OMG Rachel, I hadn't even thought of that possibility, but I would LOVE to see it!!! I know the tour is already so long, but I absolutely agree - it's almost a whole new iteration of the tour if she adds TTPD, and who knows how it could continue to evolve with Rep TV and Debut TV hopefully also on their way on some point. Expand full comment ncG1vNJzZmiclZa%2Fs7HAnZyrppWswK2x062cq2ajqq%2B0wMCcomebn6J8sXvMmrBmsZ%2Bqeq2xxa1ksqelp3q1xc%2BerquhpJq%2Fbq3TZqSyZ5Okuq6xza2q

I can never remember my wedding anniversary. Even writing this now, I’m not sure if it’s October 23 or 26. All I know is that one day last week was our 10-year wedding anniversary. It’s been a decade since Christopher and I walked down the aisle to the Mission Impossible theme song. It made us laugh, that winking commentary about the impos… ncG1vNJzZmisopawuq%2FLmqmknpykv7p60q6ZrKyRmLhvr86mZqlnlqe8rnnHqGStp12dvLa%2FxLCgn50%3D

There’s no reason why anyone in this world should hate either of the Mamma Mia! Films. People often cite its absurdity, that it’s too fabricated, or even that the ABBA music doesn’t really fit with the plot. Well, get over it! Life is too short to hate these explosions of dance, beauty, and happiness and anyone who does is an immediate red flag. But we’re not here to argue about the Mamma Mia excellence — we’re here to gossip about Donna, Sophie, and Sam.

“When I was 11 years old, I met Oscar Hammerstein, and he became a surrogate father, and I just wanted to do what he did. And he was a songwriter for the theater, so I became a songwriter for the theater. If he was a geologist, I would have become a geologist,” Stephen Sondheim told the New York Times in a June 2008 interview. In 1995, he gave a similar line to CBS: “I’ve often said that if he’d been an archeologist, I’d been an archeologist.

Every Tom Waits Song is an email newsletter covering just that, in alphabetical order. Find more info here and sign up to get it sent straight to your inbox: I’d assumed Tom’s officially-unreleased song “Blue Skies” was a cover. Partly because “Blue Skies” shares its title with a much more famous Irving Berlin song, and partly because it sounds like a standard. That latter bit means A) It’s really good, but also B) There’s nothing particularly Waits-ian about it.