I’ve seen friends who are not into theatre whatsoever liking, commenting, sharing the video of him singing Try to Remember. It seems to have broken through to people who typically wouldn’t be viewing musical theatre content, and people have glowing reviews. For a show like the Fantasticks which I’d be willing to bet none of these people had ever heard of before, I’d say this preview has done as well as they could have possibly hoped for.
I think we've named all the actual possibilities at this point, so let me throw out a never-gonna-happen-but-I-want-to-see-it suggestion of King George in Hamilton.
This is great! Now I can delude myself that there’s a chance they’ll decide to make a cast recording. Better a decade late than never, right? (Or god, even if they just did a live recording of this concert, ANYTHING to preserve it would be welcome)
WldKingdomHM said: "OhHiii said: "Swear to godif they shove Ben Platt in this..."Is his dad producingit ? I’m waiting for an Aaron Tveit annoucement …lol"Hasn’t Ben Platt cut ties with his father? At least professionally?
My dream cast would be Sissy Spacek but I doubt they’d think of her or that she’d take it. I’d love to see Bernadette in this but in some ways I wonder if having too big a Broadway star in the role would work against the story. Hard to know without more details, I suppose. So many good options though!
It’s also impressive how much they’ve been able to bring us new Mary’s each time! Who’s gone in more than once- has it just been Cole, Jinkx, and Tituss? Honestly I’d love to see Jane or Betty do another go.
P!nk is above Chicago. Next to Normal may be ambitious for her, but I’d rather see her aim big than replace whatever D-list reality star crawled their way over to Broadway after a failed fun on Dancing with the Stars.
It’s cool to go just for the history, being the longest running show in the world. Lots of cool things in the theater about the history as well. The show is decent. Certainly not a bad night at the theatre, but also not the best show in the West End.
Cole Escola will be in Oh, Mary! through August 15th, so if you didn’t catch them in the show back in NYC, that’s a must. I’ve heard great things about Hit Machine and The Oresteia but haven’t seen either yet. Long-runner, but My Neighbor Totoro has some beautiful puppetry and stagecraft if you haven’t seen it. The Producers will be wrapping up in September. It’s a strong revival.
I’d love to see them take this over to London before going for Broadway. They had a very well received production of Great Comet last year, so could be good to grace audiences with some more Malloy
Valentina does have Rent Live and the In the Heights film on her resume, so on paper she may appear to be more qualified than someone like Plasma, Suzie Toot, or Myki Meeks, even if we all know there would be better choices.
As far as I understand, she hadn’t missed a show at all until the knee injury happened at the beginning of June (I believe during a performance, though I’m not certain) and she missed a few performances then and came back with modified staging, before beginning to miss more and more performances.I saw the show a couple weeks after her injury and was notified a few hours before the performance that her understudy would be on, but to my surprise, it was in fact her who burst through those doors...