Darlings, Today We Set A Precedent!!!!!!!!!!!

Girls, can you believe it is already Thursday. That means it is time here at The Raving Queen for....Bitch of the Week! And this week's winner is a gem, because for starters.....he is a man!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, darlings, after all the dates and failed relationships I have racked up, I can assure you there are plenty of male bitches out there. And of course I am one myself. But this week's selection takes the prize for arrogance and hubris.

The winner of this week's Bitch Of The Week is........Rob Ashford!!!!

Right now, Mr. A is directing and choreographing the forthcoming revival of "Promises, Promises," which every New York Theater Queen, especially those of us of a cergtain age, are excited about!!!!!!!!!

Now, Rob might have looked cute in his little sailor suit back when he was doing "Anything Goes" with Patti LuPone, but it is time for him to shed that getup and get into a "Follies" moomoo, about the size of Mary McCarty as Stella Deems!!!!!
Why am I coming down so hard on Rob? Because, girls, the scuttlebutt on the street is that he is jettisoning the Michael Bennett choreography in favor of his own. Well, he did a nice job with 'Millie', but honey, he is NOT Michael Bennett. No one is, except maybe Donna McKechnie and Baayork Lee. And as any good TQ knows, this was the show whose original production put those two gals forward in the show stopping Act One finale, "Turkey Lurkey Time." The word on the street right now is that the number does NOT work. Well, without the Bennett choreography, duh, wadda ya want? Would you want to see "West Side Story" minus Jerone Robbins?

I am calling upon Donna and Baayork right now to get down to the theater pronto, and dish it to Rob, or kick his ass aside so they can step in and show the cast how it is REALLY done, so that it will be the showstopper it should be. If someone does not stop Rob Ashford, his inflated ego is going to start thinking he is some kind of GENIUS, and we cannot have that happen. There was only ONE genius on "Promises, Promises," and only ONE reason the show worked, and that was Michael Bennett's staging. Oh, sure the Bacharach-David score is a gem, but without Bennett to visualize the songs they would not have worked.

So we salute the hubris and arrogance of this week's bitch, Rob Ashford. May Donna and Baayork get there in time to undo the debacle he is creating. Hell, if they were there nightly, I would be there EVERY night!

Make sure you are there when I am, darlings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!