Profile for Consistency

Is this still eligible for the Pulitzer?

This would be incredible and downright daring to put on broadway, and I am here for it!

What do we think about the front runner for "best musical" to be mostly songs that are parody?

Is SCHMIG expected to make it to Tony's? Seems like the reviews didn't translate to ticket sales.

jpbran said: In addttion to its nearly $1.1 BILLION gross, it got 11 Oscar noms and 11 BAFTA noms; both absolutely bonkers for a "comic book movie" -- especially DC -- andbeyond the far more well reviewed and well loved Dark Knight's nominations. Wins are great, but that level of nominations is nothing to sneeze at. Gives it quite the legacy (earned or not.)"I always found it even more bonkers that it won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival, one of the “Big Five” film festivals that ten...

LOL. Rightists need to update their talking points more often. “So much for the tolerant left!!” and “liberals are the real racists!!” are soooo 2014 - and they haven’t grown less dumb with time.

“Many people beyond this board didn't enjoy this show and think it doesn't belong on Broadway”I haven’t seen “Illinoise” yet, but that statement could apply to virtually every show that’s ever had an audience of more than a few hundred people. It definitely applies to quite a few of my all-time favorites, like “Sweeney Todd” (which a coworker once declared to be “musical torture.”)Doesn’t mean the fans are just “hyping it” or whatever - it’s just how art works.

joevitus said: "morosco said: "Karen gotLuPwn'd big time!"Actually, LuPone was the Karen here."Well, no. Some of the hallmarks of a “Karen” (I hate that term) are a sense of entitlement and a belief that they don’t have to follow the same rules as everyone else. In the past two years, refusing to wear a mask in an establishment that requires it has become one of the stereotypical indicators of a Karen.Once again, I don’t like the term - but if anyone in this scenario is behaving like a “Karen...

Not really getting the "oversaturation" comments - I've actually been disappointed by the dearth of major Sondheim productions since I moved to the East Coast in 2015. IF this makes it to Broadway, it'll only be the third Sondheim show on Broadway in the past ten years. (It's also the first NYC revival, on- or off-Broadway, announced since his death.)I'm hoping we'll see some more in the next few years... maybe even a full-scale "Sweeney Todd"? Please?In an ideal world, there'd be a revival o...

EvanstonDad said: "Garfield was all "Wow, you mean if you actually work you can make money to buy nice places to live?" What a revelation.I have no patience for thirty year olds who don't want to get jobs, which is why I find Rent to be insufferable now even though I was caught up in the hysteria at the time of its Broadway premier."Eh… Your reaction is your reaction, but Garfield does have a job throughout the film.Having “a job” - even a significantly better paying one than a waiter at a di...

"Well the problem with masking is that it doesn’t work."Well, actually...Study after study has shown that masks are quite effective at preventing the spread of diseases like COVID. They're not 100% effective, mind you - but they're a lot better than nothing."In part because the virus is air borne and any exposure of air could pass on."Except... The virus is transmitted through water droplets, not just "air." And even a basic cloth mask does a pretty good job of reducing the amount of saliva y...

“But hey, you got your super awesome and definitely very cool parody songs back after a spell, so who cares, right?”Broadway-style parody songs are unlikely to ever be “very cool” - at least in the 21st century - but his best pieces are indeed super awesome and pretty damn clever.Does his work *need* to exist? Not really - but he’s brought a lot of joy over the past few years, which is more than can be said about most other media personalities, obnoxious or otherwise.“RR is f*cking annoying a...

“ and how Sunday isn't nearly as good musically as it is made out to be.” Nah. It’s even better. It’s a rare score that still reveals new depths even after years of listening. With that said, I think “La Cage aux Folles” also has a brilliant score, so I’m not at all disappointed by its win.

That's awesome. I haven't seen "Knives Out" yet, but that makes at least three films this year featuring characters singing Sondheim songs.

"BTW, the Venn Diagram of people who call Evan a sociopath and people who thought Great Comet was better is one circle." Eh? I thought Great Comet was a better and more affecting show - but I also think calling Evan a sociopath is nonsensical.

Eh… The musical does exaggerate Hamilton's egalitarianism (he was actually very much an elitist), but this kind of hyperbolic response doesn’t really help anything.I preface this with the caveat that I am not a historian, but… Hamilton’s writings make it clear that he had a lifelong dislike for slavery. Most notably, towards the end of his life, he publicly advocated for an end to slavery in New York and to stop the importation of slaves to the new nation. However, none of that stopped him fr...

Yep, I also get this occasionally when I'm browsing the site on my phone. Though I have gotten them less often over the past few months.

AEA AGMA SM said: "I hope to god that the first thing Kushner did when sitting down to start his screenplay is drop ALL of the made up gang slang. Let Laurents spin in his grave for eternity for daring to "desecrate" his ever so important contribution to the show's legacy."I love “West Side Story,” and I think Laurents’ book is great overall, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a production that didn’t make me cringe a little at the line “cut the frabber jabber.”I don’t think it’s necessary to s...

Peter Marks at The Washington Post is a rave:https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater_dance/with-dylan-songbook-girl-from-north-country-is-a-triumph/2018/10/01/21c54490-c4f4-11e8-9158-09630a6d8725_story.html?utm_term=.e2dbc53c2305

Yeah, Signature is no longer doing the show.Here's a quote about it from the Washington Post:"The production had to be scrubbed from Signature’s calendar, company officials explained, because of the scheduling problems that arose after the rights to revive another show that was to have been included in the Signature season were withdrawn. That change, they said, made it financially impossible to stage “August Rush,” which was to be directed at Signature by Tony winner John Doyle. The show rem...