Is Burlesque in Trouble?
Jul 11
2025, 11:47:50 AM
Collapse?
Catastrophe?
Calamity?
Callous?
Cruel?
Cheesy?
Cloddish?
Crap?
Childish?
Cheap?
Chintzy?
Crippled?
Crusty?
Calibre?
Cack?
Chips?
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Is Burlesque in Trouble?
Jul 11
2025, 10:33:41 AM
tomorrowBIGLITES said: "I am now of the belief that any of these “based on a movie” musicals these days no matter the quality usually always make it. They may have longer roads but they always make it
It’s just a game about do they stay open."
Do you mean make it to New York? I don't think Diner, First Wives Club, Mystic Pizza, Flashdance or Desperately Seeking Susan made it. Sur
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Peter Dinklage, Lupita Nypng'o, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Sandra Oh to star in Shakespeare in the Park's TWELFTH NIGHT
Jul 10
2025, 08:08:56 PM
It's been trimmed to 90 minutes? Why? I always thought Twelfth Night was one of the more fleet-footed of Shakespeare's plays.
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amNY: NYC church gives arts groups final eviction notice after actors, activists raise millions
Jul 10
2025, 04:46:32 PM
Go home, Boris. You're drunk.
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Little Bear Ridge Road, Previews October 7th
Jul 8
2025, 10:20:46 AM
I know it's a bit in the future, but I am excited to see Samuel D. Hunter make his Broadway debut, not to mention another Laurie Metcalf performance.
Did anyone see it at the Steppenwolf?
PS: There is a whole other thread to discuss Rudin.
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Scott Rudin is an abuser
Jul 8
2025, 10:13:05 AM
Oh, are we back to hopping around on this pogo stick of outrage?
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Tony Award-Winning Playwright Richard Greenberg (TAKE ME OUT, THREE DAYS OF RAIN) has died at 67
Jul 6
2025, 07:30:26 PM
There was so much more to his work than Take Me Out. He was a hell of a playwright.
New York needs to revive The Dazzle and finally give The Violet Hour the production it deserved.
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Sia musical to premiere at New York Theatre Workshop
Jun 26
2025, 09:48:30 PM
WHITE AUSTRALIANS??? AND A WOMAN??! NEVER!!!!!
Seriously though, this seems like an interesting idea for a musical and good for them for finding a property that isn't some worn to the stump movie from the 80s-90s.
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Farewell and Kudos to Lynne Meadow
Jun 26
2025, 12:43:39 PM
One hell of a career! So many great playwrights she helped launch.
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CABARET sets closing with Porter and Wallace to star
Jun 20
2025, 11:41:28 AM
Is Billy Porter turning into the next James Corden?
Discuss...
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Thomas Kail to direct Michelle Williams and Mike Faist in ANNA CHRISTIE for St. Ann's Warehouse
Jun 20
2025, 11:29:46 AM
This is exciting. I'm not sure how well the play has aged, but Williams and Faist...? I'm in!
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Why are audiences so poorly behaved these days?
Jun 20
2025, 11:26:22 AM
Honestly, I think the agonies of the times are having a nihilistic, crazy-making effect on everyone. Just ask the airlines (another situation where you're surrounded by people in one space).
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Jesse Green NYT's Critic's Pick review of
Jun 18
2025, 09:16:30 PM
Congratulations to Prince Faggot for it's critical and box office success! It's always inspiring to see people respond to an off-Broadway show that isn't reaching for low hanging fruit (no pun intended). Hats off to Playwrights Horizons, Soho Rep, and everyone else who doesn't think that art is meant to be baby-proofed.
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Jesse Green NYT's Critic's Pick review of
Jun 18
2025, 02:24:57 PM
Rentaholic2 said: "Does anyone involved with this production care at all how it might make aneleven-year-oldboy feel? As he is just on the verge of discovering his own sexuality, here comes a very high-profile play that not only speculates on his ultimatesexual identitybut also on specific sexual preferences, drug use, etc. Could the playwright have gotten his points across if he had written this play about a fictional prince? I don't care that he's royalty
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Scores that should have been nominated for a Tony, but weren't
Jun 16
2025, 02:55:22 PM
Mack & Mabel
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The next Desiree should be Nicole Scherzinger
Jun 16
2025, 02:45:54 PM
Get Kristin Scott Thomas some singing lessons and let the rest resolve itself.
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Matthew Broderick & David Cross to co-star off-Broadway in new TARTUFFE written by Lucas Hnath
Jun 16
2025, 02:37:57 PM
I wish they had done the original Moliere in the still-vital Wilbur translation and I think Broderick would be a better Orgon than Tartuffe. However, his work off-Broadway has bested his recent work on Broadway by several yards so...this could be good!
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Marc Shaiman Done w/ Theatre?
Jun 11
2025, 01:44:13 PM
Oh good Lord, he'll be fine.
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LuPone on McDonald
Jun 11
2025, 11:16:00 AM
The party's o-verrr...
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2025 Tony Awards Reactions Thread
Jun 9
2025, 02:29:31 PM
Congrats to Maybe Happy Ending. Not too shabby for a show that had everyone like, "It's about...what?" when it was first announced.
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