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Extra Extra: The play where audience members keep fainting
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Good Monday afternoon in New York City, where Randy Mastro is in charge while Mayor Eric Adams is in the Dominican Republic.
Here's what else is happening:
- Today, I learned the New York City Council speaker gets to borrow art from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- Congrats to Aaron Judge on being named the captain of the U.S. team for next year's World Baseball Classic.
- Leslie Odom Jr. is returning to play Aaron Burr in "Hamilton" for a few months this fall.
- In other theater news, people (especially men) keep fainting in the audience of a London stage adaptation of Annie Ernaux’s memoir, "The Years."
- If you want to play elite doubles tennis, grow up and be prepared to take a shot to the sternum.
- "Gayle King confirms Katy Perry sang in space."
- "Trashcore" is sweeping Hollywood.
- Scientists have determined that giving wild salmon anti-anxiety meds is actually bad, even though the drugged fish were better at reaching their final destination.
- I'm never sleeping on my stomach again.
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