#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,,,,,,

[pinkrottenpony]

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

[augustaaaa]

𝐺𝑜𝑙𝑑𝑒𝑛 𝐴𝑔𝑒, 2019 💫

[mamalovedme]

[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.

[texaschainsawmascara]

Preacher’s Daughter trilogy concept

[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.

[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.

[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.

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I need more preachers son Art or I'll combust, it's so good

omg hi!!! thank u so much, im glad ur liking my stuff!!!! ill give u a little something to tide u over while i work on other things :)

i think a big thing for art between masses, church choir practices, and tennis was music: or really the music that he grew up with via his mom. his father and mother are both equally as religious (what it takes to be a preachers wife obviously) but i feel like in this world, his mom had more of a chance to expand her horizons when it comes to popular culture than his dad (who i, also, imagine was the son of a preacher...something something...generational trauma...something something...). there was definitely a bit more freedom for her because i think she did grow up in the faith but not to the same degree as art's dad. they definitely met because his dad was a preacher for her church :P.

i think his mom was big on oldies like johnny cash, willie nelson, patsy cline, neil young, and the beatles. the beatles were only on certain occasions because she was probably more into the folk/country musicians rather than the bands of the whole british invasion. growing up, i can definitely see her putting on the oldies station on the radio when getting ready for church or cooking in the kitchen.

i can imagine art would've gotten a neil young cd (his album Harvest btw) for one of his birthdays and grinning ear to ear because he was always one of arts favorites when he was a kid. especially when we get to when art is older and in college, he still has the cd and plays it in your dorm when you invite him over one of the first few times you guys really start getting closer.

he knows every word to each song on the album: he's humming under his breath and mouthing the lyrics to Old Man while he listens to you talk about classes, your roommate, anything that comes to your mind. that's not to say he isn't listening to you because i know damn well he got insanely good at multi-tasking. what with listening to the same sermons over and over again and while, also, having other things to worry about that is just a bit more important than listening to his dad preach about "the lord preparing us" for something or other.

but yeah, i think he has an appreciation for music for sure and is always down to share music with you, especially if you share the same kind of background with the type of music that he grew up with. i can, also, see him burning you a cd at some point for the sake of sharing what he likes with you. mind you he definitely had to get someone to help him figure out how to do so because his access to the internet was scarily limited because of his dad (lest we forget about the "temptations of the flesh"). once he got the hang of it though, he was more than happy to run to your dorm so the two of you could listen together.