Profile for TheatreFan4

Ensemble1698878795 said: "Directors are allowed to fumble. Let’s also look at the material of these shows. Most Broadway directors have one big bit then never reach that level again. Arden has delivered multiple qualityproductionsin recent years. Perhaps it’s a bad season for him. But Parade, OOTI, Maybe Happy Ending. I saylet’s not erase it all."

What's the common thread here? Revivals or shows with years of development and stagings outside of

Timon3 said: "This Cats is very different to the original which won the Tony for Best Musical/Score/Book the book has been substantially rewritten so could this Cats be the first revival to win the Tony for Best Book? It would also for the first musical to win Best Book twice?"

I'm not sure I see a path where it's actually cleared to be nominated for best book. I imagine that requires a substantial re-write and not so much a setting change. Structurally i

Call_me_jorge said: "I mean, writing it off as something you “grow out of at 12” kind of ignores whatTeam America: World Policeis actually doing. It’s not just crude for the sake of it, it’s deliberately over-the-top to satirize American foreign policy and the post-9/11 culture around it. You don’t have to like that style of comedy, but there’s a reason Matt Stone and Trey Parker are still relevant.

That is literally what it is

Call_me_jorge said: "Team America: World Police, which is literally a satire that takes aim at the post-9/11 mindset and American interventionism. The whole point of that movie is to be over-the-top and uncomfortable to expose how absurd a lot of that rhetoric was.

Using that as a profile picture isn’t an endorsement of anything offensive, it’s referencing a piece of comedy that critiques the very systems and attitudes you’re implying I support.

Call_me_jorge said: "I’m not someone who’s flippant about gun-related issues or what victims go through.

This was a quick curiosity post, not a statement minimizing anything. You can think the phrasing was off, that’s fair, but jumping straight to assuming I’m being insensitive doesn’t line up with how I usually engage on here."

Your profile photo is a screencap of someone in Brownface from Team America World Police (Why?)...

joevitus said: " Reserve that stuff for midnight showings of the movie, or let there be specific performances of the show reserved for audience participation, with the bulk of the performances free from it. It's so frustrating for this play get buried underneath what is mostly crap now anyway. It is strong enough to entertain on its own."

Is it really? Because the only reason the show and film have stood the test of time is because of those

joevitus said: "
What? Are the jokes in the show itself not good enoughor something? Do you insist on turning stagings of The Sound of Music into Sing-A-Long occasions?"

If Sound of Music had a near 50 year history of sing-a-longs in their stagings? Yeah... kinda.

Rocky Horror has call backs. It just does, attempting chastise people for it and curtail it at this point is INSANE behavior. As if they're doing something wrong? Get over yourself, not

Sammy232 said: "Yeah, the music befuddles me. All the press I've seen makes it sound like this is some famous band? I had never heard of them and just looked themup and they have 3400 followers on Instagram. Not that followers is an indicator of the quality of their music, I'll let what they've released for the show speak for itself, but it seems strange to keep hyping them as if they are a thing."

Yeah that's weird, there are Twinks in Brooklyn with

Joyce 9 said: "My issue with ballroom is that it’s so gratuitous. Look at me, look at me. So much pomp and circumstance for something that doesn’t warrant the explosive response IMO. Minuteslong standing ovations for nothing. It really is not for me, i’m a modest person, and you certainly do not speak for the queer community. Learn to respect people’s opinions who differ from your own."

Yes it is LOOK AT ME! That is the POINT of Ballroom.

quizking101 said: "
And yes, they still have the slideshow during “Moments of Happiness”. For those of us in the queer community, it is a reminder of the fact and also a lessonthat we have always existed, regardless of the powers who try to force us back in our closets. It is queer joy. It is queer liberation. It is paying homage to the forefathers of a cultural movement, many of whom later were lost to the AIDS crisis. It’scomes right before Legend Junior LaBe