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Mean Girls got like 12 nominations and won 0. Great Comet similar was like 1 win out of 14. 
 

I don’t see a world where Maybe Happy Ending loses. None of the other nominated musicals are loved enough to outweigh the commercial and industry embrace of MHE.

No import has won Best Musical in many, many years. DBH was the clear 5th slot out of Boop, Smash, RWHC, Swept Away. Dead Outlaw lost the goodwill from off-broadway in its prolonged transfer time.

devonian.t said: "So this is the closing cast, right?"

Y’all won’t believe the names in conversation and apparently signed. Crazy things at the once seemingly doomed Kit Kat club. 

The fact they only announced Leslie makes me think this is a negotiation tactic to entice the remaining offers to get signed. It is crazy that of all people he is the first. Good for him. 

For anyone speculating, their paid social ads have been updated with "THRU 6.22 ONLY" messaging, so no dice on this extending unless one of the celebs they were trying to poach pulls through. But I'm sure ATG is able to fill the theater quickly.

After the shutdown, West End producers pushed to instate "gala" nights on Broadway so that they could enjoy the parties without having to worry about reviews tampering the evening. It's 100% ego-driven, but as someone who has experienced dozens of openings it certainly does make the night more fun. 

Broadway needs to change. Some productions don’t have understudies/swings join the rehearsal room until right before tech. 
 

Pre-Covid, “the show must go on” was the mentality and you would be hard pressed to find 5 news articles in 5 seasons where a performance of any kind was cancelled. Since actors are more comfortable calling out and resulting a show cancelled, it’s the productions responsibility to have a contingency. 
 

This production has been signed & and in the works since this time last year. There is no excuse for not being off book. 

I am so curious where the money comes from for producers. I know they produce “hits”, but is the profit from the Lortel shows and recouped Stereophonic enough to finance this?

No one will ever be able to convince me the producers handled this week correctly. I feel so bad for the thousands of audience members who had their Christmas week ruined because they didn’t cancel these performances on Monday when they KNEW this was by far the likeliest outcome. 

The production has known since Monday that they would likely be cancelling all these performances. It’s terrible customer service to waste thousands of people’s time waiting to hear about a performance that isn’t happening. 

I think even a 4 person, straight-play with a fixed unit set would still probably cost $550,000 these days. It's just what it costs, and why it baffles me why anyone would want to produce a Broadway show.

This will surely be a test of if the play can stand on its own. I cannot imagine any market research showing Betty as someone able to sell tickets. Then again, neither had Cole, but they are now singular with the production. Will be interesting to see its grosses for those weeks.

witchoftheeast2 said: "Marykate Morrisey, the current Elphaba on Broadway, has announced her final performance will be March 2nd.

Any predictions or hopes as to who could replace her?"

Have seen around the web in the last hour that it is likely a Black actress. Don’t have a name though, but apparently a bunch of people do.