Profile for PipingHotPiccolo

no one thought andrew barth feldman was a star who would bring in hoards of ticket buyers. flower drum song, if im not mistaken, is about a specifically chinese american character, and maybe happy ending is about a robot. the comparison is ridiculous. 

BUT thats not the point--as you well know. it is perfectly rational to prefer that oliver be played by an asian actor, and perfectly understandable to be frustrated with asian representation on broadway. but you called the people wh

EDSOSLO858 said: "Not a surprising write-up at allfrom Collins-Hughes, who quite liked this in Boston, too, despite a weaker second act.

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Jesse Green might have enraged you all by also giving its a critics pick, but he would at least offer some insight and illumination via his writing. Collins-Hughes' review reads like a book report for middle school, and despite her best efforts, does not make me interested in seeing this show.

Sara Holdren, o

im glad I saw this, and i suspect it was a faithful, quirky. clever adaptation of the absurd Wilder play. But without much familiarity with the original work, its just absurd, and at times painfully unfunny, and even more painfully slow.

the pacing issues aside, it springs to life thanks to its fun score and stacked cast. its overstuffed with ideas-- Andy Groteleuschen is excellent opening up the first and second acts, and then closing the show, but Micaela Diamond is also playing a me

hicaesar said: ""i am so glad that the woke mob failed in their effort to bully Andrew Barth Feldman into resigning

whose only crime is that he happens to be white"

his other crime was dating an Asian actress.... because that's really how the whole thing became a thing. The producers thought (as would I) - how cool would it be to have a real-life couple on stage. When Andrew was in Dear Evan the producers made a marketing push about "he's

Sutton Ross said: "He was really wonderful in this and rose above all the public harassment and actual threats he had to deal with (many from the people on here sadly).Sales didn't decline, he got great reviews, and now people can stop bitching about who Oliver is. The team ignored all the bullsh*t, nobody died, and it all worked out. Congratulations Andrew!"

It aint easy agreeing with Sutton Ross on anything, but here we are.

All the pearl clutching and f

im always a few steps behind Jordan Catalano, but often in agreement.

i know we talk about nepo babies but whats the word "if someone not famous had written this, there is no way it would ever get made, let alone with this cast" ? Ethan Coen is brilliant, theres no doubt about that, but a comedy writer he is not. This is a MESS.

You have to feel bad for the actors, intensely talented and stuck. Dylan Gelula has maybe 50 lines of monotone dialogue, zero character develo

CoffeeBreak said: "The volume and mix is still not good in the balcony AT ALL. The instruments sound canned or on a keyboard, the voices muffled, weird instrument mix at the wrong times, voices quiet below the instruments. The design and mixer aren't good in this theater. We wondered if the sound group had worked in this theater before."

Agreed- this was worse than Urinetown in terms of sound mixing (esp in the group numbers), and I was in front mezzanine tonight

uncageg said: "At what point in the show did this happen? I thought it was the curtain call but it appears the rest of the audience is seated. Does 6-7 appear in lyrics are in the book for the show? I saw it in previews so it's been a while."

It seems silly the way the tiktok was edited (misleading nonsense on tiktok, shocking!) but there is a fuller unedited clip out there where Rebecca Jones is soliciting for Broadway Cares, and suggests maybe donating 6 or 7 d

I didnt love the structure here-- the 4th wall history lessons on either end were tired-- but i cant remember the last time i saw such an explosion of talent rocket off a stage like this. Both Brian Quijada and Nygel Robinson have etched themselves in my mind-- Quijada so effortlessly likable and deeply engaging, Robinson singing better than anyone I've heard in a long while. Really remarkably talented people telling a fascinating slice of history.

If it develops further, I hope th

JSquared2 said: "PipingHotPiccolo said: "

the audience in the mezzanine today seemed bored with the play but enamored with celebrity, and hooped and hollered."



Honestly curious -- how were you able to differentiate whether they hooping and hollering for the play or for the actors -- or maybe both? Did you conduct a survey of everyone on the way out?

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because of the talking, phone-playing, and general fe

disagree with most of what Joevitus wrote but just to be clear-- youre suggesting that because I looked up Lachanze's credits and was impressed with what I saw, i have "become her fan in retaliation" to the ugly musings of gibson? This feels beneath you. 

Of course people can speculate about whatever they want, and others can then point out the baseless fantastical nature of those speculations. doesnt seem complicated to me but alas here we are, in this swamp. <

alot to admire here but i found it hard to stay connected listening to (beautifully, beautifully sung) songs that were either in different languages or entirely indecipherable. as soon the show transitioned to clear lyrical moments, i was enraptured, but those moments were fleeting. 

still, the way its set up so that you are IN the show, and the vocalists and music surrounds you- wonderful. and these truly are some of the most talented singers performing as cohesively as ive ever

i just looked, because i thought maybe i missed something, but Celia Gooding was in Jagged Little Pill, and then...nothing? She's appeared in precisely zero of the productions her mother has worked on, am I getting that math right? So in your crusade against the scourge of nepotism, she and LaChanze fit in how exactly? 

prior to yesterday i had a barely passing interest in this woman and her career, but this stupidity has turned me into a fan. shes producing Ariel Stachel'

gibsons2 said: "PipingHotPiccolo said: "gibsons2 said: "I'm going to be that person and take a guess that maybe LaChanze hoped to get Celia Rose Gooding cast in the revival and other producers have different actors in mind. LaChanze is an iconic Broadway performer but given how much nepotism is in this industry, maybe it isn't such a wild guess why she dropped out as a producer."

I'm going to be that person and speculate wildly about

gibsons2 said: "I'm going to be that person and take a guess that maybe LaChanze hoped to get Celia Rose Gooding cast in the revival and other producers have different actors in mind. LaChanze is an iconic Broadway performer but given how much nepotism is in this industry, maybe it isn't such a wild guess why she dropped out as a producer."

I'm going to be that person and speculate wildly about something I know nothing about whatsoever, smearing a bunch o