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Oy gevalt, suestorm. You're like a broken ****ing record.

"You were dead, you know" is, in my opinion one of the funniest songs in CANDIDE.

Wait, now I'm pretentious? Buddy, you don't know me and I sure as hell don't know you, but I was just saying Sondheim doesn't seem very pretentious when he lists two comedies rife with dick and fart jokes as his favorite movies.

" I think Stephen Sondheim is pretentious " Really, the guy who has said at different times that SOUTH PARK: BIGGER, LONGER, AND UNCUT as well as TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE were his favorite films, is pretentious? Anyways, here's some opinions: -I hate RENT -I loathe AVENUE Q -I loved BOUNCE (The whole production) -Peter Sellars, Robert Wilson, and Anne Bogart are the best directors working today. -I hated ROAD SHOW -I think David Mamet still has one more good play in him -Roger Allam is bett...

So glad to see him back in the spotlight again.

^^^^^^^ No. Just no.

Best CANDIDE-Quartet Finale EVITA-A New Argentina CABARET-Tomorrow Belongs to Me LES MIS-One Day More NINE-Bells of St. Sebastian SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE-Sunday WILL ROGERS FOLLIES-I've Got You/Marry Me Now Worst URINETOWN-Look at the Sky!

Damn, I was expecting this to be an adaptation of Todd Solondz's film.

I know Jane lynch has never Broadwayed before, but has she Regional Theatre'd before? Speaking of, when is Kevin Spacey gonna Broadway again?

Kevin Spacey was originally going to play Mackie The Knife in THREEPENNY '06 as well as Edie Falco as Mrs. Peachum and Wallace Shawn (who also did the horrendous translation!) as Mr. Peachum before Ana Gasteyer and Jim Dale filled those roles.

I was not alive when he played Thenardier on Broadway, so all I have to go by for performance is the OBC and The Tony Performance (which is not much!) The point being I thought he came across as cartoony, he was a bad singer, and I wanted to know why Alun Armstrong wasn't brought over to Broadway!

LuminousBeing, I don't see how "Make Our Garden Grow" is a happy ending. I think it's more of a depressing but truthful realisation that nothing is for the best. I cry every time i hear it.

O KARL! The Life of Karl Marx and Frederich Engels...as played By Nathan Lane and Roger Bart! SAY IT AIN'T SO, JOE! Andrew Lloyd Webber musicalizes the transcripts of HUAC testimonies. Starring Norbert Leo Butz as Joseph McCarthy and Raul Esparza as Roy Cohn!

Bumping for hope for more info!

read an old "Talk of the Town article from New York Magazine saying there was a production of Brecht and Weill's Mahagonny Off Broadway in 1970 and wanted to know if anybody here saw this [at least to me] mythical production or had any info.

It irked me when the set designer incorrectly said the scene that includes "Alabama Song" is Lenya auditioning for THREEPENNY, when any Brecht/Weill enthusiast knows that it was for MAHAGONNY SONGSPIEL.

Merrily We Roll Along, especially the OBC. As soon as "Our Time" gets to "This is where we began being what we can," I tear up more than I did when a door slammed on my finger at five years old.

I was cruising Playbillvault.com and came across a program for "The Stockholm Marionette Theater of Fantasy's Threepenny Opera". Anyone know what that's about? I looked on the official Threepenny website and there's nothing on it.

I cry a river of tears when I listen to Merrily We Roll Along. ESPECIALLY when they sing "...being what we can..." during Our Time.

I was reading the stage directions in the voice of Alan Rickman.