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Re: OTHER DESERT CITIES 2026 Previews

Oct 6, 2026 — 11:08:26 PM

I much appreciated every observation, yet I'm not sure I understand one reaction: that these actors don't suggest 2004 (and the three decades before). 2004 America may be 22 years ago, but it's not a foreign country. And Baitz has shaped these people, the two sisters in particular, with a spry contemporaneity that is more tethered to class and second tier celebrity than specificity of era. When the play arrived a decade after its time frame, we were closer to that post 911 climate and more wi...

Re: THE LOST BOYS Reviews

Oct 6, 2026 — 10:50:44 AM

If past is prologue for this kind of targeted entertainment, the winter months will be a challenge.

BILLY CRYSTAL: 860 Previews

Oct 4, 2026 — 7:43:26 PM

That's just a lovely post, Jordan C.I have been oblivious to the show's LA fire-specific content until this thread, and feel ashamed that I had not investigated even minimally. (A friend lost her house, and I've been a bit reluctant to parse other stories.) This strikes me as a noble, cathartic effort to share grief and resilience, the wisdom from the examined life. Good for Mr. Crystal.

Re: OTHER DESERT CITIES 2026 Previews

Oct 3, 2026 — 8:07:42 PM

This last post by broadwayfreak underscores my earlier point: that the play belongs to the two adult children, who arrive at this Christmas to confront a layered legacy. If the three older characters carry the traumatic history, Brooke carries the linear action, and her brother is certainly in limbo about the family's ability to forge a broader reconciliation. It's a tribute to the focus of this production, and direction in particular, that the two younger stars are emerging as central to the...

Re: OTHER DESERT CITIES 2026 Previews

Oct 3, 2026 — 4:35:34 PM

Everyone, do read Kad's post. He makes a telling point. We have been paying a lot for ... a while. If not these prices, high for the respective era. Certainly in the 2000s. And yet ... I'm old enough to remember when Liza in The Act set a record with a $25 orchestra seat for Saturday. Google it, youngsters (NY Times, October 5, 1977). It was considered a jolt about Broadway's future. $25 in 1977 would be about $138 today. Arguably, today $138 is a steal. But a forecast? To be sure.

Re: OTHER DESERT CITIES 2026 Previews

Oct 3, 2026 — 8:32:10 AM

The Reddit posts are mostly about the play; they cheer the actors, question the play's worthiness for the company. Nothing in the advertising suggest political content; and yet the play is infused with the post-9/11 climate in America, the jingoism and the cynical response to Bush-Cheney's exploitation of a dark moment. And then comes - no spoilers - the tumultuous revelations about Vietnam era. It's quite possible that a preponderance of ticket buyers see the video ad - the actors elegantly ...

Re: Broadway songs sung with very little vibrato

Oct 2, 2026 — 4:45:25 PM

Jeremy Jordan has a rich vibrato - listen to his National Anthem this week - yet used it sparingly in his Floyd Collins. Contrast Jordan’s “The Call’ with the original’s, Christopher Invar’s. It seems a characterization decision, to create a vocal representative of a hardscrabble existence. Jordan soars on the show’s standalone final epiphany, the spiritually transcendent “When Glory Goes,” but before characterizes Floyd with a far more straight sound. A friend who’s a singer pointed this out...

Re: It's A Wonderful Life with Hilty, Rannells, Burgess, coming to the Broadhurst

Oct 1, 2026 — 5:12:40 PM

I saw this is community theater 4 years ago, a family member in the cast. It's ... fine. Its best feature is its relative economy of storytelling. Speed and brevity, overly cute wink-wink commercials aside. Don't expect all of the iconic scenes in the film's moving, nuanced (and arguably least sentimental) second act; they aren't there. But this would be an event with brilliant young actors who might re-mint George Bailey and Mary's journey. If anyone believes Rannells and Hilty, triple-threa...

Re: OTHER DESERT CITIES 2026 Previews

Sep 30, 2026 — 3:37:51 PM

How’s the sound? I’m presuming that everyone is in a body mic, after Oedipus and Salesman.

Re: OTHER DESERT CITIES 2026 Previews

Sep 30, 2026 — 11:39:56 AM

May we allow a first preview of an admired play with an all-star cast a welcoming standing O? From the single report, it sounds like a successful launch. I would've been surprised if the audience didn't stand. Yes, it's routine, yes, it troubles many; but is this performance of this production a place to make the case against the standing O ritual's ubiquity?

Re: OTHER DESERT CITIES 2026 Previews

Sep 30, 2026 — 7:09:57 AM

Ah, I loved BroadwayBen's report. I suspected that Louis-Dreyfus had this role in her DNA somewhere (anyone who saw the last Holefcener film, in which she revealed layers within a dramedy construct might imagine her Polly). No spoilers, but the second act takes Polly into Ibsen character territory, revealing a woman with a unique backbone. Thrilling to imagine how she navigates it. I am most excited about her and Lily Rabe. I consider Rabe's role the trickiest, with the biggest journey (it's ...

Re: DAMN YANKEES - 2027 Broadway revisal (Marquis) - Harris, Hough & Scott

Sep 29, 2026 — 10:48:05 PM

Is the discussion “vitriol”? Or just the speculative projection that has defined this board as long as I’ve been here, almost 23 years. We come to these topics with biases and decidedly personal opinions about how theater is imagined and reimagined, how it is staged, cast, conceptual conceits realized, wondering what productions will cross the finished line, artistically and commercially. We invariably end up scolded for our low road commentary. Doesn’t one poster’s preferences inspire spirit...

Re: DAMN YANKEES - 2027 Broadway revisal (Marquis) - Harris, Hough & Scott

Sep 29, 2026 — 5:45:40 PM

I was told that the casting of Hough is both an elevating "find" and - informed by a caring friend - that she will prove a promotable aspect because she's got a huge Insta following. I supposed in today's commercial arena, the latter point is true. But as I opined, this feels more like a Weissler Roxie casting than a "get" for a show being retooled as a welcome reminting of the original. The role has always required a blend of terpsichorean skill and the mysteries of personality, dating to Ve...

Re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/27/26

Sep 29, 2026 — 5:31:24 PM

Wicked's longevity has been a topic for years, and now with the two films wildly available - and in the lexicon of the entire globe - the show needs a new advertising come-on, acknowledging that it's an undisputed classic, and find a "Have you rediscovered why you fell in love with the witches the first time?" campaign. It's still being marketed like a show into a 5-year run. It needs to sell its iconic status, make fans members of a special club. And then invite them back with their children...

OTHER DESERT CITIES 2026 Previews

Sep 29, 2026 — 5:23:58 PM

I forked over real money for this one, hard to admit, since I'm a die-hard TDF-er. But this is an assemblage of elements that I couldn't miss. I also believe that the play might resonate in fascinating new ways in darkest 2026. This prism on the "post-911 world," as it was once labeled, ultimately links political resistance and its consequences - a universal in American history - through many eras, beginning with Vietnam. Eager to hear how it lands.

Re: Ed Harris, Allison Janney & Julia Louis Dreyfuss - OTHER DESERT CITIES Revival

Sep 24, 2026 — 8:51:18 PM

Since I am determined to see this revival of a play I genuinely admire and loved the first time, yet know it's not in my theater budget, I went to the box office. The bad news, the mailer is basically useless. The good-ish news: they understand how many people want to see this show who - how else to put it? - can't afford it. I investigated balcony for Wednesday matinees, and discovered anew how costly those normally cheapest seats can be - $259 for second row from the last. No use being shoc...

Re: We need another Gypsy revival

Aug 2, 2026 — 2:15:20 PM

I’ll wait til Beanie is ready.

Re: GALILEO to Open at the Shubert Theatre, Fall 2026

Jul 23, 2026 — 4:36:16 PM

I'm fascinated by the producing angle, in darkest 2026: Who saw the apparently conceptually flawed show in California and anticipated a return on the dollar - twenty million of 'em - in a commercial venue? I'm reminded of the West End musicals of the 1980s. I remember seeing a weekday matinee Mutiny! with its large mechanical ship, male pulchritude, and instantly forgettable score. David Essex and Frank Findlay were the stars, and the show lumbered along soliciting applause from a set that mo...

Re: GALILEO to Open at the Shubert Theatre, Fall 2026

Jul 22, 2026 — 6:11:10 PM

To points raised in my earlier post, and my friends' dismay; Variety (May 17, 2024) nails the general consensus in Berkeley, which prompted my post:: "It’s hard to imagine an easy road ahead for a show whose theme is fairly rarefied by musical-theater standards, yet whose sometimes hokey, simplistic tenor is unlikely to generate the critical support needed to lure in more mainstream audiences ... "That duo' {the designers'} stimulating array of religious, scientific and celestial imagery is a...

Re: GALILEO to Open at the Shubert Theatre, Fall 2026

Jul 22, 2026 — 2:33:14 PM

The California reviews were mixed leaning away from commercially promising. I read 'em all because I have close friends who (via a family member) are very much production adjacent; they all flew out. No one believed the reviews promised Broadway at the time, but clearly a belief in this show is significant enough to pull it East and into the Shubert. I wish it well, but I'm fascinated that it is coming without another tryout.

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