porterkrodgers.bsky.social
Very left -no, further left than that. Started a theatre co. in SF; ran it for years and years. And years. And years. Directed, produced (shows & CDs),acted, & against my better judgment, sang. Charlie’s dog dad. She’s a girl (think Hitchcock).🏳️🌈🐶
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Judy was never that thin.
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Can that boy … foxtrot?
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This is the most hopeful (and refreshed!) you’ve looked in awhile. You must have gotten an excellent night’s sleep (or something else).
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This sounds like an Agatha Christie title if she were writing in 2025.
“Don’t miss the latest by the Mistress of Modern Mystery: Agatha Christie’s ‘Twink Death … or Whatever’ at better bookstores and online retailers now!”
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Scarier and scarier. Good God, what country are we living in?
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Fuck you, Benay.
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How I arrived on Bluesky.
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Picture it: Imogene Coca is Mary Todd Lincoln in Oh, Mary!
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Yes! There’s a full production on YouTube.
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Including the high school one?
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Some like it hot. Definitely.
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No. Stephen’s the one with the long brown hair and a dour look on his face.
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I see you got your hair touched up.
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He needs to get back to the gym stat.
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Me in the second national security group chat
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Just when we thought only Deborah Kerr and Yul Brynner brought the sex and sizzle to R&H, Jan Clayton says “Hold my beer” and completely knocks us out with her devastating build to the kiss. Someone get me my fan.
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With Jinkx Monsoon as Lady Ruth Thiang?
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I feel like your reaction to the Harry Potter TV series was the exact same look.
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Don’t we all.
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And there’s pre-cancelation Kevin Spacey poking his head up at the back. This IS ancient!
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From your mouth to God’s ear.
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One hears that he could be quite friendly in fan meet-and-greets in those small summer stock towns.
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It wasn’t just the addition of “Growing Up.” Gussie was practically a different character in La Jolla than on Broadway. “Not a Day Goes By,” which had been taken away from Sally Klein’s Beth in NY, was restored to Beth in La Jolla. And the while tone of the show lightened up in La Jolla.
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Reminds me of cavalry/Calvary.
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I guess that explains all those summer stock rumors…
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I’ve seen Sandy a few times. He was an excellent El Gallo in Fantasticks, and very, very good as Billy Flynn in the Long Beach Chicago (Juliet Prowse, Bebe Neuwirth, Reinking choreography) that begat the Encores revival. Not sure why better things didn’t happen for him. Now I need to see that movie!
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I saw Keel in a production of Sleuth in the late 80s. IIRC, Gary Sandy played Milo. Keel was … competent.
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True, but “That Frank” just isn’t very good (to my ears, at least). I wish he’d taken a third pass at it. Trying to remember what I thought of the original (in previews). I do think the “everyone is awful” feeling was definitely in the air.
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Hah!
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I feel like that overture is diminished by the exclusion of “Rich and Happy,” leaving the best recording of it forever as the OBC.
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Imagining Channing singing “I Walk Away” as I type. But the movie would have made it “We Walk Away” as a duet for Marilyn and Jane.
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Which was an early indicator that you were headed for both the theatre crowd and the A-gays.
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I loved this when it was released. I saw it three times in the theater.
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“The Thinker, 2025”
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They ran this all the time in LA when the Shubert company (with Loni Ackerman) opened in Jan 1980. Imitating Mandy’s “not much to ask for” to comic effect became de rigueur amongst the theatre crowd and A-gays.
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She was certainly a seasoned tv-camera vet from her time on the Moore show, but that’s different from doing a four-camera sitcom.
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It’s not just that she danced as well as she did, it’s that she still sang effortlessly coming out of a complicated routine. I have a friend, Susan Brecht, who was in her one-season sitcom. She loved Dorothy but felt her fear undid her (of not succeeding in the big break her Tony got her.)
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Well, this is a big surprise. I wonder how old his kids are? Can you imagine your dad introducing your new stepmother, and it’s Bernadette Peters?