"I think the whole Eastern European region is a bit complicated" has got to count as the understatement of the week.

A-Fucking-Greed. So many of these actors have major stage careers (because duh, that's where good character actors come from), and it seems like the interview really misses the chance to take their measure as actors if it ignores their stage roles.

Garber is openly gay, so who knows. Is he seeing anyone now?

I'm a gay man, and I find Grease repellent and musically undistinguished. MY Star Wars was the collected works of Stephen Sondheim.

Oh I'm so glad I wasn't the only one who was thinking of that.

Okay, who made the Kurt Weill reference?
Was it Murray? VanDerWerff? Hyden? Whoever you are, I want to shake your hand.

Samming Worthingtatum.

My freshman year roommate and I should have been a sitcom pairing—he was an engineer from Hong Konwhile I was a gay, Jewish theatre major from Cleveland. But we didn't really talk enough for any hijinks to occur. Weeks would pass with only a few sentences shared. Of course, the only time either of us got laid was when…

Tuck—I don't much care about sports, but being from Cleveland does give me a chance to say "you don't understand pain" to complaining Chicago fans.

Cleveland Native, Chicago Resident
And weirdly touched by the fact that you guys will be visiting.

Where's Linda Rondstadt?
All we need is a Linda Rondstadt interview and we'll have the entire Trio and Trio II albums in one day. Man, those are fantastic albums. Their version of "After the Gold Rush" gives me chills every time.

I also had an internal "Awwww!" at "Bagel Monstar and Cookie Junior". Which is not something that an internet comment should do.

I am definitely not the author of FInal Girl, I just enjoy it.

Another Take On It
This is another (very funny) piece on SLEDGEHAMMER from the Final Girl blog:

Welcome to John Adams High!

The stage version, incidentally, had a very young Betty Buckly, buzzsaw vibrato and all, in the part. I usually don't appreciate recasting for film, but I'm grateful in this case.

Chicago was incredibly exciting 15 years ago when the production was new. It's been very tired for at least a decade, though.

From what I've read, it's grossing about $1.2 million a week, which is just about exactly the break-even point. If they sold all of their seats for full price, they'd be making about $1.7 million a week, so a half-million dollar profit each week. With the investment being $70 million, that would mean 140 weeks to make…

While I guess it's inevitable that the design awards would be given offstage (there are 8 of them now), I was very disappointed that Best Score and the special awards were left off. The music and lyrics are pretty damn important in musicals, and Athol Fugard is a major figure in world theatre. (And I wanted to see…

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