Profile for Someone in a Tree2

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.

I don't know what world I'm living in when The Sound of Music is beating Fiddler on the Roof soundly. Sigh--

I always expected that my fave HADESTOWN would go down to HAMILTON in any cage match so no surprise that the mob doesn't agree with me there.

My understanding is that Bill Condon wants Molina to be Trans for this film, which is not the story told in either the Bway show or the 80's film. It's a choice, which maybe will set this film apart in a unique way...? 

 

Graham Phillips was an absolutely smashing Georges in the Pasadena Playhouse production of SUNDAY a year ago. How thrilling to have someone so young (exactly Georges' real age as it turns out), and so precise in his delivery as he performs that score. I can't speak to this new staging, but I know Mr. Phillips is worth the price of admission wherever he performs this role.

At 17 I fell in love with her Desiree from my rear balcony seat at ALNM. She was glorious, and that first hearing of "Send in the Clowns" wove such a spell. It will always be her song.

I've always wanted to see a gorgeous ALNM staged at the Vivian Beaumont much like the brilliant Serban staging of The Cherry Orchard that was staged there back in the 1970's. It has never had a full-size revival on Bway since the original.

But please oh please keep revivals of GYPSY or FOLLIES in proscenium houses where they most properly belong.