
Iron Fist I (Lin Lie)
Iron Fist II (Danny Rand)
Spider-Woman
Blue Marvel (and Taaia)
Gamora (Guardians of the Galaxy)
Nick Fury
Agents of Atlas
Cloud
Elsa Bloodstone
Moon Girl
Got his offer rejected by: Nico (she doesn't want adults supervising her Runaways), Doom (got suspicious and said Doom doesn't require any kind of aid -- although felt tempted to accept it deep down), Wolverine (told him he hates magic $#%&$*#).
Did I forget anyone?
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It's between Skeleton Dance and Haunted House, but they always make me think of The Ghost of Stephen Foster, which is of course an homage much later:
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heres another (hopefully daily) magicians question!! this one isn't really a question but uh just go with it-
assign a song to each of the magicians main characters, like a song that fits them and could be their 'theme song' of sorts
Oooooo shit… ok
I’m gonna have to do multiple for some of these cause it’s just impossible for me to capture my feelings about these characters in one song
So some of these are gonna be songs from the actual show because the association is very strong but some of them will just be vibes or lyrics
Quentin: Falling Apart by Slow Pulp, Kaleidoscope by Chappell Roan, Postdoc Blues by John K Samson, Someone New by Hozier
Eliot: Chinese Satellite by Phoebe Bridgers, Can’t Cool Me Down by Car Seat Headrest, Time To Pretend by MGMT, Phone In A Pool by Ben Folds
Alice: Philosophy by Ben Folds Five, Perpetuum Mobile by Penguin Café Orchestra, ballad of a homeschooled girl by Olivia Rodrigo
Julia: Are You Satisfied? By MARINA, The Suburbs by Arcade Fire
Margo: Beautiful Dreamer by Stephen Foster, Man’s World by MARINA, Bad Reputation by Joan Jett & the Blackhearts
Penny: Ghosting by Mother Mother, Pleasure Delayer by BETWEEN FRIENDS, Run Boy Run- Instrumental by Woodkid
Kady: Lovesick in Public by Zoe Ko, Blame Brett by The Beaches, Song 2 by Blur
Josh: You Make My Dreams (Come True) by Daryl Hall & John Oates, Break My Stride by Matthew Wilder
That’s not even half of it and I’m blanking for some of this- I’m sure I’ll have additions later
I could literally make a whole playlist for most of these guys
And remember before you say “that song doesn’t thematically fit that character” some of these just musically sound like that character to me, the lyrics have nothing to do with it
Plus some of these characters have songs to me that represent their pairings with others? Like of course Quentin and Eliot will always be Evolve by Phoria to me, Either Quentin and Alice or Quentin and Julia’s dynamic reads as Thérese by Maya Hawke imo, Julia and Quentin’s dynamic early on to me is Cheetah by Deux Visages, Eliot and Margo are a BUNCH of things including $20 by boygenius, Penny and Kady are kinda OMG by Suki Waterhouse but more in a musical sense not in a lyrical sense IDK MAN THERES SO MUCH AHHHH
#the magicians#fixated-on-magicians#quentin coldwater#eliot waugh#alice quinn#julia wicker#margo hanson#penny adiyodi#kady orloff diaz#josh hoberman#music#ask#thoughts#syfy the magicians
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so about stolen babies-
i took the very limited amount of footage made for the unfinished animatic and tried to put together these characters' appearances.
animatic in question:
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fun fact: the boards were drawn by raymond persi!! the ghost of stephen foster codirector guy.
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Tagged by @outeremissary Thank you Emi but omg my name is so long too lmao I cannot promise cringe won't make it on here. Gonna try and do this mostly with my Halloween playlist Jay's Spook Juke because that sounds fun.
Rules: Pick a song for each letter of your URL and tag that many people.
B lue Moon - The Marcels (my family's stupid running gag is we all burst out into this song when someone brings home a 24 pack of Blue Moon beers)
E yes Without a Face - Billy Idol
A ve Satani - Jerry Goldsmith
R emains of the Day - Danny Elfman
V irgin State of Mind - K's Choice
A Forest - The Cure
N osferatu - Blue Oyster Cult
H alloween Theme - John Carpenter
E arth, Wind, Fire and Air - Moon Sisters
L ife at Last - Ray Kennedy
S quare Hammer - Ghost
I t's Terror Time Again - Nate Wants to Battle
N o One Lives Forever - Oingo Boingo
G host of Stephen Foster - Squirrel Nut Zippers
#happy halloween!#i love my dumb halloween playlist and use every chance i can to wave it around lol#tag game#outeremissary
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Who and What I Do Picture Imagines and x reader Fanfiction For
List updated as of: 11/05/24!
💗 - My Favorite Characters & Fandoms To Do Picture Imagines & Write For
✒️ - Who I will eventually for sure write fanfiction for
Picture Imatine Request status: OPEN
x reader fanfiction request status: CLOSED *TBD*
American Horror Story:
Jimmy Darling | Kit Walker | Kyle Spencer | Tate Langdon
Angels of Death: 💗
Zack Foster 💗✒️
Assassination Classroom:
Karma Akabane 💗✒️ | Gakushu Asano 💗 | Ryonusuke Chiba | Itona Horibe 💗 | Yuuma Isogai 💗 | Tadaomi Karasuma | Hiroto Maehara 💗 | Ren Sakakibara 💗 | Nagisa Shiota 💗 | Tomohito Sugino 💗 | Ryouma Terasaka
Attack On Titan: 💗
Armin Arlert | Bertholdt Hoover 💗 | Connie Springer 💗✒️ | Erwin Smith | Eren Yeager💗✒️ | Furlan Church | Jean Kirstein 💗✒️ | Levi Ackerman 💗✒️ | Marco Bodt | Reiner Braun 💗 |
Avatar: The Last Airbender & The Legend of Korra: 💗
Bolin 💗 | Desna | Jet 💗 | Mako 💗 | Sokka 💗 | Zuko 💗✒️
Chronicles of Narnia:
Caspian | Edmund Pevensie | Peter Pevensie
DCAU:
Dick Grayson (Young Justice & OG Teen Titans)
DCU:
Barry Allen | Bruce Wayne | Clark Kent
Death Note: 💗
Light Yagami 💗✒️ | L Lawliet | Mello
Demon Slayer: 💗
Genya Shinazugawa 💗✒️ | Giyuu Tomioka 💗✒️ | Inosuke Hashibara | Kyojuro Rengoku 💗 | Muichiro Tokito 💗 | Muzan Kibitsugi 💗 | Obanai Iguro 💗 | Sanemi Shinazugawa | Tanjiro Kamado 💗 | Tengen Uzui | Yushiro 💗 | Zenitsu Agatsuma
Disney:
Jack Sparrow 💗✒️ | Jay (Disney's Descendants) | Harry Hook (Disney's Descendants) 💗 | Jim Hawkins 💗 | Kylo Ren | Poe Dameron | Varian (Tangled: The Series) 💗
And other various Disney characters
Dragon Ball Z Kai/Super: 💗
Android 17 💗 | Broly 💗 | Future!Trunks 💗 | Goku | Gohan | Vegeta 💗✒️
Divergent:
Eric | Four/Tobias Eaton
Fairy Tail: 💗
Erik/Cobra | Freed Justine | Gajeel Redfox 💗✒️ | Gray Fullbuster 💗 | Hibiki Lates | Jackal | Jellal Fernandes 💗✒️ | Laxus Dreyar | Loke/Leo The Lion 💗 | Lyon Vastia 💗✒️ | Macbeth/Midnight | Mystogan/Edolas!Jellal 💗 | Natsu Dragneel 💗✒️ | Future!Rogue Cheney 💗 | Rogue Cheney 💗✒️ | Rufus Lore 💗 | Sting Eucliffe 💗✒️ | Yuri Dreyar 💗 | Zeref Dragneel 💗
Fantastic Beasts & Where To Find Them:
Credance Barebone | Newt Scamander 💗✒️
Glee:
Noah Puckerman
Harry Potter: 💗
Bill Weasley | Cedric Diggory | Draco Malfoy 💗✒️ | Fred Weasley 💗 | George Weasley 💗 | Harry Potter 💗✒️ | James Potter | Neville Longbottom 💗 | Oliver Wood 💗 | Percy Weasley | Ron Weasley 💗 | Tom Riddle | Seamus Finnegan | Severus Snape | Viktor Krum
How To Train Your Dragon:
Hiccup Haddock
Hunger Games:
Cato Hadley | Gale Hawthorne | Peeta Mellark
Inkheart:
Dustfinger
Into The Woods:
The Prince (Cinderella) | The Prince (Repunzel's Prince)
InuYasha:
Inuyasha 💗✒️ | Koga | Miroku 💗✒️ | Sesshomaru 💗✒️
Jujutsu Kaisen: 💗
Choso | Kento Nanami | Mahito | Megumi Fushigoro 💗✒️ | Ryomen Sukuna ✒️ | Saturo Gojo 💗✒️ | Suguru Geto | Toge Inumaki ✒️ | Toji Fushiguro | Yuuji Itadori 💗✒️
Jurassic Park & Jurassic World Universe:
Alan Grant | Bilbo Baggins | Frodo Baggins | Ian Malcolm | Owen Grady 💗✒️ | Kenji Kon
Lord of The Rings/The Hobbit:
Aragorn | Bard | Legolas Greenleaf 💗✒️ | Thorin Oakenshield
Marvel:
Bucky Barnes 💗✒️ | Charles Xavier | Clint Barton | Erik Lehnsherr | Grant Ward | Harry Osborn | Loki 💗✒️ | Peter Parker ✒️ | Peter Quill ✒️ | Phil Coulson | Robbie Reyes/Ghost Rider (Agents of SHIELD Ghost Rider) | Steve Rogers 💗✒️ | Stephen Strange | T'Challa | Thor | Tony Stark 💗✒️ | Wade Wilson
Marvel Actors:
Tom Hiddleston
Maze Runner:
Gally | Newt 💗✒️ | Thomas
My Hero Academia: 💗
Dabi 💗✒️ | Denki Kaminari 💗✒️ | Eijirou Kirishima 💗✒️ | Hitoshi Shinsou 💗✒️ | Inasa Yaorashi | Izuku Midoriya 💗✒️ | Jin Bubaigawara/Twice | Kai Chisaki/Overhaul | Katsuki Bakugou 💗✒️ | Keigo Takami/Hawks 💗✒️ | Mirio Togata ✒️ | Natsuo Todoroki | Neito Monoma 💗✒️ | Rody Soul 💗✒️ | Shouta Aizawa 💗✒️ | Shoto Todoroki 💗✒️ | Tamaki Amajiki ✒️ | Tensei IIda | Tenya IIda 💗✒️ | TetsuTetsu TetsuTetsu | Tomura Shigaraki 💗✒️ | Yo Shindou 💗
Naruto/Naruto Shippuden: 💗
Deidara | Gaara 💗✒️ | Itachi Uchiha ✒️ | Kakashi Hatake | Madara Uchiha | Naruto Uzumaki ✒️ | Neji Hyuga 💗✒️ | Pain | Rock Lee | Sasuke Uchiha 💗✒️ | Shikamaru Nara
Night at The Museum:
Ahkmenrah
Once Upon A Time:
Killian Jones
Ouran High School Host Club:
Hikaru Hitachiin 💗 | Kaoru Hitachiin 💗 | Kyoya Ootori 💗✒️ | Ritsu Kasanoda | Takashi "Mori" Morinozuka | Tamaki Suoh 💗✒️
Pride, Predjudice & Zombies:
Mr. Darcy
Rise of The Guardians:
Jack Frost 💗
Supernatural:
Dean Winchester | Sam Winchester
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtlles *2012 Series & Bayverse Movies!* 💗
Casey Jones | Donatello | Leonardo | Michelangelo | Raphael 💗✒️
The Walking Dead: 💗
Carl Grimes | Daryl Dixon 💗✒️ | Glenn Rhee | Negan Smith 💗✒️ | Rick Grimes 💗✒️ | Shane Walsh
Tokyo Ghoul: 💗
Ayato Kirishima 💗✒️ | Hideyoshi (Hide) Nagachika ✒️ | Ken Kaneki 💗✒️ | Kuki Urie 💗✒️ | Nishiki Nishio 💗✒️ | Uta
Twilight:
Edward Cullen | Jacob Black
Yuri On Ice!!!:
Viktor Nikiforov 💗✒️ | Yuuri Katsuki | Yuri Plisetsky (Yurio) 💗✒️
#q#character list#fandom list#fandom.imagine.wasteland#fanfic#fanfiction#writeblr#writers on tumblr#creative writing
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Alastor! It's nearly 4 am and I can't sleep. Sigh. I envy you that you don't need (much? any?) sleep. How do you do that? 😴
So I come to you with another song recommendation. I think you'll like the video as well. It's animated in the style of cartoons of your day...but the darker ones. (The Stephen Foster referenced wrote songs like Camptown Races and Oh Susanna, but you might have known that.) You might like Squirrel Nut Zippers other music, too. They're a swing/jazz band. They even have a song called Hell! Haha
https://youtu.be/xfkShimyhRE?si=bvTAvmvO3fE4PzRz
I think tumblr ate my last ask I sent on Sunday morning and I can't remember what it was anymore...other than I sent you a photo I took. 🤷♀️
After while crocodile 🐊
No, darling, I do not need any sleep at all! Hah!
Oh my, what a delightful little cartoon! A bit odd yet endearing. I loved the jazz bit of it. There is a certain charm to older bizarre looking cartoons that have a certain pizazz to it. I quite enjoyed the picture show and the music paired together surprisingly!
Yes I shall go browse the Squirrel Nut Zippers other music when I get a chance!
Met the Ghost of Stephen Foster at the Hotel Paradise This is what I told him as I gazed into his eyes Ships were made for sinking Whiskey made for drinking If we were made of cellophane, we'd all get stinking drunk quite faster ha, ha, ha
Ghost of Stephan Foster is the song of the day, folks!
My apologies, dear, I am slowly getting to everyone's asks. I simply need time but I shall get to them! I do like to think about an ask whenever I get it to craft the perfect response and then spend a bit of time writing it.
See you later, my dear, crocodile!
#alastor#hazbin hotel#ask#ask answered#asks open#send asks#alastor the radio demon#ask blog#alastor hazbin hotel#hazbin alastor#song of the day#jazz#squirrel nut zippers
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How Sondheim and Burnett Got Darren Criss to Provincetown
The songwriter and star of Glee makes his local debut in Broadway-centric concert
By Kathi Scrizzi Driscoll Jul 17, 2024
Provincetown hasn’t been compared to The Godfather or Star Wars very often, but those are the examples actor and singer Darren Criss names in acknowledging that his July 21 town hall appearance will be his first visit here.
“Provincetown is like that movie that you haven’t seen but you don’t want your friends to know you haven’t seen, so you don’t incur their wrath and ridicule and disbelief,” he says, noting that several of his good pals visit often. “I don’t bring up that I haven’t been there because my friends will give me crap. I haven’t avoided it — I’ve really wanted to go. Finally, the stars aligned quite nicely.”
Maybe the stars had a little help from Carol Burnett.
Host and accompanist John McDaniel, a Grammy and Emmy award-winning musician, says he invited Criss to be part of his summer Broadway series here after Criss performed on 2023’s Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Love + Laughter TV birthday special. McDaniel was the music director.
Criss’s best-known roles are his breakout portrayal of Blaine for five seasons (2010 to 2015) on Glee in a milestone-for-mainstream-TV gay romance with Chris Colfer’s Kurt, and his 2018 Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning turn as spree killer Andrew Cunanan in The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story. (Both roles came thanks to producer and Provincetown part-timer Ryan Murphy.)
In addition to acting and singing — including Glee’s “Teenage Dream” cover that climbed the Billboard charts — Criss is a songwriter. He first won notice for co-writing and starring in 2009’s A Very Potter Musical parody for the Chicago-based StarKid Productions, which he co-founded. Criss’s A Very Darren Crissmas generated national holiday tours.
Shortly after Criss wrote the opening number for the 2022 Tony Awards, his friend Paul Miller, director of the Burnett tribute, asked him to refashion Stephen Sondheim’s “Side by Side” from Company into an homage to Burnett’s famous duets with celebrity guest stars.
In what he called “one of the coolest things I’ve ever gotten to be a part of,” Criss performed “Burnett’s Duets” for the star-studded birthday-party special with Broadway’s Sutton Foster. That came after he meticulously dissected Sondheim’s music to fit new lyrics and fine-tuned the arrangement with McDaniel.
“When I was doing this,” Criss says, “in my mind, I was going, ‘What would the ghost of Sondheim be OK with?’ ”
More Broadway music will be on Criss’s mind in Provincetown for what he says will be an unusual program because it likely won’t include original work or him playing guitar or piano; McDaniel will accompany him. Criss prides himself on not performing the same live show twice and plans to include Broadway songs he’s not yet sung in public.
That said, he recognizes fans might want to hear something connected to his own Broadway star turns. Those include — besides the nonmusical American Buffalo in 2022 — How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying in 2012 and 2015’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Plus, earlier this year, Criss starred in off-Broadway’s Little Shop of Horrors.
In September, he’ll originate a Broadway role for the first time, headlining Will Aronson and Hue Park’s musical Maybe Happy Ending. Criss plays an outdated, retired robot in futuristic Seoul who explores the nature of love with another retired robot (Helen J. Shen). To try to help boost its U.S. profile, Criss is also a producer of the musical, which has been a hit in Korea, China, and Japan. Its Broadway debut will be directed by Michael Arden (2023 Tony Award for Parade, Spring Awakening), a longtime Criss friend who directed the English-language debut in 2020 in Atlanta.
Criss is excited but nervous about the piece; he says it’s intimate and epic at once. “There’s an excitement about the uniqueness and specialness of this show that I’ve never encountered before,” he says. “So that’s either going to crash and burn and blow up in our faces or catch on. I don’t know, but the prospect is very thrilling.”
Criss, who is straight, made headlines this spring for comments at a Chicago expo about being “culturally queer” because of his admiration for the LGBTQ community. “The things in my life that I have tried to emulate, learn from, and be inspired by are 100 percent queer,” he said then, later adding that “it was in queer communities that I’ve found people that I idolize, that I want to learn something from.”
“That had to be the slowest news day ever,” Criss says about his comments getting attention — especially because he’s talked many times before about similar things, including how much it meant to be part of Glee’s Blaine-Kurt relationship story.
Beyond Provincetown and Broadway, in August Criss’s voice will be heard in an unusual spot: on season 10 of Netflix’s Gabby’s Dollhouse, a children’s show, as the new Marty the Party Cat, magical host of the Party Room. It’s a voice role Criss says was planned long before his two-year-old daughter and seven-week-old son were born to him and his wife.
Marty is described by Netflix as a lovable, “exuberant goofball” who has a big heart and the ability to laugh at himself.
“He’s a fun guy,” Criss says. “I’m aspirationally Marty the Party Cat.”
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