Lyle Lyle The … Sexualized Crocodile?
Tamar Lilienthal & Tzvi Merczynski-Hait Tamar Lilienthal & Tzvi Merczynski-Hait

Lyle Lyle The … Sexualized Crocodile?

From the first release of promotional materials, it was already unclear what the target audience would be for Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile. Based on the beloved children’s book, the film seemed to want to bring in too many people at once: adults with an affinity for big name actors like Javier Bardem, musical theater folks with an affinity for Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, kids with an affinity for CGI-ed crocodiles, and … the one person out there who thought the crocodile should be voiced by Shawn Mendes?

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A Glance Behind the Curtain of the Underworld: A Conversation with the Cast of Hadestown
Phoebe Weintraub Phoebe Weintraub

A Glance Behind the Curtain of the Underworld: A Conversation with the Cast of Hadestown

It’s Sweeny Todd meets Romeo and Juliet. It’s a fairy-tale, but how the Grimm Brothers originally imagined: a dark and gritty reimagination of an otherwise beautiful love story. A post-apocalyptic reinterpretation of a classic Greek tragedy is what comes to mind when I think about Hadestown. This grand musical tells the tale of not just one Greek myth, but two in a modern setting. It interweaves the story of Orpheus and Eurydice, two lovers destined to be drawn apart, and the story of Hades and Persephone, another pair of lovers with a complicated relationship. 

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Tick, Tick... Boom! A Love Letter to Art and the Artist
Hayley Sussman Hayley Sussman

Tick, Tick... Boom! A Love Letter to Art and the Artist

I don’t need to convince you to watch tick tick… Boom!, the film adaptation of the creator of the revolutionary rock musical Rent Jonathan Larson’s autobiographical musical about living in the pressure cooker of eighties New York and trying to make his big break before the age of 30. “Older than Stephen Sondheim and Paul McCartney” when they achieved fame. Gasp!

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