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MJ is casting dancers. Maybe they’re doing a flash mob instead of a traditional performance. 

You're going to see a lot of "adapted by, orchestrations by" attached to this show over the next decade. The German original score and orchestrations are EXTREMELY idiosyncratic, since they were written for a specific troupe of musicians who doubled in very specific and unlikely ways. All the more conventional arrangements of the score for a conventional pit band, and almost every English translation of the script and lyrics, are still under copyright. 

This is the first major new production/adaptation since the show’s original materials went public domain, right? 

hyangsoo said: "I'm assuming this will be in English and targeting an English language market first? Does anyone have any details?

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His last two anime musicals were written and workshopped in English, then translated to Japanese and premiered overseas. 

Wildhorn's post-comeback comeback being almost exclusively anime adaptations fascinates me.

You're not gonna turn this into Gay Amadeus successfully. There is no there there unless it's purely in jest.

The Pittsburgh CLO production is done as a ninety-minute one act, with a four piece band and no ensemble. I saw it twice a few weeks ago: once on a night with NO audience participation, and once on a night with EXTREME audience participation. Both were fun, but the night with full interaction was way more rewarding for the audience (and for the actors onstage, who you could tell were loving it).

That’s the last thing I want: if worst comes to worst, I’d rather say it was a fun thing I did for a while with friends, than be remembered as a shady boondoggle.

Mythic is a Marcus Stevens show, right? With all my hand-wringing about new musical development, it’s great to see a fellow Pittsburgh creative really make it.

Epic is a single pop-opera musical, which was released in about a dozen “episode” style EPs. I believe the finale is “The Ithaca Saga.” Not sure if they’ve restyled the entire piece as that subtitle.

There are no easy answers or one size fits alls. I’m just gonna take things one day and one meeting at a time until an answer presents itself. 

There's an archival video (maybe even a proshot) from Los Angeles in 1991 that went viral on theatre YouTube last week... I haven't watched it but it appears to be the original full Cameron Mackintosh staging. 

God, I WISH.

I have to admit, I wasn't expecting good reviews for this, after Saturday Night got mostly panned. It turns out that expecting to get good critical reviews for a piece about something which has, historically, not gotten great critical reviews ITSELF is going to be a losing battle. This is a show where I'm much more concerned about the responses from the nerds, the theatre kids and the online commentariat.

I think they intended it to be a double entendre: Domingo is known for flamboyant red carpet fashions, so they got people wondering if there would be a surprise cameo on the red carpet by teasing those instead.

But it got out of hand too quick and had to be reined in. I'll be surprised if there aren't a few unannounced theatre or beloved B/C list cameos in the sequel like the cameos in the first film, but "enormous industry superstars" will not be part of that.

Meanwhile, if you're curious and on the East Coast, Pittsburgh CLO is running a "back to basics" staging of The Rocky Horror Show. Other than a few major changes like the inversion of Time Warp and Sweet Transvestite that are universal now, the show is presented as a partial restaging of the original UK premiere and tour concept, without significant influence from the film, the Broadway and Roxy productions, or anything else. It's even down to a four-piece band again.