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Jennie: "Chapter Two" by Neil Simon

You know what you want better than me, George… I don’t know what you expect to find out there, except a larger audience for your two shows a day of suffering… I know I’m not as smart as you. Maybe I can’t analyse and theorise and speculate on why we behave as we do and react as we do and suffer guilt and love and hate. You read all those books, not me… But there’s one thing I do know. I know how I feel. I know I can stand here watching you try to destroy everything I’ve ever wanted in my life, wanting to smash your face with my fists because you won’t even make the slightest effort to opt for happiness- and still know that I love you.

That’s always so clear to me. It’s the one place I get all my strength from… You mean so much to me that I am willing to take all your abuse and insults and insensitivity- because that’s what you need to do to prove I’m not going to leave you. I can’t promise I’m not going to die, George. That’s asking too much. But if you want to test me, go ahead and test me. You want to leave, leave! But I’m not the one who’s going to walk away. I don’t know if I can take it forever, but I can take it for tonight and I can take it next week. Next month I may be a little shaky… But I’ll tell you something, George. No matter what you say about me, I feel so good about myself- better than I felt when I ran from Cleveland and was frightened to death of New York. Better than I felt when Gus was coming home at two o’ clock in the morning just to change his clothes. Better than I felt when I thought there was no one in the world out there for me, and better than I felt the night before we got married and I thought that I wasn’t good enough for you.

Well, I am! I’m wonderful! I’m nuts about me! And if you’re stupid enough to throw someone sensational like me aside, then you don’t deserve as good as you’ve got! I am sick and tired of running from places and people and relationships… And don’t tell me what I want because I’ll tell you want I want. I want a home and I want a family- and I want a career, too. And I want a dog and I want a cat and I want three goldfish. I want everything! There’s no harm in wanting it, George, because there’s not a chance in hell we’re going to get it all anyway. But if you don’t want it you’ve got even less chance than that… Everyone’s out there looking for easy answers. And if you don’t find it at home, hop into another bed and maybe you’ll come up lucky. Maybe! You’d be just as surprised as me at some of the “maybe’s” I’ve seen out there lately. Well, none of that for me, George. You want me, then fight for me, because I’m fighting like hell for you. I think we’re both worth it.

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She: “Enigma” by Floyd Dell

I know you hate me. You have a right to. Not just because I was faithless–but because I was cruel. I don’t want to excuse myself–but I didn’t know what I was doing. I didn’t realize I was hurting you. Yes. I’ve said that before. And you’ve answered me that that excuse might hold for the first time, but not for the second and the third. You’ve convicted me of deliberate cruelty on that. And I’ve never had anything to say. I couldn’t say anything, because the truth was … too preposterous. It wasn’t any use telling it before. But now I want you to know the real reason. Something I’ve never confessed to you. Yes. It is true that I was cruel to you–deliberately. I did want to hurt you. And do you know why? I wanted to shatter that Olympian serenity of yours. You were too strong, too self-confident. You had the air of a being that nothing could hurt. You were like a god. You are still Olympian. And I still hate you for it. I wish I could make you suffer now. But I have lost my power to do that.

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Let’s throw it back to a Little duet from Once from Elsie Fest staring Laura Osnes and Aaron Tveit… Falling Slowly…

***FOUR WEEKS FROM TONIGHT UNTIL THE WESTHAMPTON BEACH SHOW***

Countdown: 
Westhampton Beach, NY - 28 Days 
Company First Preview - 53 Days 
Company Opening Night - 56 Days 
Company Closing Night - 76 Days 
Kutztown, PA - 95 Days

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Sara Bareilles and Jessie Mueller sing She Used to Be Mine at the 70th Annual Tony Awards

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Baby husky

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Blue 😂

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I’m

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“I think it’s a b-flat.”

Kristen Chenoweth trying to figure out the note of a triggered car alarm in a parking garage. (btw it was in fact a b-flat)

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March 1st.

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Alan Menken: “After countless demos of underscore for this moment when the Beast ‘dies’ in Belle’s arms, I recorded this piece with orchestra. It was possibly too intrusive.”

Even if the underscoring that Menken eventually settled on was more supportive of the action onscreen, this remains a gorgeous bit of music in its own right.

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💋 (at Saint Catharines, Ontario)

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Can't sleep in the city of neon and chrome.