I don't know how different their arrangement is, as I don't really know it. But sometimes, doing the cover version of a song is worlds different than doing the original version of it. Case in point: are you doing the Whitney Houston version of "I Will Always Love You," or the Dolly Parton? Ditto for "Yesterday," where…

I know only one line of that song: "help me, help me, help he said/'ere the hunter shoots me dead!"

Denis O'Hare and Neil Patrick Harris doing this number is one of the best things I've ever seen onstage; that and the "conversion" scene at the end of the show, when Lee Harvey Oswald gives in to his inner demons, embraces his destiny- and the Zapruder Film is projected onto his body.

Ring ring ring… Hello? Mr. Miranda? Get Daveed Diggs in the studio right now, we've got a new presidential hip-hopera for you!

Does that mean it doesn't matter?

They take the pillar as well as the stones.

And he is his sisters, and his cousins, and his aunts.

I'm still making my way through the Complete Works of Shakespeare on the way to finishing before 2017 starts; to break up the monotony (not that it's monotonous- I like most Shakespeare), I alternate Shakey, light read, Shakey again.

You know they just did a rewritten version of it onstage in London? It's stripped down and closer to the original sequel pitch of "The Brad and Janet Show," with less of the movie's self-indulgence. Plus, it fixes the infamous fact that no one in "Shock Treatment" got shock treatment.

I wish he would get the rights to make his Super Mario epic movie, which is so audaciously HIM that it would either make him a legend or completely end his career.

The most ironic part is that the comic's use of "weeaboo" as a shibboleth reflects what weeaboo culture would become- just the use of a certain phrase gives one away as a weeaboo. (Quick- if you KNOW the word "weeaboo," check if you are a weeaboo.)

Europeans have their own sort of stylistic "rules." Their musicals are much more influenced by the stylistic tropes and rules of opera construction if not composition- they focus on emotionally fraught, broad-strokes storytelling that builds around a series of almost tableaux, while American musicals of the ASCAP-BMI…

It's like when Bon Jovi wore the "Well, I CAN Breathe" shirt to a concert.

The dialogue and general worldview here feels a lot more "Invader Zim" than "Flintstones."

So okay, I'm just speedballing here, but what if we took Devlin out of the show… and replaced him with Charles Manson? Huh? Huh?

But they gotta be there (where all the action is)! What do you gotta do?

Sheeeeeit.

In terms of ironic hats, I can't believe Disney has never made the "most delightful hat" from Nightmare Before Christmas a real thing you can buy.

Isn't Teleton the thing where they start having elaborate striptease routines at a certain point to keep the men watching?

You guessed it, Frank Stallone.