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TotallyEffed said: "Kad summed up the evening very well but I'd like to mention - Patti looksfantastic."She really does and sounds just as good as ever. It’s hard to believe she’s 77!

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DaveyG said: "Thanks for the report! Do you think is aiming for Broadway or is it more of a 5 weeks at the Public kind of thing?"I suppose it could be on Broadway but the kooky, inside baseball vibe definitely feels more Off-Broadway. Seaview was one of the producing partners on it; I could easily picture it at Studio Seaview. Or, yes, one of the Public’s spaces would be great too, especially considering Bridget’s longtime affiliation with them.

I have to imagine that performers like Amber Iman were absolutely none too pleased to learn about Seger's views. I just truly don't understand how he even got to this point. A total failure on the producing / casting side.

I was there last night! Yes, Yondr pouches are indeed used.So this is actually a workshop of a new musical; Scott Witman spoke before and said new material was being integrated into the show that night (which resulted, hilariously, in Patti not having correct sheet music at one point).The show itself is a post apocalyptic road show that is also a loose adaptation of Mother Courage. LuPone and Everett play heightened versions of themselves. The gist is, the world has ended and LuPone- who has ...

The Winter's Tale ranks pretty low for me amongst Shakespeare's plays and this rather straight-forward and workmanlike production certainly provided nothing to get me to even consider revising my opinion. The play is a mishmash of Shakespearean tropes, all of them done more effectively in better plays, and Sullivan's very self-serious staging here often works against the production. The audience is always so far ahead of the plot that the characters' overwrought reactions to its contrivances ...

quizking101 said: "everythingtaboo said: "GottaGetAGimmick420 said: "Gutted to report that sexy sexy Jordan Donica is no longer with the production……. Very sad"Do we know why? Or who is being considered instead?"He got a yearlong gig as the 40TH anniversary Phantom on the West End. That’s a level of career prestige you won’t get from a revival of a baseball musical.If ALW is signing off on you leading the 40TH anniversary of his most well-known flagship musical, all else bedamned"It's also a ...

Booster would be a good pick for Mary's Teacher at some point, though.

I really don't know that MJ and Michael Jackson are a great, or even fair, comparison point for Purple Rain and Prince. Jackson is a unique figure who elicits very strong devotion even two decades after his death, it's hard to think of another comparable cultural figure (maybe Elvis, but even that seems to have waned). Prince was a superstar but I wouldn't put him in the same sphere as Jackson, which isn't a slight- Jackson is on a near-deity level for people and I can't think of many others ...

I suspect an announcement is very imminent though I would imagine is being timed so as not to step on the tour cast announcement. I've heard from a credible source that it may finally be Bowen Yang's turn to don the bratty curls.

broadfan327 said: "Matt Rogers said: "broadfan327 said: "Yeah, I don't understand the obsession with everything someone likes has to win an award either. Hadestown won Tonys, isn't that enough?"I think it is as simple as this: Peopleenjoy seeing things that they like positivelyrecognized as broadly as possible. No need to be a b*tch about it. The title of America’s Sweetheart is already taken."I guess I come from a time (I don't even consider myself that old) where we did not have to win awar...

Midnight at the Never Get is a very small show. It would be swallowed up in basically any Broadway house, save maybe for Circle. It is more appropriate for an off-Broadway house, particularly one that can be arranged to feel like a piano bar like Barrow Street Theater.

Wild how BroadwayFlash goes from having top secret inside info from big shot producers on one thread to begging for info on thirty musicals in another.

I appreciate the detail of the venues being apparently scheduled in ascending order of capacity.

malcs98 said: "TheatreFan4 said: "Kad said: "What’s being (rather idly) proposed here isn’t an extension at the Broadhurst, but rather putting Jellicle Ball in a custom venue like Masquerade and Sleep No More. Even if it were to happen, it would take a long time to carry out."Yeah that feels psychotic tbh. Like... just host it in a Ballroom at thatpoint."Hey never say never…there’s tons of vacant space out there in NYC and if anybody outside of ALW & Michael Harrison can give this production ...

JSquared2 said: "quizking101 said: "From people I know that have worked with her, she is not a very assertive director when it comes to larger productions and tends to be a pushover with the creative team (book/score/choreo).This could be the moment she learns that musicals are not her strength and that’s okay."Wha?? Who are these "people you know who have worked with her"? Unless something has changed VERY recently, Saheem Ali is a male." apparently your compulsive need to be a pedantic jerk...

Odds are never totally zero but they're low enough that they may as well be. This is all a pipe dream at the best.

This seems like an awfully rushed transfer for a production that was not well-received last fall and had a massive creative shakeup. Although Prince and his song catalogue will be a draw, I wonder how much of one it will be.

I’ve been having an issue in which clicking the “Back to Message Board” button at the bottom of a thread page takes me to a view of the board that only includes other related threads and not the general view (ie- if I hit the button on the “Oh Mary reviews” thread, it will only show me a view of the board only with other threads pertaining to Oh Mary).

Wow, who to believe: the attention-seeking liar who started the thread, or the attention-seeking liar who debunked it?