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Anyone starting to prefer bootlegs over cast recordings?
 Mar 2 2026, 08:43:53 PM

Merkin2 said: "I disagree, Patti’s Gypsy rant has ruined the song for me. Every time I watch Gypsy or listen to it, when we get to “you either have iiiiit” I can’t stop myself from thinking about STOP TAKING PICTURES RIGHT NOW! This woman has ruined so much that I love."

Sounds like an irrational response to the event, bruh.


Anyone starting to prefer bootlegs over cast recordings?
 Mar 2 2026, 07:30:07 PM

Matt Rogers said: "TheatreFan4 said: "Matt Rogers said: "Who’s making all these illegal recordings?"

Literally anybody with a cellphone? It's incredibly easy.
"

Fantastic. So I should assume that when they make the announcement to turn off your phones, people all over the theatre actually turn them on and start recording the show. That’s……..something.
"

Why yes, they do. Do you wa


Anyone starting to prefer bootlegs over cast recordings?
 Mar 2 2026, 06:57:34 PM

Matt Rogers said: "Who’s making all these illegal recordings?"

Literally anybody with a cellphone? It's incredibly easy. 


Liza memoir and promotion tour
 Mar 2 2026, 06:53:50 PM

TotallyEffed said: "Can we wait for confirmation of AI or autopen before freakingout?"

I mean, about the AI... it just is. They're never going to actually say that, but it clearly is. Again, I don't fault her for that if they're doing it with her consent, but with all of the duplicitous statements about the AI, it all feels kind of... shady. 


Liza memoir and promotion tour
 Mar 2 2026, 01:27:36 PM

It's just kind of crazy for them to just a few weeks ago put out "Her" statement that she'd never allow her voice to be generated by AI knowing this was down the pipeline just a few weeks later where you'd be listening to her AI voice for 18 hours. 


Cats: The Jellicle Ball to Broadway
 Feb 28 2026, 05:15:36 PM

hak5 said: "for those who the show downtown -

How different are the orchestrations from the original ?

I'm seeing it in April and would like to know what to expect. thanx
"

They were like... 90% the original orchestrations. I think for Broadway they're increasing the House Beats into the score, but I'm not sure by how much...


MOULIN ROUGE! Broadway Casting Thread
 Feb 26 2026, 12:23:01 PM

iluvtheatertrash said: "Who?"

It's not a dunk to just show how culturally inept you are, you know that right?

Like... Meg has had her name on damn near everything she could over the last 5 years. She's literally headlining a Dunkin Donuts campaign right now... 


Musical adaptation of THE LOST BOYS.
 Feb 23 2026, 06:39:17 PM

Ensemble1665759202 said: "Yeah that’s fine. I’m talking the more obvious axe grinders. Surely you see that."

Axe to grind about what? Because they don't like Michael Arden? Lost Boys? Is this about Joel Schumacher? There's just a lot of projection about people not liking what's been put forward to call it "axe grinding". Like maybe if this thread was staying active between information being dropped and people just kept bitching


Musical adaptation of THE LOST BOYS.
 Feb 23 2026, 04:41:16 PM

Ensemble1665759202 said: "I'm always so confused when shows have just haters to the death, well before they've even opened.

Like it might be awesome! Or terrible! We don't know yet because we've only heard like 2 songs and 2 photos from a 2.5 hour musical!

Keep an open mind and root for the artists trying to create something new right now. Usually when I'm not super into the promo stuff from a new musical I just ignore it until the show opens


Musical adaptation of THE LOST BOYS.
 Feb 23 2026, 02:47:11 PM

Ohh I'm actually off work from Wednesday so... I may take them up on that offer!


OPERATION MINCEMEAT Reviews
 Feb 22 2026, 06:10:30 PM

TaffyDavenport said: "
It's very easy to stream Instagram video from an iPhone to a TV, specifically by navigating to instagram.com in a browser and using AirPlay. I'd never done it before, and it took me all of 30 seconds to get the show's Tonys performance on Insta playing on my TV."

All of which depends on what phone/laptop you have and what SmartTV/Smart Device connected.

WOW, would you look at that?! A non condescending and in


OPERATION MINCEMEAT Reviews
 Feb 22 2026, 03:59:03 PM

I'd imagine they were referring to be able to just stream it to a TV with ease which Instagram is not able to do on its own. A computer is not much better of an option over a phone. 


Liza memoir and promotion tour
 Feb 21 2026, 02:33:17 PM

That is not what she sounds like as of current. Go watch her on Drag Race from last year. Her diction is not that good anymore. There's a reason why her words are rarely connected by video as of recent. Either written statements or audio only (as with this audiobook) so they can just make her voice say what they want her as if it was a decade ago. Which I feel is fair if she is aware of it, but given her statement prior (if that was even her actual statement) she has not consented to recr


Will Disney bring Hercules to Broadway?
 Feb 20 2026, 04:55:20 PM

Jeffrey Karasarides said: "Merkin2 said: "Julie Taymor said she was only going to do The Lion King if it was pure theater and they need to go back to that."

Seeing how they tried to replicate that success with Tarzan and The Little Mermaid, but failed miserably, it's understandable why they haven't been pursuing high brow theatre directors as of late.
"

But like... you don't have to reinvent the wheel here if


Will Disney bring Hercules to Broadway?
 Feb 20 2026, 04:47:56 PM

Merkin2 said: "Frozen is genuinely one of the worst musicals I’ve ever seen. I hated Aladdin and think I’d rank Frozen even lower. Julie Taymor said she was only going to do The Lion King if it was pure theater and they need to goback to that. I would think someone like Alex Timbers would be a pretty good director for a Disney show given how he excels at spectacle. Maybe they can do another out of town of Hercules with another director"

He already worked


Will Disney bring Hercules to Broadway?
 Feb 20 2026, 01:50:08 PM

RippedMan said: "I mean same director, no? Maybe stop using him…"

I mean, they work with him for the same reason they work with directors they do on their films. They're Yes Men and don't give push back. A musical (just like the movies) made by studio committee, not a director and creative team. Just get it to the finish line. 


Will Disney bring Hercules to Broadway?
 Feb 20 2026, 08:38:14 AM

Merkin2 said: "They kinda have to bring it in, don’t they?"

Why?


Next to Normal Broadway Transfer Fall 2026
 Feb 19 2026, 10:17:12 PM

Voter said: "Sunset was highly stylized and meticulously staged. Nicole's performance was part of the entire vision, and it worked perfectly in Lloyd's world."

And yet other people played the role in that same production and were just as good if not better at it... 


Next to Normal Broadway Transfer Fall 2026
 Feb 19 2026, 07:29:06 PM

Observation said: "The thought of Jack Wolfe getting a Tony nom while Aaron Tveit didn't... makes me laugh for some reason."

Maybe Aaron shouldn't have wished on that Monkey's Paw back in 2009...


The Rocky Horror Show Playbill Design
 Feb 18 2026, 10:30:32 AM

The logo itself sucks. Is the backdrop a fence? Is it fishnets? Why does the logo not relate to it at all? Why is it just plopped at such a weird stretched out perspective? And none of it in a "Rocky Horror"... just a bad ugly way ...


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