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Emily Clark

@emilyabclark.bsky.social
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musical theatre history, Stealing Focus gal on YouTube, teacher, director, producer, sometimes actor, Sondheim acolyte, intimidator of insecure men (she/her) linktr.ee/stealingfocus

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Emily Clark @emilyabclark.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Use discount code: crisis for PWYC ☎️⛈️
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Emily Clark @emilyabclark.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
If you missed ON THE LINE at the Hollywood Fringe, you can see it next month at Theatre 68 in NoHo! Pay-What-You-Can tix available til the end of July, only 2 performances! theatre68artsfestival.stagey.net/projects/15022
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Emily Clark @emilyabclark.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Josh Grisetti. Sam Neill. FUCK. What an awful start to the week.
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Emily Clark @emilyabclark.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
No one mourns the wicked 💅
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Emily Clark @emilyabclark.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Movie adaptations of big golden age stage hits can be great. Oklahoma, Music Man, etc. Singin’ in the Rain is a must, really anything with Gene Kelly. Top Hat for some classic Astaire.
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Emily Clark @emilyabclark.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Wow I remember seeing The Ring and Big Love and even Donnie Darko and thinking Daveigh Chase was something special. 35 years old is way too young.
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Emily Clark @emilyabclark.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Pirelli is honestly WAY harder to sing than Anthony.
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Emily Clark @emilyabclark.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Yup it’s a difficult score. Click the Instagram link I sent you. Ryan has tons of good Sondheim advice.
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Emily Clark @emilyabclark.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Well that makes it a lot easier! Pick the role you’re going for, grab 16-32 bars of their best song, and voila!
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Emily Clark @emilyabclark.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
My friend Ryan literally just posted this on insta. Lots of helpful tips: www.instagram.com/p/DZsa0J0nMz...
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Emily Clark @emilyabclark.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Are they requesting you sing Sondheim at the audition?
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Emily Clark @emilyabclark.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
One of my Hollywood Fringe shows is a Larchmont Buzz Pick of the Week! That’s kinda cool!! 😍 Read it here: larchmontbuzz.com/theater/a-pe...
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Emily Clark @emilyabclark.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Four performances left at the Broadwater Second Stage! Yet another link: www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/13703
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Hollywood Fringe - on the line
ON THE LINE is a pressure-cooker thriller set during the graveyard shift at a Seattle crisis call center in 1984. This new play by Pamela Eberhardt & Dan Testa explores how women learn to trust their ...
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Emily Clark @emilyabclark.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Four performances left at Three Clubs! Link for tix: www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/13709
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Hollywood Fringe - straitjacket sirens
STRAITJACKET SIRENS is a darkly funny 90s-themed jukebox cabaret written by Pamela Eberhardt & directed by Parissa Koo. A group of women confined to a mental hospital use music to reclaim their voices...
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Emily Clark @emilyabclark.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I’d love it if you could come out to see either or both! STRAITJACKET SIRENS is a 90s jukebox cabaret while ON THE LINE is a psychological thriller. There’s a vibe for everyone! 😉
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Emily Clark @emilyabclark.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I’m playing two very different gals at the Hollywood Fringe! Amy is an insomniac in a mental hospital emoting via 90s songs, while Hannah is living through a psychological thriller in the 80s. Both tackle feminism in overt & subtle ways, though, so they feel like 2 sides of the same coin for me.
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Emily Clark @emilyabclark.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
It’s so funny when my theatre friends congratulate me on my masters but they call it an MFA. 😜 Like no honey, it’s full academia MA on an artsy subject. That’s why it took so ding dang diddly loooooong.
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Emily Clark @emilyabclark.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
I’m seeing live theatre in my community tonight so I’ll catch up on Tony clips later. Go support yours cuz theatre is everywhere!!
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Emily Clark @emilyabclark.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
The NYC theatre scene has one of their biggest community award shows tonight! So I felt like posting the awesome slogan to this year’s Hollywood Fringe Festival.
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Emily Clark @emilyabclark.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
God what a musical theatre talent he was too.
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Emily Clark @emilyabclark.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Dawn, Xander, now Giles. Sucks so much.
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Emily Clark @emilyabclark.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
💔
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Anthony Head, 'Buffy' and 'Ted Lasso' star, dies at 72
Anthony Head, who played Rupert Giles on 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer,' has died at 72, his family said in a statement. Head also recently starred on 'Ted Lasso.'
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Emily Clark @emilyabclark.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Noooooo not Tony Head NO. 😭😭😭
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Emily Clark @emilyabclark.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Omigod and one of my Fringe shows premieres tonight!! It’s a 90’s music cabaret, it’s stupid and fun, you should come! www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/13709
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Hollywood Fringe - straitjacket sirens
STRAITJACKET SIRENS is a darkly funny 90s-themed jukebox cabaret written by Pamela Eberhardt & directed by Parissa Koo. A group of women confined to a mental hospital use music to reclaim their voices...
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Emily Clark @emilyabclark.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Today is the last day of school. Jeff & I got our “your life burned down” settlement this week. It’s “winning the lottery” money… we just had to lose everything to get it. 🤣 And I just got some extremely exciting news (re: my secret garden history). This is a DAMN good week.
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Emily Clark @emilyabclark.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Tech rehearsal be like that sometimes.
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Emily Clark @emilyabclark.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Oh I love every bad moment don’t get me wrong
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Emily Clark @emilyabclark.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
My husband has never seen Dick Tracy. I KNOW. And while I fully know it’s not good, I can’t let my Noir/Sondheim-loving husband live another day without seeing Mandy Patinkin and Madonna sing What Can You Lose.
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Emily Clark @emilyabclark.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Let me make this clear, he did not abuse me or anything. I have nothing bad to say about him. Purely 20-something duh-rama of two toxic personalities. But wow it’s weird for it to pop up outta nowhere.
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Emily Clark @emilyabclark.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I haven’t thought about him in yearsssss and then my friend today brought it up. I mean we dated decades ago but it’s wild to see him as this grounded politician. And I truly don’t know him at all now (20-something’s are insane) but wow this is wild.
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Emily Clark @emilyabclark.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I just found out that my most dramatic/traumatic college boyfriend is RUNNING FOR MAYOR OF LONG BEACH.
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Emily Clark @emilyabclark.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
And yer gal has NO kids' summer show to teach (for the first time in like 20 years lol), which means I don't have to be on an MPR stage again until October. **EXHALES/SCREAMS TO THE HEAVENS IN RAPTUROUS JOY**
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Emily Clark @emilyabclark.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
All kids' shows of the 25/26 school year are DUNZO! There's only 9 days of school left so that means the kids get to watch all kinds of movie musicals and pro-shots (the glorified babysitting endgame phase of the year).
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Emily Clark @emilyabclark.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I just wanna sit on a nice comfy C for a belt. Remember that?
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Emily Clark @emilyabclark.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I just want to play Mother from Ragtime. Before I’m too old. I think I could do it.
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Emily Clark @emilyabclark.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I am officially a historian. A MASTER of Musical Theatre History. Next stop PhD… 😉
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Emily Clark @emilyabclark.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I just remembered that tomorrow I'm wearing a flipping cap and gown for the first time since my high school graduation (I didn't do it for undergrad cuz I didn't care, I just did the UCSC theatre grad IYKYK). Lord. I'm a 100 years old why am I doing this? 😂
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Emily Clark @emilyabclark.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
I could have very easily mistaken “likes kids” with “wants to have kids,” and my mom friends really helped me out in that department. Moms are rad.
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Emily Clark @emilyabclark.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
I’m so grateful to my friends who became mothers and felt comfortable enough to tell me EXACTLY what motherhood entails. I’m also grateful for a lifetime of working in childcare/education. I’m child free by choice, but also I love kids and I’m happy to be the kooky aunt. Love you, moms. 💐
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Emily Clark @emilyabclark.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I feel like LA theatre is having the biggest clowning Renaissance since commedia dell’arte.
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Emily Clark @emilyabclark.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Broadway is awesome, but it’s one theatre community based out of NYC (the most famous to be sure). Go find your community now because theatre is EVERYWHERE and is (or should be) for everyone.
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Emily Clark @emilyabclark.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
There are more prescient harbingers of the times than a mediocre award season. The IP-ification of Broadway rivals the megamusical era. BFA belt ubiquity whittling down distinct voices & variety. Whether you think that’s good or bad is subjective but they are more obvious indicators of change IMO.
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Emily Clark @emilyabclark.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
A dud Tony award season is nothing new. Remember when Contact won best musical? You know the show with NO LIVE SINGING? Or the 1985 season with Big River where every other title is completely lost to time? It’s the ebbs and flows of Broadway theatre.
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Emily Clark @emilyabclark.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Omigaaaaah
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Emily Clark @emilyabclark.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Every role I’ve ever wanted to play has been a kooky middle aged lady so…
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a cartoon says now it 's marge 's time to shine in black letters
ALT: a cartoon says now it 's marge 's time to shine in black letters
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Emily Clark @emilyabclark.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Watching that Next to Normal proshot with the Brits and remembering that my best roles are ahead of me.
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Emily Clark @emilyabclark.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
🥹❤️
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Emily Clark @emilyabclark.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
I don’t think anyone cares on bluesky but I’m in TWO shows at the Hollywood Fringe Festival this summer. One is an 80s psychological thriller, the other is a 90s jukebox cabaret. You’ll love ‘em! Tix go on sale today, use code “earlybird” for a discount! You can find us at hollywoodfringe.org ❤️
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Emily Clark @emilyabclark.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Look at him! A million years ago welllll before we met. He was Rent-ing in national and international tours. And they made him have that stupid hair cuz the movie just came out LOL. youtu.be/1UByHVlNmbY?...
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Jeff Scot Carey - Your Eyes - RENT
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Emily Clark @emilyabclark.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
This show meant so much to teenage me. I wish I could tell her I married a Roger.
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