Theater Quiz for June 2025: Politics, Prizes and Pride
Jun 30
2025, 01:29:46 PM
90/110, but I want to give myself an extra 5 for getting one of the two gay playwright streets right. :)
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Report: The Phantom of the Opera May Be Readying an Off-Broadway Return
Jun 30
2025, 10:31:17 AM
Will say that was one of the smoother presales I’ve had in a minute!
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OEDIPUS - Roundabout Theater
Jun 24
2025, 05:19:05 PM
Thank you!
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OEDIPUS - Roundabout Theater
Jun 24
2025, 05:09:36 PM
VernonGersch said: "ijest22 said: "Roundabout bookings are live"
Thank you for posting this. I am a subscriber and never got an e-mail about on sale until I the notification from Today's Tix (not sure why Today's Tix would have the tickets on sale first) but thank you because I was able to hop on and get great seats (pays to subscribe)."
Can I ask how? I'm a subscriber, but when I click on a performance, it just tells me the
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The 78th Annual TONY Awards Performances!
Jun 9
2025, 04:47:36 PM
CopleyScott17 said: "I enjoyed the Hamilton reunion, but I was surprised and disappointed that Anthony Ramos didn't get a spotlight. He's one of the biggest names to emerge from that company!"
When they originally announced the reunion performance, everyone in the cast BUT him was listed. I wonder if there was a question of his availability until the last minute.
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Director Jack Serio mailing list
Jun 5
2025, 03:44:52 PM
BroadwayGirl107 said: "I think it's that they have everything to gain in trying. This email might not get them any ticket sales, but it does mean a whole bunch of people who might not have headr about it are now asking what it's going to be and that in an of itself is good marketing.
Hell, there's a thread on Broadway World about it...though I'm pretty convinced someone starting a thread about this on BroadwayWorld is sus and seems like it might
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Director Jack Serio mailing list
Jun 5
2025, 02:12:42 PM
Yeah, the new email said it went to people who saw one of his last three productions. But it's asking if we want to preorder tickets to an unnamed play with an unnamed cast. And...why would I want to do that? It's really strange. Perhaps they just have nothing to lose in trying?
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Second Stage Season Will Include MARJORIE PRIME and BECKY SHAW on Broadway
Jun 3
2025, 07:06:18 PM
I'm really excited by this season. Two Broadway debuts of well-received recent-ISH plays, and three more daring premieres off-Broadway. With some of the other nonprofits filling space with either a ton of solo shows or cu tback programming, this feels like a particularly substantial season announcement. I'm more excited about it as a full season than I have been by recent announcements from the like of Playwrights Horizons, Signature or LCT, at least, even if individual productions in
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London Summer Season 2025
May 30
2025, 06:50:31 AM
The Frogs is at Southwark Playhouse. I think it’s the version that was done at LCT, though obviously in a new production. https://southwarkplayhouse.co.uk/productions/the-frogs/
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London Summer Season 2025
May 29
2025, 05:00:05 PM
Helpful all around! Can happily scratch Totoro off the list so now need to just decide...probably between Fiddler and Giant for my last spot. I'll almost certainly see Benjamin Button. If I knew for sure Giant was transferring, I would definitely go Fiddler, but we'll see if my fear that I miiiiiight miss it finds me biting the bullet and grabbing Giant in the last slot!
I had also considered The Frogs, but...I just feel like even as much as I adore Sondheim, I can probably mis
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London Summer Season 2025
May 29
2025, 04:40:52 PM
I’m in for just a long weekend in June. Have tickets to The Fifth Step, Evita, and Intimate Apparel. Can’t decide how to fill my last two open slots! Fiddler, Benjamin Button, Giant, and My Neighbor Totoro are leading the list, but how to decide???
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Director Jack Serio mailing list
May 29
2025, 07:28:27 AM
Irondale, not Ironside. And the password is July2025 if anyone wants to look in the site. I’m not even sure how I ended up on this mailing list.
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Director Jack Serio mailing list
May 29
2025, 07:24:48 AM
Anyone else on this? Yesterday, there was a link to a password protected site, Letyougonyc.com, which linked to an image of an overturned wheelbarrow and map coordinates that, when popped into Google Maps, show the location for Ironside in Brooklyn. And the dates July 29-August 30. I feel like there are enough clues here that I should be able to work out what this is, but…I don’t have it. Anyone else?
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Other seasons where musicals did not Recoup
May 20
2025, 05:21:14 PM
I mean...we don't know what we don't know, but Buena Vista is doing GREAT business and this, " the show itself hasn’t captured the tourist or theatergoing public’s imagination" seems like pure speculation at best. Suggesting that it's only succeeding because of awards season feels specious.
And as hard of a time as Maybe Happy Ending had getting going, it's been improving and improving and improving. A few sizable Tony
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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/18/25
May 20
2025, 01:44:37 PM
MadsonMelo said: "So many shows begging to close its not even Funny :(
Harry Potter is in really dangerous water."
I’m not someone to root for a show to close, especially one employing as many people as Harry Potter. But if it does have to close up shop, I hope it makes JK Rowling pause for even just a second to think about how much energy she has thrown into her campaign of hatred against trans people.
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Broadway Showstopper of the season?
May 14
2025, 11:34:02 AM
Another "Dear Bill" write-in. It looks like there are 13 of us making it one vote shy of the lead even though it wasn't a listed nominee!
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"Josh Sharp Ta-Da" directed by Sam Pinkleton
May 7
2025, 04:35:58 PM
I also saw an early version of this at a venue in Brooklyn. Brilliantly funny and still packed an emotional wallop. Looking forward to going back and seeing the final product!
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The 78th Annual Tony Award Nominations for 2025
May 1
2025, 09:25:17 AM
Looks like the eligible shows that came up empty this morning were Home, Job, Once Upon a Mattress, McNeal, Let on Tenth, Tammy Faye, Elf, Cult of Love, Redwood, Othello, The Last Five Years, and Old Friends.
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The 78th Annual Tony Award Nominations for 2025
May 1
2025, 08:59:58 AM
The Tonys site just directs to their YouTube page https://www.youtube.com/@tonyawards but there isn't a livestream up on it yet
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City Centers 24-25: Ragtime, Urinetown, LaChiusa's Wild Party, Love Life
Apr 30
2025, 11:34:01 PM
Wonderful Town rounded out what was, for me, a bit of a bummer of an Encores season in solidly meh fashion. The jokes didn’t land, and it never achieved the kind of zing that it feels like it COULD have had.
Anika Noni Rose, in beautiful voice, is a tough sell as “the frumpy one,” and Aisha Jackson, also sounding lovely, felt like she could have been directed in a daffier or more “man-hungry” way. I kept thinking that I could imagine
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