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Modern Man - May (1973) featuring Joy Woods as the Uncovered Cover Girl.

Joy Woods as Louise Gypsy Rose Lee

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Audra McDonald stars as Rose in the Broadway revival of Gypsy (Majestic Theatre, 2024)

#audra mcdonald #theatre: gypsy #gypsy #gypsy musical #musical theater #broadway #stephen sondheim #jule styne #george c wolfe #danny burstein #joy woods #jordan tyson #she is the greatest performer of all time #and she is the moment #and she is getting her 7th tony #cry about it

Joy Woods and Isa Briones in a musical together??? A murder mystery musical???? A dark comic murder mystery musical?????? Oh we stay WINNING

#it’s like they surgically extracted it from my brain #murder at the gates #by the guy who wrote spring awakening??#ohhhh we are about to be fed #joy woods #isa briones #spring awakening #musical theater

I hate vocal “critiques” towards Black performers.

“They’re doing too much”

“Why is she ending every phrase with aaaaa?”

“Why can’t they just sing it normally?”

It’s all just microaggressive as heck. Y’all wanna sound like us and dance like us but when we get on that stage all those things are suddenly a problem. I’ve seen these comments made about many Black performers, but primarily Black women. Most recently it’s been Audra McDonald, who is a trained classical singer and the most awarded Tony winner in history, and Michelle Williams from freaking Destiny’s Child. Like I genuinely hope that y’all know that even if Gypsy was still open and Audra’s contract ended at some point, the next Mama Rose was still going to be a Black woman. Same goes for Joy Woods and Jordan Tyson. Yes, the show originally starred white performers but the way it was produced and directed for this revival was specifically for Black performers. All of Michelle Williams’ understudies in Death Becomes Her are Black. When her contract is up another Black woman is going to take on the role of Viola. Like…y’all have to get over yourselves and come to terms with the fact that your opinion, and I say that loosely, is not the end all be all.