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Pittsburgh-based lyricist, librettist, composer and journalist.

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Re: LA Times pans the non-Equity MUSIC MAN tour -- fair critique?

Nov 3, 2026 — 3:20:17 PM

That sense of mischief and play is SO important. When it's missing, the role falls flat. We've all seen Robert Preston in the role written for him, and most people have seen Jack Black in the modern reboot of the story, School of Rock. Two of the most intensely charismatic scoundrel-protagonist performances ever, leaving huge shoes to fill.

Re: Falsettos Reunion - Any chance it will be recovered?

Nov 3, 2026 — 10:29:24 AM

Falsettos became an unexpected internet sensation as an early development of the mainstreaming "fujoshi" phenomenon: women who gravitate towards stories of gay men. It's not a steamy piece like Heated Rivalry, but it's part of the same pop cultural conversation.

Re: Wicked sent out a mailer

Oct 31, 2026 — 11:21:06 AM

Wicked is one of very few shows that makes more money as a "Broadway musical" than as a cultural institution in licensing around the world. They're probably the last pre-Hamilton "big essential musical" that hasn't at least released amateur or school edition rights in the US. When THAT happens, and it's almost always years in advance of a closure, we can talk about the sun (probably very slowly) setting on Wicked on Broadway.

THE CABINET OF DOCTOR CALIGARI- A NEW MUSICAL; pilot episode now available

Oct 27, 2026 — 1:51:13 PM

I've been saying for YEARS I was going to make this happen one way or another, and over the past year I pivoted away from a stage premiere Off-Broadway or in Pittsburgh to a concept album and podcast-with-animatics instead. In this AI-infested era of bland corporate slickness, my team and I ran in the opposite direction- everything is completely homemade, ethically sourced and independently produced. No generative AI, no sponsorship or corporate oversight, just my show plus a home recording s...

Cirque du Soleil "Finding Utopia"

Oct 24, 2026 — 4:43:55 PM

My favorite score moment for Quidam was either the opening sequence segueing into the chant into the German Wheel music, or the moment when a Nino Rota style string adagio gets interrupted by zydeco celebration.

Cirque du Soleil "Finding Utopia"

Oct 24, 2026 — 2:29:47 PM

One of my theatrical collecting holy grail items is a copy of the conductor score or piano-vocal score to Quidam, because it’s one of my all time favorite theatrical scores, and the published songbook is only 20 pages log and chops the score to pieces.I’d also love a real release of that score, because the bootleg from I think 2002 isn’t even a soundboard recording but it’s the only thing I’ve got.

Glenn Close gives a 'Sunset Boulevard' movie update

Oct 21, 2026 — 1:57:36 PM

joevitus said: "TheatreFan4 said: "MysteriousLady said: "This doesn't really make sense because it was created in collaboration with her; there wouldn't be a Jamie Lloyd Sunset without her. She was good on Elsbeth a few weeks ago; I wasn't sure if she could do screen acting because she was so 'big' in Sunset but she pulled it off better than I was expecting. (It is true her tour didn't amount to much in the US.)"There wouldn't be? Does Nicole have a Producer or Development credit that I'm una...

Re: The Sondheim Hub: What's To Discuss, Old Friends?

Oct 20, 2026 — 2:33:29 PM

Maybe this is me nitpicking, but the one thing that's always sort of bothered me about that "one bad night" is the acid attack that ends it. That is SUCH a huge, macabre and melodramatic swing that it comes out of nowhere, and almost nothing in the show that follows leans that wildly towards melodrama, so it feels like a slightly unearned or unwarranted moment. Like we begin the show briefly in Beyond the Valley of the Dolls but then spend no time there.

Re: THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW reviews

Oct 19, 2026 — 1:56:47 PM

And there have been rumors of a 30 Rock reunion/revival following the benefit show they did; Dratch never played a regular there but made frequent guest appearances in different roles.

Re: JUST IN TIME 5.0 - Nicholas Christopher

Oct 15, 2026 — 1:13:07 PM

Jersey Boys succeeded without a star for very different reasons and in a very different era: the Four Seasons songbook has more resonance than the Bobby Darin songbook; the jukebox musical was still a fairly new trend; and it was good and daring as a musical, full of unexpected things. The show's been around for decades now and isn't really surprising anymore, but the whole conceit of "we're doing a stage musical as a real-time Martin Scorsese movie, with all his tricks and tropes and stylist...

Re: Rosie & Kristin New Musical?

Oct 14, 2026 — 9:54:04 PM

I’ve always assumed the likeliest thing is that Cheno, a fairly liberal/centrist woman who is not aggressively online and is of middle age, likely didn’t know anything about Charlie Kirk other than “Christian podcaster.” She falls pretty far outside the manosphere and new right bubble. So she hears about a major Christian public speaker being shot and expresses sympathy by default, not realizing he was a political firebrand and bigot.

Re: SLAM FRANK to return off-Broadway, Fall 2026

Oct 14, 2026 — 10:06:15 AM

The discourse reminds me a lot of the discourse around 30 Rock back in the day, which often leaned into grotesque bigotry as a way to parody the stupidity of racism. Sometimes it worked, and sometimes it VERY MUCH DIDN'T. When people complained about this, Tina Fey's next show Unbreakable Kimmy Schmitt kept parodying bigotry, but also parodying easily offended liberals with almost the same level of condemnation. Nobody really liked that tonal shift.

Re: Phantom of the Opera Pro-Shot

Oct 9, 2026 — 10:58:37 PM

What I really want is licensing for Shock Treatment Live; the West End run was like Rocky filtered through a 30 Rock lens and I was all about it.

Re: Phantom of the Opera Pro-Shot

Oct 9, 2026 — 12:31:18 PM

Andrew Lloyd Webber's vault of suppressed material is apparently vast. I wouldn't be surprised if when Lord Sydmonton passes on, his estate will make yearly releases of coveted stuff from the ALW Vault, much like the Prince and David Bowie estates have done. (I'm hoping for something similar from Richard O'Brien's estate too.)

Re: JUST IN TIME 5.0 - Nicholas Christopher

Oct 7, 2026 — 8:08:13 PM

I’d love to hear the rumored Leslie Odom Jr. Bobby, simply because he has a very unique crooner’s voice (I once saw it described as Nat King Cole goes R&B) that would bring out new colors and nuances in these famous standards. Like people keep saying, it’s a meta fictional show about a famous actor doing a Bobby Darin revue, not a REAL biographical piece. That said, I wonder if James Marsden would move the needle for this as a future casting get?

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