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Jonathan Cohen said: "Did I miss something obvious? Taub being castseems like a backdoor announcement of Suffs closing. Unless she's just taking a couple of weeks off."

Actors take time off from their currently running shows to appear in an Encores concert all the time. She’s in a particularly good spot to do it, since she already has a standby and understudies. Joy Woods will also, theoretically, be taking time off if The Notebook is still running.

Great casting all around.

Glad my husband called today. There were apparently some folks who filled out the emailed form over the weekend who fell through the cracks. We were able to be rescheduled for 8/10, and (gratefully) we were upgraded a bit.

It sounds like the possibility of an extension is still up in the air. They weren’t able to promise that there would be available dates past the 11th, so we had to refund one of our seats.

Broadway Flash said: "We need more patriotic musicals like SUFFS and BACK TO THE FUTURE"

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Wow, I’m bummed.

Finally seeing this tomorrow night. I can’t wait! Grabbing dinner at The Dead Rabbit beforehand as well, which I’ve also been looking forward to checking out for a while.

Also, the weather in the city is bearable for the first time in weeks. Bless.

My guess is that she’ll mostly perform Tuesdays, but there’s likely enough exceptions to that rule that the producers are just saying “certain performances.” They’ll definitely announce her dates in advance once they solidify the schedule.

Mandy Gonzalez will be the Norma alternate.

Exciting! This is perfect casting. I’m glad we’re in an age when big names like Carolee, Betty Buckley, and Stephanie J. Block go on tour because the material and opportunity is too good to pass up simply because it’s not at “home.”

I also hope we see some of (if not all) the Broadway understudies stepping up as main cast. I thought Emily Koch, Jim Hogan, and Betsy Morgan were all excellent.

If I recall correctly, weren’t early previews of Wicked in SF over 3 hours? Listening to demos and cut songs of his over the years since Wicked’s debut has proven he’s more than willing to make drastic changes.

Broadway Flash finally makes a thread worth discussing, and almost immediately proves why we just need to stop responding to them entirely - valid conversation points or not.

Heathers: The Musical is a lot of things. “Gorgeous” or a “masterpiece,” it is not. And for all the Sondheim shows you derided so far in this thread, you think Here We Are is full of bangers? Get your head examined.

I love Heathers - the movie and the musical, pretty equally - and feel like much of the disdain for the show came from the poor production quality of the original NWS run. I’ve still yet to see any other production, but the bones are there for a biting, funny, poignant evening.

That being said, it’s a tough sell - the original couldn’t even sell out a smallish Off-Broadway house - and I doubt we’ll ever see it on Broadway.

Only the most insufferable individuals police other people’s choice of outfit at the theater.

ANA GASTEYER?!? We won.

Thank you for saying it more politely than I could, TheatreFan. I’m hearing a lot of talking points from “well-meaning Liberals” that sound awfully similar to the “crazy Right-wingers” they claim to not be at all like. Fear-mongering propaganda affects more than just Fox News loyalists.

Blaxx, no offense, but you seem to be having some reading comprehension problems in this thread. I know it’s expensively produced, and acknowledged that in my post. In the first sentence, even.

I meant it’s cheap in that it’s an easy ripoff. They copied Sleep No More’s aesthetic nearly wholesale, from the moment you enter. Sorry for not elaborating on my singular word choice.

Looks like the cast is finally taking some well-earned time off. Tom Pecinka and Juliana Canfield have also had understudies on in the last week. Would love to see other actors’ interpretations.