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Before we say “Goodbye Old Girl” to our third playlist, I wanted to name the Notable Creatives that we covered. Add these to the folks introduced in Turning Points and Songs Everybody Should Know,…
No. 40. “Keep Marching”
Summer 2024. You’re attending a performance of Suffs, a new musical produced by, among others, Hillary Clinton and Malala. You’re expecting a sort of “girl-boss” Hamilton. Suffs is based on American…
No. 39. “Ring of Keys”
Spring 2015. You’re at Fun Home, a musical based on Alison’s Bechdel’s memoir of growing up in a funeral home, embracing her queer identity, and confronting her father’s closeted homosexuality and…
No. 38. ”Superboy and the Invisible Girl”
Spring 2009. You’re watching the new musical Next to Normal. You had missed its off-Broadway production a year prior, which had gotten a mixed-response, and you’re curious as to why people are more…
No. 37. “Here I Am”
Spring 2005. You’re at Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, a new musical based on a Steve Martin movie you’ve been meaning to watch. To be honest, the main reason you’re here is to see Sherie Rene Scott and…
No. 36. “The Old Red Hills of Home”
It’s 1998, and you’re one of the lucky few to catch Parade during its short run at Lincoln Center Theater. You’ve heard good things about the score by a talented young composer, Jason Robert Brown,…
No. 35. “Wheels of a Dream”
It’s 1998, and you’re watching Ragtime a lavish and epic musical that takes the scale and scope of the 1980s British mega-musical and filter it through distinctly American voices and material. The…
No. 34. “Days Like This”
It’s 1992, and you’re watching the musical Falsettos. It’s the Broadway premier of two off-Broadway musicals from the 80’s, now presented as a single piece. William Finn wrote its eccentric score and…
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No. 33. “I Am What I Am”
Fall 1983. You’re at La Cage Aux Folles, a new musical with a score by Jerry Herman—who wrote some of the biggest hits of the 1960s but hasn’t been so lucky lately—and a book by Harvey Fierstein.…
No. 32. “If I Could’ve Been”
Late May, 1978. You’re one of the few people on this green earth to see a Broadway performance of Working, a new musical with a book and direction by Stephen Schwartz and a score divvied up by…
No. 31. “There’s Gotta Be Something Better Than This”
It’s 1966, and you’re nearing the end of Sweet Charity’s first act. The evening thus far has been stylish and sexy, dominated by the unmistakable staging of Bob Fosse and a score by Cy Coleman and…
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