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Sutton Ross said: "Please don't ever quote Nickelback because gross.

Hottest of hot takes: Nickelback is cringe, not bad. If they’d given their songs to Bon Jovi during his comeback, instead of trying to be a weird heartland grunge pop fusion, we’d say “Rockstar” was one of his best.

Let me guess: in the words of Nickelback, "lip sync 'em every night so we don't get 'em wrong?"

I've dreamed of doing Sweeney Todd or Rocky Horror in this kind of format for years. But a show as massively huge as Phantom? Either it's going to be extraordinary or it's going to leave people cold, and I'm fascinated to see which way it leans.

In Martin Short’s biography, he talks about the work he and one of his collaborators did on the revised book for Little Me. It was intended to be the licensing version, but that never really came to be and the new orchestrations were lost in a flood.

If Encores did the top tier stage debut of the revised and licensed Smile, which has never had a major showing, that would be huge. 

I always thought that role had Sofia Vergara written all over it. 

Remember when a musical number would start and the camera would more or less fix in place so they’d do it the way they did it on stage? The Music Man is a big offender: some of the numbers end with the cast striking poses and holding for applause.

I love a few of the songs in isolation, but generally, even as a kid, I found the film insufferably twee. It felt like someone had said "Mary Poppins is too adult, can you make one that's just like it but more for the kids in the audience?"

It’s always sad when great actors, comedic or dramatic, develop reputations for being washed up or hacky in their twilight years. Whoopi has been a daytime TV punching bag for so long it’s sometimes easy to forget what a FORCE she could be in the eighties and nineties. I’d love to see a renaissance for her.

Betty Gilpin may be conventionally attractive, but she's associated strongly with the bizarro side of prestige premium TV. Her bona fides for doing "weird roles in weird shows" are self-evident; I feel confident about her taking over the same way I'd feel confident with Cristin Milioti, even over a more "conventional fare" actress I like more like Kristen Bell.

James Austin Johnson appears to be the theme singer for 'Tis the Grinch (the podcast where he interviews celebrities in character as the Grinch), and he can more than adequately carry a tune, plus work in a variety of different vocal styles.

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "darquegk said: "Woolverton wrote Wicked also. Aida’s book is David Henry Hwang."

Winnie Holzman is the sole credited bookwriter on WICKED. It's often been cited thatEve Ensler (of all people) took an uncredited pass at it."

My bad! I always get them confused.

Woolverton wrote Wicked also. Aida’s book is David Henry Hwang.

I always thought the Michelle Williams role would have been a great Broadway return for Sofia Vergara: also not a powerhouse vocalist, but she understands camp and smolder more.