Silber-revised BRIGADOON, AMADEUS, EUREKA DAY, and more set for Pasadena Playhouse Jun 12
2025, 03:31:16 PM
That's probably true! We're getting two in the Chicagoland area from major companies and now this one... which admittedly is only three! I can't recall large equity theaters running productions but I'm sure it happens all the time. As you said, it is a great play! Great opportunities for actors and staging. I'm excited.
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Silber-revised BRIGADOON, AMADEUS, EUREKA DAY, and more set for Pasadena Playhouse Jun 12
2025, 03:01:25 PM
What's the deal with Amadeus suddenly being everywhere next season? Classic without politics?
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Chicago Sun-Times: 'Cats' oozes feline fabulousness in Paramount Theatre's circus-inspired staging May 14
2025, 06:02:11 PM
See, don't get me wrong; this absolutely looks fun, but is it just re-heating the last Pippin revival's Nachos? Complete with hoisting your elderly character into the air on a Trapeze?
Yes. But it's not like that production of Pippin was the first time anyone ever added circus elements to a show. And when you decide to go circus... it's all gonna kinda look the same, no? This Cats looks as much like the Pippin revival as the Pippin revival looked like the origi
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Doyle, Ardolino, De Waal, and more to lead THE GREAT GATSBY in Seoul May 14
2025, 08:47:58 AM
TBFL said: "Call_me_jorge said: "Tony Award Winner Matt Doyle and his involvement in this is a recession indicator."
Or maybe he has bills to pay like everybody else dos"
Right. Jorge is suggesting that Doyle has to go to Korea to pay his bills because there's too little work here. That's an endorsement of Jorge said. Was that your intention?
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SUNSET BLVD. Revival May 9
2025, 03:57:09 PM
A movie with Nicole feels like... a very bad idea. Everything strong about her performance is rooted in the theatrical. They should film the production.
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Les MIs tour cast to Boycott Trump performance May 8
2025, 10:39:56 AM
"these facts are not only on that news channel. They are everywhere in the real world."
How can someone's prediction of what 100 years in the future be facts? Is that how we're defining "facts" now? Opinions and predictions are not and never will be "facts" no matter how strongly you believe them.
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Les MIs tour cast to Boycott Trump performance May 8
2025, 10:37:47 AM
"Theatre is not about judging your audience members."
While I normally think this is correct, theater for all should be the goal, this fella is actively defunding theater across America. This is not a political theory, not his "deeply held belief," not a personality clash... theaters all across the country have actively had their funding pulled just this week. And it's still ongoing. An active protest for current, ongoing activity that the folks in the audi
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The 78th Annual Tony Award Nominations for 2025 May 1
2025, 10:26:30 AM
"43% of this year's acting nominees are people of color. I think that's the most in Tony history but we have to do better next year."
That's a high percentage considering a much smaller percentage of roles went to people of color. For us to "do better," more roles have to be available and given to people of color. This only proves that people of color succeed when given the opportunity.
Yes exactly. This kind of thinking is so m
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Chicago Shakespeare Theater 2025-2026 season to include world premiere of BILLY JEAN, North American premieres of BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, HAMNET, and PARANORMAL ACTIVITY Apr 10
2025, 09:59:07 AM
The Courtyard theater is noticeably smaller than the theater Brokeback played in the West End. That's if they don't modify it at all. They can move the seats on the floor around quite a bit.
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FLOYD COLLINS Previews Apr 4
2025, 11:33:03 AM
Kad articulates my thoughts better than I could! I think this spare, abstract staging is a really strong choice for this show... but not at the Beaumont? I was perplexed when it was announced and surprised there wasn't more trepidation of staging this show in that HUGE theater... but I assumed they had a plan to address that. I think you could move this whole production down to the Newhouse and it would work like gangbusters.
To be fair. Not many productions have successfully
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Broadway Flops you love that everybody else hates Mar 31
2025, 03:15:13 PM
American Psycho was a really fantastic production of above average material that did seem a little weird for Broadway but I'd imagine would have been at least a moderate success had it premiered any other season.
I continue to be stumped that Groundhog Day flopped. Top notch material, top notch cast, and top notch production. You never know I guess.
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BOOP! Previews Mar 14
2025, 12:33:26 PM
I didn't really like Barbie a "misfire" is incredibly bizarre given its critical and financial success. Also. Again, I didn't like it, but it was incredibly successful at what it set out to do artistically. I didn't think it was terribly interesting or original in what it was trying to do... but it was incredibly successful at what it set out to do artistically.
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BOOP! Previews Mar 12
2025, 08:38:39 AM
"the sister being hyperfixated on Betty Boop is very weird and not accurate for a cartoon that hasn’t had relevancy in decades."
I became a high school teacher in August 2023. I saw Boop a few months after I started. I had the same thought when I saw the show then but... as the start of my first year has become deep into my second year I can tell you that even at my small school there are a handful of teens that are, indeed, hyperfixed on Betty Boop. While Sanrio
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BOOP! Previews Mar 11
2025, 10:32:26 AM
Is this a joke? I've tried to ignore this person but the last comment has really pushed this into absurdity. Has this been a dumb joke the whole time?
Who has this kind of. time on their hands?
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PURPOSE Previews Mar 10
2025, 01:29:02 PM
"the playwright's quick success"
I'm so confused by what is meant by this.
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SUNSET BLVD. Revival Mar 5
2025, 10:38:32 AM
"Someone snuck their dog in with them (are service dogs allowed?)"
Service dogs don't bark unless it's part of their duties. If the dog barked it wasn't a service dog, it's a bad service dog, or its owner was about to have a medical emergency.
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How is this not Wickedly Illegal? Mar 4
2025, 02:24:52 PM
I can't imagine having the bandwith to worry about something like this?
People do this all the time? It felt like for a while we had new IP themed pop-ups every week here in Chicago. They're not performing the play. Nobody is going there thinking they're going to see the play. Even if it was illegal, what would be the harm? The characters from The Wizard of Oz are in the public domain and have been for a long time. If they're performing songs at the venue, they
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PURPOSE Previews Feb 28
2025, 10:43:35 AM
I agree the narration slows the play down. I think symbolically it creates a sense of isolation for the main character, tho, that feels like an essential part of the theme of the show. He's not IN the story. Just like he's not IN the family, really.
I don't think that means its necessary... but I think it's an interesting thing to grapple with.
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Curse of the Starving Class Feb 26
2025, 12:23:11 PM
He is still revered in a lot of theater programs at universities... but I think it's definitely the case that his work has not aged well. Or maybe it's just not the right time for his work.
He's so often imitated, often unintentionally, that his actual work feels derivative or obvious. People are more familiar with the imitations and copies.
Also, I think a lot of the takes on gender and relationships feel gross or maybe even misogynistic when they used to feel
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THE EXORCIST to Land on Broadway in 2018? Feb 26
2025, 10:47:32 AM
Looks like Rachel Chavkin is directing an off-broadway production of The Exorcist over the holidays. At least that's what it looks like here:
https://playbill.com/job/untitled-chavkin-project-nyc-epa-03-10-25/1ad5604a-8e0d-4ddd-b5c2-b53f982c2f27
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