Is Mariah Carey our modern Cassandra, prophesizing the future?
At the beginning of 2017, Carey, having blamed technical glitches for her disastrous New Year’s Eve performance in Times Square, Tweeted:
Shit happens 😩 Have a happy and healthy new year everybody!🎉 Here’s to making more headlines in 2017 😂 pic.twitter.com/0Td8se57jr
— Mariah Carey (@MariahCarey) January 1, 2017
There were indeed many headlines, few of them good.
A year later, Carey redeemed herself with her performance, but invited ridicule by complaining: “I was told there would be tea. Oh, it’s a disaster!…Okay well we’ll just have to rough it. I’m going to be like everybody else with no hot tea.”
But then she Tweeted:
Found my tea! 🍵 pic.twitter.com/r5EIIbT5Zw
— Mariah Carey (@MariahCarey) January 1, 2018
Here’s hoping we all find our hot tea in 2018.
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LOOKING BEHIND
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WEEK IN NY THEATER NEWS AND COMMENTARY
Time’s Up, a group of 300 women in the entertainment industry designed to address what’s described as “the systemic power imbalances that have kept underrepresented groups from reaching their full potential,” has started a legal defense fund for sexual harassment claims.
Congrats to @faceokay for winning $45,000 @relentlessAPF Award, for her play Pussy Sludge, about a woman who menstruates crude oil.
The Relentless Award was established in honor of the actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, & funded by a libel judgment https://t.co/5z97d3Sxnl pic.twitter.com/YBkGudmfxP— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) December 28, 2017
Can the arts lead to greater empathy and thus repair our broken civic discourse? That’s what @artsmia is trying to find out/ w/ help from @MellonFdn grant.https://t.co/YJCIcaX2dj
— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) December 27, 2017
Tony winning set designer David Rockwell (@labatrockwell) has an idea of what to do w/ all those empty storefronts — book them for cultural performances, “a cultural Airbnb”
(5th of 9 ideas to improve the city)https://t.co/OKkNZAzYFp pic.twitter.com/kWQqfUOXll— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) December 29, 2017
There’s good news and bad news about @GuysAmerican Kitchen and Bar in the theater district.
1. It’s closing Sunday for good.
2. It was open for FIVE whole years, despite such reviews as this by @pete_wellshttps://t.co/uDVyWjqg2f pic.twitter.com/W80UocmfiC— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) December 28, 2017
It’s the right time to look at misogyny in theater education, writes @hld6oddblend, who offers a list of tell-tale signs & what to do about it.https://t.co/MWT1I1niJ5 pic.twitter.com/2Wy9ZDT2R7
— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) December 27, 2017
Playwright Sarah Ruhl on Trump’s refusal to attend @KenCen artist honors event. “Mr. Trump wants ‘to make America great again’ without dissent and without the art; but can one truly have greatness without grace”? https://t.co/N4y9Dm1AiU pic.twitter.com/lVzBd6Muey
— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) December 27, 2017
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Aaron Tveit (top) singing Leonard Bernstein’s Broadway tunes at the Philharmonic’s New Year’s Eve concert Bernstein on Broadway, along with (bottom) Laura Osnes, Annaleigh Ashford, and Christopher Jackson. Live at Lincoln Center, with Audra McDonald as host. If you missed the broadcast, you can watch it in full at this link.
May your midnight kiss be like… 💋💋💋 @Lin_Manuel #groffsauce 🎊 pic.twitter.com/RHEX6Mefo7
— Laura Heywood (@BroadwayGirlNYC) January 1, 2018
We made a minor adjustment to the @TimesSquareNYC ball to celebrate 2018. Happy New Year from @BuffettMusical! pic.twitter.com/yFvfln3Ez0
— Esc 2 Margaritaville (@buffettmusical) January 1, 2018
‘Cause we know people can change a lot in a year…#MeanGirlsBway #2018 #NewYearsResolution pic.twitter.com/b8rnwHYo9f
— Mean Girls Broadway (@MeanGirlsBway) January 1, 2018
I stand with women across every industry to say #TIMESUP on abuse, harassment, marginalization and underrepresentation. Join me! Sign the statement of solidarity & donate to the @TIMESUPNW Legal Defense Fund: https://t.co/z40VGvTQNW
— Phillipa Soo (@Phillipasoo) January 1, 2018
— Dear Evan Hansen (@DearEvanHansen) January 1, 2018
