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Broadway Guy

"Carousel" is on tomorrow night! Get ready. The stats: *Unlike "South Pacific," "Sound of Music," and "Oklahoma!" .... "Carousel" has a plot in which the two leads don't happily skip off together. They marry too soon, and the guy becomes abusive (and this is a thing that sometimes shows a correlation with marrying very young) .....and the guy dies in a foolish way. And all of this happens well before the story ends! *"Carousel" is based on a play, and in that play, blossoms fall from a tree. The characters attribute this to the wind. But Oscar Hammerstein had a better idea. He had one character say: "Actually, there isn't any wind tonight." And a famous response: "I guess it's just their time ." Cosmic mysteries! Goosebumps! *The famous "Carousel Waltz" that opens the show came from some scraps that Richard Rodgers had sitting around. Aha! I'll just paste these togethe...

Everything's Coming Up Roses

Tony Awards 2019... Three Things to Anticipate: *Kelli O'Hara being sassy. *Noblezada belting. *Beth Leavel charming everyone (even with weak material). Fond Recent Memories: *Esparza slaughtering "Being Alive." (It was so intense that it generated a parody, "Being Intense." Good parodies only happen when the parodist is fond of the strong piece he is mocking.) *Alice Ripley struggling with the metronome in "Next to Normal" (but still breaking hearts). *Patti LuPone seeming to split atoms with "Everything's Coming Up Roses." Three Big Recent Upsets: *LaChanze crushes LuPone. *"Avenue Q" slaughters "Wicked." *"In the Heights" tramples on "Passing Strange." (Maybe not *really* an upset, but an injustice did occur.) Tune in Sunday night! This is crucial FOR THE WORLD!