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Well this was a disappointment. I'm quite perplexed by the consistent use of comedy throughout a bank heist story. Not that there can't be comedy in the story, but instead of comedy being the result of nail biting tension, it completely robs the play of ANY tension or stakes. The hostages are just lounging about cracking jokes until the play decides "Oh maybe Sal should be menacing here" but I never felt scared for them. The "Attica" moment is...YIKES. All of a sud

I would love a big glorious production of Amadeus. I wish I could go back in time and see Tim Curry and Ian McKellan do that one. I know an idea for a revival has been being kicked around for a few years but has yet to materialize. I'd love more BIG productions of classics, like The Philadelphia Story with a nice grand set. Or The Woman in Black with spooky ghostly effects. Remember big sets? I miss them.

There's a bunch of Ter

I hate when articles say things like "but revenue this year is up more than ever". Well sure if you are talking about GROSS revenue, which they are. But the cost of mounting shows has drastically increased. We have more shows than ever in the "million dollar club" of grosses each week. But that doesn't mean anything these days, when big musicals have weekly break-evens of $900 to 1.1 million. If your gross is $1.3 million but you have only put about $200k toward recoup

I could see this transferring to New York...but perhaps not Broadway. Anderson has been reluctant to stay put in the US for long periods of time for work. I have to imagine it would be a good 6 month commitment on Broadway, between rehearsals and a long enough run to recoup. Based on past behavior, I'm not holding my breath that she would want to uproot her London life for that long. 

Her production of Streetcar Named Desire transferred to St. Ann's Warehouse, and I t

Does anyone know when the current cast members contracts are up on Death Becomes Her? I adore those actors (Simard is one of my all time favorites) but I concur with others that I'm not sure what other move they have to turn the numbers back around other than an entirely new cast (with the requisite PR tour and marketing campaign to reinvigorate ticket buyers). The numbers will undoubtedly come up again as we enter the heart of the spring when tourists return in greater numbers and look f

& Juliet and SIX continue to be the two shows in a worrisome spot. I think at this point SIX has built enough of a reputation that, with a competent marketing strategy, they could successfully run it in a midtown Off-Broadway venue for quite some time. 

Death Becomes Her producers need to convince bigger Broadway names to go into the show I think. If you have women who can handle the rigors of this show but also have TV fame go in, it could give it a boost. Jane Krak

Unless they have a much more in-demand crop of celebs, I doubt it is literally another Simon Rich show like All In and All Out. All Out didn't do nearly the business the producers hoped it would. It should be assumed that a third iteration in this series will continue the trend of diminishing returns unless they have mega A-Listers in the lineup. But there is also zero reason for producers to rush in another one of these before the end of the season. All Out didn't invite Tony no

Every Brilliant Thing will definitely be a revival. It’s had many different productions over the years so there’s no argument to be made that it’s a new play.

Luke Evans will definitely be lead. They already set the precedent with Tom Hewitt that Frank is the sole lead of Rocky Horror. Doubtful they would change course.

The current plan for Lost Boys is to position LJ Benet as the sole lead. But there is still time to change course if they think another strateg

If the In The Heights clue points towards Stephanie Beatriz, she could potentially bring in folks thanks to her Encanto and Brooklyn Nine Nine following I suppose. I'm just not sure those audiences cross over with the target Broadway ticket buying audience for Titanique. If it instead points towards Melissa Barrera they could potentially add some funny references into the script about her not continuing with the Scream franchise...but Scream 7 will likely be out of theaters or in its last

So the lead is the only actor I had never heard of lol. In looking at her resume, I guess I have seen her before in The Handmaid's Tale but I never knew the name of that actress (and the show became too unsettlingly real for me to finish). I hope she does well with the role and I'm excited for the play. But this would seem to confirm my suspicion that someone else had to bow out of the project. (I mean, if your supporting players include one of the stars of a current mega hit show, Ha