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When I was at Illinois State University, there was also a reading of a new musical. it was called Brooklyn's Bridge, about the building of the Brooklyn Bridge. The librettist, Ray Roderick (who directed and re-wrote the book for the touring production of Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang) was an alum, and he workshopped it with students over the course of a semester.

GROFF WITH A BEARD, THIS IS NOT A DRILL, GROFF WITH A BEARD

I thought this was great. Shaina Taub's sound as a composer really scratches an itch with me, I'm always excited to hear anything she works on.

Schmigadoon winning Best Musical would heal the country, I think

Benjamin Scheuer is finally releasing his next musical!

As someone who loves The Lion, this is incredible news.

Please give Time Traveler's Wife to Ingrid Michaelson and Jordan Harrison.

The cast includes:

• Paul Mescal as Frank
• Ben Platt as Charley
• Beanie Feldstein as Mary
• Mallory Bechtel as Beth
• Lin-Manuel Miranda (his role hasn't been announced yet, but I think I heard somewhere that he's playing Joe Josephson)

According to Cinco Paul on Twitter, there are 11 new songs in Schmigadoon that were written for the stage show. Looking at IBDB, there are 24 songs. Maybe this gets them close enough to the 50% rule to slide in to the Best Original Score race?

This is a crazy popular show on TikTok. Your mileage is going to vary based on how much you appreciate the anime and video game musical influences. One podcast made a good point when they said "the music is definitely not AI-generated, but it's inspired by the music most commonly used to train AI models".

Personally, I like it. Some of the music can feel generic at times, but the sheer scale and ambition of the project from someone so young is really impressive.

The Chicago premiere will kick off their new residency at the Biograph Theater.

I've never been more excited to be a Chicagoan.

The Last Five Years is my second favorite musical of all time, and I've listened to just about every cast album and bootleg in existence. I think that makes me pretty qualified to say that Rachel Zegler gives the single greatest vocal performance I've ever heard for Cathy.

I asked JRB on Instagram, and he said these are the same expanded orchestrations from the Broadway production.

From Alex Timbers' Instagram.

Cast included Will Roland, Hannah Cruz, Chuck Cooper, Bonnie Milligan, Jordan Fisher, and more!

 

When the news came out, I was fully prepared for this to be one of those things that's announced that never actually materializes into anything (like the Thomas Kail-directed Fiddler remake). Now, it's looking likely that we'll have the movie by the end of next year at the latest.

Fordham2015 said: "Instagram post from Lin:

Octet Movie Cast List:
Amanda Seyfried is Jessica
Rachel Zegler is Velma
Sheryl Lee Ralph is Paula
Phillipa Soo is Karly
Gaten Matarazzo is Toby
Jonathan Groff is Henry
Tramell Tillman is Marvin
Paul-Jordan Jansen is Ed

Rehearsals have begun.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DXHUDspgL8A/"

Holy sh*t. That's one of the most stacked casts for a movie I've seen in a long time. This is going to be one for the ages.

Ensemble17701165943 said: "For those who have had the experience, how do you work on a show that is critically panned by critics? Or for a show where you know in your heart of hearts, this isn't very good ..."

I have to think New York housing costs are a pretty strong motivator.

I'm guessing this is a parody. There was a reading of a musical adaptation 9 years ago that had a book and lyrics by Christina Crawford, but that didn't go anywhere.

The only way this story would ever work on stage is if you lean as hard as you can into it's camp reputation, which I'm guessing Christina Crawford will never allow.

Apparently filming is imminent, as Lin just posted pictures of set construction on Instagram.

This might have one of the worst opening numbers I've ever heard. The guy who wrote Magic To Do, No One Mourns The Wicked, and Deliver Us should not be physically capable of writing a number this bad.

BrodyFosse123 said: "kdogg36 said: "swright1031 said: "morbid curiosity"

Is Morrison really so disliked as to justify this weird turn of phrase?"

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For the record, the SYTYCD thing is not true. He sent a DM to a dancer on the show to get her a job as a choreographer. Still unprofessional and inappropriate, but more due to showing favoritism than being flirty or harassing.