#the preacher's wife musical

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Obsessions EP91: The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

This is a page dedicated to documenting the various theatre news, performances and the like that Lia and Odiesia mention in the “Obsessions” segment of the show. Listen to this episode here. You can also find our fave songs playlist here.

Lia

Michelle Williams to star in Death Becomes Her Musical

Jinx Monsoon to replace Evan Rachel Wood as Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors

Alaska Thunderf*ck sings 'It's A Drag' From DRAG THE MUSICAL

The Preacher's Wife Musical adaptation starring Amber Riley with music and lyrics by Tituss Burgess

Marisha Wallace is on Celebrity Big Brother!

Odiesia

Jukebox: The Karaoke Musical Tabletop Roleplaying Game KickStarter

First Official Dungeons & Dragons Theater Show, Twenty-Sided Tavern

Alaska Thunderf*ck in Dungeons and Drag Queens

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[texaschainsawmascara]

now ms cain,,,,,,

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ethel cain ( aka hayden anhedönia ) † ☾₊‧⁺˖⋆

[augustaaaa]

𝐺𝑜𝑙𝑑𝑒𝑛 𝐴𝑔𝑒, 2019 💫

[urlocalspotifyenthusiast]

am i the only one who goes "i wanna fuck him in the back of his mom's mercury" while singing along to crush?

[ladyimaginarium]

says he's calling home, quarters on the phone asking if the weather's warm if you want, i'll go with you, wherever you go asks if i'm a mess ever since he left baby, it's louisiana i'll be sweating through this dress till you get home

[ambersriley]

Even though I’ve been gone for a while, my love for Amber Riley still remains. Go see The Preachers Wife the musical!!!!

[this-is-a-podcast-fanblog]

I think Ethel Cain and Lil Nas X should collab

[nemesyaaa]

MOTHER CAIN, I'M SO IN LOVE WITH YOU

ethel cain - preacher’s daughter (2022)

[weaversweek]

25 "Step by step" - Whitney Houston

writer Annie Lennox

"Being around people like Aretha Franklin, Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack, all these greats, I was taught to listen and observe. It had a great impact on me as a singer, as a performer, as a musician. Growing around it, you just can't help it. I identified with it immediately. It was something that was so natural to me that when I started singing, it was almost like speaking."

Part of the UncoolTwo50 project, marking the best singles from 1977-99.

One could argue that Whitney Houston was an early nepo baby. Daughter of Cissy Houston, niece of Dionne Warwick, the famous relations opened doors. But Whitney made it on her own brilliance: a superb voice, a perfect show, and the drive to succeed.

Signed up by Clive Davis of Arista Records, and made his personal priority, Whitney was granted access to the classiest songs and greatest musicians. The debut album had ballads "Saving all my love for you" and "You give good love" to show off her tender side; disco stomper "How will I know"; and a reading of "Saving all my love for you" to leave nothing on the table.

Second album Whitney had the uptempo "I wanna dance with somebody", love song "Didn't we almost have it all", and the surprisingly smutty "Love is a contact sport". Only a completely-missing-the-point version of "I know him so well" with her mum spoiled the album. After the gloopy "One moment in time", album I'm Your Baby Tonight was a one-note disco album, saved only by "All the man I need".

The Bodyguard dominated Whitney's time for a couple of years, and gave her most-remembered hit "I will always love you". A remake of A Star is Born was mooted, but never happened; instead the galpal romcom Waiting to Exhale came out in 1995 and had a hugemungous soundtrack album - it's a wonderful capsule of New Jill Swing, where American women were at. "Count on me" and "Exhale" the big singles.

The Preacher's Wife was a festive comedy for 1996, Whitney co-starred with Denzel Washington. It's mostly an update of The Bishop's Wife, with a large quotient of church music on the soundtrack album with the Georgia Mass Choir. The film was Whitney's acting highlight, simultaneously flirtatious and temptress.

"Step by step" had been written by Annie Lennox, and released as the B-side to 1992 single "Precious". Whitney's version takes a yearning song with gospel tinges, and transforms it into an uplifting house song. Age has leant Whitney some gravitas; we cannot imagine Whitney '85 making this sound. As much at home on Radio 1's club show as it was on "soft rock" 100.7 Heart FM, it reminded us that Whitney could a) make danceable music and b) when she wanted to be great, she was bloody brilliant.

Whitney only made two more full studio albums, My Love is Your Love (1998) and Just Whitney (2002), before getting lost in a mess of drink and drugs. Comeback album I Look to You (2009) was respectfully received, but her death in 2012 left so much unsung.

For me, "Step by step" and The Preacher's Wife are peak Whitney - her best acting, some of her best singing, roles she was at home performing.

Very difficult to pick just four Whitney songs - I eventually chose "How will I know", "It's not right but it's ok", and "All the man I need" for the longlist; "Step by step" the only one to make the shortlist. Brandy's "Sitting up in my room" from Waiting to Exhale also made the longlist. Annie Lennox was another act with so many quality songs - "No more 'I love you's" beat out the five singles from Diva.

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Unpunishable / Inbred, Ethel Cain

[liberal-christian-corner]

If you ever want to hear the voice of God just listen to Whitney Houston and even better for the holidays watch her in "The Preacher's Wife". The gospel singing is heavenly.

[urlocalspotifyenthusiast]

been getting super into Golden Age. all the songs are great. production is super different from her newer stuff and it took it a while for it to grow on me but i do like it. still cant listen to Head In the Wall though :(

my personal favorite song rn is Casings. i love the harmonies on that one, and the gradual build and fall. everything in this EP has a very gentle and smooth build and fall to the instrumentals. feels very natural.

[mothercain]

What are your opinions on black gospel music? Stuff like we must praise by James moss or I need you now by smokie norful? Or even music with a livelier tone like they that wait by Fred Hammond or Jesus be a fence around me. Do you think any of that stuff could have an influence on any of your music in the future? 🖤

i mean black gospel is kind of the sonic foundation for 90% of everything i’m inspired by so it’s already been heavily influencing me from the beginning. preacher’s wife will most likely be more directly inspired by it, if i had to guess (idk i haven’t even started writing it yet lol). sam cooke was a huge inspiration at the tail end of the PD recording process, and purple rain (which is most definitely a black gospel song in my book) was the core inspiration for sun bleached flies.

[glennk56]

Tom Bosley before Happy Days (1 of 2) (1959-1972)

Tom Bosley's big break came when he landed the lead role in the Broadway Musical Fiorello! in 1959 about the Mayor of NYC from 1934-1946 and winning the Tony Award for his portrayal.

Tom Bosley as Fiorello La Guardia on Broadway in 1959.

Tom Bosley as Teddy in a TV Movie version of Arsenic and Old Lace in 1962 which starred Tony Randall and even included Boris Karloff.

Tom Bosley in an episode of Car 54, Where Are You? as a counterfeiter posing as a Preacher boarding with the Toodys not realizing Toody is a policeman.

Tom Bosley appeared in an episode of Naked City in 1963 as a judge hearing case of spousal physical abuse.

Tom Bosley as an executive in an episode of Route 66 in 1963.

Tom Bosley in his first theatrical movie Love with the Proper Stranger in 1963 with superstars Natalie Wood and Steve McQueen as an awkward, nervous date of Natalie Wood. Tom was 35 years old at filming.

Four months later in 1964, Tom Bosley appeared in The World of Harry Orient as the father of one of the girls tormenting Harry Orient played by Peter Sellers. Bosley's wife was played by Angela Lansbury.

Tom Bosley was in the first episode of Jericho in 1966, a WWII show about a team of Allied members working behind the lines as sabateurs and intellegence agents. Bosley, a civilian radar expert is called into duty, but his lack of confidence and bravery threaten the mission. This show lasted only 16 episodes. But the picture quality is very good. Other shows Tom Bosley guested on during this time were Ben Casey, Dr. Kildare, Ther Defenders and The Girl from UNCLE.

Tom Bosley's next movie role was in 1967, Divorce American Style starring Dick Van Dyke and Debbie Reynolds. Tom played newly divorced Debbie Reynolds first date where she learns how vast the extended families of multiple divorcees can be.

Bosley's next film was a spaghetti western, Bang Bang Kid in 1967. In the late 60's many American actors did at least one.

Tom Bosley's next movie was The Secret War of Harry Frigg starring Steve McQueen in 1968, playing one of the Generals taken as Prisoners of War. This was his first, maybe only shirtless scene as far as I know.

In early 1968, Tom Bosley was in an episode of The F.B.I. as a criminal suspect.

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Today We Honor Whitney Houston

With over 170 million combined album, singles and videos sold worldwide during her career with Arista Records, Whitney Houston has established a benchmark for superstardom that will quite simply never be eclipsed in the modern era.

She is a singer’s singer who has influenced countless other vocalists female and male.

Music historians cite Whitney’s record-setting achievements: the only artist to chart seven consecutive #1 Billboard Hot 100 hits (“Saving All My Love For You,” “How Will I Know,” “Greatest Love Of All,” “I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me),” “Didn’t We Almost Have It All,” “So Emotional,” and “Where Do Broken Hearts Go”); the first female artist to enter the Billboard 200 album chart at #1 (her second album, Whitney, 1987); one of a select number of solo artists with eight consecutive multi-platinum albums (Whitney Houston, Whitney, I’m Your Baby Tonight, The Bodyguard, Waiting To Exhale, and The Preacher’s Wife soundtracks; My Love Is Your Love and Whitney: The Greatest Hits).

Whitney has won her worldwide following the old-fashioned way, digging deep down into her soul and finding common threads with her millions of fans.

CARTER™️ Magazine