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Big cast change coming in August. Columbia will be a Drag Race queen, starting soon. I don’t have any additional details, sadly.

Betty Gilpin is the blueprint for what Mary can be, as far as I’m concerned. She’s the only one so far not to treat it like a bit of a clown show, and her readings of innocuous lines like “Amazing!” and “Congratulations!” are seared in my brain. I’d love for her to come back for a small run someday.

I saw Maya Rudolph last night, and I’m sad to say that she’s my least favorite of the Marys I’ve seen by a country mile. A real bummer.

She’s not “bad” by any means, and the audience was largely eating it up, but this was the first time I felt the performer putting too much on top of the text. Too much mugging, too many incomprehensible line readings, too many strange voices (essentially a greatest hits of every goofy voice she’s ever done). Co

Intermission. Sherie absolutely knocks “Science Fiction Double Feature” out of the park and is playing Magenta like a Barbie doll about to topple over. She’s wearing Anania’s wig style, but I wish she was wearing Juliette’s.

I’m liking this a lot more than the first time. Larkin Reilly should be promoted to full-time as Columbia. What a presence on stage. Luke Evans remains dynamite (the 3-second delay on that jock is the best performance of the

Is anyone else seeing Sherie’s first performance tonight? I was able to grab a cheap ticket on Theatr and I’m thrilled.

quizking101 said: "If I remember correctly, the original production was panned, but only sold out because of Julia Roberts (and a rising Paul Rudd and Bradley Cooper)."

The original production was in the mid-90s and featured Patricia Clarkson, Bradley Whitford, and John Slattery (talk about a stacked cast). I don’t know about critical response, but it was a Pulitzer finalist.

The Broadway revival was indeed largely panned. Julia Roberts got the brunt of

It’s Spelling Bee.

witchoftheeast2 said: "Does anyone know how I can purchase a membership online if I also have LincTix?"

I was stuck in a loop logging and re-logging into my membership account until I finally reached out to customerservice@lct.org. I think that’s the way to go, or call their member hotline.

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.