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GottaGetAGimmick420 said: "Now what is this?https://www.reddit.com/r/Broadway/comments/1qagr19/chicago_firings_drama/"

It's the video ACL2006 posted at #3704 that was being discussed.

Last show with Hilty and Simard together today, though Williams and Sieber are both out. Glad I went back a few months ago to see all four, though others may not mind as long as they get Hilty and Simard.

Tutty is on this evening, with Best on as Robin.

A little bit from the original post still comes up at the moment in a Google search.



I did see the post before it was pulled and she described a little bit about how he came to call her, but I don't remember the details. 

VernonGersch said: "WHO is responsible for writing that post? Katie the PR person orAndrew Fox and Joel Sinensky? I want them to NEVER work again, ever. I want some accountability here. "

Andrew Fox says he is solely responsible.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DST4WEKgGVT/

I was just about to say--this doesn't make much sense from a financial perspective (barring the celebrity casting that keeps getting hinted at) but given that this is a thin year for musicals, it's conceivable people might be willing to throw in some money for the producing credit and possible Tony nom.

Helen Shaw's New Yorker review was never posted. She is/was right as usual.

Laurie Metcalf’s Stunning Return to Broadway in “Little Bear Ridge Road”

The playwright Samuel D. Hunter tailors a family drama to the actress’s specific gifts

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/10/little-bear-ridge-road-theatre-review-the-bride-and-the-goodnight-cinderella

 

"The play operates best as a fine-grained character study, but its thinnest element is Ethan’s relationship with James, an oddly two-dimensional figure whose devotion becomes bizarre in the face of Ethan’s petulance and insults. I wondered if James’s saintliness represents another aspect of our lost COVID years, when intense relationships blossomed out of nothing. Hunter is interested in what flawed people can offer one another, the difference between saving and helping. "

Huss417 said: "MemorableUserName said: "Adding here since the show isn't in previews. (The fact that no one's had anything to say about it in a month and a half likely indicates why it's closing.)

LITTLE BEAR RIDGE ROAD Will Close Early on Broadway

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/LITTLE-BEAR-RIDGE-ROAD-Will-Close-Early-on-Broadway-20251212"

Being discussed in the previews thread if interested.

https://forum.broadwayworld.com/thread/LITTLE-BEAR-RIDGE-ROAD-Previews"

Which is why I said "Adding here since the show isn't in previews."

And considering how typically nasty that discussion got almost from the start a different, and accurate, thread may be welcome for some. To each their own.

Adding here since the show isn't in previews. (The fact that no one's had anything to say about it in a month and a half likely indicates why it's closing.)

LITTLE BEAR RIDGE ROAD Will Close Early on Broadway

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/LITTLE-BEAR-RIDGE-ROAD-Will-Close-Early-on-Broadway-20251212

Timon3 said: "Have they included Mountain Duet? I don’t think that song was in the original Broadway production."

There's a link to them singing it on this very page from earlier today.

 

 

Here's the thread 

https://forum.broadwayworld.com/thread/Matthew-Broderick-David-Cross-to-co-star-off-Broadway-in-new-TARTUFFE-written-by-Lucas-Hnath

Emily Nussbaum is Shaw's replacement as theater critic at the New Yorker

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/emily-nussbaum-theatre-critic-the-new-yorker-1236445623/

 

double post
 

Daily Beast

June Squibb, 96, Delivers Acting Tour de Force in ‘Marjorie Prime’

https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/june-squibb-96-delivers-acting-tour-de-force-in-marjorie-prime/

"Squibb’s Majorie contains multitudes, and Squibb shows them all so tangibly and without airs that her character feels recognizably real right from the beginning of the play. She may be ailing, but in Squibb’s compelling rendering—under Anne Kauffman’s fine, sensitive direction—we see that Marjorie is not to be wrapped in cotton wool or patronized."

TimeOut

Review: Marjorie Prime

4 out of 5 stars

Jordan Harrison's moving AI drama returns for a timely revival with June Squibb and Cynthia Nixon

https://www.timeout.com/newyork/theater/marjorie-prime-broadway-revival-review-june-squibb-cynthia-nixon-jordan-harrison-danny-burstein-artifical-intelligence-ai

"Much of the pre-opening press about this revival has revolved around the 96-year-old Squibb, who might be the oldest actor ever to play a principal role on Broadway. She merits that attention with a remarkable performance that combines frostiness and fogginess into a firm coat of rime. But the other actors are equally good. Burstein, who radiates human tenderness, is perfectly employed as the play’s kindest character, and his final scene is devastating; Lowell finds the appropriate levels of stiffness and charm for his faux Walter. And Nixon is simply the best I’ve ever seen her onstage: As Tess labors to connect with her mother—or alternatively to give up any hope of connecting with her—Nixon invests her testiness with complex underlying notes of bitterness and exhaustion."

Two five star reviews from NY Stage Review

Marjorie Prime: The Future is Now

By Frank Scheck

★★★★★ June Squibb, Cynthia Nixon and Danny Burstein in this Broadway revival of Jordan Harrison's sci-fi-tinged drama.

https://nystagereview.com/2025/12/08/marjorie-prime-the-future-is-now/

 

Marjorie Prime: A Very Real Exploration of Memory and Loss, Powered by AI

By Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★★★ A superb cast of four anchors Jordan Harrison’s future-set drama

https://nystagereview.com/2025/12/08/marjorie-prime-a-very-real-exploration-of-memory-and-loss-powered-by-ai/

Holden in Vulture is lukewarm

Return of the Replicants: ‘Marjorie Prime’

Marjorie Prime, starring June Squibb, Cynthia Nixon, and Danny Burstein, is a thoughtful, well-wrought play and production that's a little too cool to the

https://www.vulture.com/article/return-of-the-replicants-marjorie-prime.html

"In our present reality, with the floodwaters of AI slop licking at the rolled cuffs of our pants, it’s a pretty sure bet that Second Stage’s elegant revival of Harrison’s play will be applauded for its (then) prescience and (now) timeliness. Yet watching Marjorie Prime — staged on Lee Jellinek’s set of crisp angles, with its green hues engineered for tranquility, by Anne Kauffman, who directs with spare, delicate rigor, as if she’s conducting Arvo Pärt’s Spiegel im Spiegel — I kept waiting to feel … well, more. More rapt, more heartbroken, more rattled by the harrowing questions presented by the long, slow, terribly seductive suicide humanity seems bent on carrying out via technology. Harrison is a formidable craftsman and Marjorie Prime is built very well, but in a way it resembles one of its own artificial humans: It’s an extremely palatable version of the thing. It has studied how to be a play, and it’s a good one — if only the feeling of study weren’t quite so palpable in that goodness."

4 stars out of 4 from NYP

‘Marjorie Prime’ review: June Squibb is a marvel in an early highlight of the Broadway season

https://nypost.com/2025/12/08/entertainment/marjorie-prime-review-96-year-old-june-squibb-is-a-marvel-in-an-early-highlight-of-the-broadway-season/

"Much in the same way Squibb has only gotten finer with age, so too has Harrison’s complex 11-year-old play about artificial intelligence, its possibilities and the deeply intrusive role it could have — hell, it already does — in our own lives. "