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This whole thing is starting to feel like the season-long B-plot of the theatrical equivalent of "The Morning Show," with Ben Schwartz playing an Andrew-Fox-esque character.

With all the talk about deleted threads and leaked conversations, I was expecting something MUCH more damning, but that call seems like more of the same in terms of the show's marketing and tone... plus the fact that it's from last year and not in regards to the current controversy left me wanting

I'm not going to weigh in much on the politics of casting in these roles. I'm just gonna say that the elevator pitch for this show in its style, content and presentation is "musical Kdrama." So even if it's not something we're legally or ethically obligated to maintain, a primarily Asian cast makes sense creatively. It's part of the aesthetic and the sensibility.

If I were these producers, I'd have the wikipedia page for Kpop Demon Hunters open and I&#

We've had podcast pop-ups on and off Broadway before, and I'm going to extend that to the wider world of scripted spoken-word content like The Moth.

But that's still what this is: a podcast live show (that just happens not to have a podcast per se, just an audiobook). I'm not saying that with any derision or condescension; it's just a new subgenre that we haven't really codified as such. And this is an undoubtedly star-studded one, but there's still probably

I still stand by my theory that the only way to win public approval on Part 2 was not to play, and simply to release Part 1 with a "to be continued" before pausing indefinitely.

But as far as a shortened director's cut of the two films? Despite theatre people's opinions, the current trends in alternate cuts go in the other direction: he's likelier to make a hyper-extended "Wicked: the Epic Experience" cut with both films plus additional material, or

People in America are mostly aware of Paddington on two levels: one being purely as a mascot character, divorced of context; the other being the quasi-meme of “Paddington 2 is a perfect film,” the British Amelie. And much like Amelie, more people will say they love it than have actually seen it.

If I were a potential investor, my concern would be the inevitable end point of the musical’s viability. After all, this is a King Kong situation: you can’t get much hop

This is also a weird edge case: there's NEVER been a musical with "multimillion dollar franchise expansion potential" before, and it's hard to imagine one after. The 2010s-2020s are the era of serialization and expansion, and Wicked is that rare case where a two and a half hour stage production showed every signs of being a juggernaut on the scale of the other Universal properties which now hold "worlds" at their immersive theme parks.

The split was about mo

I suspect the Act 2 problem was going to be a no-win situation no matter which way they went.

They made an expanded two film version, and people say "it's bloated, a capitalistic excess; they should have just made a single film of nearly four hours and trimmed some fat."

If they'd made that extra-long film with an intermission and released it that way, people would have said "it's too long for kids and casual viewers to sit through this way; the stage

Everything is expensive, and ten times as expensive in NYC. This is why I pivoted away from a regional premiere for my new show entirely; we’re going to launch it as a podcast with animation elements, and do a concept album first. It’s estimated at $10k since I have access to studio and everything already, as opposed to $30k-2m to do it either regionally or Off-Broadway.

I don’t think I’ll be the only one exploring new media in the post Versailles world, especia

The homoerotic dominance and submission in both the original film and the Broadway production were often remarked on; I think I read somewhere that a scene in which it's implied JJ forced Sidney to perform sexual services on him was written and cut, and they got as close as they could in the screenplay to at least implying it happened. 

It's the sort of thing that might play as homophobic in a show today... except that similar debate is happening in the news as we speak ab

HogansHero said: "re Corey Cott. He was working in NYC during the time the vaccine mandate was in effect. Q.E.D. He was vaccinated.

N.B. There are plenty of people in our community who identify as Republican and who voted for the Coppertone Crook. The ostracization of Osnes related to herbehavior with respect to her decision not to be vaccinated."

The rule is very much like the rules in the Navy used to be: "don't ask, don't tell... and if you