That’s a real high compliment, thank you! 💕

So cheers to Lorenz Hart, to being unfashionably ridiculous, indecently pickled, to being out of step with the popular because the public wants slop. 🎶 And when I looked, the moon had turned to gold 🎶

The only time I enjoyed Oklahoma! was being treated to Daniel Fish’s deconstruction, thrilled to watch the blue hairs snarl at the demolition of the America First romanticism they demanded of the show. Don’t get me started on Flower Drum Song and The King and I.

Once Rodgers met Hammerstein, they made some of my least favorite musicals in the American songbook. A high school boyfriend headlined my first viewing of Carousel; I ground my teeth throughout and bit my tongue at the garage rock cast party in Round Lake.

Margaret Qualley quivers with a perfect tear stuck in her eye. Artists and control freaks, one and the same, but it can only go so far. Sometimes you can’t write yourself a happy ending but you can create a memorable night.