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What a shame. I truly loved this show --- it blew all my expectations out of the water. I loved Maybe Happy Ending and think it deserved all it got, but this was a truly innovative work that featured everybody involved firing on all cylinders. 

It's the kind of show that could gradually become a cult classic and have a hit revival in 20 years --- but that's always a shame to me when the original production is as perfectly and stunningly designed, di

I think LaChiusa's GIANT has a really, really stunningly beautiful score, and although I never saw its premiere, it seems like a really admirable show that deserves a second chance. I don't know how that would come about. 

In that same category of I-love-the-score-but-don't-know-if-the-show-works is WOMEN ON THE VERGE. Many Yazbek titles seem revivable to me... FULL MONTY?

I'm still waiting for that Encores! CITY OF ANGELS that's been puttering here and

Paul Wontorek's post in support of Audra / Kecia has supportive comments by not only Donna Murphy, but also Andrea Burns, Joy Woods, Jasmine Amy Rogers, Shoshana Bean, Bonnie Milligan, Marisha Wallace, Anna Uzele, Jocelyn Bioh, Rachel Zegler, and L Morgan Lee (that's just scratching the surface), and has been liked by Cole Escola, KELLI O'HARA, and Helen J Shen (and likely many others --- it's hard to see if people have liked something if you're not following them). Adrien

Patti does not come off very well in this profile. 

While, of course, understanding that much of that is based on actual words that have come out of her actual mouth, all I will add is that Michael Schulman, in my experience, has made a career off of writing these profiles --- profiles of famous individuals where he creates a persona for them in his head and then writes a profile, as dishy as can be, where he does all he can to confirm that persona. I find i

Saw this tonight after missing it off-Broadway. I went in slightly skeptically, maybe because I love Maybe Happy Ending so incredibly much and have been rooting for it so much for so long this season (and liked but did not love Mincemeat). 

But I fell head over heels in love with this show --- so smart, so clever, and so insightful, but not at one single moment ever hitting you over the head with that. The most fun I've had in a theater in

I didn't think this show was as brilliant as some others made it out to me --- not a huge fan of the music --- but I had a really, really terrific time, and everybody I was with loved it. I thought the turn at "Dear Bill" was quite moving, I was dying with laughter often, and I thought the second act was (surprisingly) quite terrifically paced. I think it would not have worked for me at all without the sensational group of performers. 

I'll be really sad if this does MHE in at