Snow White 2025
Mar 19
2025, 11:37:52 AM
Have you entertained the possibility that "the Johnathon Bailey look a like" is actually a Tony winner?
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Jamie Lloyd-helmed EVITA revival to play the London Palladium in 2025
Mar 17
2025, 02:40:46 AM
DCFMA is the least of my concerns. The question is, can she handle Rainbow High? Does she have the energy or the depth the number calls for?
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Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center
Feb 13
2025, 09:13:44 AM
Call_me_jorge said: "Ah, nothing like a little smugness to deflect from the actual point. No one’s arguing that this is the worst thing Trump has done, but pretending it’s insignificant is exactly why he keeps getting away with these power grabs. ‘There are bigger issues’ is the same excuse used every time Democrats let another norm get bulldozed. And Hakeem Jeffries openly admitting they don’t know what leverage they have? That’s not stra
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Tony Awards Race
Jan 28
2025, 10:01:44 AM
Nicole is great, but Audra gave the best performance I saw in the last few years. Seeing Audra in Gypsy gave me the same goosebumps as when I saw Bette Midler in Hello Dolly!.
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Universal's WICKED Film - News & Discussion Thread
Jan 18
2025, 07:53:58 AM
binau said: "Maybe it goes deeper than this but my understanding RE: Cynthia Erivo backlash is it's more to do with her aggressive online personality, I don't think many people can deny her talent? I always think best to separate the artist from the person."
Hard to forget her effort in closing Comet.
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AUDRA GYPSY Reviews
Jan 18
2025, 07:28:26 AM
Saw it yesterday and OMG Audra is revelatory! Gypsy to me has always been a star vehicle. Not that the characters are not three dimensional, but it’s just that the Mama Roses we’ve had, like Ethel Merman, Bernadette Peters, Patti Lupone, played the role as a diva, and it worked because of their portrayals. Audra’s performance feels so fresh and grounded, and I 100% agree with one of the previous posters saying that it is as if you are discovering the score for the first time
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Universal's WICKED Film - News & Discussion Thread
Nov 29
2024, 07:20:56 PM
Saw it today and thought it was fine. The movie adds some blood to the material and some much needed room to breathe, which really worked for the final payoff of the number we all know. However, I just can’t wrap my head around why almost all the performers in the movie did not trust the material and decided to add distracting flourishes that did not add any value to their performances. The show works if you sing the score the way it is written and it’s proven every night at
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Nicole Scherzinger
Nov 12
2024, 03:26:12 AM
Ensemble1731275423 said: "VintageSnarker said: "OhHiii said: "If an actress (who may be giving the more Tony-worthy performance) were to lose the Tony due to political beliefs that no one knows for certain are her actual political beliefs (she has plausible deniability at this point), then we're farrrrrr too gone. [...] It has to be said again. NO ONE KNOWS WHO SHE VOTED FOR. "
Conveniently leaving out the support for Russell Brand and restr
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Nicole Scherzinger
Nov 12
2024, 03:21:04 AM
Keep witch-hunting and you wonder why Harris lost lol. Harris’s loss is no surprise to anyone who is not delusional enough to live in the liberal bubble and pretend everyone should care about identity politics before putting food on their table.
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Patti LuPone called a privileged, racially microaggressive bully by Hell's Kitchen cast member
Nov 4
2024, 11:12:29 AM
Imagine making Patti sign a playbill of Sunset Blvd..
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THE ROOMMATE Reviews
Nov 3
2024, 11:10:46 AM
Anyone who went to law school would know that if you do not complain about a nuisance, it would become a prescriptive easement after a certain period of time, and you would no longer have legal standing about the nuisance. It's very standard and the production team is doing the right thing to let HK know about the issue.
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Patti LuPone called a privileged, racially microaggressive bully by Hell's Kitchen cast member
Nov 3
2024, 11:05:10 AM
Noise is nuisance. If Patti does not complain it would well become a prescriptive easement after a certain period of time and she would have no legal standing to complain.
It's very standard from a legal perspective. How is any of this "racially microaggressive"?
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SUNSET BLVD. Reviews
Oct 30
2024, 12:18:13 PM
TotallyEffed said: "RJ14 said: "She was delightful but it was very funny and shady from Stephen to ask her to sing something from Sondheim and not ALW"
Not shady at all, Colbert is a massive Sondheim nerd."
In this context, it's hard to not take into consideration that Sondheim found it impossible to musicalize Sunset Boulevard, but ALW did.
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SUNSET BLVD. Reviews
Oct 21
2024, 11:28:02 AM
Seb28 said: "I agree with Jesse Green's review -- just out in The New York Times -- that Nicole gives us a performance as opposed to a characterization.
I would need to see her acting first before I could suggest other roles I'd like to see her in.
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Yeah, when I attended the performance I saw, I got the strong feeling that I was watching the Scherzinger show than Sunset Boulevard during her two bi
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Scherzinger in SUNSET BLVD. Previews
Oct 19
2024, 05:55:23 PM
One thing I find confusing about Scherzinger’s performance is that during With One Look she is doing too much extra body movements. In context, Norma is supposed to be able to do all she sings “with one look,” but with the set design and concept of this production, her choices are actively working against the material, which I found to be extremely distracting in the performance I attended.
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Metcalf stars in Hunter’s LITTLE BEAR RIDGE ROAD at Steppenwoolf, directed by Mantello
Jun 24
2024, 07:41:14 PM
Have to say I really miss the time when we got at least one Metcalf play every season. Guess no one is willing to mount these seemingly less profitable productions at such a pace after Scott Rudin went down.
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BEN PLATT: LIVE AT THE PALACE Threads
Jun 8
2024, 05:01:39 AM
PipingHotPiccolo said: "Aw, sweets, since Ben is doing a nightly show on 47/bway, I'm guessing he's staying in some apartment somewhere in town, and I just saw Beanie at dinner a few weeks ago in the West 80s, but yes, its true, they are so successful and unbothered by the loons on this board, that I agree they would be laughing at them from whichever well appointed residence they happen to be in at any given moment."
very chilly stalker vibe
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THE NOTEBOOK Broadway Previews
Jun 3
2024, 06:08:10 PM
I don't think this is racial blind but rather very cleverly racially conscious. Remember the story happened mainly in the 60s and 70s, and the notebook was written by Allie, who in the present day is a white woman. You would think what would happen if in the story Allie is white and Noah is black, and suddenly it makes sense that Allie's parents would treat Noah the way they did, including calling police on him for "kidnapping," not just because Noah is a lumberjack. You might think it is a r
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BEN PLATT: LIVE AT THE PALACE Thread
May 29
2024, 05:44:01 PM
BrodyFosse123 said: " "
Lead by example? What example? Huge egos to do Dear Evan Hansen movie knowing the ship has long sailed?
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BEN PLATT: LIVE AT THE PALACE Thread
May 28
2024, 02:30:46 AM
EDSOSLO858 said: "From Judy Garland and Harry Belafonte to Liza Minnelli and Elvis Presley, Broadway’s past and present will come together as Platt graces the stage, adding a new unforgettable chapter to the Palace’s storied legacy.”
What does this mean? Will he perform numbers by these legends, or does it simply state the fact that these legends have performed at Palace?
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