Streisand’s debut in which she absolutely guilds the broccoli.

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References

Schrank, Bernice. “‘Cutting Off Your Nose to Spite Your Race’: Jewish Stereotypes, Media Images, Cultural Hybridity.” Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, vol. 25, no. 4, Summer 2007, pp. 18–42. https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2007.0121.

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Winer, Laurie. “Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel, After #MeToo.” Vulture, 11 Apr. 2018.

Sang-Hun, Choe. “The Country Has Moved On, but Their Grief Has No End.” The New York Times, 8 June 2022.

Hail Marys - enjoy this extremely Catholic episode where we pretty much have nothing negative to say about a film! What a nice change of pace!

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For this lusty month of May, we are bringing you Camelot.

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Listeners, this episode was recorded several months ago, before the Will Smith slap and the Roe v Wade leaked decision. Who would have known the world would move at such a pace to make so many of our conversations sound like they are missing essential context? Enjoy our attempts to make meaning out of a meaningless musical and surprising failure to avoid cancellation in the process.

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“Club, ‘nother club” reference

Christine Baranski, Class President

Barry Walters, The Surprising Story of How ABBA Became Beloved Gay Icons

If only this was the movie that had been lost in the burning of the library of Alexandria.

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Join us as we celebrate this musical about the only metropolitan area to ever exist. No references for the rest of April. Take a break while you prep for finals, kids.

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We’ve never had a little girl but boy howdy are we going to have a lot of them in our April Annie marathon!

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Little Orphan Annie in the 30s: “Bridging the Generation Gap” by Stella Ress

Annie the Vagabond: “The Wanderer Contained” by Joanne Hall

One of the highest grossing movie musicals of all time and the only movie musical Adam has ever seriously considered walking out of.

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Jeremy Jordan telling the story of the read-through

Wright Jr., James R. “How the Public Autopsy of a Slave Joice Heth Launched P.T. Barnum’s Career as the Greatest Showman on Earth.” Clinical Anatomy, vol. 31, no. 7, 2018, pp. 956–65.

Code of the Freaks

A perfect movie. No notes.

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References

Knapp, Raymond, author. The American Musical and the Formation of National Identity. Princeton University Press, 2018.