Profile for Joey Ledenio

Having read the lawsuit against David Adjmi over Stereophonic being a work of plagiarism, and knowing someone who works at Playwrights Horizons and helped oversee the rewrite process for the show, I think there's a scarily credible case against David. There are a LOT of similarities between the Fleetwood Mac memoir and his play (with some passages lifted verbatim). I think it only hurts David that he's already been sued for copying Three's Company which he won only because he called it a parody, and with this he's definitely denied parodying the memoir while also admitting to reading it. Wonder if this will be a case of sharing royalties or if a bigger fallout a la "Blurred Lines" 

@EDSOSLO858 thanks for keeping track of all the upcoming shows! Do you mind updating your original post with some of the shows you’ve added so far (it’s such a great resource for keeping track of things)

Reviews seemed to have finally dropped and they seem pretty middle of the road but with praise for the sheer outlandishness of it all.

I will say, after seeing it both in previews and last week when it apparently opened, the show is a lot of typical MRJ fun but I do agree with a lot of the critics in that it doesn't know whether it wants to make a statement about the dark aspects of the show (religious purity, sexual assault, toxic masculinity) or just make light of it all for a story about vaginal teeth. 

I feel like this could go either the route of Carrie the Musical (yet another horror flop) or Book of Mormon since MRJ talks a lot about leaning into the religiousness of it all. I wanna be excited for it as A Strange Loop and White Girl in Danger fan but there’s been pretty bad industry talk about how problematic the producer Mark Gordon is (both with this and other theater projects) and I’ve heard he has a heavy hand in steering this creative process

Sutton Ross said: "Thanks so much."

You're welcome.

Frumious Bandersnatch said: "Homoeroticism in a scene does not necessarily imply sexual attraction between the characters. The scene was plainly homoerotic."

^ This. I don't understand this passionate denouncement that audiences would find homoerotic subtext in a production so sensually charged. Both The Hollywood Reporter and Vox (along with some BroadwayWorld thread users) noticed that audiences found subtext, and finding that subtext doesn't diminish the show at all. Weird that Sutton finds it so "reaching" and "desperate" when all of her posts are fighting against what some audiences have read implicitly...

Alex would be a wonderful return, as many others have said! I guess acting appropriately like an earth goddess and one made-up report is too "high on himself" for some people.

would also love to see some returns from the original production! cameos from Kecia and LaChanze would be so cute