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Yazbek on Full Monty
 Jul 11 2025, 04:59:06 PM

darquegk said: "This feels like a show that could EASILY scale to a chamber version with a little goosing. The strippers, a kid, one man and one woman playing multiple roles, with a jazz quartet or quintet for the band.


Pittsburgh CLO has developed a little cottage industry workshopping and premiering chamber versions of larger shows like Xanadu and Young Frankenstein. I’ll bet Full Monty is in their book of future options.
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I agree with you. &


Jonathan Groff in Just In Time
 Jul 9 2025, 12:04:10 PM

inception said: "Is it crazy that those "cheap" seats are $159 & $179 on weekends?There was only one left ona date I was looking at & just bit the bullet."

Only saving grace…the cheap seats are a lot closer to the performers than they are in most theatres.  Back in the days when orchestra seats pretty much had one price, the last row cost the same as the first row and people didn’t much care because the performing are was so close.


Gypsy Has Been a Hit -- several times.
 Jul 8 2025, 11:48:03 PM

OhHiii said: "To be honest, the next revival really needs to be a total departure from the classic stagings a la Sunset/Evita. Count me in for Jamie Lloyd’s 2036 revival starring Lady Gaga."

I have to admit that I was hoping this one would.  Boy, was that unfounded.  
 

Re comments about retiring it for 20 years, that is a great idea; until someone really famous decides they want to do it.  Who knows…if it is someone big f


Gypsy Has Been a Hit -- several times.
 Jul 7 2025, 12:03:48 PM

NOWaWarning said: "I think another component is that each production is so molded and marketed around the leading lady. It makes replacing her when she leaves a more daunting task."

But the shows have generally already run out of steam by the times the original leading lady was ready to depart.


Gypsy Has Been a Hit -- several times.
 Jul 7 2025, 12:01:13 PM

I did say ‘big hit’, not hit.  I associate the words ‘big hit’ with big profits and longer runs than Gypsy has ever had.

Re the Sondheim musical point, I do think that Gypsy has a larger number of widely recognized songs than any Sondheim show I can think of, so to me it is more a Jules Styne musical than a Steven Sondheim one. I thing — and I am only opining here, nor trying to diminish the importance of lyrics— that John Q. Public is suck


Why Has Gypsy Never Been a Big Hit?
 Jul 6 2025, 05:57:31 PM

Constantly referred to as the greatest / one of the greatest musicals ever.  Original production starred arguably the biggest musical star ever, the revivals have mostly been driven by big Broadway names (Lansbury, Peter’s, Lupone, MacDonald), yet if you think about it the only one that ever made it to a replacement was Tyne Daly.

Great musical score, a lot of famous songs, a good amount of humor.  Thunderous applause from every audience I have ever been with.  


Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit, and Nicholas Christopher in 2025 Chess Revival!
 Jul 6 2025, 05:35:24 PM

I don’t think so, per #256.  Not gonna happen.  She will definitely sell tickets,  but Funny Gorl and Chess are different beasts with different back stories.


50th Anniversary Revival of A CHORUS LINE still on track for 202
 Jul 6 2025, 05:31:32 PM

Show Boat will be 100 in December 2027.  I would much rather look forward to a world class production of that than yet another retread of ACL, which I have admittedly NEVER thought was an all-time great musical.  In 1975, I was appalled that Chicago got lost in the tsunami caused by ACL.  I have always thought it was a much better show.

 

But, back to Show Boat, imagine the Harold Prince version (or something close to it) playing in the Beaumont.


Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit, and Nicholas Christopher in 2025 Chess Revival!
 Jul 4 2025, 11:02:44 PM

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "I'm wondering how it sells this time around.

Was the financial success Lea brought to FUNNY GIRL a fluke because of GLEE and the title, or will she sell equally well here? (Tveit adds a little something but not a substantial amount.) And, if it gets a worse critical response than things like SUNSET BLVD and GYPSY, is there still a pathway to success?
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Lea was also playing Fanny Brice and carried the entire show on her sho


Sweet Charity Ending Question
 Jul 4 2025, 10:42:25 PM

If I remember the original ending correctly -- I have not seen SC live since June 1966 -- the fairy coming out in the end worked.  It gave Charity the chance to become hopeful once again, but left  the audience knowing that nothing was going to change.  I think the movie accomplished the same thing, although the whole hippy thing was even cliched when the movie opened.

I am amazed that I have never seen SC after the first time I viewed it.  I was really to


Anyone seeing Montego as Rose?
 Jul 4 2025, 10:30:17 PM

From a financial point of view, given the money they are likely to lose this week and next, you have to wonder whether they should have just closed for good.  Between the limited seats and the reduced prices, they are going to have a bloodbath.  Will they even be able to recover the money lost in these two weeks, let alone the original investment.

 


Anyone seeing Montego as Rose?
 Jul 1 2025, 06:28:11 PM

east side story said: "witchoftheeast2 said: "Thinking of stopping by tonight to see if I can get one of the discounted tickets, if I do I'll write my thoughts tomorrow"

Cannot imagine there being a single, full-priced ticket on sale this week while McDonald is gone. Definitely give it a shot, and let us know your thoughts!
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I'd wouldn't settle for anything less than the price of a rush seat.


Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 6/29/25
 Jul 1 2025, 06:14:22 PM

OhHiii said: "Six is probably still making more money than they'd make in an Off-Broadway house unless they were to charge Broadway prices. They just don't have much incentive to move and lose the Broadway brand yet. My two cents.

Wow, Sunset Blvd has really been such a post-Tony runaway. I'm positive its going to break it's all-time gross record ($1.9M) by closing if not this week. Such a success. Good for them. It really makes the case for Jamie not to re


Two Strangers (Carry A Cake Across New York)
 Jun 29 2025, 07:16:56 PM

I saw this earlier in the week.  Went with a big group (9 altogether) and opinions ranged from 'enjoyed it a lot' to 'absolutely loved it'.  Thought that Sam Tutty was great and was really impressed to see that he won a Tony for playing Evan Hansen, about as different a character as humanly possible.  I thought the female lead, whose name I cannot remember right this minute (no programs) was also very good.

If the issue that prior posters are referri


The Wiz Joins the Criterion Collection
 Jun 29 2025, 07:04:25 PM

I have thought for years and years that this was the worst movie ever to result from a Broadway musical.  I do not think there is even a close second. 

I remember going to see it in Boston its opening weekend.  The line into the theatre for a late showing was long and everyone was young, and there was a general excitement.  Then we had to watch the movie...I don't recall ever seeing so many people leave before the movie was over.  Admittedly, a really bad m


Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit, and Nicholas Christopher in 2025 Chess Revival!
 Jun 25 2025, 12:35:55 PM

I had my tickets, got to the sign-in page -- I bought seats last week -- and it timed out (I guess), so I lost everything, including my place in line.  Ready to scream...have to start all over again...it is currently thrashing as I try to sign in again.  SUCKS


Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit, and Nicholas Christopher in 2025 Chess Revival!
 Jun 25 2025, 11:15:39 AM

I finally got into the Telecharge page.  I says that I need to wait until 12:00 to get my turn, but my code still has not come.  I just don't understand why these thigs don't go smoother.

The irony, of course, is that I have never actually seen a production of Chess that was not a big disappointment, especially the original London and Broadway.versions, the latter of which which was deadly.  I saw one in Shirlington VA 12 - 15 years ago which was actually pretty


Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit, and Nicholas Christopher in 2025 Chess Revival!
 Jun 25 2025, 11:07:20 AM

I am struggling to get into the Telecharge site.  I guess, to my surprise, that they are getting slammed.


Favorite Song Or Lyric From Gypsy
 Jun 19 2025, 06:43:25 PM

I agree re 'any IOU I owe, you owe'.  As silly as it sounds, this phrase pops up in my head regularly.  It is just so damned clever and 'Sondheimesque'.

While I do not love the song 'Little Lamb', I do love the last line...'I wonder how old I am'.  A perfect lyric to justify the entire song.

Rose's Turn is as close to a standalone masterpiece as probably any song every written in telling such a powerful story.  The pin


The dozen Stephen Sondheim musicals I've seen - and how my opinion has shifted
 Jun 17 2025, 10:37:50 PM

Kad said: "I hadn't realized my Sondheim card was nearly complete- I have only not seen productions of Passion, The Frogs, and Do I Hear a Waltz.

Passion is really the sticking point for me, out of all Sondheim's scores. I have never been able to get into the cast album nor the filming. Perhaps seeing a first class live production would change my mind.
"

I saw a first class production, tried to listen to cast recording countless times, and watched i


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