MCNEAL Reviews Oct 1
2024, 06:47:11 PM
I find it fascinating that Downey and his team thought the script was good enough to be worthy of his long-awaited Broadway debut. Maybe they don’t have enough experience with plays to recognize a good script from a bad one, and were sold on the prestige of the playwright and director? Very strange.
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Rachel Zegler & Kit Connor-led ROMEO + JULIET Previews Oct 1
2024, 03:12:16 PM
DCDrama2's review is the funniest thing I have read on this board in a long time! Well done.
Wish I could see this train wreck, but I am over 40 and actually like Shakespeare, so I am probably not the target demographic.
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Tony Award-Winning PARADE Revival On Tour Sep 20
2024, 02:48:32 PM
I guess Suskauer’s online temper tantrum about not being cast in the Funny Girl tour is being rewarded…
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Little Shop...Who Leads? Anyone know? Sep 19
2024, 07:38:39 PM
I didn’t know Nicholas Christopher is only 34. Huh. Anyway, I love SRS, but 57 is definitely too old for the part. Ellen Greene did it in a concert version, and having originated in the role and played it in the movie, it was kind of a special event. Rob McClure was also a great Seymour I’m sure, but with the whole “Mushnik and Son” subplot, a 42 year old seems a bit of a stretch.
Speaking of Rob McClure, I recently saw him in the Mrs. Doubtfire tour, and whatev
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Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season! Sep 19
2024, 07:20:34 PM
If Joy Woods is indeed playing Louise, it was kind of an odd flex to say on social media that’s she’s not. Or maybe she was in final callbacks and she didn’t know yet. I can see why Audra probably did it as a “That’s right producers, you better meet my terms” move, but…yeah it seems pretty obvious at this point that Joy Woods and Jordan Tyson are Louise and June - the production might as well announce it already.
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Little Shop...Who Leads? Anyone know? Sep 19
2024, 06:08:56 PM
Scott and Christopher are supremely talented, but having Seymour and Audrey be in their 40's/50's is an odd choice.
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Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season! Sep 18
2024, 01:16:09 PM
Interesting. If several A-listers have indeed declined the role of Herbie, it will probably end up being Corey Stoll or someone like that.
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THE ROOMMATE Reviews Sep 14
2024, 08:20:11 PM
EDSOSLO858 said: "Jordan Catalano said: "Who is the understudy? I hope it’s Annette Bening."
Carol Halstead understudies both Sharon and Robyn."
In cases like this, a standby is hired only because AEA requires it. They will typically cancel a performance if the star is unable to go on. Years ago I worked with the guy who was the standby for Brian Dennehy in Death of a Salesman at The Goodman. When the show transferred to Broa
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Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season! Sep 10
2024, 09:41:18 PM
BentleyB said:
"I hear it is Harry Connick Jr for that true Louisiana, New Orleans flavor."
I heard that rumor too - and that Jessie Mueller will be Audra's alternate, so every Wednesday matinee will be an On A Clear Day reunion!!!
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Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season! Sep 10
2024, 08:09:08 PM
MidWestTheater said: "Jason3 said: "BCfitasafiddle said: "Rumor, as of now, is Norbert Leo Butz is Herbie."
He does qualify as a Tony winner (for Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Catch Me If You Can) who has done drag (in Is He Dead?). I think he's a great choice for Herbie.
Looking forward to this production."
I would be surprised if he was in this, considering he's starring in Vladmir at MTC in a few weeks.
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Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season! Sep 6
2024, 01:34:47 PM
Jordan Tyson is leaving The Notebook…possible June?
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Considering America's gun problem, is ANNIE GET YOUR GUN incapable of being revived responsibly? Sep 6
2024, 01:27:36 AM
Although I haven’t seen the show since the Peters revival, I don’t think the guns would be a problem. Target shooting is indeed a sport - and a fun one, I must say. The show glorifies the sport, not murder.
Considering that I thought it was an unbearably cheesy show when I saw it as a teenager twenty years ago, I imagine it would play even worse now - especially, as another poster pointed out, with its depiction of Native Americans. It has some nice songs, but there&rs
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Beanie Feldstein & More to Star in SPELLING BEE at Kennedy Center Aug 30
2024, 12:12:49 PM
Islander_fan said: "The Distinctive Baritone said: "Licensing companies all have different rules as to what is a “professional” production, but I imagine if professional productions are restricted, it is mostlyEquity companies that will not be granted licenses for it."
What about a professional company that isn’tan equity one? For example, years ago I lived upstate in Rhinebeck New York and volunteered at the local armature the
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Beanie Feldstein & More to Star in SPELLING BEE at Kennedy Center Aug 30
2024, 09:13:38 AM
Licensing companies all have different rules as to what is a “professional” production, but I imagine if professional productions are restricted, it is mostly Equity companies that will not be granted licenses for it.
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Beanie Feldstein & More to Star in SPELLING BEE at Kennedy Center Aug 30
2024, 12:08:46 AM
The standard for what gets deleted on this board has never been consistent in my two decades of posting here. That said, from my observation, deleted posts tend to fall into one of three categories:
a) something particularly harsh is said about a very beloved Broadway actor (usually if it's about their personal life/personality etc. rather than an opinion about a performance)
b) the post is unusually mean towards a particular board member (bullying, name-calling, etc.)
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SARAH BRIGHTMAN - Sunset Blvd in Sydney Aug 29
2024, 09:36:59 AM
Out of place classical style of singing of a pop ballad aside, vocally she sounds fine with this clip. The problem for me though is that there is zero acting happening - no vulnerability, joy, or catharsis for one of the biggest moments in this character's life. I know it's an 80 second clip, but considering that this is an essential scene in the show, it's rather telling.
She's also doing that weird breathing technique that some critics pointed out...rather d
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Funny Girl Tour cast changes. Aug 24
2024, 11:51:28 PM
alovingfan said: "Interesting that Katerina did not really use that much of her social media to promote herself or develop her audience throughout the year. Bits and pieces.. but not much. Wondering if Melissa stays with the show a little longer since she missed a few months due to injury."
That might be due to the social media ****storm that occurred when her casting was initially announced. Angry unemployed Jewish musical theatre actresses and various keyboard warr
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Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season! Aug 13
2024, 12:17:19 PM
I'm going off of the audition notice, which doesn't say June should be able to "pass" as white, just that she is biracial (light skinned Black). Even without the concept, Joy Woods just seems more like a June to me. But whatevs. Louise is a great part so I'm happy for her.
[JUNE] 18+ to play Teens through 20s. Biracial; her mother is Black and her father is White. Female identifying. Mezzo Soprano with a high chest extension. Although she is in her mid-teens, Dain
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Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season! Aug 13
2024, 11:40:56 AM
I thought the concept was to have Louise be dark-skinned and June mixed race and light skinned? Joy Woods would seem to be more of a June in this case...
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Kit Connor, Rachel Zegler to star in Sam Gold-directed ROMEO + JULIET Aug 12
2024, 03:13:24 PM
ColorTheHours048 said: "Sutton Ross said: "Yeah, Tommy Dorfman is certainly a choice to play the Nurse."
Out of curiosity: why? I didn’t watch 13 Reasons Why, but I strongly recall seeing her in an adaptation of La Ronde before that show was even in production and thinking she was exceptionally talented.
It’s clear this production is going for a “young people playing all ages” concept, so I’m not sure why Tommy as
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