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Some call it unrealistically dark, others call it unrealistically accurate. It’s also got the honor of having introduced MF to the white vernacular. Previously that one swear word was not only primarily Black, but heavily racially charged.

If I were a producer, I'd be considering casting three full-time cast members for Freddie the host and the man and woman who play Clarence et al and "all the women," then cast a different star as George and Mary every night. It's 95% on-book, so you could do that.

I mentioned this in the other thread, but George (rumored to be Andrew Rannells) and Mary (Megan Hilty?) are not the star roles here. There's a role for Freddie Filmore, the radio show host, who takes on about forty of the supporting roles in the story and frequently plays scenes opposite himself. If you get a comedian or a major voice actor like Hank Azaria in that role, it's a dark horse Tony contender for supporting actor.

Get Jimmy Kimmel in the other role! I'm only half kidding.

George and Mary aren’t the juicy star roles, they’re princess tracks. The get is Freddie Fillmore, the radio host who plays about forty roles in the show. If they get a really good comedian or a voice actor like Hank Azaria, Freddie is a dark horse Tony supporting role.

It’s a cute show, I’ve played the foley artist three times in it.

…wait, SwitPosting is back?

We almost had an industrial musical aka a musical with an industrial/electronic score… Trent Reznor was working with Julie Taymor on a Fight Club rock opera. The project fell apart so a good bit of the score was repurposed onto NIN’s albums circa 2000s-2010s.

John Adams said: "darquegk said: "I am a huge fan of the Spring Awakening demo album, which someone first gave me back in college circa 2008 and which I consider not only one of my favorite theatre records but maybe my favorite indie record of all time. If you haven't listened to his stripped back, 2000s indie recordings of the score, definitely do so today. It could have been released as a solo album in its own right."I haven't listened to it yet to verify, so I hope this is the album you're...

Sheik was one of my favorite examples of someone for whom lightning struck again and again; just when you were ready to count him out or assume his best was past, he'd come back with something that made you realize he hadn't even slowed down. He was the closest thing the musical theatre community has ever had to a genuine cult hero, and his ability to create work that resonated with the mainstream while being decidedly alternative will not soon be forgotten.I am a huge fan of the Spring Awake...

Phantom4ever said: "MezzoDiva47 said: "Jay Lerner-Z said: "then reopen in a few years with new techwhich i fully expect to happen with phantomIt really frustrates me when people think the original 1986/1988 Phantom even had any "tech" or needed an "new tech." The whole point of Maria and Hal's vision of the show was to to be a love letter to theater and to use theatrical "technology" that's been around forever---backdrops, curtains, footlights, etc. Even the "tech" stu

Alex Borstein would be fantastic.

THDavis said: "The Usherette introduces this production and bids us a teary farewell at the end. When you watch Sherie and Amber play throughout the evening (and please do, there is ALWAYS something to watch), and you have less central focus/command on Frank, I was left with the feeling that I was brought into the Usherette's fascination and obsession with the very genre she lives for. It was almost her dream. And it was sad when Sherie bid us farewell at the end."There was a mostly-replica p...

Here's a question: do we get the harmonies back? The original production and the movie are full of elaborate "big Broadway harmonies." Those have been pared away little by little over the years towards a "boisterous unison" sound, only breaking into full harmony at a few points in the show. If you compare the Broadway score to the published vocal score, and then scores from revivals and various licensing editions over the years, the vocal lines have been simplified more and more; both times I...

What, are we expecting some story to break that ALW didn't compose the show, and he's getting out ahead of it with proof?

There was an eight-person all-adult Annie staged I believe in Florida, styled as a presentation from the Depression-era Federal Theatre Project.

There have been at least two different Rocky Horror collector's box sets. I have the one with the OST, Roxy, Instrumentals and Audience Participation albums, plus the commemorative booklet.

Aladdin took a route like this: it spent about a decade in regionals being tested and rewritten over and over until it finally turned into the Broadway version.

DaveyG said: "I wish Guettel's version had made it."I wonder about it a lot- can he do light and funny and ironic? I think David Yazbek was the one to beat for that: master of adapting cult films and keeping them at least as good if not better, and blending heart with irony and detachment.

Magenta, if I recall, has six lines. This production cuts one of them but gives her one of Riff’s lines to compensate. It’s a tiny role on paper but larger than life in the right hands.