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It takes a VERY funny Brad in unconventional ways to make the part seem equal to Janet's, even though he has slightly more material than her. If you're going to have Brad play the straight man (pun intended) all the way through, it's Janet's more dynamic role that will always shine brighter.

I feel like I can see Short doing the compulsive dancing with those famous spastic dance moves he's used in so many of his characters... but even though it's the same schtick, it becomes unsettling here.

I see this prompt and think right away, "isn't it Denzel Washington?" His second act as a powerhouse stage performer is bordering on being as big a part of his legacy as his film stardom.

I don't really know if the gig is prestigious or pays well, but Mirka Andolfo would be a very fun caricaturist: her style has this distinct affectionate grotesqueness to it that represents but still distorts the characters. It's a little nineties animation, a little manga, and a little European comics.

Rocky having matinees won’t be as much of an issue since it’s a less participatory production. I can only remember ONE matinee of Rocky in twenty-three years in Pittsburgh’s scene, and it was a mistake not to be repeated.

And while I'll say High School Musical 1-3 are much more solid dramaturgically than the original Xanadu film, I'd LOVE a Douglas Carter Beane (or Robert Carlock) half parody, half loving millennial tribute of THAT trilogy sort of jammed together into one semi-coherent storyline.

It's a peak piece of millennial nostalgia, with some of the best theatre-pop songs of two decades. 

By popular demand, the standout musical number "Dames" now has two reprises and a megamix. It's gonna get Hamilton numbers on streaming.

Glad to help, Lin.

Yeah, you kind of have to talk about Hamilton the way music fans talk about Boston's self-titled album, for lack of a better example. You can acknowledge that it's dated, no longer as cutting-edge, stylish or relevant as it once was. You can even say it's a bit corny... but for all that, it's MASTERFULLY constructed for what it is, in a way few have equalled. 

The latter. Revival of the Broadway musical "42nd Street," rumored to have a new book (potentially by Ethan Coen) and at one point ALSO rumored to be a star vehicle for Sabrina Carpenter.

Slippery slope? I can't see how this would necessarily be a BAD thing, even if I'm not a huge fan of Epic itself (it's very "we have Lin-Manuel Miranda at home"). 

We're living in a time where the big studios and moneymakers are starting to actually snap up and develop work from absolute indie creators with grassroots followings. Look at this, and also how The Amazing Digital Circus is getting a cinematic premiere in June. 

Sweaty Oracle has been posting for a while about this being in the pipeline, but this is the first public acknowledgment I’ve seen. 

I wonder how much it’s been adjusted? The published script has the male lead doing Raul Julia’s famous trick of moving from high Shakespearean English to Puerto Rican Spanish and then to Spanglish in the middle with his famous Nuyorican-British hybrid dialect.

I think it works if Jerry is conventionally attractive, but the other guys are more average across a variety of types. Suspension of disbelief is one thing, but the point of the show (among other things) is that confidence is sexy: it's going to be less interesting unless the men are underwhelming when they strip down in act 1, only to root for them and find it genuinely exciting when they finally get their acts together. 

See also: the recent Beauty and the Beast which cut half an hour from the show.