Happy Thanksgiving season to Halloween People and Christmas People alike! Enjoy our boundless admiration for people who have the patience to make stop motion animation and poorly informed attempts to understand the connection between Nightmare Before Christmas and scene subculture.

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References

Making of Nightmare Before Christmas

Ben’s Claymation on Parks and Rec

Scene subculture Wikipedia page

SNL Mr. Chicken Legs Pageant

Betty Boop spooky animation

Fantasia Night on Bald Mountain sequence

McMahon, Jennifer L. “Death in Tim Burton’s Corpus.” The Philosophy of Tim Burton, The University Press of Kentucky, 2014, pp. 215–41.

Listen to Molly and RJ trying to convince Adam to like this movie for nearly 3 hours. Deep dive on the stage show versus the movie adaptation, our 30-year-old wisdom on how the world has changed since 2011, and the complexities of gay men’s relationships with their parents.

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References

Jamie: Drag Queen at 16 is available on Amazon Prime

YouTube upload of the stage show

Korean performance of You Don’t Even Know It

The Boy with an Arse as a Face

Interview with the real Jamie Campbell and his mom after the musical premiere

Lovelock, James. “‘What about Love?’: Claiming and Reclaiming LGBTQ+ Spaces in Twenty-First Century Musical Theatre.” Reframing the Musical: Race, Culture and Identity, edited by Sarah K. Whitfield, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.

It’s spooky season! Time to take on the beloved camp classic Little Shop of Horrors, directed by Frank Oz. Come for the catchy tunes and impeccable comedic choices, stick around for the white flight narrative.

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References

Sontag, “Notes on Camp”

Scooby Doo deep dive

Director’s cut ending of Little Shop

Musicals with Zack, The Complete(ish) History of the Original Ending of Little Shop of Horrors

How to make split pea soup

Cher playing all the parts in West Side Story

Rothstein, Richard. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. Liveright, 2017.

Redlining map of Saint Paul

Mandracchia, Christen. “‘Don’t Feed the Plants!’: Monstrous Normativity and Disidentification in Little Shop of Horrors.” Studies in Musical Theatre, vol. 13, no. 3, Dec. 2019, pp. 309–16.

Just like Broadway, Showgays is back, baby! To celebrate, we've decided to plus up the podcast - we've brought in a new host, we've got a higher production value, and we're doing the big shows!

Adam, RJ, and Molly discuss 2019’s Cats, directed (to our chagrin) by Tom Hooper. What went wrong? How would we fix it? Find out why Molly is beefing with Dame Judi Dench and who RJ & Adam think should have played Grizabella. Also, Molly did mix up Socrates and Aristotle during the name game and she is sorry about that.

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Elaine Page’s rendition of Memory

Betty Buckley’s rendition of Memory

Celine Dion’s rendition of Memory

Sideways’ video on the music of Cats

Lindsey Ellis’ video on the phenomenon of Cats

Peter C. Kunze article on the failed 1990s movie

More on megamusicals: William A. Everett and Paul Prece. “The Megamusical: The Creation, Internationalisation and Impact of a Genre.” The Cambridge Companion to the Musical.

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We're back with an all-new episode! This month Adam and RJ are joined by Allie from Harry Potter and the Anxious Millennials to discuss the 2010 hit (?) Burlesque starring Cher and Xtina! We go in on the absurdity of walking in Los Angeles, tear apart the costuming decisions for the ballad Bound to You, and finally figure out whether or not Nikki should drive! Plus, as always, we decide where this film ends up on our massive matrix of good:bad::camp:serious, cast a reimagined version for today's audience, and decide what musical is on the docket for next month!

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This month, the boys are back at it again with a sense of patriotism (kind of) and ready to delve deep into the beloved (?) 1972 musical 1776! We dish on the lack of melodies in every song, the spacing of songs throughout the show, and really get into the nonsense that is this whitewashing of Thomas Jefferson as ingenue! The only way to know if they end up signing the Declaration of Independence is if you listen to the episode - NO SPOILERS PLZ Rate! Review! Subscribe! 

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Strap on your nicest glass slippers and head to the ball of an episode that is our discussion on Cinderella, the ABC classic from 1997 starring Brandy, Whitney, and Bernadette Peters. The Magical Miranda joins Adam and RJ to talk about the Cheesecake Factory cottage they live in, the colorblind casting, and the absolutely iconic use of Whitney Houston flying through the air. Plus, as always, a discussion about the history of the show (including Julie Andrews and Lesley Anne Warren), casting the show today, where this one fits on our graph of bad/good and camp/serious, and a sneak peek into what our next choice is for July! Rate! Review! Subscribe!

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