MARQUEE: The Broadway Maven's Weekly Blast

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Think more deeply about musical theater
When you hear the people sing, don't "Miz" this ancient structure
“One Day More” unfurls a subtle literary "chiasm" in Les Misérables
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Another National Anthem: Stephen Sondheim and Postwar American Jewish Culture
How The Master echoed contemporaries like Philip Roth, Lenny Bruce, and Carole King
The Stevies: Broadway's "Content Dictates Form" Awards
A quintet of non-Sondheim musicals with Sondheim DNA
Caesars Times Square Will Be a Losing Hand for Broadway
As Vegas creeps closer, why is Actor's Equity letting it ride?
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Oh, What a Circus: How Tim Rice helped Andrew Lloyd Webber "bend time"
From Argentina to Biblical Canaan, three narrators fight to shape the myths behind the music
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Sunday in the Park with Rats
Pixar's Ratatouille isn't a Sondheim musical. Actually, it kind of is
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How It Glittered: Interpreting Broadway's Golden Age
Video lecture on five features that made the era's shows gleam
Circling the Master: The Sondheim Hub launches Act Two
Substacker Alex Marsden unwinds about year one at the Hub, reveals Broadway's "gateway drug," and explains why he's seeing the same production five…
Very Greek: Don’t Myth Mamma Mia!’s Serious Side
In searching for her mother, Sophie becomes her—and vice versa
Stephen Sondheim, Quite Contrary: Mary Me a Lot
Rethinking assumptions about Maria, Mary, Marie, and Marianne
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High Cs on the High Seas: Four nights on The Broadway Cruise
Anything Went on a voyage of performances, panels, and pizzazz
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SURVEY: Upcoming Broadway Maven classes
No MARQUEE this week, but won't you help us shape our curriculum?
Is "Rent" Past Due? How Broadway Is Rebooting "No Day But Today"
Today's most acclaimed musicals help explain why "Rent" feels stuck in the '90s
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MARQUEE: The Broadway Maven's Weekly Blast
MARQUEE: The Broadway Maven's Weekly Blast
Think more deeply about musical theater
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