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The Telecharge lottery for tomorrow's first preview is listed as $20.

Jay Lerner-Z said: "Beyoncé selling her soul to Dubai for $24M was a deeply problematic and sh!tty thing to do.

I don't know why so many of you seem to have such trouble acknowledging that.

Oh, well, I guess it gives me an insight into MAGA nuts and how the cult of personality works."

Lying and deflecting when called out on it? Yes, you have much in common with MAGA.

This is a Broadway message board. Many of us have no interest

Highland Guy said: "If you have a cruise ship full of LGBTQ+ passengers, why would you send them to a country (Turkey) that probably would not be overly welcoming? Are these issues/possibilities not worked out in advance?

Instead, put a friendly port of call on the agenda. Valencia, Spain, comes to mind. Currently hosting the World Gay Games. Can't get much friendlier than that."
 

This particular cruise has apparently docked in Istanbul 13 times since 2000. So it has docked there before without issue and presumably had information they could this time as well.

But events have been changing. This article about 50 people being arrested at a recent Pride event notes:

"Separately, Turkish authorities on Saturday ordered an Istanbul gay bar to close over unspecified violations following protests by Islamist groups against its owner.

The closure came after Islamist groups launched a campaign on social media against a planned cruise ship tour aimed at LGBT+ travellers. They claimed the Turkish leg of the programme was being organised by Mustafa Dogan Yilmaz, the bar's owner.

The ship had been scheduled to dock in Istanbul on July 8."

 

So yes, the cruise was intended to stop here, an event was planned at a bar in conjunction with the cruise being there, people started protesting the bar because of it, and perhaps unsurprisingly, the government cracked down on the bar, and now the cruise. This has been building for a while.

 

Jay Lerner-Z said: "I don't constantly bring up Beyoncé, I haven't mentioned her in over a year."

It's been in your signature for years, so you've mentioned her every time you've posted.



 

Interesting that she omitted the "well-heeled" part from her Instagram post.

https://www.instagram.com/pattilupone/p/DaUkpPyCosk/

John Adams said: ""
For myself, I would not want to be in a foreign country where if, for any reason I should be detained (righteously, or un-), my personal security might be at risk. Being banned from entry is a good thing because it eliminates the risk to Gay passengers' safety and security.

Honestly, this was my first response. I follow someone on BlueSky who is on this cruise who posted about it yesterday, well before Patti did, an

Ensemble1698878795 said:So whose fault is it that Arena Stage hired her? Is it her own? Also when Black AD's are handed organizations they are usually already failing. I'm not saying she's perfect. But I think you all need to acknowledge that there's been an historic lack of Black people let alone Black women in these positions. It's not because they are incapable. It's mostly because they aren't wanted. 

There seems to be some confusion so

Is there a reason this thread keeps getting bumped? OP asked the question in 2004 (and, unless they have a new user name, hasn't posted here since 2007). Yet the thread was dug up again in March, then suddenly again today? (I suspect whatever show the OP wanted to attend in 2004 has closed by now.)

UWS10023 said: "There have been other Encore shows where leads have carried books and it has not faced as much criticism as this production seems to be getting on this board. So it makes me think that this is more about the production in general."

I remember High Spirits earlier this year getting a lot of complaints about the binders, especially when it came to Andrea Martin. A quick check of that thread shows it only takes until the fourth post for a, "They sure like holding their scripts in this production."

https://forum.broadwayworld.com/thread/HIGH-SPIRITS-at-Encores

I'm certainly not expecting a long run for it. I think the best case would be sticking it out through January 3; a show that's set during the holiday season should at least stay open through then. But it also seems foolish to consider packing it in now (Closing Imminent!) considering the bloodbath of closings that are coming. It's not going to be long before there is a lot less competition and a lot more open theaters. Simply by virtue of a lot less options for the (dwindling) num

When a show is up week to week and hits its highest average ticket price in over three months, and you declare "Closing Imminent!" that's not looking at facts. That's doomcasting.

For those doomcasting Two Strangers, they only had 7 shows last week, yet were only down by $17k. That's an average of $82,620 per performance, which is their best in months ($74,442 last week, $81,670 the week before, which was their highest grossing week since February).

The earlier thread (though some may have that OP blocked):

https://forum.broadwayworld.com/thread/Jerome-at-PH

 

Auggie27 said: "I'll just add, going out on a shaky limb: calling attention to a storyentirely contained in the Asian culture and a specific geographic locale deservingAsian actors the action of a "woke mob" misses the point. This piece is a unique capture of a Korean future, theatrical world-building with various components indigenous to the terrain (the "love" motel, for example.) The logic in presenting a Seoul peopled with Asian bots is baked into the DNA