> Trump
> intellectual

Shame on Shakespeare in the Park. Why couldn't they have gone with a nice, apolitical play? Maybe a nice production of King Lear, the one about a delusional old man motivated chiefly by fleeting praise rather than rigid ideology, whose demise is caused by ceding his territory to his enemies and disavowing his closest…

When there's smoke…

Can we get a Hotel Mario remake next?

He-he-here we go!
So they're finally here, crossing over for you
If you hate the Rabbids you can shoot them too

Back when the show was in previews I snarked that it went with the title "Dear Evan Hansen" because "Dear White People" was taken.

It's like France without an F apparently.

In Germany, yes, probably. In America, though, Adolph (the F spelling was never popular) was a consistently and alarmingly popular name all throughout the 20th century. It hit its peak circa 1920 and then went on a slow decline unencumbered by any Nazi associations, finally dropping out of the top 1000 names in 1969…

What do you have against the third-best Sondheim musical?

There are so few words where the feminine form is the default. Let us have "blonde" and "brunette."

I remember watching an O'Reilly Factor segment where Bill and his guests lambasted Obama for quoting a gay poet. Which was jaw-droppingly dumb because
A) Poetry isn't exactly a bastion of heterosexuality, and

"Modern reimaginings" of Shakespeare which completely miss the point are popular because you don't have to pay Shakespeare the royalties you would a living playwright.

"Well, for one thing they are more educated than you. Even a first grader
knows the correct grammar is: "What do these people…"
Life is hard and it is so much harder if you are stupid, idiot."
—PanamaRod, 4 months ago

Weirdly, I think Trump maps pretty well onto Guiteau. "Remove a scoundrel […] promote the sales of my book" ?

(Nathan Lane subtlely puts on a George W. Bush mask as he continues to blatantly express his political agenda.)

Look, there's nothing wrong with staging classic political plays and re-interpreting them as shallow digs at the Trump administration, but can we at least get an Assassins revival out of it?

American Psycho wasn't a Huey Lewis jukebox musical?

Last year felt like 80% Hamilton and 20% saying "Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1928 and All That Followed" (and in my case, 20% screaming with righteous fury when Ivo van Hove hoovered up all the play awards like the noxious boho Eurotrash he is).

Oh yeah, Tony. Wonder what he's up to.

Nice! I didn't get a chance to see it, but I'm hoping it was great. Season Two's cliffhanger was atypically good and the show really seemed to be kicking into gear.