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"Not the celebrated original 84 Broadway production with Mandy Patinkin and Bernadette Peters, not the celebrated 2017 production with Jake Gyllenhaal and annaleigh Ashford, but from a 2010 concert performance. At the BBC proms, Michael Phillips, this can only be one of your picks. Not top 5, Steven Sondheim moment. I picked it because it's egalitarian. This thing I found on YouTube. I didn't know anything about this BBC proms series. It's like the Boston pops orchestra of stuff that was on PBS for a long time. It's just the highest possible end of pops concert version of this just this really, really moving climax to something in the park with George, the song Sunday, which kind of sums up everything about this version of George surratt's reason for being even if that shuts out other reasons for being in his life. Musically it's just unbelievable. And I'll tell you, I saw one number from this particular 80th birthday tribute to Sondheim and he was in attendance apparently in the Royal Albert Hall. I don't know. The YouTube link is easily found the entire pops concert of all the numbers is all there. And it's all just as good as it gets. So of its type, I love that it's on YouTube. It's why I put up with YouTube for the bad stuff. And it's just great. Sunday from this version of the BBC prompt. That's my number two. And not only will we provide that link over at film spotting dot net if you want to watch it. We will provide the links to all of these picks. Any that are available anyway over at film spotting .NET just click on lists. Josh and I have a shared Sondheim list here and our number two comes from Sweeney Todd, the song is epiphany. And I thought a nice setup here would be a note we got from a longtime listener of the show. His name comes up a lot. He's got some really good stuff here, Josh youngerman. He says I was never a musical theater person despite spending a lot of my life in rehearsal rooms and on stage. And I'm still not, but I love Steven Sondheim. I think it was his cynicism. Sondheim didn't tell stories of fake joy. His musicals were full of honest cynicism. Oftentimes as heroes and heroines didn't win. Sondheim wasn't afraid to acknowledge the world was a crappy place, and that spoke to me as it did a lot of people. He will be missed. My British drama school teacher once told me he was the only American musical theater giant that the Brits could do because they didn't have to fake the positive American can do attitude with him. His musicals, even the ones set in America were authentically British in their spirit and attitude. RIP says Josh. I thought not only was that well said, but it sets up this pick from Sweeney Todd if you want to talk about cynicism, you want to talk about the world as a crappy place. Well, no one has a more grim view of humanity than Sweeney Todd, this, of course, from the 2007 Tim Burton adaptation. And also go back to something we were talking about when we were discussing our number four pick from company that lack of ego with Sondheim. This is a guy who revered movies, and he understood cinema as its own distinct art form. If you read or watch him in any interviews, talk about films in the adaptations of his work. And you have to wonder how many composers would be as open to a filmmaker heavily altering their material as Sondheim was and not only that he championed it. He really approved and wanted such alterations to his work he is on record as saying he thought Sweeney Todd was the best film adaptation of any of his musicals because it actually adapted his work, which doesn't just mean that the film is bold and expressive in its visual choices versus feeling like a stage play on screen. It's that and the fact that Burton wasn't sacred when it came to cutting songs or cutting them down or elongating moments within a song, anything that basically supported Burton's take on the work in his vision and the characters was fair game. And Sondheim loved that. I know Burton did a fair amount of that type of cutting in Sweeney Todd. I'm not familiar enough with the stage production and the recording of this song in particular epiphany to say how much tweaking occurred, I do know that it's incredibly cinematic and thrilling to watch. And that Burton uses the camera to compensate for something that the staging of it did allow for. And this is the moment near the end of act one, where Todd assaults the audience. The performer could basically get right in the audience's faces with his rage. And on screen, without the ability to do that, Burton transforms it into this nightmarish scene within Todd's demented imagination where he instead assaults the men on the streets of London. And he resolves in this epiphany moment. This is what I was thinking of when you were talking about rose actually and that song roses turn a little bit. It's where he resolves to become the full fledged version of himself. He's going to murder the vermin of the world after his attempt to kill the judge, fails. And it's filled with people who are feeling shit on the vermin of the world, you have it. But not for love. By your deserve.
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"Harris also with us is NPR political reporter. Danielle Kurtz lemon. Welcome back Danielle. Hello, I'm always happy to be here. You probably know a lot of the story, but here goes Monica Lewinsky was a White House intern with whom president Bill Clinton began a sexual relationship that took place in The White House. Later, when another woman named Paula Jones came forward with an accusation that Clinton had sexually harassed her, the investigation of that accusation came to include Lewinsky as well. That was partly because Lewinsky confided in an older friend named Linda Tripp, who secretly recorded their conversations about the relationship and turned them over to prosecutor Ken Starr. Clinton was eventually impeached for perjury and obstruction of justice, although he was eventually acquitted. Here there's an all star cast bringing all these people to life, beanie feldstein is Monica Lewinsky, Sarah Paulson, as Linda trip, annaleigh Ashford, as Paula Jones and Clive Owen as president Bill Clinton. There are also some smaller roles of note Billy eichner and Cobie Smulders as Matt drudge and Ann coulter and Edie Falco as Hillary Clinton who at least in the early going is not in this very much. The whole thing comes out of Ryan Murphy's very prolific shop, which did the previous American crime story in American Horror Story and all kinds of things and although a lot of his stuff is now on Netflix. This is on FX. So ayesha, Danielle and I have chatted a little bit about this show, but I don't think I've talked to you about it. What is your kind of bottom line on this show? The bottom line is that and I'm going to borrow from Ben Travers and IndieWire described it as more of a flashback than anything else. And I have to concur with that assessment. One of the things that made for me at least the people versus OJ, miniseries, very compelling, was the way it sort of toad this line between elements of camp and then elements of real seriousness in a way that was, I think, very well handled. And I mean, I think it helps that you have these sort of charismatic figures, and it also has this intention of reassessing the legacy of someone like Marcia Clark, the attorney who was prosecuting OJ. And Sarah Paulson also played that role. Here, this is just so dour and sour and I was ten years old or so when all of this was happening..
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"How did you heard about this story. Louis oh yeah i mean my my main news source for everything is check as twitter. So yes yeah jack. Hey who had speaker price playing. Paulina price. on days of our lives. Currently doing it excellently. Her out of our lives that she has not been on this podcast and she is a sleigh and every way but i think she writes on twitter. I'm like why are you this funny. It's like so crazy tweet at her was to come on the show. She followed me when i was on twitter. I know she follows you. Yeah no. I met her once and she was like. Oh louis from twitter. So witty and i was like. I can't believe you said that. And it's not been on here jack hairy. It was such a weird story. It's weird it's baffling. And i kind of feel like maybe it wasted lake. You know that black twitter is going to slough the whole situation and figure out everything and they're gonna do it quickly and then like i just like to black twitter's time wasted are what's on. Okay i say are as i'm still on it but you know what twitter has racist darks. Okay okay got women in parks who are harassing black people. We've got cairns to get fired. They work okay that all that black twitter is just the new number one ladies' detective agency. Let's bring back to my friend. Just refresh me on a crazy stories of the weinstein era which is harvey weinstein apparently promised lupita nyongo part on number one ladies' detective agency a show that had been cancelled for years. Anyway that is. There's parts of right the harvey wide steed scandal that truly was a baffling part of the lupita night. Neon goes story like he couldn't think of a show with like black people in it and that was the first thing that came. So i mind boggling. That's evening apart on the wire. You're gonna love this show the jeffersons. I'm being speaker of harvey weinstein. We're watching pataudi is to be reason to thank him there But i was thinking about award speeches. And i was also thinking like damn. Aren't we glad to not be in a awards season era where every speech would be thank you harvey god guy gwyneth. Yeah judy dench. Whomever stop thinking people people who are like agents and producers at manages. I'm like nobody wants to hear that. And i get that. It is a moment for them to be like shouted out but like i like when someone like errands. Avait shouts out like the woman who's managed him since he was a child. You know something like that. I'm like if you're naming random people at eight twenty four. Could you save it for when your backstage right. Oh you mean. They did their job. Great yeah yeah. I don't care no deference i find super baffling anyway. That's a whole conversation. Yes anyway thank you to. Emily asked for being here this week. Thank you to den michelle for joining us in such a pleasure and We'll see you keep. It is a crooked media production. Our senior producer is kendra james. Our producer is caroline restaurant and our associate producer. Is brian semel. Our executive producer is me. Ira madison third. Our editor is bill lance and kyle seguin or sound engineer. Thank you to our digital team. Matt degroot normal conan and milo kim for production support every week and hey stay safe out there in two thousand fourteen. I was working for the washington post in iran. One night some guys with guns showed up at my apartment and took my wife and me to prison. I knew the deep trouble. When obviously i was trying to be hopeful. Let's say no no. I spent a year and a half as a hostage. Everyone from my family to president. Obama played a role in getting the jason resigned host of five hundred forty four days. A spotify original produced by gimblett crooked media. Na twenty four episodes of five hundred forty four days are available right now following. Listen for free only on spot..
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"Think should have directed this danny boyle somebody who really like throws in a ton of elements of kind of technological wonderment. In the movie steve jobs. There's a movie where he's like walking down a hallway and it's all like computer walls or something that needed something like that something spectacular to take us away from the rather drab nature of the subject matter because this is drab movie. Yes my keep it. This week is to the like podcast. True crime history. That's been going on with kelly prices quote unquote disappearance. So it's what. I'd like to try and like break this dowd. She was the subject of a missing. Persons report filed in georgia after last being seen a police wellness check at our home on september eighteenth and her sister talked about how like the family was worried for her trying to find her and we knew that she had gotten cove. Ed and people are concerned that she was dead She was missing somewhere and needed our help. That she was at. Mr big's house came out the other day in an interview with tmz that she's not missing she just had covert and almost died. She said at some point they lost me and i died. I woke up days later. And the first thing i remember is doctors asking me if i knew what year it was and i'm unlike so this story has gone from you. Missing people are looking for. You truly like like joy. Reid is like posting like. Can we find out what's going on kelli price people like the black beauty was in tatters and then it comes that she's just like a like nearly died from kobe and when asked if she was vaccinated ignored. The question always goodness so now. The story is really hard to so you almost die because you didn't get vaccinated great and now i'm just married. Yeah tough so by the way why would she be missing ever right thing. That also is part of the story. Is that like as happens with celebrities and particularly singers. She a really close with her actual family. And so there's a lot of things about her saying that like i don't really talk to my family. And so the the sister saying that she's missing is sort of like the sister trying to make the narrative about her and be involved. Maybe but she's like they think 'cause i'm not talking to them and like this is a lot going on here and i need whereas all stone. Okay we've seen nixon we've seen jfk. I need price. We need to know what's going on..
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"Barris. Gay celebs. I've ever had a photo taken with that have been scrubbed for the internet. You and your team got on that. Yes her people judge. We don't talk about the era of my life so moving. God might keep this. Week is to dear evan hansen. But i'm only bringing it up because it feels like nobody is talking about the actual things that are wrong with this movie. And they've invented this whole other set of curriculum that it failed that which is not really true. For instance everybody is now obsessed with and i think i even said this at one point i keep it. Oh well he's a big psycho like he's somebody who's trying to gain cloud through this fellow students death whatever whatever the movie is ultimately about that. I mean maybe you you you might say it doesn't fully state. How insane what he's doing is but it really is ultimately about how what he's doing his monstrous. I mean like. I think it gets to that. What is so weird to me about this musical. This particular adaptation is it goes for realism in every single way. Like there's never a moment of this movie you're taken away by the musical grandeur and in fact the movies the musical signature song waving through a window is treated as this throwaway right at the beginning of the show you forget that it even happened and the way they film it is. He's just just walking through a hallway. It's the most baffling choice. Because i think ultimately what's wrong with this adaptation is the direction it needed. Something of the unreal. It needed something that didn't it felt so often like just a gray living room drama. Like you know how the movie august osage county felt like had momentum. It was missing the thing of the play. That's what this felt like. I was just static in a room for getting. This was ever a dynamic experience. And i think that's the directors fault mainly and also. It's the director fault for not revealing in ben plants performance. Early in the movie where he is twitching. I'm not kidding. The fucking joker. There's just there's no way. He wanted that on camera looking like that. The opening of this should have been like the opening of get over it with ben foster walking with the box after he's doubt and vitamin c singer and love will bring us together like i was so shocked at the opening with waving through. We're like no one was dancing behind him. I was like musical right. it's like his head. yeah it was. It was so strange by. We'll say the supporting performances in this movie. Some of them are awesome. I thought julianne doing a song often hated from that. Musical was excellent. That's so big so small yes. She slowed down the song a little bit and the movie was already running overtime at that moment. So the odds were stacked against her. I thought that was great. Caitlyn deavere fabulous again. We loved her and book smart. Amy adams was not good. Amy adams i thought was the worst actor in the movie. I haven't seen hillbilly eligible before. But i haven't seen woman in the window yet either. Oh my god. Wow the trilogy ref amy going off. What you're saying. Though the movie. I wanted more of the fantastic. Yeah the less realism. Because for me it played everything straight and with this film really wanted to be with a melodrama yes And when people talk about how crazy he is unlike. It's what you'd get from. Like rock hudson like going after jane wyman and magnificent obsession right but if this were a brightly colored melodrama where you inside his head and really felt that he was doing all of this because he was in love with. This girl Dan would have made more sense. But it doesn't wanna pick if he's doing it for this girl if he's like mentally ill the lexa pro talk the stuff like is tr- trying to do too much and also i still don't know what it was trying to satirize elements of the film. Yeah you know where. He's like becoming famous for talk about his best friend suicide. It's like are you saying that like people who do this kind of stuff like deserve to be satirized or are you just using it as a joke now. Yeah it is confusing. Do you know who i think. Think should have directed this danny boyle somebody who really like throws in a ton of elements of kind of technological wonderment. In the movie steve.
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"They really weren't. And that's why i feel like somebody's celebrities. Coming out. stories are just so interesting because a lot of them couldn't come out because of their careers or if they were out you know like i think mark said that like some of them the ones who even were out it was like their publicist or whatever or like yet. But we're not having you talk about being out like on the cover of entertainment. Weekly no i. I can't stop thinking about the people who were out like years and years. How unbelievably radical. That was something. I never forget like when i came out from like a smallish chicago suburb. I still this is like two thousand. Three and i feel like this is a common experience still but it's something like i basically had to explain the concept of being gay to my parents. They weren't around gay people they kind of had heard of it on television. It felt like to me. And so for someone like rupert everett to be out or sal many how are these old actors come all sound video with fuck come on. He's so good in exodus a movie. That is otherwise terrible. And i blame you. Even marie saint who i usually love. Anyway i love. Sal many oh and i feel like i cried once years ago. Like reading about how he died and i was like stabbed to death in west hollywood. So yeah i'm like we were talking about. James deals death about maria's death right now. He's like he's literally the third most discussed death from rebel without a cause. Like james and natalie do win. Yeah maybe death has design. Go on with that. Yes with that thumb. okay. I'm just saying it's not cute. It's really horrible. It's like the original poltergeist stories. Oh yeah it's interesting to talk about coming out stories. You like because a part of me. Almost begrudges how late. It took certain people like now. I think of anderson cooper's a pretty like visible and sheikh gay presence. But then i remember for years being like why doesn't he come out and being frustrated with that and so i can't tell if i've totally recovered from that. If i totally love that he finally got there or whatever but he did so. It's okay ultimately. This is part of being a gay person who's obsessed with pop culture. What you deal with. Like how much do i love these people like. Am i on their team. Are they my friend. Anyway as part of the delusion of familiarity that comes along with this kind of obsession are we have that conversation. Every day about demi levada right. What's interesting about what you said. Though about 'cause i'm from milwaukee And like a week. It came out like around the same time but the idea of like coming out to explaining what gay is to your parents before you even know what gay is yourself correct. You're stumbling you're like here. I am in the outfit of gay. I don't know that was born in your guys. You don't even know what that even means until you get to college or like you start dating other men so it is interesting and we're still also from that generation of like coming out in high school just wasn't a thing for me like my best friend in high school that come out. And it was part of my jesuit score marquette. He was part of the dislike galas alliance that was like just like part of a whisper network was headed up. But you know but it wasn't like visible right. No i of course in my school had the one other. There's the one other gay guy and in two thousand three. You knew who this was. What did he wear. Say it with me. Girls jeans and that and i was like a little league playing super athlete. Who is a burgeoning drama club star but apart like girls jeans were up bridge too far so like you took that as an opportunity to be like well. I'm not like that. I'm not a feminist. And that way or something. I'm going to retain something of the former identity i have since i'm not that but like he was ultimately just like waiver and cooler than i was at the time i was not adult enough to admit it..
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"We should say something quickly about willie garson who surprisingly last week who played stanford on sex and the city in is unfortunately living proof that you could be straight and slay a gabriel because guys and no one was thinking. That was a straight man. Sorry no no one. What straight men should be able to play. Gabriel's gay people should be able to play straight roles. Which billy eichner says movie bro. Yes which i do love that you're gonna get like miss lords. Tsa madison played straight roles in a studio comedy. Exciting reverse coming out stories coming in. Sheryl sandberg's come in walk but about you ira. I would say that before. I get back into the celebrities of it. You know like fictional coming out stories. You know i feel like we have been inundated recently with the love. Silence of the world and stuff. But i think that like honestly. I look whiteness of the coming out stories on like shows. We used to watch when we were younger. Like i still to this day. Think of like jack coming out on dawson's creek You know and like that kiss. That was on television. Like they felt like events. And i think that's that pushing poll now with The queer youth who were like they've been raised on the internet and you can be more progressive in this. The idea that the industry isn't as progressive. Like this sort of like knowledge that only a few years ago when we were in high school was it still like impossible to get a coming out story it possible for even celebrities to be out in the way that they are. Now you know. I think about when mark harris talked about that issue of entertainment weekly. That they did there was like gay. Hollywood like it was getting dragged on twitter but people being like some of these people aren't even gay on here. You know you like nathan lane in lion king you now to modem puma on there you know and you don't have other celebrities on here as out but it's like people were not out then right..
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"annaleigh ashford" Discussed on Keep It!
"Because that's what we do here right and somebody has to lose always den as why. Don't you go first. Oh my gosh okay. Wow i have a. Can i say a couple this summer. I was really really in love at tummy. Dorfman's coming out as trans woman. And the reason why. I really love that first of all. The conversation was written up in time. Magazine by dear friend fabulous writer tory peers. But also she noted that she'd been living sort of privately identifying and living as a woman for a whole year and she didn't even really see this as a coming out she sort of like. It's almost like peeling back. Another layer and showing a lair of myself to the world. But it's not like. I don't feel like there's really been a change dress. Switch exactly you really identified with that that sort of way of thinking about it so that was really fun and also. The photos were gorgeous And then a really recent one that just made a lot of sense to me was when mae whitman came out and a huge fan of harsh an actress on good girls i. I saw her on parent. Heidi years ago you say parenthood years ago like it's the eighties right. I actually like not that. Parenthood thursdays after thirty way women stays working. Now that's my favorite. She just stays working. She's always somewhere. I just was like. This makes sense. This is on brand. Feel like i've seen you for years. It's nice to know so. Yeah those were two recent ones. That i'm really into tommy dorfman. I'm forgetting to be in awe. Of what tommy. Dorfman has become just as cultural entity. This is somebody we would just see it akbar. Yes i still think of like. Oh time he lives down the street like i can't. I can't associate tommy door with the amount of grandeur because it's just somebody you would talk about. Whatever janet jackson song was playing at that time and that is the beauty of coming out. That's right me not getting a shot. I f chuck. what about you. Lewis got good question. I think an interesting answer is cynthia nixon because she's always been one of course among the definitive supporting actress emmy winners in one of the greatest roles ever that i still feel like is underestimated when people talk about the show i think. The death of miranda's fabulous. So i was very invested when she came out as queer activists alongside wife and just this different things she has said about being for instance at one point. She made a statement that was sort of misconstrued where she talked about how for her coming. Out and being queer was a choice in that and it was a decision. She had to make people sort of took it to mean. Oh gay people are making it up. Oh you choose to be gay whatever you want attention or whatever the fucking insane. Thanks people think and she goes. Why does it matter whether or not. I chose it like that. I thought was a brilliant point. It's like this is something we keep having to say to justify to. I guess stray people that were like legitimate human beings that we're not here like fooling them or whatever and i thought i had never thought of it that way before and i think speaks to how. She's kind of brilliant anyway. She ran for governor. Lots of wonderful things have happened to her in the time since then. And now she's of course in the sex and the city reboot where she better fucking sleigh. So that's what i'm looking forward to. I'm loving the hair knows. Yes she looks. I think she lets the best she's ever locked. I'm so here for it. I'm so for that reboot. i'm calling me basic. All you wind pumpkin spice. Las vegas morning nine here for it. Well you know at a certain point when you're a white woman who comes out as queer you it's jerry jones. She's got her riot. Sarah pulsa.
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"We did wicked together. Oh my god. Thirteen twelve years ago on broadway And we're good old friends and we kept looking at each other just like our is happening. What else is basketball. It was amazing. Was crazy incredible. It feels to me like when a tv actor or a movie. Actor goes to broadway if they have a lot to learn it's a whole different projection process. They're listening to live feedback all the time when a broadway actor ends up on television. Are you just containing. Your guests are you. Do you feel like you're doing anything at all. Like does it feel like you're exerting yourself at all or is it tiring in a different way so many containing yet. I get that all the time. So i'm just asking you ever heard So interesting tone. You know i've had a hard time explaining it over the years you know especially when i teach masterclasses. They're like what is the difference. How do i practice being onto doing. Refer camera and i was like all of the fundamentals the basics of the craft of the saying. You know what do i want this. How am i going to get it. What's my obstacle. What's the relationship with the character. All the stanislavsky huda haagen rates. They're all in play all the mediums. But what's different tone. The magic of the cameras that can kind of see behind your eyes and on stage the audience can feel. What's behind your eyes. But you have to figure out how to show that to them physically. Sometimes i feel like i've really the way i've been kind of acknowledging it especially crime storage. There's a there's an element of camping crime story occasionally but to make sure you're still grounded and you're still in the world you have to just really kind of lean into tone rocky start rehearsal for be positive for this week's episode and that's totally different town. It's a little bit broader. It feels a little bit more similar to being on stage but there times around the i'll be like hey. How close is the shot. You know. I've noticed i feel so cool. I feel like maresca hard to. I remember when i was doing. Two guests are on. Svu and risk as the best human in the universe. And i remember her being so well versed on the camera. She asked them what lend they were using. I mean from takes to take and she could adjust. It's like turning a dial and you just get distant turning that dial in its tone. That's starting to kind of the way that i able to explain it now and it feels a little bit. I feel like i've just recently have been like. Oh it's tone nine have been ueno blaine. Thank you so much for big here before you go. You mentioned like the chicago production of wicked that you were in two thousand five two thousand six and i want you to know how formative production was for me because i went to loyola chicago for undergrad and that production hit chicago between freshman and sophomore year when i was a theater major and what my friends and i literally did was take the train downtown everyday in into the lottery and i think i saw that production like eight or nine times on that makes my heart so happy and it had snow many incredible chicago actors. I was loved that about the chicago production. Like i got to do with rondi reed for a long time. You know chicago legend and also legend all over the place. But i was just thought i thought it was special that it had roots to chicago to only gonna love that dennis. Oh sweet a magical. Yeah the the most. Maybe magical theater almost broadway bogut for me because i was doing stage management in school as well i scanned the stage manager at the stage door to let me come one night and watch the show from where they were calling the show ever heard. That's amazing and kudos to that age manager. I don't know who was at the time. 'cause we had a couple button. Good peeps good people. Thank you so much for being here thank you. What a treat you guys.
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"I've been getting so lucky to work in tv and film and that's an industry that really is working for the last year plus and i don't really think the world understands how compromised and how tragic this has been for. This has been for the theater community. And how many people we lost a covert and other things that in memoriam was really long. And there's a reason it's because so many people died. I said that to some people here in la. When i came back i was like sort of say overwhelmed by the emotion of it i sort of had to explain to people like people really understand why people were lost to covert in that community because so many people got it in the early days. Danny burstein was in the hospital setting for his life in march texting. My husband and i have been like. I love you guys. I really hope. I make it through this. You know. then we lost Rebecca lucrative. That was one of the most exciting moments that night. When danny burstein one. You know john lithgow said seven time nominee and we all jumped presi the for him. You know that and then When i sat down the rehearsal. I sat down next to to days while graham over and give us haga. We just so sorry. I can't stop crying. I came out on the stage for hersal to just practice saying my little wines for presenting. I start crying. It was overwhelming like my dresser. Helped alternate My outfit for the night and seeing her we all cried. My husband by dresser christina. Who's dressing andrei children. On haiti sound. We crept because her and her husband had been on the job for eighteen months. He's on a crew right now. My friend who's a tele player. She lost her job at frozen which they thought would come back which i could just go on and on and on like i cannot. Overstate the trauma. That community has experienced. A lot of people have found a way to go back to work in some respect or another but like feeder has really really been traumatized in a way that sketchy co long time to come back so on that note everybody goes control. I love that. People had their masks on during the show up. I'm currently working on a showdown with geoffrey richmond. Who's married to john. hickey just talking about people being vaccinated and people having their mass on during the show and it feels like the safest thing to do to go see a show because you're in a mask. People were vaccinated. They'll say for them like going to you. Yes it is. It's amazing to have you know cool to be in new york for like twenty four hours. I've got to go for twenty four hours but it was amazing to walk up to a restaurant. He asks for your vaccination card. There's i felt like it was amazing. I thought that was fabulous. There's just like that's the world they're living in and that's what's up and you just do it and move on and so i think it's exciting. I think it's gonna be really helpful for new york in new york getting its feet back and getting tourism act but up yet. I felt percents and also i someone up. Or i like got to experience jennifer. Holliday's singing. I am telling you and john sat behind. We all just having this sort of collective communal experience in that is what theater is an olive. Our hearts were there. And you're right. We were safe. It felt like the safest place in the world to be. I feel like you turn around in your chair. And just like chita. Rivera has her leg overhead or something. God yes block was on the other side of the you know..
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"annaleigh ashford" Discussed on Keep It!
"Who have something to say you know. What every fucking theater love sondheim. Yeah you know even fucking like andrew lloyd webber you know did a great version of move on from ben platt and kanani rose. Where are the new songs that are going to create. Like new memories on broadway where you're like this show. This new music like is pulling you in songs that like someone else will be singing on the tony. Like twenty thirty years from now that it's become a new classic. Is it just going to be a pop song from now. there's been repurposing into a musical. That doesn't feel like broadway's do anything exciting right. You know at all. And i guess also obviously it's recovering from the pandemics teaming with new ideas at the moment so hopefully it will rebound but it is just strange. That firework is now a part of the great american songbook. In this way. it's like we. We should have to vote on that. I'm sorry you did it. Bonnie mckee i do stand her. I do of course. She's in that category community of like put upon songwriter. Who had a moment where she could have been around star and maybe still has it in her but she really is like a saw. She's been treated as a songwriter and successfully. She's a fabulous writer but yeah very successful. She's a lovely help in the hills. Which famously went to for a party that she was not even in town for okay. Which was which for me is new kind of like person with lake money or friends in the industry. Ain't nobody ever having a party in my house. When i'm not there absolutely the fuck not no. It's like a party for someone that she wasn't even to tout no. You can't have my house to have a party. What is this people are. We are right. No that whoopi goldberg. Thanks song writers are weird. I don't want anyone in my house. Yeah i don't wanna man. I don't want to don't want them in a box. I do not like green eggs in hand. Entrance spoke about people taking over your house parties. Of course we'd be remiss not to mention the performance. The performance people are talking about jennifer holliday. Oh my god yes yes also like. She remains one of a kind. It's strange because she really is just known for that song at this point Deserved tony winter. I think maybe the agreed upon best musical acting. Tony ever but god if you're going to be associated with one song make it that one. Because every time she performs that you have to like hold onto the wall and then there have been several versions over the years. That have been fascinating in different ways. Do you remember on an american idol. Finale when she performed it with jessica sanchez. who i believe. Here's as i remember it jessica. Sanchez was about two foot four. I remember jessica sanchez. And her and her signal. That went nowhere featuring neo. And we ain't even on earth today. I don't remember but the it came out the summer as arianna grandes. first single. The wake mac. Miller the way and you. Can you can see who won that battle. I got i got during this performance. Jessica sanchez and jennifer holliday performed. Jennifer holliday came out. Is like a surprise guest jessica. Sanchez suddenly shrank. She became like a fisher price. Little person next to jennifer holliday. Who grew to the size of eleven foot seven during this performance the way her job moves alone as the notes like slosh around in her mouth and then like tumble on out like boulders. So shocking and jessica sanchez. Was i believe eaten by jennifer. She was devoured. So that's a dead eaten popstar. She i feel my soul going to eat. Yo so yes e- exactly why it went nowhere. I remember that performance. And i was like this was maybe a bad idea for jessica. I will say that off of my little behind. I made People should listen to her debut album. Feel my soul this burrito white from earth wind fire produce that album it's great rb music But yeah feel like. We all know jennifer holliday from the one song. She's pulled out to award shows to perform now. I'm she's probably like. Hey i kind of discography house. And they're like absolutely not earth witted fire by the way is abandoned like everybody knows every one their songs but they're treated sort of like i don't know wedding music or something now when they are like the definitive dance music maybe ever. They need a renaissance in a way. I have their album raise from eighty-one like in heavy rotation on my like disco play lists. It has let's groove on it. Which but like the rest of us is you listened to it and you're like this is such like great early eighties like funk disco music we need to go beyond the singles of earth one. Because they're definitely not wedding meets it. Yeah right that's like you'll hear that horse meat. Disco music definitely another album. I've brought up this before another album from that era that we never too much by luther vandross come on great that's eighty three now it's a little earlier than that anyway. Yeah around the same time. No i mean that is. That is one of my favorite things to do Artists that we liked from that era to visit their albums with the major thing unless to the other songs. Or listen to the album that we've never heard of because unlike the same way that we will listen to you know like a new beyond a album right and then you'll just hear formation but you know the other songs because it streaming and we're listening. We're seeing them perform. We have like no regular knowledge of like the non single cuts from like so many of those classic. R&b albums all fucking good. Yeah oh god. Yeah master jam by a shock. Akon all those songs and you only hear those unlike deep sirius radio now diana ross eaten alive the entire album. Chef's kiss and that's what we think about the saudis. 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"annaleigh ashford" Discussed on Keep It!
"Tell us about this decision that you've made to write it in this way but the other thing that one everything was move on rose which is definitely a show that is on broadway. Currently i saw moulin rouge with our mutual fried matt whitaker. This is one of those things about being like a fan of broadway and like actors knowing everything that they put on the fucking stage eight performances a week right like you cannot deny that everyone is putting their heart into all of their work in like a show that sure but i don't think it's a i mean honestly time it's described to me the amount of songs that are like sandblasted into this show. Here's firework by the way i can buy now. That's what i call music for on my own time. I don't need to like go pay. But like i do have to say the suspense of whether or not erin today. What actually walk away with the aboard. When they could have feasibly nominated him he was the only nominee and then not giving him the award based on the sixty percent of votes. You need to actually claim the award which those stressful and yet then when he won. I was like wait. This is so boring so anyway it was like he was in a vice. That's about these. Awards is to sort of like i do think that the todi voted bodies should be shake it up because of like move on for be felt so vegas is specifically engineered for towards broadway and like yes you need a show like that to keep broadway charting the coins but all you had so many speeches with people all night. Big like imploring broadway to like do something that represents anybody else Just to see like every fucking award like in the musical category like to go to moulin rouge is a sort of like you're not even trying Are you you're not. it's though so lazy. Yeah i think. I mean just what you mentioned earlier idea that the nominating bodies so much more diverse than the people who actually get to vote on. What is such a fascinating duality. I have questions about that. It doesn't make a lot of sense to me but moulin rouge is going to be a rom. I do plan on seeing. And i'm going to have a good time and you will get thousands of pop songs that i think are still like do. Do they change out songs and bring them in like his intimate singing. Good for you yet. I'm sure they'll do a fresh update you know and then also I don't know i didn't see a christmas carol. So that kept cleaning up and of course our friend. Diablo cody one for the book for jagged. Little yeah you know what remains jarring to me about that musical because we got to see a performance from jacob on the main telecast is that for me the power of jagged little pill that every song is so like. It's not just an angry album. It really is this gamut of emotions. There's some like songs about gratefulness or romance or obviously ironic is its own category of song and yet they all belong to one woman like really feel like one person showing you as many sides of their personalities they can and then when you watch the show and again i've not seen the show so this is not me judging the show again my friend fucking wrote the show. I'm not here to do the show. It's weird because they give the songs to everybody and that's also like the point of like american idiot and stuff too but it's it's interesting. What's left of the album's appeal when you're not just hearing them all from one voice. Do i still like it as much. I can't really tell you know Yes it's not that. Carole king musical okay right carols like i wrote. 'this will be thinking up a whole different experience though which is like like what i like about that concept is that i feel like. They just leaned into the idea that this is going to be completely different from the album. It's going to be completely different from a listener and it speaks that whole idea. That all of this is relatable rate. Which i think for br and broadway camp abounds like just leaning all the way in abounds and so it's like oh it's a very different experience. We might get more. We might get last. There's something for everyone in that anything. There's something really nathan exciting about that. So i was kind of happy to just hear. That was still around in doing well. I had heard about it a few years ago. I a new. It's exciting to me. It's an exciting show. I love the concept of like a classic. Ninety s album is like now repurpose as a classic broadway cast recording that leg. A different generation of like gays zubaydah been listening to like the in the nineties. Maybe they're listening to this We're theater kids And that's exciting for me like you mentioned american idiot. You know. there's so many things like that you know it's like they are now also like a broadway october. You can hear it is this right. Yeah something that. I think was fascinating though in the main. Cbs telecaster we watched basically every living broadway legend. Give a performance of one kind or another. The beginning of it was dominated by shows and performances. That our old pop songs repurpose for broadway audiences. So like you had david byrne doing burning down the house. The famous talking heads song Moulin rouge lady marmalade performed. And i have to say it to me was not a glistening advertisement for what broadway is now just because it does feel like. You're listening to your old ipod a lot of the time. Yeah i get it and like david bird is like jesus fucking love him. Yeah yeah but it really does. That's part of my problem with milan. Route you know. I feel like the theater. We grew up. A you know you're hearing original compositions and songs and lyrics from like creators..
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"This is a positive right. This isn't the analee ashby positive but also before we get the show started Louis dan i need you to walk off stage for a minute. Have to tell you that you've tested. I wish i wish i could successfully to what was done on the view with both leave my zoom screen because if you have not seen it ended of and sunny hoste were asked to leave the view. Midshow walk off stage and then you just telling them that they are tested positive cove. It was maybe the most surreal thing i've ever seen on television. And yeah it was the same energy as you wanna sweepstakes. But you have to pay your toll to come to the principal's office that's probably how it works in school. Now yeah right. He used to if someone gets to the principal's office. They're in trouble now. It's like michael. Please come to the principal's office. it's like well. He's positive right. That's still dangerous. Like they have to walk through the hallways and they don't know what they're doing. I feel like somebody comes to the room and puts a bag there just to be sick. I started thinking about those first moments in impeachment when they're leading monica lewinsky to the hotel room. Because i was what's going on what's happening and then you know. They told the world basically that these two have been tested positive for cova which turned out to be a false positive. Which was its own thing. I thought that was one of the most epic moments on the video since since meghan mccain enjoy almost came to fisticuffs and also since the iconic split-screen thousand seven. Oh right yes well it just goes to show you don't need meghan mccain to have the view still be iconic okay because coveted is also a virus and it can cause drop. Thank you jerry springer for that final thought on the homeland all right. We'll be back with more keep it. September is national voter registration months and votes save. America is working to raise one point. Five million dollars through our no off years fund donations will go to help voter registration efforts in places where reaching new voters will help make a difference in our ability to win next year and beyond like arizona..
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"They were kind of like obsessed with announcing their punk. Nece or whatever you know because there were that some forty-one era all those people and yet their music was like have styles of their fahim. It's fame beach boys melodies punk and now we call that yes right yes the pop punk era. No it's so funny like revisiting. Eli aac punk or like some metal from our high school era and like for me when i was first getting into a white music I see the tear in your. Yeah go ahead. I was like what is this honey Before i went four fall out boy but now when you look back on it you're like it doesn't seem that punk or out of the norm as you thought it was in high school in. You're just like oh these are just melodies. Yeah no sped up backstrom songs. Yeah they were just wearing a lot of hot topic. I can't get over at the time. Is how exactly the mall. All of those performers. Where just like well. I remember exactly where. I would buy that outfit or not by that out that i can't imagine you wearing that. The mall was everything that was all your topic and pacific sun. Where like that was it. And i remember listening to that group t to the to russia and lesbians if not one big and bought this pair of jeans that had a and i thought i was like oh now i'm punk da and now my parents are like going to be pissed. My parents took one look at me rolled their eyes and kept in with me by the way. There's still people that dress like. They work at pacific somewhere. I am talking about mr keith. Urban yes that's what really turns nicole. Okay you just manager at the galleria. She's like that's what i want. She goes straight from the amc. So the pack sun up an anti pretzel along the way who doesn't want an anti saw. Nicole is obsessed with the ball. I have been to the movies like three times her. Amc commercial came out nicole. Kidman's and i truly loved it. I get to watch that commercial before every movie for like the next year. Oh yeah well. By the way. It's also one of her least convincing performances her sitting in a movie theater looking at a screen. I don't think she's if you're not seen the advertisement we're talking about like google nicole kidman attempts to watch a movie and you'll see this. Amc advertisement where she's like. Like i mentioned looking up at a movie screen per head is like exactly straightforward and. Her eyes are gently lifted. You have never watched them with a single soda. Besides her ma'am you're live popcorn and you know you've got all the cans and a completely empty right so it's like kafka ask. Yeah well. I believe either her personal theater watching dear. Evan hansen president theater. That's part of my keep it. We'll get to that later. I was on sunday all right. We'll just get these shows starts head. We are going to talk about the tony. Awards because broadway is back and we check the numbers and you did not watch them so we will explain what they were you find them and to keep the theme going we have be wonderful. Analii ashford here. The pap. She brings get ready for us. And then we're going to talk about some of our favorite coming out stories fictional and real life and celebration of of iras shocking. Coming out story. I say shocking. I wasn't that shocked. Wasn't that shocked. I saw the news at virus. And i was like this seems appropriate right well also by the way once upon a time. We'll get into this. You would be like a gay bar and absolutely the only thing playing on whatever. Tv was elvira like she's so connected to the gay community. Like before i even in a way like you would obsessively watch madonna videos or something at a gay bar like elvira had a particular gay knee show anyway. Good for her. We'll get into that. I hope we also get into some of our favorite coming out stories. Let's vote some people out of the community today. You know you grow okay. You're like okay..
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"With an all new episode of keep it. I'm ira madison the third. I'm the sound inside tony winner. Mary-louise parker no. It's me louis and our special guests. This week is the lovely den michelle. Hello i'm so happy to be here. I know we have been on a podcast together in years. Well no one's done anything together in years because i'm paying attention. I do have fond memories of sharing a stage with you at the towel in new orleans. We ask festival with jeffrey masters to the show. Yes iconic trip of so fun and a little bessie. Yeah i mean absolutely. It was new orleans during southern decadence. Yeah so all we did was understanding. Excitement was this thing. That jake shears was that yes yes. He is one of the great nice people and go person very hot. No yeah there's that is nice and hot. what are you paul newman. I don't like it. Yeah that's not in vogue anymore but then actually it is actually be done right. No if you went on the imdb list of hot and nice. It's only like four names deep. You know cameron diaz even nice. I don't know maybe they took off the list off the list. Also speaking of camera. Di as did you see. Did you see this interview with no so you know she is married to benji madden of good charlotte who is twin brothers were john madden and it was just some goofy headline where it was like now. I'm not attracted to my brothers twin. Because they're so different liar. The call doubt come after me. Yeah we all have twins. It's fine just be honest about true. But i guess at this point you can tell them apart. I got yeah. I agree and should be able to. It's rare that twins past. I feel like high school really sort of like age. The exact same way or you know like work out the same way or something if like twins are like in their thirties forties and still look identical like some gays. that's creepy. Yes right because it's like. Do you have the same diet regimen. What's going on here brian. Same skin care routine. Make some choices. Yeah yeah let the road fork if you will always interesting to me about good charlotte at the time when we were inundated with good charlotte as pop culture entities..
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