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When Billy Joel won the best orchestration Tony for "Movin' Out," I realized there's not a lot of people who understand what an orchestration is.

The season of 1927-1928 had 36, but I’m not sure if that’s a record.
 

More recently, 1971-1972 had 17 or so.

I’ve had 5, but I’m only a lowly dance arranger.

I thought this show was beautifully staged, and compellingly acted. I was expecting something pretty terrible, based on the reviews I've read here. I disagree...I think this is terrific.

I saw the show last night, and Billy was in. In my opinion, this is the best musical in New York at the moment, a complete triumph.

“Probably the fact that he's directing two other shows besides this one this spring. Kind of irresponsible really.”

It’s probably not his fault. Directors generally develop several projects at once, but have no control on when they get to production.

It’s true Sondheim didn’t mind his songs being transposed. I asked him once why so many of his songs are in such difficult keys, and he said it was for the performers.

By the same token, I wouldn’t mind if Tveit had all of his songs transposed into tenor keys, if that’s where his voice lives. The problem is that it’s expensive to do that, since a major shift in keys means a re-orchestration is necessary.

There’s always been a rivalry between him and Matt Stone and Trey Parker. I really thought after Book Of Mormon he would write his own show, especially considering how much he loves musicals. I still wish he would.

One of the most consistently hilarious evenings I’ve ever spent in the theater. Unmissable.

Tommy Tune is 84 years old. We’re not getting another Nine from him.

I'm already preparing my medley of I Love Fosca and I Love Louisa from The Bandwagon.

I’m biased, as I wrote the dance and incidental music for the 2004 production. However, I saw it this afternoon, and I thought it was simply tremendous! I hear it’s sold out, but if you can get there, you’ll have a wonderful time!

Well, call me a Philistine.

I miss the old days, when songs would occasionally modulate away from the tonic.

As Sol Hurok once said, "If people don’t want to come, nothing will stop them.”

I thought this was tremendous, and am a little surprised by some of the cooler responses here.

I wish it was Spamalot.

For those that saw it in DC, were there any rewrites from the original version?

If you're suggesting that Jud is into glory holes, I'm all in.

So...Anyone who likes a show is a good person, but anyone who dislikes a show is a bad person. Got it.