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Seth Christenfeld, present and upright (don't expect more)

@sethdoesthings.com
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Lyricist, librettist, dramaturg...mensch? I haven't updated my website (sethdoesthings.com) since the Obama administration. Aspiring alter kocker and freelance know-it-all.

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Seth Christenfeld, present and upright (don't expect more) @sethdoesthings.com · 27/09/2026
For the first time since I started going in 1998, I'm not at the BC/EFA Flea today. I remember 2009.
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Seth Christenfeld, present and upright (don't expect more) @sethdoesthings.com · 27/09/2026
Mallon. I admire her chutzpah.
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
the first caveman keyboard had four keys (O, O, G, A) until the introduction of the fifth key (B). it took another 10,000 years before we realized the second O was not necessary
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Seth Christenfeld, present and upright (don't expect more) @sethdoesthings.com · 21/09/2026
One week from tonight...a bunch of cool people doing A DOOR. Huzzah! (everybody is Asian except for me and @jameskballard.bsky.social.)
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NAAP Discover 2026
NAAP Discover 2026
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Seth Christenfeld, present and upright (don't expect more) @sethdoesthings.com · 21/09/2026
Appropriate for Kol Nidre, I suppose. (still having a bacon cheeseburger for lunch tomorrow)
A fortune cookie fortune reads "A night of gratitude and reflection awaits you tonight."
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Seth Christenfeld, present and upright (don't expect more) @sethdoesthings.com · 20/09/2026
Well, maybe in ten years' time, when the 50th anniversary rolls around, I'll get to go to a screening of TRANSFORMERS THE MOVIE where the top and bottom of the screen aren't cut off the whole way through.
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Starscream's Despair in Transformers G1
Alt: Starscream's Despair in Transformers G1
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Todd, but like a ghost? @toddjohnson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Lots of folks talking very deservedly about Phantom of the Paradise and Used Cars, but Gerrit Graham gave a masterclass in comedy drunk acting on The Critic. Just an all-timer. youtu.be/Nxb1kEL4vPY?...
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Best of Franklin Sherman from The Critic (Jay's Dad)
YouTube video by dsargent724
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Seth Christenfeld, present and upright (don't expect more) @sethdoesthings.com · 18/09/2026
You've heard of stunt casting, but stunt band subbing is a new one.
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Yankees Legend Bernie Williams Joining the Band of Buena Vista Social Club On Broadway
It's a double hitter as Mets alum José “Candelita” Iglesias extends his own run in the musical.
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Noël Coward’s Way Out @averynicedog.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is just to say I have eaten the Pale Man’s grapes that were on the table and which he was probably saving for Generalissimo Francisco Franco who is still dead
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Seth Christenfeld, present and upright (don't expect more) @sethdoesthings.com · 17/09/2026
Is Telecharge forcing box offices to open later so that we have to order online and pay service charges?
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
GEFILTE PHISHING
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Seth Christenfeld, present and upright (don't expect more) @sethdoesthings.com · 10/09/2026
IT'S THE MUPPET SHOW THE PREMISE IS THAT THE MUPPETS ARE DOING A SHOW IT'S NOT THAT FUCKING HARD
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Seth Christenfeld, present and upright (don't expect more) @sethdoesthings.com · 10/09/2026
HALLOW
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Seth Christenfeld, present and upright (don't expect more) @sethdoesthings.com · 10/09/2026
GODDAMMIT IT'S NOT AN UNEXPECTED MOUNTAIN
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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I swear every day I write a sentence I never could have imagined uttering like even a day earlier.
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Seth Christenfeld, present and upright (don't expect more) @sethdoesthings.com · 09/09/2026
An androgynous Spanish-speaking drag queen named Eñe Swinton
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Seth Christenfeld, present and upright (don't expect more) @sethdoesthings.com · 04/09/2026
I mean, I know that cishet white guys have had a good run, but goddammit I'm alive NOW.
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Seth Christenfeld, present and upright (don't expect more) @sethdoesthings.com · 02/09/2026
I'm not familiar with that show. Who wrote it?
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Seth Christenfeld, present and upright (don't expect more) @sethdoesthings.com · 02/09/2026
woke up, bought Sound of Music tickets, exercised, ate lunch, played some Shadow Labyrinth, saw Coyote vs. Acme, ate dinner, did some puzzles, bought some other theatre tickets. now I'm gonna read some more of the new Colson Whitehead and go to sleep. for me, it was Tuesday.
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Rsquared @rsquared.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Publishing is a scam by Big Ikea to sell more bookshelves.
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Seth Christenfeld, present and upright (don't expect more) @sethdoesthings.com · 02/09/2026
KAFFE
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Seth Christenfeld, present and upright (don't expect more) @sethdoesthings.com · 31/08/2026
more and more I'm thinking I should just give up the theatre entirely. move to a small seaside town where I can be the local eccentric. stay inside and spend my days reading books and watching movies.
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Seth Christenfeld, present and upright (don't expect more) @sethdoesthings.com · 31/08/2026
what's a better name for an all-female Steely Dan cover band: Steely Jan or Steely Danielle?
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Seth Christenfeld, present and upright (don't expect more) @sethdoesthings.com · 27/08/2026
till all are one.
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Death of Optimus Prime
YouTube video by Vince DiCola - Topic
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Tim Curry was not the 80-year-old Home Alone 2 cast member we were asking for.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.
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Seth Christenfeld, present and upright (don't expect more) @sethdoesthings.com · 25/08/2026
baby, if you ever wondered wondered why I cannot catch my breath it's 'cause I'm running all 'round Camp Miasma dealing with that teenage sex and death
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Seth Christenfeld, present and upright (don't expect more) @sethdoesthings.com · 23/08/2026
one. dozen. rejections. from BMI Librettists. beginning to suspect someone there just doesn't like me.
static.klipy.com
Animated Number 12 Display
Alt: a flashing 12, from Sesame Street's Pinball cartoon
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Seth Christenfeld, present and upright (don't expect more) @sethdoesthings.com · 22/08/2026
I don't think he's gonna show up, guys.
Angélica Liddell's Seppuku will be staged March 18-20, 2027, making its North American premiere. Spanish artist Liddell will join Japanese writer Yukio Mishima for the piece rooted in Japanese ritual, offering a ceremony pushed to the far limit of what a body and an audience can hold.
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Seth Christenfeld, present and upright (don't expect more) @sethdoesthings.com · 21/08/2026
it's also, incidentally, where I went after the first act of the play I saw last night.
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Seth Christenfeld, present and upright (don't expect more) @sethdoesthings.com · 20/08/2026
It's also where all of my stuff is.
A fortune cookie fortune reading "Home is where your heart is."
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Seth Christenfeld, present and upright (don't expect more) @sethdoesthings.com · 20/08/2026
"I'm alone at a drive-in movie" - Danny Zuko's Google
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Seth Christenfeld, present and upright (don't expect more) @sethdoesthings.com · 18/08/2026
this book is chock-full of absolutely wonderful passages, but I don't know how much of it is Backman and how much is Smith. (having just read a book about translation makes me even less sure.)
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Seth Christenfeld, present and upright (don't expect more) @sethdoesthings.com · 18/08/2026
"Just because you don't much like life doesn't necessarily mean you want the alternative." - Fredrik Backman (trans. Neil Smith), ANXIOUS PEOPLE
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Seth Christenfeld, present and upright (don't expect more) @sethdoesthings.com · 16/08/2026
Well, I saw the broadcast of SIX. Which means that I've finally seen SIX. I'm good.
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Seth Christenfeld, present and upright (don't expect more) @sethdoesthings.com · 15/08/2026
And they didn't even need to boil their piss!
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Seth Christenfeld, present and upright (don't expect more) @sethdoesthings.com · 15/08/2026
IT'S A SATURDAY IN AUGUST!
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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 12/08/2026
😻😻😻
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Seth Christenfeld, present and upright (don't expect more) @sethdoesthings.com · 12/08/2026
uh oh y'all it's gettin kinda hazy
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Seth Christenfeld, present and upright (don't expect more) @sethdoesthings.com · 10/08/2026
ah, one Friedman.
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Seth Christenfeld, present and upright (don't expect more) @sethdoesthings.com · 10/08/2026
I'm sure Julianne Moore will be excellent, but after seven plays I think I've reached my limit on trying to like Sarah Ruhl's work.
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Seth Christenfeld, present and upright (don't expect more) @sethdoesthings.com · 08/08/2026
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Seth Christenfeld, present and upright (don't expect more) @sethdoesthings.com · 07/08/2026
I should reread The Night Circus.
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Seth Christenfeld, present and upright (don't expect more) @sethdoesthings.com · 07/08/2026
DRAMATURGY, MOTHERFUCKERS
Threads post from rohita.kadambi:

So, like not to be that person but the sitcoms "Joey" and "30 Rock" never overlapped on NBC. "Joey" ended in May of 2006 and the "30 Rock" pilot was October 11, 2006.
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Seth Christenfeld, present and upright (don't expect more) @sethdoesthings.com · 06/08/2026
who's Rose?
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Seth Christenfeld, present and upright (don't expect more) @sethdoesthings.com · 05/08/2026
Statler
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Seth Christenfeld, present and upright (don't expect more) @sethdoesthings.com · 04/08/2026
honestly, valid.
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Seth Christenfeld, present and upright (don't expect more) @sethdoesthings.com · 04/08/2026
the horse made a better case for trying cake.
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Seth Christenfeld, present and upright (don't expect more) @sethdoesthings.com · 03/08/2026
If we're gonna gild existing statues, surely one of them can be the Ralph Kramden statue at Port Authority. He's a true American hero.
A statue of Jackie Gleason as Ralph Kramden from The Honeymooners. He stands, dignified as ever, lunchbox in his right hand as his left hand holds his jacket. A true American hero.
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Seth Christenfeld, present and upright (don't expect more) @sethdoesthings.com · 02/08/2026
Heavy Side
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