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INSIDER TIPS AND ADVICE


June 1, 2026     How to Get NO Feedback from Elise: Vlog 105 – Pitching to Producers – Part 5

May 1, 2026     How to Get NO Feedback from Elise: Vlog 104 – Pitching to Producers – Part 4

April 1, 2026     How to Get NO Feedback from Elise: Vlog 103 – Pitching to Producers – Part 3

March 1, 2026     How to Get NO Feedback from Elise: Vlog 102 – Pitching to Producers – Part 2

May 1, 2025     How to Get NO Feedback from Elise: Vlog 92 – When to Consult a Dramaturg

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Words and Music cover for Give My Regards to Broadway – date uncertain. From the New York Public Library collections.


Never let me go;
Love me much too much.
If you let me go,
Life would lose its touch.

--Jay Livingston and Ray Evans

Would I make the same mistakes
If he walked into my life today?

--Jerry Herman


Playbill for Oklahoma – 1943. From the New York Public Library collections.


I cain’t resist a Romeo
In a sombrero and chaps.
Soon as I sit on their laps
Somethin’ inside of me snaps;
I cain’t say no!

--Oscar Hammerstein II

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