Honorable mentions: “Bui-Doi,” “The Fall of Saigon” On a scale from Madame Butterfly to M. Butterfly, Miss Saigon is probably a D. It almost certainly fails the Bechdel test. In a less enlightened time, Jonathan Pryce played a Vietnamese national. It is one of the most problematic musicals of the past twenty-five years. People love… Read More Songs from Musicals: #1, “I Still Believe,” from Miss Saigon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T47tPt5AUgw Honorable mentions: “On My Own,” “ABC Cafe: Red and Black” A few years ago, I went to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which I love as much as any place in Philadelphia. I had started to develop a passing interest in medieval art, which had never really appealed to me before, and I was… Read More Songs from Musicals: #3, “Stars,” from Les Miserables
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK9tOcJFTbc (This is not really a great video; the last minute and a half of this is not, in fact, “If I Said I Love You.” I thought I’d have this problem at some point, and I’m pleasantly surprised it took this long. Go find it on Spotify.) Honorable mentions: “I’ll Be There,” “Here on… Read More Songs from Musicals: #20, “If I Said I Love You,” from The Pirate Queen
Seeing Things Secondhand 