Profile for nasty_khakis

Someone once told me almost all AD-style tours it's either the designer basically did it for free (and got a lot of free things for the space) in order to have to shown as a calling card OR they do them to help them sell the house/apartment.Considering how obsessive his fans can be I agree sharing the layout of your home can be dangerous.

Kad said: "I mean, it’s not quite Paris Hilton in Mame but… stacking the cast with big names sort of cuts against what the show is explicitly about.And the book would definitely need to be updated. It was full of mid-00s cultural references and sensibility. Even the concept of rushing to get a show into a major NY theater festival is (sadly) dated now."Do the children today NOT know that Mary Stout WAS hit by a hot dog cart???

I'll also say the discussion of "Brits do accents better!" is silly. I've sat through many shows in London with TERRIBLE American accents. In fact they seem to either generally default to Newsies "New Yaaawkah" or this broad Gone with the Wind genteel southern even when the characters say they're from Colorado or wherever. I saw Good People in London and the Americans behind me were astonished when I said this takes place in Boston because Imelda and others were doing Barbra accents. I've als...

I've heard The Devil Wears Prada is swooping in.

A couple of weeks ago at This World of Tomorrow a couple in front of my talked for the first 10-15 minutes pretty much non-stop. I politely leaned down and asked if the could not talk and they did. But then the lady next to me checked her phone every 2 minutes for the next 15 minutes until during a scene change I said "can you please put your phone away" and she said FULL VOICE "I ONLY HAVE CHECKED IT A FEW TIMES!" and I said "please put it away" in a stronger tone and she kept talking full v...

Call_me_jorge said: "It’s too bad the New Victory Theatre isn’t a broadway house, because that front stairway would look so good."I always wish producers could petition the Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing to include productions in alternative spaces as broadway/Tony-Eligible. I don't have any spaces in mind with a balcony but it would certainly widen the net in the search. I get they want the awards and attention and "on broadway!" of it all so I think they should be able to say...

I know actors and crew (union members) would have to be paid for the dark week but I'm guessing production doesn't have to pay for front of house and other non union backstage people for the week?

I might be misremembering but I remember a lot of Rudin's investors were upset that even though the show was basically 100% sold out from the start he was still buying $100k full page NYT ads for "Hello, Dolly." Even though they recouped it still seemed odd they couldn't have actually profited more vs just being made whole.

I feel like a lot of examples are done to help get the audience on their side. They want the audience to walk out with a "you know when I saw it..." story and since the majority of audiences aren't people in these boards who see a lot they likely won't ever compare notes. Spelling Bee had a bit where they made up words for the last speller and no matter what they said they'd say it was right, they'd sit back down only to be called up again to be given another word they'd then get wrong. Audie...

Wick3 said: "It depends on the moment.At the last performance of the recent Hello Dolly! revival back in 2018, Gavin Creel broke character during his song "It only takes a moment" and it was endearing. Audience was fine with it."I love when he realized he was saying the line "today I'm out of a job." It was very sweet and funny.

Observation said: "EDSOSLO858 said: "I still hope Laura eventually gets to play Madeline Ashton."I didn't even THINK about LBB as Madeline Ashton! Oh she'd be good!"I've been saying pair her and Kerry Butler as Helen for months now!

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "The guy has had one credit since TAKE ME OUT. Who could blame him? It's also a way to continue his association with Scott Ellis, one of the most prolific directors around."He also replaced in Sh*t. Meet. Fan when Billy Magnussen had to drop out. So I can see it as both an Ellis link as well as possibly a NPH suggestion.

I can't confirm first hand but Hannah Solow had an instagram story the other day saying something like hearing Micaela Diamond sing "Gimme Gimme" was amazing so I assume Micaela was Millie and Hannah was either Mrs Meers or Miss Flannery. Anna Zavelson could be Millie or Dorothy but that would mean another character sings Gimme Gimme.I've always thought you could easily swap Meer's disguise to be anything over the top and kooky such as a Swedish Chef accent, a thick Scottish brogue, an absurd...

Crawford would be chosen because Trumps is OBSESSED with Phantom of the Opera. He saw it many, many, many times and often (pre political career) would fly cast members to Mar-a-Lago for events. Howard McGillian has a story (I think you can look it up on Seth Rudetsky's Obsessed) about being flown down and Trump tells the audience "they vote on these things and this guy was voted the very best Phantom and he's gonna come out and sing all the songs" and Howard is so confused and is like...the P...

When I saw Dorian Gray I felt Sarah Snook was obviously doing remarkable work (and I almost never like 1 person plays 20 parts shows) but felt "the show" was watching a TikTok video for two hours and drove me crazy. Trying not to prejudge this but this "throw a filter and just watch a screen" isn't for me. I don't understand what is essentially watching a movie in live theatre.

I got to see the first preview and overall liked it. I'm not a G&S purist but I know Pirates (the Papp version especially). I just kept wondering why there were so many lyric changes that changed nothing. I understand updating a reference (sat a gee is now sang a G...fine!) but they'd change lyrics and just rephrase them basically changing "and I put on a sweater" to "My sweater is cozy when it's on" so I just couldn't figure out the why of it all unless it's so they can make money licensing ...

Social media itself is to blame as well since it only makes the parasocial relationship stronger. If you follow a performer and see what they're doing day to day, what music they like, their thoughts on tv shows, etc you feel like you know them and have a ton in common "I love coffee and The White Lotus tooooooo!" Not to mention if the performer ever innocently responds to a comment or DM it's essentially telling some of these fans they're friends/they know me and emboldens them. There was a ...

jkcohen626 said: "ACL2006 said: "Gypsy won't survive without Audra."I don't think it's intent is run without her though. The point of the production is her like Music Man was about Hugh and Sutton."This can be true they plan for it to run at a certain ATP within a contracted period and break even and that's smart but producers WERE making calls pretty much the entire year to get Justin Timberlake, Seth McFarland, Jimmy Fallon, etc etc etc to take it over. They knew it couldn't run with Max (o...

Does anyone know the run time? I can't seem to find it on the website.