#encores

[offarawaysnfuturedays-inmydreams]

"there was a time when you were the person in motion I was your wife it never occurred to want more you were my sky my moon and my stars and my ocean we can never go back to before we can never go back to before"

CAISSIE LEVY as Mother RAGTIME at City Center

[princesssarisa]

One thing that baffles my autistic brain:

The traditions surrounding a singer performing encores at the end of a concert.

We all know the singer is going to perform a few extra songs after the official end of the concert. The singer is going to do it whether we want them to or not. But for some reason, the singer has to pretend the concert is really over and leave the stage, while we sit in our seats clapping and cheering endlessly, pretending that we're calling for more music. Then the singer comes back, pretending it's our applause that summoned them. We all know they were going to sing these encores anyway, but we all have to pretend they weren't planning to do it.

It's such a silly ritual. And it's annoying because even when I enjoy a performance, I like to have a sense of when it's going to end. But with concerts, you have no idea how long the encores will be dragged out.

[ariel-seagull-wings]

@mikeellee @themousefromfantasyland @the-blue-fairie

Full In Concert production of the Encores Theater production of the musical Carnival, based on the 1953 film Lili, staring Anne Hathaway and Brian Stokes Mitchell.

[glimeres]

2024 - Ramin Karimloo and Alex Joseph Grayson sing a preview of The Proposal / The Night Was Alive from New York City Center Encores! TITANIC

bonus:

[allthedesiredusernamesaretaken]

... memory lane ...

30 years ago on this day Grateful Dead gave their last concert with leader Jerry Garcia at Chicago's Soldier Field.

Jerry would die of a heart attack a month later while in drug rehab ...

[droughtofapathy]

ENCORES! 2025 SEASON ANNOUNCED

ENCORES! URINETOWN FEB 5 – 16, 2025 In this side-splitting satire directed by Teddy Bergman (KPOP), a young hero fights to create change in a dystopian world where water is scarce and “Hope” is even scarcer. This three-time Tony-winning musical by Mark Hollmann and Greg Kotis breaks the fourth wall to examine humanity’s darkest dilemmas, all while being “audacious and exhilarating” (The New York Times).

ENCORES! LOVE LIFE MAR 26 – 30, 2025 Love Life, the only collaboration between Kurt Weill and Alan Jay Lerner, depicts a love story that takes place over 200 years of American history, through the eyes of a family who never ages. This rarely staged production directed by Tony winner Victoria Clark (Kimberly Akimbo) is considered by some to be the first concept musical, an inspiration for musical theater favorites such as Cabaret, Chicago, and Company.

ENCORES! THE WILD PARTY APR 30 – MAY 11, 2025 Directed by Saheem Ali (Fat Ham), The Wild Party is a jazz-age tragedy about a gin-soaked party. What happens when a night of debauchery leads to a morning of sobering truths? Michael John LaChiusa (The Gardens of Anuncia) and George C. Wolfe (Jelly’s Last Jam) bring Joseph Moncure March’s notorious narrative poem to life in their "dangerous, seedy, fantastic” (The Observer) musical adaptation.

ANNUAL GALA PRESENTATION RAGTIME OCT 30 – NOV 10, 2024 Ragtime is a sweeping, powerful musical with music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and a book by Terrence McNally that follows three fictional families in pursuit of the American Dream at the turn of the 20th century. This gala production is led by Tony-nominated Encores! Artistic Director Lear deBessonet and features Joshua Henry (Coalhouse Walker Jr.), Caissie Levy (Mother), and Brandon Uranowitz (Tateh).

[esparza1970]

More pics of Raúl in Oliver! 🥰