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Chess 2025
 Feb 6 2025, 06:40:55 PM

No. Pretty sure it was Chess since he had already done the show in Japan in 2020, and concerts at Kennedy Center (2018) and the Broadhurst (2022). He specifically talked about changes to the book in the video, which is what everyone seems to talk about when discussing Chess. Pirates is being "modernized," but there isn't any real chatter about the book of the show.


Chess 2025
 Feb 6 2025, 03:25:43 PM

mitchern said: "It's not like they're going to fix the book, but I'd still love to see it.

 

For what it's worth...not that the show is confirmed as going forward or that Ramin Karimloo will be part of the cast...he did say on his YT channel while still doing FG that there was a project he was likely going to do because he liked the changes made to the book. Most of the comments and those of his guests (I believe they were Will Swenson a


Chess 2025
 Feb 3 2025, 08:51:24 PM

GirlFromOz68 said: "Kad said: "As recently as last week, Broadway marketing agencies were working on pitches for this, so if it is postponed it happened very recently."

I wonder if - if it's true - and the sweaty one said economy related (and Next to Normal too) if its about what happened over the weekend with tariffs. I saw a video from a guy who has a construction business today who said the costs of lumber for his business would nearly double if t


Congestion pricing
 Jan 16 2025, 05:41:56 PM

I don't have a dog in this fight since I live in L.A. and we have our own traffic and public transit issues. My question is: does anyone know where this money is going? Will it improve the streets or the conditions in the subway...or is it just more money to politicians? CA blew $150 billion on a bullet train from Merced to Bakersfield that isn't needed, no one wanted and still hasn't been built. Just sayin' that's what I would be concerned about. 


Just In Time
 Jan 14 2025, 08:50:55 PM

Ensemble1727285844 said: "Groff has talked about there being a 'conceit' to the show where he is talking to the audience as himself, at least at the start of the show. That could be the reason why he's not impersonating Darin in clips."

Conceit is a good word. for it. The other thing that bothers me about the show is the ad...looks more like Sinatra than Darin, although Bobby may have used the hat thing - the fedora was a signature of Sinatra's. Also,


Just In Time
 Jan 14 2025, 08:44:49 PM

BrodyFosse123 said: "Jessica Lange lip-synced to Patsy Cline’s recorded voice in SWEET DREAMS. They created new orchestrations for the songs, so they felt “live” and used Patsy’s real voice recordings to which Lange lip-synced to. Lange recently saidin an interview she loved the experience of hearing Patsy’s voice on the loudspeakers while she was singing full out on set so she felt like it was her own voice making that glorious singing voice."


Just In Time
 Jan 14 2025, 07:43:13 PM

Sammy232 said: "I'm guessing that they are going for Groff fans, not necessarily Bobby Darin fans? Darinhad his big hits in 1959-1960 ish, his fans would be in their eighties+ now, which certainly limits the audience."

I agree with the age thing, I'm in my 70s and wasn't quite a teen then but adored Sandra Dee and followed their relationship. Nevertheless, if you are doing a show about Bobby Darin, then make the attempt to do Bobby Darin, like Kevin S


Just In Time
 Jan 14 2025, 04:57:51 PM

BrodyFosse123 said: "Kinda disappointed Groff isn’t emulating Bobby Darin’s trademark voice and stylings for this. It’s basically Jonathan Groff SINGS Bobby Darin - not Jonathan Groff AS Bobby Darin. Audra emulated Billie Holiday’s trademark singing voice for LADY DAY and I was hoping this was going to be the same direction for JUST IN TIME. Nope."

Really disappointed. Groff isn't a bad singer (obviously), but there is nothing particularly


The best mama rose
 Jan 11 2025, 02:25:29 AM

Jordan Catalano said: "For me, Tyne. Then Betty."

Have to agree. Also liked Staunton who actually looks a lot like the real Rose. 


Performances in LA cancelled due to fires Jeremy Jordan, Wicked, etc..
 Jan 10 2025, 01:33:08 AM

Sutton Ross said: "Oh Dame, I'm so glad you andyour people are okay. I have been trying to find out the reason for these fires for days but it does seem like arson which is absolutely terrifying. Such devastation. Thinking of everyone impacted.

So far only one fire has been directly caused by an arsonist and he was captured. That blaze was contained fairly quickly in the Hidden Hills area. I read a statistic that 95% of CA fires are caused by human activiity of so


Congestion pricing
 Jan 6 2025, 05:05:04 PM

SeanD2 said: "No it won't. And people need to learn to take public transportation."

Small problem with that is the violence taking place on the subways. More people are driving because of the crime.


Jamie Lloyd-helmed EVITA revival to play the London Palladium in 2025
 Jan 6 2025, 05:01:45 PM

Wasn't Rachel Zegler considered for this part last year...the year before? I saw a video of her on YT singing Don't Cry for me Argentina and she was great. Of course, there is the acting element...and the publicity element.


AUDRA GYPSY Reviews
 Jan 4 2025, 09:26:52 PM

Auggie27 said: "These comments on the role Louise plays ina satisfying Gypsyare spot on. Structurally,second act presents a new obstacle for Rose, and it arrives in an unexpected form: show biz success, not failure. It's the brilliant irony in the tale, Rose's dream of a daughter's achievement is finally met yet she's locked out of participation. Seemingly jettisoned for over investing in her child's ascension.The person who drives Rose to her cathartic e


Just In Time
 Jan 3 2025, 12:47:38 AM

Robbie2 said: "Penna2 said: "DramaTeach said: "Robbie2 said: "DramaTeach said: "Seems like they announced the ensemble/smaller roles and are waiting on the big (I assume) roles of Sandra Dee and Connie Francis. Hope they’re good!"

Julia Grondin is cast for these roles

https://justintimebroadway.com/cast
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Julia Grodin is the understudy for those roles.
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Lots of understudies for Sandra and Connie, but no principals yet based on this link.
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that's right missed the u/s....hmmm Lea as Sandra?
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No. For starters, she's 38 and Sandra was 18 to 30 when with Bobby (he died when he was 37). I can see how they started her out as around 18 with FG, but she aged into her 30s. Also, Sandra didn't sing. If they were going to cast Lea, it would be as Connie Francis IMO. Still too old, but I could see her in that role, both. Sandra was very, very vulnerable and fragile, not qualities I would associate with Lea. 


Just In Time
 Jan 2 2025, 09:38:50 PM

DramaTeach said: "Robbie2 said: "DramaTeach said: "Seems like they announced the ensemble/smaller roles and are waiting on the big (I assume) roles of Sandra Dee and Connie Francis. Hope they’re good!"

Julia Grondin is cast for these roles

https://justintimebroadway.com/cast
"

Julia Grodin is the understudy for those roles.
"

Lots of understudies for Sandra and Connie, but no principals yet based on this link.


Just In Time
 Jan 2 2025, 08:30:44 PM

BrodyFosse123 said: "I did enjoy Spacey’s vanity Bobby Darin 2004 biopic BEYOND THE SEA and (thanks to good prosthetics) he did look a lot like him and vocally he was spot on. Rob Ashford’s choreography for the few lavish musical numbers was fantastic, most notably this one at the end of the film when Bobby dances with his younger self. I can watch it on a loop for hours:

My only problem with the film, which I liked very much, was Spacey
Just In Time
 Jan 2 2025, 08:26:18 PM

Jay Lerner-Z said: "I hated Kevin Spacey as Bobby Darin. Hated.

Jonathan Groff will be so much better.
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Spacey was just too old. He was already 40 and older than Bobby when he died when he did the part although he did resemble him physically and he sounded just like Bobby when he sang. I like his renditions of the songs, more so than Groff's (lots of them on YouTube) who doesn't sound anything like Darin. The film (Beyond the Se


Report: The Phantom of the Opera May Be Readying an Off-Broadway Return
 Jan 2 2025, 08:07:17 PM

TotallyEffed said: "Jarethan said: "This seems wrong to me. The longer it is off-Broadway, the longer the delay is for a next Broadway production. I would imagine that much of the spectacle would be gone / diluted, and they are not going to have a lush orchestra. Mark me skeptical. It just doesn’t seem like the right strategic decision."


It’s a musical, not a religion.
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Actually, it kind of is to many people.


Chess 2025
 Jan 2 2025, 04:19:25 PM

DramaTeach said: "Call me crazy, but I think Lea Michele might be Sandra Dee in Just in Time. It’ll reunite her with Jonathan, and their Instagram account follows her. Could be bc Jonathan doesn’t have his own account and she’s a bit of a surrogate for that, but makes me wonder."

With all due respect to Lea's talent, she kind of old to be playing Sandra Dee who was 18 when she and Darin were married. Also, she wasn't a singer. Are they


Chess 2025
 Jan 2 2025, 01:03:44 AM

GirlFromOz68 said:
Re Solea isn't she booked for something else in 2025 or is it just that she is currently doing something else? While very talented she's also only 30 years old, that's a 16 year age gap with Ramin, and their characters are husband and wife. I know she did it for the concert but would they realistically cast that big an age difference for the revival?

I wonder if they mean for keeping most of the cast are the actors who have played The Arbiter


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