Profile for SisterGeorge

For anyone traveling to Buenos Aires during their winter (our summer), they have A LOT of theater, including many Broadway musicals (and some home-grown ones as well). I was just there in April, unfortunately a little too early to catch anything, but productions of The Little Mermaid, Pretty Woman, Spring Awakening, Next to Normal, The Little Prince and -- most intriguingly -- Rocky were about to open, all on Avenida Corrientes,  which our guide referred to--with an adorable mi

I"m seeing PHANTOM in Vienna this month and CAGE AUX FOLLES in Berlin later this year, and thought it would be fun to see  what American and British musicals others have seen in translation.

My first was CALLE 42 in Mexico City (my favorite show mug), followed by EL REY LEON in Madrid, HAIR and ANNIE in Oslo in Norwegian, JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR in Czech in Prague in a domed theater with a 360-degree auditorium and revolving stage that resembled the Thunderdome, the Flemi

Kad said: "SisterGeorge said: "EDSOSLO858 said: "Seems like either a music video or demo recording of“One Night in Bangkok” will droptomorrow."

Speaking of, anyone know of a delicious, nice-looking Thai restaurant in walking distance to the theater? The evening is an anniversary treat for the parents, so nothing too funky or hole-in-the-wallish. Thanks."

There are a slew of Thai places on 9th avenue that are all

My first show was Oliver! in Miami when I was in 4th grade. On my first trip to NYC December 1976, my first show on Broadway was a matinee of The Night of the Iguana with Richard Chamberlain, Dorothy McGuire, and Sylvia Miles. That evening I saw the Raul Julia and Ellen Greene in Joe Papp's Threepenny Opera at Lincoln Center. I have no memory of how or where I bought the tickets. I also squeezed in my first Met opera that weekend -- Tosca

BorisTomashevsky said: "SisterGeorge said: "in the press release Grenell refers to Nakagawa as a "ballerino." He and whoever wrote this for them, obviously know a lot about the dance world. Maybe it's a term commonly used on "So You Think You Can Dance"?"

Per Google,

A "ballerino" isan Italian term for a male ballet dancer.It is the masculine counterpart to the word "ballerina," which refers to a fem

The general feeling of 'well it could have been worse" comes from the fact that the bar has been getting lower and lower year after year. The last years of the previous regime had plenty of "who's that?", head scratchers, and yawners. Inadvertently, they've been slowly grooming us to have this shoulder-shrugging reaction to this year's crop.

Had these picks come right after the first decade or so of the Honors
(Marian Anderson, Fred

Heartbeat Opera's "Vanessa" was a phenomenally produced triumph. Excellent voices and charismatic singers. The musicians were ferocious and performed the reduced orchestration brilliantly. At 100 breathless minutes it packed an awesome punch. The guy sitting next to me was there on a festival pass and didn't even realize he was about to see an opera. He was overwhelmed by the experience. 

Although I'm glad I also saw Nightingales and Camino Rea

Call_me_jorge said: "I think having the show sell out, which I know is unlikely, would be enough to get under Trumps skin and the perfect way of “protesting.”"

I seriously doubt Trump has ever heard of this show or has any idea what it's about. But a sell out engagement would give the KC something to crow about--finally--and images of full houses and large crowds to post all over social media, without context, of course. And they are shamele

morosco said: "Oh... another thing that bothers me about the film is the cinematography. Much of the action is shot from a very wide and very distant angle. Because of that it's hard to connect with the characters."

Maybe those shots might not have been a problem when the movie was shown on huge theater screens in its original release? I mean, no matter how large some of our home theater screens have become, they still don't do justice to wide screen com

One would have to be pretty naive not to have known that corporate support of Pride always was a massive marketing/propaganda initiative.  But increasing their visibility in our community allowed us to increase our visibility outside our community. It was a big win for them, but I also believe it was a big win for us. I don't know that we will be better off without their support, however hypocritical it might have been. 

Same thing with corporations supporting&n

quizking101 said: "My friend runs Playbill Pride. This year, by the time it came to plan the event, they were unable to procure enough corporate sponsorship to help fund their usual festival.

However, although it was very last-minute because of a generous donation of space (the Gershwin breezeway) from the landlords of WICKED, they were able to throw a small, block-party event for a few hours on Friday. A bunch of shows had tables and free giveaways, as well as raffles and

sppunk said: "I just had flashback nightmares from seeing this show in December 2023. My god was itbad imo. And I was so angry we wasted money on it instead of some better West End performance."

I so wanted to leave at intermission but at that point it was too late to do anything else, so I stayed for Act II, and it only got worse. Some shows are meh, some boring, but this one made me angry as well. Over-the-top, grating performances— never seen anything s