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Paul Hart's immersive UK staging of THE LORD OF THE RINGS musical to transfer to Chicago
May 25
2025, 10:05:34 PM
Lord of the Rings. Comedy Theatre. Melbourne. 25 May 6:30 p.m. Show. Lottery/Rush tickets through TodayTix. $55 AUD. Dress Circle Row D seats 25-26 - Smack dab center! Clear view of the entire stage. You only miss viewing a few bits which are off the stage in the Stalls. (And frankly, there was no reason for those bits to be off stage) The balcony was empty and the Dress Circle about half full. I think the stalls were full.
The show starts about 10 minutes before the listed time with a
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Next To Normal WEST END - News & Discussion Thread
May 21
2025, 10:26:23 PM
Levy did not win the Olivier Award for Next to Normal. Scherzinger won it for Sunset Blvd.
Next to Normal also was nominated for Best New Musical (having never been on the West End before) but Operation Mincemeat won the Olivier.
Jack Wolfe (son) was nominated for Best Featured Actor in a Musical - but Olivier was won by Jak Malone for Operation Mincemeat.
Eleanor Worthington-Cox was nominated for Best Featured Actress in a Musical - but the Oliver went to Amy
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OPERATION MINCEMEAT Reviews
May 15
2025, 08:20:11 PM
Jak Malone wins OCCC award for outstanding featured performer in a musical.
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Broadway Showstopper of the season?
May 15
2025, 09:42:44 AM
There are multiple different entries for "Dear Bill" depending on capitalization and punctuation and word order. I wonder if the poll owner is going to combine them - because the automatic "percentage" is off due to the variations.
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Next To Normal WEST END - News & Discussion Thread
May 10
2025, 10:17:57 AM
If you didn't record it, I don't know how long it will be on the PBS site for viewing -https://www.pbs.org/video/next-to-normal-biazsx/
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Book of Mormon Salutes Pope Leo XIV
May 8
2025, 10:24:26 PM
https://www.tiktok.com/@bookofmormonmusical/video/7502216961158335786?lang=en
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NERDS musical files $5 million dollar lawsuit
May 7
2025, 02:41:47 AM
Google says the case was dismissed by the trial Court in 2020. I do not know if there was appellate review.
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Teacher requesting help: Notable flop/disaster/bizarre PLAYS?
Apr 25
2025, 07:32:29 PM
79 Performances - but just a scenic design Tony nomination - "A Matter of Gravity" starring Katherine Hepburn - and a pre-Superman Christopher Reeve. I don't think it was "flop" as Wikipedia said it was scheduled for only a 12 week run on Broadway. But it was definitely a bit bizarre.
I saw it in in the post-Broadway tour in Los Angeles (with my AP English class on a field trip up from San Diego) but don't recall if it was before Hepbu
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Tony Nominating Committee - Conflicts?
Apr 12
2025, 08:42:28 PM
I realize that a show that closes quickly has minimal chances of being nominated or anything, so when do nominators attend? Are there tickets for the first week of performance after opening? or are their tickets for "press night"? Seems like it is possible that nominators could easily miss an eligible show.
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Two Strangers (Carry A Cake Across New York)
Apr 9
2025, 10:05:05 PM
EDSOSLO858 said: "OuttaTowner said: "ART has announced casting - Sam Tutty will reprise his role, and Christianni Pitts will play Robin."
I quite like Pitts, but I feel like the show loses half of its heart without Dujonna."
I believe this to be so as we saw it with Dujonna’s understudy who couldnt keep up with Tutty and there was not as much magic as we expected. Pitts has more experience so this might be an effective pa
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Tony race for Best New Musical
Apr 9
2025, 08:36:43 PM
I know revues have been nominated and won - but if the show had been better received, and given the competition, the producers might not have angled for a "special theatrical event" nomination/award.
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Tony race for Best New Musical
Apr 9
2025, 08:15:03 PM
Is Old Friends considered a "new musical" or would it be a revived "special theatrical event" category? Not that it would be nominated after the NY reviews.
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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/6/25
Apr 8
2025, 09:03:51 PM
Given dynamic ticketing, I guess it's not feasible - but it would be helpful to know gross potential - not just capacity potential.
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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/30/25
Apr 1
2025, 07:07:35 PM
Rob said: "Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 3/30/2025 in BroadwayWorld's grosses section. Also, you will find information on each show's historical grosses, cumulative grosses and other statistics on how each show stacked up this week and in the past. Click Here to Visit the Broadway Grosses...
Up for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: CABARET AT THE KIT KAT CLUB (1.5%), PURPOSE (0.7%), THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (0.6%), GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK (0.4%), MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL (0.2%), HADESTOWN (0.1%), JOHN PROCTOR IS THE VILLAIN (0.1%), THE OUTSIDERS (0.1%), Down for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: WICKED (-100%), SMASH (-8.3%), GYPSY (-3.7%), CHICAGO (-3.3%), REDWOOD (-3%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (-2.9%), SIX: THE MUSICAL (-2.5%), DEATH BECOMES HER (-2.3%), MAYBE HAPPY ENDING (-1.8%), BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB (-1.7%), OH, MARY! (-1.7%), HELL'S KITCHEN (-1.5%), MJ (-1.2%), ALADDIN (-1%), HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD (-0.9%), OPERATION MINCEMEAT: A NEW MUSICAL (-0.8%), & JULIET (-0.7%), THE GREAT GATSBY (-0.7%), THE LAST FIVE YEARS (-0.6%), SUNSET BLVD. (-0.3%), HAMILTON (-0.2%), GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS (-0.1%), Click Here to Visit the BroadwayWorld Grosses..."
Assuming the reported decrease in attendance/capacity for "Wicked" was a sly subtle April 1 joke.
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Two Strangers (Carry A Cake Across New York)
Mar 29
2025, 07:00:55 AM
OuttaTowner said: "Any rumors on the A.R.T. casting?
Will Sam and Dujonna reprise their roles?"
Any updated casting rumors? Since we saw an understudy for Robin - and she was passable but not engaging to us - it seems to us that this piece is really dependent on the cast. Tutty just dominated when we saw it.
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2025 - 2026 Touring Season
Mar 17
2025, 07:26:09 PM
Denver:
Shucked, Oct 7 – 19, 2025
The Notebook, Dec 16 – 28, 2025
Water for Elephants, Feb 11 – 22, 2026
Hell’s Kitchen, Apr 14 - 26, 2026
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, May 30 – June 27, 2026
Monty Python’s Spamalot, Aug 11 – 23, 2026
The Outsiders, Sep 8 – 27, 2026
Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors, Nov 8, 2025 – May 10, 2026
2025/26 BROADWAY ADDED ATTRACTIONS
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The Princess Bride Musical - To Premiere in Chicago
Feb 24
2025, 12:29:18 PM
So the project was only "mostly dead". We will have to see whether Miracle Max has indeed revived it.
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OPERATION MINCEMEAT Previews
Feb 16
2025, 11:17:16 AM
Video of the stage door rendition of Sail On Boys (after the bows)
https://www.instagram.com/p/DGHwctHu2cp/
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Return of Heathers?
Feb 12
2025, 11:55:19 PM
BroadwayBaby6 said: "It's a great score with a serviceable book but it really needs a top-notch director to get the tone right. I saw the LA workshop and the Off-Broadway NWS productions and felt that the direction just didn't quite get the tone right.
It sounds like the West End version was not well directed either. Hopefully a production in the not-so-distant future will feature a director who can really match the perfectly pitched black comedy tone of the movie.
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Viciously Funny Reviews
Feb 11
2025, 12:51:01 PM
My favorite part of the NYT "Good Vibrations" review:
"Since the performers really aren't to blame for the aimlessness of "Good Vibrations," I won't mention any of their names, though there are a few who make you feel that smiling should be outlawed for a while"
I also recall a NYT review around the same time that said the only people in the audience would be casting directors looking for talent since the show shouldn't run too long.&nbs
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