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The Bandstand said: "I am!! I love Kristin Chenoweth. The first time since Wicked she’s in a new musical again written by Stephen Schwartz for her. It seems like a big ol’ fashioned Broadway musical! Plus Michael Arden. Very excited!!!"

Me too !

 

Maybe they are glad he is playing hookie ,

Anyone know when Billy Porter will be out on any scheduled dates ?

Thanks! 

 

Somewhere in the 1,641 posts there was a statement about how Joe Gillis, after he is shot and killed, leaves the stage. As I recall it was stated his exit was a bit significant. I saw this 3 times, and I did not see how this happened nor was I able to and figure this out. Now that it closed, I don't think the answer would be a spoiler. 

Thanks for any input !

binau said: "What I will ever be grateful for: Audra's performance including and especially her vocals. I love them and she did truly 'break the mold'. I will never forget what it was like to watch Audra sing "Coming Up Roses" and "Rose's Turn" for the first time feeling great comfort that she did it - she found a way to make her soprano voice thrillingly navigate this score. She did not disappoint, and that is the most important thing.

What I am saying 'good riddance' to - because this has been a particularly frustrating revival and there has been a lot of toxicity to boot too:

1. I thought being in the first (and another) early preview of Gypsy on Broadway with Audra would give me chills when the lights dimmed and this large orchestra played the most famous and important Broadway overture of all time. Instead, the lights never dimmed, people talked OVER it, the Orchestra sounded tinny. Shame, shame, shame. Felt like regional theatre amateur hour. No.

There is no excuse - I don't care that it was a preview, I paid (wasted) $500 for the ticket - the most I’ve ever paid and it hurts me to think about this because I literally have to sacrifice my quality of life for this mediocrity, and it's the 6th production of Gypsy on broadway so it's not as if it was new material that was particularly unusual or complex to stage.

2. How boring and tired the whole production and almost all of the supporting cast felt. We had George C Wolfe who has done excellent work creating chilling and emotional theatre, and we had an apparently new racialised concept that in Audra's word's 'hits differently' that I was very much looking forward to to give this revival a reason to exist. Well, none of it was real or worked. It was all a marketing scam. Danny was boring. Joy Woods was boring. The staging was boring. The Choreography didn't work. The Tesla barely registered. Boring, boring, amateur regional level production.

3. The toxicity of Audra's fans, and fans of the production. The early word of mouth of this show initially wasn't good - not everyone liked Audra's vocals (and they often still don't). I was always an early defender of Audra's vocals and I continue to be a defender of Audra's vocals. However, something happened when the show opened where suddenly fans proclaimed this revival was the best thing ever and if anyone dared challenge they were vilified and called all sorts of names. Gaslighting genuine fans of Gypsy who know what they are talking about. It was vile and toxic.

I also remember people gleefully claiming that Sunset sales were slowing down and Gypsy was the hot ticket to be - even though Sunset had been open longer and Gypsy had not yet passed the 10-12 week 'prestige musical' window that we were waiting in baited breath to see if the grosses would be sustained, and like Company, like War Paint, like Follies once the core theatre audience dried up it did begin to tank. Sunset grossed almost 2m last week and Gypsy only 0.8m. Sunset will end up being seen by more people, recouping more and grossing more.

4. The toxicity of the Nicole/Audra race - and the fact that as illustrated in this thread people STILL can't move on. Audra lost. Nicole won. Not only did Nicole win - she won despite the Patti drama, she won despite people vilifying her for ambiguous instagram posts. This is a clear and unambiguous message that Tony voters believed that Nicole was the best choice. Her win against Audra makes Nicole's win one of, if not literally the most competitive race of all time and Nicole's performance should and will go down as one of the 'all time greats' alongside people such as Alice Ripley in next to normal, Patti in Gypsy etc.

5. The toxicity of the Audra/Patti drama - not that Audra herself had anything to do with this. But following up from point 3 and her toxic fans, the idea that these people would band together (one of them by the way who signed it was that toxic former museum of broadway employee, which by the way has started to make me question the legitimacy of the whole thing in the first place) to try and cancel Patti LuPone, one of our all time greats, because Patti didn't like the show and because she was defending herself against the abhorrent and unfair slander talking about theobjectivelyloud sound levels of Hell's Kitchen (albeit in her distasteful Patti style of course).

This then led to questions about whether Audra would win the Tony because of it (see also, point 4 above). Well, I don't mean to be petty but I am gleeful that Nicole won the Tony to send a BIG message that what matters most is excellence in theatre and not anything else. Meanwhile, Patti gets to keep her status as a Gypsy Tony winner, and Audra's Gypsy is closing early. Maybe audiences agreed with Patti?

6. Audra's poor attendance - sorry but I am not letting history slam Bernadette's performance in Gypsy as having poor attendance after we have just gone through Audra's shockingly poor attendance in Gypsy. I'm sure she had good reasons - as did Bernadette for those early previews. However, Audrahas by far the worst attendance of any Rosein Broadway history. I thought her vocals were so strong (see opening statement) and I always wondered whether she would be able to sustain them, and it seems that the answer is she can't. She is the only Rose in Broadway history that also needed an alternate.

If Michael Riedel would have dared to comment on this, he would have been cancelled and set upon by Audra's rapid fans. But I'm sure cowardly he'd never do this, only to Bernadette.

On the flip side, the online chatter surrounding this revival has never been boring at least.
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I was certainly intrigued by your dissertation on Gypsy!

I would certainly confer a PHD upon you ! 

Sweeney Todd

Sunset Boulevard

How about "Guns and More Guns"  that ought to liven up the title and have TSA security to get into the theater.

Will Uber Eats deliveries become a norm ?

Gee.  I thought we were the tolerant left. 

 

Yeah !  It reminds me of a James Joyce novel .

So could Tveit be a possible Emcee after Redmayne leaves ?

So did you move here from Ossining ?

I was lucky enough to see Zack Gonder on as Clark.   He is tall and that helped to exaggerate his lines and extensions.  Is he on a rotation or was it just a one shot deal?

Thanks for any info !

 

I saw this 3 weeks ago and know I shall end up going back.  I think after music streams.

But Im seeing Illinoise tomorrow so Ill see how that stirs me and maybe do a doubleheader some Wed.

Fan123 said: "This show recently released an EP, which I quite like.

Spotify link"

 

Thanks for this. Love the music, especially opening number  New York

 

It costs big bucks to supply all that water for elephants.

Not a day goes by that I wish I could afford the tickets.

Since the seat prices are  a bit out of my range, is there a plan for a cast recording.  Hopefully that will be my experience of MWRA.  (unless the cd is $100 bucks too !)

In case no recording any thoughts on the best recording out so far?

Thanks 

DF

 

Who does she think she is?  She thinks she is barbra streisand....a self made god who can do whatever she wants whenever she wants.....and folks love it !