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Malka2 said: "Finding Neverland

Miss Saigon"

How is Miss Saigon on the list?

The only thing I can think of is that Chris kissed Kim in the very end.

But if you know the circumstances, it's easy to understand why he did that in the moment.

Plus, considering he and Kim were never really married, he wasn't being unfaithful to her by moving on with Ellen. 

I saw She Loves Me from front row center and it was epic to see him and the rest of the cast from so up close. If they ever make a Tangled musical, they need to cast him and Donna Murphy (obviously) in their original roles! 

This is the REAL Eva Peron. Look at her. Stop referring to her as a "POC"
Ethnicity / culture has nothing to do with skin tone.
Spain has white people, for example. Lots of countries have white people. White and American = not the same thing. White + European = not the same thing. Not all Europeans are white, some are POC. Not all Americans are white, some are POC.
Likewise, just because someone is from a different country and is of a different ethnicity, it doesn't mean that they can't be white.
There is a controversy about them whitewashing Evita, a white woman? 
SHE WAS A REAL PERSON.
As I argued before, they cast a black man to play Aaron Burr, WHO WAS ALSO A REAL PERSON. A real white person. Yet, in Hamilton, they had an African-American play Aaron Burr, who was a real person, and was white.
And when that happens, people go... YAY! DIVERSITY!
But how dare they cast a white actress to play Eva Peron, who was white in real life, right?
How dare they. 

Yes, please avoid sitting there with flowers on the front row for the entirety of the show. I have terrible allergies to flowers and some of the people around you or even the performers on stage might, too. If you want to give someone flowers, do it at the stage door or order them online and put in the address / name of the theatre and the actor's name. They'll get them that way. 

johannabarker said: "The current Phantom tour is atrocious. Done merely because they didn't want to pay royalties to the original creative team anymore beyond Maria Bjornson's costumes (which have been horribly butchered, decorations stripped off from existing costumes) and to prop up Love Never Dies.Masquerade is bland and I've seen high school productions better than that. Both leading men are jerks and Christine is incredibly passive. The only good performances are in spite of the directing."

Christine is passive in the current tour? She literally slaps Raoul because she wants him to shut up, and, during PONR, she kicks the Phantom's hand off her leg every time he tries to touch her. Not to mention, she does this bizarre move where she walks up to the edge of the roof, almost as if she's going to jump right before All I Ask of You.

Masquerade isn't bland - it actually looks like a masquerade ballroom, now. The set for the masquerade is probably my favorite in the whole production. In reality, if one were to throw a masquerade ball, the majority of the dancing wouldn't be done on one giant staircase like in the Broadway production. In that regard, I do feel that the masquerade scene on Broadway is dated. A giant staircase with dummies can only go so far to convey the grandeur of a masquerade ballroom. Could the tour have made the ballroom more grand and with better quality sets? Sure.

But it looks more like a masquerade ball than the Broadway version, even if it is a bit stripped down. It is a tour and it was very expensive to travel with an ensemble big enough to fill up a giant staircase.


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In my opinion, the Broadway masquerade scene is dated. There needs to be more than just a giant staircase that everyone is singing and dancing on. And likewise, the tour's masquerade scene, while lavish in its own way, could benefit from more quality props to make the sets (not just the masquerade scene) look more rich and vibrant.

In many ways, the Broadway production's sets look dated. And also, in many ways, the tours sets look cheap and flimsy. I feel that if they somehow revamped the Broadway version to have the grandeur of the Australian Love Never Dies production, then it'd be a completely different story.

Also, the Phantom has always been a jerk. He stalks and murders people, remember? He's murdered several people... in both productions.

Trust me, I don't like the Phantom tour 100% but I also don't love the Broadway version 100%

I think they are both flawed. The tour did introduce set pieces I liked. The rooftop, for example, actually looked like a rooftop. The graveyard actually looked more like a graveyard. Masquerade looked like an actual ballroom and not just a giant staircase anymore. I do prefer the Broadway version, though. I just wish it got a bit of an upgrade and re-design. I feel like we've been seeing the same production of it since the 1980s and a change is due. Neither are perfect, in my opinion. Tour could use with higher quality sets and props and better stage blocking, DEFINITELY better stage blocking, but... Broadway could use a revamp, IMHO. 

Coming from a die-hard phan of 15 years who has seen the new tour 5 times, the old US tour 3 times, and the Broadway production 10 times. Just my two cents. 

You have no idea how happy I am that this week's numbers are nowhere near as abysmal as the past week's ones were... 

Last week, everything was in the red and nearly every show took a hit. 

Good to see that this week looks much, much better.

TheGingerBreadMan said: "MovieInMyMind2 said:Okay so, I know that the title specifically asks what books should be turned into musicals, but, I'm going to throw one out there that I think would make a great play. The Giver byLois Lowry. It would be interesting to see how they can make the scenes look monochromatic using the lighting / clothing / makeup to make people appear black & white during a portion of the play.

A stage adaptation of The Giveralready exists.

https://www.dramaticpublishing.com/the-giver"

Woah, cool. I didn't know. Still, this has never graced a Broadway stage and it would be fascinating. Plus, it'd be interesting to see someone else's staging and direction (not that there's anything wrong with Eric Coble's - I looked up some photos of his Giver and they look amazing)

I'm also wondering because I'm considering buying the last two seats in the 4th row during a show, too. I don't like the mezzanine ever (I'm an up-close seat snob) and I'm also wondering how the view is from the extreme sides. 

As someone else mentioned, go to Trattoria Trecolori. Le Rivage is also a good French restaurant. Trust me. On my first ever visit to NYC, I went to many restaurants all over the theatre district. Trattoria Trecolori and Le Rivage stood out to me. I'm going back in a few weeks and am definitely going back to those two.