Profile for Alex Kulak2

Like everyone else my age, Spring Awakening was one of my first entrypoints into loving musical theatre. Most of the other shows I first listened to at that age, I've softened on or even cringe at now. Spring Awakening just gets better and better every time I listen to it.RIP Duncan, you were a real one.

I guess my royalty check got lost in the mail...

Just got done listening to the concept album, and I LOVED this show. Some of the most nuanced, original, and refreshing satire I've heard in a long time. Really catchy music, stacked cast, and funny as hell. Hoping more people take notice.

I don't know whether the allegations against Ben Davis are true or not. What I do know is true is that I've spent the past week watching the entire Broadway community uncritically praise a man who openly dated a barely-legal woman that he had been a mentor to since she was 13 and he was 32, so I'm inclined to believe that the industry is incapable or unwilling to hold people accountable for deeply inappropriate behavior.

jlindsey865 said: "Is it typical to workshop a well established title like Sweet Charity?"If they're doing edits to the material, which I'm pleading that they do. I saw Sweet Charity in Chicago last summer, and it's maybe one of the worst books of a musical I've ever encountered.

OhHiii said: "Ugh. I know I may be in a minority here but I find Ariana’s work (outside of WSS) to be wholly unremarkable. That’s coming from someone with 0 Oscars and 0 Tony noms, but I don’t find her to be a convincing leading lady by any stretch. Much less a ticket seller."The main problem is that her career trajectory has made no sense. She's the first true triple-threat to break into the mainstream in a long time, and since WSS, she's been in Schmigadoon, that Disney animated film no one...

I saw this tonight. Was hopeful coming in, but unfortunately, the show is a bit of a mess.The tone of the show is trying to imply "this is a fun romp, don't take this too seriously", but there's so many plot threads (Vera being upstaged by Iceboy, her relationship with her boyfriend, the secondary romance with Iceboy and the maid, O'Neill being pulled out of his writer's block, a butler who is Frankenstein for most of the show, to name a few), that you can't help but take in the show critical...

In Chicago, I saw it at the very front and center of the mezzanine, and I thought the view was perfect. You got a good view of the entire two-level set.

I stand by the Overture to The Full Monty being one of the best ever on Broadway, and that's mainly because of Harold Wheeler's horn arrangements.

The legality of AI deepfakes may still be murky, but the legality of copyright infringement sure isn't. Can we finally get some giant class-action lawsuit thrown at these GOP ghouls who keep using songs without permission in their ads?

Jordan Catalano said: "This celebrity autobiography thing is tanking at an absolutely astounding rate."I don't think a Broadway show has grossed that little in my lifetime.

jpbran said: "Long term sales for Lea M’s replacement must have lookedbleak.Reallywish they could’ve filmed this… The last filmed version has such terrible audio which is a shame."I never listened to the show all the way through until this current version, and the main reason was that the mixing on every recording was awful. I couldn't make out the lyrics on any of them.

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 FrankBen Platt as CharleyBeanie Feldstein as MaryMallory Bechtel as BethLin-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?