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Inspired by real life triumphs, Frankie is the heartening story of a teen lesbian struggling with her own coming of age while she is forced to stand in for her mentally checked-out mother. When a mysterious illness strikes Frankie, it impels the revival of her dreams.

Any time I can express my emotions through song, it is the most cathartic thing in the world. To be able to sing these new songs in my voice with content relating to the death of my sister, it has saved me from slipping too far into my own sadness.

The creators of the new musical The Glorious Death Of Comrade What's-His-Name talk about the one-night-only concert at 54 Below in Jan 2020.

So having it called Christmas Jukebox allows for me to let it skip around. And that, I think, was probably the biggest challenge. It  wasn't so much that the songs sounded different, but allowing it to make sense conceptually, which I think it does when you look at...

We settled into this false reality that we didn’t deserve it and we weren’t valid— that everyone else, all the straight kids deserved it more and they deserved love. That we didn’t deserve to live out loud and have our families know what was going on because what we we...

...We just wanted to make a fun and beautiful music video. But after we posted our gay Beauty and the Beast music video, we realized we touched on something special. People responded with such positivity and with such gratitude - we were genuinely surprised! We decided...

Playing Carole taught me about kindness, optimism and forgiveness. Seeing the glass half full and choosing joy and love despite heartache or disappointment was the biggest lesson. She makes me a brighter shade of sunny.

ome of these kids have no idea of how only one in god knows how many make it to Broadway. But how do you get there? Who do you talk to? I was fortunate enough to have LaChanze and people I could talk to and I thought I want to be that person for somebody else.