Profile for Jonathan Cohen

quizking101 said: "I guess they finally hit their ceiling with the swing coverage. What did the email say?"It didn't offer any context beyond "Your Performance Has Been Canceled".

It's not closing but I did just get an email that tonight's performance has been canceled.

Jay Lerner-Z said: "How do they get away with labelling it as the real thing? False advertising."One of the unexpected benefits of going to one of the few book events she's doing is it's the only way to be absolutely certain you're not listening to AI.

ER765 said: "I really like her, but once again this casting makes absolutely no sense."I was at a Q&A Melissa Barrera did for the obscure movie Your Monster back in 2024, and basically out of nowhere, she started talking about how much she wanted to be cast in a Broadway musical.

Jay Lerner-Z said: "NYC. Will tickets sell out fast? How long do I have to make up my mind?"The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center main sanctuary is cavernous and seats 2,500 people. It's not clear from the ticket if it will be held there, or a smaller room which would fit about 600 people.

Liza Minnelli will be live in NYC with Michael Feinstein at The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center, on March 23 at 7:30pm: Link Tickets are about $66 with tax, come with a signed book, and are general admission. It's also the exact same price to watch it online and get a signed book. It's $150 for a reserved section ticket. Not cheap, but definitely cheap compared to the LA appearance.

"It is the lowest-ranked out of 28 live shows listed on the site Show Score, where a third of its reviews give zero, one, or even half a star out of five."Even half a star? Does Kawaller (the writer) think half a star is a lower rating than zero stars?Obviously, Perfect Crime's Show-Score rating of 40% Positive, 19% Mixed, and 41% Negative isn't great but still a net majority of audience members are getting something out of it. For a production created to appeal to the tastes of audiences in ...

Without getting into a semi-academic discussion about what's been proven about Hamilton and slaves and what's speculation, I don't see what it would change in terms of the future reception of the show. Looking the other way on slavery and the founding fathers, has always been baked into the show's concept. Yes, Alexander Hamilton is the main focus of the show, but he's already portrayed as very flawed character. George Washington is portrayed as the much wiser person, an ideal to try to live ...

Getting rid of understudy slips really drives me nuts, not because I'm against it in a vacuum but The Broadway League is being really selective in what they consider wasteful. At least those slips are giving me information I'll look at. The full color inserts I often get in Playbills reminding me to turn off my phone I'm sure are more expensive to make and are pretty redundant, as ushers are paid to make the same point.

John Adams said: "I do wonder, though if she's making a business decision to replicate Beyoncé's Cowboy Cartersuccess(by re-establishing herself in an unexpected genre)."Whatever Cowboy Carter's artistic merit, I liked it a lot more than Renaissance, the Cowboy Carter tour was having trouble moving tickets, at least compared to previous Beyonce tours. Considering Lopez just canceled a tour because of horrible ticket sales, an unexpected genre is a really risky move as a business decision.

spicemonkey said: "I do thinkHoudini is kinda meaningful tho, withthe historical backdrop (before WWI, or metaphorically something catastrophic about to happen)"As far as I know, and I did look into it today, in real life Harry Houdini never met Archduke Franz Ferdinand. In a vacuum I have no problem with the Houdini being in Ragtime. He's not the only Jewish immigrant who moved to America and reinventing himself in the show.But like the soothsayer warning Julius Caesar "Beware the Ides of Ma...

FANtomFollies said: "Not trying to invalidate your opinion at all - but I think this may just be a symptom of seeing the show multiple times and becoming more familiar with it. I remember seeing it for the first time in the 2009 revivial being blown away and thinking it was the perfect book of a musical - right up there with Gypsy and other classics. But then after seeing it at City Center and twice at Lincoln Center, it is a bit clunky and creaky."I saw Ragtime for the first time ever earlie...

FANtomFollies said: "I found it interesting and hypocritical that they made such a big deal about how unfair it is to have to be a celebrity to be in a Broadway show, but then gave no credit to the (non-A-list) rest of the cast of Bug. Also no acknowledgement that Carrie being the partner of the playwright played a role in her getting the part."Okay, this is the problem of criticizing what someone says in the context of a chopped up TikTok clip. CBS put the full 25 minute extended interview o...

I skipped All In because of the price issue, and saw All Out last night in the context of getting a ticket where I couldn't complain about the price. The cast was Jim Gaffigan, Eric Andre, Abbi Jacobson, and Ben Schwartz.Overall, I enjoyed it. I'm never going to be onboard with the decision to do this reading instead of staged performance. While that's mostly about getting in big names in for a week or two, without them having to learn the lines, I don't think it's the only reason. They want ...

I saw this in March at Town Hall as Vape! The Grease Parody, where it was staged as a one-night benefit concert with people including Kerry Butler, Rachel Dratch, Joel Perez, Jackie Hoffman and Ann Harada. I haven't seen the new Off-Broadway version, but I thought it was extremely stupid in the best way. I'd recommend it.

EDSOSLO858 said: "The full company performing "Prologue: Ragtime" on GMA this morning, pre-taped from the Beaumont:https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/video/128105418"They barely show the audience at all which is completely un-noteworthy unless you were at the taping. It appeared they hadn't come up with a plan ahead of time of where to seat the audience and a good chunk of time was spent reseating people. Including for shots that weren't used.

Some thoughts on this article: #1. I think it's understood by almost everyone that word-of-mouth recommendations are more influential than digital ad campaigns in selling tickets. However, you can't get a word-of mouth campaign going without first convincing some people to see the play in the first place. Throwing out digital campaigns completely doesn't make as much sense as figuring out how to better target the digital ad spend. For example, instead of maybe a more general New York Times ad...

In a vacuum this sounds great, but the combination of Death of a Salesman having just been on Broadway and not particularly wanting to support Scott Rudin, this is a pass for me.

Matt Duffer gave an interview in Entertainment Weekly, where he said no actor from the play will appear in Season 5, because only a few people will see the play, and they want Season 5 to make sense as a standalone experience. The explanation makes zero sense to me because say you're going to use a different actor to play young Joyce Byers anyway, it's no more or less confusing to the general audience if it's the same actress from First Shadow.

That's interesting. I thought it was extremely funny in the moment, but between the time jumps, and some actors playing different characters, breaking the fourth wall made it too narratively chaotic. I'm sure that's intentional, it just didn't work for me.