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Here’s to the ladies who lunch – everybody laugh
“Ladies Who Lunch” used to mean the idle spouses of financially successful husbands, as one New Yorker cartoonist fondly dubbed them, his Grand Dames, until Broadway in the mid-seventies where Stephen Sondheim subverted the idiom for Elaine Stritch’s COMPANY showstopper … Continue reading
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Tagged Broadway, Colorado Springs, Music, Provincialism, Satire, Sociology, Wealth
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New Lessons from the Oakland Occupy Movement
The tactics nationally of the Occupy Movement have led to the continuing demobilization of this once broadly popular effort to kindle opposition to current ruling Establishment politics. Several comments by participants in Oakland Occupy’s recent engagements with the police there … Continue reading
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Tagged AIG, Alleged, ANA, ARD, arks, ARN, Arrest, Arrests, Art, ass, attack, BOA, Broadway, BSE, Camp, Campaign, care, cat, change, Chemical Weapons, children, CIA, Community, cops, courage, Crack, credit, Crow, DIA, diversity, DOW, Downtown, Ed, EDS, ELF, Energy, er, Establishment, ETA, Evolution, firing, Fruit, Fun, Fury, Gas, genocide, Harassment, Hatred, Health, Healthcare, hey, History, Hope, Hu, Ike, Information, Insurgency, integrity, jail, kettling, kids, Kindle, KLA, Klan, LA, Le, Left, legal, LeT, LGBT, Liberation, Lies, Like, Love, March, mass arrests, Media, Mining, misinformation, MIT, Nature, New York, New York City, NFL, NOW, Oakland, Occupy, Occupy Movement, Occupy Oakland, Occupy Wall Street, Opera, Oppression, OWS, Oye, PAN, parents, parks, Peace, PLA, plazas, PLO, police, police violence, Politics, Poor PEOPLE, POW, power, press, Protest, Rap, RAW, Real War, Reds, Relationships, Repression, Revolution, Rio, RIP, School, Shelter, SLA, Slavery, solidarity, Surge, Surveillance, Tea, tear gas, Threats, Troy, Trump, Undocumented Workers, US Left, USA, VA, Violence, Wall Street, War, War on Poor People, WHO, Women, Workers
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It Was Always, Always You
My maternal grandparents had a favorite song, their song, Irving Berlin’s sentimental Always. With “always” capping every line and recurring as a chorus echo, the verbal chime quickly packed a saccharine wallop if it wasn’t you celebrating your 50th or … Continue reading
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Tagged Always, Bob Merrill, Broadway, Carnival, Irving Berlin, Musicals
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Love is the Reason, with grammatical advice, from A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
I once saw a British TV spot for Hamlet Cigars which featured an oddball posing in a photo booth, but so endearingly. For years on, when asked to smile, I affected his toothy grimace, thinking my rendition channeled but transcended … Continue reading
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Tagged A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Adverbs, Broadway, Lyrics, Musicals, Shirley Booth
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Li’l Abner on the debt ceiling panic
When the satiric cartoon Li’l Abner was made a musical on Broadway, robber baron General Bullmoose sang Bring back the good old days, lamenting the regulation of capitalism, pondering: “How can you break the market? … Continue reading
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Tagged Al Capp, Broadway, Capitalism, General Bullmoose, Lil Abner, Musicals
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For people who hate opera
The trouble with introductory collections like “Opera for People Who Hate Opera” is of course that it’s still OPERA. I’m inclined to believe the gateway acquired-taste for American pop music ears is –why not– American Musical Theater. But before I … Continue reading
Composer Jason Robert Brown wants to protect his unintellectual rights
As a musician and fan of stage musicals, I must proffer this disclaimer about American theater composer Jason Robert Brown: he’s terrible. Brown is a poster child for the music industry’s common mediocrity, of commerce’s habitual triumph over art. Now … Continue reading
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Tagged Broadway, Copyrights, File Sharing, Intellectual Property, internet, Jason Robert Brown, Musicals, Sucks
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