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** FREE CLASS ALERT **

The very brilliant James Rushin ( , currently on tour with ) posted a video his IG and FB feeds that he’d just gladly conduct super chill, super free theory get togethers to help answer questions for actors who wanted to get better at theory.

So we’re teaming up!! Join us both THIS MONDAY on Zoom. DM for the Zoom link.

11am ET - Advanced Beginners
12pm ET - Absolute Beginners

We’ll be making this a weekly hang, so if you can’t join this Monday still message and we’ll make sure you’re included in later ones!

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Congratulations to TheoryWorks coach Heathcliff Saunders!! 😊♥️

Heath Saunders Makes Debut as Jamie in COMPANY Heath Saunders made their debut as Jamie in Company on Broadway in both shows yesterday, April 6th!

“Being Alive” (Company): You prefer cuddling to s*x. You can only fall asleep if you’re listening to NPR. You drink your coffee black.

Goddamnit, just at me next time, McSweeney's

What Your Favorite Stephen Sondheim Song Says About You “The Ladies Who Lunch” (Company): You consider yourself to be “above” social media but are addicted to it nonetheless. You’re still incensed over h...

This Friday we had another TheoryWorks Community Night, this time seeing THE LIFE with the lovely , and none other than TheoryWorks grad ✨SHINING✨ onstage.

I have read some takedowns of this show, and folks: they’re not it.

Bless , ‘linguist’ at , and his piece “Yes, Some Musicals Are Unwoke. That’s Not a Writ to Rewrite Them,” which is exactly as tone deaf as it sounds — literally, as it turns out, since his piece ran on February 15th, a full two weeks before THE LIFE even **started rehearsals**

In it he begs to stage it “according to the script that Broadway audiences saw 25 years ago,” directly after offering a separate example in which he opines “why not just revise the script a bit, if needed?”

So, that piece is an incoherent mess.

There’s also an equally garbage review on Facebook that’s deleting all dissenting comments (mine included).

So in the absence of any take that could see past its own stodgy indignation long enough to actually review it, some thoughts:

✨It’s a tragedy that Ledisi isn’t eligible for a TONY

✨I’d never seen act in a fully staged production before, and that’s a thing I want to see more of. (Tho I did sit in the booth while he recorded his solo portions for , which will nourish my soul forever. Hi, buddy. ♥️✋)

✨The ENSEMBLE and their REVOLUTIONARY VERVE all but grabbed audience members by the lapels and forced them to pay the f**k attention.

✨ And stunned as a Gabrielle Union-esque divine goddess that floated above it all.

Sometimes the musical transitions were sloppy. I questioned a white arranger on this piece, and still do — in Easy Money the singer and the band sounded like they were in two different shows.

So it was uneven. But, that’s what happens when you TRY SOMETHING NEW.

I left WALKING ON AIR for the first time since .

We need more pieces that talk to us, even AT us, to shake us awake and make us feel alive.

I will always prefer that to the homogenized perfection that passes these days as a Broadway experience.

Bravi, cast.
And thank you.

⭐️Hey you! -- yes, YOU! Come join us at Open Studio.

Every other Saturday we're holding an open group vocal session for performers to come and get used to sing in front of other people after the pandemic.

Sing something old, or something new; something for an audition, or something for you.

Any genre, any style (because yes, can literally play everything). You can elect to sing for feedback from or without. Your choice. ❤️

Both sessions we've held so far have been WILDLY cathartic for all involved. Can't wait to see you this Saturday, the week after, and/or at every other week after that.

TW Community: We can't wait to hear you!!