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Yeah, I foresee a mix of well-intentioned and wrong-headed controversy over this one when it actually launches. "John Lithgow, who collaborates with an author accused of anti-Semitism among other bigotries, is now PLAYING an author accused of even more anti-Semitism."

This could be Nicole Scherzinger 2.0: the wildly promising frontrunner is problematic but undeniable.

Geoffrey Rush is apparently the replacement, which is pretty huge for an Australian ensemble comedy.

If you're wondering how long the show is in its various incarnations, the Danish Complete recording (an English-language reconstruction of the original London production plus Someone Else's Story) runs about two hours and ten.

Interesting that Mr. Vassey is on the list; makes it likelier we get the "happy ending" rather than the "everything sucks" ending.

For the revised version, how much music was added, rewritten or cut? I am a big fan of the LOTR cast recording, but I also recognize that like the Cirque du Soleil cast recordings, it's largely a "listenable" studio concoction of material pared down from a much larger and more intricate (but not necessarily structurally sound) score.

At some point, you'd think they'd say "the only way we're seeing any financial return on this is dumping the title into licensing, since people will clamor to do it."

chrishuyen said: "KevinKlawitter said: "book by Sara Wordsworth and music and lyrics by Jaheem Toombs; Ian Weinberger attached as director.;

Huh. Wonder how they'll handle the "naturalist" scene."

Well Disney managed to put the whole Hygge scene into Frozen..."

The nude kickline was hilarious in the Broadway/tour version. When I saw the non-replica Pittsburgh CLO version, they climaxed it with a full on burlesque towel dance. It was unexpectedly VERY raunchy, but done in such humor and high spirits that nobody could actually object. (And lest anyone DID object, they had the chorus boys in brightly colored boxer briefs under the towel so no one could lie and say they "saw something.")

I had assumed you were offended by the homophobic content in the Bill and Ted movies, which is mild and benign by eighties standards, but... still technically there.

Remember the brief period when mentioning the name Patti Murin got your post automodded away?  

Didn’t a musical version play the West End? Glenn Carter was involved with it before Superstar and the Raelian religion. 

Birdie Boy said: "It’s coming"

So ominous; you make it sound like a kaiju. Godzilla vs Kong vs The Princess Bride Musical.

I want this to be good so badly. Ever since I saw Pittsburgh Public’s terrifying production of The Humans, I’ve known you CAN do real horror and suspense onstage, if you lean into that kind of tension and minimalism. 

Glad to hear Grace Marie Rusnica did well in her first outing as Belle! I used to perform with her.

Okay yes. The app used to appreciate as “league of geeks” but now abbreviates as “comic geeks.”

You know who has a GREAT integration of data and socials? League of Geeks, the comics/manga tracker. I haven't seen ANYONE blend data and socials as well as they do. 

Having Patrick Page do one of his "dramatic lyric readings" of Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand is a VERY clever marketing move for this one.

Also... people are writing musicals who aren't ASCAP/BMI lab participants. Some are pop/rock songwriters, some are indie/DIY musical theatre people (like me). Every so often a show from outside the main musical theatre lab DOES make it to the mainstream, but most often it's because of a name attached to it.

In my experience, the best discussion forum for the theatre arts right now is going on in the more specialized Facebook groups like Professional Music Directors, Musical Theatre Orchestrators, etc. Unfortunately those aren't actually PUBLIC (or at least are picky about who they let in), so for now BWW forum is the best place that anyone can read or jump into, for better or worse.