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Profile: Pittsburgh-based lyricist, librettist, composer and journalist.

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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 10, 2026 — 3:16:13 PM

The only one of the Richard O'Brien works to be licensed is Rocky Horror. No others are available.

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?

Re: Roundabout’s FULL MONTY Revival Cancelled/Postponed?

Oct 6, 2026 — 2:13:54 PM

There was talk of this being a Jason Segel vehicle at one point too, and given that his three strengths are gentle vulnerability, musical theatre and unselfconscious nudity, he would have been a good fit.

Re: It's A Wonderful Life with Megan Hilty coming to the Broadhurst ?

Sep 30, 2026 — 9:25:13 PM

They sing intentionally corny live commercials.

Re: Why is Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf so popular?

Sep 28, 2026 — 8:42:44 PM

Some call it unrealistically dark, others call it unrealistically accurate. It’s also got the honor of having introduced MF to the white vernacular. Previously that one swear word was not only primarily Black, but heavily racially charged.

It's A Wonderful Life with Megan Hilty coming to the Broadhurst ?

Sep 28, 2026 — 12:45:11 PM

If I were a producer, I'd be considering casting three full-time cast members for Freddie the host and the man and woman who play Clarence et al and "all the women," then cast a different star as George and Mary every night. It's 95% on-book, so you could do that.

It's A Wonderful Life with Megan Hilty coming to the Broadhurst ?

Sep 28, 2026 — 9:57:49 AM

I mentioned this in the other thread, but George (rumored to be Andrew Rannells) and Mary (Megan Hilty?) are not the star roles here. There's a role for Freddie Filmore, the radio show host, who takes on about forty of the supporting roles in the story and frequently plays scenes opposite himself. If you get a comedian or a major voice actor like Hank Azaria in that role, it's a dark horse Tony contender for supporting actor.

Re: THE ODD COUPLE with Stephen Colbert Next for the Sondheim Theatre?

Sep 25, 2026 — 12:15:19 PM

Get Jimmy Kimmel in the other role! I'm only half kidding.

Re: Megan Hilty Replacing in Established Broadway Show?

Sep 24, 2026 — 9:20:34 PM

George and Mary aren’t the juicy star roles, they’re princess tracks. The get is Freddie Fillmore, the radio host who plays about forty roles in the show. If they get a really good comedian or a voice actor like Hank Azaria, Freddie is a dark horse Tony supporting role.

Re: Megan Hilty Replacing in Established Broadway Show?

Sep 23, 2026 — 11:10:18 PM

It’s a cute show, I’ve played the foley artist three times in it.

Re: Megan Hilty Replacing in Established Broadway Show?

Sep 22, 2026 — 6:39:42 PM

…wait, SwitPosting is back?

Re: Bill Pay the Musical - When was the last industrial musical?

Sep 22, 2026 — 2:16:05 PM

We almost had an industrial musical aka a musical with an industrial/electronic score… Trent Reznor was working with Julie Taymor on a Fight Club rock opera. The project fell apart so a good bit of the score was repurposed onto NIN’s albums circa 2000s-2010s.

Re: Duncan Sheik has died at 56

Sep 18, 2026 — 3:28:29 PM

John Adams said: "darquegk said: "I am a huge fan of the Spring Awakening demo album, which someone first gave me back in college circa 2008 and which I consider not only one of my favorite theatre records but maybe my favorite indie record of all time. If you haven't listened to his stripped back, 2000s indie recordings of the score, definitely do so today. It could have been released as a solo album in its own right."I haven't listened to it yet to verify, so I hope this is the album you're...

Re: Duncan Sheik has died at 56

Sep 18, 2026 — 11:25:58 AM

Sheik was one of my favorite examples of someone for whom lightning struck again and again; just when you were ready to count him out or assume his best was past, he'd come back with something that made you realize he hadn't even slowed down. He was the closest thing the musical theatre community has ever had to a genuine cult hero, and his ability to create work that resonated with the mainstream while being decidedly alternative will not soon be forgotten.I am a huge fan of the Spring Awake...

Wicked's Dropping Grosses

Sep 17, 2026 — 2:36:23 PM

Phantom4ever said: "MezzoDiva47 said: "Jay Lerner-Z said: "then reopen in a few years with new techwhich i fully expect to happen with phantomIt really frustrates me when people think the original 1986/1988 Phantom even had any "tech" or needed an "new tech." The whole point of Maria and Hal's vision of the show was to to be a love letter to theater and to use theatrical "technology" that's been around forever---backdrops, curtains, footlights, etc. Even the "tech" stu

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