Profile for Kad

He’s obviously a narcissistic grifter, but he didn’t hire  himself into these positions- that’s wholly a producer failure. 

Per Variety:

 

The New York Times is revamping its lineup of arts and entertainment critics — replacing four of the paper’s TV, music and theater critics, who will be assigned to “new roles,” according to an internal memo obtained by Variety.

The quartet of Times critics — television critic Margaret Lyons, music critic Jon Pareles, theater critic Jesse Green and classical music critic Zach Woolfe — will “be taking on new roles, and we will be conducting a search for critics on their beats in the weeks to come,” New York Times culture editor Sia Michel wrote in a memo to staffers on Tuesday afternoon.

Yeah, I think there is considerable overlap between theatregoers and people who would watch Designing Women and Hacks. 

Mormon's just launched a fairly large new ad campaign- I'm seeing it all over the city. 

It's nice to see the 4 remaining 2025 Best Musical nominees doing well. 

Even setting aside his personal failings, I truly cannot wrap my head around how Todrick was made director, choreographer, and composer when he has no experience doing any of those things for something of this scale. Giving him just one of those positions I could understand- choreographer particularly- but all of them? On top of being a lead in it? It's a recipe for disaster for anybody, let alone someone like Todrick. 

Did anything need to happen? They haven't been particularly active outside of Oh Mary-related things and could have simply just wanted to step away for a while. 

I figured as much about Amy Sedaris- she has notably not done much live performance in a very long time. Alas. 

Not necessarily a good cast for a full production, but for a concert, I think this is a lot of fun. 

There really isn't an argument for bootlegs that isn't disingenuous. These folks don't really care about accessibility or preservation, the two most common arguments- they just want to see a show for free without leaving their house. 

And even if every show got a pro-shot, these kids aren't gonna be spending a dime on them anyway. 

trentsketch said: "Just commit to the bit like the original production and have the cats vogue in the aisles and interact with the audience at key moments. People loved the cats in the audience for decades."

The issue isn't audience interaction- the production has tons. It's that the production requires a runway into the audience, which then requires seating to accommodate it. 

I've heard that they have yet to start audience testing. Not 100% sure how true that is, but I suspect the first several performance days will be... wonky. 

Swept Away also wasn't kept running as long as either Boop or RWHC. They cut their losses pretty quickly which likely meant there was more willingness to pay for a short extension, particularly when it was selling.

I guess the Broadhurst is as good a house for this as any, considering none are ideal. 

The show’s IG put up a message dissuading bootlegs and the comments are as unhinged and entitled as you’d expect. 

Considering it realistically could’ve closed six weeks ago, I’d say it already had a decent built-in extension.