#company 1995

[droughtofapathy]

The Gilded Age's Broadway Divas: Miss Armstrong (Debra Monk)

Sometimes, a work family is a German mother and her Irish daughter, an English father and his clockmaking son, and a mean old spinster aunt who's only invited to the family holiday parties because she'd bitch for weeks if she wasn't. Miss Armstrong is Agnes's nasty lady's maid who has said exactly one (1) nice thing all season. And I love her.

At seventy-four, Debra Monk is the oldest woman on The Gilded Age, and the only one with the appropriate hair color to show it. As cantankerous as her mistress with none of the charm, Armstrong is nothing like her fantastic actress. Debra Monk is one of theatre's comedy greats. Much like Katie Finneran, Debra is playing against type. Us theatre buffs know her from Pump Boys and Dinettes (co-author, director, and actress), Company (Joanne), and the ill-fated Nick & Nora alongside Christine Baranski.

An absolute delight of a human being, Deb Monk is a wise-cracking mile-a-minute, raunchy, jokester and deserves praise and recognition for her work.

#1: "Everybody's Girl," (Steel Pier) - My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies (1998)

Almost every stalwart theatre Diva has her signature song. "Everybody's Girl" is Debra Monk's pride and joy, and she sings it to this day. At her raunchiest yet, she serenades a gleeful audience with her sexual exploits whilst dressed in a black dress and corset that Armstrong would have a coronary over.

The clever lyrics are perfectly paired with her comedic chops. The whole performance is just a delight from start to finish. That exit has me screaming every time. Her performance in the stage show the song originated from netted her a third Tony nomination.

If we do not get a clip of Debra Monk in full Armstrong drag singing this song, what is the point anymore?

#2: "The Ladies Who Lunch," Company (1995)

Before there was Patti LuPone, but after the great Elaine Stritch, there was Debra Monk as Joanne in the 1995 first Broadway revival of Company. Yes, another Stephen Sondheim. Often forgotten in the Company conversation, this production had a tough act to follow. Nominated for just two Tonys (Best Revival and Best Featured Actress--Veanne Cox, hello, I love you), there's not much that can be said about the 1995 production. It lasted two months, and no one can point me in the direction of any footage with Debra, so here we are.

#3: Debra Monk's Birthday Bash: Totally Hot and a Little Dirty (2014)

For her 65th birthday, Debra performed in a raucous and raunchy concert to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids. The concert raised an impressive $140,355 for the charity, and featured a eclectic mix of rock 'n' roll, church music, and debauchery. Well, what else would you expect from Debra Monk?

As comfortable flirting with younger men as she is grinding up against scantily clad fellow comedienne Andrea Martin and Company co-star Charlotte d'Amboise, Debra is a riot from start to finish.

The entire show is available on DVD from BC/EFA, and I need it.

#4: "Ohio Afternoon," Oil City Symphony (1987)

Performed as part of the "If It Only Runs a Minute" series that highlights really obscure shows that barely had a life, Debra reprised her drum-playing role in 2012. As if she didn't have enough talents. Only she could take drums and make it peak comedy.

#5: Game Night at Seth Rudetsky's Place

No explanation needed. Hello, Andrea Martin. Love you.

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#the gilded age #armstrong (the gilded age) #debra monk #company 1995 #sondheim #everybody's girl #steel pier #broadway #musical theatre

[2001hz]

Assorted Björk Album & Single Cassette Tape Artwork Designed By: Me Company (1995-1997)

#assorted #björk #bjork #album #single #cassette #graphic design #me company #post #1995 #homogenic #1997 #y2k aesthetic

[kawaiistarfishbeliever]

Sunset lightened Revy

#Black Lagoon #Madhouse studio #Seinen #anime & manga #rei hiroe #mangaka #Japanese animations #Ponytail #Characters with ponytail #Anime girls with ponytail #Anime women with ponytail #Gunslinger #Lagoon Company member #Modern pirate #Set in 1995-1996 #chinese american character #Maryke Hendrikse #Megumi Toyoguchi #Voice actresses #One of the three most deadliest & Violent people in all of Roanapur #Asian-American character #Revy Lee #Rebecca “Revy” Lee

[revys-closet66]

#Two-hands #rebecca lee #black lagoon #chinese-american #seinen #Revy Lee #mentally ill character #gunslinger #rei hiroe #Lagoon Company #Modern pirate #Set in 1995-1996 #season 1

[starlightandsunshine]

So I just finished watching the 2022 adaptation of Persuasion and like

It's a good film. It was fun and enjoyable.

It was also a TERRIBLE adaptation.

It would have worked so much better if they'd just used original characters. 'Inspired by Jane Austen' stories exist in the hundreds if not thousands. It wouldn't have been a reach to say "oh hey we took inspo from Persuasion for this new thing" and no one would have batted an eyelash and the film probably would have done better. Because it feels like an original story. It has the bare bones of Persuasion, yes. Also the character names. But so many of the characters feel so divorced from their novel counterparts that I kept forgetting that this was supposed to be Persuasion until someone got addressed by name again. Half of the motivations feel different, some of the changes to the storyline are baffling if you're making it an adaptation rather than just loosely inspiring it and the kitschy "talking to the camera thing" would have worked so much better if it had been literally any character other than Anne, like, say an original character. Also, the anachronisms would have been much more accepted in any film that was not an attempt at a Jane Austen Adaptation (see: the Bridgerton series as just one example)

If this film had been an original film that was only inspired by the plot of Persuasion it would have been well-loved. As an adaptation, I was cringing in minutes.

#persuasion #jane austen #persuasion 2022 #why are companies so allergic to telling original stories? #why are so many streaming services so foucssed on adaptation after adaptation #and often alienating the original audience by changing the story they're trying to adapt #rather than taking the genuinely fun ideas that they're trying to force into an already existing story #and just telling their own story #if this film had NOT been about Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth #and the person talking to the screen had been any other character #it would have been ten times better #if you took this film and changed everybody's names and then watched it #you would probably recognise that it was inspired by persuasion #but you'd enjoy it ten times more for how interesting and fun it was #to put people with different personalities to Anne and Wentworth in their roles #bc those two were the most unrecognisable of the original cast #1995 and 2007 adaptations superiority #is all i am going to say

[luckynightkryptonite]

#Seinen #girls with guns #anime & manga #Rei Hiroe #Hair down #Chinese-American #Black Lagoon #Season 1 #Gunslinger #Mentally unstable character #Maryke Hendrikse #Megumi Toyoguchi #V.A.s #Voice actresses #Modern Pirate #Set in 1995-1996 #Lagoon Company #Rebecca “Revy” Lee #Revy Lee

[agheaven]

Land of Enchantment

American Girl Magazine, November/December 1995

#American Girl Magazine #Land of Enchantment #Christmas #New Mexico #farolitos #Las Posadas #Matachines #Ah I guess the company was starting to develop research into Josefina and figured it could be good magazine content #1990s #1995

[undinecissy]

James Wilby as Alfred Red in A Patriot For Me, 1995.

The Royal Shakespeare Company/Barbican Center/ London EC2

#james wilby #Alfred Red #A Patriot For Me #The Royal Shakespeare Company #Barbican Center #a different James #1995

[ampd]

<1995.06.13> björk - post

2015 vinyl, one little indian, tplp51ltd

Lotus flower modelled by Martin Gardiner. Cover and Design by Me Company. Photography by Stéphane Sednaoui

#1995 #1990s #björk #art pop #one little indian #Martin Gardiner #Me Company #Stéphane Sednaoui

[ozkar-krapo]

IDEA FIRE COMPANY

"Anti-natural"

(LP. Swill Radio. 1999 / rec. 1995-96) [US]

#idea fire company #1995 #usa #minimal #drone #electronic #ambient #records #Youtube

[littletroubledgrrrl]

In Chick's 1970's-themed music video "Malibu" (even the song has 70's pop culture references), there could've been references to "Three's Company" since that's an iconic show from that decade.

#chick #someone's ugly daughter #malibu #demented #90s #1995 #lipstick #mariah carey #three's company #70s

[inspectorspacetimerevisited]

The producers at Small Beginnings never addressed what happened to Chastity Galloway,

despite the fact that she very much accompanied the Eighth Inspector at the end of the 1995 made-for-telly film.

#Inspector Spacetime #Inspector Spacetime: The Movie #the 1995 film #made for television film #Small Beginnings #Small Beginnings (production company) #never addressed #what happened to #Chastity Galloway (character) #she very much accompanied #the Inspector (character) #Eighth Inspector #at the end of the film

[perfunctory-idols]

Promotional shots of Beck for Geffen Records, August 1994

Photo by Kinkos 

#beck #beck hansen #1994 #mellow gold #photoshoots #kinkos was the name of a printing company but that was the credit beck gave for the photographer so idk lol #this photo was used as beck's profile picture in his bio on the old lollapalooza 1995 website

[kawaiistarfishbeliever]

#seinen #anime and manga #black lagoon #Rokurou Okajima #Rock Okajima #Japanese character #Revy Lee #Chinese-American character #Lagoon company members #modern pirates #set in 1995-1996 #gunslinger character

[revys-closet66]

#set in 1995-1996 #Roanapur #seinen #Girls with Guns #Rei Hiroe #chinese-american #gunslinger #rebecca lee #Revy “Two-hands” Lee #mentally ill character #lagoon company

[auraeseer]

Relax, unkind . . .

#unkindness #chapter II #eel river brewing co. #raven's eye stout #aged in texas rye whiskey barrels #celebrating 26 years #1995-2021 #fortuna #balcones #eel river brewing company #scotia #california