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bethestaryouareradio · 2 months

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Coming Alive

“I went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown. For going out, I found, was really going in.” ~ John Muir

Walking around my property, I am in awe of how quickly my landscape has come to life. Within just a couple of weeks, the garden has awoken from its deep sleep blanketing the hillside with lush green grasses and fantastic flowers. The frogs are croaking, the birds are chirping, and the bees are buzzing. Despite the continuing rain, nature is waking up from its soggy slumber.

My garden is a living laboratory where I design borders to include a diverse mix of plants including bulbs, perennials, annuals, shrubs, trees, and vines. Originally my color palette was strictly pinks, purples, blues, and whites, but over the years I have acknowledged the beauty of all color combinations. Daring forms and textures are welcome as I attempt to create a naturalistic style. Taking cues from Mother Nature, I encourage self-sowing specimens (thank you calendula and nigella) and I prefer my landscape to be full, a bit crowded, and wild. Rocks, stones, and gravel are incorporated into the scheme while vintage used bricks delineate the paths.

If you’d like to create a garden that respects the natural world, here are a few tips that may help.

1. Don’t be afraid to mix and match. Shrubs and trees provide structure. Bulbs pop up as surprises, especially at this time of year. Perennials are the main attraction with annuals affording the colors you desire throughout the year.

2. Always plant in swaths or groups. Repeating the groups coalesces and unifies the look.

3. Invite specimens that you like to self-sow. Allow plants to grow as they would in nature without your assistance. Don’t fret when stray flowers appear in an area where you didn’t plan to have them grow. Whimsical is fun.

4. When it comes to coordinating colors, be open to the bold and beautiful. I never thought I’d like so much orange and yellow in my landscape, but the combination of daffodils, calendula, and poppies has changed my mind.

5. Strive for balance. A clipped hedge is wonderful surrounding a formal rose garden, or outlining a driveway, yet when a garden is too heavily manicured it appears almost fake. Allow for some spillers, fillers, and thrillers. Add elements of awe.

6. Use containers for a variety of plants, including small trees. I have an Italian white peach growing in a container that boasts beautiful bright pink blossoms with fluorescent yellow oxalis underplanted. It is quite the unexpected showstopper. As a bonus, when the peaches are ripe, they are easy to harvest.

7. Orchestrate seasonal displays with plenty of colorful and textural annuals, perennials, grasses, and bulbs. Natives and carefully chosen non-natives will thrive happily together. With a plentiful variety of plants, pollinators will call your garden home and become your trusted helpers.

What’s Blooming Now?

*Bradford pear, plum, and peach trees

*Azaleas and camellias

*Daffodils

*Tulips

*Calla lilies

*Bergenia

*Calendula

*Cyclamen

*Muscari

*Iris

*Primrose

*Lilies of the Valley

*Christmas cactus

*Periwinkle

*Oxalis

*Freesia

*Viburnum

*Hellebore

*Jade

*Salvia Hot Lips

*Potato Vine

*Chinese Fringe

*Mustard

Numerous other plants are budding and will be gracing our gardens soon. Stay tuned!

The Goddess Gardener’s March Garden Guide

For more gardening advice for all seasons, check out Growing with the Goddess Gardenerat https://www.CynthiaBrian.com/books. Raised in the vineyards of Napa County, Cynthia Brian is a New York Times best-selling author, actor, radio personality, speaker, media and writing coach as well as the Founder and Executive Director of Be the Star You Are!® 501 c3, celebrating its 25th year of serving the world.

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goddessgardener · 5 months

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World Kindness Week!

MIRACLE MOMENT® “Forget everything else and remember your humanity.” Albert Einstein A MESSAGE from Founder/Executive Director, CYNTHIA BRIAN November 13-19 is World Kindness Week and if there ever was a time that we all need to consider kindness as an essential human emotion, it is now. Life is complicated, chaotic, and constantly challenging. When we pause long enough to consider the…

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MIRACLE MOMENT®

“Forget everything else and remember your humanity.” Albert Einstein

A MESSAGE from Founder/Executive Director, CYNTHIA BRIAN

November 13-19 is World Kindness Week and if there ever was a time that we all need to consider kindness as an essential human emotion, it is now. Life is complicated, chaotic, and constantly challenging. When we pause long enough to consider the feelings of others and be kind, we can connect in a meaningful way. Kindness breeds kindness. With kindness as our guiding light, cooperation and community evolve and multiply. Our Kindness Coordinator, Karen Kitchel, offers ways for you to act with kindness. At Be the Star You Are!®, we encourage kindness in all of our daily activities and spearhead outreach programs that are kind and inclusive. We donate uplifting books to those in need. We produce and host radio broadcasts that empower and inspire. We organize and participate in events that create and foster community while making a difference. Kindness is king!

My parents taught me to treat others as I want to be treated. Most of us practice this lesson as a basic need of every human is to love and be loved, to appreciate and be appreciated, to be effective and make a difference.

How can you be kinder? First, be kind to yourself. Treat others with respect. Offer compliments and speak in a positive manner. Find the good in someone and let them know you appreciate them. Compliment often and criticize less. Donate your time and resources to a charity or cause you believe in. Help someone in need of support. Open your heart.

Practice being kind and you’ll feel a big boost of the love hormone, oxytocin. You’ll be less stressed and discover joy in the little things. Kindness is contagious. Pass it around!

Smile with kindness and remember you humanity.

Cynthia Brian

Founder/Executive Director

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PO Box 376

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A WEEK OF KINDNESS

by Karen Kitchel

This week promotes the importance of being kind. The purpose of the week, celebrated in November each year, is to help everyone understand that compassion for others is what binds us all together.

What to do?

Interrupt the ordinary

Think about the people who help you get life done (trash collector, mail delivery person, etc.) Interrupt them with a bottle of sparkling water or candy bar and a “Thanks for what you do.”

Ice cream scattering

While at the grocery store, pick up a box of ice cream bars and drop them off at a local shelter. All you have to say is “Enjoy!”

A line to say to make someone’s day

“You are really good at what you do!”

Magazines for the homeless

If you enjoy reading, gather your used magazines and take them to a homeless shelter.

Kindness cards

Make up a few note cards to keep in your car or purse to randomly give to those wonderful folks who keep restrooms clean or the person who fills your water glass. Cards can simply say: “You are appreciated."

Treat Someone

Going out for lunch or a cup of coffee? Choose a random person and tell the server you will pick up their tab.

Karen Kitchel is the Kindness Coordinator volunteer with BTSYA. She purchased the book, No Barnyard Bullies, as a gift for every kindergarten student where she is a volunteer teacher. www.scatteringkindness.com

BOOKS TO INCREASE KINDNESS

For teens and adults, check out the Be the Star You Are! series of books offering positive, uplifting stories for living, loving, laughing, and learning to make a difference. The trilogy includes Be the Star You Are!, 99 Gifts, Be the Star You Are! for Teens, and Be the Star You Are! Millennials to Boomers. All purchases benefit Be the Star You Are!® charity.

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adventurelandia · 4 years

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The Barnyard Broadcast (1931)

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scapegrace74-blog · 4 years

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Saorsa, Chapter 3

A/N You still with me, readers? Unlike the show, it’s a long haul before my Jamie and Claire finally meet. It takes time to world-build. But Jamie and Blackjack Randall meet in this chapter. That’s something, right?

From here on in, Gaelic dialogue will be in italics, and Google Translator translations will be found at the very bottom of the post.

For those just joining the broadcast already in session, here are Chapter 1 and Chapter 2. Or you can head over to my AO3 page and binge read the whole thing. I won’t complain!

Thanks to my Outlander fanfic publicist, @gotham-ruaidh!

He awoke to the familiar stench of barnyard offal and the sea-like jolting of a wooden cart. His wrists were bound tightly. After painful effort he found his ankles were manacled as well. It was night, and he could hear flat English voices in the dark nearby. A prisoner, then.

It was difficult forcing his cloudy mind to focus, but it was essential. Being taken prisoner by the English was a thousand times worse than dying in battle. He knew enough of their brutality towards the Scots to grasp the ordeal that awaited him. As a captured Jacobite, he would be tortured until he yielded information about his fellow rebels or died in the undertaking. If he’d had a blade, he might have cut his own throat to spare himself the pain, were it not a mortal sin.

Consciousness fled and when it returned, he was being lifted roughly from the wagon by three Redcoats. His left shoulder seared with pain and fairy lights danced before his eyes, but he managed to balance shakily upright. The low doorway of a drover’s hut forced him to bend nearly double. When he was able to regain his full height, it took a moment for his eyes to adjust to the dim glow cast by the fire inside the rough shelter. Once they did, he knew he was truly damned.

If his captors had been mere infantrymen, he stood a chance of resisting interrogation and possibly of escape. But sitting before the hearth, leather-booted feet extended towards the flames, was a man whose insignia identified him as a captain of dragoons. He was shoved roughly in that direction, and it was only through tight mastery of his person that he avoided crying out in pain. Instead he stood erect and defiant in his plaid and ruined linen sark, allowing the officer to take his measure. Icy blue eyes met deep brown without wavering.

“To whom do I have the honour of addressing myself,” the captain finally said in derisive, crisp tones.

“James Alexander Malcolm of Poltalloch,” he answered swiftly, hoping the man had no knowledge of clan tartans.

“Jonathan Randall, Captain of His Majesty’s army, Eleventh Regiment, Lord Kerr’s Dragoons, at your service.” The man rose and made a mocking bow in his direction. He was tall, but still a good hand shorter than the Scot. He bore himself with the same haughty uprightness of every English officer. There was a gleam of intelligence to his dark eyes and a shadow of viciousness in the hard set of his lips. All in all, the very last man he wanted to meet in his current predicament. He tried to steel himself for the coming trial.

His father, dead these three years, spoke to him then.

“A man who does not know fear is a fool, mo mhac. The truest measure of a man is that he meets his fear head on and does not flinch. Dutifully. Honourably. Tha toil Dhè air a dhèanamh.”

Instead of immediate questioning or brutality, he was offered a stool near the hearth and a ladle of fresh water. With the pitch of battle and the confusion of capture fading from his nerves, he was dry-mouthed with thirst. It had been two days since he had slept for more than a moment, and his whole body shook with the effort of sitting upright. The captain’s lips were moving, but all he could hear was a distant hum, like a far-off hive of bees. Then everything went black.

mo mhac = my son

Tha toil Dhè air a dhèanamh. = God’s will be done.

#my writing #outlander

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livemeofficial · 4 years

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LiveMe BarnYard

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popshielduk-blog · 3 years

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We Will Pop You

In a week that has seen both a second national UK lock-down due to coopervirus, and the defeat of Ronald Flump at the polls, my main highlights have been (a) the hygiene-safe removal of an award-winning veteran comedian’s pop shield, and (b) a jolly punctuation-off with one of the most famous guitarists in rock music.

[I know I’ve not written much lately, but everything has been so downright unusual and noteworthy it’s been hard to know where to start. However, I renewed my blog website address the other day, so I know I’m definitely not going anywhere.]

It is Thursday. I’m working in the Corporation Theatre. We are recording a show with a Metal Micky, a comedian who is as polite in the flesh as he is potty-mouthed on the microphone. Mild mannered to a tee, on stage Micky likes to shout.

We are not generally encouraged to use pop shields these days. It’s due to the virus, not the HF loss. As ever, audio decisions rarely govern procedure. Meanwhile, the Shure SM58, emblematic of stand up comedy, is not always tolerant to the plosive nature of the genre. Many a pub quiz has seen me sneak to the mixer while the quizmaster has nipped to the toilet to slip in a high pass filter. Sometimes needs musts.

Confusingly, nearly everyone on this gig is called Mick. The comedian, the theatre manager, the show balancer, and the remote sound guy in a darkened room just inside of the M25 whose job it is to mix the laughs of 500 virtual audience members sat in their bedrooms far away in Barnyard Castle, all watching via Whoosh.

“Mick?” says Mick.

“Yes Mick?” replies Mick.

“Since Mick is a bellower” says Mick, “please can I have special dispensation to use a pop shield? Pop says it’s ok if we bag it up safety afterwards.”

“Well, yes, alright. But we don’t have a system in place.” says Mick.

“That’s ok, Mick. We can make a system.” I offer, in my traditional way. Some call it downright pushy, I like to call it a ‘can do attitude’.

“Do we have any little plastic bags around?”

“You need something like a dog poo bag” says the PC.

“We need something exactly like a dog poo bag”, I say. “Who owns a dog?”

“I do”, says Mick.

"In which case, you’ll definitely have a dog poo bag in your pocket. Don’t you, Mick?.”

“Yes, I do.”

We’re in business. Literally.

It’s an enjoyable, if strange evening, watching a man perform to an empty room.

Time to derig. “Can you ask Mick for his dog poo bag” I holler over to the camera guy, who is standing by the door of the control room. We’re only allowed two at a time in there. “He’ll know what I mean”

“It’s on the Dither & Co. desk!” comes the reply.

I grab the dog poo bag, throw it over the 58 with the dexterity of a reptile hunter capturing a wild lizard, and pull off the pop shield. Then seal the bag with camera tape and label it METAL MICKY 05/11/2020 and stuff it into an already full drawer underneath the printer, ready to be discovered in 2025. It’s quite an impressive system. Job done.

Meanwhile, fast forward to today. I’m working with another Mick, Mickie Junction. The Corporation has now entered a bizarre era where programmes are held together with bits of string and sticky tape. Well ok, personal mobile phones. Depending on the day of the week, these may or may not be logged onto the somewhat flaky Corporation WIFI.

At the start of the show, I send a polite little Whassup message to a couple of celebrities to let them know that I’m going to be calling them for interview from this number. GDPR seems a hazy memory.

I send a message to Sir Derek Spring . A man who is rock royalty, a pioneering guitarist and the head champion of the Otter Preservation Society,

“Hi Derek!” I begin, wanting to keep the tone upbeat, in keeping with the Nations Favourite radio station.

“Hi Pop!” he replies. “I’m standing by to stand by. Del”

The upbeat tone seems to be working. But Del? Wow.

“Perfect - thank you!” I reply. Now that I’ve started this exclamation mark thing, I just can’t seem to stop myself. “I’ll call you in about 5 minutes.”

“OK!!” comes the reply. Wait, now he’s gone up to two exclamation marks!! What shall I do? If I tone it down, he might think there’s a problem.

So naturally, I do what anyone would do in this situation. Immediately show off about it to their immediate colleagues via Whassup.

“Use the otter emoji!” says Guy.

Nice touch, but I decide to wait until after the feature, just in case I balls it all up. I hurriedly silence my phone notifications. It’s not very professional-sounding to have wildlife emoji Whassup notifications pinging their way through an on-air interview.

Speaking of which, Guy had a good one the other day. He had a guest patched through to the live broadcast desk via her mobile phone and was all ready to fade her up. Meanwhile her husband had gone outside their house and powered up their car on the drive to take the kids off to school. The presenter threw to the guest, meanwhile the guest’s mobile phone automatically connected to her car’s handsfree kit via bluetooth, leaving the husband and the kids on air instead of herself. Brilliant.

Another blinder recently was where the newsreader had accidentally left a PC running a backup player faded up on his desk. Meanwhile he had used that PC also to check a detail on the the network’s home page, Which unbeknown to him, was auto-playing a delayed live feed of network. Which as soon as he went to air was also containing, yes you guessed it - a feed of himself. All of which resulted in utterly surreal chaos on air, featuring a man trapped in nightmare of being announced and starting to talk, then being announced and starting to talk. Over and over again in a neverending loop like a right TK Turnstyle.

Thankfully, the interview with Derek does not ensure such ill fate. After Mickie’s sign off, I fade Derek out and thank him in person. That should really be enough, but for good measure, I send ‘Del’ a little follow up message.

“Thank you for a lovely interview!!!

THREE exclamation marks. Touche. Then I throw in an otter emoji. Why not, let’s turn it up to 11. He is a rock and roll guitarist after all. The reply comes back.

“Thanks to you too! Enjoyed it! See you any time!!! cheers! Del”.

I leave it there. Always quit while you’re ahead!!!!

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nick-schedule-archive-reboot · 4 years

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Nickelodeon networks: Nick, Nick Jr. Channel, NickToons, TeenNick, and Nick @ Nite schedules, all for 6/8-14/2020

Nickelodeon

This week, The Loud House airs new episodes. It will also reach it’s 100th broadcast episode! Young Dylan returns for new episodes, while Game Face gets delayed. At least until the television guide changes information. It’s Pony weekday reruns return.

Nick Jr. Channel

Hey Duggee is new for it’s second week. WHY IS LEGO CITY ADVENTURES ON NICK JR.??? Crowded with current programming (and Team Umizoomi) much?

NickToons

For Nicktoons, we’re basically experiencing the exactly the same problems I ranted about last year on my last NickToons schedule post.

Link to said post: https://nick-schedule-archive-reboot.tumblr.com/post/184495974618/double-dare-crashletes-dude-perfect-really

Only one thing... The Loud House actually IS there. Speaking of it, this week’s Nick premieres of that show... INCLUDING THE 100th EPISODES air here, too, but later at 9pm.

This week’s marathons include:

Monday: Breadwinners

Tuesday: Back at the Barnyard

Wednesday: Lego City Adventures

Thursday: The Power Rangers

Friday: Jimmy Neutron

TeenNick

While the NickRewind block schedule feels stable enough, the main schedule is drunk with very several shows.

Nick @ Nite

4 shows in only 8 hours is weak. That’s all I got.

Link to all 5′s ideal schedules here: https://nick-schedule-archive-reboot.tumblr.com/post/620070956364398592/ideal-nickelodeon-networks-dump-nick-nick-jr

#nickelodeon #nick jr #nicktoons #teennick #nick@nite #2020

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supercantaloupe · 5 years

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this oklahoma fucks

my thoughts on the oklahoma revival (6/8/19 matinee) under the cut!

this show. i was absolutely blown away. i see a lot of shows (one glance at my theater page will tell you that much...) and at this point it’s rare that i see something which i feel in my gut from start to finish how incredible it is, but, wow, oklahoma lives up to the hype. it’s 2 hours and 45 minutes plus a 15 minute intermission, and i swear i didn’t stop grinning or giggling for that entire 3 hours.

it’s also sometimes a rarity now for me to go into a show blind. i certainly was familiar with oklahoma before today -- i knew the basic storyline, i’d even heard some of the songs from this cast, and hell, the musical’s almost a century old (it basically founded the modern broadway musical!) -- but i didn’t know it very intimately going in. from the moment i entered that theater, though, i was enraptured.

the show has a comfortable feel to it, with its old-timey wild-west drawling dialect and a loveable-as-always rogers & hammerstein score, but it’s reimagined in a way that makes it feel both completely new and completely familiar at once. it’s an intimate theatrical experience, one i haven’t really felt since great comet took its final bows. i’ve always been a fan of intimate and innovative productions but this show really excelled. playing in the round is the perfect way to welcome an audience into your world on a personal level, but oklahoma takes it a step further. there isn’t even a shift in lighting from the beginning of the show; it looks the same from the momeny you walk in and sit down through the first two numbers. it’s a small detail but it really works wonders in creating a world that the audience feels a welcome part in from the get-go. and that’s not even mentioning the tables onstage, the crockpots full of chili, the table of yet-to-be-made cornbread (all of which gets to be enjoyed by the audience during intermission!). and the string band right there on stage! with pedal steel and mandolin and banjo! what better way to welcome your audience into your world than to incorporate real elements of americana: a barnyard hoedown, a cultural centerpiece in american mythos and identity. (plus, i’m always a sucker for country twang in my music and a band onstage. pit musicians never get enough love!)

and man oh man, the cast. they are all phenomenal. my selected and personal commendations go out to mary testa, whose aunt eller COMMANDED the room and oozed a lovable familial flavor; ali stroker, for her charming, bubbly, and completely endearing brand of wildness in her portrayal of ado annie; patrick vaill, for his deeply chilling performance as jud; rebecca naomi jones, for the surprisingly deep layers of thought and emotion she brings to her laurey; and to damon daunno, for his downright enchanting vocal performance, southern drawl, and ass-waggling swagger all the way to the drama of his more serious scenes, like in “poor jud is dead” and the wedding (dudes got raaaaange. just sayin.). i need a cast album immediately!

it needs to be mentioned how much personality and charm put into every aspect of each actor’s performances. the choreography was just wonderful, from the corn-shucking “many a new day” to curly and will prancing around the stage slapping their thighs (there’s a lot of chaps and a lot of ass wiggling in this show. make your peace with that right away.) to the delightful hoedown-style group dancing in “farmer and the cowman”. i’m absolutely delighted at how seamlessly integrated the wheelchair-bound ali stroker is in every aspect of choreography -- it’s skillful, it’s full of personality, it’s unique and fun to watch. really the only choreography (and really the only scene in general) that i failed to fully appreciate was the dream ballet: as cool as it was, i personally am just Not A Dancer in any shape or form and such an interpretive, almost contextless solo dance kind of flew over my head. i still appreciate the artistry and skill involved in it but i’m sure there are other people out there who got a lot more out of that scene than i did.

to take a moment to appreciate the more technical aspects of the show: firstly, i was impressed by the subtlety employed in the sound design. i’m pretty sure all the actors were all wearing body mics (pretty much standard practice nowadays), though they were either very hard or downright impossible to spy. (nice job to the costume and hair departments for concealing those even from audiences so close!) my theory is that the mics were placed higher up on the actors’ heads, effectively concealing them in their hair and distancing the mic from their mouths -- thereby lessening their ability to pic up the actor’s voices. in a huge, proscenium-style theater, that’d be a problem, but here, in a theater and a show where intimacy is the name of the game, that works. you still heard the actors’ voices from where they were onstage, not just pumped in from speakers (if they were at all!). effects were used sparingly but to great effect: i noticed even in the opening number the reverb effect used only at the ends of certain words or lines to evoke the echoing of a voice over the prairie, which i thought was a very nice touch. and in addition to body mics there were handheld and stage mics, which indeed functioned as handheld and stage mics, with a clear auditory difference between when the actors used them and when they didn’t. again, this built up the believability and intimacy of the world, as well as contributing another layer of coolness to certain scenes (like “poor jud is dead”, which is done almost entirely in the dark and almost entirely on one handheld mic between curly and jud. the upped volume and closeness evoked using the handheld mic brought the entire audience in that much closer into that small and intimate space of the smokehouse and heightened the tension masterfully.)

and, oh my god, the lighting. the biggest snub of the tonys this year is oklahoma not even getting a NOMINATION (atw turn on your location i just wanna talk). i mentioned before those house lights not changing from when you enter the theater through the first few numbers but when they do -- when curly and laurey lock eyes and really consider each other -- there’s a sudden and unexpected shift, going from the bright full house lights to dark everywhere, with the stage lit completely in a dreamlike green. and just as quickly as it came it goes, snapping back to those full house lights again. what a simple but very strong way to convey a message! the show also makes really great use of directional lighting, projection, and colored ambient lighting, with the latter i find particularly notable in the late part of the barn party scene when laurey has her encounters with jud and curly (with these interactions lit a cool and creepy red, mostly by the colored fairy lights strung from the ceiling among the streamers). also an effective surprise is this show’s use of blackouts, its use of complete darkness. i’ve seen a lot of shows but i’ve NEVER seen a show use a blackout like this before.

for example, in the scene leading up to “poor jud is dead”, when curly goes to talk to jud in the smokehouse, the lights suddenly cut out, entirely, like we’ve stepped into a dark and sordid little corner of the world, jud’s domain. the whole beginning of this scene is played ENTIRELY in the dark, with naught but the sound of the two men’s conversation to tell us what’s going on. it’s creepy as hell and so effective. and then, as curly sings, a projector comes on, shining onto the back wall of the theater, an extreme black-and-white closeup, first of jud, then of curly, and of the two of them together, literally being broadcast from a camera held right up then and there. and after the song, after the projection fades away, we get a single spotlight, a pinpoint of light streaming from above; it shines onto the table directly between the two men, illuminating that patch of space, casting an eerie glow on the scene. and then, finally, the end, when auntie eller walks in, and the lights fade up just a bit, like would realistically happen if someone cracked open the door in a dark room. everything about the lighting in this scene plays up the creepiness of jud, the unpredictability of his madness, it plays with the suspicion and nerves of the audience by literally depriving them of information in the form of visuals. it plays similarly to jud’s and laurey’s encounter in act ii, when the lights cut to complete black again as he kisses her. we can’t see them, but we hear everything: kissing. metal clinking. footsteps, retreating. and then, those red party lights fade in, just enough to see laurey retreat to the opposite end of the stage, just enough to see jud’s unbuckled belt and confused, angry expression.

yeah, this oklahoma doesn’t pull its punches when it comes to jud. they make it crystal fucking clear who he is and what he’s trying to do. the lights, the sound, the whole production works to this end. and it doesn’t pull its punches with its finale, either. those of you familiar with the original show know that jud shows up to the wedding with a knife, and after a skirmish with curly, ends up falling on it and dying. this oklahoma did something else: jud shows up, asking only for a kiss from the bride and to give a gift to the groom. inside the box he brings is a shiny pistol, thrust into curly’s hand and trained on jud, standing open and ready for death, a forced assisted suicide. and after several long, tense, silent seconds, curly pulls the trigger. (i actually wasn’t even sure if they were going to go that far, but, yeah, they did that.) and the blood that splatters both on jud’s shirt and on the faces and white wedding outfits of laurey and curly is copious, and raw. it stays there for the rest of the show, a reminder. the finale ultimo is no longer a happy, triumphant reprise of the title number. it’s sung, powerfully and communally, by everyone with dead-fucking-straight faces.

this isn’t your grandmother’s oklahoma, that’s for sure.

what it is is a fantastic new staging of one of the biggest, most familiar classic pieces of american theater ever written. it’s simultaneously a back-to-its-roots retelling and a refreshing new take of classic material. it manages to be fresh and nostalgic, old and contemporary, mythologized and contemporary all at once. it’s not quite a masterpiece, but it’s damn near close to it.

in short, i haven’t seen a show this good in a long time. if you get the chance, you should too. it’s not one you’ll want to miss.

#sasha reviews #sasha speaks #i wanna talk about me #oklahoma #broadway #THIS TURNED OUT SO FUCKING LONG LMAO ENJOY IF YOU ACTUALLY READ ALL OF IT #i had so much to say!! i had so many thoughts!! this didnt even cover everything!!#but the stuff i left out wasnt as relevant to a review #ALSO UH. SPOILERS FOR OKLAHOMA #if anyones into that #either if you care about spoiling the plot of a 75+ year old musical or this production specifically #big spoilers #i didnt even get to mention it because i didnt know where to fit it in but !! will + ado annie + ali are so fucking funny they have #some of the best interactions in this show #laurie and curly are so soft #will + ado annie + ali hakim are all completely fucking over the top all the time #and its a great foil to the drama wit hjud without being Too Much #i didnt even get to talk about all great lighting cues in this #GIVE THIS SHOW ITS RIGHTFULLY DESERVED TONY ATW YOU COWARDS #and there were some hilarious little details in the acting that i didnt get to mention either #like when will just fuckin laid down on a table and when ado annie took too much of a liking to ali hakim #he just sat right fuckin up with a crock pot between his legs and lifted up the lid and wafted the fucking steam around his crotch #god. the assless chaps he and curly wear emphasize the crotch and the ass so fucking much #theres a lot of cute and just-this-side-of-racy little touches to the acting that add to the charm and humor of everything #and. god.#i love this fucking show. alright.#oklahoma!#ok19

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