Images on my mind tonight... the first: the Nativity scene in Bethlehem's Church this year. The second: José y Maria by Everett Patterson (2014).. almost 10 years ago, still relevant.
Christmas has been a weird time for me for a long time. I'm pretty unreligious these days. But the imagery still haunts. Especially when I think about how I got to where I'm at and wonder how my Christian friends and family can be - sometimes- so far away ideologically.
How did I grow up in a church that worshiped a little baby born in an occupied state to parents who became immigrants and learn, therefore, to love the stranger, the oppressed, the unhoused? And why do so many of the people who were churched around me fail to learn to love radically?
The entrenched hypocrisy of American Christianity is why I left. But I am still embedded in the traditions of this holiday, looking at a Christmas tree and thinking of all the suffering not only half a world away, but also right down the street.
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Think of me, think of me fondly...
In honor of the Phantom of the Opera Broadway production closing, here are a few gifts: audios and one video.
(As per usual, if you're the master of one of these and you want me to remove the link, please let me know.)
Audios
Michael Crawford, Patti Cohenour, Steve Barton, Judy Kaye, Nicholas Wyman, Cris Groenendaal, Leila Martin, Elisa Heinsohn, David Romano
April 30, 1988
https://www.mediafire.com/file/aybwjye3k647bfy/POTO+Broadway+30-04-1988+-+Crawford,+Cohenour,+Barton.rar/file
Hugh Panaro, Lisa Vroman, John Cudia, Patricia Phillips, Jeff Keller, George Lee Andrews (u/s), Marilyn Caskey, Joelle Gates, Larry Wayne Morbitt
May 10, 2003
https://www.mediafire.com/file/834a4sqxgjmsows/POTO+Broadway+10-05-2003+-+Panaro,+Vroman,+Cudia.rar/file
Gary Mauer, Jennifer Hope Wills, Michael Shawn Lewis, Janet Saia (u/s), George Lee Andrews, David Cryer, Marilyn Caskey, Jimmy Smagula (u/s)
May 15, 2007
https://www.mediafire.com/file/70690zs3dpyb3dj/POTO+Broadway+15-05-2007+-+Mauer,+Wills,+Lewis.rar/file
Jeremy Stolle (u/s), Samantha Hill, Greg Mills (u/s), Michele McConnell, Richard Poole (u/s), Tim Jerome, Ellen Harvey, Kara Klein, Christian Sebek
March 9, 2013
Matinee performance.
https://www.mediafire.com/file/zfln9bh0thrg8dx/POTO+Broadway+09-03-2013+-+Stolle,+Hill,+Mills.rar/file
Norm Lewis, Mary Michael Patterson (alt.), Greg Mills (u/s)
July 7, 2014
The real 11,000th performance (not the celebration, which was done the next day).
https://www.mediafire.com/file/jei306ekuy0usjj/POTO+Broadway+07-07-2014+-+Lewis,+Patterson,+Hays.rar/file
Laird Mackintosh (u/s), Mary Michael Patterson, Jeremy Hays, Michelle MConnell, Ellen Harvey, Christian Sebek
December 13, 2014
Mary Michael Patterson and Ellen Harvey's last matinee performance.
https://www.mediafire.com/file/kt79nevlbc3yexn/POTO+Broadway+13-12-2014+-+Mackintosh,+Patterson,+Hays.rar/file
Ben Crawford, Meghan Picerno, John Riddle, Raquel Suarez Groen, Bradley Dean, Craig Bennett, Maree Johnson, Sara Esty, Carlton Moe
October 22, 2021
Re-opening performance on Broadway.
https://www.mediafire.com/file/d4dcjwf9n40yseu/Phantom+of+The+Opera+Broadway+October+22nd+2021+Reopening.mp3/file
Jeremy Stolle (u/s), Kanisha Marie Feliciano (u/s), John Riddle
September 17, 2022
https://www.mediafire.com/file/8elrbfv5bsgbfqq/POTO+Broadway+17-09-2022+-+Stolle,+Feliciano,+Riddle.rar/file
Video
Hugh Panaro, Mary Michael Patterson, Jeremy Hays
May 3, 2014
Hugh Panaro's last performance, with speeches.
https://mega.nz/folder/L6xDgahT#054peSCr8ADIj6aat2MNnA
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