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The issue is there is quite a bit of set, but isn’t consistently or well used.

as for not being off-book… Porter was deeply reliant on his script the entire dress rehearsal yesterday and he was the only one in the cast for whom this was the case. It was absolute murder on the pacing. 

TNick926 said: "The Frogs was written by Aristophanes, not Shakespeare…."

Wayman_Wong means "Fear No More" is Sondheim setting Shakespeare to music used in the adaptation of The Frogs. 

As I've said before, I think the Paddington puppet/suit will serve as a big draw. It's almost like stunt casting, but the celebrity never leaves. It makes the production the event, rather than a specific performer. 

I don't think that's a controversial opinion. While people miss out on award nominations all the time because there can only be so many nominees, Schwartz being shut out of such a thin category this year in favor of an utterly unremarkable score for a play can only be interpreted as a deliberate snub. 

It was thrown up last minute with no fanfare and barely any marketing. I haven't seen any presence of it on my social media feeds, either in the form of ads or people attending. There's certainly a world in which this could have run- god knows tickets were affordable- but there seemed to be no attempt to let people who weren't already standing on 44th street know it was even happening. 

Jordan Catalano said: "How much riffing was done during “I Am What I Am”?"

I will say that Porter absolutely nails this. 

I really hesitate to fully counter what you're saying, quizking, because what I saw last night was very much in progress and things will likely settle and change over the next several days. But I would say: temper your assumptions, just to be safe. 

Scarywarhol said: "Yall can log in?

I sure can't!"

You have to create a new password to log in for the first time on the updated site. It's working fine for me but I do agree it's a much clunkier layout than it was previously. 

I was at the final dress tonight and for now I will say that I expect this to be a divisive production and needs time to cook.  

Titanique also has a sizable orchestra as required by the venue, further adding to its costs.

It also never recouped off-Broadway despite running for several years. Those rights are a major drag and I think there’s a ceiling to what audiences are willing to spend on a show like this.

I forgot about Fear of 13... they never actually formally announced their early closure in a press release, did they? So strange.

Well, Schmigadoon got an obvious post-Tonys bump... and the other new musicals decidedly did not.

I think Titanique is likely in real trouble. 

Two wildly different directors. 

iluvtheatertrash said: "Maria Von Trapp wasn't "originated by a white woman", she WAS a white woman. A real living, breathing one."

Well, the real Maria and Captain Von Trapp were married over a decade before the Anschluss and they also didn't flee Switzerland by foot over the Alps to escape the Nazis.

I'm sure that this will keep kicking around for a while considering who's writing it, but I would think landing at a nonprofit like the Public would probably be the best move rather than straight to a commercial Broadway run. 

It was brought up on another thread that I can't recall, but I believe it was rumored he was going to be in a revival of Three Days of Rain. 

The 7 months between MR closing and Paddington starting previews looks like the longest period of time the Hirschfeld will have had between productions since 1984 when there was a 9 month gap between a production of All's Well That Ends Well and The Rink (and technically it's the longest gap the Hirschfeld has ever had, as it was the Martin Beck back then). 

Also, I wouldn’t be surprised if the theater owners will want to do some maintenance or other work on the venue now that it’ll have a decently lengthy vacancy for the first time in a long while.