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Oh wow just announced on their insta - this cast is nuts?! https://www.letyougonyc.com/

DramaTeach said: "Do we think the fortune teller one could be Ride the Cyclone? Saw it at the Lortel 10-15 years ago and thought it had potential."

Don't they only choose shows that have been on Broadway?

EDIT - Just remembered they did Little shop

Markie27 said: "I’m guessing one of them plays Sonny (based on the poster alone might be Bernthal) while the other will play either Sal or the Sargeant. Wonder who will play Leon Shermer? I hope they cast a Transgendered or gay actor. Any dream casting?"

The times article says Bernthal is Sonny, which for me, seems perfect. I have to think that Moss-Bac will play Sal? 

Sauja said: "Irondale, not Ironside. And the password is July2025 if anyone wants to look in the site. I’m not even sure how I ended up on this mailing list."

I got this too - I assumed it was because I bought tickets to his Uncle Vanya?

Alex Kulak2 said: "MemorableUserName said: "Video of the speech

https://www.reddit.com/r/Broadway/comments/1ju1wje/the_last_five_years_opening_night_full_curtain/"

Woof. He could have said "Thank you Whitney White, also DEI is great.", which is what I think he intended, but this is a real "Oh, that's not/in the sense that-" moment."

Just watched and this is awful. He also throws Daisy Prince under the bus, basically I thought you'd be more popular as a director but lucky for me you aren't.

BoringBoredBoard40 said: "Laurie Metcalf is going to do two shows with him this season????"

I don't really find this that surprising?

sppunk said: "Green has turned into a contrarian imo and looks for the negative of any popular show."

I used to think he was a pretty good critic at Vulture. Now I find that i rarely agree with him since he moved to the Times.

Kad said: "Sammy232 said: "Dolly80 said: "Kad said: "These production photos are oddly strange and lifeless. Typically stars have photo approval and their tastes can be somewhat baffling, but these are just... dull."

They perfectly represent this dull, lifeless production then."

Graphic designer here - I think it's very hard to capture any emotion, feeling for the show etc. when there is a bare stage, minimial costuming etc. Take a look at the revivals of Betrayal and Doll's house for comparison. But on top of that, the photographs are just really not great so it just makes for a mess. These are basically useless, but I guess at how their tickets are selling it's not really even necessary since these are primarily shot for advertising purposes."

I can't really blame the photographer here. Julieta Cervantes, who took these, is a talented and well-regarded theatre photographer, extremely capable of taking compelling images of performance. There's nothing technically wrong with them- they're just boring and say little about the show. This is squarely a decision on the part of the producers, as they are the ones who ultimately choose which photos to use and how the photos should be directed. Othello is a play with huge emotions- even a lackluster production should have actors showing rage, passion, grief- so it's weird that these photos capture nothing but blank or stern faces (and Washington solely in profile for some reason?).

Again, I think back to Sam Gold's Othello at NYTW. It was also done in modern military dress and with very spartan sets (the theatre was basically turned into a floor-to-ceiling plywood box). But the production photos are very compelling, moody, and emotive."

Oh I didn't mean to imply that there is anything wrong with the photographer or their technical skills, but she can't create something that's not there. They look boring and that's a reflection of the production.

Why the producers chose these particular shots is a head scratcher.

 

Call_me_jorge said: "Here Lies Love was 31 million, if I recall correctly. Not too sure about Cabaret, but they probably exceeded 30 million."

It took me a minute to remember where I had seen these numbers. This looks like HLL 22 and Cabaret 24? Not totally sure if this is a reliable source or not.

Call_me_jorge said: "25 million seems about par for the course as far as original musicals since the pandemic."

Wasn't this the type of budget numbers that Cabaret and Here Lies Love had? Just thinking about the significant renovations for those two shows as compared to a more straightforward musical. Does this show have something wild planned?

Alex Kulak2 said: "Wasn't Loretta Lynn a Trump supporter? The fact that her daughter and manager are producing on the show gives me the feeling that little factoid will be left out."

Yes she was - and very vocal about it.

What strikes me as strange is why they would do this at the same time (or within a season or two) as the Dolly musical.

Jordan Catalano said: "Check out the documentary“Lynch/Oz” that looks at how “The Wizard of Oz” influenced Lynch."

Hadn't heard of this - thank you! On deck to watch this weekend.