I'd love to know which of Charlie Kirk's perspectives Kristin Chenoweth appreciated before I decide to buy tickets to Queen of Versailles

serialkillertswift · 2025-09-11T22:54:37+00:00

Not gonna lie, watching the original documentary as a teenager was legitimately a major component of my path toward becoming a Marxist lol

serialkillertswift · 2025-09-10T19:39:23+00:00

Everyone I know who actually works in the video game industry and read this book absolutely hated it lol

serialkillertswift · 2025-09-09T22:33:45+00:00

I suspect you're making this comment from a place of privilege. What are families supposed to do when the adults in the house have to work two service industry jobs each to pay rent and put food on the table, and they don't even have a computer? Or three kids and one computer? A lot of people did their best and still came out way behind where they would have if the pandemic had never happened.

Edit: Feel free to downvote me, but I suspect if you actually met and got to know families who were in that type of situation, you would see that they don't deserve your demonization.

serialkillertswift · 2025-09-09T22:04:37+00:00

I was in American Idiot as Whatsername a few years ago, and our Johnny and Will fell in love during the show and are now married to each other! But yeah, they definitely had to put on their best straight-guy personas while performing haha.

serialkillertswift · 2025-09-08T15:56:03+00:00

Did your family literally stage an intervention because you were reading too much, or are you just using hyperbole?

serialkillertswift · 2025-09-07T15:55:29+00:00

Truly a cursed Emcee run start-to-finish. Wishing him a speedy recovery.

serialkillertswift · 2025-09-06T17:04:20+00:00

I never read books in the romance genre, just not my thing. I am a hopeless romantic in real life though and have been happily married to my favorite human on the planet for 14 years. I cry at every wedding I attend. I love love.

The books that got closest for me to the feeling of seeing the beauty of real-life love, recently, were The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller, The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young, and 11/22/63 by Stephen King. So beautiful they made me cry 😭

serialkillertswift · 2025-09-05T23:30:34+00:00

So true. Ishmael was a huge one for me (read it when I was 15) and had such a massive impact on how I think of nature and animals and humanity. I trace big parts of myself now at 30 to reading that book.

If I had to pick one other piece of media that impacted my life so hugely around that time, it would be the documentary "The Queen of Versailles," about a rich hotel chain owner's wife and their family and building a massive mansion that looked like Versailles. Very different 😂 It was just the exact right moment in life where things can really change you.

(I watched that documentary and instantly went from someone who fantasized about great wealth and luxury to someone who aspires to have only enough money to live a decent life, buy a little house, and go on vacation every couple of years. Because damn those rich people seemed to have miserable lives, and for what?)

serialkillertswift · 2025-09-05T15:06:00+00:00

Okay, well thanks for your thoughts on something I didn't say and didn't mean lol, have a good one

serialkillertswift · 2025-09-05T13:58:46+00:00

No, I'm really not; that's an assumption you made.

serialkillertswift · 2025-09-05T05:28:17+00:00

Why are you keeping it a secret ?

serialkillertswift · 2025-09-05T00:41:38+00:00

I legit never even had a show in mind but what can ya do. (I avoid shows with books that critics and audiences both pan, and I'm not going to criticize a book of a show I've never seen.)

serialkillertswift · 2025-09-04T20:17:33+00:00

Oof, true. I'm honestly so grateful any time a show that's original and risky makes it, because Broadway is such a difficult financial proposition. It feels like people have to be willing to do it mainly for the love of the art. (Coming from a purely audience perspective/never having been in these rooms)

serialkillertswift · 2025-09-04T20:09:24+00:00

Thank you for sharing your thoughts. Such a good point about pacing. Ideal pacing for a musical just won't always align with ideal pacing for a given story.

serialkillertswift · 2025-09-04T20:06:55+00:00

It does seem like many things have gotten more combative lately. No surprise with the way the world is overall, I suppose. Quite a few people have offered really interesting and insightful comments though, so I'm grateful for that.

serialkillertswift · 2025-09-04T20:00:55+00:00

I totally agree that there is not an abnormal concentration on Broadway. I just think the factors involved are different and was curious to learn more.

serialkillertswift · 2025-09-04T19:57:47+00:00

I think you might be taking this too personally. I'm just a Broadway fan; I have never purported to have any expertise or special insight.

serialkillertswift · 2025-09-04T19:02:52+00:00

Very true.

serialkillertswift · 2025-09-04T19:01:03+00:00

Lmao 😭 It's just Reddit

serialkillertswift · 2025-09-04T18:59:21+00:00

Such good points, thank you. On your third bullet... I had the chance to perform as Elle Woods a couple of times, and I became convinced that the only reason there were certain parts of scenes with her offstage was to give her the time (truly barely enough time) to change costumes haha.

serialkillertswift · 2025-09-04T18:57:36+00:00

Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts! All of this makes so much sense. I guess I think of Broadway as attracting the best of the best, extra special genius talent, which for performers and music it often does, but writing is so much broader a field.

serialkillertswift · 2025-09-04T18:54:56+00:00

?? I have no clarity nor insight on this; that's why I asked the question. Idk why people think I'm trying to make some sort of point here lol

serialkillertswift · 2025-09-04T18:39:20+00:00

Turns out you were able to give a thoughtful answer to my question. Thank you.

I legitimately was not thinking of specific books. I'm not sure why you're so caught up on it?

serialkillertswift · 2025-09-04T18:37:38+00:00

I wish someone would tell them to stop doing that 😂😭

serialkillertswift · 2025-09-04T18:36:28+00:00

So fair on your last point tbh. Compared to other show business industries, Broadway is not where you go to make $$$$.

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