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Up there with Alex Newell and Amber Riley, I would love to see Tiffany Mann get her flowers for this.

Another extension for Ta-Da, this time through September 27.

https://playbill.com/article/josh-sharp-solo-show-ta-da-gets-2nd-final-extension-off-broadway

Extended!

A three-week extension has been announced for Josh Sharp’s ta-da!, written by and starring Josh Sharp and directed by 2025 Tony Award winner Sam Pinkleton. ta-da! began previews Monday July 7, 2025, at the Greenwich House Theater (27 Barrow St, New York, NY 10014) and opened Monday July 21. Previously set to close August 23, ta-da! will now run through Thursday September 11, 2025. 

Happy to see a rave from TheaterMania!

“Welcome to whatever the **** this is,” he says, reading our minds, or at least seeming to. It’s a good first trick in a solo show that explodes the idea of what stand-up can be, should be, is. Part hilarious send-up of the form and part real magic act (wait until the end), ta-da!is one of the most hilariously innovative and astutely performed solo comedy shows I’ve ever seen.

I got to see it this week after having seen an early version in Brooklyn last year. The show was great before and is even better now. His bits and delivery are tighter and funnier, the PowerPoint design is more elaborate, and the magic more impressive. And his personal stories still made me cry even when I knew what was coming. 

First preview tonight! I'm seeing next week. Anyone going this week?

There are so many shows I want to see them do, this season or any season:

Two Gentlemen of Verona
City of Angels
Will Rogers Follies
Whistle Down the Wind
Forum
Pajama Game
 

There's a discount for the first 3 rows for July 7-19 using the code JOSH.

JOSH SHARP TA-DA

Announced today: July 7-August 23 at the Greenwich House Theater

I saw an early version of this show and was blown away. He really does use thousands of Powerpoint slides at rapid speed, and I laughed through the first half and found myself crying by the end. I can't wait to see what he does in this run and with Sam Pinkleton's contributions.

Earlier this week I saw a clip from a new Broadway podcast, It's Broadway Bitch, hosted by comedian Casey Balsham and it drew me in. Now I'm listening to the full episodes and loving it. Her first three interviews are with Grey Henson, Hannah Solow and Jackie Burns and I'm laughing out loud. I've listened to a lot of convos with theater actors but none of the other interviewers make me laugh the way Casey does.

There are so many people I'd love to see as Sarah, but my frontrunner is Lilli Cooper

I loved reading Mullally say that this is the favorite thing she's ever done. 

 

 

Saw this last night and every single song got applause from the crowd. And I've been listening to the album today non-stop. I have never seen a funnier musical!

Tickets up for Q&A with the cast at AMC Lincoln Center for Friday, 10/6, and Sat, 10/7!

https://www.amctheatres.com/movie-theatres/new-york-city/amc-lincoln-square-13/showtimes/all/2023-10-06/amc-lincoln-square-13/all/115023764

For people in NYC - there are Q+A screenings (Oct 6 and 7) with Nathan Lane, Bowen Yang, Aaron Jackson and Josh Sharp at Angelika downtown. I got tickets today, but there are limited numbers left.

https://www.angelikafilmcenter.com/nyc/film/dicks-the-musical

A24 released a lyric video for Lane and Mullally's "Gay Old Life"

Second single released! This one with Nathan Lane (and Megan Mullally). This is laugh-out-loud funny.

Spotify 

YouTube

The movie's first song is now streaming on Spotify and Apple Music. Warning: it is very NSFW 

All Love is Love (Radio Edit) 
https://open.spotify.com/track/7lXxblI12cgLHjG5x38oWT?si=0DPssUXwTs-_EbgMKoAaIw&context=spotify%3Asearch%3Aall%2Blove%2Bis%2Blove%2Bradio%2Bedit

Wow... early reviews are GOOD!

https://mashable.com/article/dicks-the-musical-review

This is an unrelenting explosion of comedy. Sharp and Jackson swing big and broad, fitting both their Dumb and Dumber-style jokes and the musical theater song numbers. Jackson in particular recalls '90s-era Jim Carrey with his rubber-faced mugging and eccentric elocution. There's also gross-out gags, provocative punchlines, juvenile nudity, and Bowen Yang as a gay and glam God, who drops iconoclastic jokes that had the crowd at the TIFF World Premiere absolutely screaming with laughter. Joining this ensemble in mocking the archetype "alpha males" is Megan Thee Stallion in a supporting role that is fierce and fiercely funny, climaxing in a rap number that's wild fun. 

To Jackson and Sharp's credit, every song in Dicks is hilarious, jam-packed with so many jokes that the movie demands repeat viewing to catch them all. But it's a stroke of brilliance to bring in Broadway stars Mullally and Lane for several songs. Throwing on a trove of fashion accessories and a lisp, Mullally makes a meal of wacky lyrics — and even turns her uncanny ability to hold a note into a punchline. Meanwhile, Lane— who stole scenes earlier this year as a plucky papa in another A24 movie Beau is Afraid — gives his all, committing to bit after bit — and spit after spit!

This will premiere at Toronto Film Festival:

The Toronto International Film Festival pulled the curtain off their lineup for their Discovery and Midnight Madness sections with notable titles respectively teeing off both programmes’ opening nights: Patricia Arquette’s Gonzo Girl and Borat director Larry Charles’ Dicks: The Musical from A24.

Dicks the Musical, due out on Sept 29 in theaters, follows two self-obsessed businessmen (writers Aaron Jackson & Josh Sharp) who discover they’re long-lost identical twins and come together to plot the reunion of their eccentric divorced parents. Pic stars Megan Thee Stallion, Nathan Lane, Megan Mullally, and Bowen Yang as God. Music is by Karl Saint Lucy with an original score by Lucy and Marius de Vries.

https://deadline.com/2023/08/tiff-2023-patricia-arquette-gonzo-girl-larry-charles-dicks-the-musical-1235453933/