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Richard Schoch

@richardschoch.bsky.social
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🏳️‍🌈Prof of Drama, Queen’s University Belfast: Author, HOW SONDHEIM CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE (Atria 🇺🇸, Ebury 🇬🇧) Rep’d by Inkwell Management

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Richard Schoch @richardschoch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Or….paint supplies … he’d be a great George
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Richard Schoch @richardschoch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
God, that’s good
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Richard Schoch @richardschoch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Never change
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Richard Schoch @richardschoch.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Stephen Sondheim is BBC Radio 3 Composer of the Week. Listen 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... #sondheim #bbc #radio3 #musicaltheatre
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BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Stephen Sondheim (1930-2021), Coming Alive
Donald Macleod reflects back on the life and music of Stephen Sondheim.
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Richard Schoch @richardschoch.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
If Only He’d Looked My Way from Gay’s the Word
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Richard Schoch @richardschoch.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
God, that’s good.
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Richard Schoch @richardschoch.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
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Richard Schoch @richardschoch.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
‘And Gielgud.’ ‘Bobby and Jackie and Jack’ — Merrily We Roll Along.
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Richard Schoch @richardschoch.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Blue moon
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Richard Schoch @richardschoch.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
pailleted
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Richard Schoch @richardschoch.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I know all about your standards.
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Richard Schoch @richardschoch.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Mine too. It’s the first song I teach in my ‘Acting for Musical Theatre’ class.
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Richard Schoch @richardschoch.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Two from ‘Piano Lesson’ … ❤️🎹❤️
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Richard Schoch @richardschoch.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
a moo cow, a new cow, a true cow 🐄 🎶
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Richard Schoch @richardschoch.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
‘Chico and the Man’ AND ‘The Cradle Will Rock’. Respect!
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Richard Schoch @richardschoch.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Massive congratulations to you and the company!! 👏👏👏🎉🎉🎉🎭🎭🎭🎶🎶🎶
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Richard Schoch @richardschoch.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
God of surprises!!
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Richard Schoch @richardschoch.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
I’ll never get over the fact that the real-life Baby June in ‘Gypsy’ played Mrs. Lovett in ‘Sweeney Todd’.
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Richard Schoch @richardschoch.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I was today years old…
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Richard Schoch @richardschoch.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
She is a goddess. I loved her in that series.
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Richard Schoch @richardschoch.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Fair — otherwise undistinguished cast.
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Richard Schoch @richardschoch.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Egan as Wilde in ‘Lillie.’ ❤️
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Richard Schoch @richardschoch.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
End of the world
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Richard Schoch @richardschoch.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
👏👏👏🎭🎭🎭🎶🎶🎶
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Richard Schoch @richardschoch.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Congratulations 🥳 📚🏳️‍🌈👏👏👏
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Richard Schoch @richardschoch.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Hollanderize it
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Richard Schoch @richardschoch.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
You’ll find it in Balzac.
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Richard Schoch @richardschoch.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Thank you 😊 This was my first interview for the Sondheim book, so I remember it well! 🎭🎶📚
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Richard Schoch @richardschoch.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
How wonderful! Your own essay is a leading contribution to the volume. It was terrific having you involved with the entire project.
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Richard Schoch @richardschoch.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Katharine Hepburn in ‘Coco’
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Richard Schoch @richardschoch.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
James Cagney as Nathan Detroit
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Richard Schoch @richardschoch.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Looks like a fascinating read!
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Richard Schoch @richardschoch.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
gifted humans like Vincent Youmans
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Richard Schoch @richardschoch.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Verily
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Richard Schoch @richardschoch.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
So meta (in a good way)
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Richard Schoch @richardschoch.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Anyone Can Whistle
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Richard Schoch @richardschoch.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Patricia Hodge can do no wrong.
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Richard Schoch @richardschoch.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Exactly
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The Arden Shakespeare @ardenpublisher.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Why, for centuries, have people kept turning up at Shakespeare’s Birthplace? @richardschoch.bsky.social reveals the 18th-century publicity stunt that turned the humble house where Shakespeare was born into the tourist attraction it is today. Read now: bit.ly/44D4moD
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Richard Schoch @richardschoch.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
And so was the next Sweeney, George Hearn
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Richard Schoch @richardschoch.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Wot I calls enterprise
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Richard Schoch @richardschoch.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Falling faintly…and faintly falling…
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Diep Tran @diepthought.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Did I overanalyze every frame of the new Merrily We Roll Along pro-shot? Yes, yes I did.
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7 Heartwarming Details You Can See Only in the Merrily We Roll Along Live Stage Film
You may have seen the Tony-winning Broadway revival in the theatre, but the new film offers an intimate perspective.
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Richard Schoch @richardschoch.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
No, it was not.
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Upstairs at the Gatehouse @gatehouse.london · 29/11/2025
The legendary mind behind Wicked, Godspell, The Baker's Wife, and more has shaped the sound of modern musical theatre! Come and hear what all the fuss is about when Pippin opens on December 11th! 🎟️ Book now: nowshow.ing/pippin
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Rob Townsend @rbtownsend.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
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"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
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Richard Schoch @richardschoch.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Exciting!
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The Sondheim Hub @thesondheimhub.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
New today! We speak to the brilliant Joel Fram, music director for Maria Friedman’s MERRILY and Marianne Elliott’s COMPANY. 🎈 Joel shares so many great stories of these two landmark productions & working closely with Sondheim: thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/a-conversa...
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A Conversation with Joel Fram
Music director for Maria Friedman's Merrily & Marianne Elliott's Company
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Richard Schoch @richardschoch.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Robert Preston as Barnum with Barbara Cook as Charity Barnum (not the other Charity obv)
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Richard Schoch @richardschoch.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Visited by the ghost of Mary Rodgers
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