Profile for Daisy Crumpler

ACL2006 said: "It's shocking DeBose hasn't gotten back into theater or Broadway. Surprised she hasn't tried to play Velma on Broadway or returned to Hamilton."There were rumors persisting DeBose and Schmigadoon co-star Jane Krakowski were going to re-open CHICAGO after the pandemic. Not sure if it was just online gossip, but I know a few people who purchased tickets before the casting announcement in the hopes/anticipation. Speaking of Schmigadoon, it's interesting (or typical of the industry...

The world of 2026 is a much different place than 2000. Hell, the last revival took place before MySpace much less the rise of social media or phones with video recording. There is a real lack of common courtesy and the social contract (remember that article from a year or two ago noting how ushers and house staff dealing with unruly post-Lockdown audiences).With something like the Rocky Horror callbacks (which I've sometimes found annoying even during a midnight viewing) are seen not only as ...

Jordan Catalano said: "They’re doing rush."Thank you! Just discovered they're doing an in-person rush and a TodayTix lottery. I couldn't find anything posted on Roundabout's site or the pretty extensive Playbill rush guide (which does have Fallen Angels listed).

Are there any discounts currently available? Doesn't look like Roundabout is offering rush or lottery tickets at this time.

I scored a late afternoon rush ticket the other evening. The seat was Orchestra, House Left and noted it was a partial/obstructed view seat. For the most part, it was a pretty good view of most of the performing area, but any action that happened on the Stage Right audience section and stairs was obscured. You also do not have any view of the DJ in the booth/House Left Box. I'm not sure if the viewpoint would be similar from House Right, but Gus spends a great deal of time lording over the pr...

algy said: "It sort of fascinates me how different the Rocky culture is in the US vs the UK (where I am). Here we don't really have the midnight showings of the movie, but we have had touring productions of this show in theatres for decades In the UK incarnation, there is a lot of heckling and fairly regular call and responses even going as far as people who have been the narrator regularlay having their own ones (eg Show us your big'uns biggins popping up both times I saw Christopher Biggins...

Is there a set list of numbers performed or do they rotate/change pieces at different performances? Thanks in advance!

AC126748 said: "Has anyone gotten their tickets at TKTS recently and if so, what have the seats been like?"I saw the show last night with a ticket through TKTS - Orchestra, Row G in the center section for $96.JCM does make Mary Todd his own. Very much a caged animal trying to escape her prison - clawing at the doors and also prowling/racing round the set as if in a padded cell.Lots of different line readings and changes in business. He did not hold for applause upon entrance but barreled into...

everythingtaboo said: "Maybe because I was sitting first row, her costumes never fully zipped all the way to the top, and her finale number zipper was totally undone in the back by her final moments. (I honestly couldn't tell if her futzing with the costume for the last moment was spontaneous.)"I'm so curious how the Ford's Theatre/Finale quick change works. The evening I saw Jinkx, Kumail and Martin Landy definitely seemed to milk/slow down the beginning of that scene before Mary makes her e...

Can anyone who saw both Kristin Chenoweth and Sherie Rene Scott comment on their differences in performance? I saw both of Sherie's evening performances (a little better vocally the first night, looser the second/last time) and am not sure if I have it in me to see the show a third time. I've only seen Kristin perform "Caviar Dreams" and "This Is Not the Way" in filmed tv spots and in both she's trying so hard to do that bluegrass Broadway twang that I couldn't get a feel for how they might b...

I'm so sad and disappointed in how little fanfare there was for this film.I'm a complete civilian, but seems like the producers went out of their way to give the film a wider theatrical release instead of partnering with a streaming service. The musical numbers definitely deserve to be seen on a big screen, but I wonder if they had partnered with Netflix or Amazon initially, would there have been a larger ad campaign? Streaming services will sometimes put a film in theatres for limited releas...

Jeffrey Karasarides said: "Near the end of a recent episode of The Director's Cut podcast, Bill Condonrevealed that he actually pitched to Sondheim his idea for a Follies film. His concept was to take the songs in the more realistic medium and make it about what he, Hal Prince, and Michael Bennett were all going through when they created the musical. Sondheim liked the idea, but one collaborator said "Over my dead body.""After the publication of Ted Chapin's diary/memoir EVERYTHING WAS POSSIB...

BroadwayNYC2 said: "Melissa McCarthy (got her break on Gilmore Girls) was heavily rumored."Well, in that case... is Sutton a Tessie or Mazeppa?

Does Caissie still mix/belt most of Mother's material or is she using more head voice? It was odd for such a restrained character to be so full throated (and I've always loved Lynn Ahrens's comment that Mother does not really belt until "Back to Before" as she is now thinking and feeling in more modern ways).

Not sure if Amy Sherman-Palladino is still trying to get her version of GYPSY produced, but I've always assumed she had Bunhead Sutton Foster in mind to play Rose.

If the concert is like last year's Follies, the Co-Hosts basically just fill in the storyline between songs and sometimes offered brief insights about the making of the musical. I have a feeling DiLella's main job will be keeping Lee Roy Reams on a short leash so he doesn't start bounding from one tangent to another.

I think both the movie and musical start coasting once both ladies realize they have drunk the potion, but the musical has a more satisfying conclusion. It's been a while since I've seen the film all the way through, but does Ernest get drunk in the "second act" and start hallucinating talking inanimate objects in that too?

I have no idea how the revised version compares to the original, but I wish Encores would stop trying to be a worklab for revisals. Seems they always leave the audience somewhere between disappointed and disgruntled.Judy Kuhn was absolutely ravishing singing "Blame It on the Summer Night" at this spring's Broadway Leading Ladies concert and she would definitely be my pick to play Rebecca in a City Center (or any!) production.

So, has the SMASH ending been changed since opening or not? When I saw the musical in previews... Click Here To Toggle Spoiler ContentIvy sang "Don't Forget Me" and then performed a solo dance culminating with her draped in a sheet on a bed as Nigel repeatedly said throughout the show was how he DID NOT want to end the show. We then move to the Bombshell opening night party scene at not-Sardi's where the producer, creatives, and so