So this singer, Essence came out with a new album in July, except that I didn't notice then because I genuinely thought she wasn't going to come out with another album, she hadn't updated anything in so long. About three years ago I heard her on a World Cafe Live album. On it was a song called "Sleeping with the Driver", quite good. Anyway, on the ( Read more... )

Making fun of the Phantom of the Opera is too easy, but broadwayabriged's parody is still awesome.

Apologies to those who have seen me ramble on and on about the movies.

So now I've seen almost every Les Miserables movie available, so I'm gonna make a list, because that's always fun. I'm gonna start with the ones that I don't think are worth the effort, unless you also like watching every Les Mis movie for the heck of it.

( spoilers under the cut )

More period film icons.

Oh, and Neil Patrick Harris' song from the Tonys.

Icons, again.

muahaha, more icons.

I'll probably get over this icon phase after I cap every movie I have.

I made icons!

And man oh man were they a pain in the ass to make. I'm glad I made them and actually figured it out but dude, 100x100 pixel squares should not require so much effort.

Michael John LaChiusa is a musical composer who wrote an essay a couple of years ago about how the musical is dead, and broadway was full of crap, blah blah blah. I don't know if I disagree exactly, but I don't know if broadway would be good either if it just had the kind of musicals LaChiusa likes to write. He'd be a prime candidate to write " ( Read more... )

Tony nominations!

I want West Side Story to win but I have a feeling Hair might get it.