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Jarethan said: "The Great Gatsby must be losing money every single week. I assume this is some rich producer vanity thing."

It was always a vanity project for OD Company. They rushed it to Broadway just to get ahead of A.R.T.’s production after tepid reception at Papermill.

I’m also not even saying disliking deBessonet’s directing style is sexist. I’m saying that making a statement like “she’s being handed this job because of Into the Woods” is sexist at worst and misinformed at best. You can dislike her, but acting like she appeared out of nowhere with ITW and got this job at LCT as a result is absurd.

I’d say it’s more of a reach to call her unaccomplished or unsuccessful than point out the probable sexism behind it. But whatever! I’m not going to turn on any lightbulbs for people convinced she’s some kind of lucky diversity hire with no experience who seemingly everyone around her secretly hates.

I love this new look to the artwork. Clearly a throwback to McMullan’s style with a more vivid, hand-painted approach.

Also, Lear deBessonet is the AD of LCT, so this is hardly a “job she got off the back of Into the Woods” situation. She’s an accomplished director in her own right - separate from her position, which guarantees at least one show at the Beaumont or Newhouse per season - and the constant refrain on this board that she’s just being handed thi

Anyone calling Bart Sher’s treatment of classic musical theatre “snoozy” is so crazy to me. Camelot aside, his revival resume is pretty exceptional. 

tthomas76 said: "So we purchased tickets a while back for the end of August. Hoping to see Juliette and Luke and the rest of the cast. How do they handle if they do a cast change? We are in IN and it’s not like we can just come sooner to catch them. Will they refund us if Luke and the rest depart? "

Contact your point of sale. There was never a guarantee they’d be with the production past the initial closing date, so probably not a lot the box office can

Given the very sudden, sort of unceremonious departures of Juliette and Michaela Jay, I think it’s pretty safe to say the production wasn’t totally prepared for them to leave when they did. If so, it seems odd their contracts would have been up in the air until the last minute such that they don’t even have an announced replacement lined up for one of them.

Also, unless they already secretly recorded the cast album, unlikely we’ll get one at this point. Not that

I finally saw this last week and wrote a whole review I thought posted, but alas, between-station cell service strikes again.

Anyway, I absolutely adored every second of it. Cecilia Snow and DeMarius Copes were on for Olive and Chip, and they were both excellent (particularly Snow, who nailed Olive’s necessary lovability and has a killer voice to boot). Standouts for me were Autumn Best’s Logainne and Justin Cooley’s Leaf, but the casting is really perfect across the

I can hear the taxes writing themselves off as we speak.

Robbie2 said: "TheatreFan4 said: "If Victoria doesn't come over (fingers crossed she does)... Sherie as Millicent?"

Jennifer Simard"

I just finished listening to the cast recording full through for the first time, and I immediately heard Jennifer Simard singing “Pretty Little Dead Things”. She and Victoria Hamilton-Barritt have a very similar tone and way of enunciating.

rosscoe(au) said: "Why is Billy dressed as a man during the encore of The Best Of Times?"

The clips online of the cast singing it from the dress last night are clearly the curtain call. Albin doesn’t appear in drag at the end of the show.

Got my tickets! A surprise ticket drop is the way to go. Really happy to see there’s a decent portion of the audience priced at or under $100 before fees.

This has zero to do with Broadway. Move this to the off-topic board where it can languish and die (along with the troll accounts posting about it).

Rema Webb. Every time I see her, she’s knocking it out of the park.

Jay Lerner-Z said: "I don't mean to sound insensitive, but would this make it much easier to get a ticket?"

Unless they line up Sabrina Carpenter in her place (if she’s not too busy with 42nd Street [/sarcasm]), anyone they’d get to replace her would make it an easier ticket.

There’s also a world where she’s still going to do it, and they just want to hold off on selling actual tickets until she’s through the thick of

AC126748 said: "Obviously things can change, but didn't Sadie Sink say in an interview that she wasn't interested in returning to musical theater?"

Not sure. But I have to imagine working with a collaborator like Taymor on a smaller-scale production and not something like Annie makes it more attractive.

Rumor is Sadie Sink and Joe Locke are cast already, based on what I’ve seen here and elsewhere. Sadie makes sense, given her continued working relationship with Danya Taymor. Joe would be a good get also since his reception in Sweeney Todd was very good.

She feels more like an Ilse than a Wendla, and he feels more like a Moritz than a Melchior, so I’ll be interested to see who they are if they are ultimately in the cast.

Also, Celia Rowlson-Hall’s chore

Lord, I am excited.

I think this is a good example of why shows shouldn’t be announced over a year in advance, especially with a celebrity like Ariana Grande attached. There’s so much time for it to fall apart. In addition to the obvious life crap she’s going through, her schedule changes constantly (this current tour is literally a contractual obligation she postponed because of the Wicked press marathon).

Loved the original, loved the Deaf West revival, can’t wait to see this.