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In addition to The Season, you may also want to consider Season In Season Out by Jack Gaver (critic for United Press International). This books (which predates The Season) covers the 1965-1966 season with a chapter devoted to some interesting aspect of each show. A fascinating look at a specific time in Broadway history and its operation.

Most large scale tour eventually reduce the number of trucks the production needs at some point in a tour. Back to the Future recently did. Before that Moulin Rouge, Wicked, Lion King and many others. We will probably not know the extent of the changes (unless someone has inside information) until the tour restarts. It is unlikely the production or presenters are like to advertise the changes ("now less spectacular" isn't going to sell tickets). If I remember correctly, Moulin Rouge reduced f...

Quick 2 day visit to NYC, but very rewarding. Forum! Rent! Bring in 'da Noise!

Maybe I'm just getting to old? Death Becomes Her is crazy fun but I have to wonder why? What was the great reason to make this a musical? As most have previously said the show is very funny and I enjoyed it very, very much (so did the rest of the wildly enthusiastic audience) but something was missing.(warning possible spoilers ahead) Entry to the theatre was easy (warning men's room lines were much long than ladies). The set framing extends into the house to set the mood. Also a special call...

More like a musical version of Christopher Durang's The Actors Nightmare, in which accountant George finds himself onstage in an ever shifting play. Durang, in the short play that was sometimes the opening act before Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All to You, manages to parody Hamlet, A Man for All Seasons, Private Lives, and Endgame.

Any idea if this production is with or without Germans?

BorisTomashevsky said: "Nightly during the show, the mansion would be lowered behind the Car Chase scene and hidden by scrims, and then Norma would climb up the backwhen it was sitting at ground level.For the Tonys she must have been up there the entire time."I believe she became engaged to stage carpenter Steve Beers (though never married), who would take her each performance to the top of the set.

If I remember correctly, Wicked in Chicago was a strange situation, with the first national tour booked for a very limited run (which may have been due to several previous big touring shows under performing, especially Sunset Boulevard)--when the show sold amazingly well, the run was turned into a sit down production. The original tour cast went on with scheduled tour and new Chicago based cast was hired to take over the show. Not 100% sure--but I think the set stayed in Chicago and a new one...

Phantom had a sit down production in Los Angeles. After it closed, the physical production moved to San Francisco for an even longer run. I believe each of these productions were produced under the old production contract with Los Angeles and then San Francisco being the home city. As I remember, the Equity production contract used to allow a production to choose one of four home/base cities: New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Having a production based in one of these cities al...

BETTY22 said: "Can the authors stop these tours?" For newer shows, probably only if they made it a requirement of their agreement with the original producers--who usually license the show to another company who specialized in these tours. (I can't image many authors who would risk loosing a Broadway production over this.) For older shows that the original producers no longer control, The discission to allow a production or not usually falls to the author (usually in consultation with agent/ma...

I’ve done a non eq tour and we had a A B C and D version of our set. At the worst of times we only could use the chairs and tables and no actual set pieces."I would love to have you elaborate on the differences of the versions.

As for costs, while it doesn't happened often, a national tour can cost more than Broadway production. Way back when, I remember reading that the Phantom of the Opera national tour cost more than the Broadway production with an almost exact copy of the original sets and costumes with additional cost relating to making it able to tour, including duplicating part of the set for advance load-in.

I loved the European productions I've seen videos of--but always had the suspicion that the show is better in German (a language I don't speak) but less so with the English lyrics. It also takes a long time to get to the castle in the show (basically the entire first act). Also any revival will be incredibly expensive because the lavish sets and costumes are critical to the show (as well as a sizeable orchestra).

Not really a new thing. William Goldman in the book The Season describes how Peter Masterson playing the title character in "The Trail of Lee Harvey Oswald" in 1967 was on stage, silent for 2 hours from house open, through the first act, intermission, most of the second act before having his first (and I assume only) line--a 20 minute monologue. As Goldman writes "Masterson was seated on stage as the audience entered, which was someone's literary notion . . . It sounded logical, but it was mi...

verywellthensigh said: "They will never, ever capture the restraint and elegance of the original.GOLDEN RAINBOW 1968 Tony Awards - YouTube"The opening number is one of my all time favorites. It is just so 1960's Las Vegas, made all the better by featuring future Gilmore Girl grandma (and Chorus Line Tony Winner) Kelly Bishop and that boa. It is even more amazing that the Tony's were held at the Shubert that year so the stage mechanics of the numbers are preserved. In days before modern s

Wonderful documentary about the landmark 1973 Sondheim benefit. It just showed up on my youtube feed yesterday and I am sure others on this board will find it interesting. (I have no connection with the documentary--I just enjoyed watching it.) On the Steps of the Shubert March 11, 1973 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri3SDi0pdHI

While the actual sets where not that elaborate--the quick changes of scenery in Yerma were a technical marvel.

I do not know about Anita Morris on Johnny Carson, but you may be thinking about Karla Tamburrelli who played the role of Carla in the national tour of Nine and appeared on the Johnny Carson show singing a special version of Call From the Vatican. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te3KrlYCrUQ

Looking at the current weekly Broadway schedule only 7 of 22 shows have Wednesday matinees. Isn't that a really low percentage? Any thoughts?Also A Beautiful Noise is doing a Wednesday matinee but no evening show, when has that happen before?https://playbill.com/article/weekly-schedule-of-current-broadway-shows