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My Life: Played Out on Broadway
2017. A lump rises in my throat as my eyes lift to behold Dolly Levi, at the top of the grand stairway at Harmonia Gardens. The audience bursts with applause. Dolly descends in her signature red dress and feather … Continue reading
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Tagged A Chorus Line, AIDS, Bette Midler, Broadway, Fiddler on the Roof, gay, Hello Dolly, New York City, NYC, Susan Stroman
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Twenty Feet to Stardom
And the colored girls go “Doo do doo do doo do do doo…” Thus Lou Reed’s Walk on the Wild Side begins Twenty Feet from Stardom, a movie ostensibly about backup singers that is really about how we all endure, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Bette Midler, Bruce Springsteen, Claudia Lennear, Darlene Love, Gimme Shelter, How Can I Ease the Pain, Jo Lawry, Judith Knight, Lisa Fischer, Lou Reed, Merry Clayton, Michael Jackson, Mick Jagger, Phil Spector, Stevie Wonder, Sting, Tata Vega, The Blossoms, The Rolling Stones, Twenty Feet to Stardom, Walk on the Wild Side, Waters family
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