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Emily G. Furlich

@emdashfurlich.bsky.social
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knower of obscure details about divas of the stage and screen • Theatre PhDing at the CUNY Graduate Center • she/her

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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
Aw, that makes my day 😊
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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 · 07/09/2025
I saved this during my research trip at the Kurt Weill Foundation a few years ago.
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Emily G. Furlich @emdashfurlich.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
I am so normal
A stack of fifteen DVD cases that are interlibrary loans
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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 · 28/08/2025
Brooklyn College campus today
View of Brooklyn College campus. There is a partially cloudy blue sky and the library clock tower is in center view.
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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 · 13/08/2025
My hand holding a playbill for Shakespeare in the Park’s Twelfth Night in front of the Delacorte Theater.
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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 · 30/07/2025
I did not go to the reunion concert but just seeing the hat choreography from the back of the crowd at Lincoln Center Plaza was a joyful experience! 🌟
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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
She remembers this being when it the dance was invented, but a cursory internet search reveals that 1961 is actually when the dance peaked in popularity.
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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 · 30/03/2025
What a beautiful farewell performance. I feel very privileged to have witnessed (however partially) your journey with this character over the last year 💕
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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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Emily G. Furlich @emdashfurlich.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Basic answer but… Frank Sinatra
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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-...
newyorker.com
“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
One of the many things I loved about the production was seeing “Susan’s Dream” in context for the first time, which I first fell in love with from listening to @bebeneuwirth.bsky.social’s Live at 54 Below album… 💓
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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
I was right. Ethel Merman collapsed in her home on April 7, four days before the ceremony. Shortly thereafter she underwent surgery to remove a brain tumor.
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Emily G. Furlich @emdashfurlich.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
(I think I remember reading that they were a relatively last minute replacement for Ethel Merman but I need to double check that.)
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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
*1983 !
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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
YouTube video by kjanson
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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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Emily G. Furlich @emdashfurlich.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
It’s not clear; I would suggest not being so flippant about an issue as serious as abortion access, but thank you for replying in good faith.
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Emily G. Furlich @emdashfurlich.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Why are you singling out teenage girls who are vulnerable to experiencing forced birth as uniquely susceptible to the TikTok bait and switch?
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Cecile Richards, the former president of Planned Parenthood, has died at the age of 67 after a battle with brain cancer.
huffpost.com
Cecile Richards, Ex-President Of Planned Parenthood, Dies At 67
"Our hearts are broken today but no words can do justice to the joy she brought to our lives," her family said in a post on social media.
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Variety @variety.com · 16/01/2025
David Lynch, Visionary Director of ‘Twin Peaks’ and ‘Blue Velvet,’ Dies at 78 variety.com/2025/film/ne...
variety.com
David Lynch, Visionary Director of ‘Twin Peaks’ and ‘Blue Velvet,’ Dies at 78
Director David Lynch, who radicalized American film with with a dark, surrealistic artistic vision in films like 'Blue Velvet,' has died. He was 78.
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Molly McGhee @mollymcghee.com · 16/01/2025
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Emily G. Furlich @emdashfurlich.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
Screenshot of my last four films logged on Letterboxd: Three on a Match (rated 3 stars), The Last Showgirl (rated 3.5 stars), Never Date an Actress (no rating), and Maria (rated 3.5 stars).
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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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