The national touring company will be led by Jake David Smith (BETWEEN THE LINES, LES MISÉRABLES tour) as Jay Gatsby, and Senzel Ahmady (from the Seoul production) as Daisy Buchanan.
Attention must be paid: Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf will return to Broadway in a revival of Death of a Salesman, beginning previews March 6 and opening April 9 at the Winter Garden Theatre. It will run through June 14.
It would be veeeeery (bear-y?) expensive to bring this to NYC, probably to the tune of a $35-40 million capitalization and north of $1.5 million in weekly running costs.
Dispiritingly, there aren’t many new plays in the pipeline either.
Many open-ended Broadway shows with underwhelming grosses at the moment are being given a long runway, because landlords would rather not see their theaters empty for an indefinite period of time.
BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB - When did Justin Cunningham leave the show? I believe I saw a new Juan de Marcos. The show made good-not-great use of the vast space in front of Macy's, I feel like there should have been a bit more space for the excellent choreography to flow. (Tables signifying the "social club" were on opposite corners.) Regardless, the band is shredding, Isa looks gorgeous, and Natalie is fantastic as always. Though it is a little weird hearing
Has anyone gotten any word on how the SIX performance is going to work? Did they pre-record from the Lena Horne (like CBS used to do), or are they just showing an old press clip from months before?
I’d also like to add that I appreciate how REDWOOD treated the theme of child loss and how painful it can be for parents (miscarriage or not). Tina Landau has said before that the Spencer character was inspired by her nephew, who took his own life early in the pandemic.
Hopefully people that may be grieving someone or something discover this show + music in the future and know they’re not alone.
