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TaffyDavenport said: "Oracle is reporting a rumor that John Cameron Mitchell will be Cole's replacement, which would be pretty amazing."

JCM will be great, but I was hoping for Charles Busch to step in and reimagine the role. But JCM clearly has a much larger commercial fan base. 

KevinKlawitter said: "Licensing rights acquired by Dramatists Play Services"

I hope and pray other artists who take on the role of Mary don’t just give bad Cole impersonations on this. I’m just having flashbacks to all the low rent productions of Die, Mommie, Die! where the lead’s performance just becomes a bad impersonation of Charles Busch down to line readings!

Dead Outlaw was robbed. But in general, I feel it’s being overlooked. I think this property is going to be extremely popular in regional theaters for a long time, maybe that is when it’ll hit its gold rush. 

devonian.t said: "The artwork matches Todrick Hall's Burlesque..."

This is the best read I’ve heard in a long time! Thanks!

There are PLENTY of larger character actresses who could inhabit the mom role and finally get their breakouts.

Levi Kreis was magnificent on the tour. I know he’s getting his self-written project up and running, but I’m surprised he’s never done a stint in the Broadway production. He was magnificent!

I’m assuming Patti is attached to the recast as she’s been talking about this for years…

My belief is that Renee was the Miramax golden girl of the time and her casting was pushed by certain producers. I also think Roxie has to have a certain blandness and timidity to contrast with Velma and at least in that clip, Toni doesn’t have that. 

$25 million for this??? I’ll be honest, that sticker price is appalling unless they’ve decided to replicate the full southern manor onstage. I felt it worked pretty bare bones at the Goodman. What needed to be fixed was the book. 

If my mom weren’t a massive Cole fan, I wouldn’t be returning to bring her with. As much as I loved the show, it was definitely a “one and done” for me. I think without a lot of the surprises and shocks, it will play different. Others may feel the same way. 

It’s easy to call something a distraction and assume legalities will correct everything until it affects whether you take home a paycheck. It may not hurt some of these board members, but I’m so sorry for any employees at the KC who  can’t sleep tonight because they don’t know if they’ll have a job in a week. These “distractions” have direct and traumatic  effects that shouldn’t be minimized. 

“The President hasn’t learned the lines you’d like to hear, he won’t join your clubs… he’ll simply take control as you disappear.” These paraphrased lines from Evita are just ringing through my head right now. Scary times, friends. I’m so sorry for all at the Kennedy Center caught up in this madness. 

I’m so confused by the new Smash commercial. What is going on? What is Krysta doing in that spot? This went from “I’m intrigued” to “what a confusing waste of IP that actually still held a faint place in my memory, so sad those beautiful songs will die with this flop.”

I’ve heard talk that they’ve gutted the score. I hope this is hyperbole, I’ve always thought Kiss was one of Kander/Ebb’s best and would be sad to lose too much of that gloriousness!!!!