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Is Burlesque in Trouble?
 Jul 11 2025, 11:07:47 AM

I see this a week from tomorrow and I cannot WAIT. The reports I'm getting from my Brit friends (which echo what is being said here just with more use of the 'c' word) are filling me with utter joy. My husband's gonna kill me, but I gave in to his wish of Hercules so he gets to Wagon Wheel Watusi for the night. 


Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/6/25
 Jul 8 2025, 03:48:35 PM

I think Gypsy should have shut down for the week a la Jackman in the Boy from Oz. The raison d'etre for this production (and, frankly, any major production of) Gypsy is for the actress playing Rose. It would have underlined the fact that she is the reason for the season and get your tickets now because the show won't be around forever. This was a real exercise in 'diluting the brand.' 


The Princess Bride Musical - To Premiere in Chicago
 Jun 26 2025, 04:13:11 PM

I'm kind of surprised by all of the folks who think Guettel would have been ideal for this. The music would have been ravishing, but I don't think he's ever demonstrated the lightness of touch as a storyteller needed for this particular property. 


Report: The Phantom of the Opera May Be Readying an Off-Broadway Return
 Jun 26 2025, 10:09:58 AM

binau said: "Anyone else still low key excited and hoping that it turns out to be good?"

Me. I've never loved the show (though I thought the original Prince staging was a wonder). I think this sounds like it could be a fun night. And $200? I did an actual titty-shake dance when I got Ragtime tickets for $198 which I thought was such a bargain. So bring it on. 


Liberation - Bway? And other questions
 Jun 16 2025, 02:04:59 PM

"Sometimes it's okay to have a special limited run, and that's all that happens with the show. It doesn't need life elsewhere."

On a message board filled with weird takes, this is one of the weirdest I've ever come across. Plays don't need lives elsewhere after you've had your special experience with them? That's...not how theater works. That's not how theater should work. That's just weird. 


50th Anniversary Revival of A CHORUS LINE still on track for 202
 Jun 5 2025, 12:48:31 PM

Kad said: "iluvtheatertrash said: "Kad said: "Sutton Ross said: "So it's non union and immersive? So, basically a nightmare for everyone in the building. Yikes."

I feel like the "immersion" will be... sitting in a rehearsal studio.
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For a show that doesn’t take place in a rehearsal studio.
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Directed by an exceptionally early career director with no notable credits wh


J.K. Rowling uses Harry Potter wealth to fund anti-transgender organization
 Jun 3 2025, 11:26:03 AM

She's reprehensible. And though I generally think it's doable to separate the art from the artist, she has made it impossible. 


LuPone on McDonald
 May 27 2025, 02:12:28 PM

Kad said: "The Racist, the Witch, and the Warzone."

HA. Let's make out. 


Lincoln Center Theater to Revive RAGTIME at the Vivian Beaumont, Fall 2025
 May 27 2025, 12:28:55 PM

Thanks for that heads up!!!


Does Jasmine actually have a chance?
 May 14 2025, 10:16:47 AM

MemorableUserName said: "In the 1950 Oscar race when Gloria Swanson and Bette Davis were the supposed frontrunners, Judy Holliday won it for a primarily comedic role. And Scherzinger and McDonald have a lot more in common with Swanson (the same part, natch) and Davis (acid-tongued woman finding herself eclipsed in show business?) than folks here seem to want to admit."

But you are leaving out a massive factor in that scenario. An actual vote-splitter - Anne Baxter as


Composer William Finn (FALSETTOS, 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE, A NEW BRAIN) dead at 73
 Apr 8 2025, 03:30:45 PM

At 18 years old, I saw Jonathan Kaplan sing 'My father's a homo...' on the Tony Awards and I thought, 'I have to see that before I leave for college.' My best gal pal and I went to see it a month later and, a month after that, I was finally out of the closet. 

Two years after A New Brain debuted, I found myself in a serious health crisis. When I recovered, I turned to the cast recording...specifically the section at the end with Gordo singing 'Everything&#3


Shia LaBeouf to star in new David Mamet play HENRY JOHNSON at The Electric Lodge in California
 Apr 3 2025, 12:28:53 PM

When I think of how that man's bullsh*t book on acting was pushed on a whole bunch of us as some kind of holy text, I want to start a class action suit against every acting program in existence in the early to mid-90s. 


Noelle Coward's PRIVATE LIVES to be given Broadway revival during 2026-2027 season
 Mar 24 2025, 02:03:34 PM

An Andrew Scott/Phoebe Waller-Bridge reunion in this would be delectable. Add Rory Kinnear as Victor and Aimee Lou Wood as Sybil and I'd go every night. 


Quarterly "Broadway In Memoriam" Light-Dimming to begin in June 2025
 Mar 14 2025, 02:54:49 PM

My criteria, which means absolutely nothing, is 'If you can imagine naming a theater after them, they get a dimming.' 


Jamie Lloyd-helmed EVITA revival to play the London Palladium in 2025
 Mar 14 2025, 10:15:36 AM

The hate is bizarre. Utterly bizarre.

Romeo + Juliet, regardless of quality, was a hit for her. Snow White is looking to be an utter disaster. I think this is a very smart move from her coming on the heels of that. 


Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/9/25
 Mar 13 2025, 04:57:10 PM

Suggesting that a Union takes the money of its members to make high risk investments is so fiscally irresponsible that there's no need to continue discussing it.

And your wins are not yours. Your 'win' is on the backs of creatives. The labor of the director, writer(s), designers, and, most importantly because without them there is no theater, the actors is what gives you a 'win.' You invest your money and that's great. You deserve a nice return on your investmen


Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/9/25
 Mar 13 2025, 04:12:31 PM

You're suggesting that Unions become Management?? That level of conflict of interest is bat-sh*t bonkers!

Most shows won't make a killing. Hence why Union minimums are in place. But for the rare shows do make a killing, performance incentives for the actors (and hell...other folks as well) would be completely appropriate. 

Actors are the ones who have a face an audience every night. When they're in a flop, they at least get to console themselves with their Equit


Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/9/25
 Mar 13 2025, 01:58:02 PM

See, Kad! Just another demonstration of my belief that the organizing principle of the American theater is to make the most important people in the room (the actors) feel like the lowest on the rung. Keep them insecure and on edge, and you control them perfectly. But no actors...no theater. That's just a fact. 

Also...it's reeeeeeeally weird that people here are acting agog at the suggestion that actors in successful productions get access to bonuses. Because I'm prett


Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/9/25
 Mar 11 2025, 04:40:08 PM

Kad said: "Bwaygurl2 said: "The reality is some of y'all are mad because people are paying $$$ to see a BLACK MAN on that stage, but y'all aren't ready for that conversation I fear.

White Supremacy cannot and will not accept that affluent white folk are putting down big bucks to see Denzel in a play by one of the Great White men of all time, Mister Shakespeare. (To be clear, this comment is not aimed at totally effed in particular, but rather at the ou


Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/9/25
 Mar 11 2025, 04:21:25 PM

Ah...BroadwayWorld. Never change. It always amuses me the number of 'theatre lovers' who will dig deep to hold up the one, true organizing principle of the American Theater - the most important people in the room must always be made to feel the most expendable. There are is only one group of people without which there would be no theater - the actors. You got a great set, but no actors? You have lovely art installation,. You have an amazing script, but no actors? You have some lovingl


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