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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Keala Settle is the next Mary Todd Lincoln…
Nov 12
2025, 12:33:12 PM
Is this Keala Settle's first non-musical stage work?
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Will The Lost Boys Break Broadway's Vampire Musical Curse?
Oct 30
2025, 02:59:16 PM
Betteridge's Law of Headlines: Any headline that ends with a question mark can be answered by the word "no".
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Little Shop...Who Leads? Anyone know?
Oct 30
2025, 01:37:22 PM
Ptero2 said: "Andrew Durand is taking over as Orin starting 11/25."
As usual with this production, god-tier casting.
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Jennifer Lopez Pulls Out of Savannah Film Festival After ‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’ Fumbles
Oct 28
2025, 03:45:27 PM
tacotheatrelover said: "Most film companies write off films that aren't successful, mostly like in the 'Producers' where they'll make more money on a flop than a success. The movie theatre employees didn't even know it was out when I went to see it, that's how poorly it was marketed. It's a sad thing to happen and will probably lead to the death of the film and entertainment industry if they continue to focus on profits in the short term rather than the lo
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PROOF takes Booth Theatre; Samira Wiley and Jin Ha Join Cast
Oct 27
2025, 11:34:30 PM
The Distinctive Baritone said: "Right, I’m saying that going with a POC as Hal avoided adding a cringy element to Hal’s doubts of Catherine’s abilities, etc."
Ahhh, I misread it, sorry.
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PROOF takes Booth Theatre; Samira Wiley and Jin Ha Join Cast
Oct 27
2025, 09:58:13 PM
The Distinctive Baritone said: "Jin Ha seems like a smart choice...having a white Hal and a black Catherine would probably change the story in ways Auburn did not intend. Samira Wiley isn't really right for Claire (she's much more of a Catherine), but I guess "thirty-something black actress who people will recognize from TV and is willing to play a smallish role in a Broadway show" wasn't the easiest casting."
Jin Ha is Korean.
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PARANORMAL ACTIVITY at Chicago Shakespeare
Oct 22
2025, 11:46:54 AM
EmceeHammer said: "I'm seeing this on Halloween. I'veyet to see pure horror done onstage effectively, so I'm cautiously optimistic that this one is actually scary.
NYT has a great write-up on the production with lots of images of the set (gift link):https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/theater/paranormal-activity-theater-chicago.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vE8.m5rV.1S4n8n4VwkQT&smid=url-share
I agree this likelyhas a life beyond the tour and West End production."
Those pictures reminded me, the lighting design of this show is incredible. It's not just eerie and moody, it does a lot of work in the storytelling as well.
Seeing this on Halloween with a crowd sounds like an absolute blast.
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PARANORMAL ACTIVITY at Chicago Shakespeare
Oct 22
2025, 09:54:50 AM
Saw this last Friday and thought this was pretty great.
The best thing about this show are the effects. They're all extremely tight and effective, and elicited multiple screams and even some applause from the audience. I'm someone who has a good understanding of the mechanics of stage illusions, and there's a reveal at the end where I cannot for the life of me figure out how they did it.
The writing is... good. I'm not sure if this is the best barometer, but I wa
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PIRATES! THE PENZANCE MUSICAL 2025 Broadway Cast Recording
Oct 17
2025, 12:10:25 PM
I love New Orleans-style Jazz, and I love Pirates of Penzance. I also love steak and vanilla ice cream. Doesn't mean I want them on the same plate.
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Rumor: ALL OUT Heading to The Nederlander
Oct 16
2025, 12:53:50 PM
barcelona20 said: "Lawrence will be the best part by far."
If they switch the marketing to "Lawrence on Broadway, featuring some nonsense in between the songs", I might get on board.
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