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Segel is an interesting but probably apt choice for The Full Monty: a lovable-loser type with a big heart, a voice that is just above adequate (it's not a role that you want to oversing, like much of Yazbek), and a long history of having no hang-ups or shame about showing his body. Plus, he's on a big upswing with Shrinking, so he's not just "that guy from The Muppets and How I Met Your Mother" anymore.

malcs98 said: As for creatives I’ve been closely following PJ Adzima and his production studio/company Stage Time Studiosand I think they’rereally onto something…a clubhouse, studio, education center and third-space where artists can actually create and collaborate on the next groundbreaking piece of American entertainment. It’s like Warhol’s Factory for the21st century"Same. And you can tie that legacy even closer to Warhol's ethos when you look at the way Stage Time allies itself to perform...

Godspell, original Toronto cast. I can't WAIT for the documentary.

I’ve said for years if he wanted a role that fits his type and could get him some acclaim, Jessup in A Few Good Men is literally made for him.

Has so much time passed that "a circus themed production of Seussical" is no longer a meme of reference?

I don't think you can compare Dolly the musical to MJ the musical, even with quality as an afterthought. Dolly is a beloved entertainer, America's meemaw. Michael Jackson is just shy of being a literal demigod. Death could not slow him down. Three different rounds of credible abuse allegations could not slow him down. The move to streaming and away from album sales could not slow him down. He's pure teflon, and his musical is 100% going to perform differently than anyone else's.

It’s also weirdly sincere. The film is tongue in cheek start to finish, telling a Hollywood showbiz fable in Greek myth clothing. The musical seems like it didn’t get the joke and took it seriously.

I just assume it's because Off-Broadway shows don't get Tony noms or tours, which are about the only things that make these transfers viable in a business sense.

Musicaldudepeter said: "In the original production, the curtains parted and Mary Martin travelled down stage while perched on a tree branch. There, still and contemplative, she sang The Sound of Music, a hymn to nature and music. Listen to the original Broadway cast album and you'll hear how much she gets out of the song."I've heard it, and seen photos from that. It's an interesting take, because it flips the "Problem Like Maria" on its head to some extent... the Maria we see in private there...

The whole "unauthorized parody musical" phenomenon is having a second wind right now that is catching up to eclipsing the first era of that subgenre. Titanique is a huge hit, and Majestic Rep in Vegas has built an identity around it and transferred shows to LA, all of which have been better received than any other unauthorized parody musical other than maybe Silence. (This also depends if you consider Starkid to have been doing standard unauthorized parody musicals, or if they're more their o...

All these quibbles about the lyrics: I won’t say they’re all good lyrics, but it’s not like these are emblematic of this score. Stephen Schwartz has always preferred a whimsical, eccentric use of the English language in his lyrics. This is the guy who has the only use of “pelf” in modern English literature, after all.

Is this the production where his frequent collaborator Shaggy joined him as well, or was that a one-off thing?

Bradley as Colonel Jessup is an interesting out-of-the-box choice that I can't QUITE wrap my mind around. Jessup is a larger-than-life, testosterone-fueled presence. Jack Nicholson was good at projecting that sort of energy; Burke Moses was even better in the regional production I saw. The charm and menace of toxic masculinity and machismo embodied.Bradley Whitford has never been that kind of performer, physically or affect-wise. He's like the thinking man of taste's Matthew Broderick: a litt...

They DID a Hit List adaptation and piloted it in concert at 54 Below. It was pretty decent.

That Grand Hotel performance really is something. It's no wonder we haven't seen a major revival, given the demands of that lead role. You need someone who can play the gentle tragedy of a dying (strongly strongly implied to be closeted) middle-aged man who has only just begun to live and love, but can also play wild physical comedy as he gets drunker and drunker and makes an endearing ass of himself. A living cartoon character who can break your heart... I mean, in twenty years it'll be Etha...

Her views are known but I wonder if it’s the way the discourse has heated up over the last month or so. A major novelist almost got canceled and was excoriated online for a one-paragraph mention of a single-appearance character being Israeli.

The two men in TOS are gay and talk about being gay, right? Darren Criss has publicly claimed he won't play queer roles anymore, which would technically cast doubt on the rumor of his attachment.As far as Kevin McHale, I enjoyed his Barfee schtick in Spelling Bee, but... he's 100% doing Martin Short in the show (and quite well- somebody get him into Three Amigos the Musical). Martin Short is already marmite to the public, so homages to him will be equally divisive.

The bar of how bad or failed a show has to be to not get into licensing is INSANELY high, because "make something back on the back end in licensing, even a slow trickle," is about 50% of why a show even opens on Broadway these days. Broadway is a commercial for licensing houses as much as it is its own entity.

The stunt is she's going to strike the iconic "elbows up" Evita pose at the start of the song, and hold that pose for the rest of the song... and then the rest of the show.

I went down a rabbit hole last night and wound up taking a few of you with me: first, I discovered a poster for a 1972 Filipino film, "Jesus Christ Superstar," which appeared to recreate the album as a biker movie. Trying to research this (it's assumed to be lost media destroyed by the Marcos regime), I wound up first thinking I'd found information on it, but no.What I found was that there's a SECOND unauthorized Filipino Jesus Christ Superstar from before the movie's release. This was a "dub...