Profile for EmceeHammer

On the plus side, Broadway has gotten more "Joe's Pub."

"...Ding ding ding! Was just announced on Morning Joe, Betty Gilpin takes over for an 8 week run."What do I win???Interesting but inspired choice. Would love to hear the behind-the-scenes story of the casting process.Gilpin is an incredible actress, truly underrated. Hope this pushes her career forward.

OharaFosseWolfe888 said: "That is also what I was told, it was. She has 3nominations for the Netflix show. She is not as big of a name as anyone has dream casted or speculated above…”Betty Gilpin (nominated three times for ‘Glow’)?

Tart-uff. This was a slog. It’s a good adaptation of a great play, the cast is game, but it suffers from a lack of direction and momentum. The pace is lackadaisical with unnecessary interstitial music and pointless scene change “choreography” killing the mood. This should have been faster and shorter. The flat lighting and amateurish set don’t do anything to enhance or distract from the tedium.Matthew Broderick is surprisingly good, mostly because he’s making strong choices and giving his cla...

We gave into our morbid curiosity and saw it. (Our plan landed early, we had time to kill before check in, and the line at TKTS was short.)I definitely liked parts of it and will probably spend a lot of mental energy trying to figure out how/if it could be salvaged.This reminded me of Cruise Ship Kander and Ebb.The show just kept moving from bit to bit to keep the tone from getting too dark or the irony from getting too thick. There were several throwaway moments that could have hit hard, but...

Agreed This thread and the whole situation is depressing. Those that choose polarization over progress, that act in bad faith rather than try to understand, that jump to whatever conclusion confirms their agenda… stop it. Get right with your own beliefs and spare us the reactionary discourse.There is a lot of evil in the world. Anti-semtism exists. Extremism of all types exists. Musical theater creators doing a bad post and then taking it down is not that. I’m seeing this show tonight, and I ...

Reviews are dropping. Vincentelli is lukewarm in the Times.Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/theater/tartuffe-review-matthew-broderick-david-cross.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9U8.Tvo9.DJ8Ip8LPxORr&smid=url-share"A more traditional production might have switched the actors playing the two men, considering Broderick’s and Cross’s styles, but the counterintuitive casting keeps the show on its toes. In fact, casting in general is the ace in the director Sarah Benson’s sleeve as the c...

I wouldn’t say this is anti-Semitic, more an untimely and unnecessary attempt to poke fun at the type of person that would respond to this terrorism with “decolonize Australia.” I get the irony, but in this context I don’t really want to. I also respect anyone that finds this disqualifying or offensive. Oof. Bad marketing. I have tickets to see this on Wednesday. I’m still going. (Jordan’s recommendation means a lot.)

Sara Holdren is a relative rave.https://www.vulture.com/article/theater-review-anna-christie-oneill-michelle-williams-tom-sturridge-thomas-kail.html“That stuff’s all right there, both on the page and vibrating in the performances. At the same time, there’s a refreshing lack of attention being drawn to it here. Perhaps it’s a function of letting celebrity alone to do the work of getting butts in seats (across from Williams, an absolutely feral Tom Sturridge plays Anna’s love interest, the Iris...

I said what I said. I’ll save it for another thread unless I’m too lazy to post it.It’s a bad movie. The poor word of mouth and steep drop in box office is a good indication. My adolescent nieces all said “not impressed.” I laughed my way through it. Pure camp.

Thanks, Eric. You are spot on, per usual. I was totes wrong about BW playing in New York prior to the recent revival. I didn’t do the math… or the research. Chalk it up to the Mandela Effect. W:FG is not good. It’s actively bad, and I think will be viewed as a stain on the legacy of the musical overall. The new songs from Schwartz are unfortunately part of that. (Even though the actresses perform them so well they almost sound like Sondheim.)it wasn’t my intention to overlook Children of Eden...

QoV will close the same day as the Off Broadway revival of Baker’s Wife, which will have played almost as many performances. I haven’t done the math, but if you include the previews of the original Broadway production of Baker’s Wife, it will have been performed in New York almost as much, if not more, than QoV.At least Schwartz will always have Wicked (and Pippin and Godspell). Between this and the fallout from Wicked: For Good, 2025 is not the career victory lap that was expected.

Poe's Law [shrug emoji]

What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

Zeppie2022 said: ""ApparentlyKelsey Grammer and Laura Osnes we’re the Broadway “stars” to salute Michael Crawford. "Ms. Osnes has received two Tony Nominations for best actress in her career; some people may consider that good enough to be a "star"."Hey, that’s more Tony noms than Michael Crawford has. Maybe next year Osnes will win a Kennedy Center Honor. In Trump’s America, anyone can be a “star” as long as you kiss the right ass, look the right way, and exploit the right identity politics....

I have never seen this many old men with bad plastic surgery in one room. Is this a White House ceremony or Liberace’s last orgy?

Agreed, but TBF the guy in question would probably be thrilled about all the online snark and bad hot takes. It's kind of his vibe. It's definitely "sickening," in both senses of the word.

quizking101 said: "Basically - he’s cooked personally and career-wise; that’s a given."Despite the personal humiliation and loss of liberty, this could actually solidify his "legend" and help his career in the long run. Either this is the rock bottom that sets up his redemption arc or it positions him as theatre's "bad boy." Assuming he serves time, anything he writes while imprisoned will be a hot property. Maybe a few years of enforced focus and sobriety will be beneficial for his creative ...

This is going to be hilarious if JOH takes a MAGA turn to try to get favor from Trump.

John Adams said: "Kad said: "Generally, people did not think these were things a president would or could do."The truth of your post is such an amazingly sad reality in terms of how Trump could have been completely avoided.Our Constitution naively lists only (3)requirements for presidential candidates...:"The Constitution also says that no one who has "previously taken an oath" and then "engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same" shall hold any office. The Constitution makes it cl...