The emergency exit portion of BURNING BLUEBEARD was the moment I fell completely, head-over-heels in love with Chicago theater.

A crazy number of my friends were involved with the recent Actors' Theatre of Louisville/Milwaukee Rep Co-production. I loved the show, and was excited that a similar story might come out to a wider audience. I should have known better than to get my hopes up that Hollywood would treat a vibrator movie as anything…

He was using a book of some kind as a cheat sheet for his Golden Age slang-seduction; did anyone get a clear look at what it was?

Plus, they at least gave a handwave with "It's in G - you should be able to follow." After one quick time through, it wouldn't be insane to think that someone who started making his money with music at 8 years old would be able to pick up at least the chord progressions. And since the song was basically Cole…

I knew a gazillion folks who worked in the office park they used for Office Space. It was a perfect movie to describe life in Austin post-university; it's what happens when Slacker grows up and has no idea what to do.

Alt+0224 will get you the à you're looking for on Windows machines, Todd. (This brought to you by three years doing marketing and PR for an opera company.)

The phrase has been associated with every iteration of Amelia Pond since the start of last season; it has resonance in particular for Older Amy, but "The Girl Who Waited" has been Amy in every moment of her time as a Companion.

Sugar Creek in Watseka? They used my husband's "Little Women" costumes this year.

But Ghost doesn't bark - part of his Super Special Telling Name is that he's (normally) absolutely silent. He's a ninja dog, yo.

Henry Gordon -

camipco - I think if he'd done that, with a lemonade stand-style sign, he would have given Peregrine and Nicole a run for their money. "I first realized I wanted to be an artist when I realized this was about *other people,* too." Home run, there.

…it was Meyer Lemon.

Alex won't be healed to do the tour, so was offered a second chance at the show. Ashley *will* be, so had a "complete journey."

They do get that close -and when Cat calls them her "darlings" she means it. Part of the joy of watching this show is seeing the camaraderie the dancers develop and how much they truly care for each other.

This is the most enlightening comment of Erik's, re: the film he's working on:

"Season your food"
I.e.: Just putting in some asparagus for "color" won't make your bland starchy vegetables any less bland or starchy.

thoughts
I thought the *exact* same thing with the Robert/Ashley hug - "whoa, is that what they mean by 'wiry strength?' Not Okay, Robert Malone."

In the Heights/HoYay
Donna - In the Heights is pretty darn fantastic. Saw it in January in NY with the Token Black Guy from HSM and the Token Puerto Rican Queer from Camp and it was pretty darn phenomenal. The choreography sometimes seems odd and shoehorned in - the full $96,000 number gets *weird* - but it works so…

Not only did they all offer eggs, they were all either fried or poached. No omelets, no soft scrambled, no classic British soft-boiled. Just various takes on Benedict.

Tyce Makes Me Sick
….because that routine resembled Fosse in the same way that a mall Glamourshot resembles a Vogue cover shoot - some of the same ideas, but completely stripped of any meaning or style and just cheesed to ten.