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Yeah, glad to see all the positive words! On Curtain Critic it's scoring: 73 Overall 85 Cast 67 Book 74 Music 85 Tech http://www.curtaincritic.com/Shows/BRING_IT_ON__THE_MUSICAL_REVIEWS-225.html Only a few really negative reviews on there.

Wow, figured it would get strong reviews w/ Lily Rabe & Daniel Sullivan etc but didn't see all of them being quite THIS strong. Even the most cynical of critics seem to have individually been reminded of the magic of Shakespeare in the Park. Truly great to see! I personally loved it as well. Currently a 92 which is the highest scoring show on Curtain Critic: http://www.curtaincritic.com/Shows/AS_YOU_LIKE_IT_REVIEWS-177.html Congrats to the Public and everyone involved!

Was really shocked by how negative that AP review was. Anyway, Curtain Critic has it right now at 73 Overall 80 Cast 76 Script 90 Tech http://www.curtaincritic.com/Shows/HARVEY_REVIEWS-171.html

Curtain Critic (@curtaincritic) is interviewing Faster Times theater critic Jonathan Mandell (@NewYorkTheater) on Twitter at 2pm about the Tony nominations using hashtag #TonyChat. Anyone is able to ask questions as well using that hashtag. Should be interesting, I enjoy reading Mandell's criticism.

Curtain Critic just published a post on how they think Leap of Faith got the nod: "So put yourself in the shoes of a theater owner or producer outside of New York looking for a hit in your new touring season. You’ve got your 3 obvious nominees: Once, Nice Work, and Newsies. But you have to pick 4. Your other options are Spiderman, Ghost, Leap of Faith, Bonnie & Clyde or Lysistrata Jones. Ghost and Spiderman are both so technically complex and expensive that it complicates their touring prospe...

Curtain Critic has its Overall score at 36, but is also showing a high Tech score of 73: http://www.curtaincritic.com/Shows/GHOST_THE_MUSICAL_REVIEWS-143.html

A lot of these are amazing. Particularly the last one. http://blog.curtaincritic.com/post/20965822294/****-nyc-theater-tourists-say Got any to add?

It's strange that there's such a lack of drama in the script. There's so much potential for it with this story. I guess this is a product of it being NBA-produced and needed to be signed off on by Johnson and Bird. Right now it's at 51 on Curtain Critic http://www.curtaincritic.com/Shows/MAGIC_BIRD_REVIEWS-135.html

With almost every cast recording ever on Spotify, it would be great if Masterworks or someone built a Broadway app for Spotify (like they Classify app for Classical). For now I'm enjoying this Spotfiy playlist of every show that's ever won Best Musical http://blog.curtaincritic.com/post/20409452091/a-spotify-playlist-with-62-years-of-best-musical

It's scoring a 71 on Curtain Critic in the 15 reviews they have up there. Interesting how much disagreement there is about this show. http://www.curtaincritic.com/Shows/END_OF_THE_RAINBOW_REVIEWS-128.html

Curtain Critic has 13 reviews up and is scoring it: 75 Overall 80 Cast 82 Script 81 Tech http://www.curtaincritic.com/Shows/GORE_VIDAL_S_THE_BEST_MAN_REVIEWS-127.html

Curtain Critic has its reviews scored at 76 Overall 85 Cast 73 Book 74 Music/Lyrics 83 Tech http://www.curtaincritic.com/Shows/NEWSIES_REVIEWS-126.html

Curtain Critic's Tony blog thinks it's going to be Follies http://blog.curtaincritic.com/post/19190826974/98-days-out-tony-contenders-best-musical-revival

I was surprised that the book tended to be the main point of criticism in these reviews (on CurtainCritic.com the book score is like 10 points lower than everything else). I thought this was actually one of the best books in a new musical I've seen in years.

Wow, Curtain Critic score is up and it's a 94, the #1 reviewed show on Bway http://www.curtaincritic.com/Shows/DEATH_OF_A_SALESMAN_REVIEWS-119.html

Reading these reviews is making me want to try and get tickets: http://www.curtaincritic.com/Shows/GALILEO_REVIEWS-112.html. Anyone seen it? I love F Murray Abraham.

Yeah very pleasant surprise

I'm just saying, it's interesting that there's more of a critical consensus for Shatner's World than anything else of late. Every review for Shatner's World on Curtain Critic is between 75 and 50. This is much narrower than all the other recent shows. Wit reviews range between 100 and 30. Road to Mecca between 80 and 30. Porgy between 100 and 10... (this is all going off of http://curtaincritic.com, which aggregates & scores the reviews well i think)

Definitely didn't mean I wanted him to get panned - just though it was interesting that this was the first Bway show in a while that seems to have no one publishing a really negative review for it. Even Wit and Porgy, which in general were much better reviewed than Shatner, got a pan or two.

Anyone else surprised that no one has really written a super scathing review for Shatner's World? The show only got a 66 on Curtain Critic but all the reviews are good to decent, nothing terrible. http://www.curtaincritic.com/Shows/SHATNER_S_WORLD__WE_JUST_LIVE_IN_IT_REVIEWS-108.html