You've been a preacher--
  Yes, I have!
You've been an author--
  Yes, I have!
You've been a killer--
  Yes, I have!
You could be an angel--
  Yes, I could!



I'm listening to this song right now from Anthony De Mare's Liaisons: Reimagining Sondheim from the Piano. An insanely good recording.

...or not:

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1. My arm is supposed to be in the sling for 4-6 weeks.
2. The dishwasher that was supposed to be delivered yesterday now will take until a week from today, so I get to hand-wash for another week!
3. The rain looks like it's turning into snow.
4. I preordered my copy of Here We Are as a birthday present to myself. (because the dishwasher and the new shoulder aren't enough.)
5. B left me several presents in the living room. 

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This article includes the complete songlist, 27 tracks in all.

As a teaser for the album, the full 3-minute orchestral "Exit Music" track can be heard on Spotify, Apple Music, etc.; and also as a video (featuring footage from the recording studio, not the show):

Also, Groff and Radcliffe participated in Mendez's wedding to her All Rise costar J. Alex Brinson this past Monday.  The newlyweds are expecting a baby this fall, but in the meantime Mendez will remain with Merrily through July.

Wow, Kathy, that sounds stressful!  Sending good thoughts your way and hoping for a speedy recovery.
For what it's worth, a titanium shoulder actually sounds kinda badass.

"expensive week ahead" is the understatement of the year. My health insurance deductible is $2800 and I went through that on Wednesday evening when I fell in my kitchen, realized it hurt more than a simple fall does, and ended up taking a $40 Lyft ride to the emergency room (1 mile from my house). There it was determined that I had both dislocated and broken my humerus. I had surgery on Friday and finally got back home yesterday afternoon. I have a brand new titanium shoulder. A friend offered to take care of Bernadette. Thank the world for that. I am tired of typing with one finger, so that's all I have to report for now.

Featurettes!  Actually kind of interesting ones!


Never mind the tired "anti-musical" pitch — here taking on a slightly more specific spin than usual, with music itself as the story's antagonist, and musical theatre, of a sort, as its hero's salvation in the end.  (In terms of movie-musical story structure, neither of these twists is unprecedentedly original; and in terms of the marketing, the past two decades of trying to sell musicals to musical-haters by pandering to their aversion haven't made the strategy any less lame or perverse; but whatever).  Música is chockablock with music, but almost none of it is sung — and then only by the synesthetic hero or his puppet alter-ego — so, while much of its running-time might be described as a sustained (and witty) visual assault on the idea of film as an inherently realist medium, sensitive viewers are largely spared the affront to willing disbelief posed by having characters burst into song.

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Yes sir, quite a blow!
Don't regret it, and don't let's go to extremes.
It's called what's your choice?  It's called count to ten!
It's called burn your bridges, start again.
You should burn them every now and then
Or you'll never grow...

Because now you grow! — that's the killer, is:
Now you grow.

I took my car in for the snazzy new power steering pump, and it's going to cost $1700.  I'm hoping that by the time the credit card statement is due, I will have received one or both of my tax refunds. I also want to renew my theatre season tickets for next year, and I thought about doing it yesterday, but I then thought that it might be better to wait until after the car situation is over.

I have a loaner car that is much nicer that my current car (power seats, push-button ignition), but not as nice as the last loaner car I had. That one had a heads-up display at the bottom of the windshield. That one also had a radio I could figure out. With this current loaner car, I finally figured out how to get two radio stations, and I tuned to the more-appealing one (a public jazz station). I can't figure out how to tune to anything beyond those two stations. And I really miss my CD changer. I suppose I could hook up my phone to the Bluetooth, but I don't have much confidence that I'll figure that out.

As for the Denver Center theatre season next year, I'm not tremendously excited by it the way I was about this current season (which had ALNM and The Lehman Trilogy), but I still want to renew.