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Image Credit: Small Screen Scoop

I know that this post is a bit belated, but my excitement in posting this fabulous interview makes me unable to resist the potentially corny title. (And no, while these actresses are not my actual interview subjects, both of them love musicals as much as I do, and one has even written about the musical episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, from which this pictures comes.)

I had the lucky opportunity to interview Michelle Dvoskin and Shelley Manis, recent graduates from the PhD program in Performance as Public Practice from the Department of Theatre and Dance at The University of Texas at Austin, at the end of May. The initial reason that I asked to interview these ladies was that both include musicals as a part of their research interests and that each worked with Stacy Wolf, a former UT professor whose book A Problem Like Maria made its way into my own syllabus this past year; however, both ladies were eloquent on the challenges of teaching students to enact visual analysis and to think critically about musicals. The lively and interesting conversation we shared can be found either on the views page or directly here.