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Theater Analysis
Essays on and analyses of plays and musicals.
Edmund W.
1 day ago8 min read
Assonance by Lin-Manuel Miranda
Lin-Manuel Miranda is the most esteemed musical theater writer of this century. Earning a Pulitzer Prize and a handful of Tonys, Miranda...
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Edmund W.
1 day ago6 min read
La Cage aux Folles vs A Strange Loop
In the summer of 2024, I had the pleasure of watching Broadway’s first openly gay musical, La Cage aux Folles , and its most recent...
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Edmund W.
2 days ago1 min read
G-dropping in Spring Awakening
G-dropping is a phenomenon in which the -ing suffix is realized as -in' . When we say something like "walkin'" instead of "walking," for...
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Edmund W.
Jan 1016 min read
Accents in Musical Theater
A deep dive into the use of accents in English-written musicals set in non-English-speaking countries.
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