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I would say Requiem For A Heavyweight. I felt like I was watching my generation's equivalent to Brando in Streetcar.

I'm surprised this thread has gone this long with no mention of Mary Testa.

To newintown: The modern equivalent to a dance hall girl would be a lap dancer, although a more fully clothed one. When guys went to see Charity, or any of the other ladies, the dance was an excuse to hold her close and see how much she'd let him touch her. There were rules restricting how much contact could be made, but for the right price anything would be possible. Simon has Charity say a line explaining that she doesn't go as far as some of the others.The Rodgers and Hart song "Ten Cents ...

Lin-Manuel Miranda has stated in at least one interview that such matters should always follow the author's intention. The script that will be sent to regional and amateur companies doing Hamilton will contain a casting guide. Also, he said that he's fine with high schools with not a lot of Latino students casting white actors in In The Heights, as long as they don't use stereotype makeup and accents. He says that high school is the only place he would allow that kind of casting.

When I saw The Lion King around 1999-2000 or so there was a white Simba. I don't remember who it was. Young Simba was played by a black actor.

Although there have been other stage adaptations of the Cinderella TV specials produced around the country, this version takes nothing from them. What's now playing on Broadway has nothing in common with what has played at City Opera, Paper Mill or any other theatre except for the core of songs written for television. It is a new adaptation of the television specials and a new musical.

While having dialogue/lyrics in Spanish did confuse people unfamiliar with the show, the way the language was used made sense dramatically. The Sharks spoke Spanish when they were among themselves or when they didn't want the Jets to know what they were saying. The Puerto Rican women used English when Anita was around because she was the leader who favored assimilation into the American way of life, but they went back to Spanish when she wasn't around ("I Feel Pretty"). Having Anita go back t...

Nymph Errant was originally a large cast West End musical with different actors playing all the men.

No, it wasn't a scene. It was a posed publicity shot, not on stage.

I remember seeing a publicity still of the three lead couples, except she was left out of it and replaced with the actress playing Lucy.

Although Shaw's play came first, Lerner and Loewe actually used the film of Pygmalion as their guideline for writing My Fair Lady.

Natalia Makarova didn't sing at all in On Your Toes and won best actress.

There are several dates designated as press performances, some just before and some just after opening night. Critics receive invitations from the press agents weeks in advance and they rsvp for the dates they want. Actors may not want to know exactly who is coming when, but they are aware when a performance has been designated as a press date.

William Goldman explained in his book The Season that while audiences were enjoying Alice Playten's performance during out of town tryouts, it wasn't until they came to New York for a week and a half of previews that audiences began enthusiastically responding to the character's campiness and she started stealing the show.

Aside from whether or not How To Succeed deserved the prize (I think it did) another factor to consider is that Guys and Dolls was selected as the Pulitzer winner in 1950, but because Abe Burrows was blacklisted by HUAC it was decided not to give an award that year. That might have influenced the selection of How To Succeed a bit in order to make it up to Loesser and Burrows.

Another major factor was that Lea DeLaria, who won the Drama Desk Award that season for her performance as Hildy in On The Town, wasn't nominated for a Tony. Hers was one of the best reviewed and talked about performances of the season and had she been nominated she might have been favored to win. EDIT -- My mistake. DeLaria was nominated for a DD but Chenoweth won.

Re: Follies, the only decision to be made was that none of the 4 above the title leads would be considered supporting, so they didn't have to announce anything. Regarding Tyne Daly, yes it's obvious she would be eligible as lead actress in a play, but her name was billed below the title so they have to make it official.

Julie Taymor is not billed as director in the Spider-Man Playbill credits. In fact, nobody is billed as director.

Snapple put 2 new theatres in Times Square and used them to house two long-running shows that closed because their theatres were destroyed in order to build something more profitable. Then they named one of the theatres after Jerry Orbach. I say, let them be the Snapple Theatre Center for as long as they want.