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Rylance co-wrote the screenplay with Lichtscheidl

This makes my Minnesota theatre nerd heart happy, especially with the local talent in the cast.

Someone on Twitter suggested Cole Escola as Lucy

Mind you, there is no way to “act” black. 

Well, unless you're Robert Downey, Jr.

The best case scenario would be if they've revised the book to reflect different Korean demographics. But I don't know if that's the case, and at any rate it's still deeply weird for Korean producers to localize a production so deeply rooted in a specific area and culture that it's literally in the show's name.

Will run at the Adelphi Theatre Oct. 14-Jan. 9

Cynthia Erivo reportedly stopped a performance of Dracula mid-show after noticing an audience member filming. After seeing the individual breaking the production's rules against filming, Erivo left the stage and the performance was halted

Critic's Pick from Helen Shaw of the NYT

Vulture is positive: "Abigail Onwunali is particularly powerful in a role that Wilson saves till the eleventh hour, and Boone goes to places at once frightening and devastating."

3/5 from The Guardian - "Allen’s staging doesn’t match the fine work she’s drawn from her actors, who are mostly confined to the kitchen table far stage left. This leaves the rest of the house – a cozy living room and a stairway that seems to climb toward heaven – frustratingly unexplored."

New York Stage Review: Melissa Rose Bernardo is mixed and Frank Scheck is positive

The Wrap is positive: "One of the Season's Best"

Theatrely is mixed-negative: "Softness slides into sleepiness in this unremarkable revival,""

Deadline is positive: "lovingly and astutely directed by Debbie Allen with a no-weak-link cast"

Four Stars from TimeOut - "a stunning depiction of reconciliation, reckoning and release"

Variety is positive: "Stunningly depicted and gorgeously acted"

 

Charley Kringas Inc said: "It's baffling to me that we've apparently decided, as a society, that he didn't do it after all."

"We"?

Theatremania is mixed-positive: "Solidly produced, this revival stills feels like a missed opportunity to be the wild must-attend event of the season"

Variety is negative- "this Roundabout production at Studio 54 — the site of glittering debauchery of another era — just isn’t all that much fun, being mostly effortful, maddening and finally exhausting."

Enough for a nice matinee with a bestie, no?

THERE'S your pull-quote!

Just realized that - fix'd!

Theatremania is positive: "Beaches is that rare new musical based on well-known intellectual property that manages to exceed our hopes, gently sailing us into an ocean of emotional storytelling until we lose sight of the shore."

Variety is negative - "soulless and uninspired"

Adam Feldman at TimeOut is negative (not starred) - "The scars and amputations from all this show doctoring are in painful evidence in the final product"

The Gin Game could be interesting, but I don't necessarily think I see Martin Short as Weller Martin.  The man may just be too sweet to read as curmdgeonly. 

Maybe they could do something like what KellyyRose Byrne and Kelli O'Hara with Fallen Angels or Josh Gad and Andrew Rannels did with Gutenberg! - use their star power to bring attention to a lesser-known work.

During press for The Devil Wears Prada 2 Meryl was asked by Andy Cohen if she'd ever return to Broadway, and she said "I would love to... I was talking to Marty Short about that. We were thinking that would be fun to do".

Book by Jon Brittain, music by Miranda Cooper and Nick Coler.

I really enjoyed the movie despite not having any interest in wrestling, and I think it could adapt to the stage well, so I'm definitely on board with this.

Theatremania is positive: "McKenzie Kurtz... gives a masterclass in musical comedy as Betsy"

 

Variety is positive - "all but irresistible — a giddy love letter to the form that’s enough to turn even the most skeptical curmudgeon into a walking heart-eye emoji."

 

My predicted five are Aidem/Hecht/Metcalf/Squibb/Young, with Nixon, Cash, Rose and Emond close behind.