"Once More, with Feeling" is the only episode of the fantasy television
show Buffy the Vampire Slayer performed as a musical. It was written and
directed by the show's creator, Joss Whedon (pictured), and first aired
in the United States on November 6, 2001. The episode explores changes
in the relationships of the main characters, using the plot device that
a demon compels the people of Sunnydale to break into song at random
moments to express hidden truths. All cast members sang their parts,
although two were given minimal lines by request. It is the most
technically complex episode in the series, as extra voice and dance
training for the cast was interspersed with the production of four other
Buffy episodes. It was Whedon's first attempt at writing music, and
different styles—from 1950s sitcom theme music to rock opera—are
used to express the characters' secrets. The episode was well received
critically upon airing, specifically for containing the humor and wit to
which fans had become accustomed. It is considered one of the most
effective and popular episodes of the series, and—prior to a financial
dispute in 2007—was shown in theaters with the audience invited to
sing along.
Read more:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_More,_with_Feeling_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1809:
The second theatre of the Royal Opera House in London opened
after a fire destroyed the original theatre one year earlier.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Opera_House>
1873:
Panic of 1873: The American bank Jay Cooke & Company declared
bankruptcy, setting off a chain reaction of bank failures.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Cooke_%26_Company>
1889:
Hull House, the United States' most influential settlement
house, opened in Chicago.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hull_House>
1961:
En route to negotiate a ceasefire between Katanga troops and
United Nations forces, the plane carrying UN Secretary-General Dag
Hammarskjöld crashed under mysterious circumstances near Ndola in
Northern Rhodesia, killing him and 15 others on board.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dag_Hammarskj%C3%B6ld>
1974:
Hurricane Fifi struck Honduras, destroying 182 towns and
villages in the first 24 hours, and ultimately causing over 8,000
deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Fifi%E2%80%93Orlene>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
chirality:
The phenomenon, in chemistry, physics and mathematics, of objects being
unidentical mirror images of each other, like a person's left and right
hands.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chirality>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The time comes in the life of each of us when we realize that
death awaits us as it awaits others, that we will receive at the end
neither preference nor exemption. It is then, in that disturbed moment,
that we know life is an adventure with an ending, not a succession of
bright days that go on forever.
--William March
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_March>