Profile for halfhourcheckwithmerman

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

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