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What Sticks With You the Next Day?
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What Sticks With You the Next Day?

what makes you woop in the moment?

Feb 12, 2025
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“I hated that ending.”

“Those mics were so distracting!”

Those were 2 reactions the day after seeing a show. Please compare those to the night of:

“This is incredible!”

and then list all of the elements of a Broadway musical you can think of and add a positive superlative after it. For example, “Awesome costumes!” “Hilarious Jokes!” - are you yelling these as you say them? Please do. Yell those effusive compliments. And keep going.

Those two actors were five laughs a minute. The production values added another five laughs and four wows and sprinkled 17 sequins a second. It was great. Is this what Broadway shows are? I think I didn’t know….

I can hear a few doubtful voices in my head saying that no one is as funny as Goldie Hawn or as biting as Meryl Streep. um. They were not Goldie or Meryl, they were just awesome them! Maybe the two of them are famous to a subset of the population that I do not belong - but, I didn’t recognize them. Usually that is a good thing - you get someone without …

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