Profile for Art Isn’t Easy

Caleb Quezon was on as Columbia last night and I thought they were great! Sung most of their part down the octave but had some killer belty-mixing to boot. Can only echo what has been said about Sherie: she's a marvel. In a perfect world Luke Evans would have tied with Joshua Henry he was sensational. As a whole I adored this production, I love that it felt like someone of the modern queer counter-culture (despite being a bit theater-kid nerdy) bringing Rocky (a show that we forget how transg...

for those who have seen it, how do they handle Daisy’s suicide scene? That’s always been the host haunting part of the show for me It happens offstage. Quite a lot of material that could have been affecting or upsetting is just narrated to us by Canfield or explained by other characters.

Saw this a few days back. The worst thing a production can be is boring. The only thing worse than that is frustrating, and I was immensely frustrated by this production. I like some other people were confused/intrigued of whether or not this would be a proper book musical based on the Aimee Man album (of which I had no familiarity with, I had scene the movie recently for this first time however) or a play featuring some of the songs, and it seems that the play doesn’t know either! What start...

On the way out of the theater my friend I went with turned to me and shrugged: "what is there even to say?" What a confounding experience - the inane script, the vastness of the stage that is not filled, the terrible, picsart scenic design, the constant total blackouts. One really has to wonder what on earth anyone on this creative team was thinking. It feels like a show that would have been called dated back in the 1980's. The best I can say about it is that the first act moved at a clip and...

The overture sounds STUNNING. Have some quibbles with some mixes (I miss when recordings felt like the performers were in the theater and not in a lab controlled studio, a problem with the majority of recordings today) but overall grateful that the score was preserved in this condition with this cast. Gonna wear this one out

For some reason none of the clips I've seen from this have grabbed me (it feels a little forced and well, Modern British Theatre) for me at this moment but an exciting opportunity to see Pike tear it.Does this mean the Music Box wouldn't be able to have a show open next spring in it? Or is there just enough a window to squeeze in

I caught the show this weekend for the second time (I saw it near the beginning of previews) and actually came away really impressed with the production as a whole. Part of it is knowing what I was in for in terms of the new book material, which is just terrible. It actually gets close to being an embarrassment some of the time, not even The Arbiter stuff because at least that lands with the audience, the dialogue is so surface level and vapid I really still cannot believe it. But as for the ...

For my money among the very best, most exciting productions I've seen in the last few years. Run don't walk

Her performance in The Band's Visit will forever be one of the most remarkable I've ever seen and I'll always defend her as Bobbie, I thought she was so moving and a large part of why that revival worked. Excited to see her in High Spirits as well and in George Abud's version of Threepenny Opera!

Love this thread! Some of my favorites:Donna Lynne Champlain's muggy Pirelli in the 2005 Sweeney revivalErin Davie as Yvonne in the 2017 Sunday revival, a minor role but the "too flat. too angular" moment always gets me and her's was no exceptionAaron Lazar's pitch perfect "In Praise of Women" from the 2009 Little Night MusicAlso want to shoutout some of the incredible performances in Sondheim show's I've seen at Signature Theatre in Virginia including Natascia Diaz as Anita and Fosca, Austin...

It doesn't look like anyone's posted about this yet but I saw the production last night and can't stop thinking about it. It's a fascinating piece, not perfect, but a thorny, interesting play of ideas. Much like Mr. Burns it's a thematically rich premise that allows for fascinating discussions about morality, ethics, and community but in this case all built on a foundation of hypocrisy; it was so exciting to me to watch the ways in which these characters used mental gymnastics and ideology to...

This is so exciting to hear!! Is the basic plot taken from the first film? Or does it go in a different direction

"The show is always going to have a valley between its mind and its heart, because it's the most Tim Rice of all Tim Rice projects:"This is a really excellent point - As an overall fan of Rice I at times actually laughed at the (lovingly) absurdity of some of the lyrics, one that stands out was the Arbiter's "It's not just black and white/ If I may coin a phrase," the word salad that comes out of these character's mouth's is part of the charm! The issue for me was that in bringing in the outs...

I saw the matinee on the 25th and wanted to put some thoughts down. Setting the stage - I am a huge fan of the show and the weeks leading up to this have led me to go down a Chess rabbit hole and become pretty much obsessed with it, so I had high hopes for what I was about to see. Overall I think the show is successful with some pretty big caveats but the reason I was excited for it, to hear this cast tackle this score, had me over the moon.The good (of which there is a lot!): The main trio i...

Yippee!! Thrilled this show has an extra (jellicle) life and that more people will have the chance to see it. Looking at the cast list I hope that Shereen Pimentel returns as well, she was one of my favorite performances last time around.

Bernadette was back last night! Beth was out - Kate Jennings Grant sang Little Things You Do Together, Joanna Riding took on Ladies Who Lunch (an excellent rendition, I loved the way she built throughout the number) and Paige Faure went on as Tessie Tura during Gimmick.

If Mama Was Married is my favorite song, to me it's the heart of the show, but Gotta Get A Gimmick is such a perfect number, just incredible couplet after couplet:"You can sacrifice your saccro/ Working in the back row" - "Dressy Tessie Tura is so much more demur-er than all them other ladies because/ You gotta get a gimmick, if you wanna get applause" - I could go on!Oh and also: "Starting now I bat a thousand/ this time boys I'm taking the boys and" is up there with going/boeing as my favor...

Twice - Shucked and Show/Boat: A RiverI was gifted a ticket to Shucked by a friend that turned out to be in the very first row in the very center. I then sat through an exhausting and almost torturously unfunny first act while trying my best to smile and appear into it because I didn't want to be an asshole to the performers. I left as soon as the lights went up. For Show/Boat I found the whole production embarrassing from top to bottom and anchored on a bad-faith reading of the material that...

Women on the Verge of a Nervous breakdown! One of my favorite ever cast albums but the show itself is a mess and had a troubled original Broadway production. Free of that the score shines and has (imo) become a modern cult classic

OhHiii said: How is her direction sure-handed when it throws out the entire conceit of the structure of the show? It's entirely the opposite. She didn't trust the material enough to let it speak in the way it was intended. Yeah yeah JRB is involved and blessed it and blah blah blah. Doesn't mean it doesn't take a lot of the magic away from the jump." Nowhere in the script does it state "Jamie and Cathy never interact in solo scenes and only do during The Next Ten Minutes," that's a choice mad...