THE FANTASTICKS revival, reimagined as a gay love story, aiming for Broadway Jan 7
2026, 11:41:59 AM
KevinKlawitter said: "Christopher Gattelli as director & choreographer "
I like the idea of doing the show as a gay love story, but something feels deeply wrong about doing The Fantasticks in a Broadway house. It's a show meant to be done with 2 musicians and a box of props in a playing space the size of a living room.
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Playwrights Horizons sued over discount for POC Dec 29
2025, 08:09:58 PM
The Oracle commented on the lawsuit.
May no one ever come for me as ferociously as Sweaty came for Kevin Lynch.
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Vulture: Billy Porter Is Making a ‘Full Recovery’ from Sepsis Dec 23
2025, 10:59:19 AM
Very happy to hear he's recovering.
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Playwrights Horizons sued over discount for POC Dec 22
2025, 07:28:57 PM
Call_me_jorge said: "Note this lawsuit is from Kevin Lynch who has a notable history of spewing vile and racist hate speech on his YouTube. He claims theatre “hates white men”"
I used to watch him on YouTube. He's a very talented musician, and some of his videos were pretty funny before he started trying to become the Ben Shapiro of Broadway. It's a shame he decided to throw that all away to become a provocateur.
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Bowen Yang Dec 20
2025, 01:01:35 AM
Kad said: "It's certainly odd that he's leaving abruptly mid-season, particularly when he's the breakout star from the last several years. I know he was rumored to have been approached for Oh Mary but turned it down- I certainly wouldn't be surprised if he ended up doing it at some point."
It's uncommon, but not unheard of. Both Cecily Strong and Seth Meyers left the show mid-season.
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Patrick Wilson at 52 Dec 17
2025, 03:08:00 PM
JSquared2 said: "You might want to work on your subject heading -- it made it look like he was dead!"
I thought the same thing. After the week we've had, I don't think my heart could have taken it.
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Linda Emond, Alden Ehrenreich, and Patrick Ball to lead BECKY SHAW Dec 16
2025, 02:11:52 PM
Loved Patrick Ball on The Pitt, excited he's getting more work.
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Slam Frank's Blatantly Anti-Semitic IG Post Dec 15
2025, 12:06:58 AM
https://www.instagram.com/kampfirefilmspr
It's still live when I checked
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Slam Frank's Blatantly Anti-Semitic IG Post Dec 14
2025, 10:05:17 PM
I sent this message to Kampfire, their PR firm. Will update if I get a response.
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Next Maybe Happy Ending Leads? Dec 12
2025, 09:33:16 AM
Is Jason Gotay Asian? He could be a great Oliver.
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Jason Robert Brown Says Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Is Still Waiting for a Broadway Theatre Dec 5
2025, 07:16:56 PM
I saw Midnight in The Garden in Chicago, and while it certainly wasn't perfect (there are some serious plotting issues with Act 1), it felt like something that had a path to Broadway. For all that JRB had to say about this being a Taylor Mac show, and wanting to lean into Taylor Mac's style, it felt like one of JRB's more accessible shows.
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NYT: Jeremy O. Harris Is Arrested in Japan on Suspicion of Smuggling Drugs Dec 5
2025, 09:51:20 AM
From Google:
Japan can hold you for up to 23 days without a charge, during which time they'll try to force a confession. They can interrogate you without a lawyer present, and their conviction rate is 99%.
I don't know what the odds are that he'll actually spend the next 7 years in Japanese prison, but he is most likely cooked.
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The Expensive Lie: Why Does Broadway Keep Spending Millions on Marketing That Doesn't Work? Dec 4
2025, 11:00:31 AM
It's odd that the article used Six as an example of mishandled virality when Be More Chill is a much better example. It had an enormous online following that was able to elevate a show that ran for less than a month in a regional theater to a sold-out off-Broadway run, then to Broadway, where it flopped. It didn't flop because fans misinterpreted the show from the animatics and fan art, it flopped because the audience it connected with the most we
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Extremely strange Erivo audio book/Grande interview Dec 3
2025, 04:27:50 PM
ColorTheHours048 said: "TotallyEffed said: "Is this AI?"
Yes. Just more AI clickbait. For one, Brits don’t celebrate Thanksgiving, so there’s that."
and the part about being "under a Petri dish" since she was a teenager. Cynthia Erivo didn't make her acting debut until she was 23.
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Extremely strange Erivo audio book/Grande interview Dec 3
2025, 04:19:06 PM
TotallyEffed said: "Is this AI?"
As people in the replies have said, what probably happened was that a ghostwriter was hired to write the book, and the ghostwriter asked a chatbot for things Erivo said about body image in interviews, and it grabbed something by Grande by mistake.
The fact that something this lazy, cynical, and obvious went through multiple levels of copy-editing and fact-checking, and ended up printed on the page is deeply hilarious.
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August Rush in Aurora IL Dec 2
2025, 07:41:37 PM
Call_me_jorge said: "There’s currently a workshop happening. Looks like they’ve started completely from scratch; there’s an entirely new cast and creative team.
Kathleen Marshall directs/choreographs, Book by Nick Blaemire, Music and lyrics by Blaemire, Tom Kitt, Van Hughes, John Legend, Mark Mancina, Bonnie McKee, Luke Reynolds, and Chris Trapper.
Talia Suskauer and Matthew James Thomas play the parents, Lyla and Louis."
seeing that this from-scratch workshop is happening reignites my hope that someday someone will let me try to make a good musical version of The Time Traveler's Wife
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Marla Mindelle (Titanique) and Josh Sharp to Star in A KIDMAN CAROL developmental production Dec 2
2025, 06:42:09 PM
quizking101 said: "If this was Mindelle and Sharp writing it as well as starring in it, I would be so sat. Unfortunately, Kevin J. Zak has had a failure to launch as a writer between Ginger Twinsies and the Rob Lake/Muppet show, and so I’m foreseeing that it’s going to be Marla and Josh elevating pedestrian material, hopefully with far less shouting than GT."
Wasn't he also a script doctor for Death Becomes Her?
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NYT: It’s a Homophobic Slur. What’s It Doing in So Much Theater? Dec 1
2025, 12:01:27 PM
For the record, I saw Angry F*gs the other weekend in Chicago, and it was revolting. Maybe the most inadvertently homophobic play I've ever seen.
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Laura Osnes Didn’t Get the Covid Shot. It Ended Her Broadway Career Nov 18
2025, 03:30:24 PM
I don't really find myself that sympathetic for Laura Osnes (especially when there are people we should be way more sympathetic for, i.e. Nick Cordero's family). However, I do feel kind of bad that the private professional matter of her dropping out of the show got plastered all over the front page of the New York Post, especially when the claims of drama with her castmates was untrue.
Vaccine mandates aren't required for anything anymore. If she had just denied t
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PIRATES! THE PENZANCE MUSICAL 2025 Broadway Cast Recording Nov 15
2025, 08:15:15 AM
If you haven't caught onto the fantastic YouTube channel And Now They Sing, they just put out this video about the evolution of Pirates, from original opera to 1980 revival to 2025 revisal.
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