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Written by John Chu on 2025-01-23 at 15:47

I realize what I'm about to say is not particularly helpful, but this is another good reason to respond not with outrage but with pity. Look at the pathetic folks trying to puff themselves up with that salute. Mel Brooks had a point when he laughed at them.

https://universeodon.com/@LaNaehForaday/113878369716270982

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Written by John Chu on 2025-01-20 at 16:24

Patricia Rutledge absolutely owning her tour de force aria "Duet for One" from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, a musical about some of the times when American democracy has been in peril.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=burzo8LxTYs

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Written by John Chu on 2025-01-19 at 12:58

TIL the tenor in the original B'way production of Master Class was Jay Hunter Morris!

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Written by John Chu on 2025-01-13 at 18:01

The most recent This American Life has a dramatization of the hilarious story "The Big Nap" by Simon Rich as performed (currently on B'way) in All In

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/851/try-a-little-tenderness

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Written by John Chu on 2025-01-12 at 17:47

Wonderful performance of Jason Robert Brown's "Hear My Song" from _Songs for a New World" by the Swingles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCOt1pxt9X0

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Written by John Chu on 2024-12-29 at 22:17

"Lily's Eyes" (one of the best male-male duets in American musical theater) song by Theo Hoffman and Jack Swanson. Wonderful to hear it sung by two men with voice to spare.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1x2XICpTqY

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Written by John Chu on 2024-12-29 at 13:32

The Real Group, one of the best a cappella groups in the world, sang a 40th anniversary concert at Stockholm in October and it's on YouTube!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3jfY9iqS4s

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Written by John Chu on 2024-12-23 at 17:52

Music for the season: VOCES8's exquisite performance of the Lauridsen "O Magnum Mysterium."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ-nuU-hda8

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Written by John Chu on 2024-12-16 at 18:04

Award eligibility time! I published one story in 2024, the novelette "Wonderland Is a Parking Lot in Revere" in

@UncannyMagazine

(Mentors! Multiple timelines! A tenor trying to get his high C!)

https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/wonderland-is-a-parking-lot-in-revere/

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Written by John Chu on 2024-12-15 at 23:31

The Chinese translation of "The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere" is up at GPA!

https://shorturl.at/BifDT

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Written by John Chu on 2024-12-04 at 21:37

Latest episode of Slate's Outward podcast is an interview with Michael Andor Brodeur about his new book Swole: The Making of Men and the Meaning of Muscle.

https://slate.com/podcasts/outward/2024/12/writer-michael-andor-brodeur-on-muscle-as-a-performance-of-gender-and-power

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Written by John Chu on 2024-12-02 at 16:48

The Donmar Warehouse cast of Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 perform the Prologue (where you get one name and one distinguish trait per character)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egs3PuZZ1Ng

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Written by John Chu on 2024-11-30 at 16:58

A wonderful blast from the past: Raúl Esparza in 2004 sight-reading "Defying Gravity"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnryROEX-VA

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Written by John Chu on 2024-11-30 at 17:02

Also, from the same concert, Raúl Esparza's gorgeous "I Don't Believe in Heroes Anymore" from Three Guys Naked from the Waist Down

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B004AqkDbXU

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Written by John Chu on 2024-11-26 at 20:39

The Magnetic Fields: Tiny Desk Concert

https://www.npr.org/2024/11/20/g-s1-34897/the-magnetic-fields-tiny-desk-concert

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Written by John Chu on 2024-11-26 at 16:54

Hey, @maryrobinette is on the latest episode of The Allusionist talking about animal communications. It's a fascinating subject. Well worth your time.

https://www.theallusionist.org/allusionist/lexicat1

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Written by John Chu on 2024-11-21 at 21:20

Apparently, I'm not the only person who wanted a breakdown of how Chock & Bates changed their rhythm dance between Skate American and NHK Trophy. Very grateful for this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjyTsrqO4bE

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Written by John Chu on 2024-11-21 at 15:47

SNL did another Bonjour HI sketch last week, but it was cut for time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzk_CkVMm5I

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Written by John Chu on 2024-11-15 at 11:51

The thing about the frog in a boiling pot metaphor is that it's not true. In real life, frogs will attempt to escape the pot. We need to do at least as well as a frog.

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Written by John Chu on 2024-11-12 at 20:45

Tonight (Nov 12) at 6PM Eastern Ken Liu

@kyliu99

has an on-line talk at the Museum of Chinese in America about his translation of the Dao De Jing!

https://www.mocanyc.org/event/moca-talks-ken-liu-dao-de-jing/

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