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Stephen Colbert impersonates Sarah PalinThis is just the best thing ever.Posted by Daily Kos on Thursday, January 21, 2016
With the huge announcement that Bette Midler will star in a 2017 Broadway revival of HELLO, DOLLY!, the folks over at NEWSical the Musical in NYC put together this “audition” reel of other Broadway luminaries who might have had their own take on “Dolly Levi.”
Starring the ever-fabulous Christine Pedi.
Fellow blogger kenneth in the (212) has a red speedo theme going on, and who am I not to share?
Happy Friday!
Very effective, positive campaign ad from Sen. Bernie Sanders set to the Simon & Garfunkel classic, “America.”
Begins airing in Iowa tomorrow.
On the campaign stump today, Hillary Clinton addressed the fact that while Sen. Bernie Sanders is espousing and promising new, single payer healthcare programs, and voicing certain foreign policy initiatives, they may not be realistic.
Via the Washington Post:
As Hillary Clinton closes in on the final days of campaigning in Iowa, she launched a new broadside against her principal Democratic rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.), over his inability to advance a single-payer health-care plan throughout his decades in Congress.
“Senator Sanders has been in Congress for 25 years,” Clinton said at a rally at Simpson College on Thursday. “He never got even a single vote in the House or a single Senate co-sponsor. Not one.”
“You hear a promise to build a whole new system, but that’s not what you get,” she added. “You’ll get gridlock and an endless wait for advances that never come.”
“In theory, there’s a lot to like about some of his ideas,” Clinton said. “But ‘in theory’ isn’t enough. A president has to deliver in reality.”
I’m going to weigh in on this because the same thing happened in 2008. Hillary Clinton campaigned on what was realistic while Barack Obama promised “pie in the sky”hope and change.
Obama eventually delivered a lot of what he campaigned on. But many who voted for him voiced their disillusionment that he wasn’t delivering what he promised.
At the time, I championed Hillary because – with her experience – she didn’t promise the “pie in the sky.” She promised what she felt she could truly deliver.
It feels like we’re seeing a “Ground Hog’s Day” version of this all over again.
With any Republican controlled chamber of Congress, there will never be a single-payer health system. I support it – but it’s not happening any time soon. Hillary continues to campaign on being more moderate, willing to reach across party lines to break up the gridlock in Washington. It’s honestly what has to happen.
We all have our dreams of what we’d like Washington to do, but then there’s the cold reality.
Hillary is being more honest than Bernie about what’s truly possible.
I like Bernie. I like his ideas. But a lot of folks are getting swept up in the airy dreams, and not in the earthbound realities.
According to a new CNN/ORC poll Republican Donald Trump and Democratic Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders have opened up solid leads in the Iowa race up to the February 1st caucus’s.
• Trump leads Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who is in second place in the GOP race, among likely Republican caucus-goers, 37% to 26%. Sen. Marco Rubio comes in a distant 3rd at 14%. All others are in single digits.
• Sanders, meanwhile, has opened up an eight-point lead over Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, leading her in Iowa 51% to 43%
There is an interesting aspect to the poll results, however. When only counting respondents who previously caucused in their party’s most recent competitive caucus, the numbers change up quite a bit.
• Cruz pulls past Trump, with 30% for Cruz to 28% for Trump. Rubio stays somewhat unchanged at 16% in that sample.
• Looking at Democrats who caucused in 2008, Clinton moves into the lead over Sanders, with Clinton 55% to Sanders 38%.
What this would mean to me is a lot of folks who are not regular caucus-goers make the difference for Trump and Sanders. Those two are inspiring energy – BUT – will they actually show up on a cold February night to support their choice when it’s not a habit for them?
We shall see in just 11 days.
what more do you need on a Thursday?
Not only do we get hottie soccer superstar Christiano Ronaldo featured both on and inside GQ Magazine, we get a little behind the scenes video from his photo shoot rocking his own underwear line.
Happy Thursday!
The Pet Shop Boys announce their new album SUPER, and share this track from the project, “Inner Sanctum”
Via press release:
Pet Shop Boys will release their brand new studio album, ‘Super’, on April 1st.
Produced and mixed by Stuart Price in Los Angeles, it features 12 new Tennant/Lowe compositions including the lead single, ‘The Pop Kids’.
‘Super’ can be pre-ordered now from iTunes with the track ‘Inner Sanctum’ available as an immediate download. CD and vinyl formats are also available to pre-order.Pet Shop Boys will also play a four-date residency entitled Inner Sanctum, at London’s Royal Opera House on July 20th, 21st, 22nd and 23rd.
Staged by designer Es Devlin and choreographer Lynne Page, these will be Pet Shop Boys only UK concerts this year and a fabulous opportunity to see them in an extraordinary venue. Tickets are now on sale from the link below.
Check out “Inner Sanctum,” plus the cool promo video below.
The AsapSCIENCE guys troll the trolls with some science!
Playbill shares the news that CATS – the mega-hit Broadway musical of the 1980s and 90s will return to the Great White Way this summer:
Grizabella is headed for the Heaviside layer once more! Broadway’s The Shubert Organization and Nederlander Organization are teaming up to produce the long-rumored revival of the Andrew Lloyd Webber/T.S. Eliot musical Cats this summer.
The onetime longest-running show in Broadway history has booked the Neil Simon Theatre, with previews beginning July 14 and an official opening set for Aug. 2.
Trevor Nunn, who staged the original London and Broadway productions, will direct the revival. His creative team includes Mick Potter (sound design), Natasha Katz (lighting design) and John Napier (scenic and costume design). It will have choreography by Andy Blankenbuehler, based on the original choreography and associate direction by Gillian Lynne.
My first major theater job was being cast in the original company of the national touring company of the show during the height of it’s popularity, as the “Magical Mr. Mistoffelees.” It was a rush to be in the “hottest show in town” back in the day.
With just under 18 years, the original run of CATS ranks as the fourth longest-running Broadway show behind The Lion King (18 years), the revival of Chicago (19 years – I was actually in that one, too, early in the run), and Phantom Of The Opera (28 years later this month.) The top three are still running.