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Wick3 said: "Who do you think will replace R. Lowe? Every single time I've watched CHICAGO on Broadway, R Lowe performed as Mary Sunshine so I think they had the role for the past 10-12 years?"I caught Pam's final Friday earlier this month, and the standby J London was on for Mary. He sang it beautifully, was very funny, and his larger build also made for a funnier reveal, as opposed to R. Lowe, who's a much smaller guy. Always fun to see someone new after so many years of one performer, as t...

I caught it yesterday. I really enjoyed this one, but I was similarly struck on how best to describe it to some friends today without spoiling. For all their trigger warnings about the more extreme content, I thought the most striking/impactful parts were the more straightforward scenes. Clare Barron has such a strong voice and an incredible ear for dialogue. She creates these wonderfully compelling conversations between characters that are always dancing between tragedy and comedy, realism a...

WiCkEDrOcKS said: "Is this really running 2.5 hours? MTC’s site is listing a running time of 110 minutes with one intermission."Split the difference. I saw the matinee Saturday, we were on the street by 4:15. We were surprised because the League’s site also lists the 110 runtime.

Tonight's Dear Evan Hansen started with the full regular cast as listed in the Playbill, then halfway through the first act, Talia Simone Robinson came on as Zoe and finished the show, replacing Gabrielle Carrubba. Her first scene on stage was the one where the character has a big solo and she absolutely killed it. No idea what the reason for the sudden switch was, so may not be relevant to this thread, but worth monitoring. She and Jordan Fisher's faces definitely never got within twelve inc...

I’ve caught the last two Weds matinees and Patti was in for both. It’s hard to predict performer attendance these days, but it seems like it’s improved overall on Broadway in the week and a half since Xmas. I think everyone has sort of adjusted their backstage and off-hours behavior in light of how contagious and prevalent the new variant is. You can definitely tell people are acting differently in NY compared to two weeks before Xmas when it all started to blow up.ACL—Tally was a wonderful L...

Drowsy closed a flop, even though it had a great run there. This has been brought up in many other threads, but if a show didn't make back its initial investment, it's a flop, regardless of how good a run it had. Bwayfan7000, you are incorrect. Drowsy recouped its initial investment in under 7 months and then ran for an additional 13 months in the Marquis. http://www.playbill.com/news/article/104079-Officially-Its-a-Hit-Drowsy-Chaperone-Recoups-Investment

Does anyone know what the initial cost for The Lion King was? Just curious... edit: Ah, nevermind. From this random site: November 1997 – "The Lion King" opens on Broadway at the Disney-designed New Amsterdam Theatre; audiences exit into a store full of Disney merchandise. The musical has been sold out since opening and long ago recouped its estimated $20 million to $25 million cost. http://wwww.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20051208/news_lz1x08lktime.html

I got there at 9:45 today and there were maybe 25 people in front of me already. I still got a ticket for the matinee, but they were telling people who wanted the evening to check back at 6 because the front row rush seats had already sold out.

"That's not a woman having an orgasm, that's Gavin Creel." I wish this was said more often in life... might be a new potential slogan for the "Hair" publicity team to consider?

I do like it though.

I guess when they did not get the Best Revival tony, the die was cast. I think they knew they wouldn't win anything. But a better performance could have spurred a rush of advanced ticket sales for the summer, which was probably the hope. Apparently this didn't happen.

Are the standing room tickets 26.50 also, or are they cheaper?

"That blows for the line of people waiting. I walked by around 4-ish and there were a handful of people sitting in the lobby waiting for rush tickets, I guess. So she did the matinee? Well, at least she only called out one show." There is no matinee Wednesday. She already only does five shows weekly. At least she made it through a full cycle of five shows before she missed one, so I guess that's something. And I was one of those people waiting when you came by. I think they could have made th...

Here's the actual article from Variety. It discusses several touring shows scaling back or booking shorter runs: http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117992806.html?categoryid=3253&cs=1&query=young+frankenstein+tour

Plan that far ahead. On Friday I went to the box office and got tickets for November. He told me Saturdays and Sundays were sold out til January and Fridays were sold out til December, so I ended up getting tickets for a Wednesday evening. If you can go Tues/Wed, there must be decent seats left this year. Maybe try the box office in person like I did, if you've only been looking online so far.

Us on the East Coast have to wait 2 hours for it to start. Then 3 more hours for it to end. Will the reviews be out tonight or tomorrow? If you're going to wait up for the reviews, you'll be awake for quite a while. This is just the first preview performance for the pre-Broadway tryout. The official Seattle opening isn't until September 10. :o)

La Cage revival... costumes by William Ivey Long... or, as Ben Brantley wrote in his review, "who else?"

This is excellent news. No one does a better "Roxie" (the song) or "Roxie" monologue than Michelle DeJean.

she definitely opened with "Teach Me Tonight." Here's video of that: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U8Mn1gf4TU (I didn't film that, I just found it on youtube) And she definitely did "Ring Them Bells." That's why she had those glasses in that photo. It was even at the audience's request, sort of. The band played the into to "Ring Them Bells" and everyone applauded. Then Liza ran back to Billy and they exchanged words. Then Liza turned to the audience and asked into the microphone, "What do y...

Here are some professional photos of the concert from WENN. I wish they'd gotten the red outfit.