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I have thought this was an odd choice from the very beginning, because he's just so gentle in so many of his roles...so, without getting overly spoiler-y, can someone tell me what his "hook" is as Vandergelder? What's the angle? Or is he just playing the heavy and taking down the old familiar road? Thanks!

Hi. 

I know it truly doesn't make a difference in the overall arc at the time of the show, but do most people agree that Marvin ends up with / dying from AIDS as well? OR, Is he perhaps (somehow almost cruelly) left to linger even longer with his loss after the show ends. Such a goth question, I know, but I've been spending a LOT of time around this show lately, and the speculation just eats at you. 

 

Also, isn't there a difference in the feelings towards the quality of Cordelia's food in the two different revivals? I feel like the first time around, it was taken as: she was a successful kosher caterer (who was trying to expand) and the whole inadequacy thing ("you save lives and I save chicken fat / I can't ****ing deal with that!" was more from an egotistical place, where in the newest revival she really is just kind of an underdeveloped character (at least the least developed in the cast, not Betsy's fault) and her food is bad all the way until the end, so her life-path gets to have its own little glimmer before the world of the show collapses.

THIRD and finally, Jason and his traveling song, he "gets on the 104 / with my computer" 

DAMN, son...really? In 1981? That thing probably weighed 125 lbs. Strong kid.

No awards are comin', and the cast is bummin', I say

uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh....

all that stuff's on autocue. The op may have been a cue behind...OR...it was frequency cross-talk, in which case it had literally nothing to do with the board operator. 

Either way, you don't talk smack about your run crew. Typical silly chorus boy bitching. Kids with piles of money who won't be remembered in a year. Meh.

You could fill an e-cig with a nicotine-free liquid and basically be smoking steam. It would look fine, and contain no carcinogens or other secondary toxins.

I think Kelsey has an excellent grasp of the English language. I feel he speaks with a fluidity and expertise that are far above the average. I see nothing wrong with his grammar.

madison51552 said: "It's on TodayTix for $20 every show this week."

...undoubtedly for the privilege of sitting virtually on the roof, a few hundred yards back. Pack a canteen.

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Not sure about that. The Wiz, for all intents and purposes, was blocked and shot as a full-proscenium theatrical production. A couple pans of an applauding audience, plus applause breaks where a goddamn applause break should be would have helped the overall feel of the show, IMHO. Grease will gain even more from a live whooping-and-hollering crowd. Glad they're going this route.

'kay.

Aren't Playbills always black and white during previews?

I think taking this production out of NY and directly to target markets (the Bible Belt, deep south) will make it (yeah I'm gonna say it) one of the highest grossing tours of its season.

Also, I share the astonishment that it lasted this long. Its creator pumped all sorts of plasma into it, and took a HUGE hit. 25 percent sales do not a financial success make.

I feel like Kinky Boots is just The Full Monty, but with shoes...and fewer interesting characters.

I think that Spring Awakening is one of the worst musicals ever written, Duncan Shiek had no idea what to do music-wise, and the songs are forced...as though they're just drawn from a hat, IMHO.

This looks like a disaster waiting to happen. A movie on the lower third of Jack Black's spectrum, and the kids have looked utterly lifeless in every shot I've seen. 

Nothing is more disastrous on stage than people pretending to have fun. See "Big" for details. 

I hope for better, but at present expect very little from this show.