Spartan Girl

I don’t know if anyone watched the SAG awards, but Jane Fonda’s speech for her Lifetime Achievement Award was another one we all needed to her. She spelled it out: “‘Woke’ just means you give a damn about either people.” Never leave us, Jane.

Max the dog in The Little Mermaid.

I needed to hear that this morning.

Well, be warned, the musical’s ending will rip your heart out.

Jeremy Jordan is going to eat this role. Hope someone here can catch the Floyd Collins revival at Lincoln Center when it opens and let the rest of us know how it is.

The Playhouse gang is getting back together 😭😭😭

I know facial hair was in fashion in that time, but yet it was distracting. Gothic horror is not always my thing, but this was pretty good. Regardless of what I think of her father, Lily-Rose Depp was fantastic, as was Nicholas Hoult (though it’s funny that this is the second vampire movie he was in). Poor Ellen and Thomas deserved better. As did everyone else that died so gruesomely. But at least the cat lived.

Once again, I’d like to extend a hearty fuck-you to everyone that sat out the election or voted third party. And if you’re still wondering why I’m madder at you than I am at the ones that voted for Trump, it’s because you acted like you were on our side then screwed us over just to feel morally superior in your nilism.

Well, on the bright side, Canada won the hockey game!

Quasimodo’s mom’s death in The Hunchback of Notre Dame might be worse than Mufasa’s in The Lion King. Mufasa traumatized us all, but we never actually saw him die. In Hunchback, we still her die: Frollo kicks her in the face and she hits her head on the stone steps. Even though there’s no blood or anything, it’s still pretty dark for Disney. And when Frollo repeatedly lies to Quasimodo that she abandoned him, he basically kills her all over again. As if that’s not bad enough, there’s this awful moment when he yells at Quasimodo for helping Esmeralda escape: “YOU IDIOT! THAT WASN'T KINDNESS, IT WAS CUNNING! SHE'S A G***Y! G****S ARE NOT CAPABLE OF REAL LOVE! THINK, BOY! THINK OF YOUR MOTHER!” Sit with that for a second. We all know Frollo taught Quasimodo that Romani were evil. This moment explicitly reveals Frollo did tell Quasimodo that his mother was Romani, and it twists the knife on two levels: the idea that his mother was a heartless witch, and that because he’s from the Romani he’s inherently a monster, and only Frollo’s charity is keeping him “good.” All to keep Quasimodo under his thumb. All that makes the death so much more devastating .

I have to commend my local paper’s review of MJ The Musical for addressing the issue of whether it’s possible to separate the art from the artist, which has been discussed in a lot of the threads lately. The writer concluded that everyone has to deal with it in their own way, but she welcomed a two-and-a-half long nostalgia break from the real world, and I had to agree with that assessment. That being said, I still believe that some of the Michael Jackson fans are so nuts, they make Swifties look mature.

I would have LOVED to see that again.

I think he spoke for all of us when he told off Debbie.

Has anyone ever seen Kimberly Akimbo? Is it any good? Asking because it’s going to be in Detroit next month, which means it might be in my next season, and I'm wondering if this is going to be the "I only saw this because I'm a season holder" show. But then again, I liked Jagged Little Pill more than I anticipated, so I am keeping an open mind.

Still feel like they should’ve done a proper In Memorium but the fake-out was funny. I keep singing “Cocaine and Some Vodka” in my head, and dammit “Hakuna Matata” is never going to be the same.