Buckle up, kiddos, Jonah and MJ get a little personal with Grand Hotel. The hosts explore themes of tragedy, wasted potential, and the willingness to admit love easily in both their own lives and the the characters', and wonder why every queer plot line has to be so damn tragic.


Notes

The original Baron on Broadway - David Carroll recorded in concert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb_azz--iTs&list=OLAK5uy_kp23nw_JhjPS2fHe_6qanlt_TQ2CPa6Zk&index=23


Here’s a baritone singing Love Can’t Happen that MJ loves so much
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md6I6K_VEtY


Bury Your Gays - A video essay on the portrayal of queer plotlines in media as always being tragic, and why that needs to change
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0fZjSluzI8&t=85s


Positano, The city Raffaela sings about in Villa on a Hill
https://www.mirror.co.uk/travel/europe/positano-italy-guide-including-top-16193436


Make me a willow cabin at your gate
https://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/twelfthnight/quotes/page/2/


Heaven (Dancing Cheek to Cheek)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILxo-TUkzOQ


Grand Hotel at the Tony’s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euCvQ4ikZZQ&t=17s


In case you want to know how to say cheers in a bunch of languages
https://matadornetwork.com/nights/how-to-say-cheers-in-50-languages/


The choreographers of Bolero also performed it on Broadway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmhGv--EhJM


Here’s that horrible song Jonah was singing at the end there. If you value your sanity, do not watch it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLljd8pfiFg