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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:

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.

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"

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.

"Shine" - Here We Are

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

 

 

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

Thanks"

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

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

A small theater in Evanston, IL is performing an entirely custom Stephen Sondheim musical revue (titled "Sondheim Tribute Revue" ).

In its review, the Chicago Tribune outlined how the Sondheim Estate is permissioning custom Sondheim tribute revues on an ad hoc basis right now:

"For a limited time, the Sondheim estate has been granting permission to theaters to create their own customizable revue of the late, great one’s incomparable catalog.

Jordan Catalano said: "He’s very well known, yes. But it’s “a secret” for some reason."

Is there a reason why you can't just say who the actor is on an anonymous internet message board?

Candidly it always seems like a situation where someone wants to seem in the know while also not committing to a name that could prove them wrong when it finally is announced. In other words –having your cake and eating it, too.

The cast and creative team have started posting picture and video "dumps" on Instagram now that the production has wrapped. 

The final song is titled "Going Nowhere, As Always, With Brisk Determination (Finale)", which likely means that this is the song title of the recurring Road Sequences.

Outside of a rumored London premiere, I can definitely see regional productions at Steppenwolf or The Goodman in Chicago (although the former more likely due to their in-the-round theater) and Berkeley Rep being staged in the very near future. 

jacobsnchz14 said: "If anyone is catching the show over the next couple of weeks, would someone mind asking the merch people if they may sell out by the end of the run? I am going to closing and last time I went to a closing, most of the merch was sold out or selling out. And that was the Sunday in the Park revival… I know this is a different show, but so I thought about the former! Haha."

The website still has all merch available and offers free shipping on orders $50+. 

https://www.broadwaymerchandiseshop.com/collections/here-we-are

bear88 said: "Given the surreal nature of the source material, it is perhaps a fool's errand to ask too many questions about plot and character developments inHere We Are, and some things seem left to the audience's imagination or are open to interpretation. I couldn't figure out a way to address these queries without spoiling the plot. So here goes (under spoiler tags):