Showgays: A Movie Musical Podcast

"Best Revival of a Podcast: Showgays" is a podcast in The Ampliverse. Instagram / Twitter and share your thoughts with us about the movie! Email us any thoughts and takes and we may read it on the next episode at showgaysmoviemusical@gmail.com Don’t forget to check out the Ampliverse Bookshop for further reading! References Rodríguez Arnáiz, Laura. “‘Here’s to the Fools who Dream’: Hollywood’s Illusion of the American Dream in La La Land”. Revista Canaria de Estudios Inglese, Vol. 84; 2022, p. 201-209.

Often, Adam can't define the term "orphan". "Best Revival of a Podcast: Showgays" is a podcast in The Ampliverse. Instagram / Twitter and share your thoughts with us about the movie! Email us any thoughts and takes and we may read it on the next episode at showgaysmoviemusical@gmail.com Don’t forget to check out the Ampliverse Bookshop for further reading!

A dissection of a Beatles juke-box musical from 3 people with only the most tangential relationship to The Beatles. "Best Revival of a Podcast: Showgays" is a podcast in The Ampliverse. Instagram / Twitter and share your thoughts with us about the movie! Email us any thoughts and takes and we may read it on the next episode! #MadeonZencastr References The blue puppets Taymor interview for the 10th Anniversary re-release

Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome "Best Revival of a Podcast: Showgays" is a podcast in The Ampliverse. Instagram / Twitter and share your thoughts with us about the movie! Email us any thoughts and takes and we may read it on the next episode! #MadeonZencastr References Block, Geoffrey. “Is Life a Cabaret? Cabaret and Its Sources in Reality and the Imagination.” Studies in Musical Theatre, vol. 5, no. 2, Aug. 2011, pp. 163–80. 

The suspense of wondering if we enjoyed this literally perfect movie. "Best Revival of a Podcast: Showgays" is a podcast in The Ampliverse. Instagram / Twitter and share your thoughts with us about the movie! Email us any thoughts and takes and we may read it on the next episode! #MadeonZencastr References “The Movie Musical”. Knapp, Raymond. The American Musical and the Performance of Personal Identity. Princeton University Press, 2009. ProQuest Ebook Central. Beautiful Girls costumes moment - women ARE ornamentation BTS, Boy with Luv

An unsustainable level of chuckability. "Best Revival of a Podcast: Showgays" is a podcast in The Ampliverse. Instagram / Twitter and share your thoughts with us about the movie! Email us any thoughts and takes and we may read it on the next episode! #MadeonZencastr References Fashion Photo Ruview Trend Alert Miller, Scott. “Grease”. Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll, and Musicals, Northeastern University Press, 2011. ProQuest Ebook Central.

Streisand’s debut in which she absolutely guilds the broccoli. "Best Revival of a Podcast: Showgays" is a podcast in The Ampliverse. Instagram / Twitter and share your thoughts with us about the movie! Email us any thoughts and takes and we may read it on the next episode! #MadeonZencastr References Schrank, Bernice. “‘Cutting Off Your Nose to Spite Your Race’: Jewish Stereotypes, Media Images, Cultural Hybridity.” Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, vol. 25, no. 4, Summer 2007, pp. 18–42. https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2007.0121.

#cancelCarousel "Best Revival of a Podcast: Showgays" is a podcast in The Ampliverse. Instagram / Twitter and share your thoughts with us about the movie! Email us any thoughts and takes and we may read it on the next episode! #MadeonZencastr References Winer, Laurie. “Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel, After #MeToo.” Vulture, 11 Apr. 2018. Sang-Hun, Choe. “The Country Has Moved On, but Their Grief Has No End.” The New York Times, 8 June 2022.

Hail Marys - enjoy this extremely Catholic episode where we pretty much have nothing negative to say about a film! What a nice change of pace! "Best Revival of a Podcast: Showgays" is a podcast in The Ampliverse. Instagram / Twitter and share your thoughts with us about the movie! Email us any thoughts and takes and we may read it on the next episode! #MadeonZencastr References

For this lusty month of May, we are bringing you Camelot. "Best Revival of a Podcast: Showgays" is a podcast in The Ampliverse. Instagram / Twitter and share your thoughts with us about the movie! Email us any thoughts and takes and we may read it on the next episode! #MadeonZencastr References

Listeners, this episode was recorded several months ago, before the Will Smith slap and the Roe v Wade leaked decision. Who would have known the world would move at such a pace to make so many of our conversations sound like they are missing essential context? Enjoy our attempts to make meaning out of a meaningless musical and surprising failure to avoid cancellation in the process. "Best Revival of a Podcast: Showgays" is a podcast in The Ampliverse. Instagram / Twitter and share your thoughts with us about the movie! Email us any thoughts and takes and we may read it on the next episode! #MadeonZencastr References “Club, ‘nother club” reference Christine Baranski, Class President Barry Walters, The Surprising Story of How ABBA Became Beloved Gay Icons

If only this was the movie that had been lost in the burning of the library of Alexandria. "Best Revival of a Podcast: Showgays" is a podcast in The Ampliverse. Instagram / Twitter and share your thoughts with us about the movie! Email us any thoughts and takes and we may read it on the next episode! #MadeonZencastr

Join us as we celebrate this musical about the only metropolitan area to ever exist. No references for the rest of April. Take a break while you prep for finals, kids. "Best Revival of a Podcast: Showgays" is a podcast in The Ampliverse. Instagram / Twitter and share your thoughts with us about the movie! Email us any thoughts and takes and we may read it on the next episode! #MadeonZencastr

We’ve never had a little girl but boy howdy are we going to have a lot of them in our April Annie marathon! "Best Revival of a Podcast: Showgays" is a podcast in The Ampliverse. Instagram / Twitter and share your thoughts with us about the movie! Email us any thoughts and takes and we may read it on the next episode! #MadeonZencastr References Little Orphan Annie in the 30s: “Bridging the Generation Gap” by Stella Ress Annie the Vagabond: “The Wanderer Contained” by Joanne Hall

One of the highest grossing movie musicals of all time and the only movie musical Adam has ever seriously considered walking out of. "Best Revival of a Podcast: Showgays" is a podcast in The Ampliverse. Instagram / Twitter and share your thoughts with us about the movie! Email us any thoughts and takes and we may read it on the next episode! #MadeonZencastr References Jeremy Jordan telling the story of the read-through Wright Jr., James R. “How the Public Autopsy of a Slave Joice Heth Launched P.T. Barnum’s Career as the Greatest Showman on Earth.” Clinical Anatomy, vol. 31, no. 7, 2018, pp. 956–65. Code of the Freaks

A perfect movie. No notes. "Best Revival of a Podcast: Showgays" is a podcast in The Ampliverse. Instagram / Twitter and share your thoughts with us about the movie! Email us any thoughts and takes and we may read it on the next episode! #MadeonZencastr References Knapp, Raymond, author. The American Musical and the Formation of National Identity. Princeton University Press, 2018.

What would you do with the reasonable but still substantial sum of $96,000? "Best Revival of a Podcast: Showgays" is a podcast in The Ampliverse. Instagram / Twitter and share your thoughts with us about the movie! Email us any thoughts and takes and we may read it on the next episode! #MadeonZencastr References The Limitations of ‘Latinidad’: How Colorism Haunts ‘In The Heights.’ Dunbar's number

The best way to celebrate Black History Month is listening to 3 nonblack people give their opinions on The Wiz. Was Diana Ross too old to play Dorothy? What is the deal with the peddler? What is the best song in this musical? Perhaps it’s RJ’s favorite: “I Am Certainly Not Interested in Engaging with Any News That Isn’t Positive At This Time” "Best Revival of a Podcast: Showgays" is a podcast in The Ampliverse. Instagram / Twitter and share your thoughts with us about the movie! Email us any thoughts and takes and we may read it on the next episode at showgaysmoviemusical@gmail.com Don’t forget to check out the Ampliverse Bookshop for further reading! #MadeonZencastr References Other examples of all Black casts musicals from the 1970s Family Guy “Brand New Day” Spoof Martin, Alfred L. Jr. “Blackbusting Hollywood: Racialized Media Reception, Failure, and The Wiz as Black Blockbuster.” JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, vol. 60, no. 2, Michigan Publishing, 2021, pp. 56–79. Project MUSE, https://doi.org/

Does this film stack up against the many other productions and adaptations of one of the most beloved pieces in the American musical theater canon? Does West Side Story even deserve its venerated place within the canon? Who is the MVP of this movie? Can Rita Moreno be in every movie musical, please? "Best Revival of a Podcast: Showgays" is a podcast in The Ampliverse. Instagram / Twitter and share your thoughts with us about the movie! Email us any thoughts and takes and we may read it on the next episode at showgaysmoviemusical@gmail.com Don’t forget to check out the Ampliverse Bookshop for further reading! #MadeonZencastr References Recommended Reading: The Great West Side Story Debate History of San Juan Hill Anybodys’ gender identity Negative review that discusses the film’s treatment of prison

Listen to us struggle to make sense of this movie for several hours. How is someone's rent deadline related to them dying tragically in a car accident? Where does Christine Baranski live? Are you allowed to sell a whole town? What is the angelic cosmology of this universe? "Best Revival of a Podcast: Showgays" is a podcast in The Ampliverse. Instagram / Twitter and share your thoughts with us about the movie! Email us any thoughts and takes and we may read it on the next episode! #MadeonZencastr References Trixie and Katya react to Christmas on the Square Behind the scenes video Amanda Marcotte, “Hallmark Movies Are Fascist Propaganda”  Ruth Kinane’s interview with Hallmark Christmas movie writers