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Back Row said: "I saw Bat Boy at the then fledgling Speakeasy Stage in Boston in 2002, in a tiny, funky space that barely seated over 100 people. Word of mouth made it a huge hit, and it was extended a number of times, well into 2003. The stars were a recent Emerson College grad named Miguel Cervantes (Hamilton) as Bat Boy, and 18 year old Sara Chase as Shelley. I felt like the venue was perfect and it is hard for me to imagine it in a more conventional Broadway setting,"This production was a...

If Benjamin Button and The Heart are truly making the tight turnaround to debut on Broadway this season (as opposed to waiting for 27-28 season), then we would just need one more musical to guarantee a 5 nominee Best Musical lineup at the Tony Awards. I've heard various plans and intent to transfer from Black Swan, Iceboy, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, and 3 Summers of Lincoln (plus the perennial "we're still hoping" line from Little Dancer). But none of them seem to have any concr...

William Ivey Long is very much still alive. Yet no one has called for a boycott of Chicago lest they get new costumes. What he did is totally heinous and far far worse than what Rudin did. Anyway, I had heard a rumor that Julia Roberts was looking to try Broadway again, and Small Mouth Sounds was the vehicle in question. So I can vouch for that. No idea if it has the Broadhurst though, no idea how far along it is.

There is a stage version of Moana on one of Disney's cruise ships. It was also one of the shows they considered (along with Hercules) for the abandoned idea of a Main Street theater in Magic Kingdom, so there's a chance they bring the stage show to one of their parks one day. But haven't heard about any plans to mount it on Broadway.I think if Disney puts a third show on Broadway anytime soon it will be a revival of either Beauty and the Beast or Aida. They are working on a stage version of P...

This is pretty dismal overall. I thought Titanique would make it to Labor Day. But I don't see how they do with these numbers, unless investors have already agreed they are willing to shovel their money into the fire to get the show to its end date. I thought this show could really be helped by a smart Tonys performance so it wouldn't matter if they won anything or not. But the performance was ill conceived, didn't showcase the actual vibe of the show very well, and had really rough vocal per...

Nice growth for Tony winners Schmigadoon, The Lost Boys, and Cats: The Jellicle Ball. Hopefully the Best Musical win can boost sales for the first show next week so they can really start making money. The latter two had great performances that imo properly showcased the productions and will hopefully continue the upward trend in sales.The nominees I'm most worried about are Two Strangers and Titanique. Two Strangers feels like they've been hitting a sales ceiling for a long time. They could p...

A Few Good Men is booked at the Beaumont in the fall. Once that wraps up, an LCT revival of The Sound of Music will open in the spring.

This is why I think Cats The Jellicle Ball is still ahead for Revival. It's most improved! Most reinvented! Of course the straight masses and out of towners don't know about ballroom. But theater, like any good art form, teaches us by exposure. Im sure most Tony voters werent Mark Rothko experts but they still awarded Red. They also probably didnt have a robust knowledge of the details in the oslo accords, but they still went ahead and voted for Oslo. I watch musicals and plays all the time a...

I'm thinking of it like this:LOCKSBest Play - LiberationRevival of a Play - Death of a SalesmanFeatured Actor in a Play - Alden EhrenreichFeatured Actress in a Play - Laurie MetcalfLighting Design of a Play - Death of a SalesmanLead Actor in a Musical - Joshua HenryLead Actress in a Musical - Caissie LevyCostume Design of a Musical - Cats: The Jellicle BallScenic, Lighting, Sound Design of a Musical - The Lost BoysALMOST LOCKSLead Actress in a Play - Lesley Manville. But hav

There was previously an idea to do a revival staging with the original cast (Groff, Michele, everyone) at the Atlantic a couple years ago. But those big reunion plans fell apart when Michele booked Funny Girl and then Groff started prepping for Just in Time. Perhaps this reunion is being repurposed for Studio Seaview? But it felt like a project that was specific to the Atlantic (where the show originated in NYC), so maybe this is just wishful thinking and its a brand new, unrelated staging.

I'm sort of astounded that we are getting a revival of Three Days of Rain...is anyone really asking for this? They would need an enormous name to sell this. MUCH bigger than Britt Lower.

They have Clayton Davis doing the Tony predictions at Variety??? I get that he's their chief awards editor, but...this is really not his expertise? They flew him here for Tony press for a week where, per his socials, he saw Ragtime, Lost Boys, Salesman, and The Jellicle Ball. That's liekly all he's seen this season. He seems to just be basing some predictions off of the thoughts of a few Tony voters he knows which is how we get predictions like Danny Burstein winning featured actor for Marjor...

Funny, as days go by, this is the only show I want to win Best Musical! Obviously werent many musicals eligible for that category this year. But The Lost Boys was the ONLY new musical where I left the show and immediately wanted to get tickets to return again and was craving a cast album so I could dive into the score.

That would be a nice fit too! I'm just not sure what other large scale shows are going to be ready to come in, and surely the Shuberts will try to not let it sit empty for long. There are shows like Dolly and Purple Rain that have the intention of coming in, but not sure where they are in the editing/rewriting stage that they were supposedly in. And there are things like Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil which wants to come in, but as far as I know has not been able to get their financi...

Dreamgirls is really the only upcoming show that's ready and doesnt have a house, which would feel appropriate for this theater. Paddington has the Hirschfeld. I've heard Damn Yankees is looking at the Lunt. Those would be the only other two announced productions that would be a size/demand fit for the Majestic. So I highly suspect its Dreamgirls.

Where did this Celebrity Autobiography thing even come from?? I remarked to a friend of mine in the press that I had never heard of it until the other day (which was opening night?). And they remarked that they hadn't heard anything about it until they got their press invitation! Their RSVP was never responded to either. I mean...where is the advertising? Where is the effort? Where is the anything? There are some utterly fabulous people in the cast lineup, but maybe tell folks that they're in...

Well damn. Not surprising. But what is completely mystifying is how they seemingly just let this thing freefall without any major shakeup in tactics to try and reverse course. If new casting wasn't possible, how about new marketing strategies at least? This show held steady in grosses for so long, but then stumbled in the winter and continued to lose more and more each week. But it felt like they didn't try anything new with their advertising to save it. I'll miss this show, it was so much fu...

It will be Levy and I think a well deserved win. Mindelle is probably the only person who has a chance to pull off an upset. Especially since it looks less and less likely that Titanique will be able to win Book, so some voters who are fans may reward her here. But I still think Ragtime is just so popular and Levy is singing the hell out of the score. It feels like an easy call for Mother.

A show in the Hayes outgrossing a show in the Majestic...yikes. So sad. I just don't know what Beaches' strategy is. I guess producers just want to paper all the way through the limited run so they don't have to say they closed early? Papering constantly has dwindling returns and they are quickly running out of people to paper to. Nearly every major Tony nominated show got at least some kind of bump. But what's weird is the decrease for Fallen Angels. It's not by a super alarming amount, but ...

Cinco was quoted in a recent article saying there were 11 new songs...I have no idea how he reached that number because it only looks like 4 to me? But this would likely indicate that they've at least submitted for consideration. I wonder if the admin committee just says to hell with it and allows them to compete since there are so few musicals this season.Speaking of, I've heard that the next and final eligibility meeting has been moved to tomorrow. So all these category questions should be ...