I'm curious if performers or producers of shows ever put clauses in their contracts that another production of a show can't open for X amount of years after the current one closes?
Bringing this concert to NYC feels like it was meant as an insult to the people involved in the recent Broadway production.
The last really nice show program I bought was from the last Company revival.
My favorite window card is from the last Pippin revival.
I bought t-shirts from Parade & Gutenberg even though it feels a bit cringe to go around with certain actor's faces plastered over my torso. For Chess I went with the "One Night in Bangkok" t-shirt over the one with the photo of the cast. In person that shirt just doesn't look very g
How is BVSC doing? Will it still be around in the Fall?
Weather was so good in LA the other week thst I'm already thinking about going again next year when Easter is a bit earlier. The BVSC tour will be at the Pantages that weekend, so wondering if it should be on my long list for this year's trip to NY or just wait until next March in LA? In NY I'll only have time for 10 shows.
Ragtime is very much a product if its time, coming after the overstuffed 80's extravaganzas.
The Les Mis tour has been in Vancouver the last couple weeks and I won a lottery ticket for last Sunday night. ($80CAD for a lottery seat!) I've only seen it once before. I fell asleep then & I fell asleep in the second act again this time. How is any of that show realistic. But people love it.
I remember that I only made it half an hour into that film before I walked out of the theatre. Will have to see if my local library has it on disc to give a second chance before I commit to sitting through a stage adaptation.
TheatreMonkey said: "So wait...with all this praise for Luke Evans, we were wrong to completely damn a performance and performer based on a 20-second clip of a music rehearsal, before he had even gone on once?!"
I never doubted he'd be perfect.
Edited. I think I had too much coffee this morning, I'm really feeling my oats this morning.
There are a lot of mentally unwell middle aged women. Both Adam Driver in 2024, and Keanu Reeves this past year, had to deal with mentally unstable women who kept showning up when they had theatre performances in NYC.