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Sethwp2 said: "TylerJia said: "Exciting all round, except for Billy Porter being cast in La Cage. Nails on chalkboard.

Also, they mention about it being the first all-black La Cage, but aren't the MUNY doing the same thing this Summer with Norm Lewis?"

No one ever said The MUNY's La Cage was an all-black cast. And their cast list has been announced.

(Does anyone in this chat room know how to do a little research BEFORE posting stupid comments on here?)"

I know you're posting this simply because it makes you feel high and mighty for a split second in your adult life, but here's the reasoning for my question (posted more as a discussion point)

The Encores press release states "the Encores! production features an all-Black cast for the first time led by Emmy, Grammy, and three-time Tony Award-winning artist Billy Porter as the fabulous Albin, bringing a new dimension to the show’s core themes of identity and belonging."

Whilst the MUNY production is not all-black, nearly the entire principal cast (including Georges and Albin) are, meaning that the "bringing a new dimension to the show's core themes" will have been applied in a new major production months prior.

So I think the point is worth discussing and plenty of thought had gone in to it prior to posting. As others have said, this is a discussion website and I have made a valid point. I could easily just reply calling you a miserable ****, but you deserve more of an explanation.

Exciting all round, except for Billy Porter being cast in La Cage. Nails on chalkboard.

Also, they mention about it being the first all-black La Cage, but aren't the MUNY doing the same thing this Summer with Norm Lewis?

I don't dislike "She Knocks Me Out" but it sounds so much like a 2004-ish pop song

Not necessarily my picks, but I can see these noms:

Musical
Operation Mincemeat
Dead Outlaw
Maybe Happy Ending
Death Becomes Her
Buena Vista Social Club

Revival
Sunset Blvd.
Gypsy
Pirates!
Floyd Collins

 

Listened to the whole thing on my morning commute (UK-based) and find it absolutely delightful. I only have a rough idea of the plot, but I found "Where You Belong" very sweet and "Hitting the Road" is a bop

I feel like Bob Martin wrote one of the best musical books of all time with The Drowsy Chaperone, and hasn't really had a good book in him ever since.

How was Molly Osborne? We're actually from the same small town (now city!) in the UK so very interested to see how she is received.

F*** yeah, get that Yazbek in my veins

Dead Outlaw
Maybe Happy Ending
Operation Mincemeat
Death Becomes Her
Smash

Early Best Musical nom prediction - this is actually turning into a pretty stacked season

May have got this all wrong, but I thought the marquee signs are all back-to-front because Rose has always been behind-the-scenes... so then when the ROSE sign appears it's finally all about her and she's centre stage? 

Best Musical: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (personally, favourite theatre experience of all-time)

Best Play: Stereophonic

I am so spelunking excited

This cast is STACKED

I think Sklar is one of our most underrated composers!

The Almeida production is genuinely one of my favourite theatre-going experiences ever. Borle and Cerveris are PHENOMENAL casting, although I loved Rannells and Varla in London. I'm just so desperate for the eventual cast album, I've been waiting very patiently!

Listened twice this morning already (I'm UK-based), music is very reminiscent of JRB's solo material (especially the first album) and I have no qualms with that at all. This will be getting MANY rotations on my Spotify for the foreseeable...

Sarah has been out the last few shows and hearing rumblings of her departure altogether... Time will tell.

Surely it has to also be a play on "Hello, Dolly!" too?

I can't stop listening to this f*cking album

Hmm the Playbill article originally stated that Urie was reprising his role and that seems to have been edited out...