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Caught the first preview last night and loved it. I found it to be very inventive and moving. I'm not typically someone with a lot of interest in dance, but it definitely kept me engaged and I thought the story was pretty easy to follow. It also probably helps a lot that "Illinois" is one of my favorite albums of all time. I know every note of that album so well from having listened to it so much, and seeing a live band perform it in its entirety was a

BroadwayRox3588 said: "They thought she was obligated to give her views on every single political and social issue in 2020/2021, and hate her because she didn't. I know that sounds like something made up, but that's literally why a lot of (especially younger) Gen Zers and Gen Alphas hate her."

 

I (a millennial for the record) am not about to re-litigate that whole debacle (especially because discussions of it were very often deleted fro

Caught this show yesterday and I'm sorry to say I'm very mixed on it. I love JRB and I think there are some songs in this show that are fantastic and approaching some of his best work. Having said that, there are also some songs that really did not click with me, and I think that had more to do with how some of them were used in the story than the songs themselves. Also, this show is still in previews so I know there are many changes to co

He's right that there seemed to be no room for the show in what's looked back on as one of the busiest Tony seasons. It's hard to have a hit when so many other heavy-hitters are stealing the spotlight. The Tony race was really Evan Hansen vs. Great Comet with Come From Away as a dark horse candidate.

But honestly, the show had its faults too. I don't know if it would have really been a juggernaut in a quieter season. It may have taken some Tony's away from The Band&

Just read this script. It was alright. It really condenses a lot of things (as most adaptations of books do) but it had some funny moments. This is most assuredly a stunt script written primarily to to garner attention for the writer-- something becoming more and more common on the Blacklist these days-- but it works well enough and I hope it brings them some notoriety.

There's basically a 0% chance that this gets made with all of the parties involved (many of whom have already

TheQuibbler said: "I saw this last night and really, really enjoyed it. I agree with the others who say it’s leagues better than the filmed London production. My biggest hang up was with the character of Gussy. She’s simply in it too much for being as uninteresting a character as she is. She’s a broadly painted femme fatale with not much going on and she just takes up too much real estate in the book. I’d rather have more time with Beth. Any time we’re w

Saw this on Broadway and then on tour (while visiting a friend in Philadelphia) and loved it both times. I don't think I've ever had such a visceral, emotional reaction to a piece of theatre before. It ranks up there with my favorite productions I've ever seen.

But having said that, even in a blue northeast city like Philly, audiences were not having it. The crowd was mostly made up of elderly people who were probably just excited to see a safe re-staging

Musicaldudepeter said: "What are people thinking the design and staging will be for this production? Will it be naturalistic or abstract? What is Kail's style normally?"

The set is being designed by the brilliant Mimi Lien, who is probably most famous for designing the set for Great Comet. I wouldn't be surprised if the show's design fell more on the metaphorical/immersive side of the spectrum than the realistic/representational side.

As for Tommy

Caught the show last night and LOVED it. I've seen the pro-shot of Friedman's 2013 production, so there weren't too many "surprises" in store, other than a brilliant cast all around. Groff is probably the best Frank I've ever seen-- in no small part due to the fact that he's so likable in real life that you can't help but care about Frank even when he's being an asshole in the show's first half. Lindsay Mendez is a fantastic Mary, her "Now You Kn

I think what stings the most about this show closing is that this show felt to me like a production that could have broken through to the mainstream in a way that Sondheim revivals very seldom (never) do. "Company" may have the stigma of being a somewhat confusing/cynical show, but I really think this revival had an energy to it, and a sense of scale and, most of all, a sense of fun that many Sondheim detractors say is generally missing from his

Synecdoche2 said: The tragedy of this production is that in 10 years people will see that it ran less time than the Doyle revival and got a pan in the New York Times and they will assume it was a mediocre or unsuccessful production. I hope those of us who love this production won't give up spreading the good word about it years down the line. I certainly won't!"

 

The good news is that this revival is actually set out to beat the Doyle revival in