Emily G. Furlich

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knower of obscure details about divas of the stage and screen • Theatre PhDing at the CUNY Graduate Center • she/her

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I wonder how the various Law & Order casting directors decide enough time has passed to clear a character actor to come back in a different role

This is a perfect role for Carmen and I will be seated‼️

Carmen Cusack, Nik Walker, and John Behlmann to Star in Bull Durham, A New Musicalplaybill.com Initially developed in 2014, this is a reworked adaptation with eyes on New York following the southern tryout.

most emotional part of the evening for me at titanic closing was actually judy kuhn ams chip zien’s last bow

in case anyone was wondering where i stand in the leading actress in a play race, i’m with her

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there it is. "The congestion tax is not only a burden on police officers and other essential commuters — it’s bad for public safety,” said Patrick Hendry, president of the city’s police union, in the first of the two releases. nysfocus.com/2024/06/07/h...

starting to wonder if congestion pricing was paused because the NYPD cops who commute from long island threatened a revolt and eric adams was like kathy, we can't have that

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marked SAFE from purchasing audra gypsy first preview tickets in the telecharge queue

I won lottery tickets to Cabaret tonight and I feel very strange sitting next to people who could afford to spend $1,000 on their pair of seats

the perfect night at the theatre is seeing a play less than two hours with no intermission and a 7pm curtain staged at a venue outside of times square

Today, I overheard my neighbors playing Chappell Roan and Taylor Swift back to back with the Grateful Dead and I’m obsessed with that sequencing

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I wrote about yesterday’s oral arguments in the Supreme Court case over whether states can ban emergency abortions—and what it means for women’s status that states can force them to be maimed, disabled, and sickened to the threshold of death. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The US supreme court heard one of the most sadistic, extreme anti-abortion cases yet | Moira Doneganwww.theguardian.com Idaho’s law requires doctors to treat pregnant women’s health as disposable – and the loss of their lives as an acceptable risk

@bebeneuwirth.bsky.social I’m coming back to see Cabaret post-opening tonight. I’m not sure if you’re doing any socializing at the stage door for this show but I’ll be there tonight if you have a moment to chat. Either way I’m excited to see how you’ve settled into this role!💚

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Domestic violence is a kind of small-scale terrorism. What OJ Simpson did to Nicole Brown Simpson was not the event of one night—it was a years long campaign that thousands of women suffer at other men’s hands. Read Andrea Dworkin’s memorial to Nicole: evergreenreview.com/read/in-memo...

In Memory of Nicole Brown Simpsonevergreenreview.com Evergreen Review

possibly the best photo of Mack ever taken

From yesterday, when Mack saw a bird on the fire escape (ft. a slat from the blinds damaged by Mabel)

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And it’s not just organization. It’s the participation that creates and maintains intellectual community, too. Did you ever note who was and who wasn’t at a scholarly event on zoom during the pandemic?

A study on what many of us already know: over 75% of internal service work in academia is done by women. The bit that gets me:”The male associate professors in particular made it clear that they actively engaged in evasiveness and did not want to participate if it was not positive for their careers”

Women end up doing the academic houseworkkifinfo.no

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Carla Sofia Ferreira (@riverriverbooks.bsky.social), with one of my favorite poems of all time

Still reeling from finding out yesterday that none of my English students (all gen z) had listened to the new Beyoncé album

@bebeneuwirth.bsky.social I had the pleasure of seeing the first preview of Cabaret tonight. You sounded amazing and it was such a joy to see you dance alongside Steven Skybell! I love to see you in roles like this that showcase your exquisite way of moving. All my best to you and yours❣️☺️

At Hunter Foster’s A Little Night Music

Seeing Kimberly for the first time since it was at Atlantic Theatre Company 🌈

One of my main takeaways from Dune 2 is that I find it hard to watch movies with Josh Brolin because every time he's onscreen all I can think is "lol that's Barbra Streisand's stepson"

They sponsored a talkback! A pleasant surprise for me

Trying to figure out what American Express is up to…?

Here's something I wrote about Bernadette Peters in 2021, right before I was accepted into my Theatre PhD program of choice. Now, three years later I'm working on my dissertation proposal in which she will be a touchstone for my exploration of the musical theatre diva! Time flies.

Diva Prose: Bernadette Peters — Diva Drivelwww.divadrivel.com Thinking about diva-ness in relationship to Bernadette Peters is a curious task because while she’s often called a diva, writers usually clarify that she doesn’t demonstrate the typical negative tra...

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The proposed “fix” legislation in Alabama would make fetuses and embryos persons *only* when they are inside a uterus—that is, only when they can be maximally useful as a pretext for the surveillance, control, and punishment of women.

I get why people are focusing on IVF rn but fetal personhood is fundamentally incompatible with female personhood and making a carve out for IVF doesn’t fix that

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One day we’re going to need to reckon with the dignity harm that these sexist little public absurdities impose on women. That there is a legal ruling saying that frozen cells are women’s legal equals is profoundly humiliating, and is meant to be.

i cannot believe we’re arguing whether or not a frozen embryo is a person. once again i must say it’s fucking wild living in a country in decline.

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With the Alabama ruling about IVF embryos, the pro-forced birth movement continues to leap beyond the experience and policy preferences of most Americans. Republicans are not governing like a party that wants to win office by appealing to the most people. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

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Watched Dr Jasmine Cobb give a remarkable talk on this infamous Jan 6 image yesterday. Can’t do it justice here, but she reminded us that our offense depends on pretending this room doesn’t have a portrait of slaver secessionist John C. Calhoun (far left) & bust of criminal Richard Nixon (far right)