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There was also the last year's incident with one of the managing directors of the Met's board who promised a $10mil donation but was later exposed to be a fraud and was stealing vast sums of money from various wealthy individuals he ingratiated himself with. 

I just realized that this is the second collaboration between Mike Stoller and Iris Rainer Dart...

...the first was The People in the Picture.

The only thing that causes people to avoid beaches like this is red tide.

“Competitive” doesn’t really describe the category this season- it’s more like a number of performances are all at about the same level and nobody really has yet broken through. In this and a number of major categories, it’s a “well, somebody has to win” year. 

I have a feeling Vosk will be another performer who parleys her Broadway credentials into a very lucrative concert career. 

It’s rare for a production to be such a perfect storm of failure. I feel for the cast and crew, but this falls squarely on the shoulders of the producers for so ineptly marshaling this in nearly every way. 

I'm being logged out... but only on certain pages of certain threads. If I move to a different page, I'm fine. Right now, it's affecting the last page of the Lost Boys previews thread. It's happening both on desktop on Firebox and mobile on Safari. 

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54 Below and Green Room 42, honestly. The Laurie Beechman has also been around but the vibe there is.. kind of all over the place, really. Joe's still gets some Broadway performers but even then it's typically with some kind of alt angle. 

This seems like at most a semi-professional / educational production that gives neurodivergent and disabled performers of various experience levels an opportunity they likely would not have otherwise. And it’s running for ten days. I think we can cut them slack. 

There's no actual lighting up or smoke in the production, at least not at one of the first performances I attended. 

Hopefully that sweetheart deal that the Trump DoJ secretly reached will be tossed out. 

The composers are out there, believe me. Their works are not being produced at the Broadway level. They're getting degrees and winning awards and grants and then not having work produced. 

(and Julia Mattison and Noel Carey, although not "names," have been out and working in NYC for a while) 

And that's the issue with the star-driven limited run model that's being championed by Seaview and other producers: these things can't really make much, if any, profit. They might get an award and they may break even. Rudin embraced that model, but he also had shows like Book of Mormon. Seaview and the other younger producers just are no good at developing new hit musicals, at least not yet. 

Patti LuPone FANatic said: "Question: I have sometimes wondered if concessions and merchandise figures in into the weekly grosses. Just curious...."

They're not- it's purely ticketing. 

They're usually $20-30, depending on the production.