Do You Know Who Was At The "Finding Neverland" Opening, The Other Night?????????? That Skank, Perez Hilton!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                  I have made no secret of the fact that I have a deep seated curiosity about the musical version of "Finding Neverland."  So, why the hell wasn't I invited to the Broadway opening?
                                  But that skank Perez Hilton was!!!!!!!!!  I mean, this guy is dressed like Cazwell in the "I See Beyonce At Burger King" video!!!!!!!!!  Do you think I would show up at a Broadway opening, looking like this???????????  This wasn't the other night, but I would not be surprised if that Perez Hilton showed up, looking just as trampy as this!!!!!!!!!!  I mean, what would ANNA say???????  I'd love to hear here side of this!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                   I am telling you, this blog is more informative than anything of Hilton's. I understand it is actually getting Liza through rehab!!!!!!!!!!!  So, you think the press or box office at "Finding Neverland" could send The Raving Queen a couple of free tickets, to check out the show!!!!!!!!!  I mean, this is the day before Hayley Mills' birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                    This show has messed up in so many ways!  First by hiring Diane Paulus, then not inviting me to the opening!  Well, you know what? Shows can be opened, but they can be closed!!!!!!!!  Now that Diane has been ousted from the Theater Community, it is time to do the same with Perez, and send this show to the boondocks of Goat Alley or its Midwestern equivalent where lowbrows will make it into the hit New Yorkers who are too sophisticated are not able to!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                      Watch it, Perez!!!!!!!!!!  Your street cred is fading!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Something Is Definitely Wrong With Little Debbie!!!!!!!!!!! But Is She A Lesbo, A Tranny, Or What?????????????????

                        I have been questioning the sexuality of Little Debbie, of snack cake fame, for a long time; I even did a posting, a year or so back, asking whether or not she is a lesbian. As I said, then, she sort of resembles the game piece "Butch," from my edition of "Go To The Head Of The Class," that classic board game from Milton Bradley!  Which made me wonder just how butch Little Debbie is.

                         Now that Will Ferrell is impersonating her, the question is brought out into the open. So, is she a lesbian, a man masquerading as a woman, or vice versa?  Who can tell?  Especially with Will, here!!!!!!!!!!!  One thing for sure--Little Debbie does need a copy of "The Well Of Loneliness," by Radclyffe Hall, and she should read it, as living in her sugar coated world has limited her outlook on life.  Hall's book will give her a fresh perspective.  Then maybe the ingredients in her snack cakes won't kill so many people!

                          I can't decide what Little Debbie is, except that she needs a clinical evaluation.   Why don't you look at the video, girls, and tell me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                               What a bitch, darlings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You're Finished, Diane! Off With You, To The Island Of Lost Directors, Along With Julie Taymor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                          Diane Paulus' luck has finally run out.  I mean, look at her; she is just one step away from readiness for a mental health clinic!  Of course, the bomb that is "Finding Neverland" currying disfavor on Broadway has yanked Paulus from her overly exalted status achieved with "HAIR" and "Pippin" and put her on that Island, which is similar to the Island Of Misfit Toys, except one can sympathize with the inhabitants there.  One can not sympathize with Lost Directors, whose egos screw up their careers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                            Of course, Diane was doomed from the start, when she agreed to take on "Finding Neverland," as a musical!  Anyone would have been!!!!!!!!  But Miss Full Of Herself thought she knew better, could coax some warmth into this thing.  Sounds like she coaxed a closing notice instead.

                             Though, I keep hearing on the street that, despite the horrible reviews, this show is doing boffo biz at the box office. Who the hell is going?  If they stuck in any way to the plot of the movie, it is not a whimsical children's piece.  It is not fun, like "Matilda."  It is an often dark meditation on the brevity of childhood, fear, loss, loneliness, where the mother dies toward the end.  Not the sort of show that is going to send people out of the theater smiling.  Even "The Sound Of Music" gave some hope!  The Von Trapps escaped the Nazis!

                                The only Nazi here is Diane Paulus!!!!!!!!!!!!  But, with here career now dried up, she won't be heard from anymore, unless she gets on one of those trash TV stations, where she can rant about anything you want.

                                   And yet, something in me wants to see this show. To see how such a wonderful film was ruined!

                                    Drop a free ticket my way, Diane!!!!!!!!!!!  You haven't got anything better to do, as no projects will be coming your way after this.

                                       The show should have been retitled "Finding Your Way To The Exit To Escape The Show!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

This Book Turned Out To Be Much More Than I Thought It Would Be!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                Dorothy Uhnak was big during the Seventies and Eighties. There was a period of time when everyone seemed to be reading her novel, "The Investigation," because  (and I was too young and naive to know this at the time) it was a fictional rendering of the Alice Crimmins case, which celebrates its 50th Anniversary, this summer.  She was that cheap cocktail waitress from Kew Gardens, Queens--where else does cheapness come from, darlings???--who killed her own children.

                                  And, as far as I am concerned, Alice did it.

                                  I must have found "Victims" somewhere; maybe at the Strand, and, as I perused the dust jacket it sounded like it would be a fictional take on the Kitty Genovese case, a source of never ending fascination to me.  Now, it is that, but, despite the relative shortness of the novel, it is a good deal more--an exploration into urban apathy, drug dealing family corruption, and just about anything else one can pull out of a hat in a police procedural.  All in just 316 pages.

                                    Which speaks volumes of Uhnak's abilities as a writer; she has a compelling style, and she is able to get to her point in a way other writers would take twice the length of time in doing so.

                                        As a result, I got more than I bargained for with "Victims."  Now, I want to go back and reread "The Investigation."

                                          I want to get her take on Alice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congratulations, Jodi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                          This is just some celebratory week, girls, what with Saint Bernadette, "A Chorus Line," Jodi Arias....wait a minute!!!!!!!!!!!!  Did I just say Jodi Arias????? That's right, everyone, I want to congratulate Jodi--whom I just LOVE, darlings!!!!!!!!--for beating the death penalty rap and getting Life Without Parole!

                           Poor Jodi!  So misunderstood!  Good girl, with all the bad breaks!!!!!!!!  That Travis Alexander was some sexist, hypocritical pussy hound, who wanted Jodi for only one thing, when she was ready to give up everything!  No wonder she developed such severe equilibrium problems she slipped numerous times in that shower, with that knife!  But, she is not a cold blooded killer!  Oh, no!
Why, she wouldn't even harm a fly!!!!!!!!!!

                             I see people in this town (NYC) every day, walking the street, who are much more dangerous than Jodi!  That is why I am so happy Jodi got Life. Now, she will paint from prison, write books, become an icon, and maybe all us fans can visit and have tea with Jodi!!!!!!!!!  There would be a lot to learn, wouldn't there, darlings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                So, a belated, but heartfelt, congratulations to Jodi!!!!!!!!!!!

                                And, girls, don't tolerate crap from your boyfriends!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This Was The Night It Happened, Darlings!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 40 Years Ago Tonight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                              Yes, everyone, four decades ago this evening, a paying audience took their seats in the Newman Theatre at the Public, to see an original new musical, called "A Chorus Line."  And theater has never been the same since.

                                 I am old enough to have actually been in that audience, but I did not see the show till October 1975, when it had moved to the Shubert.

                                 I can only wonder how many people in that audience of 299 are still alive, and what their memories are of that evening????????????

                                  If this has been "A Chorus Line" Week, then this is "A Chorus Line" Day.  I should have taken the day off.

                                  How to capture the remembrance?  "One" might be the most obvious, but I opt for another selection.

                                   Here are Priscilla Lopez, and the Original Cast, singing "What I Did For Love."
The show's song that speaks to so many people!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                     Happy 40th Anniversary to "A Chorus Line!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Saint Bernadette Herself Must Have Been Watching Over The Whole Thing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                        On her Feast Day, forty years ago, though no one really knew it at the time, the History Of The American Musical Theater was about to explode.  A group of twenty four dancers, seventeen who would soon come to form an iconic Line, were warming up, griping, dealing with nerves, and getting in last minute rehearsals of steps, lyrics, blocking, to iron out the kinks to what was going to be presented to a paying audience for the first time this night, four decades ago.

                        A young dancer named Donna McKechnie had no idea she was going to go into the history books as The Greatest Show Stopper In Broadway History!  That's right, darlings!  And alter the lives of those who saw her, including yours truly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                          So, before anything else, let us remember Donna and that number!

                          We all need that chance to dance, darlings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!