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My totally uniformed predictions:

Back to the Future -- January 12

Suffs -- January 19

I for one am surprised how well Gatsby has held up for September. It's below 1 million but still grossing decently and will most likely get a nice boost during the holiday season. Don't know what it's weekly running cost is but I wonder if they will make any attempt at big-name casting after Jeremy and Eva leave.

chrishuyen said: "Is the last bit of trying to get the audience to sing along reminiscent of the final chorus in the recent revival of Oklahoma?"

Not even close. I'll give you the exact dialogue exchange they had that led into to the sing-a-long because it's resting in the front of my mind. Again it's between the actor playing Paris and the Music Director, named Sarah, shortly after Paris is told that Juliet is dead:

PARIS: Sar

LOL, it was definitely an "experience" in some ways (again act one only) and I have no idea what the general response is going to be. Again, very hard to figure out everyone's authentic reaction last night because the general vibe I got was simply the thrill of seeing Zegler live. She did well and is charming, but as I said, Gold didn't seem to give her any room to have an emotional connection to the words she was saying.

The Balcony scene is without a doubt

Some more thoughts (it's tough because I want so desperately to forget what I saw last night). For what it's worth, it was a full house but a good chunk of seats were left empty upon return for Act Two.

It was tough to gauge exactly what the audience's reception was last night. I'd say the vast majority of the crowd were Rachel Zegler fans who were hooting, hollering, shouting, and laughing throughout as though it were a parody production (no disrespect to paro

I'm worn out so I won't go too deep into detail.

Now, I love Romeo and Juliet. It's one of my favorite stories of all time. I've loved the movie adaptations, the opera, the ballet, theatrical adaptions, and I champion, and have at many times enjoyed, the attempts at bringing the story into the modern world with artistic visions meant to reach the current generation of young people.

That said, I thought this production (which is 100

Hot damn, those Wiz numbers are impressive. Still very surprised they didn't try to cram in just a few more weeks but hey, go out with a bang.

I anticipate a Notebook closing announcement any day now. Could they be trying to get through Broadway week and close up on September 15?

I guess Water for Elephants and Suffs are making a run for it. Hard to say for how much longer though. I think Su

Some shows are 100% worth revisiting years and decades after they premiere.  Some shows are products of their time -- cast albums and regional productions serving as lovely little time capsules -- and should be left in their respective times.

I love Avenue Q but the show falls into the latter category and nothing you spout will make your fantasies come true, Flash.

There are many shows I adore and have fond memories of, but are merely for the time period in which they are c

Really curious about the score and excited about this production. I don't know what their future plans are, but do we think there's a chance of a premiere cast recording as a sort of placeholder to capture the show in its current form with this cast? With the current Gatsby on Broadway, I'm sure they're exploring all other options and markets to take this show considering the strong reception it's been receiving.

I know there were discussions earl

Perhaps. But in this past season that gave us one surprise after another, I wouldn't rush to predict.

I, for one, was certain that despite my enjoyment of it, Gatsby would crash and burn in spectacular fashion in the way Lempicka did; and despite my neutral stance on it, I thought Notebook would become the sleeper hit.

Either I'm just not very good at this, or mainstream audiences are viewing Broadway in