THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA musical headed to the UK and West End in 2024
Jul 6
2025, 11:32:33 AM
Shaina was unavailable for re-writes in the lead up to the London production due to Suffs but I believe she was the person who recommended Mark Sonnenblick as they've worked together before. She attended the opening in London so even if she's not actively involved in future productions it's not like she's disowned it.
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2024-2025 Tony Awards thread (Eligibility Rulings, etc)
Apr 12
2025, 10:12:33 AM
I saw Purpose in previews and everyone is billed below the title in my Playbill. I also saw the first preview of Maybe Happy Ending and Helen Shen is above the title. This must be a new trend of producers tweaking the billing only for Playbills that will be distributed on opening night. Which seems silly given that they can petition for a category change and, even if they don't, the administration committee can do whatever they want.
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STRANGER THINGS: THE FIRST SHADOW Previews
Apr 3
2025, 01:50:30 PM
I assume they didn't want to pay overtime to stagehands which I believe starts at 3 hours after the advertised start time (7:30pm in this case). Last night's performance ended a little before 10:30pm.
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STRANGER THINGS: THE FIRST SHADOW Previews
Apr 3
2025, 12:40:18 PM
I was there! It was so poorly handled. I arrived a little after 7 from the 45th Street side - walk into the hotel and the escalators on that side are both going down. I walk over to the otherside where both escalators are going up, but are blocked by an usher. She tells me there's a line to get in that starts by the box office. I go out to the box office area - empty other than 1 person picking up tickets - and look outside to find a line extending almost all the way down 46th Street. I w
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CATS Jellicle Ball - Studio 54?
Feb 6
2025, 07:51:30 PM
Fake news or not, Studio 54 is the best of the Broadway houses for this production.
First, because Roundabout put a modular seating arrangement in the orchestra which can easily be broken down and replaced with the table seating they used for Cabaret. Cabaret's set design included a thrust stage that was visible from the entire mezzanine - no reason the runway couldn't extend out into the orchestra the same distance.
Second, every show at Studio 54 has to buil
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OH, MARY! Reviews
Dec 3
2024, 10:01:54 AM
EmceeHammer said: "OharaFosseWolfe888 said: "That is also what I was told, it was. She has 3nominations for the Netflix show. She is not as big of a name as anyone has dream casted or speculated above…”
Betty Gilpin (nominated three times for ‘Glow’)?"
Ding ding ding! Was just announced on Morning Joe, Betty Gilpin takes over for an 8 week run.
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Bernadette Peters & Lea Salonga to Lead OLD FRIENDS On Broadway
Oct 24
2024, 08:57:49 PM
Of course they can easily change the song assignments, but assuming everything will be the same as London I'd think that Beth Leavel is taking the Clare Burt track (with Ladies Who Lunch as her main solo) and Kate Jennings Grant is taking the Janie Dee track.
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ONCE UPON A MATTRESS Previews
Aug 5
2024, 01:57:39 PM
No chance of an extension. They start performances in Los Angeles on December 10.
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Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season!
Jul 7
2024, 02:24:20 PM
ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "I would say those Rylance logistics are definitively impossible: GYPSY begins rehearsal Sept 30 and previews Nov 21; JUNO runs through Nov 23 and I bet there’s another 4-6 weeks built in as an extension."
No extension for JUNO. Cameron Mackintosh's new production of OLIVER! starts performances at the Gielgud on December 14. However, I would bet JUNO will transfer to Broadway shortly after the London run.
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Jason Robert Brown, Taylor Mac, Rob Ashford collaborating on MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL musical adaptation
Jul 6
2024, 11:31:20 AM
Most if not all of the creative team, including JRB, were at last night's performance.
Some random thoughs:
Other than the opening, which I agree needs to be cut, I really enjoyed this.
Ghee is so fantastic - my friend and I wondered if this was a Chenoweth in Wicked situation where The Lady Chablis started out as a key supporting character but over the course of readings and workshops the writers just kept adding more and more material so that the character is n
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Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season!
Jun 1
2024, 02:30:02 AM
Ensemble1713124420 said: "Aren’t the three newsboys younger versions of Tulsa, L.A., etc.? Strange that the newsboys would be explicitly black and their older versions explicitly white?"
We'll see what Wolfe has in mind, but here's my thought: Rose realizes that June can pass for white and therefore that she could get them better bookings. But of course an inter-racial act in the 20s and 30s would not be OK so she fires the black boys and replaces them
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City Center’s MATTRESS transferring to Broadway this summer
May 17
2024, 02:56:05 PM
She had Covid during rehearsals and her voice was likely still recovering while she was doing the show. She'll probably sound better this time around.
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NY City Center Encores 2024 season: ONCE UPON A MATTRESS with Sutton Foster (adapted by Amy Sherman-Palladino), JELLY'S LAST JAM, and TITANIC
May 13
2024, 02:38:08 PM
Victoria Clark did an interview with Playbill a few weeks ago and said she had a "really exciting directing project next season which will be announced soon." She directed the Encores production of Love Life that was in rehearsals in March 2020 - I'm hoping they're finally going to do it now that Clark is available.
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OH MARY! Officially Transferring to Lyceum Theatre this Summer - 12 Weeks
May 12
2024, 08:28:13 PM
Just For Us had the same schedule last summer.
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2024 Pulitzer Prize Predictions
May 6
2024, 05:06:59 PM
The 5-person jury only selects the 3 finalists and submits them to the Pulitzer Board. The Board then has a discussion on the finalists which is followed by a vote to decide the winner. The Board can also vote to select an entry that wasn't made a finalist by the jury, or it can vote to not give an award at all. The last time that happened was 2006.
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Palace Theatre
May 6
2024, 03:48:33 PM
Play Esq. said: "Am I wrong in thinking the plan was to reduce the number of seats?"
Yes.
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STEREOPHONIC Opening Night Critics’ Reviews
May 6
2024, 09:09:44 AM
binau said: "I know that this show is positioned as a play, but is it the kind of thing that could have gone in as a musical in another year/with a different set of producers or is it very much a play?"
Very much a play. The majority of the songs are only heard in small fragments - i.e., just the intro or just the background vocals.
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The 77th Annual Tony Award Nominations for 2024
May 3
2024, 04:59:35 PM
Some Tony trivia that I haven't seen mentioned yet:
Kelli O'Hara has now been nominated for 8 shows in a row. The last show she WASN'T nominated for was Dracula (though that was the same season she was nominated for The Light in the Piazza). The only other performer to pull this off is Chita Rivera who was nominated for all 8 Broadway shows she did from Chicago through Nine. The Mystery of Edwin Drood broke her streak.
Other performers who come close are Brian B
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The Who's Tommy - Tony winner: 1993 Best Original Score
May 3
2024, 12:46:58 PM
Adding to Ermengarde's list, T.S. Eliot also won Best Book for Cats which is wild. That award should have gone to Trevor Nunn and Andrew Lloyd Webber.
And, for State Fair, the Tonys also decided that only the songs Driving at Night, You Never Had It So Good, When I Go Out Walking With My Baby and Boys and Girls Like You and Me were eligible for consideration. The voters had to just ignore the majority of the score (not that it had a chance of winning over Rent). The following
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The Who's Tommy - Tony winner: 1993 Best Original Score
May 3
2024, 12:20:41 PM
The rules were different then.
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