Honestly? Oliver Twist deserves a more authentically Dickensian and less uneven adaptation.

This doesn't really count, but Howl's Moving Castle is a funny, raucous novel, and would make a terrific musical, but the association with the dour Miyazaki film makes that impossible.

Christopher Hampton's Alice's Adventures Underground is the closest to a satisfying adaptation, for my taste. A bit pretentious, but that's probably why I like it.

It should have been 6, although 2001 was an unbelievable banger of a year for new plays on Broadway.

Also LBJ.

In huge part, he did choose Vance for that very reason on the recommendation of his coked-out son. It turned out to be completely wrong, but that's absolutely how Vance was sold to him.

I, personally, don't use "in the meanwhile" because I'm afraid I'll be compelled to sing "The Miller's Son."

Suburbs do not pay for themselves. The infrastructural costs that allow the suburbs to exist and make them attractive places to live are paid for with the tax revenue from denser areas.

Unfortunately the Catholic-flavored alt-right groups already *haaaaate* the USCCB.

Yup. Both generally in terms of orthodox Catholic practices, and also specifically, as in tarot cards are Catholic in origin and famous "witch queen of New Orleans" Marie Laveau was both a vodou priestess and a devout Catholic who attended mass every Sunday and was a pillar of her local parish.

I had hoped for at least one edgier choice like The Mission, or, better yet, Calvary, which is every priest I know's secret favorite.

Funny you should say that...

Paul Lynde as Albin in La Cage.

I'll build off of this in both directions:

Tom Waits as the Emcee in Cabaret

Sir Tom Jones as Herod in JCS.

Wild how the Republicans aren't telling people to rally behind the Republican candidate.

He and many fellow English Catholics and Anglo-Catholics of the time were staunch "Little Englanders." They were both fiercely patriotic and fiercely opposed to imperialism.

Seriously. "Turns out Democrats just might be able to win with majoritarian policies that directly improve voters' lives."