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RippedMan said: "Could this move uptown? Pretty dry season for new musicals."I wish, but I doubt it unless another nonprofit wants to take it on. The LCT revival was a massive flop, so what producer would want to take on a musical version? I will also say that Quizking posted their same post on Reddit and received a lot more concurring opinions than they did here. R/Broadway has its own type of niche theatre people, I’m not sure it’s SOOO much more representative of the broader audience than ...

quizking101 said: "The ushers told us that Act I is only 50 minutes and Act II is about 1:35. I don’t often see musicals as being bottom-heavy, especially by this much. Have there been other musicals like this?(I’m seeing this tonight and will report back later.)"It’s because it’s a 3-act show but they’ve decided to only have an intermission between acts 1 and 2. I think they really should have a break of some kind between acts 2 and 3.

I absolutely loved this! I thought the score was fantastic and Lipton really understand this material. He does a great job pairing lovely melodies with silly and absurd lyrics in a way that somehow makes them seem deep and introspective. It’s a perfect fit for the show. The cast was great across the board, but I’d agree that Miles, Diamond, and Bonino were the standouts. All three have cracked characters that can be tough to crack and also really get the material. What I will say is that I do...

Mr. Wormwood said: "I feel like Hogsdon went from a shoo-in to unlikely to make it in with this category change. Definitely less of a chance for Cumming too.Featured Actress in a Musical feels barren this year to me."I was just looking at my GoldDerby and noticing that. It's bizarrely thin. As far as Mincemeat, it wouldn't surprise me they if they did this to clear out Cumming from a crowded featured actor field to further secure Malone's nom (not that there was any doubt, but I think it's a ...

If I'm MTC and CamMac looking at the jam packed musical slate, I'd be lobbying my hardest to get categorized as a special event and get considered for a special Tony. Don't think they'll have much of a chance in any of the musical categories, but could have a real chance at a special Tony.

I love Sara Holdren. I think this is another one she just nailed. I agree with her on basically every point she makes.

gibsons2 said: "BorisTomashevsky said: "They could have built the most incredible cave in that space. Would have been thrilling."I was expecting a cave as well. Surprised and disappointed that this time LCT didn't live up to their usual standards of stagedesign."If they'd done this in the 21/22 season instead of Flying Over Sunset or Skin of Our Teeth, the entire stage would rise up to reveal an intricate cave system. It seems like since that season, every show has just struggled so much to f...

Saw this tonight and absolutley loved it. Amazing cast doing amazing things. Loved the direction and physical production too. I think Broadway Baby, Send in the Clowns, Losing My Mind, Gotta Get a Gimmick, Everything's Coming Up Roses, and Sunday were the highlights. I do still have some gripes with the song selection. Too much Follies, too much Company, not nearly enough Sunday, no Assassins, no Whistle, heck, I would KILL to hear I Remember or Take Me to The World live. Also some lateral st...

CoffeeBreak said: "The set is detailed but reminiscent of New York schools, not Georgia. One of the missteps of the director and designer."Always funny when that happens. I noticed it in JOB too. I'm from the Bay Area. I don't think I've ever seen a radiator there.

Absolutely adored this. Harmon is probably my favorite playwright. Love all his stuff. I'd love to see this transfer just because it's so good and deserves to be seen by a bigger audience. But, there is very little I'd trade for the intimacy of this production. You really feel like you're in it with them. I'd say Harmon got my but in the seat and Gleason and Feldman got me excited. But it was Serralles who I walked away thinking about most. She was just so so good. All three of them were firi...

Kad said: "CoffeeBreak said: ". But, being week 3 of ifs run, MINCEMEAT has the most impressive numbers of the new musicals (at this part of their runs) this year. It’s the hit so far."It's making substantially less money than both Redwood and Death Becomes Her in their third weeks."Death Becomes Her is based on a popular movie has a host of decently attractive names and is in a 1500 seat there, Redwood has Idina Menzel and is in a 1200 seat theatre. This show is an original musical with no s...

I think Benjamin Button has to be the next big new musical to come over. There are always so many starry plays on both sides of the pond live and die by their stars and never transfer because of that. Of the big West End ones this season, I'd agree that Much Ado seems most likely just because Lloyd has a history of bringing his stuff over here. I'm also curious about Kyoto. That looks really really interesting.

Finally got to see Adam in the show this afternoon and absolutley loved his performance. Easily the best Emcee I've seen in this production. It was definitely a bit of a quiet Wednesday matinee audience and Adam did some improving early on trying to get people into it. I loved the choices he made with the role and of course his voice is just phenomenal. I did appreciate having a Jewish Emcee too. Not at all a requirement, but I could feel the weight of it.

Jonathan Cohen said: "2) Considering Ian Fleming is not one of the 5 main characters (and he could have been), there are way too many Bond jokes at the beginning and end of the show. The fact the guy who created James Bond really was a spy is fascinating but in this context it's a shiny object distracting our focus from the characters the story is supposed to be about.4) I was in Row O of the Orchestra and I couldn't understand the lyrics to Das Ubermensch until I listened to the soundtrack o...

ACL2006 said: "Gypsy won't survive without Audra."I don't think it's intent is run without her though. The point of the production is her like Music Man was about Hugh and Sutton.

I absolutely understand the hype challenges. Between this show and Oh Mary, I have the opposite experience to you.I actually learned about the real Operation Mincemeat in a history of espionage class in 2022. Then I was in London in Spring, 2023 and heard there was musical about it. Ended up, pretty randomly, at their first West End preview and was totally blown away by it. I didn't get to see Oh Mary until December and, by the time I saw it, the hype was enormous. I laughed a lot, but my ove...

Makes sense to me. It was really uncomfortable watching the Dodgers win the World Series in Yankee Stadium and then Yankees' iconic song starts playing. Brutal, honestly. Save it for the wins.

Dreamboy3 said: "Call_me_jorge said: "Every Tony Awards host will be doomed to fail until they hire new writers"Yeah, I hate to admit it but the Tony show during the writer’s strike was for me the one I enjoyed most over the past number of years."The fact that we had the same host the year pre-strike, during the strike, and post strike and during the strike was objectively her best hosting performance is pretty freaking damning.

Kinda forgot about this and then came back to listen to it a couple days ago. Really fantastic work by Malloy. Most of these songs don't work outside of the show, but that's absolutely not a problem in my book. There are a few true standalone gems though. Basically any time the grandparents are involved is just gorgeous and each of the main three gets a great solo, birch trees for Susan, haze for Sadie, and love always leaves you for Beckett. the berries and the plums might be my favorite new...

I would like to amend an earlier statement of mine, specifically about the cosmetic changes to the show. I described them "minor." I have since seen a TikTok with some sneaky footage of what A Glitzy Finale looks like on the West End and I realized the changes were bigger than I had previously thought. I still wouldn't describe it as the second coming, there were no changes to the vision. But, there was clearly more money to spend and it really looks great. Much glitzier than the West End ver...