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I saw this a couple days ago and found it transcendent at times and baffling at others. I was shocked the degree to which, by the end of the piece Christian eventually got me fully on her wavelength --- mostly through her sensational music, which is consistently brilliant and moving. And then the last five-or-so minutes kind of ruined it for me... the shift to speaking felt like it really broke the spell, and the whole thing suddenly felt quite twee. And I returned to a point of not really ca

1. What is this musical about? (i.e., really about)

2. Why should we care (i.e., what does this mean for us? We know you care if you’re writing the show)

3. Who am I rooting for?

4. What do they want? 

5. What is keeping them

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It's a really hard part to cast, especially because of the intensity Eartha Kitt brought to it. There are many of these featured older women parts that every diva can cycle through (Carlotta in FOLLIES, etc.) but there's a quality to Delores that makes most of those divas seem a bit off for it. There are very few people that can match that kind of energy. (I'm not sure if they're going to go for an all-Black cast, and she's also been dead for ten years, but Julie Wils

Luminaire2 said: "It’s a moment like this that I just wish wasthere was a tony award for a replacement cast member."

Have been thinking about this a lot lately, not only with Jinkx but with so many sensational replacements in various shows in the past couple seasons. If it were a gender-combined category they would easily fill a nominee list. It could also be very good for business as it could be a surefire way to attract big stars to shows that have started to

Wonderful playlist!

I also thought Aronson's orchestrations for MAYBE HAPPY ENDING were exquisite; add him to the very small category of composers who can orchestrate their own music effectively. 

This FLOYD COLLINS album has been on repeat almost non-stop for me this past week. "The Call" especially --- I think that taking "It Moves" out of that long number, and putting it in the second act instead, did a huge favor to both "The C

Those new, clearer musical dialogues are also present because of the truly marvelous new orchestrations by Bruce Coughlin. He's added an entirely new lower split --- he wanted to have a more spacious sound for the much bigger theater, and it comes across even more wonderfully in the recording than it did in the theater. Only adding something like four new players, but that has a crazy domino effect throughout the whole score that does wonders here. It's pretty sensa

I've lived in the area for years. Am a long-time usher --- as someone who has not always been able to afford seeing every show, it's been an incredible way to get to see everything without paying a dime. I have seen the rise / fall of many "regime changes," so to speak. 

I am sad to say --- especially for the wellbeing of a town I love dearly, which has suffered economically in the recent festival-less summers --- that I mostly agree with Green's se