Addicted to love. Flower cultivator, flute player, verse maker. Usually delicate, but at times masculine. Well read, even to erudition. Almost an orientalist.
Addicted to love. Flower cultivator, flute player, verse maker. Usually delicate, but at times masculine. Well read, even to erudition. Almost an orientalist.
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RTR#50 Plans for the upcoming week
Lately, I've been dealing with a slight fever associated with the beginning of the year. I'm trying to ensure that everything runs fairly smoothly. Today and tomorrow, I need to focus on planning finances for the upcoming year and handle formalities related to the project. In the following days, I'll implement changes to fix...
OC Making threadiverse communities more discoverable - some suggestions
TLDR: Poor discoverability impedes the threadiverse's growth by making life hard for new users. Here are some suggestions on how discoverability could be improved....
OC Combating spam on kbin - some thoughts
Have been thinking about what kbin can do to combat spam accounts, which are currently on the rise again on kbin.social....
I’m an experienced screenwriter - and I’m also on welfare. My story highlights the importance of the writers’ strike (www.fastcompany.com)
This is a devastating account of what it's really like to be a Hollywood screenwriter. You can be a Cambridge graduate, an award winner, and the creator of a TV series on Hulu - and still work as a caterer and depend on welfare to make ends meet....
A Tiananmen Square Musical Worries About China’s Glare (www.nytimes.com)
Highlights for those unable to get past the paywall:...
Will a Movie About the Making of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark Come to the Big Screen? (playbill.com)
The 2023 Black List, an initiative that shines a spotlight on the best of Hollywood's unproduced screenplays, is out (see the full list here), and it includes one title that will be especially interesting to Playbill's readers: Boy Falls From Sky by Hunter Toro. The screenplay reportedly follows an "anxious playwright" writing...
NYC Women’s Fund for Media, Music and Theatre grant applications open (www.nyfa.org)
Applications are open for the fifth round of grants for the NYC Women's Fund for Media, Music and Theatre....
Lauren Boebert escorted out of “Beetlejuice” musical in Denver after “causing a disturbance” (www.denverpost.com)
U.S. Representative Lauren Boebert was escorted out of a Sunday night performance of the “Beetlejuice” musical in downtown Denver, accused by venue officials of vaping, singing, recording and “causing a disturbance” during the performance....
‘Aladdin’ Understudy Asked to Star in Show Mid-Flight (www.youtube.com)
When Broadway understudy Mikayla Renfrow received a text saying she was needed to stand in for the lead role of Jasmine in "Aladdin,” she was on a flight from her Italian vacation to New York City. A sympathetic flight attendant ushered her to first class so she would be the first passenger to leave. The pilot then came out...
Mean Girls The Musical the Movie trailer is not trying to make musicals happen (youtu.be)
The trailer for the upcoming 2024 movie adaptation of Mean Girls the musical written by Jeff Richmond, Nell Benjamin and Tina Fey, which was an adaptation of the 2004 Mean Girls movie written by Tina Fey, which was an adaptation of the 2002 book Queen Bees and Wannabes by Rosalind Wiseman, has been released....
OC Australian musicals - an overview and recent developments
While Australia punches well above its weight when it comes to performers, there have been comparatively few locally written and developed shows that have become successful. This may be changing. Over the past 18 months (since the start of 2022) there have been at least thirteen Australian musicals that been either produced...
5 Aussie (movie) musicals you might not have heard of – but really should see (theconversation.com)
When you think of great Aussie (movie) musicals, some key films from the 1990s and 2000s come to mind: Strictly Ballroom, Muriel’s Wedding, Moulin Rouge!, Bran Nue Dae and The Sapphires. These films are often framed as “reviving” the musical genre for Australian audiences, due in large part to their box-office success....
Waitress pro-shot opens at No 8 spot at US box office (deadline.com)
In an abundance of riches this weekend, Waitress The Musical from Bleecker Street will pass an estimated $3.2 million in its opening weekend on 1,214 screens in the U.S and Canada. It’s no. 8 at the domestic box office....
Trans teen loses Texas high school’s theater role over gender policy (amp.theguardian.com)
Weeks into his senior year of high school in Texas, Max Hightower earned a key male role for his campus’s production of Oklahoma! the musical. But the trans teen’s principal has since stripped the teen of the part, citing a new policy requiring students to only portray characters who align with the gender identity assigned...
OC Les Miserables productions around the world in 2023
This is an overview of professional productions of Les Miserables - by Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schoenberg and Herbert Kretzmer - currently playing, or in the works, around the world....
Broadway Production Assistants Seek Recognition As Equity Union Members (deadline.com)
Actors’ Equity Association (the union representing more than 51,000 professional actors and stage managers in live theatre) announced that it has organized Broadway production assistants (PAs), and that the PAs are seeking voluntary recognition from The Broadway League, the organization representing theater owners and...
Denis Villeneuve Will Stop Making ‘Dune’ Movies After ‘Dune 3,’ Despite More Books in the Series: ‘Dune Messiah Should Be the Last for Me’ (variety.com)
Escape to Margaritaville's Singer/Songwriter Jimmy Buffett Passes Away at 76 (www.broadwayworld.com)
Singer/songwriter Jimmy Buffett, whose catalog and lifestyle formed the musical Escape to Margaritaville, has passed away at 76....
Supergirl Found: Milly Alcock to Play Heroine in James Gunn’s DC Movies (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
Josh Gad, Andrew Rannells Broadway Comedy ‘Gutenberg! The Musical’ Recoups $6.75 Million Investment (variety.com)
Hats off to “Gutenberg! The Musical!” The Broadway show, starring Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells (whose characters wear dozens of caps) as they reunited 12 years after “The Book of Mormon,” has recouped its initial investment of $6.75 million. During the show’s 20-week run, “Gutenberg” generated plenty of buzz and...
Australian Sunset Boulevard cast revealed (www.youtube.com)
Opera Australia and GWB Entertainment announced the performers who will join Sarah Brightman in the Australian production of Sunset Boulevard....
Dolly Parton Wants to Hold a 'Finding Dolly' Contest to Cast Her Upcoming Broadway Musical (people.com)
Dolly Parton is working “9 to 5” on her forthcoming Broadway musical. While speaking with PEOPLE about her new line of baking mixes with Duncan Hines, the country music legend, 78, shared an update about the highly anticipated Broadway musical about her life and career....