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A Chorus Line's dazzling night - and others

Sondheim's Jewish "Assassins"

Is next year's "Sweeney Todd" certain to make a killing?

The dark side of the gender-swapped "Company"

"Forum": is drag still funny?

No more fat suits for Hairspray's Tracy Turnblad

The unsung hero of Les Miz (it's not Marius)

"Hair" and other shows that use the N-bomb

Winthrop Paroo (from "The Music Man") didn’t always lisp

Javert's crush on Valjean? Broadway fan theories

Can a Broadway performer criticize their own show?

Are you pronouncing these Broadway terms wrong?

Is Grease's Sandy dead?

"Decipherating" Wicked's Oz-Speak

Did Cole Porter write "You're King Kong's Penis"?

SPECIAL ISSUE: Going deep "Into the Woods"

When Ashman met Menken

The Lyrics of the Night: Andrew Lloyd Webber's best wordsmiths

How bossy was Fosse?

Christians come to Jesus (Christ Superstar)

Hello! The Book of Mormon comes to Utah

Brigitta Rocks!

Broadway's King of Beefcake

The Men of Rodgers and Hammerstein

Broadway! (see what I did?)

On "Company" closing...

Introducing Sunday classes

Joining the circus, Broadway-style

FRIDAY: Early Bird deadline, Second Semester ALL-ACCESS Pass

When Carole King visited "Beautiful"

PRIDE ISSUE: the 1970s gay-marriage musical "Boy Meets Boy"

MASTER CLASS on A Chorus Line: Early Bird deadline Tuesday

Second Semester Announced

Video Weekly Blast: A Chorus Line, Rent, Godspell

How naughty was Broadway's Golden Age?

Corrected links for Broadway Music 101 and Gay Broadway

THURSDAY: Broadway Music 101

Send in the Hounds! Sondheim's Worst Lyric

Correction: Thursday's Disney class is at Noon and 7 pm

THURSDAY: Disney Music 101

Introduction to Broadway starts TUESDAY

Flippety-floppety-BOO: What went wrong with these Disney musicals?

48-hour sale: $10 off Intro to Broadway

Sondheim's ambivalent "Company"

History of "Follies"

TOMORROW: "Early Bird" rate for Intro to Broadway ends

The background to "Send in the Clowns"

Tuesday is the last day for Intro to Broadway Early Bird rate

ONE MORE WEEK: Intro to Broadway Early Bird rate

The Broadway Maven at Two

Just announced: PAID student "Intro to Broadway" seminar

TOMORROW: Broadway's "Hair"

Hair's "Tribe" to Germany: "Censor THIS"

NOW: Ain't Misbehavin' with creator Murray Horwitz

Ain't Misbehavin' and 1970s Black Broadway

Recording of Next to Normal class

"Pippin" and Broadway's first TV spot

Sculpting Sondheim's "Sunday" lyrics

THURSDAY: Les Misérables

Sondheim's Assas-Sins - and other wordplay

Recordings of Gypsy and West Side Story classes

Update on David's teaching

Who's the real star of Gypsy?

TOMORROW: Hairspray

Was Liza too talented for Cabaret?

TOMORROW: last day for ALL-ACCESS Passes

Resend: YouTube Gems on Sondheim

How the News Keeps Killing "Assassins"

ONE MORE WEEK for ALL-ACCESS Passes

Best of the quotable "Into the Woods"

TOMORROW: Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd

What's Broadway's most enduring rhyme?

Sondheim's "Company": Three Meanings

February/March classes announced

TOMORROW: Sondheim Series Kicks off (NOTE TIME CHANGE)