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Emily G. Furlich @emdashfurlich.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

My roommate and I are watching Task and Martha Plimpton is great in it, but whenever she comes on screen I can’t help thinking about this Amy Ryan line reading from Broad City.

A screenshot from Broad City. Ilana is sitting in a chair in the living room of a fancy apartment. An offscreen character played by Amy Ryan says, “I’m off to interview Desi Tutu and wax with Martha Plimpton.”

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Emily G. Furlich @emdashfurlich.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Two different unsolicited letters about phalluses from Patti LuPone’s papers at Columbia.

A letter addressed to Patti LuPone inviting her to join “The Hung Jury,” a dating service that help “single and married women find men who, among their other qualities, are “well-hung.”

A letter addressed to Patti Lupone with a small toy penis taped onto it. The sender claims that the penis belonged to Andrew Lloyd Webber and that they took it from him in a “long and bloody battle.”

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Emily G. Furlich @emdashfurlich.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

I may have flown too close to the sun; I have thirteen interlibrary loan DVDs in at the library right now

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Emily G. Furlich @emdashfurlich.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Sources are telling me it’s Black Cat Appreciation Day, so behold: Mack.

A black cat sitting on a pullout couch with white sheets on it.

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Emily G. Furlich @emdashfurlich.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Daydreaming about Bernadette Peters playing Fosca in the original London production of Passion again…

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Emily G. Furlich @emdashfurlich.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Among the books Patti LuPone donated to Columbia University for its collection of her papers— Trotsky: Terrorism and Communism by Slavoj Zizek The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon

Screenshot from Columbia University’s overview of its Patti LuPone’s papers. Listed are books she has donated—Trotsky: Terrorism and Communism by Slavoj Zizek and The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon.

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Emily G. Furlich @emdashfurlich.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

I went to the Shubert Archive on Monday for research and my favorite discovery was a collection of stage manager reports from almost the entire run of Passion. For an evening performance with a particularly high number of mishaps, the SM began with, “Rough night in Parma.”

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Emily G. Furlich @emdashfurlich.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Every day I check my Amy Ryan Google Alert to see if she has a new acting project, and instead find another obituary of a poor soul survived by their children: Amy, Ryan.

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Emily G. Furlich @emdashfurlich.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

I am in Chicago for the first time. What little I know about this city is entirely derived from The Blues Brothers

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Emily G. Furlich @emdashfurlich.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Do you think this is helpful to anyone

A screenshot of a prompt that reads, “How did you hear about this show?” In the response field I have written, “My Google Alert for Bebe Neuwirth.”

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Emily G. Furlich @emdashfurlich.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Bernadette Peters, Renée Elise Goldsberry, and Jesse Tyler Ferguson are on Celebrity Wheel or Fortune tonight. If you even care…

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Emily G. Furlich @emdashfurlich.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Because I like to remind everyone how old Bernadette Peters actually is, here she is remembering where she was when she learned about the dance phenomenon of the twist. (Chicago, during the second national tour of Gypsy.)

An excerpt from an Andrew Gans interview with Bernadette Peters, where she recalls her experience in the 1961 second national tour of Gypsy. The highlighted section reads, “I remember the Twist was invented when we were in Chicago. The elevator operator said to me, ‘Oh you’re from New York, do you go to the Peppermint Lounge?’ I said, ‘What’s that?’ And he said, ‘The Peppermint Lounge. It’s this hot place in New York where they do the Twist.’”

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Emily G. Furlich @emdashfurlich.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

In 1969, Bernadette Peters was spending the 2025 equivalent of $2,162.66 a month on taxi rides between Queens and Manhattan to perform in Dames at Sea.

Clipping from an article that reads: “Bernadette says she spends about $240 a month taking cabs from Manhattan to Woodhaven Blvd., Ozone Park, but is mindful of all the money she saves not eating out.”

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Emily G. Furlich @emdashfurlich.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

I’m back 🥰 … It’s a two show day paired with Bebe Neuwirth’s last turn as Fräulein Schneider in Cabaret❣️

Me holding up a playbill of the City Center revival of Love Life

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

I wrote about Shulamith Firestone’s “Airless Spaces” and radical feminism’s relationship to madness for The New Yorker: www.newyorker.com/books/under-...

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“Airless Spaces” Captures the Nadir of the Second Wave

If Shulamith Firestone’s last work haunts the feminist movement, it may be because it suggests something disturbing about feminism itself.

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Emily G. Furlich @emdashfurlich.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Last night. It was my first time sitting in the orchestra section at City Center.

My hand holding up a playbill for the production of Love Life now playing at City Center

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Emily G. Furlich @emdashfurlich.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Cameron Mackintosh making Bernadette go on The Tonight Show for the first time in 33 years…🤐

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Emily G. Furlich @emdashfurlich.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

I love to log on here every few weeks to diva!post then disappear again.

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Emily G. Furlich @emdashfurlich.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Apparently Bluesky just updated today to allow videos up to 3 minutes long so I can post the full song, which was part of a tribute to Irving Berlin she performed with Peter Allen.

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Emily G. Furlich @emdashfurlich.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Kate Baldwin’s medley of What’ll I Do and Time Heals Everything was a beautiful tribute to Bernadette Peters, not just because she originated the latter song in Mack & Mabel, but also because the former was a torch song she sang often earlier in her career, including at the 1982 Oscars ceremony.

My hand holding up a playbill for Broadway’s Leading Ladies in front of the stage at Town Hall.

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Emily G. Furlich @emdashfurlich.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

@bebeneuwirth.bsky.social It was a pleasure to listen to you & the ladies of A Chorus Line pay tribute to the dancers who inspired you tonight. I loved what you said about dance’s ephemerality and the importance of preserving it by teaching that embodied knowledge to future generations of dancers.

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Emily G. Furlich @emdashfurlich.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Sometimes life is just biding my time between my “Amy Ryan” Google Alert digests

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Emily G. Furlich @emdashfurlich.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Bernadette Peters sings "I'm a Fool to Want You" in the 1998 TV special "Quincy Jones... The First 50 Years."

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Bernadette Peters, I'm A Fool To Want You

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Emily G. Furlich @emdashfurlich.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Company fun fact: Despite the fact that the two productions were contemporaneous, Scott Ellis’s production at Roundabout changed the homophobic slur in “You Could Drive a Person Crazy” and Sam Mendes’s production at the Donmar Warehouse kept it.

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Emily G. Furlich @emdashfurlich.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Ready for Idina Menzel’s lesbian divorce

Arm extended holding Redwood playbill in front of the set

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Emily G. Furlich @emdashfurlich.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

William Shatner is now on my list of nemeses for (among other things) telling a woman who lost her home in the LA fires that she was embarking on “an adventure”

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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

It was just as cold for Obama's inauguration in 2009, fyi.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

It appears that the person who ratted out this 20-year old Texas abortion patient to the cops was the man who impregnated her, which leads me to my sad but essential reminder: if you are having an abortion in a ban state, tell as few people as possible, and importantly, do not tell your boyfriend.

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dartfluencer @jaynooch.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Why the hell is Eric Adams there

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Emily G. Furlich @emdashfurlich.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I live in a world where I can see Mia Farrow post her Wordle score on here in the morning and watch her kiss Patti LuPone on a Broadway stage a few hours later

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Emily G. Furlich @emdashfurlich.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

My hate for Macy’s runs deeper and deeper every passing holiday season

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Emily G. Furlich @emdashfurlich.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Michael Riedel better be getting in some fistfights to defend Audra’s Rose this season as penance for what he did to Bernadette

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Emily G. Furlich @emdashfurlich.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

let the record show that i was there when

A newsboy tote bag that says “GYPSY” in big letters. Underneath it says “FIRST PREVIEWS | NOVEMBER 21, 2024.” The bag is draped over a red theatre seat.

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Emily G. Furlich @emdashfurlich.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Wow, I can’t believe how much I was led astray. The book is just an excuse for the songs but they’re so infectious that it doesn’t matter! I came because I wanted to see Shoshana Bean and she was out but I think I’m going to come back again before she leaves since I liked it so much.

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Emily G. Furlich @emdashfurlich.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Seated for a show that multiple people have predicted I will hate

My hand holding a playbill for the Broadway musical Hell’s Kitchen held up in front of the stage. View is from front row orchestra, stage left.

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ApocalypticaNow @apocalypticanow.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

What the fuck, Bernie

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

The complaint about the phrase “toxic masculinity” is a classic reversal of victim and offender: the moral emergency is not the sexist violence and degradation that women are complaining about, but the way that overhearing their complaints makes men feel.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

Biden should commute all federal death sentences. He claims to oppose the death penalty now, the risk of a political backlash is now moot, and it would be a historic, legacy-making move.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/11/2024

i think that the people interested in recriminations and score settling right now aren’t seriously grappling with the magnitude of what happened and the implications for the rest of our lives. most of us will probably die living in the political order that will emerge out of this election.

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