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Here's an interesting article from 2008 that sheds some light on dressing rooms.

Dressing Rooms

Watch the video linked below. It is video captured from the infrared stage manager's camera located on the balcony rail. It allows us to "see in the dark". Napier's designs were truly mind blowing. He fit a huge amount of scenery onto that stage! This video is from a preview performance in London. LuPone stars.

 
SUNSET BOULEVARD - West End (July, 1993)

Christ, it was barely a hundred years ago my family fled Russia to NYC

Surely they came to NYC through the proper legal process?

Broadway in Richmond

Richmond, VA

Shucked 10/29-11/3, 2024

Mamma Mia 12/10-12/15, 2024

MJ The Musical 1/28-2/2, 2025

Moulin Rouge 3/4-3/16, 2025

A Beautiful Noise 4/15-4/20, 2025

Chicago 5/9-5/11, 2025

Some Like it Hot 6/3-6/8, 2025

Does the current production have an overture? I had forgotten that the original production had an overture that was not recorded for the cast recording. It sounds wonderful and just listen to those strings!

The Wiz overture

Oh wow. I had a feeling that Sutton wouldn't be a good fit for the role but I never imagined she would sound that bad.

Better to throw your money down the sewer, as Lovett would say.

Morocco, you are not in the minority at all. Like with Phantom, I'd want to see the original staging and orchestrations and choreo, just with a new cast. Otherwise, it seems like diminishing returns.
Those original descending catwalks in Steppin To The Bad Side looked so awesome...but there's no clear video of them online. Would love to see that effect live.

Here's some good video of the set in action on Broadway.
 Act 2 Opening

Listener said: "This one stings.

I only saw Chita once, in Drood, but she was so lovely at the stage door and always so vivacious in her interviews I somehow convinced myself I'd get the chance to see her again in something.

Life is so short. She made the most of it. What a superb performer and person.

Did they end up doing something in her honor at Chicago?"

There was mention made at the CHICAGO curtain call.

 

What a life. Farewell Chita.

There will be a special Stars in The House tonight at 8pm ET Celebrating the Life of Chita Rivera.

Here's the link to that tribute

I know I'm likely in the minority here but I wish they would completely recreate the original Michael Bennett production with Robin Wagner's light towers, Tharon Musser's masterful lighting, and Theoni V. Aldredge's stunning costumes. All of the elements added up to a flawless look. 

Alex Newell must play Effie.

I Am Changing

Hard to believe that Carol Channing was never honored.

Over all the years of the honors there are several who really didn't even deserve it. 

Freak and potentially career-ending accidents are happening more often at Broadway musicals, according to the maestros’ union.

During an Oct. 8 performance of “Back to the Future The Musical,” a skateboard flew from the stage into the orchestra pit near the end of the first act, smashing trumpeter Raul Agraz’s horn into his mouth.

Flying skateboards! Plummetting meat grinders! Freak accidents during Broadway shows endangering musicians: union

Broadway musicians say they are being preyed upon by violent criminals at the stage door of the beloved “The Lion King” musical and other shows.

‘Lion King’ musicians being targeted after NYC Broadway shows: ‘Out of control’

muscle23ftl said: "OK, I changed my mind, I was listening to Celia Keenan Bolger and her Mary is the absolute best, when I saw the show live, I thought she was weak as Mary, then I realized she is an absolute skilled actress who really digs very deep in her characters and that's why she played the role, the way she did.

Anyway, the recording with Colin Donnell, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Adam Grupper, Elizabeth Stanley and Betsy Wolfe, and featuring a

muscle23ftl said: "Emily Skinner -I love her but she was terrible as Gussie Carnegie. Totally miscast as Gussie, just like the actress playing the role now on Broadway."

I thought Skinner was wonderful. She got some big laughs.

 

Hi performance of "Now" on the London Cast Recording of NIGHT MUSIC is sublime.

Now

A Brazilian man, his wife and his mistress have all been sentenced to decades in prison after being convicted of murdering women and cooking their flesh in pastries which they sold to neighbours.

Cannibal trio sentenced after cooking flesh into pastries

Smash by Garson Kanin.

The novel is in the form of a production diary for Shine On, Harvest Moon, the fictional musical being created about the life of vaudevillian Nora Bayes. The diary is kept by Production Secretary Midge Maghakian, a young woman who leaves her secure publishing job to join the staff. She finds herself caught up in the various power struggles to control the musical.

Smash (novel)