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Author | BROADWAY BODIES and QUEER APPROACHES IN MUSICAL THEATRE Assistant Professor of Theater Studies | Duke University ryan-donovan.com

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Ryan Donovan @ryan-donovan.com · 29/05/2026
This letter is one of my favorite archival finds: Harold Prince explaining that EVITA is not Brechtian (one of the most over-used and least understood adjectives)
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Ryan Donovan @ryan-donovan.com · 03/03/2026
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Ryan Donovan @ryan-donovan.com · 05/12/2025
Before the 1919 formation of Chorus Equity Association, "chorus girls" normally rehearsed weeks on end without pay. The union aimed to reduce this to 4 weeks without pay.
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Ryan Donovan @ryan-donovan.com · 04/12/2025
The final callbacks for EVITA are chock full of intriguing What Ifs?
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Ryan Donovan @ryan-donovan.com · 24/11/2025
Who said this and when?
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Ryan Donovan @ryan-donovan.com · 23/11/2025
Dance Magazine October 1971
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Ryan Donovan @ryan-donovan.com · 05/11/2025
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Ryan Donovan @ryan-donovan.com · 09/09/2025
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Ryan Donovan @ryan-donovan.com · 26/08/2025
Sheer perfection.
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Ryan Donovan @ryan-donovan.com · 19/05/2025
It was a scandal *and* an outrage
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Ryan Donovan @ryan-donovan.com · 03/05/2025
This show is a delight, and, along with Bess Wohl’s LIBERATION earlier this season, joyfully claps back against body shaming
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Ryan Donovan @ryan-donovan.com · 26/04/2025
The theatrical event of the year!
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Ryan Donovan @ryan-donovan.com · 12/03/2025
Perhaps the best archival shade I’ve come across recently.
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Ryan Donovan @ryan-donovan.com · 22/02/2025
Audition sheets for EVITA. Look who got an A+
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Ryan Donovan @ryan-donovan.com · 21/02/2025
At my favorite archive today
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Ryan Donovan @ryan-donovan.com · 21/02/2025
Pupdate
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Ryan Donovan @ryan-donovan.com · 14/02/2025
What a dream to see the understudies and alternates in the original cast of PIPPIN
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Ryan Donovan @ryan-donovan.com · 03/02/2025
Oh, I didn't know they made concept recordings in the 1920s 🫠
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Ryan Donovan @ryan-donovan.com · 02/02/2025
What a thrill to be in such good company on the shelves of the New York Public Library! @jfoulkes.bsky.social @jackviertel.bsky.social
Books about musicals on a shelf at the New York public library
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Ryan Donovan @ryan-donovan.com · 30/01/2025
Honestly
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Ryan Donovan @ryan-donovan.com · 29/01/2025
Me, reading the news this year
Cute dog serving a look and side eye.
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Ryan Donovan @ryan-donovan.com · 24/01/2025
See Liza Now!
ad for Liza Minnelli in the Broadway musical "The Act." It says "See Liza NOW!"
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Ryan Donovan @ryan-donovan.com · 01/12/2024
World AIDS Day, 2024
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Ryan Donovan @ryan-donovan.com · 28/11/2024
On Thanksgiving, I am grateful for…
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Ryan Donovan @ryan-donovan.com · 25/11/2024
My research assistant falls asleep on the job….
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Ryan Donovan @ryan-donovan.com · 13/10/2023
Jessica Sternfeld, Elizabeth Wollman, and I are proud to announce the launch of the International Society for the Study of Musicals, the new home of the conference Song, Stage and Screen (in person in 2024!) and the journal Studies in Musical Theatre. Find out more at issmusicals.org.
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