The Official TDF Thread
Oct 23 2025, 12:00:21 PM
Beetlejuice has a few dates up
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The Official TDF Thread
Sep 5 2025, 03:30:42 PM
Punch is up for 9/9-9/21
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The Official TDF Thread
Sep 2 2025, 02:36:07 PM
Aladdin is on TDF for 9/3-9/7
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The Official TDF Thread
Apr 2 2025, 10:06:37 AM
Last Five Years, Curves, Redwood, Smash
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The Official TDF Thread
Mar 27 2025, 05:50:55 PM
Last Five Years is up with 3 dates
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The Official TDF Thread
Jun 20 2023, 02:44:16 PM
--> "Kelli O’Hara will not be appearing June 23rd thru June 25th."
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Musical Performances on the 2023 Tony Awards
Jun 13 2023, 06:15:41 PM
The Shucked team is clearly smoking a bit too much of their own corn.
How do you not let Alex, the Tony-nominated(-and-now-winning), scene-stealing, mid-show-standing-ovation-earning, non-binary star of your show sing at least the latter half of her enormous roof-raising song? That should have been her Jennifer Holliday or Joaquina Kalukango moment with the audience on their feet, screaming praise for her momentous turn playing a full-out female role and tearing it up every night
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ALMOST FAMOUS To Open On Broadway Fall 2022
Oct 5 2022, 08:41:14 AM
Mmmyeahhh -- this did not need to be a musical. The songs are not enhancing the material, and especially a dozen mid-tempo Tom Kitt softcore tracks are NOT bringing the rock 'n roll spirit. Somehow "Next to Normal" rocked way harder than this did. My group was checking their playbill throughout act two. A few glimpses of really fun comedy, but few and far between.
There are maybe 2 and a half songs I wanna hear again, and one of them is "Fever Dog" from the movie. I did love how that was integrated into the curtain call. After The Visitor, Superhero, Flying Over Sunset -- I'm beginning to question Tom Kitt as a compelling voice in musical theater. But Soleia Pfeiffer sounds incredible the few moments she gets to really sing.
Oy vey, I just don't understand the movie musical pipeline. These are not good ideas for shows. I feel the most successful adaptations (Legally Blonde, Hairspray, Kinky Boots) have sprung from big, splashy comedy-forward films. And I agree with earlier post that Bridges of Madison's score gorgeously benefitted from super-heightened romantic emotions (although the show overall was mid). But Almost Famous is more of an understated semi-cult classic where subtleties, facial expressions, and cinematography make all the difference. Not to mention a soundtrack full of real rock classics.
The wise rock journalist avatar continually reminds the audience that once the music starts to take itself too seriously it ceases to be rock n roll. Unfortunately this "rock" musical completely ignores its own advice. (I will sell this line to any reviewer who is interested, please dm me) 
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ALMOST FAMOUS To Open On Broadway Fall 2022
Oct 5 2022, 08:39:42 AM
Deleting duplicate
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The Official TDF Thread
Sep 26 2022, 11:29:48 AM
A few dates for 1776 are up
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DEATH OF A SALESMAN 2022 Previews
Sep 22 2022, 11:49:36 AM
I found this a bit difficult to sit through. There's just so much repetition of ideas and by the time you reach three hours (in a theater that wasn't well air conditioned), I could feel people squirming in their seats.
Wendell is on fire but I do find that his use of yelling is a bit erratic and almost not believable. In any conversation he might suddenly YELL a line of dialogue and it felt unrealistic to me, no matter how on-edge the character is. I wanted him to be a bi
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The Official TDF Thread
Mar 30 2022, 01:32:39 PM
A few COMPANY dates added
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Anyone have experience developing a new musical?
Sep 20 2018, 02:08:25 PM
Apologies, after posting I realized this is probably a better fit for the off-topic or students boards. Feel free to delete if necessary.
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Anyone have experience developing a new musical?
Sep 20 2018, 02:05:00 PM
Does anyone have experience taking a musical from script to stage and beyond, and would be willing to have an informational conversation with a beginner?
Please PM if so!! :) -- Much appreciated
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The Wild Party Opens This Week
Jul 20 2015, 01:05:37 PM
Not sure if it's been shared but this Steven Pasquale fansite has some solid recordings from the performance:
http://stevenpasqualedaily.tumblr.com/
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AMAZING GRACE Previews
Jul 1 2015, 11:34:58 AM
Mmmmm yeah. This was worse than Zhivago. At least the Zhivago score had some really tuneful, exciting moments in the score. This score probably had a combined one minute of real excitement.
Do not recommend.
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DOCTOR ZHIVAGO Previews
Apr 10 2015, 03:07:26 PM
Yeah but The Notebook is also about Alzheimer's, American social class structure, and women's rights, ya know?
Maybe Titanic would have been a better comparison as it centers around an important & tragic historical moment, but is still a sweeping melodrama. But that's already been a musical ;p
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DOCTOR ZHIVAGO Previews
Apr 9 2015, 12:03:13 PM
Serious question... Did Michael Bay direct this musical?!?!
So many explosions, gun shots, and sudden violence. It just never ended. I've jumped less watching Paranormal Activity films (although I was in row G).
Anyway, I'm a person who enjoys a good Jekyll & Hyde style darkly romantic, ballad-heavy melodrama... so I enjoyed the night. Some really miraculous singing by Mutu, Barrett, and Nolan. As Pasha, Nolan brought a lot of fire and a very confident performan
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Something Rotten Previews
Mar 31 2015, 01:35:55 PM
@BrerBear haha! layers man, layers!
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Something Rotten Previews
Mar 31 2015, 09:17:13 AM
The show is for sure entertaining but come on guys, brilliant comedy it is not. There's a handful of actually clever lines and then a bunch "wink wink, nod nod, isn't that funny audience?!?!?" lines.
****SPOILERS****
I think @Kad said it best. "It's a Musical" is some of the easiest and cheapest musical comedy writing I've seen. The joke of "people breaking into song" has been skewered before and with more subtle wit. There are countless songs about musical conventions
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