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[droughtofapathy]

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

Songs from Pippin: Gala

April 8, 2024 | Symphony Space | Evening | Concert | Gala | 1H 25M

Kate Baldwin, my beloved. Hot morally bankrupt stepmother with homicide-by-proxy tendencies? Ideal character for me. Each year, Symphony Space holds a concert gala to help fund their programing. This year, it was songs from Pippin with a delightful cast of Broadway favorites, including J. Harrison Ghee (Leading Player), Judy Kaye (Berthe), and Christopher Seiber (Charlemagne). Danny Burstein once more narrated. I was, of course, there to gaze in adoration at Kate Baldwin, who got one song and it was worth the whole night alone. The dress above is backless and swishy and she was one of the tallest people on that stage.

Verdict: Why I Love the Theatre

A Note on Ratings

[orange-juice-speaks]

@yourfaveisgoingtosuperhell 

I was inspired by this post and made my own shitty thing.

Trent Oliver from The Prom (Broadway) is going to superhell for B L I C . Oh, and also gay crimes.

[please-help-this-little-lesbian]

I hope everyone in The Prom cast, crew, and creative are having a great night and they all go on to create more thriving gay content in the future.

[thediaryofatheatrekid]

Once Upon a December: Grease

1. Cheyenne Jackson as Danny Zuko 2. Laura Bell Bundy as Sandy Dombrowski 3. Cher as Betty Rizzo 4. Adam Pascal as Kenickie 5. John Barrowman as Roger 6. Sutton Foster as Jan 7. Christopher Sieber as Doody 8. Bernadette Peters as Frenchy 9. Patrick Wilson as Dominic "Sonny" LaTierri 10. Christine Baranski as Marty

[courageiswhenwefaceourfears]

Why We Should Appreciate Spamalot More

there’s an entire musical number based on mishearing a word (”I said ENGLAND!”)

Tim Curry

Christian Borle plays basically every ensemble character

“My name is Lancelot. I’m big and strong and hot” *taps butt with shovel*

“Become a knight and you’ll go bald!” “Become a knight and you’ll go bald!” “In suspenders and a bra!” “In suspenders and.... a bra..???...”

“I saw a lady in a lake-” “dead?”

EXCAILBUR!! ahhhhh AHHHHHH!!!! *music stops*

“Please reveal to this Doubting Thomas-” “Dennis.”

Sarah fucking Ramirez

“The Song That Goes Like This” being a perfect parody of just about every musical ever made

The absolutely fucking ridiculous expressions on Christopher Sieber’s and Sarah Ramirez’s faces

“Now we’re into E! ... that’s awfully high for me.” “Everyone can see, we should have stayed in D.”

"For this is the song that is too loooooooong!” *yells at orchestra director* JESUS CHRIST, GOD DAMNIT

Sir Not Appearing In This Show (Don Quixote: “Oh sorry”)

“Why do they call it the middle ages when nothing yet comes after it?”

“What happens in Camelot, stays in Camelot.”

“Knights of the Round Table” keeping the silliness from the film intact

Patsy clapping the coconuts together because Arthur can’t tap dance

Lady of the Lake being a Vegas lounge singer and she pulls out a ridiculous microphone

“We’re knights of the round table, round table, round table!” (point to roulette table to make sure the audience gets its) “round table, round table, round table!”

The knights trying to spell out “Camelot” and spelling “Cameltoe” instead

John Cleese cameo

The lack of a fourth wall (”These people don’t have all night!”)

“The quail!” “No, grail. The vessel used at the Last Supper.” “They had a bot at the Last Supper?”

“God the Almighty and All Knowing has misplaced a cup?”

“We must look within ourselves.” “SOMEBODY’S SWALLOWED IT!”

“No body’s swallowed it. It’s a symbol.” *symbol crash* *glares at orchestra*

“Find Your Grail” actually being a banger and a damn inspirational song all at once

The Lady of the Lake going all Mariah Carey on “Find Your Grail”

The Lady of the Lake holding a grail and standing inside a larger hand holding a grail

the two knights wrapped up in the background scenery and spinning around to make the the canvas move and change scenes

Galahad doing a clog dance when it’s the Alps

The “Scooby stack” when the French knights stick their heads out the door to investigate the giant rabbit

*French taunter speaks French* Other French taunter: ... what?

The French people including a mime and Eponine

The French taunting being much more taunting when in song form

"Feche la can can dancers!” *screaming*

The musical keeping up with the double casting from the movie and certain knights are just inexplicably gone for some scenes

“Have a drink and a pee, we’ll be back for act threeeee!” “Two sir.” “Twooooo!”

“Dark and very expensive forest” *cha-ching sound effect”

Because of course “Always Look On The Brightside” is a tap number

Patsy being King Arthur’s sidekick and wanting to cheer him up

The Knights Who Say Ni joining in for a little kick line

Robin’s Minstrel (also played by Christian Borle)

“Arms for the poor! Arms for the poor!”

The mechanics of the Black Knight suit so he can have all his limbs cut off onstage

“You must put on a musical!” Sir Robin: YES! *minstrel band jump into place*

But not an Andrew Lloyed Webber!

David. Hyde. Pierce.

A 10 minute long musical number making as many Jewish jokes and references as possible

THE FUCKING BOTTLE DANCE USING HOLY GRAILS

“Hey!” *points to a bale of hay*

(honestly the use of visual puns in this deserved a Tony of its own)

The pure saltiness of “What Ever Happened to My Part”

The plot point of Lancelot being gay comes from the movie where Lancelot “rescues” Galahad from the girls in Castle Anthrax and Galahad just goes “bet you’re gay” and that’s what led to this whole plot point and a massive dance number that ends with Christian Borle in a fruit hat

(seriously tho we have all these fandoms who insist that their characters are gay (cough dear evan hansen cough) but it isn’t cannon when Lancelot is right here, there’s a whole dance number about it)

“How are we going to get to Broadway? It’s 1000 years in the future in a country that hasn’t been discovered.”

“I”m all alone. There’s no one here beside me,” Patsy walks up like wtf

“Sure, I’ve been offstage for far too long”

“Actually I’m Jewish on my mother’s side.” “Why didn’t you say?” “It’s not the sort of thing you say to a heavily armed Christian”

THE KNIGHTS USING THE COCONUTS AS FREAKING CASTANETAS AND DANCING TO “AMERICA” FROM WEST WIDE STORY

Sir Robin shitting his pants and excusing himself aka the complete lack of trying to hide the fact that Sir Robin also plays Brother Maynard

the overall hilarious “low-budget” special effects, like when the ensemble knight’s head gets cut off by the rabbit

“No, skip a bit” *Brother Maynard skips* (again the visual puns)

The rabbit puppeteer being revealed and running offstage

“Oh Lord, we’re a bit stuck with the clue things. Would you give us a hand?” (literal hand of God comes down)

Lancelot in a flower crown

“Just think Herbert, in a 1000 years time, this will still be controversial”

“And I too have found my grail!” “WHAT’S THAT?” “Musical theatre!”

Herbert’s father bursting in one more time

[dailylgbtmusicals]

James Hayden Rodriguez as Rapunzel's Prince in Into the Woods

Information

Name: James Hayden Rodriguez

Credits:  The Lighting Thief (Luke/Ares), Spring Awakening (George), RENT (Benny)

Color of the rainbow with which they identify: Specific term unknown

[tea-cryptid]

Bootlegs: New Arrivals 3/5/18

21 Chump Street (OBC) 

1984 (OBC)

The Band’s Visit (OBC)

Bent (Andy Mientus, Jake Shears, Matthew Carlson, Patrick Heusinger) LA  

The Book Of Mormon (Nic Rouleau, Brian Sears) West End AUDIO

Dear Evan Hansen (Taylor Trensch) AUDIO

Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (John McCrea, Josie Walker, Mina Anwar) West End AUDIO

Groundhog Day (OBC) First Preview

Hamilton (Michael Luwoye, Solea Pfeiffer, Joshua Henry, Emmy Raver-Lampman) First National Tour

Hamilton (OBC) Pre-Broadway Workshop AUDIO

Indecent (OBC) Pro-Shot

The Lightning Thief (Chris McCarrell, George Salazar, Kristin Stokes) Off-Broadway

Matilda (Ripley Sobo, Lesli Margherita, Christopher Seiber, Jill Paice)

Oklahoma! (Hugh Jackman, Josefina Gabrielle, Jimmy Johnston) National Theatre Live 1999

Wicked (OBC) Broadway Previews

Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown (OBC)

Master List

[pins-abigail]

Man doesn’t a concert version of Candide with Christopher Seiber as Pangloss sound so great? I wish I was seeing that right now.

[todayclassical]

September 24 in Music History

1645 Death of British composer William Lawes in Chester.

1667 Birth of composer Jean-Louis Lully.

1735 FP of Hasse: "Tito Vespasiano" in Dresden.

1748 Birth of composer Philipp Meissner.

1754 FP of Gluck: "Le Cinesi" in Vienna.

1761 Birth of composer Friedrich Ludwig Emilius Kunzen.

1773 Birth of composer Johann Philipp Christian Schulz.

1779 FP of Gluck: "Echo et Narcisse" Paris.

1806 Birth of Irish composer and pianist George Alexander Osborne.

1813 Death of Belgian-born French composer André Grétry.

1806 Birth of composer George Alexander Osborne

1819 FP of Rossini: "La Donna del largo" Naples.

1834 Birth of French conductor and violinist Charles Lamoreux in Bordeaux. 

1838 Death of French clarinetist, bassoonist, and composer Friedrich Berr. 1863 Birth of American bandmaster William Henry Santelmann.

1879 Birth of Swedish soprano Signe Von Rappe, in Stockholm. 

1885 Birth of Estonian composer Arthur Lemba.

1888 Birth of English baritone Summer Austin in London. 

1891 Death of Austrian soprano Marie Wilt. 

1891 Birth of Swedish soprano Karin Branzell. 

1892 Death of Irish-American bandmaster and composer Patrick Gilmore.

1893 Birth of Spanish composer Rafael Millan.

1899 Birth of composer Eduardo Hernandez Moncada.

1907 Birth of composer Pierre Moulaert.

1906 FP of Victor Herbert's The Red Mill. NYC, Knickerbocker Theater.

1907 Birth of American conductor and pianist Edwin McArthur.

1907 Birth of Italian soprano Lina Bruna Rasa, nr. Padua.

1910 Birth of composer Frank Pelleg.

1910 Death of composer Rudolf Dellinger.

1913 Birth of German bass Max Proebstl in Munich. 

1914 Birth of Polish composer Andrzej Panufnik in Warsaw. 

1919 Birth of Czech composer Vaclav Nelhybel.

1921 Birth of American composer Robert Mols.

1921 Birth of composer Leonardo Lopez Salzedo.

1922 Birth of American baritone Cornell MacNeil in Minneapolis. 

1922 Birth of Italian baritone Ettore Bastianini, in Siena. 

1925 Birth of Italian tenor Florindo Andreolli, in Adria. 

1927 Birth of American composer Richard Swift in Middlepoint, OH.

1927 Birth of Spanish tenor Alfredo Kraus in Palmas.

1928 Birth of German composer Karl Haus in Schweinfurt.

1930 Birth of opera singer Edgar Waehlte.

1934 Birth of American composer and conductor Fisher Tull. 

1936 Birth of German baritone Marion Lippert, in Munich. 

1937 Birth of Puerto Rican baritone Pablo Elvira, in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

1945 Birth of English conductor and composer John Rutter in London.

1946 Birth of American conductor Mark Neikrug in NYC.

1949 Death of French composer Pierre Onfroy de Breville in Paris. 

1951 Birth of American composer S. K. Waller in CA.

1954 FP of Badings: "Orestes" radio opera, Florence.

1955 FP of Andre Jolivet's Suite Transocene in Louisville, KY.

1960 Death of Hungarian cellist Matyas Seiber.

1962 FP of Samuel Barber's Piano Concerto. Boston Symphony Orchestra, Lincoln Center, NYC. Pianist John Browning, Erich Leinsdorf conducting.

1965 FP of George Rochberg's Black Sounds for winds and percussion. 

1973 Birth of American composer Amy Scurri.

1974 Birth of Mexican composer D'Mendo Boteli.

1975 Birth of composer Greg Robbin in Chicago, IL.

1986 FP of Karel Husa's Concerto for Orchestra.

1988 Death of Welsh composer Arwel Hughes in Cardiff. 

1989 FP of Balada: "Cristóbal Colón" Barcelona, with tenor José Carreras as 'Christopher Columbus'.

1992 FP of Tobias Picker's Bang!. The New York Philharmonic, Kurt Masur conducting a New York Philharmonic 150th Anniversary commission.

1994 FP of Ellen T. Zwilich's American Concerto for trumpet and orchestra, by the San Diego Symphony, JoAnn Faletta conducting, with soloist Doc Severinson. The inaugural concert of the California Center for the Arts in Escondido.

2001 Death of conductor Jens Nygaard in NYC.

2014 Death of British conductor Christopher Hogwood.

[pninjurylaw]

Two lawsuits from deck collapse yield $12 million

The following post Two lawsuits from deck collapse yield $12 million is courtesy of: Parente and Norem

BY PAT MILHIZER // Law Bulletin staff writer

A deck collapse during a construction project to expand the Will County jail has yielded two equal settlements that total $12 million.

Ramiro Zavala and Joshua Comer worked for Lindblad Construction and poured concrete in October 2007. They stood on a steel deck that collapsed, causing them to fall about 20 feet.

Zavala, 41, suffered a pelvis fracture and a severe back injury. Comer, 33, fractured his left leg and suffered wrist, thigh, ankle and knee injuries.

The plaintiffs filed separate lawsuits in Cook County Circuit Court against the construction management firm, the deck installer and the deck supplier.

They alleged that the construction plans required support for the deck, but nobody supplied the needed support before the concrete started pouring.

Both men alleged that they couldn't return to work in construction.

The defendants tried to move the suits to Will County, but Cook County Circuit Judge Lynn M. Egan kept the cases in the Daley Center. Zavala's case settled for $6 million in April but remained confidential until Comer settled his case for $6 million last week.

Zavala was represented by Joseph D. Parente and Christopher M. Norem of Parente & Norem P.C.

"The fact that they're alive is a miracle," Parente said.

"This was an accident waiting to happen that could have been completely avoided had somebody taken a visual inspection of the decking before the pour. It was clear there was zero shoring whatsoever."

Comer was represented by Sean P. Murray and Marc A. Taxman of Anesi, Ozmon, Rodin, Novak & Kohen Ltd.

Murray said the settlement will take care of Comer for the rest of his life.

"This fall took away his livelihood, his profession, his career, his identity," Murray said. "And this settlement is the first step in rebuilding his life.

"He's had five years' worth of surgeries. ... He's been through constant physical therapy and it's time to move on. And this settlement will allow him the freedom to do that."

For the defendants, Timothy D. McMahon of Wiedner & McAuliffe Ltd. and Jeffrey H. Lipe of Williams, Montgomery & John Ltd. represented Harbour Contractors Inc.

Andrew C. Seiber of SmithAmundsen LLC repre- sented Waukegan Steel Sales Inc.

Mitchell H. Frazen of Litchfield, Cavo LLP represented Cordeck Sales Inc.

McMahon, the lead defense attorney, declined to comment.

Zavala's case is Ramiro Zavala v. Harbour Contractors Inc., et al. 08 L 10918.

Comer's case is Joshua Comer v. Harbour Contractors Inc., et al. 09 L 3180.

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CHICAGOLAWBULLETIN.COM // In the News

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 2012 // Volume 158, No. 116

[toofunktastic]

#swag on #fleek @matildabroadway #selfie with Trunch

[drdavidhuxley]

Billy Green, Episode #8, "The Performance"

[toofunktastic]

"Like silence, but not really silent." Candid shot by @johnmarajr of me watching "Quiet" @matildabroadway