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I saw this tonight, appropriately for Patti’s birthday! Besides Patti, there are other Theatre vets like Nathan Lane, Stephen McKinley Henderson and Richard Kind.The movie takes 3 hours to tell very little story. The whole movie is just artistic folderol and filler. You wait and wait for the story to be told and it never happens, so you feel dumb for missing the story at all, if there is one. It’s also predictable and aggravating, but never boring at least. It’s the kind of movie that grabs y...

I have been anticipating a full scale Broadway revival of Camelot since I played Mordred decades ago. I'm very passionate and have a lot of feelings about how to present the show and make it actually work. It doesn't sound, in my opinion, Sher or Sorkin fixed any of the show's flaws.When you cut all the magic out and take the show literally, you're left with a hollow 3 1/2 hour love triangle.And where is the pageantry? The set pics look more depressing than my community theatre's weak, low-bu...

Here's the thing. In July, I was fired from my job of 5 years that I loved because I stupidly posted something inflammatory about my workplace on Facebook. I removed the post, but the damage was already done. I live in an at-will employment state. My free speech wasn't violated by being fired; as a matter of fact, nothing could be more American than a company releasing you for badmouthing it or other offenses. God bless America, indeed. Sara is a mess and I'm currently in a Twitter back-and-f...

One of my best friends is the director, or WAS the director, and is heartbroken. She did everything in her power to highlight the important messages in Hairspray. I'm very sad. it made the news this morning. https://lancasteronline.com/news/local/mccaskey-cancels-spring-musical-hairspray-after-students-raise-concerns-about-insensitive-language/article_357c46ee-787c-11eb-9722-23e745162ba8.html?sp-tk=571840EC4B09CABBFDE472EA11A3384E8E4858011FAF454FD4C634DA2692ABC07107FB4016E0EF0A35BBC44E7D0C344...

BrodyFosse123 said: "WayTooBroadway said: "Aaaaaaand... Natalie Wood is also trending."Curious how that reunion went. "I'm sure they won't meet. She's up there, he's down there.

I was dragged by a friend to see Parade at the Vivien Beaumont the last week of the show. It sounded like such a depressing story.Best decision of my life!

Very sad and shocking news. I'd never seen her live, but was in love with her voice and performance on the Aspects of Love OBC and especially in the London NINE. RIP, Ms. Crumb.

Well, this is a day I had been dreading. I know she was suffering from dementia recently but just appeared last year at an autograph convention. I thought she'd stick around longer. Heart = broken.

MEDEA, not Madea! Two different shows!

Sweet CharityNineA Little Night MusicOn the Twentieth CenturyAnd the list should really just end there. At least these are different than the movies and not cash-grabs by greedy producers for stupid people.

NONE. I'm f'ing sick of the movie to musical cash grabs.And jukebox musicals can go f themselves too.

Although I'm upset I won't get to see Buckley, I'm over the moon that I'll get to see Carolee play Dolly in Philadelphia! February 2020 can't get here soon enough!

There goes all my desire to see this show. What a profoundly STUPID idea.

How about "The First Man You Remember" from Aspects of Love?

Not really "cut songs" but the Threepenny Opera overture, like the Carousel Waltz, has no music from the rest of the show. It works on its own.

FEUD: Lloyd Webber/LuPone

Jean, for us plebeians who never took theater classes 20 years ago in college, please provide the meaning of the word "mugging" and provide examples of Metcalf mugging.Also, you spelled Bette Davis' name wrong, so how can anyone take you seriously?The Tony must go to Metcalf, not Jackson. At least people aren't snoring through Hillary and Clinton.

I'm hoping it gets raves, but I feel like it's gonna be a mixed bag. I happened to adore this play. I hope Metcalf wins Tony #3.

I am overjoyed with this casting. Laurie Metcalf is truly the queen of Broadway right now.

Maybe it's because I love Hillary, maybe it's because I love Laurie, but great God did I love Hillary and Clinton. It was an Albee-esque firecracker of play with delicious quips and poignant moments. I laughed through the whole evening yet cried myself to sleep, thinking about another universe I'd rather live in than the one we live in now. And I absolutely loved the framing device of a coin flip. I went in expecting to be yet again awed by the great Laurie Metcalf, and I was, but I was also ...