Doug Reside

Curator of the Billy Rose Theater Division @nypl
[My opinions do not necessarily reflect those of anyone or any institution with whom/which I associate]

[Oxford Music @OUPMusic]

From the mid-70s, the appearance of musical theatre on television helped to establish the musical as an important American art form worthy of critical attention.

Discover more about this development in a chapter from @dougreside’s “Fixing the Musical”: https://t.co/veqt8iVoLy

[Doug Reside @dougreside]

If you want to hear me talk about my new book in person, come to the Museum of Broadway on Tuesday at 5pm. It's free! https://t.co/zfhOLpdC3Q

[Doug Reside @dougreside]

I'm interviewing Betty Aberlin at the Library this Monday at 6pm. Many here may know her best from her long running role on Mr. Rogers, but she was also involved in many of the most interesting theatre pieces of the late 20th century. Tickets are free: https://t.co/JSQ4xE9J86

[Doug Reside @dougreside]

Book drop day! My book, Fixing the Musical (about the technologies that shaped what we think of when we think of musicals) is out as an eBook. Paper to come in the next week or two: https://t.co/W8CBcEcN2A

[Doug Reside @dougreside]

May God bless you and grant you long lives.
(May the Lord fulfill our Sabbath prayer for you.)
Thanks, Mr. Harnick.

[The Library for Performing Arts @nypl_lpa]

#NoCutsToLibraries! Today you can help us send a clear, united message to City leaders: reverse the $36.2 million cut.

[Doug Reside @dougreside]

"Of course, I shouldn't tell you this but she advocates *dirty books*...Chaucer! Rabelais! Bal-zac!" ~The Music Man (1957) 📸 Friedman-Abeles
https://t.co/KtEHxmqw81 #nocutstolibraries

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@Friends_UoB_TC Photo by Friedman-Abeles

[Doug Reside @dougreside]

@Friends_UoB_TC That's fine

[Doug Reside @dougreside]

Did anybody here see the musical of Sweeney Todd that opened the Sullivan Street Playhouse in 1957 at the same time that West Side Story was opening on Broadway? I've written a little piece about it, but I'd love to know more:
https://t.co/9ufQocqpDt

[Doug Reside @dougreside]

I recently published a short piece of the making of the original production of The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window. You can read it here:
https://t.co/W5bnDeTiAF

Also, @nypl_lpa has digitized over 1000 photos of the original production. Here's Rita Moreno:

[Doug Reside @dougreside]

@jamescummings @mkirschenbaum If I could control the input (point it at a text), I struggle to think of a more efficient way. Messing with lots of regexps would take quite a bit longer than a sentence to Chatgpt. I think handmade markup (that isn’t idiosyncratic annotation) may be obsolete sooner than 5 years

[Doug Reside @dougreside]

I'm going to assume I'm not the only person to have tried this, but I remember how we used to talk about how TEI could train AI. Seems like it did. "Tag Hamlet using SP, SPEAKER tags with the "who" attribute":

[Doug Reside @dougreside]

@louBurnard I just asked ChatGPT to do it, and it already knew about Hamlet. Short of sending it short bits of text and asking for the results, I don't think the devs of this tool have made a good way for users to feed it large amounts of data yet. I request'd plugin dev power tho.

[Doug Reside @dougreside]

@hcayless @benmschmidt @FolgerLibrary The more I play with it, the more it seems capable of coming up with TEI for any text it wants (even those it generates itself). I don't think it's basing it on any particular encoding. It'll tell you itself it's incomplete and that "TEI can have a variety of valid encodings..."

[Doug Reside @dougreside]

@benmschmidt @FolgerLibrary Even more interesting (maybe), I sent it to a page that had the libretto of ALW's Phantom of the Opera and asked it to generate TEI. It wrote it's own adaptation, but used TEI: https://t.co/hDPbW772N9

[Doug Reside @dougreside]

@benmschmidt @FolgerLibrary I think this is actually generated from a model rather than a copy paste.

[Doug Reside @dougreside]

@firethistimenyc Is the 3pm stream working? I've been refreshing but I can't seem to get a video.

[Doug Reside @dougreside]

@lesmisofficial It's the same pathetic story:
"Please, monsieur, my child will die!" [Original Barbican]

[Doug Reside @dougreside]

I enjoyed compiling this not-terribly-scientific survey the scenes that get cut most often from stage versions of A Christmas Carol. (Next year let's have the Christmas celebration in the Lighthouse and the mines!) https://t.co/oHMbfJfKRe