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I saw this again last night and loved it even more than my first viewing. The pace has tightened substantially, though it still slows down late into act 3, before waking up again for that banger finale.

Ruthie Ann Miles and Michaela Diamond continue to be the show’s MVPs. They’re both digging so deep into these performances, with Miles in particular bringing an attack to the material that must be incredibly therapeutic; she’s really one of our best actors wo

I think there’s absolutely a theatrical story to be told about the Siegels. Deeply problematic people, for sure, but theatre about American rot is always dramatically fertile.

Where this production went awry was in hiring Schwartz to write the score, Ferrentino to write the book, and in allowing Jackie to be in the room at all. The latter was likely conditional to them even being allowed to write the show to begin with, so it was already DOA, as far I’m concer

The biggest plot hole I can think of is how Fiyero breaks up their fight, gets taken out into the field to be tied up and beaten to death, gets turned into a scarecrow, and becomes cognizant enough to know what even happened to lie to a stranger about a plot he knows nothing about all in the time it takes Dorothy to leave Munchkinland and meet him first in her journey.

In the musical, they can hand wave it away as “it happened in the background” because we don’t see F

I saw the double feature yesterday, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen a sequel with so much working in its favor miss the mark like this. It’s absolutely wild to me that they filmed it at the same time as Part 1, since it looks and feels like a lower budget rush job in nearly every aspect.

Truly, everything about it feels worse. The camera blocking is bizarre. (There’s one point in “For Good” where the camera is just whirling around their heads fo

Jeffrey Karasarides said: "I remember there being rumors a while ago of Andrew Garfield starring in it."

Andrew Garfield and Jonathan Bailey both have a past working relationship with Marianne Elliott, but Bailey’s star is brighter at the moment and he’d sell more tickets than Garfield (not that he needs to if he’s opposite Grande). Personally, I can’t stand Andrew Garfield, so I’d also just prefer he no longer be rumored/attached i

Saw this tonight. Joshua Henry will win the Tony and earned one of the only genuine midshow ovations I’ve ever seen after “Wheels of a Dream”. He and Nichelle Lewis (also excellent) looked genuinely moved. Every time Henry opens his mouth, it is musical theatre heaven. My quibbles with the show are moot; this production is A+.

What a night to see this show, exiting the theater in tears to the news of Mamdani’s win (and news I’d gotten the apartme

Jay Lerner-Z said: "75 minutes. No set. One cast member.

Why is "Broadway" necessary, and how can Broadway prices be justified?"

Broadway is where they can pack in the most people over the course of a 4-month run and command the most money from a show with low overhead costs (unit set, one actor, one act). Daniel Radcliffe is a celebrity and just won a Tony Award a couple years ago, so producers are capitalizing on those factors. That’s it.