casey (avoiding her research flop queen 🍉)

PhD candidate and theatre artist writing about musical theatre flops and neoliberalism. Ask me about the 1986 musical RAGS. she/her/hers

[casey (avoiding her research flop queen 🍉) @cl_berner]

must a musical theatre song “make sense”? is it not enough simply to have been written for judy kuhn and then re-assigned to whichever of the two women in the show sings torch songs better??

[casey (avoiding her research flop queen 🍉) @cl_berner]

@mindyisser beyond unsafe, the smoke was deeply unpleasant yesterday in ny even with a mask on. hate to say it but i wouldn’t risk it if you can avoid

[s*d @06fordexplorer]

I’ve been listening to Ribs for ten years and it hasn’t cured me yet but I will keep trying

[itsonlyzach @itsonlyzach]

One of my theories for this is that the constant fetishization of STEM as the only worthy career path has come home to roost. We no longer are willing or able to apply a human context to science and technology, and we've lost the plot with a whole generation who lacks it.

[Sturgeon's Law @Sturgeons_Law]

Ireland mulls banning "the sale & import of goods from illegally occupied Palestinian territory." The US threatens them with economic consequences. The US bullying other countries to prevent action against Israel is a major reason Israel is able to do what it does

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

we are reaching levels of main character status for Philadelphia that Benjamin Franklin never could have dreamed of.

[Joel D. Anderson 🆓 @byjoelanderson]

What I think about in wake of Quincy Jones’ death is how big and audacious his life was. His grandfather was a slave. It’s not like he descended from talented tenthers. His imagination, talent, charisma-and amazingly good fortune-took him places almost no black men had ever been

[demi adejuyigbe @electrolemon]

quincy jones has a storied history as arguably the greatest/most influential music producer of all time but his most lasting legacy to me will always be the ability to casually reveal some massive gossip and then say "you like brazilian music?"

[casey (avoiding her research flop queen 🍉) @cl_berner]

i watched annie a bunch as a kid and it made me want to foster or adopt

[amil @amil]

Thinking about low birth rates, I’m curious, what’s keeping you from having a kid/having more kids?

[head taybrina⸆⸉🩰 @headtaybrina]

i hate gay halloween what do you mean you’re the post it carrie bradshaw’s boyfriend used to break up with her

[Leah Greenberg says NO KINGS ❌👑 @Leahgreenb]

Rashida Tlaib is doing GOTV in Michigan. The Uncommitted movement are up on the air with anti-Trump ads.

These folks deserved so much better from the party. But in spite of it all, they know how much is at stake and they're throwing in to fight against the fascist movement.

[Rohan Talbot @rohantalbot]

Fifty children.

[casey (avoiding her research flop queen 🍉) @cl_berner]

hugh grant is like the one film star who could legitimately play buddy plummer OR ben stone and we get his...theodore whitman

[Courtney Howard @Lulamaybelle]

I will never get over this. Hugh Grant is an absolute madman for pulling this off. 💝

[casey (avoiding her research flop queen 🍉) @cl_berner]

i will never forgive ahrens, flaherty, and mcnally for cutting this queen WHO APPEARS IN THE NOVEL from the musical 😭

[MrsFishVEVO @Will_Kellogg]

Ragtime would have won Best Musical if she were a character in it

[casey (avoiding her research flop queen 🍉) @cl_berner]

@jailedamanda now i’m looking into the production history of the play to see how deep the rabbit hole goes…

(so far not a ton of theatrical connection tbh 😭 but i’ve written a lot on hamilton’s theatrical predecessors/lineage and need to explore this fully lmfao)

[casey (avoiding her research flop queen 🍉) @cl_berner]

tweets indistinguishable from my actual phd thesis, 2/?

[JP @jpbrammer]

Is it so wrong to flop? does flopping not have its virtues? its delights?

[Absolutely Hammered @ah_pod]

philly team, please. I'm sick of the men.

[ivy 🔑 @longstosee]

gender essentialism in hobbies (“weird girl music” “men don’t get fiona apple” “female rage cinema”) has been a disaster for cultural criticism. one of the purposes of art is to allow us to empathise with perspectives alien to our own. hate it so much