Posts tagged “concerts”

  1. Kathryn Funkhouser's previous work for The Toast can be found here. Not every Broadway musical should have a reunion; to insist upon this would be fatal for the quality of the actors’ tall tales at the bar afterwards, and deny theater the allure of something that ends. But Into The Woods has always been about what is discussed in the bar afterwards -- about people coming to understand the impact of their stories, even the…

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  2. Hootie & The Blowfish was the first concert I ever went to.

    They had that one song where he goes “Oooh ahh ooh” I think. They had that other one where you sort of get the impression he’s batting his eyelashes at you. They had that one where it sounds like he’s smiling a lot. I was somewhere between 5 - 8 years old. The Blowfish had a trumpet or trombone player or maybe both.

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  3. The journalist Rob Sheffield recently wrote: "The Beatles remain universally hailed as the greatest thing ever, but somehow, you still think they're underrated." He also said "your Beatles will change all through your life," which is so correct and brilliant that I think it could replace all organized religion. He has a new book, you should buy it (Indiebound). There's a compulsion, I think, when writing about The Beatles, to try to emphasize your mega-fan…

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