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While Sunset may not be a financial runaway hit, it certainly is a cultural one. 

I know Jesse has been simping Audra’s performance since he saw the show, and I’ve been vocal about how i didn’t love her in the role. But MY GOD I’m so tired of the implication and narrative that she was somehow slighted by not winning the Tony. The woman has SIX. SIXXXXXXXXXXX. No sane person can make a case that Audra McDonald has been passed over unfairly by the Tony Awards. Enough.

I imagine Pasek & Paul have been focused on developing Greatest Showman for the stage for the past couple years, but that's not to say they can't work on multiple things at once, just that Greatest Showman has been prioritized for the public first (and with Disney behind it). 

TheatreFan4 said: "She is really speed running burning through her goodwill thinking anybody cares about her outside of Sunset. Like... before this her ass was a judge on Masked Singer. Barely a step up from competing on Masked Singer..."

Are you ok? 

iluvtheatertrash said: "This would be a great way to get me to NOTsee one of my favorite musicals."

Stay mad.

Tenor8674 said: "Always thought CSC or the Roundabout would be perfect to produce The Baker's Wife. I liked it a lot when the Papermill did it years ago. However, I am disappointed that Endless Delights has been excised from the licensed show."

Same director for CSC as was at Papermill and the Chocolate Factory. It's been a different production each time, so curious how this one will be done. The CSC space is pretty unique.

That's a looooooottttt of seats. But maybe Rachel's star power combined with the show title make for a bigger event than Gypsy which has struggled many weeks? Idk...

Jordan Catalano said: "Ivo also used cameras outside the theater in “Network”. Crazy to me how Jamie is credited as such a visionary for it when he lifted it from Ivo."

I suppose if Ivo's iterations of the method had been seen as successful as Lloyd's implementation, he wouldn't be getting said credit.

Reminder that people hated it in WSS. 

Double post.. It's also not like Audra has been slighted by the Tony Awards!! SHE HAS SIX! MORE THAN ANYONE.

AKarp2013 said: "EDSOSLO858 said: "Remember, this is pre-Tonys…"

Yes. We know. We’re well aware."

You must be a hoot and a half at parties.

 

I imagine Real Women Have Curves will give their Tonys performance a moment to catch before pulling the plug since that's such a significant chunk of change. I don't think it was a particularly strong number, so doubt it moved the needle. I imagine Sunset and Gypsy easily had the best sales nights last night. The original musicals chose odd numbers. Or numbers that read oddly in the space/on TV. 

If I had to guess it'll be Smash that folds first.

The colors in the title treatment are so bizarre. The red and pink clash and you can't even read The Musical, so why even bother? The image is fine, but that promo video is fantastic. Hits and misses.

This thread is a microcosm of culture at large right now and we had better figure it out or we're cooked (we already are, but here's hoping!).

What I will say is I think Ira Madison's take on this situation is the correct and most reasonable. There's a lot of projecting onto this situation with not a lot of evidence. There aren't stories about Patti being racist to co-stars, yet she's being painted like she's a klanswoman. Which is ridiculous. Does she have bias? Probably. Every human being does no matter how socially conscious they are. Did Patti go too far and was the interview in poor taste? Yes and yes. But this is snowballed so much that it's really bordering on absurdity.

https://iramadison.substack.com/p/is-patti-lupone-racist

May have already been posted, but I'd rather claw my eyes out in slow motion than read through every page of this, so apologies if this is redundant.

Not that it matters, but Norm Lewis is straight.