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Julia Wiedeman is Naked and Unashamed. Imagine That.

It’s 7:52 P.M. 31 May 2012, the golden, airless end of a humid New York day, and I’m near the back of the line waiting to get in to the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, Chelsea edition, to watch my old friend B’s girlfriend take off all of her clothes. Speaking of clothes, I should not have worn the black wool sportcoat. I am a bloody fool. Right as my hair …more…

We knew this was coming: South Park devotes an episode to Broadway

Call me naive, but I doubt very much that anyone watching the first season of South Park in 1997 would have looked at, say, an episode like “Cartman Gets an Anal Probe” and thought, “Yeah, these guys will write arguably the most successful musical of all time in thirteen years. It will sweep the Tonys, sell at over 100% capacity for months on end, people will – yes, people will …more…