no good deed goes unpunished

24Sep09

In my literary life, there is love and there is hate. I rarely close a book and say, “Eh, it was just okay.” If I don’t like it, I put it down. But if I love it, I refuse to let go of it. Almost everyone I know who has read or attempted to read […]

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Tags: Gregory Maguire, literature, Wicked

it’s time to try defying gravity

20Sep09

“It’s not lying; it’s looking at things a different way.” Some people were raised on rock ‘n’ roll, and while I was to a point, too, I was mostly raised on musical theater. My grandmother was always involved in some drama guild or other, and during the years we spent living with her, our bedtime […]

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Tags: Andrew Jackson Hall, Broadway, musicals, Nashville, plays, theater, TPAC, Wicked