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MrsSallyAdams said: A reborn 'American Psycho' is garish, vulgar and a must-see masterpiece at Houston Broadway Theatre

From this article:
"A newly added scene featuring Donald Trump in an elevator drew big laughs."

I guess this replaces the brief Tom Cruise cameo.

 

CarlosAlberto said: "Kad said: "I never even thought of that as being a rhyme."

If one pronounces "Brynner" as "Bryn-nah," it most certainly rhymes, and I believe that was the original intent."

Tim Rice is the sort of lyricist in which you can hear the faint "Damn, that's too clever to pass up" in the background.

KevinKlawitter said: "Kid Harpoon to compose original music for the production "

Not saying that there's a trend afoot, but in the last few seasons, we've had pop songwriters Jack Antonoff and Will Butler writing music for plays on Broadway, and now this guy.

That just about everyone in "42 Balloons" sings about themselves in the third person could be an interesting device, but, as it stands for me, it just feels like a novice composer-lyricist who doesn't (yet) have the juice to really inhabit his characters.

chrishuyen said: "I actually thought Jonathon Bailey as Fiyero looked the oldest (but that could be explained by him getting kicked out of a ton of schools)."

"Christ, seven years of college down the drain..."

MezzA101 said: "A Glorious ‘Titanic,’ Returned From the Depths

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/12/theater/review-titanic-encores-city-center.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zE0.ThUR.n91CgcI5-x_N"

Unable to make it, so

So they're going for the big sound with the orchestra, but, textually, will this be the original Broadway script and score or more in line with that of the recent chamber version?

Huss417 said: "OhHiii said: "MezzA101 said: "Ben Platt reveals his dream Broadway role

https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/ben-platt-on-his-palace-theatre-residency-new-album-and-dream-broadway-role-060524"

"So far, adulthood has brought him closer and closer to the role of his dreams—Georges Seurat in the James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim musicalSunday in the Park with George."

I mean, his claim to fame was playing a neurodivergent-coded character...

CD drops 6/21, double LP on 8/30, per Bandcamp.

EDIT: Amazon says CD is out on 6/16, so a hair earlier.

Kad said: "The longer a show is in development, the more likely that more cooks start getting involved- particularly producers who want to keep their investors happy."

Or families and/or intellectual property rights holders.

Its quality notwithstanding, I can imagine the thorny legal issues surrounding Paradise Square would affect its chances at a revival, to say nothing of licensing.

QueenAlice said: "Has Will Butler talked at all about his process creating the songs for the show? I'd love to read any interview that people are aware of. I would 'guess' that he wrote the songs in their entirety first and they selected the desired building block pieces of eachto show the evolution of the songs as is relative to the script, but of course I could be completely wrong."

From Vulture: How to Write a Fake Rock Song

 

Drive-By Truckers' Southern Rock Opera

If not a musical, then some sort of tricked-out semi-narrative live staging.

cb981 said: "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel"

This one kinda sorta happened. Amanda Palmer from the Dresden Dolls went back to her high school to help stage an adaptation of Aeroplane called With the Needle That Sings in Her Heart, combining the album with elements of Anne Frank's internment at Bergen-Belsen. And there's video of it. Also, an NPR article about it.

To think that in seventy years (or whenever depending on what becomes of copyright law), Here We Are could very well become Sondheim's Turandot.

CD release on May 17th, per Nonesuch Records's Bandcamp.

An orchestral suite also dropped recently, apparently.

KevinKlawitter said: "Preview of "Bishop's Song" included in NYT Cast Album Roundup

Unfortunately I can't listen because it's behind a paywall."

Boo-yeah.