“Speaking personally, Barks’ New York solo debut was everything I want in an intimate evening with a top-notch talent at 54 Below. Traversing a varied terrain of genres, she emonstrated a skill set that fully supports my belief that she is one of the most essential musical theatre artists working today.”

• Breathe from In the Heights
• Legally Blonde from Legally Blonde
• You Gotta Die Sometime from Falsettos
• Words Fail from Dear Evan Hansen
• She Used To Be Mine from Waitress
• The World Was Wide Enough from Hamilton
• One Song Glory from Rent
• Empty Chairs At Empty Tables from Les Misérables
• Obviously plenty more please add to this list

Ben Fankhauser sings “Take Back the Night” at Broadway Sings Justin Timberlake

I need a part time job that pays $20,000 per week.

• The fact that every single actor is clearly 20 years older than their character
• The opening is animated for almost no reason
• The one boy sitting in the girls’ section during “Summer Nights” just… daydreaming… staring off into space. I don’t think he even knows there’s a musical number going on
• Patty calls herself a clod
• If you pause the end of “Summer Nights” in the right place Sandy’s face is right in the middle of a pole
• Sandy pukes when she sees blood??? what does she do during her period??
• Danny’s face creepily showing up in the pool during “Hopelessly Devoted to You”
• The people who work in the car shop just kinda staring awkwardly at the Greasers during “Greased Lightning” like they have no idea wtf they’re doing
• The entirety of “Beauty School Dropout”
• One of the boys spikes the punch and when questioned says he was washing his hands in it
• THE FRIGGIN FBI WAS CALLED IN TO FIND OUT WHO WAS MOONING THE CAMERA LIKE HOW MUCH FREETIME DID THEY THINK THE FBI HAD IN THE 50s?
• Rizzo trusts Marty to keep a secret like you’ve known this woman since Kindergarten did you seriously think she’d keep her mouth shut
• siN WAGON
• Danny sings about how Sandy rejected him as if she didn’t have valid reason
• The car race that comes almost out of nowhere but at least it’s better than the musical which had literally no payoff for Greased Lightning at all
• Sandy decides to become a Greaser kinda just because
• Rizzo and Kenickie screwed around at the beginning of the school year but she didn’t realize she wasn’t pregnant until the last day like did she just assume baby bumps weren’t a thing?? Did she think gestation was nine years instead of nine months???? How the hell did this timeline work?? Did they have any sex ed in the 50s?
• i got chILLS
• THEY’RE MULTIPLYING
• AND I’M LOOOOOOOSING CONTROL
• They only start to wonder wtf they’re doing after graduation at the fair celebrating graduation
• If you listen at the end of “We Go Together” you can hear the Chipmunks singing
• THE FUCKING FLYING CAR WAS THAT EVER EXPLAINED
• The fact that High School Musical was originally going to be a second-generation sequel to this