<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Leftist Musicals]]></title><description><![CDATA[Leftist Musicals]]></description><link>https://leftistmusicals.wixsite.com/leftistmusicals/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 08:38:06 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://leftistmusicals.wixsite.com/leftistmusicals/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Stephen Joshua Sondheim (1930-2021)]]></title><description><![CDATA[I have no words, really, but I couldn't see us continue posting without acknowledging the great loss to musical theatre. (For a much more...]]></description><link>https://leftistmusicals.wixsite.com/leftistmusicals/post/stephen-joshua-sondheim-1930-2021</link><guid isPermaLink="false">61a54bfc5744a90016b0cfe7</guid><pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2021 15:16:53 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>clairealsto</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Buying It Anyway for $1.95: Markets in and for Little Shop of Horrors (Part 1)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Part 1 I have joked many times that Little Shop of Horrors was my introduction to capitalism (“I can finish him with simple...]]></description><link>https://leftistmusicals.wixsite.com/leftistmusicals/post/buying-it-anyway-for-1-95-markets-in-and-for-little-shop-of-horrors</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6193f42753311d00175800fa</guid><pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2021 18:26:56 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://youtu.be/Yqb6juQXNf4" length="0" type="video"/><dc:creator>Leftist Musicals</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[#Clairemiserables Les Platitudes]]></title><description><![CDATA[One text exercise I often do is list out the simple generalizations characters make about the world and the way it works. It's something...]]></description><link>https://leftistmusicals.wixsite.com/leftistmusicals/post/clairemiserables-les-platitudes</link><guid isPermaLink="false">61929df13443fe0017ea8293</guid><pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2021 18:04:53 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://youtu.be/urxk4mveLCw" length="0" type="video"/><dc:creator>clairealsto</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flora, The Little Red Menace that Couldn't (and the Artistic Institutions that Resurrected Her)]]></title><description><![CDATA[In Colored Lights: Forty Years of Words and Music, Show Biz, Collaboration, and All That Jazz, a retrospective of the John Kander and...]]></description><link>https://leftistmusicals.wixsite.com/leftistmusicals/post/flora-the-little-red-menace-that-couldn-t-and-the-artistic-institutions-that-resurrected-her</link><guid isPermaLink="false">618985a0f8b4020016c8345f</guid><pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2021 20:21:38 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://youtu.be/mpr2kdjos_A?list=PL7tHsGaz_CTiH6IDyPVKSznC-kMGknO3U" length="0" type="video"/><dc:creator>clairealsto</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[#Clairemiserables Series: Introduction]]></title><description><![CDATA[Les Miserables is a whopper of a musical and it is chock-full of contrasting points of views posited by an enormous cast of characters....]]></description><link>https://leftistmusicals.wixsite.com/leftistmusicals/post/clairemiserables-series-introduction</link><guid isPermaLink="false">610aa7ca3415bc0015266540</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2021 15:00:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/fd81d3_2df58e880c5d417ba40c583682cce86d~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_300,h_405,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>clairealsto</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Need to Talk about Jack Kelly, Class Traitor]]></title><description><![CDATA[Joseph Pulitzer: That man is a socialist. Mr. Seitz, editor of the World: Teddy Roosevelt is no socialist. He’s an American hero. --...]]></description><link>https://leftistmusicals.wixsite.com/leftistmusicals/post/we-need-to-talk-about-jack-kelly-class-traitor</link><guid isPermaLink="false">60fdb8847b472f0015720d8b</guid><pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2021 19:34:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://youtu.be/GBgzLkauIrs" length="0" type="video"/><dc:creator>clairealsto</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why this blog? Why now?]]></title><description><![CDATA[I was raised in a very religious, Christian home; in this context, there are often frequent conversations between teenagers and their...]]></description><link>https://leftistmusicals.wixsite.com/leftistmusicals/post/why-this-blog-why-now</link><guid isPermaLink="false">60efb3133b5d5400155cf4d9</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2021 04:07:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://youtu.be/nK-mjsrfS8Y?list=PL1YHVLEyt_EX841HQbxsF7ezEPASeVFO_" length="0" type="video"/><dc:creator>clairealsto</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>