Michael Cassara
@michaelcassara.bsky.social
Casting director, mostly for musical theatre. Professional #genealogist, #deltiologist, native Clevelander. #Sunnyside #NYC since '02. He/him.
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See, in The Fantasticks, the old men build a wall fully aware of its futility.
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🎭✨ BIG ANNOUNCEMENT! ✨🎭
Meet the writers behind this year's 8 new shows selected for NAMT’s 37th Annual Festival of New Musicals!
📅 July 10 | 🕔 5 PM ET | 🖥️ Zoom (no reg. needed!)
Join us to meet the next wave of musical theatre talent & raise a toast to the future of the art form 🍾🎶
Meet the writers behind this year's 8 new shows selected for NAMT’s 37th Annual Festival of New Musicals!
📅 July 10 | 🕔 5 PM ET | 🖥️ Zoom (no reg. needed!)
Join us to meet the next wave of musical theatre talent & raise a toast to the future of the art form 🍾🎶
June 30, 2025 at 7:20 PM
🎭✨ BIG ANNOUNCEMENT! ✨🎭
Meet the writers behind this year's 8 new shows selected for NAMT’s 37th Annual Festival of New Musicals!
📅 July 10 | 🕔 5 PM ET | 🖥️ Zoom (no reg. needed!)
Join us to meet the next wave of musical theatre talent & raise a toast to the future of the art form 🍾🎶
Meet the writers behind this year's 8 new shows selected for NAMT’s 37th Annual Festival of New Musicals!
📅 July 10 | 🕔 5 PM ET | 🖥️ Zoom (no reg. needed!)
Join us to meet the next wave of musical theatre talent & raise a toast to the future of the art form 🍾🎶
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Protecting sources is the most important part of my work. So I'll post, in images I created, most of the text from the original internal communication NARA staff received yesterday about visitor requirements, bus services, and parking.
June 25, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Protecting sources is the most important part of my work. So I'll post, in images I created, most of the text from the original internal communication NARA staff received yesterday about visitor requirements, bus services, and parking.
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If you were a halfway decent human being and you knew an innocent man was rotting in foreign prison—likely suffering nightmarish conditions—because your administration screwed up and send him there, you’d do something about it immediately instead of shitposting lies all day.
April 1, 2025 at 2:20 PM
If you were a halfway decent human being and you knew an innocent man was rotting in foreign prison—likely suffering nightmarish conditions—because your administration screwed up and send him there, you’d do something about it immediately instead of shitposting lies all day.
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Breaking News: Susan Crawford, a liberal judge, won a pivotal Wisconsin Supreme Court seat despite $25 million in spending by Elon Musk on her opponent.
Susan Crawford Wins Wisconsin Supreme Court Election, Despite Elon Musk’s Millions
Susan Crawford defeated Brad Schimel for a State Supreme Court seat in a race that shattered spending records and maintained a liberal majority on the court.
www.nytimes.com
April 2, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Breaking News: Susan Crawford, a liberal judge, won a pivotal Wisconsin Supreme Court seat despite $25 million in spending by Elon Musk on her opponent.
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2) On the myth of a Broadway ‘Golden Age.’ He said, ‘The Golden Age of musicals is always the one before…the one that you missed.’
March 22, 2025 at 1:53 PM
2) On the myth of a Broadway ‘Golden Age.’ He said, ‘The Golden Age of musicals is always the one before…the one that you missed.’
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Transgenic means that genes from 1 organism have been put into another. We make transgenic mice to understand how genes influence biological processes. We make transgenic plants to make them more nutrient rich. We make transgenic bacteria so they make medicine for us. It's wide-ranging & v. useful.
March 6, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Transgenic means that genes from 1 organism have been put into another. We make transgenic mice to understand how genes influence biological processes. We make transgenic plants to make them more nutrient rich. We make transgenic bacteria so they make medicine for us. It's wide-ranging & v. useful.
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A tiny, intensely illuminated Italian book of hours, newly acquired at the Boston Public Library. Copied in or around Brescia at the end of the 15th century, this book has never been in an institutional collection and will soon be digitized. Now BPL MS q Med.303 bpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S7...
February 21, 2025 at 11:23 AM
A tiny, intensely illuminated Italian book of hours, newly acquired at the Boston Public Library. Copied in or around Brescia at the end of the 15th century, this book has never been in an institutional collection and will soon be digitized. Now BPL MS q Med.303 bpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S7...
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Hey, #Genealogy community, assuming I am competent enough to have done this right. (😅) with #RootsTech2025 not too long away, any post relating to RootsTech [which will pick up various hashtags], that'll be the one-stop feed to pin to keep up with it all!
bsky.app/profile/dani...
Please RT!
bsky.app/profile/dani...
Please RT!
February 20, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Hey, #Genealogy community, assuming I am competent enough to have done this right. (😅) with #RootsTech2025 not too long away, any post relating to RootsTech [which will pick up various hashtags], that'll be the one-stop feed to pin to keep up with it all!
bsky.app/profile/dani...
Please RT!
bsky.app/profile/dani...
Please RT!
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You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.
February 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.
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Hi Bluesky! Glad to be here.
February 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Hi Bluesky! Glad to be here.
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Records access in New York is under threat!! Speak out NOW to keep access to vital records for genealogists! #Genealogy @FamilyHistory www.legalgenealogist.com/2025/01/28/c...
Call to action: New York!
Speak out on records access It's starting again. Every so often, records access -- particularly access to vital records -- goes on the chopping block. And access to these critical records for family h...
www.legalgenealogist.com
January 28, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Records access in New York is under threat!! Speak out NOW to keep access to vital records for genealogists! #Genealogy @FamilyHistory www.legalgenealogist.com/2025/01/28/c...
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I don’t want there to be six more weeks of anything
February 2, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I don’t want there to be six more weeks of anything
I recently had a young person submit on a project, stating that "olden age musical theatre" was their passion. You know what, young person - I'm with you. #old #olden #musicaltheatre
February 2, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I recently had a young person submit on a project, stating that "olden age musical theatre" was their passion. You know what, young person - I'm with you. #old #olden #musicaltheatre
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If your Christianity causes you to be offended by someone asking the most powerful person in the country to be merciful towards the powerless, then you have profoundly misunderstood the teachings of Jesus Christ.
January 22, 2025 at 1:20 AM
If your Christianity causes you to be offended by someone asking the most powerful person in the country to be merciful towards the powerless, then you have profoundly misunderstood the teachings of Jesus Christ.
It's like Krispy Kremes are engineered to be worn.
January 18, 2025 at 3:09 PM
It's like Krispy Kremes are engineered to be worn.
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Here's a thing I've just learned, though I don't recall from whomst I learned it:
If you're googling something and you add -AI at the end of your query, you'll be spared the AI results.
If you're googling something and you add -AI at the end of your query, you'll be spared the AI results.
January 14, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Here's a thing I've just learned, though I don't recall from whomst I learned it:
If you're googling something and you add -AI at the end of your query, you'll be spared the AI results.
If you're googling something and you add -AI at the end of your query, you'll be spared the AI results.
...that's the sound of schedule-sent e-mails, landing throughout the land, to e-mail auto-responders that haven't quite been turned off yet...
January 6, 2025 at 3:26 PM
...that's the sound of schedule-sent e-mails, landing throughout the land, to e-mail auto-responders that haven't quite been turned off yet...
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With Covid cases on the rise in NYC as part of expected winter surge…
Reminder that every household can order 4 free home covid tests from the federal gov't. You will receive the test kits via USPS in a few days.
Just go to covidtests.gov or call 800-232-0233.
Reminder that every household can order 4 free home covid tests from the federal gov't. You will receive the test kits via USPS in a few days.
Just go to covidtests.gov or call 800-232-0233.
January 3, 2025 at 1:33 AM
With Covid cases on the rise in NYC as part of expected winter surge…
Reminder that every household can order 4 free home covid tests from the federal gov't. You will receive the test kits via USPS in a few days.
Just go to covidtests.gov or call 800-232-0233.
Reminder that every household can order 4 free home covid tests from the federal gov't. You will receive the test kits via USPS in a few days.
Just go to covidtests.gov or call 800-232-0233.
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I was a beta tester for @reclaimtherecords.org’s awesome new BIRLS service. If you have relatives who served in the US #military & lived in the 20th century, check it out! Here's some of what I got so far. #genealogy #ancestry #familyhistory
larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2024/12/us-m...
larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2024/12/us-m...
US Military Records via BIRLS - My Beta User Experience
Genealogy tips & stories tracing family with microfilmed records, records in Ukrainian archives, and (sometimes) online records. Jewish genealogy blog
larasgenealogy.blogspot.com
December 29, 2024 at 2:21 PM
I was a beta tester for @reclaimtherecords.org’s awesome new BIRLS service. If you have relatives who served in the US #military & lived in the 20th century, check it out! Here's some of what I got so far. #genealogy #ancestry #familyhistory
larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2024/12/us-m...
larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2024/12/us-m...
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~*~ FREE FILES FOR FESTIVUS! ~*~
We can finally announce that we sued the VA and WE WON!
And it's probably the largest public and free data set of deceased American veterans!
And now it's online and free and downloadable and searchable AND FOIA-ABLE!!!
mailchi.mp/reclaimthere...
We can finally announce that we sued the VA and WE WON!
And it's probably the largest public and free data set of deceased American veterans!
And now it's online and free and downloadable and searchable AND FOIA-ABLE!!!
mailchi.mp/reclaimthere...
Reclaim The Records
We’re Reclaim The Records, a new not-for-profit activist group of genealogists, historians, researchers, and open government advocates. We identify important genealogical records sets that ought to be...
mailchi.mp
December 25, 2024 at 4:46 AM
~*~ FREE FILES FOR FESTIVUS! ~*~
We can finally announce that we sued the VA and WE WON!
And it's probably the largest public and free data set of deceased American veterans!
And now it's online and free and downloadable and searchable AND FOIA-ABLE!!!
mailchi.mp/reclaimthere...
We can finally announce that we sued the VA and WE WON!
And it's probably the largest public and free data set of deceased American veterans!
And now it's online and free and downloadable and searchable AND FOIA-ABLE!!!
mailchi.mp/reclaimthere...
Anyone with even a passing interest in #genealogy will be extremely well-served by checking out the new database over at @reclaimtherecords.org - they have made it exceptionally easy for *anyone* to *very easily* FOIA certain US Veteran records from the VA.
December 25, 2024 at 4:39 AM
Anyone with even a passing interest in #genealogy will be extremely well-served by checking out the new database over at @reclaimtherecords.org - they have made it exceptionally easy for *anyone* to *very easily* FOIA certain US Veteran records from the VA.
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Congestion Relief Zone tolling will begin on January 5, 2025. Toll amounts vary by type of vehicle, time of day, if any credits or discounts apply, and whether or not you’re paying with an E-ZPass.
For most vehicles, the toll rate is $9 in the peak period and $2.25 overnight.
For most vehicles, the toll rate is $9 in the peak period and $2.25 overnight.
December 3, 2024 at 2:18 PM
Congestion Relief Zone tolling will begin on January 5, 2025. Toll amounts vary by type of vehicle, time of day, if any credits or discounts apply, and whether or not you’re paying with an E-ZPass.
For most vehicles, the toll rate is $9 in the peak period and $2.25 overnight.
For most vehicles, the toll rate is $9 in the peak period and $2.25 overnight.