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Can anyone explain how the shows are paired up? I mean, bummer that it's WEST SIDE STORY vs PIPPIN when really, both should have made it to the final rounds...

All we really want to know is: is there as much nudity as SLEEP NO MORE? If so, sign us up.

I had zero reference to the album or band STEREOPHONIC is inspired by, had no prior knowledge of the personalities involved. Yet I was on the edge of my seat for most of the 3 hour +  performance. The performances elevated the somewhat discursive script to high art for me, and the magic of watching art being created in front of us was sublime. 

Very pretty singing on that Fallon clip above, but I can't understand one word of the lyric.

Did he get locution lessons from Patti?

So no Cookie Lyon, I guess?

"Has there been a flop where it was worked on for 10 years, performed out of town, was well received, came to Broadway and flopped, was worked on for 10 more years and then it did well?"

Uhhh.... MERRILY?

The CSC revival of Passion was bit more satisfying than the OBC in '94, but man, that show is just a really tough sell for me. Some lovely musical passages can't mask over the woodenness of the central love story. Funny to think about Passion, having just finished watching BABY REINDEER, the Netflix miniseries that turned a disturbed stalker tale into absolutely riveting drama.

^ Actually the wings at the Palace are MORE spacious than most backstages on Bway. Welcome to the magic trick every set designer masters in shoehorning the big shows into our tiny Broadway houses.

I spent a lot of time in the old Palace Theater in 1983 installing the original LA CAGE AUX FOLLES. The thing I remember most about the backstage was a brick pillar upstage left that all the moving scenery had to track around to come on and off stage. I've got to believe that at least they eliminated that pillar when they lifted the house.

Edited to add: Just reviewed the new photos of backstage and sure enough, that pillar is gone :.

So for the Fallon appearance, who the hell is the 6th band member?? (The one in the red cowboy shirt and straight-leg jeans (very non-period for 1976)! Did they bring on a guitar ringer just for the tv appearance, or is there additional offstage guitar support playing every night at the Golden? Inquiring minds wanna know.

Wasn't there a touring set for SUNSET BLVD that featured blueprint draftings as a graphic replacement for the built spaces? Boy, would I have been disappointed after seeing the original...

Isaac Powell was absolutely magnetic in both Once On This Island and in West Side Story, though he did read super-young back then in 2018/2020. Apparently he's now 29 or 30--still young for Gatsby, but I'm absolutely intrigued with what he might bring to the role.

Of course our dates have changed: now looking at MERRILY tix for April 30 or May 1, matinee or evening.

Again we've looked on the Hudson Theater site for Merrily (thehudsonbroadway.com), and can find no planned cast absences listed there. Are we looking in the wrong place?

Since this thread popped up, I have the same question about performances on Tues May 7, and Wed Matinee or evening May 8. Telecharge doesn't inform me of planned absences when I click on tickets to purchase.