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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

I still say the only way to make this work is to do it as a retro-chic 2D animated film, leaning into the way both hand-drawn animation and midcentury stylized animated tropes have become popular again. Fill it with gags and visual jokes left and right, really lean into the comic-book aesthetic. And cast Seth MacFarlane in a dual role as the voices of Sky Masterson and Nicely-Nicely Johnson, with two of his many associated jazz-pop girlies as Sarah and Adelaide. (Would I LOVE an Alex Bor

When I play the Narrator at Rocky Horror every October, I always interject topical material in a very similar way, and you have almost no clue what the reaction is going to be until the joke is out. Some of it is audience demographics, but some of it is just right place, right time, right crowd energy.

This year, a reference to "the inexplicable six-seven phenomenon" killed, while a similar reference to Labubus didn't. And when I updated an old joke referencing the irony