MOULIN ROUGE! Broadway Casting Thread
Mar 31 2026, 11:55:52 PM
As far as the debate over the merits of Team America: if it’s good enough for Sondheim, it’s good enough for me.
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What Show is David Eggers Talking About?
Mar 31 2026, 04:09:52 PM
Also, it took me a minute to realize David Eggers was not Robert Eggers, and I was trying to conceive of a Robert Eggers Brigadoon...
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What Show is David Eggers Talking About?
Mar 31 2026, 04:09:04 PM
I saw a production in Pittsburgh with the original script a few years ago. It mostly lays there like a dead fish, and then one HILARIOUS scene which was probably not intended for comedy in the original draft was wisely played as a joke instead.
When the boys have returned to the present, they go to a nightclub, and keep having musical flashbacks to the events in Brigadoon. It plays like a Mel Brooks scene if you do it "wrong," and if the rest of the show had been that whimsic
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Dolly! The Musical coming to Broadway 2026?
Mar 30 2026, 11:02:31 PM
Lennon the Musical has the entire cast as John Lennon, as does Ring of Fire for Johnny Cash.
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The Wedding Singer, twenty years later
Mar 29 2026, 10:56:41 PM
In an alternate universe, this is the eighties pop musical revival Aaron Tveit and Lea Michele are starring in, even though she’s much more right for it than he is.
Julia has to have a bit of the same energy Robbie does, where she’s cute and lovable but genuinely a LITTLE bit crazy in that Elaine Benes way. It’s not even a hard sing compared to Holly- you could probably cast an actress-who-sings and not suffer much for it.
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The Wedding Singer, twenty years later
Mar 29 2026, 10:07:48 PM
Similar (sensitive but straight) anecdote: they had a bunch of copies of the "year's best plays" paperbacks in my high school theatre company's below-the-stage office, which led to the trap door. I was in charge of the Beast's fake butt and hunchback (well, technically Maurice's, since he was the stunt double Beast for the death scenes), so other than my two scenes in Act 2 as Monsieur D'arque, I would sit under the stage reading those and waiting to strap the pr
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The Wedding Singer, twenty years later
Mar 29 2026, 09:45:44 PM
It would almost have to be a star vehicle, since despite the show being "pretty-good-bordering-on-great" it isn't a name, and it's better than the somewhat disposable Adam Sandler movie it's based on. But then you need an actor who can act, sing, play guitar, do believable stand-up, and thread the needle of "adorkable" to "genuinely disturbingly unhinged." If he's too much of a sad sack and doesn't go absolutely feral during his binge-drinking
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The Wedding Singer, twenty years later
Mar 29 2026, 08:16:03 PM
Let Me Come Home is great, and I still think it’s one of the two worst songs in the show. That’s how overall solid I think that score is.
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The Wedding Singer, twenty years later
Mar 29 2026, 06:33:12 PM
Stephen Lynch was also great in the show. It's a pity he didn't do more theatre after; I know his musical comedy albums haven't exactly aged well in the woke 2020s, but they were absolute staples of me and the rest of the theatre kids/class clowns in the class of '08.
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The Wedding Singer, twenty years later
Mar 29 2026, 04:58:47 PM
It feels like the 2000s were a blur of highly commercial mid-size musicals that came and went with great rapidity, with only a few of them making a mark in general consciousness. Out of all of them circa that 2006 era, I've always felt like "The Wedding Singer" is the one that should have lasted longer as part of the zeitgeist, but it didn't wind up with quite the same legs that Legally Blonde had.
Maybe it's the heavier male to female casting ratio, plus the whol
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Sardi’s Sold to the Shuberts; Will Undergo Renovations
Mar 28 2026, 09:28:24 PM
There needs to be character, and the character needs to in no way be aping or imitating the style of Al Hirschfeld's iconic originals.
This is a job for someone with a unique, non-representational visual style and a sense of humor but also of wit and observation, who can do weird stuff with anatomy and perspective that speaks to the subject or the show. In terms of current day artists, you're looking for a Kate Beaton or a Mirka Andolfo, someone stylishly grotesque.
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Loving You: The Untold Sondheim podcast
Mar 26 2026, 01:45:41 PM
There's a fascinating claim in the new episode: that the film "That's Entertainment" was at least partially stolen from Hal Prince's pitch to do a screen version of "Follies" involving reuse of the old Hollywood backlots.
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THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW Previews
Mar 25 2026, 04:16:19 PM
I think it's less that they don't understand it, and more the fact that the world Rocky Horror reflected and subverted in 1973 no longer exists. The show's commentary on the transition from the naivite of the 1950s to the jaded cynicism of the 1970s, and the grotesque Americanization of Britain, were a blast to hip 1970s audiences across the UK. The Roxy production was hip, contemporary and funky when rock musicals and sexual transgression still felt naughty.
The production
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THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW Previews
Mar 25 2026, 03:58:49 PM
blaxx said: "Kad said: "They had an invited dress last night and have another tonight."
Friend in the production said it's a snore fest without the callbacks and produces unintentional laughter when everyone knows the obvious ones. They police the silence like they do cellphones.
I imagine it will be a couple performances before they go back on this."
I was an invited “guest heckler” at a major regional product
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Rocky Horror Show Revival Cast
Mar 25 2026, 01:21:34 PM
New musical arrangements, twenty-five years apart, MUCH bigger stars in this cast. It's definitely happening.
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Rocky Horror Show Revival Cast
Mar 25 2026, 12:54:13 PM
I'm going to say that, like 99% of Broadway productions, the cast recording is inevitable. Especially for an anticipated show like this.
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THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW Previews
Mar 25 2026, 09:31:16 AM
ACL2006 said: "i just want this to extend through November at least. It's such a stable for around Halloween."
I agree... as long as there's no universal blackout of regional and local Rocky productions, the way they did the year of the TV movie remake.
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Sondheim's MUSCLE workshop found and released
Mar 24 2026, 12:46:14 PM
If it helps, the lyrics are in Look I Made A Hat.
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Sondheim's MUSCLE workshop found and released
Mar 23 2026, 07:48:34 PM
https://youtu.be/zJ3-u_gJPEU?si=FW_snFB71xL5IGsV
The (admittedly unfinished) but complete workshop of Sondheim's adaptation of "Muscle" has finally leaked. I suspect this won't stay up for long, so check it out before it becomes ephemera again.
There's only a little music in it overall, making it sort of an accidental companion piece to "Here We Are."
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Lea Michele v Caissie Levy Tony Race
Mar 20 2026, 03:40:23 PM
Lea traditionally gives great performances in shows that (on paper) are bad. Caissie Levy is giving a great performance in a show that is a beloved legend and critical favorite. I think it's gonna be her just on those optics alone.
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