Happy Tony Awards Eve!
Tonight is the biggest night in every theater geek’s calendar as the 70th Annual Tony Awards ceremony will once again be held live at Radio City Music Hall in New York City tomorrow evening. To get you in the mood I thought I’d send you off with a little playlist of the best of this year’s season of Broadway musicals.
It really has been a stellar year on the Big White Way with both impressive revivals and innovative brand new pieces of work. And even though Hamilton is likely to dominate the night with their record breaking 16 nominations there are more absolute gems both on the nominee list and sadly snubbed by the voters that are definitely worth the listen to as well!
You’re In The Band: School of Rock
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Touch Me: Spring Awakening
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She Used To Be Mine: Waitress
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Push Da Button: The Colour Purple
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Tradition: Fiddler On The Roof
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Star Tar: Dames At Sea
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Cards: American Psycho
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Good Morning, Good Day: She Loves Me
Favourites from the playlist? And of course leave your predictions on who take home the prizes tonight in the comments below.
Ria Xx
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Now that many have posted their black square, the blackout hashtags have been and gone, and platitudes and promises have been made that #BlackLivesMatter, I wanted to highlight the passage on the second slide, in which #AudreLorde wrote in 1980
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\\"...Black women and our children know the fabric of our lives is stitched with violence and with hatred, that there is no rest.\\"
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I highlight this passage in particular because it serves as a reminder that even though George Floyd\'s killers have been arrested and charged, WE are not done yet. There is no rest in dismantling white supremacy. It\'s tiring and exhausting, but it\'s absolutely necessary work.
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I wrote a blog post in 2017 called \'Welcome to the resistance: Are you sitting uncomfortably\' as a direct response to the Women\'s March.
I wrote it as a plea to keep sitting with the uncomfortable energy that comes with active allyship, anti-racist work and challenging white supremacy, not just for the march but for the long run. That endurance faltered quickly after the Women\'s March. Many of us fell complacent - myself included.
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We cannot allow that to happen again this time. Because that tiredness, exhaustion and fatigue is something Black and minority ethnic people live with everyday.
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The call to arms remains the same as it did back then. Whatever you do, don’t resolve to stand still on issues.
Embrace being comfortable with being uncomfortable.")
