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Just saw the clips from this production that's setting the show in contemporary London and it looks crazy, though I'm not sure I fully buy into the premise without seeing it.  Is anyone going that would be able to report back?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUY7xTcxSIA

Studio video of I'm With Her from the Signature production: https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Exclusive-Im-With-Her-from-Signature-Theatres-Revised-SOFT-POWER-20240724

It's interesting that they've decided to go with a full Asian cast, including Grace Yoo as Hilary Clinton

Job's numbers are pretty soft but they managed full capacity so they're probably hoping for word of mouth to help pick it up (from people I've talked to, there seems to be a lot of intrigue around the show so we'll see how it ends up doing).

I really enjoyed this on stage despite how flawed it was (I saw an early preview too), but the cast album just falls kind of flat for me.  I wonder if these are going to be the "frozen" editions of the songs for the NWS run or if they would still be changing things up.  Maybe it's just a show that needs the performances to go along with the songs.

Two tracks are out, Entr'acte and You'll Never Walk Alone

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_n-GgWmrixbc3-pYrIobKqI9esmIwx8S9E

I don't know that this is screaming Broadway to me (though the producers might disagree), but based on the description it seems to be more of a circus show that just licenses the Greatest Showman score and integrates that into a new show.  It feels like it would probably aim for one of the more modular off Broadway spaces if anything, though I guess we'll see how this turns out.

Oh I'm definitely planning on going again because I feel it would play different a second time.  But I also work in a somewhat related field as the topic of this play so maybe it hit harder for me.

Sauja said: "With so many shows incoming, I'm surprised we haven't heard anything about what's following The Wiz into the Marquis. I know that it's no one's favorite theater, but are there ANY rumors around what might take it?"

The rumor that's been floating around is Elf for a holiday engagement

Tickets for the New World Stages production go on sale July 26 with fan presale July 24.  The BWW press release says it opens on October 31, but I was unclear if that meant first performance or the press opening.

edit: Just saw on Playbill that the first performance is October 16

Just to be clear, this is a very recent thread that's gotten a lot of discussion, but it seems it's fallen to the BWW bug of saying it's from 1999

Rich and Tone worked a lot with Michael Jackson choreography (and got a co-credit on MJ), so that's exciting!

It's still very much a musical and the songs feel like they almost make more sense because of the different story they're telling.  The score feels very much integrated into the new concept and things like Memory in particular are still used to really give the character a chance to shine and tell their story. 

fwiw I don't know how many people who voted have actually seen/are familiar with all 10 shows (I'll admit I'm not), so I did tend to rank the ones I know well ahead of the others and I'm sure others did too.

Based on absolutely nothing, I feel like this will come out sooner rather than later since the buzz is still pretty high and the show is closing this week.  So my guess would be within the next year or two.

I thought I heard rumblings of a theater release, but not sure if that was a substantiated rumor or just general speculation.

hearthemsing22 said: "I saw the woman in black and left at the interval. As much as I love horror and things in that vein, having her walk around the audience was too much for me!"

Too much as in too scary or too cheesy? 

I didn't see it but would the infamous 1984 play be considered horror or was it just extremely graphic?