Profile for OhHiii

Voter said: "Fred Mason said: "Ariana was extremely good in The Baker’s Wife even though it was a relatively small role."https://www.tiktok.com/@ctwombat/video/7575762762261941535THIS is extremely good??"I missed this and I'm sorry...the choices she's making vocally make zero sense. And some halfway accent? I'm confused. I may get pitchforks after me for saying this, but she sings like she's a dancer first.

Alex Kulak2 said: The main problem is that her career trajectory has made no sense. She's the first true triple-threat to break into the mainstream in a long time, and since WSS, she's been in Schmigadoon, that Disney animated film no one saw, and a bunch of bad to forgettable movies in every other genre except musicals. Put her in some musicals, people!"The main problem is that people just don't really care about her vis a vis she can't sell tickets. Or, worse, after that BAFTA mess find her...

Kad said: "BJR said: "If RAGTIME was making significant money, they would be keeping it open. LCT (or any non profit right now) is not in the position to be closing hits they could run."These are nonprofit entities and they become producer-landlords once the production goes commercial and they get less revenue from ticket sales. And in the case of LCT, they lose their only Broadway stage and ability to program a Broadway season. There are very valid reasons that most nonprofits just don't kee...

bear882 said: "Prices fordecent seats toEvitaandPaddington, which I already have purchased, have been reasonable - and they are known quantities (even if I am unfamiliar with the latter show). But I wonder if producers will set prices sky-high for this one."This team is often high on it's own supply, but they have a huge house, so I imagine there will at least be a decent entry price in the Mezz, but they'll push those prices up as soon as they possibly can. This group of folks absolutely do ...

Ugh. I know I may be in a minority here but I find Ariana’s work (outside of WSS) to be wholly unremarkable. That’s coming from someone with 0 Oscars and 0 Tony noms, but I don’t find her to be a convincing leading lady by any stretch. Much less a ticket seller.

Ostensibly he'd have had a lower salary than some of the other stars too. All in all, she's not going anywhere anytime soon, that's for sure.

The casting well on this show is just SO deep at this point. There are still so many that could realistically take it on. Melissa McCarthy, Amy Poehler, Bob the Drag Queen. They've made so much money in their high highs that I imagine they can very much cover any lower-performing stints. And even then, have they ever not broken even to this point?

See theres this thing about art being subjective. You don't need to be shocked that someone had a different reaction than you.

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "OhHiii said: "There's some niche industry intrigue on this one as well. Jeffrey Seller is one of three investors (Nederlanders and Kevin McCollum being the other two)in the ad agency RPM and has had all of his shows there since it was founded (he moved Hamilton to RPM from Spotco, Sweeney was at RPM). It's interesting that he took this show back to SpotCo given that."You sure about Kevin and RPM? Post-pandemic, he's had every show with The Pekoe Group except for...

JP2 said: "She and her daughter moved to NYC and made it all our problem."ya'll are so weird for this lol. the woman is immensely talented and so is her daughter. stay miserable I guess.

There's some niche industry intrigue on this one as well. Jeffrey Seller is one of three investors (Nederlanders and Kevin McCollum being the other two) in the ad agency RPM and has had all of his shows there since it was founded (he moved Hamilton to RPM from Spotco, Sweeney was at RPM). It's interesting that he took this show back to SpotCo given that.The drama that goes on around marketing and where producers take their shows and how close agencies get to being fired from shows is a whole ...

John Adams taking this opportunity to air their grievances about the production that ALW was heavily involved in the development of... YOU have those issues. ALW was fine with them. And many in the audience actually found the show made MORE sense in this iteration than a purist approach to the material.It's an absurd show to begin with. The fact that there are Cats purists is even more absurd.

Keyboard warriors speak exclusively in hyperbole and there's very little room for any nuanced conversation. It's an affliction on our society, honestly.

Can we stop posting onstageblog as if it's news for the love of all that is holy?

Fred Mason said: "A new life for this? There’s no where else that this show could work. And there’s not really any audience for it. Alienating to the originalists but still Cats for those who hate cats. It appeals to no one."You're really miserable and full of lies because the fact that this thread exists indicates it does indeed appeal to many.

Yeah, the smugness is probably the most off-putting thing about this, not the ultimate goal of encouraging a cast recording. Especially given it flies in the face of fact and history.And then to take shots at people on this board as being "old guard"...what exactly are you trying to accomplish here? As if people who have been on this board for years and seasons upon seasons don't have legitimate wisdom on a topic? Go scratch with that.

n2nbaby said: "I do agree with a lot of what you said but man, oh man. I can’t get so much of this score out of my head. I need a cast recording yesterday.I do hope they do the work because it has got GREAT bones."So often it's the score that's forgettable with so many new musicals and this one doesn't have that problem (save for some finesse needed in the lyrics), so I'd say this is the best piece of news to those involved. You can produce your way around a mediocre score all you want, but i...

quizking101 said: "I have been in touch with the producing team. It was originally a hard no. But seeing how the initial social campaign got their attention, they are now working towards finding a solution to preserve or extend the life of the show (elsewhere) because of the demand.I wouldn’t be working with others to keep the pressure campaign up if I didn’t have knowledge that it was starting to work"Anyone else having Be More Chill flashbacks (triggered)?

MUSE and Maestra aren't employers, they're merely directories. It's not a violation of equal protection statutes for something like that. What an idiot.

I'm sorry to say, but a cast recording preserves the vocal performances of a production, not the execution. And I'm not alone in believing that while the concept and staging were revelatory, the vocal performances left A LOT to be desired. Which when watching the show as a whole, I was able to forgive a lot, but audio only would not serve this production well. I imagine the preservation that's being discussed is archival for LCT. And I won't even get into the keyboard warrior tactics people h...