Profile for nasty_khakis

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 to

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!&

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 th

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 Che

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 a

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 unles

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 embold

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

I'd say their advances weren't good enough to spend the $$ on recasting, rehearsing, new promo, etc etc. It broke even and that's AMAZING for any production let alone a play with no big names that's 3 hours long.

It's also possible they can use the set and costumes on the tour and it's better to close up the slow money making on broadway vs spending another million (made up that number someone else can estimate what the set costs) on the tour's budget wh

I never said it was a flop house and that ZERO shows have ever recouped but out of the 3 shows that have played there since it reopened two closed pretty quickly and I can see the Shuberts giving them a break in the rent just to let it close its run to avoid "and another one!" Obviously this won't recoup either but at least there aren't going to be headlines about it.

I actually don't think any theatre is a flop house because we all know if a big star is in a

Sauja said: "Why haven't the producers of Left on Tenth given up the ghost? This MUST be losing money week after week. I'm shocked they didn't cut their losses and close after the holidays."

I have to assume Ephron and Margulies must be giving up/donating their salary and are playing to empty houses to avoid the bad press/career hit of having a play close early. Even though it's not a big expensive show there's no way they're even close to mee