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Kiss of the Spider Woman - Still no distributor...
 Feb 6 2025, 04:51:40 PM

Please, everyone, calm down.

This film will NOT be killed and claimed as a business loss (i.e. a tax deduction colloquially referred to as a "write-off") for anyone. Even standard "Hollywood Accounting" where films generate a loss for the business are still released in 99.9% of cases.

Discovery's post-merger tax options provided a unique option to totally kill a movie as a tax write-off. This is a rare occurrence that also happened to generate much press –whic


David Lynch and Musicals/Broadway
 Jan 17 2025, 12:07:58 PM

It's always been a fervent belief of mine that David Lynch is the only director who could ever adapt Anyone Could Whistle properly for the screen.


His surrealist interpretation of suburban Americana seemed perfectly positioned to mine this absurdist musical for maximum value. 


Future Bernadette Peters on Broadway shows?
 Jan 14 2025, 12:47:37 PM

Moonshot casting –but it would be so special and full circle to see her as the Old Lady / Blair Daniels in a Sunday revival.

The production could honestly do some casting changes and have her play the Old Lady in act 1 and Marie again in act 2. 


First Preview Gift Thread
 Dec 1 2024, 12:56:28 PM

Company (Marianne Elliott) had "I <3 NY" totes birthday party hats inside for both first previews. The ushers handed out balloons upon exit, also. The 2022 (second) first preview also included a Company face mask inside of the totes.


GYPSY Previews - most important question
 Nov 26 2024, 01:09:31 AM

pdjennings said: "Can anyone who’s been let me know what the actual first row of the center orchestra is? It’s showing as B on Telecharge, but there are never seats showing up there for any performance. I’m wondering if C is the actual front row due to the built outproscenium. Thanks!"

I sat in C and was in the second row so B is first.

I believe that there is a section of AA, BB, and CC rows that were removed for the passerelle. 


GYPSY Previews - most important question
 Nov 24 2024, 12:46:37 AM

Jordan Catalano said: "Is there entirety of “Rose’s Turn” still being done on the passerelle?"

Friday night, yes. Unsure about today  

Rose begins crossing the passerelle around “you either have it —or, you’ve had it!” (I believe) and is center-passerelle by “momma’s gonna show it to ya” where she stood for the remainder of the number. 


GYPSY Previews
 Nov 23 2024, 10:29:15 AM

I attended the second preview and had the added fortune of sitting second row. I’m still reeling from last night’s performance, which was largely a triumph and tour de force from McDonald. 

It felt like she put every ounce of herself into the performance and left nothing off the table. Rose’s Turn stopped time. I felt like I ran a marathon after the night, and I don’t know how she gives this performance 8x a week without collapsing each night. 


Universal's WICKED Film - News & Discussion Thread
 Oct 2 2024, 10:55:06 AM

degrassifan said: "Nothing official, but apparently no songsfrom Act One havebeen cut, and the new songs are allegedly for Act Two."

This was reported in this thread earlier this year. The new songs composed for Wicked Part 2 are:

 
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The Girl in the Bubble - Glinda (a snippet of this leake


Marianne Elliot hopes to make a COMPANY film
 Sep 6 2024, 12:14:56 PM
Seems like this would be a no-brainer for Anne Hathaway to lead, non? She was allegedly supposed to open Broadway until she became aware of her pregnancy.

She's really balances out the best of Rosalie and Katrina, imo.

Recommended TV shows with lots of theater actors
 Aug 15 2024, 10:40:52 AM
Robert & Michelle King film their shows in NYC and love to slot in a Broadway actor into a guest role. The Good Wife, The Good Fight, EVIL, and Elsbeth all feature a ton of top tier Broadway talent.
OH, MARY! Previews
 Jun 26 2024, 01:55:07 PM
Should we expect any changes to the material –whether that's adding anything new or extending a certain moment?

Or will this largely be a cut and paste transfer?

Musicals that will never be revived on Broadway
 May 20 2024, 11:34:03 PM

I only see HERE WE ARE on Broadway 75 years after the death of David Ives when a new composer writes additional songs for Act 2 and a proper finale.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Mean Girls

King Kong

Tarzan

Amélie

Tuck Everlasting

War Paint (maybe if two divas could d


HERE WE ARE heads to the recording studio
 May 17 2024, 11:33:19 PM

The Bishop’s Song, while delightful and brilliantly orchestrated, perplexes me. There’s almost no rhyme!

Have we ever had a Sondheim song with hardly any rhymes?

For someone who held brilliant rhyme scheme in lyricism to the highest regard, it’s so out of character that it has to be intentional.  

This is where I really grieve the revised Hat book that will never come.


HERE WE ARE heads to the recording studio
 May 17 2024, 05:15:52 PM

I've been listening since 11 PM last night, and I'm still digesting. There are a lot of delivery choices that changed for the album, and I'm just really accustomed to the slightly quicker, bigger performances from the stage.

I just now realized... they didn't include the monologues at the end, and now I'm completely gutted. Seems like such a huge miss to 1) capture each of these actors' incredible take on the material and 2) give listeners who didn't se


Universal's WICKED Film - News & Discussion Thread
 May 15 2024, 01:40:31 PM

rattleNwoolypenguin said: "Midnight Radio said: "I think it mostly looks good (sped down for sure, since it's only Act I.) One thing I am really not feeling so far is this toned down Morrible. I miss the powdered face and the grandeur"

I mean, it’s a Broadway show so that works there.

Morrible onstage reflects a Broadway acting for the back row sensibility.

Why not have Morrible in this feel more grounded?
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Next Sondheim?
 May 4 2024, 11:59:49 AM

BJR said: "Jesse St. James said: "Sweaty Oracle is saying Anyone Can Whistle is about to be announced with Rachel Bay Jones, Nathan Lane, and Phillipa Soo. John Weidman doing book revisions. Jonathan Tunick Orchestrating. And apparently it’s going to broadway?

https://www.tiktok.com/@sweatyoracle/video/7364921703283133738?lang=en
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Lane seems an odd choice... For the male love interest opposite Soo? Or can someone remind me, is the narrator role Angela played in the concert in the show, too?
"

My initial assumption is that Lane would be Comptroller Schub.  

The full production (the non-concert version available to license) has a very brief narration at the top of the show, but otherwise there is no narration or narrator.


What’s Your Favorite Song From the 23-24 Season
 Apr 27 2024, 10:34:17 PM

"Shine" - Here We Are

 
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Here We Are
 Apr 17 2024, 03:40:56 PM

MrBroucek said: "jacobsnchz14 said: "StylishCynic said: "Did anyone attend the dress rehearsal last night?"

 
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https://x.com/neilrklein/status/1707220551008239861?s=20

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@neilrklein

Tonight I got to sit in on the last dress rehearsal of Here We Are (tech tables still out!!) one of the biggest honors of my life in NYC thus far. SO - Whatever you’re expecting, it’s not that - Rachel Bay Jones you are a REVELATION - It’s all for art, the rest is just noise <3

I won’t say more :) EXCEPT I hope the subtle reference to The Frogs was on purpose and just. Ahhh. Thank you Mr. Sondheim and everyone on this production. “We gotta be the luckiest people who ever lived” <333

 

 

I am happily revisiting this thread. What was The frogs reference? I think I missed it or it was cut!

Thanks
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Perhaps it was the "Toasts", specifically the ones involving wine? 

I understand how that can be perceived as a wink to "Hymn to Dionysos".


Sondheim Estate Permissions Custom Stephen Sondheim Musical Tribute Revues (Music + Lyrics)
 Apr 11 2024, 04:31:18 PM

HogansHero said: "*"Permission" is not a verb."

I knew this when I titled the thread, and I still decided to use it. I found using "permission" as a verb to be both succinct and ideal for what I wanted the title to convey.

Many common words that we use today were simply made up by individuals like Shakespeare and Dr. Seuss. I'm not at all saying that I'm "on their level" because that's ridiculous


Sondheim Estate Permissions Custom Stephen Sondheim Musical Tribute Revues (Music + Lyrics)
 Apr 9 2024, 03:08:03 PM

fashionguru_23 said: "Unfortunately, the article is incorrect. Sondheim on Sondheim is available to license.As well as the off-Broadway and Broadway versions of "Putting It Together". Also, the lesser known revues "Marry Me a Little", using cut and trunk songs from 1981, written by Craig Lucas; and "You're Gonna Love Tomorrow", which was performed at the Whitney Museum in 1983 are availableto license. These are all in the MTI website.

I do


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