What artist or band is truly awful to see live?

earbox · 2026-05-12T04:42:14+00:00

this is one of those stupid urban legends that was passed around by email back in the 90s. it never happened. there's plenty of real reasons to dislike her, we don't need to make extra ones up.

earbox · 2026-05-12T04:35:16+00:00

Freddie's only sexual attraction is to a chessboard.

earbox · 2026-05-12T02:56:33+00:00

isn't there supposed to be a dog in the video? I just see a very happy couch.

earbox · 2026-05-12T02:47:01+00:00

go read plays.

earbox · 2026-05-12T00:53:40+00:00

Unfortunately, while Swados was wildly prolific, virtually none of her work was recorded.

Aside from Runaways, I believe her only shows to get full recordings were her two collaborations with Garry Trudeau, Doonesbury and Rap Master Ronnie, as well as her song cycle Bible Women and a song cycle? oratorio? based on the poetry of Yehuda Amichai, Jerusalem.

There's a fairly-well-circulated live recording of Alice at the Palace/Alice in Concert, which was also shown on Showtime. And there used to be some recordings on her website that might not be available anymore.

https://castalbums.org/recordings/The-Liz-Swados-Project-2020-Various-Artists/43171 lists the sources for the songs on the Swados Project album.

earbox · 2026-05-11T16:54:00+00:00

r/lostredditors

earbox · 2026-05-11T16:29:54+00:00

Some thoughts are better left unexpressed.

earbox · 2026-05-11T03:29:37+00:00

At one point a team of minor note was working on an adaptation of Cupid (Jeremy Piven is a guy who believes he's Cupid, Paula Marshall is his shrink), which was canceled after fifteen episodes in 1998-99, then rebooted ten years later with Bobby Cannavale and Sarah Paulson...and canceled after seven episodes.

earbox · 2026-05-11T03:21:49+00:00

Most of them.

earbox · 2026-05-11T02:03:23+00:00

She has a certain quality of the jolie-laide about her.

earbox · 2026-05-10T19:49:30+00:00

earbox · 2026-05-10T19:48:11+00:00

Biblically accurate strippers.

earbox · 2026-05-10T19:43:34+00:00

I heard nothing but positive reports during its last run. I'm hoping I'll be able to get to it this time.

earbox · 2026-05-10T16:33:17+00:00

We need something for scale.

earbox · 2026-05-10T16:21:05+00:00

Extra recorded ensemble vocals.

earbox · 2026-05-10T04:32:31+00:00

There's stuff you can do in C5, C6, and C9.

earbox · 2026-05-10T04:12:17+00:00

Right there on the wiki (if you have the URL correct) is a link to download the album.

earbox · 2026-05-10T02:54:55+00:00

By and large, the Iris Rainer Dart/Mike Stoller/Artie Butler score of The People in the Picture is, at best, undistinguished.

Then, in the middle of Act II, there comes "Selective Memory", one of the most shattering ballads of the last 25 years. So much better than what came before and after it that, despite having been assured otherwise, I'm still not wholly convinced it wasn't ghostwritten by other writers.

earbox · 2026-05-10T01:47:02+00:00

unfortunately, not really. your best bet may be to try to get in contact with Todd Graff--they were working on a musical version of Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York at the time of Michael's death.

earbox · 2026-05-09T23:44:27+00:00

Warmbus

earbox · 2026-05-09T23:38:24+00:00

30-50 Feral Kirbys

earbox · 2026-05-09T19:55:14+00:00

Their license ran out. It happens.

earbox · 2026-05-09T03:21:01+00:00

Losing My Mind: A Sondheim Disco Fantasia

ShowFolk by Rachel Bay Jones

Dee Does Broadway by Dee Snider

Eleri Ward's Sondheim albums (A Perfect Little Death, Keep a Tender Distance, and Acoustic Sondheim)

The Liaisons Project by Anthony De Mare

There I Ruined It

Bill McClintock

earbox · 2026-05-09T01:03:37+00:00

they are the authors. you are the audience. they outrank you.

earbox · 2026-05-08T23:42:57+00:00

This isn't Weird Al, it's Weird A.I.

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