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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?

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.

MyMotherIsGeorgeWashington said: "Yes, he's always been credited as a co-writer with Justin Paul on music and lyrics. How'd you miss that all these years?"They've said in interviews that Pasek writes lyrics and Paul writes music. Certainly there's some overlap (they're both credited as lyricists on La La Land), but looking at the credits of their shows, and seeing that Paul is often also credited with vocal arrangements and incidental music, it becomes clear that Pasek's main job is lyricist....

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.