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If you're a big enough deal in BIG magic that you can book Broadway, you're gonna make more money and build more of a rep doing several shows a day in Vegas. If you're a big enough deal in SMALL magic that you can book Broadway, you're probably going to do better in an intimate setting where you won't need to rely on video monitors to show the trick. Broadway is the worst of both worlds for illusion and sleight of hand.

Tim Curry's "Losing My Mind" in one of the Sondheim tributes plays it relatively straight until halfway through, when it goes into huge, scenery chewing big band that lets Curry do his roaring, growling best.

Synthpop band Colour Theory did a very fine, haunting synth ballad version of Johanna. 

I'm glad this one was such a success! I'll admit I haven't loved Tom Fletcher's previous scores (though McFly's early albums are guilty pleasures). The meme of "Paddington is a flawless masterpiece" has grown to outrageous size over the last decade, and luckily the musical doesn't seem likely to tarnish that reputation.

During Rocky Horror over the weekend, as the Narrator, one of my topical references was "that inexplicable six-seven phenomenon." I typically do different jokes at every show since there are repeat attenders, but that one got such a huge laugh from the audience that I kept it for the entire weekend's run.

It’s a quote from a rap song hyping tall basketball players. A clip of someone quoting that line while doing a goofy dance move/gesture went viral out of context and now this really all there is to it beyond “reference to a reference to a reference.”

They did Shock Treatment in London a decade ago. It was well received, but has not been produced since and is apparently prohibited from being produced, like much of Richard O'Brien's work, due to licensing complications. When he dies, it's likely that the O'Brien estate will be a little less precious about his vast catalogue of non-RHS material.

Who plays the voice of the bear?

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.