Roald Dahl’s THE WITCHES musical by Malloy & Kirkwood to premiere this fall Jul 3
2025, 01:34:40 PM
Glad to hear they are working on revisions. This has always been a favorite since reading the book shortly before the 1990 movie was released. Been listening to the recording the past few days and am very mixed on the score in general. There are some moments I absolutely love, some that I wonder if I would appreciate better in context of the whole show, and some that I’m already willing to just hit next on when listening. Hopefully they are able to tighten it up with further revisions b
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Disney will launch North American tour of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST in 2025 Jun 28
2025, 12:01:01 AM
Looks to be the original score with the cuts (No Matter What, Maison de Lunes, the Battle) that have been made to it over the years
https://www.reddit.com/r/Broadway/s/irxUdSg2mo
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Universal's WICKED Film - News & Discussion Thread Jun 5
2025, 05:00:54 PM
In the book they kissed when they part ways in the Emerald City.
She put her face against Glinda's and kissed her. “Hold out, if you can,” she murmured, and kissed her again. “Hold out, my sweet.”
So it's left very ambiguous and readers can fill in the subtext as they wish for just what type of kisses they were. They could be passionate, they could be romantic, or they could be platonic. Twenty some years ago when I read it I personally d
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Trump takeover of Kennedy Center May 25
2025, 06:33:38 PM
Contracts are undoubtedly already signed by the time the season is announced. The producers of Hamilton are obviously in a better position to be able to cancel. They may even still be under what is called a Four Walls contract, which is more similar to the Broadway model, where the producers of the tour are paying for everything and giving a cut to the local presenter, as opposed to the presenter paying a guarantee to the producers to bring the show in. Without seeing
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Trump Wants to Host Awards, include businessmen and politicians as winners Mar 19
2025, 05:53:13 PM
Kad said: "Eliminating union involvement is certainly a surefire way to financially ruin the KC and maybe that's their end goal."
This. He doesn’t care about running a successful arts organization. He wants to grift whatever he can out of it and then tear it down
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caOrville Peck - Masked or Unmasked? Mar 11
2025, 09:48:04 PM
I haven’t seen this production yet, so it may not work with the staging/direction, but I could also see the removal of a mask either before or during “I Don’t Care Much” being an effective moment
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Next Disney Musical Films; No New Tiana Mar 11
2025, 09:43:47 PM
Power of the Dark Crystal was shelved years ago. The Henson company pivoted over to Age of Resistance and eventually allowed the story of Power to be adapted into limited run comic series in 2017
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Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake on Broadway Mar 2
2025, 01:06:18 PM
Just based on my experience working in the ballet world, I would guess that it was an even split. It is fairly unusual for a principal/soloist to do two performances in a row in the same role, especially in a full length piece. For instance, the Nutcracker I've been doing for the past few years, this year we had 7 Sugar Plum/Cavalier pairings, and that was only for 13 performances. That same company just finished Romeo and Juliet and they had two pairings for the title roles for four perf
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No Buzz for Boop! Mar 2
2025, 12:56:40 PM
CJRochester said: "BrodyFosse123 said: "Also of note, this troll joined BWW on 12/16/24 - right in the middle of BOOP!'s run in Chicago."
Was that around the time we stopped hearing from Broadway flash? Just a thought. ;)"
Flash's last post was indeed around mid-December (though I could have sworn it was much earlier in the fall sometime)
Also, for the "this is my last post" poster, this is not an airport, you do
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West End SUNDAY or SWEENEY Chances? Mar 2
2025, 12:53:40 PM
This of course made me go "wasn't Sweeney revived there with Imelda Staunton and Michael Ball not too long ago?" and then searching to confirm and seeing that it opened in 2012. Where has the time gone?
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Erivo will star in Jesus Christ Superstar at the Hollywood Bowl Feb 22
2025, 03:53:25 PM
She was very vocal about claiming it was purely racism when the producers of Great Comet were bringing in Mandy Patinkin for a short stint and sidelining Onaodowan, who was Groban's replacement, in an effort to boost a declining box office and keep the show running while they found another star who could replicate the numbers the show was pulling in while Groban was in the lead.
The outcry of racism eventually got Patinkin to withdraw from the show and it was dec
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Will We Ever See a Best Little Whorehouse Revival? Feb 16
2025, 01:20:00 PM
Yes, though it's out of print. There are a handful of affordable copies on Amazon, and I'm sure it's probably still floating around in at least some of the bigger library systems
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Viciously Funny Reviews Feb 16
2025, 01:00:14 PM
There used to be an absolutely wonderfully written takedown of Perfect Crime on Yelp, but it's since either been removed or buried by the sea of other bad reviews and obvious shills for that show.
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Disney will launch North American tour of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST in 2025, Broadway stop next? Feb 13
2025, 07:45:37 PM
Call_me_jorge said: "The tour will be using the tier 3 touring contract. Disney could afford to tour this on the highest level contract, so I’m shocked equity approved this."
Equity allowed it because the tour met the qualifications to use that level. The contract lays out the level qualifiers, with the average weekly guarantee being the biggest factor. Producers don't get to just say "we're using this level." They have a lot of things they need to report to Equity before they get approved for the contract.
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Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center Feb 8
2025, 07:33:59 PM
Kad said: "MezzoDiva47 has two modes: posting articles heresoon as their Google alert goes off, or
writing nonsense
like this
to make it seem smarter
and more portentous"
I have to assume they speak slowly, with dramatic pauses, and very precise enunciation like those insufferable twins on Project Runway a few years back
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The best mama rose Jan 17
2025, 11:20:19 AM
Thanks. I was just going by ibdb which lists the credits by opening date of the shows themselves, not necessarily the dates they were in the shows
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The best mama rose Jan 16
2025, 11:12:21 PM
joevitus said: "Appreciate this. Still, Martin won four (just looked it up). Merman, one. I mean, a little lobsided in the doling out of those things, huh?"
Martin's first Tony was an honorary one, she won three competitive awards. It’s also worth noting that for as much as we think of Merman as the definition of the Broadway diva, a large majority of her Broadway credits predate the Tony Awards. She originated three roles in shows after the Tonys
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Cabaret Saturday Night January 11th Jan 12
2025, 12:58:05 PM
quizking101 said: "He has been ad-libbing more as he has settled in the role.
Last time I went, he threw in a few exasperated (in character) jabs at the audience when they were otherwise non-responsive to the moments whers audience engagement is really needed."
I would absolutely hate that. If you can't land the moment and need to goad the audience into getting the kind of response you think they should have then it's a failure of the actor, the di
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Roses That Never Were Jan 11
2025, 12:27:08 PM
Carol Burnett has long been my answer when asked about Roses I wish had happened.
In that vain, not a Rose, but I wish at some point Cloris Leachman had played Tessie Tura
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Universal's WICKED Film - News & Discussion Thread Dec 17
2024, 12:28:42 PM
Jonathan Cohen said: "That flop hard prediction, because of pre-sales didn't even make sense at the time.However, Moana 2 has technicallyovershadowedWicked in terms of ticket sales. It's up to$717 million."
I wouldn't even use the term "over shadowed" as that would imply that Wicked was forgotten about. It has surpassed it, but people are still buying tickets to both movies
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