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My favorite use for Youtube is to find clips of Broadway (or touring) casts that I love, or have always wanted to see:

The Wiz.

Parade.

Falsettos.

Sandy Duncan in Peter Pan.

Ana Gasteyer in Wicked.

Pacific Overtures.

The REAL Sweeney Todd.

And then there's the cheeezy and bizarre phenomenon of old television commercials for Broadway productions:

Sweeney Todd.

The Wiz. (White people AND black people love it!)

Annie. ("Every award Broadway ever invented"?)

Evita. (Scary as hell. Far scarier than "Sweeney Todd". Lupone will eat your soul.)

Edwin Drood.

Big River.

Dreamgirls.

Carrie: The Musical. (Really.)

Starlight Express.

Gypsy. ("Drop everything: see Gypsy!" I remember this one very well from my childhood, for some reason. Tyne Daly must've sucked, I think.)

A Chorus Line.

Into the Woods!!!

Hair (revival).

Passion. ("Ecstatically sensual" or "ridonkulously melodramatic"?)

Pirates of Penzance. (I think my favorites are the commercials that change the lyrics of one of the show's song to turn it into a jingle for the show. There's nothing stupider-sounding.)

Fucking Cats - but the awesome cheeziness of the commercial is not to be denied.

Nick and Nora. ("The truly chic will call now". Wasn't this an enormous flop?)

Nine. (This is the cleverest one in the bunch.)

And a bonus: this beloved commercial of my childhood for the Milford Plaza - a hotel, not a show.

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