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Ryan & Uzele to lead NEW YORK, NEW YORK On Broadway
Mar 25
2023, 12:28:43 AM
If anyone goes in expecting "Happy Endings" to be a showstopper, don't. All of 5 people on the planet care.
But if you go in wanting a big, splashy original, yet classic musical with heart and style, you will not be disappointed.
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Michael R. Jackson's new musical 'White Girl in Danger' to premiere Off-Broadway in March 2023
Mar 15
2023, 11:23:13 PM
"This was some of the most hateful white-phobic pieces of work i’ve seen. I’m not white but it was 3 hours of beating a dead horse. There is no way anyone else would get away with it if they were making these type of comments about African Americans or African American stereotypes."
I love this comment because this is exactly the sort of nonsensical thinking MRJ is skewering. The show is indeed too long and all over the place, but it takes modern concepts of B
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Wedding Band by Alice Childress at TFANA
Apr 30
2022, 11:01:56 PM
Synecdoche2, I saw this on Thursday and agree with you up to a point:
The script is outstanding.
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THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH Previews
Apr 20
2022, 11:02:39 AM
inception said:
Would these be subscribers? Or people who got discount tickets, but didn't know the play & didn't realize what they were getting themselves in for?
I wonder if anyone walked out of early previews when this originally played Broadway with Frederich March & Tallulah Bankhead? What I would give to have been able to see Montgomery Clift in that cast as well!
What about when it played London in '46 with Vivien Leigh as Sabina? Did
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THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH Previews
Apr 20
2022, 12:08:36 AM
Saw this tonight. The material is, of course, brilliant, but this production is mainly a miss, with the exception of a stellar third act. The tone of THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH is notoriously hard, and Blain-Cruz does not land it. The production does not trust the text and tries to be a broad 50s TV situation comedy in the first two acts. It's absurdist, but it's not supposed to be a wacky comedy. The production, in an attempt to heighten the meta-ness, mistakenly acts "in quote
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Encores! Little Shop of Horrors Review Thread
Jun 30
2015, 11:29:13 PM
There was an invited dress rehearsal to fill the house, per usual Encores style? That saps the event and anticipation out of tomorrow's performance. I guess tomorrow's audience won't be the "first" to see Ellen return to the role. That's a big reason folks bought tickets.
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