A queer Afro-Latina actor won an Oscar. A Deaf actor won an Oscar. A woman won Best Director for the second consecutive year. Let's not let that be overshadowed. Let's honor and celebrate that.
Howard Sherman
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Howard Sherman
@HESherman
Arts admin & advocate. Enthusiast, not critic. @ArtsIntegrity. Dir, @BaruchPAC. Writer @TheStage. Author, “Another Day’s Begun.” @hesherman on socials. He/him.
- I think I need to put this as plainly as I can, and I apologize for shouting: PEOPLE WHO WORK IN THE LIVE PERFORMING ARTS AREN'T JUST 'NOT WORKING' – THEY ARE *PREVENTED* FROM ENGAGING IN THE WORK AND CAREERS FOR WHICH THEY WERE TRAINED.
- Just a reminder to everyone that "The Great Gatsby" enters the public domain at 12 am on Friday. Get your revisionist stage adaptations, including musicals, started now!
- Norman Lear lived to 101. Bob Hope: 100. George Burns: 100. Carl Reiner: 98. Phyllis Diller: 95. Don Rickles: 90. Still with us: Mel Brooks is 97. Dick Van Dyke is 97. Bob Newhart is 94. Suggests there's something invigorating and valuable in a lifetime of making people laugh.
- The Broadway production of "Wicked" grossed $5 million for 9 performances last week. And to think that movies of stage shows used to be withheld from release until the live version had closed, to avoid cannibalizing sales.
- I just read of the passing of Christopher Plummer at age 91. Keep your Captain von Trapp – for me he was a brilliant Iago opposite James Earl Jones's "Othello" on Broadway some 40 years ago. Sorry to learn of his final bow.
- So @LaraSpencer has apologized for her comments about Prince George and ballet via Instagram. I say that until it's on air on @GMA, with the same audience who heard her original statements, it's meaningless.
- "Hands out"? "Even Broadway actors"? These are people and families in distress. Live performing arts comprise a major industry brought to its knees. Do not dismiss what we do or our importance to the economy. This is shameful, @nytimes.
- Charmed to see @DeathBecomesBwy using lenticular posters to change before your eyes. This isn't video - it's all about light reflection and the angle you view from. Vintage tech made new.
00:00 - Evidence of why @IanMcKellen has been one of my theatrical heroes for four decades. His message to audiences on missing a performance as KING LEAR yesterday.
- Here's @Lin_Manuel introducing a screening of MARY POPPINS at @UPTheatre_NYC just over an hour ago. He donated the new projector!
- "Somebody crowd me with love Somebody force me to care Somebody let come through I'll always be there As frightened as you To help us survive Being alive." – Stephen Sondheim 1930-2021
