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ChildofEarth said: "RNJ has said she doesn't want to replace anyone anymore." Huh? I know she replaced Yitzhak. What else has she done? Was she ever in RENT? Originating a role is an amazing opportunity for an actor and she's done some really cool shows (American Idiot, Murder Ballad, and my fav Passing Strange), but being a replacement can't be that bad if the gigs are Hamilton and Hedwig with John Cameron Fcking Mitchel. ???

If Uzo Aduba and Rebecca Naomi Jones don't play Angelica then there is no god.

I wish we still lived in the days when the movie came not too long after the Broadway debut, but the current financial climate makes this impossible. Shows and tours need to run longer nowadays to recoup and today's society would rather stay inside and watch the DVD if the option is available. However, this just increases the odds of the movie coming off as stale and dated once it finally arrives. By the time Hair hit theaters it was a living time capsule, same goes for Rent. How awkward to w...

The analogy of the freight train that Erivo, Nyong'o, and Lange build upon is so beautiful. (Starts at 14:00 in the video)

Abigale Haness. She played Janet in the 1974 L.A. Roxy Theatre Rocky Horror Show with Tim Curry. To me she's the definitive Janet, the expertly timed devolution of her vocals into a rough, Joplin-like belt on the cast album is insane. She had the pipes to match all of the big rock musicals coming out at that time, but strangely the LA Rocky Show is the sole credit I can find to her name.

John Landis was attached to direct a film version around a decade ago but plans fell through. I don't think there's a studio (or anyone for that matter) working on getting a film produced. The show is due for a NY revival though, and maybe that might spur development on a film.

No.darquegk said: "Go abstract. Abandon the dance elements. Abandon everything and do it up as a Fantasia style film. Combine animation, live action, CGI, whatever. The only possible way this could work is if it doesn't resemble the Broadway show, or the prior filming, at all."...maybe.

I've been saying this for years, Boogie Nights would make for a very interesting musical. Large ensemble cast, period piece spanning multiple decades, specific subculture; it's perfect for a musical. After Avenue Q, Book of Mormon, and Oh Calcutta! I think Broadway is ready for a comedy-drama-p*rno show. Thanks to 9/11 we never got a chance to have an Earth Girls Are Easy musical. It was workshopped with Chenoweth, Marc Kudisch, Hunter Foster, Deven May, and Julie Brown reprising her role as ...

Wicked will probably be safe for another five to ten years. Then they'll produce a film version just to keep the stage show propped up for an extra five until they're forced to pull the plug. And after that it'll still tour ten or twenty years into the future.

I'm kinda bummed that Oh, Sri Lanka got cut. I listened to the OLCR over the weekend and that number might be the most satirical song in the show. I dunno about those quasi-rapped verses, but the chorus is great (the melody is sublime and the lyrics are somehow ridiculous and honest at the same time) and I love the melody to "I hope you DIE, yuppie scum!" I wish they'd lose Killing Time instead. It's a pretty song but it just kinda sits there. Can someone who's seen the show tell me if the sc...

leeleecocororo said: "Can someone tell me the reason why Radames and Amneris are white?"

It's as if they're under the assumption that LGBT Rights are the only issue the Obama presidency has focused on. The audacity of waving this off with a "but wont someone think of the refugees!" when the Dems have been much more favorable to refugee immigration than anyone on the right.That said, I do love the delicious hypocrisy in the use of the phrase "sexual extremism". And I, too, hope that a new set of posters and artwork will be adorned with:"New York's Latest Sexual Propaganda!" -Tony ...

I have to say, as someone who's excited for this show, the preview montage made everything look pretty awful, however the full videos posted later are really redeeming, especially for "Selling Out" and "The Card Song".The choreography for "Selling Out" is still pretty fking awkward, but it sounds fantastic and the little scenes interspersed within look great. The zombified/teetering movements of the background characters is a nice touch, and the use of the conveyor belts are well done, namely...

UrNotAMachine said: "If anyone hasn't seen it yet, someone made a storyboard version of "The world was wide enough" and I really love the cinematic take on it. https://vimeo.com/151533418"That is frighteningly well done and is a good example of how this show could transfer to film. Though I always envisioned the "woosh" sounds as Burr's bullet moving closer and closer, not Hamilton moving through time.I'm not sure why anyone would think the King George songs can't transfer to film. They're no...

Okay, that gave me chills...

The choreography for Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) lifts some moves as well, from There's Gotta Be Something Better Than This and another Fosse number called Mexican Breakfast

skies said: "Richard Gere in "Chicago".Shirley McClaine in " Sweet Charity"" Whoa, what didn't you like about Shirley McClaine in Sweet Charity? Besides running a little long that is one of my favorite stage-to-screen adaptations and McClaine is half the reason I love it so much.

c0113g3b0y said: "I know that Oliver! is a 'family' show but isn't Nancy bludgeoned to death by Bill?!?"It's a family friendly bludgeoning. No, the other posters are right, it's a really disturbing scene that takes place on stage, but usually behind a ledge so you can't actually see anything. Oliver! is probably the darkest "family musical" ever made. It starts off a bit dark (at the orphanage), gets a bit darker (at the funeral parlor), then Oliver meets Dodger halfway through Act One and th...

pmensky said: " "Oliver" with Alan Cumming … "as Fagin or Bill Sykes? I still see him as a bit youthful (at 50!) so I'd believe him as Bill more than Fagin.

Has She Loves Me ever had a major production with good artwork? Such a generic, spoilerific title that barely captures a fraction of what the show is truly like, it's gotta be hard to make an appropriate logo out of it....But Pepto Pink is surely not the way to go...