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Tart-uff. This was a slog. It’s a good adaptation of a great play, the cast is game, but it suffers from a lack of direction and momentum. The pace is lackadaisical with unnecessary interstitial music and pointless scene change “choreography” killing the mood. This should have been faster and shorter. The flat lighting and amateurish set don’t do anything to enhance or distract from the tedium.

Matthew Broderick is surprisingly good, mostly because he’s ma

We gave into our morbid curiosity and saw it. (Our plan landed early, we had time to kill before check in, and the line at TKTS was short.)

I definitely liked parts of it and will probably spend a lot of mental energy trying to figure out how/if it could be salvaged.

This reminded me of Cruise Ship Kander and Ebb.

The show just kept moving from bit to bit to keep the tone from getting too dark or the irony from getting too thick. There were several throwaway moments that

Agreed This thread and the whole situation is depressing. Those that choose polarization over progress, that act in bad faith rather than try to understand, that jump to whatever conclusion confirms their agenda… stop it. Get right with your own beliefs and spare us the reactionary discourse.

There is a lot of evil in the world. Anti-semtism exists. Extremism of all types exists. Musical theater creators doing a bad post and then taking it down is not that. 

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Thanks, Eric. You are spot on, per usual. I was totes wrong about BW playing in New York prior to the recent revival. I didn’t do the math… or the research. Chalk it up to the Mandela Effect. 

W:FG is not good. It’s actively bad, and I think will be viewed as a stain on the legacy of the musical overall. The new songs from Schwartz are unfortunately part of that. (Even though the actresses perform them so well they almost sound like Sondheim.)

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QoV will close the same day as the Off Broadway revival of Baker’s Wife, which will have played almost as many performances. 

I haven’t done the math, but if you include the previews of the original Broadway production of Baker’s Wife, it will have been performed in New York almost as much, if not more, than QoV.

At least Schwartz will always have Wicked (and Pippin and Godspell). Between this and the fallout from Wicked: For Good, 2025 is n

Zeppie2022 said: ""ApparentlyKelsey Grammer and Laura Osnes we’re the Broadway “stars” to salute Michael Crawford. "

Ms. Osnes has received two Tony Nominations for best actress in her career; some people may consider that good enough to be a "star"."

Hey, that’s more Tony noms than Michael Crawford has. Maybe next year Osnes will win a Kennedy Center Honor. In Trump’s America, anyone can be a “star&r

quizking101 said: "Basically - he’s cooked personally and career-wise; that’s a given."

Despite the personal humiliation and loss of liberty, this could actually solidify his "legend" and help his career in the long run. Either this is the rock bottom that sets up his redemption arc or it positions him as theatre's "bad boy." Assuming he serves time, anything he writes while imprisoned will be a hot property. Maybe a few y

John Adams said: "Kad said: "Generally, people did not think these were things a president would or could do."

The truth of your post is such an amazingly sad reality in terms of how Trump could have been completely avoided.

Our Constitution naively lists only (3)requirements for presidential candidates...:"

The Constitution also says that no one who has "previously taken an oath" and then "engaged in insurrecti