Dr. Nathan Loughstein
@rhapsodyinblu
Musical Theatre 🤝 Music Theory That's the killer is, now you grow. nathanbearyloughstein.com ("Lock-steen")
Meanwhile my question for once-MIA Rep. Tom Kean remains: what health concerns, exactly; and what tests, exactly.
So… my congressman, Tom Kean, still hasn't been seen in public, right? Even though he said he'd be back "very soon" over a week ago?
Cybertruck parked next to a fire hydrant. No, I’m not making this up. Yes, also the tags are expired.
I’m humbled to have contributed to “96 Gifts for Sondheim’s 96th” at The Sondheim Hub.
If you’re in NYC this weekend and feel compelled to celebrate Sondheim’s 96th birthday with music analysis AND amazing performances, I’m hosting “Studying the Hat: The Music and Lyrics of Stephen Sondheim” at The Green Room 42 on Sunday 3/22 at 1pm! thegreenroom42.venuetix.com/showdetails/...
I'm hosting a Sondheim concert at The Green Room 42! I'll be analyzing songs with the help of a fantastic group of performers. "Studying the Hat: The Music and Lyrics of Stephen Sondheim" March 22, 1pm—a Sondheim birthday celebration.
The Kennedy Center was built for the people, and that is what he hates about it most.
This same publication did this same interview less than a decade ago
Well, the plaintiff wrote this pro-segregation essay back in August, so I’d say that assumption is generous.
Sharing these on behalf of my spouse, who does not have Bluesky but does love pigeons.
Patrick offered some terrific insight into the history of the show and shared the story of how it found us. I talked a bit about what it’s meant to transcribe Carmines’s extravagant virtuosity. And we got to perform with a stellar cast.
Yesterday my spouse Patrick and I put on a concert of the 1971 Al Carmines musical JOAN at The Green Room 42. Two original cast members came to see it. So did Peter Filichia, cohost of “This Week on Broadway”—and here he is talking about seeing the show nearly 50 years ago, two nights in a row.
Sunset from the Madison Building at the Library of Congress tonight
I made a video a while back about hidden rhymes in *Into the Woods* that includes Sondheim’s use of the word “dwell.” Well, “dwells.”
A couple years ago in DC, my spouse and I helmed a staged reading of a surreal, queer, preachy adaptation of Joan of Arc set in 1970s downtown NYC written by the brilliant Al Carmines. The reading was the first performance of the musical in nearly fifty years.
Only one channel responded to a request for comment, and the response is clearly itself AI-generated.
He mentioned something I’d not thought about before when I asked him about the pivotal lyric fragments in “Epiphany”/“Priest.”
Look, Ma, I’m a kicker. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Washington Post: Dupont Circle Park will remain open during Pride weekend www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
"They're everywhere"—by coincidence, I just had this autocomplete jumpscare earlier tonight when I was looking into switching phone providers.
The Kennedy Center has canceled its upcoming tour of FINN. I was the music director for the world premiere production this fall. It's the show I wish had existed when I was a child. The Trump administration is trying to censor this story but it will never disappear. @chrisnee.bsky.social's IG post
The TikTok saga makes me angry. God, it is so stupid. And that makes me sad—the reception from posting this video on there was a true turning point in my life.
