Kyle Thomas Hemingway: The ephemera edit
An ongoing digital archive of 1,410 items (and counting) proving that I read, I saw, and I actually paid attention.
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Curtain call at Hairspray -
Claudia Comte, Five Marble Leaves, 2022 -
“Kiki’s never sure if she’ll perform, until she does. Sometimes she’s not in the mood, says she’s too drunk. It’s different now that people come here to watch her, now that she stands in front instead of among them. They clang their cutlery and chant her name until she takes her place in the light and starts her slow-motion dance, no distance to lend her mystery, no stage to make her majestic, everyone sharing the same heat and smelling the same sweat.”
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Curtain call at Into the Woods -
Curtain call at A Strange Loop -
Curtain call at La Bohème -
“Fake bags can be understood as providing a commentary on the intricate history of cultural appropriation and commerce.”
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“Paper straws are still carbon- and energy-intensive to produce, and several types are not even recyclable, unlike their plastic counterparts. This is ecological gesture politics, in which a tiny concession (straws make up 0.025% of ocean plastics) precludes more meaningful sacrifices, such as giving up driving, flying or eating meat.”
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“It’s one thing to be old, to be forty or fifty with a broken heart, but it’s practically terminal when you’re thirteen. When you’re thirteen with a broken heart, I bet your valves aren’t even strong enough to mend themselves.”
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Curtain call at Little Shop of Horrors -
The megamix at Tina -
“It’s not sewing, it’s making moonlight.”
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“You can do ten stupid things if you do one smart thing.”
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Barnaby Evans, The braziers in the basin -
Curtain call at Anastasia -
Varla performs her show -
Chita performs “All That Jazz” from Chicago
