Today is Bob Dylan’s 85th birthday. I hope he celebrated his 25th birthday at the opening night of MAME.

This is exactly what Angela Lansbury said when Prettybelle closed in Boston.

LCT will be celebrating Liza Doolittle Day by having Mother exit up the aisle and out of the story because she’s empowered. Get it? SHE’S EMPOWERED.

Dividing the Helen Hayes Awards into Hayes and Helen categories is weird. They should name one branch the MacArthurs.

Back then, you had to earn your billing.

I watched Suffs. I watched Top Hat. I can’t with this shit.

Irving Berlin’s Toilet Paper Hat

Irving Berlin’s Toilet Paper Hat

When the Sword Dance goes wrong… Brisadoon

Rare pic of Candice Bergen and Burt Reynolds in Woman of the Year.

Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn were only 68 & 66 years old when they did The Gin Game.

Linda Lavin made bold choices when she played Rose.

Based on Miscast, the Aida revival should be based around Nicholas Christopher as Aida.

Carol Channing Ginger Rogers Martha Raye Betty Grable Bibi Osterwald Pearl Bailey Thelma Carpenter Phyllis Diller Ethel Merman Cole Escola Betty Gilpin Tituss Burgess Jinkx Monsoon Jane Krakowski Hannah Solow John Cameron Mitchell Maya Rudolph Meg Salter

With Are You Now or Have You Ever Been opening Off-Broadway, they need to get LIZA to recreate her recitation of Lillian Hellman’s letter. It’s three minutes of stage time, and she could do it sitting in a director’s chair. (Her then father-in-law, Frank Gero, produced it originally)

When Harold Hill says, “That is your instrument. Hold on to it. Cherish it. Don’t let anyone else play around with it. Not even me. Not even you. Until you feel you’re ready.” is he talking about penis?

Rare pic of Donna Murphy when she replaced Julie Andrews in Victor Victoria.

The cast of Suffs would be so pretty if they’d just smile.

The transcript for the Sondheim podcast is always fun. This week’s includes “Catherine Hepburn” and multiple instances of “Sending the Clowns.”

Has anyone else ever wondered where that noise was coming from before realizing a bootleg of Woman of the Year had started playing in their pocket?

There’s a timeline where Topol and Patti LuPone become dear friends celebrating the Tony-winning success of The Baker’s Wife, and she becomes his preferred Golde for the next thirty years.

FIRST LOOK at Bernadette Peters in Maybe Happy Ending

To put this in further perspective, Dan Radcliffe wasn’t Tony-nominated for the first four of his six times on Broadway, and roles don’t get much bigger than Alan Strang and J. Pierrepont Finch.

The microphone situation on performers faces will never not drive me crazy, and it’s only exacerbated when that shit is taped down.

@bcdreyer.social Can a show be “the most Tony-nominated musical of the season” if another musical has the same number of nominations?

In her thirty years on Broadway (and not counting The Little Girl and Sphrintze because those roles are not exactly awards magnets), Lea Michele has only been Tony-eligible twice so let’s stop pretending she’s been “snubbed” repeatedly.

If gays love Titanique then I’m a straight pussy hound.

Rare pic of Madonna performing Four Black Dragons from Pacific Overtures.

Art Isn’t Easy

“Leavitt stayed in character as Roxie Hart, while reading a headline from a newspaper that revealed her ‘SLOMW’ exit.” “What is that?” she said, “‘Whitney’…let me see. ‘Whitney Leavitt Announces She’s Leaving The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.'” 🙄 The very opposite of staying in character.

Shaft will have me dreaming of early 1970s New York tonight. Lots of vintage Broadway signage spotted!

There’s a timeline where William Powell and Myrna Loy do Who’s Afraid of Woolf?

Ronan. We don’t dead-name people here.

Noting in the Vosk/Shaiman Otto Titsling they’ve replaced the ethnic slur Kr**t with “devout” because rhyming is enough? Shipoopi!

In hope of swaying both nominators and voters, Burnside Gooch will tour.

Any word on how Sam Pinkelton will be handling the audience callbacks for You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown?

It would have lost its entire investment, but this is another year where Here We Are would have cleaned-up at the Tonys.

Not to toot my own horn, but I truly think I deserved the Isabelle Stevenson Award for my work here.

The saddest part of the Beaches Besties Photo Booth is the people who are pictured by themselves 😢

Whatever happens between now and then, when the actress playing Lucy says, “Nobody should be kept from being a queen if she wants to be one. IT’S UNDEMOCRATIC!” there will be… a reaction.

“Look, I made a hat.” -Eileen Brennan as Irene Molloy in Stephen Sondheim’s Hello, Dolly!

Saw a guest speller at Spelling Bee post about having made her Broadway debut. 🙄

Since 12/8, nineteen Broadway shows have opened. Only two of those (Cats and Lost Boys) have opened without an announced closing date. That’s crazy.

What did Fiyero say after his first night with Elphaba?

When I win my Tony, I’m going to say, “To the other nominees, it must have been cold there in my shadow.”

Jerome Robbins’ Broadway? Sure, but what I’d really like to see on stage is Ken Mandelbaum’s Not Since Carrie.

If anyone’s ever dreamed of attending A Broadway Opening Night, Beaches has plenty of very affordable rear mezzanine tickets available for tomorrow night.

Happy 49th Anniversary to ANNIE. There needs to be a revival next year where she gets a gold dress for the curtain call.

Looking forward to seeing Paddington in the role originally played by Joel Grey.

Roundabout is doing The Full Monty, and I hope this becomes Sally Struthers’s triumphant return to Broadway. It’s been thirty years, and she deserves something nice.