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sassylash3s said: "Perhaps a slightly different situation since it originated on television rather than on record, but the majority of Schmigadoon’s Tony-winningscore waspreviously releasedas well."Schmigadoon is indeed a different situation because it would not normally be considered eligible from having been created for a different medium (see Smash), but they had proved that more than 50% of it was new material specific to the stage show and thus it was eligible.

Gonna be a slight voice of dissent here. I thought Bradley Jaden gave an EXTRAORDINARY acting performance as Javert, but I just did not like his voice type as much. I prefer Javerts with a lower natural voice, and there were also times he seemed to get a bit nasal. His act 2 performance was incredible though, and the Suicide was an absolute highlight of the show to me.Similarly, I think at times Samantha Barks's chest voice also felt like it sat a bit lower than usual for Fantine, though she ...

I looked up one of the initial announcements, and at least on Playbill it was described as "developmental performances". I did expect some sort of concert reading given that there were only three performances, but I'll admit it was a bit of a disappointment having so little of act 2, and I wonder if that was an issue with rehearsal time. In the pre-show speech, the directors did mention how a setting like this allows them time to develop work outside of the city and explore different creative...

I saw this on Sunday as my first introduction to Whistle, which probably wasn't the best way to see it for the first time since it was very much a workshop, music stands with an occasional song off book and some minor blocking and a narrator reading a few stage directions. They did all of act 1 and selections from act 2 (about half an hour total for act 2), with the directors coming out between the songs to give a very abbreviated summary of what happened in between (I later found out from li...

Sometimes trying the digital rush later in the day helps as well.I've heard chatter that there's mold backstage in some of the theaters and that's why people had to keep going in and out of Heathers for health reasons. Not sure how reliable that is but it seems like it would help to do a deep clean/renovation if they're going to have a mostly empty house.

It doesn't start until tomorrow so that's why there are no reports yet, but I'm going on Sunday! Will be my first experience with both the musical and seeing a Deaf West production in person.

When you say it had audience members up and down, do you mean the show asks you to stand and sit multiple times? Is there any sort of "concept" done on the play or is it mostly done straight?

It all depends on whether they actually submitted for the Pulitzer right? Like if they knew Broadway was in the plans they could've theoretically held off and said they were still working on it and then submit it in the year they go to Broadway. I don't think it's that likely since it's had a few major productions and a decent amount of buzz but there's not really that much transparency around when stuff gets submitted for the Pulitzer.

DramaTeach said: "I had tickets to this show a month and a half ago. My friend went, but my buses never showed up, and I couldn’t get to the theatre. I was devastated. My friend gave me the past-date info, and I filled it out explaining the situation. Never heard back. The show clearly hasn’t sold well, so it’s not like they didn’t have a seat to give me, and you’d think they would’ve wanted an extra body in their audience. They close today, and I just have to say good riddance to them, if th...

I may be misremembering, and granted I didn't listen to every episode of Giants in the Sky, but I thought the whole impetus behind the podcast was that Lapine said he was NOT doing a book on Into the Woods because he didn't keep as close a record or notes around the process (which you can kind of see in the episode he does as he states things as fact that are clearly incorrect).

Saw this tonight and the short of it is that I found it absolutely thrilling when it's at its best, which does happen quite frequently, and those moments I found very much worth the price of admission. The first mirror scene is absolutely electric and act 2 manages to keep building on top of it. I think this is Sonya Tayeh's first directorial credit for a stage piece, and I am absolutely impressed at how well she manages to convey the tone and atmosphere with pure stagecraft and movement.My b...

Looks like they fixed the issue with not being able to advance to the next page on mobile!

fwiw if anyone was running into the same payment issue I was earlier, I'm not sure if this is new but I noticed you can verify your email as well, and once I did that, adding a card worked fine.

Has anyone who managed to log in been able to buy tickets? I seem incapable of entering a payment card.

Scarywarhol said: "Yall can log in?I sure can't!"You need to click the forgot password link and reset your password.

It really surprises me how much people are devaluing the role of Giorgio in Passion. To me he forms the core of the story and the entire show succeeds or fails depending on the actor for Giorgio. Yes, Fosca is the central role that the story is about and it's a layered character that's incredibly nuanced, but the actual arc of the story and the largest development lies with Giorgio. I was surprised in reading the Hat book that Sondheim didn't seem to realize that either until Jamie Lloyd's pr...

I appreciate the data and visualizations, but I think one big thing to note is that people seem to know how to produce plays that have stars people want to see but (for the most part) also tend to be highly acclaimed, either through audiences or formal critics. For some reason our recent slate of musicals hasn't really lived up to that caliber in either regard. And I think this role reversal of plays in larger houses with musicals in smaller houses isn't necessarily a bad thing, as some of th...

Has anyone managed to succcessfully past date tickets to this? I had to miss a performance where I had TDF tickets two weeks ago and I filled out the past date form on ATG pretty immediately but it's been crickets since then. I know past dating is a courtesy and not guaranteed but considering the amount of times I've seen this show on TDF I figured it would be doable.

For those that have seen this and Dorian Gray, I wasn't a huge fan of Dorian Gray because the over-use of screens made it feel less theater-y to me, especially with the prerecorded scenes. How much of the tech stuff does Williams use in this show? The play itself is of interest to me but I'd rather not go to another show where I watch half of the scenes just playing out on screens.

Can anyone go into detail what the book changed? Was it actual events/framing or more just line tweaks/delivery? The LA Times was rapturous but didn't go too much into detail about the changes.