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I post about musicals a lot. Find me on Twitter: @itsdlevy. I'm collecting all of my best writing from around the web and beyond at the untitled itsdlevy project. You might also enjoy my other Tumblrs, Fuck Yeah Stephen Sondheim and Fuck Yeah Dorothy Fields. Recent Comments Powered by Disqus

[itsdlevy]

Today I’m going to watch The Odyssey in the best possible format.

[itsdlevy]

Weirdly Letterboxd refuses to give me a stamp for this.

[itsdlevy]

Today I’m going to watch The Odyssey in the best possible format.

[stereocyon]

coke of cola is a health potion. pepsi is a mana potion

[scornfluke-archive]

what’s graped soda

[stereocyon]

it’s fucking purple baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[gemthegerm]

happy 4th of july to this image the official boston fire department made and posted to twitter like 3 years ago. i will not let it die.

[massachusetts-official]

Official Post of Massachusetts

[itsdlevy]

This is so much better than any AI-generated slop municipalities generated this year for similar messaging.

[itsdlevy]

I don’t understand people who see Ragtime as a celebration of white saviors. The white people in the show absolutely fail at their attempts at being saviors. If anything, it’s an indictment of white saviorism.

[eccentricks]

“You’re the Pop

You’re the baby’s father

You’re the Pop

But you needn’t bother

I will make no claim to your ancient name at all—

When I let you make me

You promised you’d take me to the City Hall

My mistake

Was in getting plastered

What a break

For the little bastard

What a time we had when I let you get on top—

But if baby, I’m the Mama

You’re the Pop”

—Cole Porter’s spontaneous parody lyrics of his own song, “You’re the Top,” as recalled by Elaine Stritch.

[transfemgeorgecostanza]

Not many people know this, but he was supposed to follow these up with "Has A Hard-on For Stephen Sondheim" and "Does The Best He Can With Jerry Herman," I don't know whether you know that, I mean, do you know that?

[playwrongs]

We all know that the “Has a Hard-on For” and “Does the Best He Can With” albums would have been switched around. Can you imagine Bobby Short trying to manage “The Miller’s Son”?

[transfemgeorgecostanza]

He has done more Sondheim than Herman, as far as I can tell.

[playwrongs]

Huh! You’d think he’d have done more Herman…

[itsdlevy]

I don’t know why you’d think that. Short was synonymous with erudition in cabaret.

[itsdlevy]

I sort of wish Mamdani would throw us a “New York is the [insert foreign city] of the US” just for shits and giggles.

[playwrongs]

I had kind of a horrible thought

[playwrongs]

So you know how, as media people catch on to the immense popularity of video games, we're seeing things get developed like the Elden Ring TV show? And you know how TV is also invading theatre, such that George R.R. Martin is "writing" some kind of Game of Thrones stage play that's coming to the West End? How long do you think it'll be before all the boundaries dissolve and someone tries to put a direct adaptation of a video game on Broadway?

[itsdlevy]

I, for one, look forward to Jamie Lloyd’s searing indictment of capitalist consumption when he stages Pac-Man: The Musical.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

today I found out my mother doesn’t know what dandelions are and now I’m wondering what other strange secrets she’s been quietly harboring

[krystal-prisms]

Where do you live that you don’t have dandelions?

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

we have dandelions EVERYWHERE, they are basically our State Weed, it is absolutely impossible that my mom has never interacted with a dandelion before, this requires further investigation

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

So after extensive interrogation I have an update:

my mom is in fact aware that dandelions exist. she temporarily forgot the name and there was some miscommunication.

the truth is actually weirder

she’s aware dandelions look like this

she is familiar with this flower. she knows the name of this flower. she declines to believe, however, that these are also dandelions

she does not believe these are the same plant. I tried to explain, and she thought I was either misinformed or lying. so I asked her what exactly did she think the yellow ones were called?

she answered, with complete confidence: Daffodils.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

gosh I enjoy this website

[authoratmidnight]

For comparison, this is a daffodil

[quietlygrousing]

See, folks in the southern US will tell you up and down those are buttercups, actually.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

i don’t think so? i’m southern and buttercups are what we call these things (much tinier)

[maejacrezz007]

Wait I thought those bigger cup ones were Easter Lillies???

[fractiousrvt]

This is an Easter Lily. It is an actual lily and therefore deadly to cats.

[blood-trip-god2]

They’re marigolds and I know a bitch when I see one!

[delphinidin4]

This is a marigold:

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

….we need to start taking the phrase “go touch grass” more literally. go outside and examine a flower i beg u

[itsdlevy]

“the biggest cock in Hollywood and no ass to push it with”

[itsdlevy]

[itsdlevy]

TIL Charles Hart, lyricist and librettist of Phantom of the Opera, is the grandson of Angela Baddeley, best known as Mrs. Bridges in Upstairs, Downstairs, who notably was the replacement Madame Armfeldt in the original London production of A Little Night Music.

[playwrongs]

Today I learned that the New York Public Library has what they call a “decoy” copy of James Joyce’s Ulysses. Before 1934, Ulysses was judged obscene and banned for sale in the United States. The “decoy” edition was published in 1930, and in an attempt to get around the censors, it was “bound in covers identifying it as the popular children’s book The Bobbsey Twins in the Country (1907).”

[playwrongs]

The spine is on the left and the actual title page of the book on the right.

[itsdlevy]

one upside to having been sick for the last few weeks is that I have really upped my tea game

[playwrongs]

Part of me thinks that we should revive the old Broadway convention of song lyrics that are full of filthy, barely disguised double entendres

[itsdlevy]

Part of me thinks that we should revive the old Broadway convention of song lyrics

[itsdlevy]

something extremely validating about showing up at the ER in the middle of the night and having them say yes, your concerns are concerning, let us treat you