I Feel Like Disney Might Not Do Shows On Broadway Anymore Aug 21
2024, 11:28:07 AM
Disney knows it's only competition truly is themselves. No other producing company, theatrical or otherwise, has taken the youth market like they have. Even Universal after making Wicked hasn't really gone back to the well.
Will Disney ever have as many shows open as they used to? No, when they open more than two shows, the only company that ends up losing customers is Disney. It's the same reason we'll never see a fifth gate open in Walt D
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New Merrily Pro-Shot? Jun 23
2024, 01:42:44 AM
I'll take it just to erase half those American accents from the current pro-shot out of my mind. I'll never recover.
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Next Musical Creator that should have a Revue show Jun 23
2024, 01:39:58 AM
Schwartz has one he's been working on for ages. It's called Snapshots and it's unbearable.
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FOLLIES at Carnegie Hall Jun 23
2024, 01:39:04 AM
I love the idea of a Kelli and Laura Benanti Revival. I think Laura's got an icy and angry Phyllis ready to tear **** up.
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Who is the Lead in Disaster! Jun 23
2024, 01:37:40 AM
If this is truly bugging you, I sense the lead character looming over this production will be your ego. Congrats!
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Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season! Jun 12
2024, 02:03:30 PM
I reckon WIll himself is probably not available simply because Audra is. They've got 4 kids between them with three still living at home I'm pretty sure that for Audra to do this Will isn't gonna be doing the 8 shows a week grind while it's happening.
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Smoking on Stage? Jun 7
2024, 11:31:21 AM
When I used to house manage in the city we had an instance where a pregnant audience member demanded to be changed to a seat farther away from the front of the stage because she was pregnant and a lot of the characters were smoking. We explained they were herbal cigs but she kept insisting we refund the difference of her ticket, yelling during intermission that she knew they were real cigarettes because she could smell them. Our manager then tried to explain that they legally couldn
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Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season! May 31
2024, 10:39:14 AM
Not to sidetrack the conversation, but as someone who loved Donna in Dolly, what about it was an unhappy experience?
I do agree trying to get a standby for this is ludicrous. She barely sings in Act 2. She's the name draw. She's still remarkably woefully unknown by a lot of the general public.
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Two People Assigned the Same Seat Mar 4
2024, 12:20:14 AM
When I used to work in an off-broadway theater complex in the city we'd get someone there on the wrong day once or twice a week. People really didn't understand they couldn't just come on another day and use their ticket.
Once in a while people would leave a show in one space five minutes in and ask if they could use their ticket to instead watch one of the other shows, not realizing that's now how things work.
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Is Satine really gone at the end of the play? Feb 18
2024, 04:37:10 PM
The lack of literature in Florida has really affected the masses, hasn't it.
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Aaron Lazar’s ALS Diagnosis Jan 2
2024, 10:38:42 AM
Impeach2017 said: "What a shame, he was a good performer with a big heart."
He's still alive, mind yourself using the past tense on a person who is still living their life to the fullest.
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Straddling the Line Between Baritone and Tenor Dec 20
2023, 10:34:28 AM
this is super interesting to read as someone who's always been trained to sort of ignore the nomenclature and sort of approach each role or audition in whatever way my voice finds it best. I found whenever I called myself a Baritone or a Tenor people's opinion of what I sang or what they thought was right would always change, anyway. I've done seasons where I did the lower solo lines in the ensemble in Les Mis and then was the one on the top line for Who's Tommy.
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A lack of great new choreographers and director-choreographers? Dec 19
2023, 09:25:30 AM
I think there's also honestly nowadays more money to be made for those really amazing choreographers in other things. With the number of shows being put up being much less than in the past, the idea that an up-and-coming choreographer could have a show or two mounted every year and sort of naturally make their way up the chain to directing is a lot more fragmented. And now with how often shows are workshopped as two-day readings and hardly ever any workshops, they sort of become the least
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MERRILY 2023 Broadway Revival Cast Recording dropping 11/15 at midnight! Nov 15
2023, 09:41:07 AM
The fact that the music and the ensemble sound so crisp. I know it's less instruments and less voices than Sweeney, but you also get the feeling this wasn't as meddled with. I'm over the over-produced sound of most modern cast recordings.
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Universal's WICKED Film - News & Discussion Thread Nov 14
2023, 09:36:59 AM
You want us to agree to disagree on you being racist?
This place has certainly seen better days.
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Sondheim/Ives HERE WE ARE @ The Shed Oct 2
2023, 02:59:31 PM
I'm flying in just to see both shows and ended up putting Merrily First because I didn't want to spend all of Merrily still thinking about Here We Are, but I can see your point of view as well!
Love reading the reactions to both shows here on the board and super ready for my Sondheim day! I'll be seeing Company in Chicago a week later!
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COMPANY Revival On Tour - News & Discussion Thread Sep 5
2023, 04:45:16 PM
Chris Harper posted on instagram from the rehearsal, just a close up of the set minuatures. I can already spot some changes in the dimensions of the rooms, which would affect some of the magic that happens in the show.
With rehearsals clearly underway, seems weird not to capitalize on that to get the press release out on casting.
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COMPANY Revival On Tour - News & Discussion Thread Sep 5
2023, 02:38:00 PM
Kinda crazy not to have it posted yet, especially if rehearsals did begin today. Do we think they're still trying to finalize someone for the show? I can't imagine any role except Joanne needing that sort of work, seeing the cast had such a deep bench. Maybe less of them were into touring the show I'm seeing the show in Chicago and I can't wait!
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DEATH DROP, starring Willam and Jujubee, opening June 30, 2023 at New World Stages Aug 30
2023, 05:14:41 PM
My guess is the show would have fared well/better with a rotating cast. The cast announcement didn't leave me gagged considering how many amazing theater queens and Ru queens there are in NYC.
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Groban & Ashford in SWEENEY TODD On Broadway Aug 23
2023, 04:19:34 PM
James2 said: "Wayman_Wong said: "''Does anyone have a guess?''
It looks like a razor blade to me."
Maybe a modern-day one, but it would be too modern to fit with the other items in this design."
That's because it's a bad design.
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