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I mean, when I think of, say, Hal Prince and even though the only one of his stagings I saw live was Evita, not only are there the video recordings of Pacific Overtures and Sweeney Todd, but the Broadway musical history books and websites are filled with images from his various shows, as well as specific moments descibed by people who saw them. He made history. We can say similar things about directors whose work almost no one still alive has ever seen, like Rouben Ma

merle57 said: "After Love Look Away, there was a ballet in Flower Drum Song on Broadway, but more an Asian dance piece - one can see photos of it in the souvenir program. It was not the jazzy thing in the movie. Carol Haney did the choreoraphy for the stage version, not Gene Kelly who was just the overall stage director. I recall it as a very beautiful Chinese ballet showing her distress at losing Wang Ta. Love Look Away and theballet werethe first musical numbers in the second act.<

QueenAlice said: "Angels in America and Perestroika were written and performed as two separate works on stage in a single season. Wicked is a single work that was divided into two parts for a movie released over two years. This is more an argument about how awards bodies chose to recognize (or not) the second installment of one film, for which many of the craft elements remain essentially the same across both movies.

As a relative example, The first installment of THE LORD

TotallyEffed said: "joevitus said: "Well, awarding or just nominating both parts of a two-part movie is different than awarding Act 2 of a play. Angels in America is the better equivalent here, and indeed both Millennium Approaches and Parastroika both won Best Play, two cosecutive years in a row."



Angels in America is one of the best things ever written."

The analogy still holds. Two parts of one work are different than two

TheatreFan4 said: "tomorrowBIGLITES said: "I think part of the charm of the stage show is it knows it’s a little stupid.

“I mean come on Elphie it’s shoes. Let it go.”

That’s why Act Two is pretty fun. It never stops being a joke machine."

Which is why touting it as "Epic Conclusion" makes it fall flat on its face. Nothing epic, or even big, even happens in it. Everything is incredibly small.<

QueenAlice said: "I think there is a difference in something like the Beatles films, which sound like 4 stand alone films united by theme, and Wicked which is clearly one extended film divided into two for maximum box office receipts.

I personally don't have an issue with this setting a loose precedent moving forward for awards consideration: the Wicked film was recognized with multiple Oscar nominations last year. As Wicked for Good is the second part of the same movi

Theatrefan2 said: "I rewatched part 1 after For Good and honestly it wasnt as good as I remembered. I enjoyed it, and its a good movie, but I wasnt as wowed as I had been. More things stood out.It felt overlong and stretched out in parts, Cynthia really is one note acting Elphaba all the way through, and Defying Gravity was bodged. And its reminiscent of Grease when it comes togrown adults pretending to be young."

I expect to encounter many more responses like&nb

TheatreFan4 said: "They should have just made this whole thing a 3.5 hour movie. For Good felt like letting air out of the balloon. A movie people went to see out of obligation instead of interest. Everyone knows Act 2 isnt as good as Act 1, but this time you got to walk away for a year before seeing to confirm that yes... Act 2 is still Mid and you made it longer and added, essentially, nothing to goings on. Same thing they did in the first movie, but again... Act 1 will always be b

Ke3 said: "
South Pacific is exactly why I found the discussion about Hamilton interesting. I do not think I will see another South Pacific Broadway revival in my lifetime. Or another King and I. The canon is not fixed, it's ever changing. Shows that 30 years people were still doing, they're not doing again."

How well I remember sentiments such as this before the last production of South Pacific. You know, the one that had critics and audien

Ke3 said: "blug said: "After a flop documentary, a flop album, a flop movie and a cancelled tour, I'd say the JLo moment is finally over."

See the reason she’s become so fascinating to me in the last few years is that all of this is true but when you look at her career overall, it’s been true many times.

She’s had multiple flop albums, been in many unsuccessful films, and had enough bad press to last many people a lifetim