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EDSOSLO858 said: "It's pretty much the equivalent of a jukebox musical, with all but a few pre-existing songs.

Best musical is most likely going to TWO STRANGERS, and there's a lot of industry love behind it."

Oh, darling. No. ... No.

Yay! No Oedipus!

MemorableUserName said: "NY Daily News

BROADWAY REVIEW: ‘Becky Shaw’ eviscerates needy people and the people who need them

https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/04/06/becky-shaw-broadway-review/

"It’s a measure of the quality of Ehrenreich’s superb performance in what is generally an admirably straightforward production that he never tries to make his character more likable than Gionfriddo writes him, yet he lays all these bon mots with a palpable vulnerability. He understands that Max is operating on two tracks at once, spitting out the tough lessons partly as his philosophy of life but also as a way of avoiding the intensity of his own feelings. Gionfriddo intends him to grow on the audience as the play progresses, and so he does.""

I'm afaid people are centering in on the "meanness" of this play. But Becky Shaw has so much heart without ever being "warm" or "sentimental" The above critic so gets Max's character!

https://www.huntingtontheatre.org/season-tickets/

Well...that's an interesting cast ...

The theatre kids all seem to love her. You know, the same ones in the Hadestown cult...

https://www.whatsonstage.com/news/cabaret-announces-new-west-end-stars-for-summer-2026_1717455/

I don't know about you, but the one pop writer besides Billy Joel that I've always wanted to create a Broadway musical is Pink. I hope this means she's somewhat interested in doing that.

I'm the gayest gay whoever gayed. I adore great camp, especially something produced in all seriousness without the creators realizing the camp potential.  And as hysterical as parts of MD are.. I always feel weird about laughing at extreme child abuse...

Paddington is fine. Some fun songs. And adorable bear. But a terribly overstuffed second act which just made me want the evening to end.  And the fully superior Matilda did not last long on Broadway. 

I think something has to be said about the silly and fun, but almost psychological things happening during the scene changes! You have to pay attention, but it proves what a wonderful director Trip is.

There appears to be a phenomenon now when a performer who in the past has been celebrated, has their talent suddenly refracted through whatever they did that was cancelable. Just because someone did something untoward would never take away from their actual talent. You can choose not to see them because they disgust you, but it never lessens their talent. I think this is mostly a younger person's problem. The Gen Z of it all.

Yes, this play is really all about the wife (and to a certain extent the son, as his arc defines the play's major theme).

People on this board seem to forget the extensive good will Lea Michele worked up in Funny Girl. How many of us wished she was eligible for the Tony for that performance. Tonys are not always given out specifically for the musical performance nominated. To this theory, she might have a chance. Levy was amazing in Next to Normal, but her performance was a little too modern for Mother for my taste.