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Thursday, June 30, 2016 at 2:42PM Reminder: You can watch the live stream of Broadway's She Loves Me tonight (one of the major Tony nominees this year) on "Broadway HD" for only $9.99 this evening at 8:00 PM EST (though I'd get there before 7:50 PM). The show stars Laura Benanti and Jane Krakowski, two national musical comedy treasures, and some talented men, too. It's the first time in history that a Broadway show has been livestreamed and since Broadway shows aint cheap $10 is practically free. If you check it out, let us know what you thought. Our review icymi.
Links
Variety looks back at the waves made by The Devil Wears Prada 10 years back
Vox has a very sound theory as to why the blockbusters suck this year - the disappearance of second acts in the three act structure
Shout Factory Carrie (1976) is getting a spiffy new Blu-Ray for her 40th anniversary
Birth.Movies.Death on the making of Clash of the Titans. Harry Hamlin was a handful!
IndieWire how YA stars have emerged as the saviors of American indie films
THR A24, perhaps emboldened by their first Oscar wins last year (Room + Ex Machina) is really hitting it hard for 2016. They've already released a few notable titles this year with more to come. Now they just picked up Mike Mills 20th Century Women. Can they win Best Actress two years in a row?
Gold Derby Alison Janney and Julia Louis-Dreyfus will both make history on Emmy night if they win
Birth.Movies.Death on the recent Cap is Hydra comic storyline and how serial storytelling works (it's only the response to serial storytelling that's really changed.)
Pride Source a fun LGBT themed interview with our new Tarzan Alexander Skarsgård
Boy Culture today is the 30th anniversary of Madonna's "True Blue" album
MNPP Miles Teller in leopard print thong for Bleed For This
Daniel Craig and Jason Isaacs in the London 1993 production of ANGELS IN AMERICAThis Week's Must Read
"Angels in America: The Complete Oral History" Let us all thank Slate profusely for this retrospective of Tony Kushner's two-part masterwork. Some of my favorite quotes from it.
George C. Wolfe [Director]: I think so much of what I did on Part 1 was keeping the hype out of the room and letting everybody play and discover. Because the hype was monumental, the hype was ridiculous, but you can’t work from hype, and you can’t create from hype. God knows you can’t discover anything new.
Joe Mantello: For a lot of us, that production was like going from zero to 100 in our careers, going from being unknown to the play everyone was coming to see.
Marcia Gay Harden: I’d walk through the West Village, and people would come up to me and say, “I took my parents to see the play, and then I told them I was gay.” Or: “I took my parents to see it, and then I told them I was dying.” And we would cry on the street. That happened once every couple of weeks.
Rocco Landesman: Personally, I think the show is a bit long, particularly in Perestroika. I was lobbying for cuts and got none of them. Tony was very gracious. He would hear me out politely and do what he wanted to do, which was not cut. It was like a conversation with August Wilson but worse.
And on Harper Pitt's very last transcendent bit in the play, her flight to San Francisco...
Marcia Gay Harden: I’m tingling right now thinking about it. The synchronicity of the immune system of the Earth, and that can be healed by the people who are suffering with the holes in their own immune system, the tragedy of the souls of those who have been hurt forming a web of protection around the Earth. It’s one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever said—or read—in my life.
Mary-Louise Parker: We shot it in an airplane hangar, and I was really trying to rein in my emotion. I just didn’t feel I quite reached it. I went to lunch, and I was so distraught, and I went to Mike [Nichols, who directed the miniseries] and said, “Can I do it again?” They were literally taking down the wall, and he said, “Oh, my child,” and turned to the crew and yelled, “OK, put the wall back up!”
Tony Kushner: It’s the best paragraph I’ve ever written.
Reader Comments (13)
I'm turning 30 later this year and was thinking about having a party with the music of 1986. I have become OBSESSED with True Blue in the process.
Anyone seen this rather cruel piece about Renee Zellweger.
http://variety.com/2016/film/columns/renee-zellweger-bridget-joness-baby-1201806603/
Miles Teller just aggravated a fetish of mine seeing men in animal print.
That oral history of Angels made me long for a book-length version.
That oral history of Angels in America is extraordinary, it's one of those articles that you just savor.
I loved what George C.Wolfe said about having to protect the creative process from Hype.
In our current age where everything gets over-hyped this stands out to me.
I loved some of the quotes about the angels learning to do the flying as well.
Such a great article on Angels in America, and I love that other entertainment journalists are tweeting out the link.
I love Angels in America. Such great writing, and I have seen excellent stage versions and the Mike Nichols adaptation. Sublime.
The Variety piece on The Devil Wears Prada is a great read.
"It’s the best paragraph I’ve ever written."
Prior's speech in heaven takes that cake for me. I think this should be mandatory reading for everyone.
I was never unfortunately able to see Angels in America on the stage... but I felt the miniseries
was amazing... you cannot find any fault with anything about it.
Thank you for the lovely piece.
Also, your blog on the Devil.... was very good. Hard to believe it was 10 years ago.
I was a big fan of She Loves Me (we all know Laura Benanti is perfect, but I do agree Levi is fun as well). Streaming was a little rusty in the first five minutes and definitely during the previews, but overall that was good too. All-in-all I will still go to Broadway whenever I'm in NYC, but this is a grand alternative for theater fans west of the Hudson.
Obviously nothing can replace the experience of seeing a Broadway show live, but livestreaming a current Broadway show for this cheap is something I hope would catch on. Even just 1-2 a year would be great in the way of accessibility to those, unlike you and I, who don't happen to live in NYC. As for the show, great fun. Levi is so gosh darn charming.
I hate that I missed this She Loves Me event. Laura and Zachary are an intoxicating duo. Sigh.
The oral history of Angels is remarkably poignant. Thank you for posting.