The Teeth producer screwed the pooch Jan 29
2025, 04:53:53 AM
The word is ‘roughshod,’ not shot.
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EUREKA DAY Reviews Dec 19
2024, 05:42:13 PM
The play creates total audience pandemonium and you call it a “bore”? Sure… 🙄
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EUREKA DAY Previews Dec 9
2024, 11:23:30 AM
Apart from a few reactions from Don, the Bill Irwin character, the playwright Jonathan Spector doesn't intend for the audience to hear everything from the school board during the livestream meeting. The chaos it creates is intentional. Spector doesn't want the actors to stop or hold for laughter.
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Best theater of 2024 Dec 9
2024, 09:19:30 AM
Seems premature for Best of 2024 lists with four major Broadway openings still to come this month.
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Sam Mendes to direct new Jack Thorne-penned play about the Richard Burton/John Gielgud 'Hamlet' Dec 1
2024, 02:14:32 PM
Picture of Dorian Gray is at the Music Box for a March opening.
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EUREKA DAY Previews Nov 26
2024, 08:09:09 AM
I was there last night as well, and apart from the pacing that will come as they learn to play it in front of an audience, I found it in very good shape. It's a remarkable play, and they are well on their way. My companion and I couldn't stop talking about it after we left the theatre, and it has been a while since that happened. The streamed meeting is an incredibly complicated scene in writing, performance, and tech requirements, and I think - as Falsetto notes - they need a fe
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A WONDERFUL WORLD: THE LOUIS ARMSTRONG MUSICAL Reviews Nov 11
2024, 01:47:08 PM
Around 2:35.
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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/3/24 Nov 5
2024, 01:44:54 PM
Just noting that this is a traditionally terrible week for the theatre with Halloween, the marathon and the time change always wreaking havoc, and the election adding further distraction. Numbers for some shows should start improving when this week's figures get reported.
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Phantom of the Opera Returns! Nov 1
2024, 05:06:30 PM
I know there are differences. But the economics of the show as originally staged are no longer sustainable. Mackintosh, in a piece in the NY Times in 2022 said that the running costs on Broadway had risen to $950,000 a week, $100,000 more than it had been pre-pandemic, and national and international tourism is still not back to pre-pandemic numbers. I think what's on stage in London is still more lavish and luxe than almost any other show out there. It appears from the announcem
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Phantom of the Opera Returns! Nov 1
2024, 11:05:30 AM
Agree with you, Giants. I saw the West End production a couple of months ago on a whim after not seeing the show in decades and it looks and sounds wonderful. Overall, I think two set pieces looked different to me, but it was still an incredibly lavish affair. Moreover, the three principal actors were giving it their all, with a particularly energized and empowered Christine. I don't know what all the hand-wringing on this thread is about.
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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/20/24 Oct 22
2024, 02:41:48 PM
You have to start somewhere. At a slightly higher per performance gross, and when an eighth performance is added, they should hit it.
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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/20/24 Oct 22
2024, 02:38:15 PM
EDSOSLO858 said: "Also unsustainable numbers for A Wonderful World."
$637K for seven performances in its first week of performances at a $109 ATP in a theatre with 1000 seats is a very decent, respectable start.
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A WONDERFUL WORLD Previews Oct 20
2024, 07:03:45 PM
NOWaWarning said: "ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "All online marketing is targeted to certain demographics so you just might not be their target here. And online marketing is where shows get the best bang for their buck."
That makes sense. I just feel like I haven’t even seen the theatre sites writingabout it. But I might have just missed them."
For NOWaWarning:
Playbill: https://playbill.com/article/get-a-1st-look-at-james-monroe-iglehart-as-louis-armstrong-in-a-wonderful-world-on-broadway https://playbill.com/article/im-glad-he-had-4-wives-how-the-a-wonderful-world-team-found-the-structure-for-their-louis-armstrong-musical https://playbill.com/article/watch-james-monroe-iglehart-leads-a-new-orleans-style-parade-to-a-wonderful-worlds-broadway-home
TheaterMania: https://www.theatermania.com/news/talking-satchmo-with-james-monroe-iglehart-and-james-t-lane_1752959/
Broadway.com: https://www.broadway.com/buzz/204789/exclusive-james-monroe-iglehart-and-a-wonderful-worlds-broadway-jazz-band-sing-its-tight-like-that/ https://www.broadway.com/buzz/204668/fall-preview-with-a-wonderful-world-the-louis-armstrong-musical-james-monroe-iglehart-is-finding-his-voice/
Broadway News: https://www.broadwaynews.com/introducing-broadway-press-day-from-broadway-news/ https://www.broadwaynews.com/an-original-collage-of-louis-armstrong-is-the-emblem-of-broadways-upcoming-wonderful-world/
Broadway World: https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Photos-A-WONDERFUL-WORLD-Cast-Parades-to-Studio-54-20240906 https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Building-the-World-of-A-WONDERFUL-WORLD-20240925 https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Video-A-WONDERFUL-WORLD-Parades-to-Studio-54-20240919
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A WONDERFUL WORLD Previews Oct 20
2024, 10:53:36 AM
ACL2006 said: "EDSOSLO858 said: "Trista Dollison is on for Daisy Parker today."
That was quick."
Rude. She's out for bereavement.
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A WONDERFUL WORLD Previews Oct 17
2024, 10:04:52 AM
I wouldn't say a lot of people remembered Fats Waller in 1978 when Ain't Misbehavin' opened, and Waller had been dead for 35 years. Or Jelly Roll Morton in 1992, when Jelly's Last Jam opened, and Morton had been gone for over half a century. Armstrong, as a pivotal figure in the development of jazz of the 20th century, is at least more famous than either of them. It's an entertainment, and a show about his life is no worse a subject than a
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A WONDERFUL WORLD Previews Oct 15
2024, 03:59:18 PM
Sitzprobe footage of James Monroe Iglehart, Gavin Gregory and Dionne Figgins performing "It's Tight Like That."
Exclusive: James Monroe Iglehart and A Wonderful World's Broadway Jazz Band Sing 'It's Tight Like That'
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NY Times Season Preview Sep 6
2024, 09:52:09 AM
Play Esq. said: "The rest of the Fall Preview is up on-line. Though like most of you, I’m waiting to buy a preview edition of the Sunday Times tomorrow."
The print version will run September 15.
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A WONDERFUL WORLD To Open On Broadway Fall 2024 Aug 27
2024, 01:51:16 PM
The book has been completely rethought and rewritten, although the structure of four sections for each of the wives remains. Having read the new draft, it is probably 75-80% different from the out of town version, with much more of a focus on Louis, and less of the domestic issues that were in the previous version. There are also at least a dozen songs that were not heard out of town, including "Dinah," "Hello, Dolly!," "A Kiss to Build a Dream On," and some more
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A WONDERFUL WORLD To Open On Broadway Fall 2024 Aug 22
2024, 12:09:21 PM
It's the work of Zharia Shinn, a Black collage artist. Broadway News article about it below. 
An original collage of Louis Armstrong is the emblem of Broadway’s upcoming ‘Wonderful World’
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Complete CAROUSEL cast recording on its way Jul 21
2024, 08:37:59 AM
The Ovrtur website goes into some detail about the original orchestrations for Carousel, because it gets complicated.
"Robert Russell Bennett was asked by Richard Rodgers to do the orchestrations. At the time, Bennett was busy working in radio. He did find time to score the first two numbers: "The Carousel Waltz" and "You're a Queer One, Julie Jordan/When I Marry Mister Snow." Don Walker was asked to do the rest.
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