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Thursday, September 4, 2014

TBT: The Last 5 Years

I'll bet that the title of this Throwback Thursday made most (if not all) of you think this was about a certain musical. It isn't. Sorry if I disappointed any of you. But I have a great reason for not talking about it, though. You see, my blog has been around now for a full five years! Thank you all so much for joining me and sharing my our love for the theatre.

Here are some cool, interesting facts about our time together, as of August 30th...

There have been 1,299,953 hits (and counting)!
There have been 1,650 posts
If posts were Broadway performances, JKTS has run longer longer than any Sondheim show, and would rank between The Wiz and Born Yesterday on the longest-running show list!

Jeremy Jordan is the most visited
Broadway Boy - 300K+ hits

Not counting the United States, which has had the most visitors to the blog, the top 10 countries with visitors to this blog come from 6 continents!
In order, they are:

The United Kingdom
Germany
Canada
France (ooh la la!)
Australia, (I am intrigued by the last 5...)
Russia, Brazil, China, Ukraine and Egypt

Dame Angela is my favorite topic!

Amy Spanger is the most visited of the whole blog by far...

My first blog was about whether or not Spider-Man would even start

performances. We all know how that turned out!

Over the last 5 years:

I've written 147 show reviews, 79 media reviews
We've celebrated 87 Broadway Boys (65 monthly/yearly choices, plus 2 "sports teams," 1 gang and even 2 super heroes)
and 56 Broadway Ladies (49 monthly/yearly choices, plus one entire chorus line of leggy beauties!)

I've written the most blogs about: (Shows) Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Next to Normal, and American Idiot, and (Individual) Dame Angela Lansbury (I love her...)

And the most read blog of them all - thank you, Reefer Madness fans - Ms. Broadway November 2010 - Amy Spanger (HERE)

Here's to many more blogs in our future, and to lifetimes full of thrilling shows!

Jeff
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Thursday, September 20, 2012

Sex Sells

Rock of Ages: James Carpinello and
Amy Spanger (Off-Broadway)

Everyone knows that sex sells. Even on Broadway. Rock of Ages does it with tongue-in-cheek 80's hard rock sleaze. Mamma Mia! has been doing it for over a decade with teasing poses of a horny Pepper trying to seduce a bathing suit clad Tanya, and Sky surrounded by his buddies all suited up, sexy chests exposed. Heck, even the middle-aged get their groove on with cute pictures of Rosie and Bill Carmichael rolling around the taverna. These days, though, Mamma Mia! stays traditional AND has amped up the sex appeal. Check out these new pictures! You already know you're gonna love it! (The posters say so...)

First, the new cast, traditional...

Rosie and Bill

Pepper and Tanya

Sky and the boys...

...the faces may change, but the pose hardly does!

Now a touch sexier.

Gone are Rosie and Bill...
in are Sophie and Sky

Tanya with ALL the guys - funny how
they have the same costumes on, but
it looks like so much...less!

And, of course, since it is about actors in the porn industry, it comes as no surprise that the promo pictures for The Performers are sexual... funny, but sexual. Poor Cheyenne Jackson...

Click the pics to make them...um...larger!

Mamma Mia! production photos by Joan Marcus
The Performers photos by Matt Hoyle

Before you go...

...have you VOTED in this week's HOT/HOTTER Survey? CLICK the icon at the top of the left column! Survey closes TONIGHT, September 20 at 8PM.
...have you checked out MS. BROADWAY SEPTEMBER 2012, CHRISTIANE NOLL? CLICK her picture in the right hand column to see more and to hear her sing from Ragtime!
...have you VOTED in this month's THEATRE POLL? CLICK your answer on the poll in the left column!

Jeff

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Monday, November 15, 2010

Broadway Ladies: Ms. November 2010: Amy Spanger

This month's Miss Broadway seems so appropriate to me for its proximity to Thanksgiving, for she has, over the years, given me much to be thankful for. A true triple threat, this young lady can sing, act, and dance. What strikes me most about her career thus far is its range. She's played a Hollywood actress trying to break into the movies, a sassy stage siren, a merry murderess, a satirical good girl, a Madonna wannabe, an 80's MTV rocker-chick parody, and most recently, an old-fashioned Broadway song and dance girl. And last night, she made her return to the Great White Way in the holiday family musical, Elf.

In between all of that, she has guest starred on several TV shows, including Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, Six Feet Under, Ed and Royal Pains. There are also a couple of movies on her resume: Snynecdoche, NY and Reefer Madness! The girl is working!

And now... Ms. Broadway November 2010...Amy Spanger!

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