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Patti LuPone discusses a similar incident in her book regarding "The Baker's Wife." 

David Merrick called a meeting after a performance of the pre-Broadway tour stop in San Francisco and offered the company the option to drop a city from the tour, return to New York, and re-rehearse the show for 9 weeks.  If a performer made more than $500 per week, there would be no rehearsal pay. Any actors making less than $500 per week would enter negotiation with the Merric

jazzicat said: "I didn’t have to get my purse checked the other day.. is this why? I was actually very worried because I was completely wearing a bag and no one looked at it.
Now I know I am a 40-something invisible woman and my purse was very nice… but you never know."

Correct.  Your bag was screened as you walked through the poles.

I go to many arenas, concert venues and theaters, and it's very interesting to see how the s

n2nbaby said: "She is going to be doing Hello, Dolly! at OFC in Rochester at the beginning of the year."

I'm traveling a few hours to see her in this, but I had never heard of this regional theater until her casting announcement.  They certainly seem to get some interesting "names" to appear in their productions (Garrett Clayton and Jodi Benson within the last few years). It looks to be a very small performing space in a strip mall plaza.  Has

Lot666 said: "At about 7:50am, I received an email regarding tickets going on sale at 10:00am. I navigated to the page at around 9:40am. At 10:00am, the page refreshed and indicated that there were already more than 5,000 people ahead of me and the wait would be about 55 minutes."

It said the same thing to me, but that rapidly decreased, and at 10:15 it just let me in.

Entry times every 15 minutes from 7PM to 8:15PM on days with evening-only performanc

WiCkEDrOcKS said: "Kad said: "What's the point of even having onsite security at theaters if they can't handle something like this?"

Honestly? Optics.

I’ve walked through the metal detectors with my phone in my pocket (mistakenly)more than once in the past, and I’ve never had the metal detector go off.

I worry that half of these security implementations at theaters are just to make people “feel” safe

Apologies in advance if this has been mentioned earlier in the thread. 

I saw Andrew Lloyd Webber last Wednesday as part of the Speaker Series in Pittsburgh.  He talked about Jamie Lloyd's production of "Sunset Boulevard" and briefly touched on him directing "Evita" in London.  He said Lloyd's vision of "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" is to have Eva perform it from the Palladium's front facade balcony, addressing any passersby o

binau said: "If this was the Sam Mendes production it would be poweful in the finale if he removed the mask, all exposed in the uniform etc."

I'm guessing he'll remain in his smaller mask throughout the performance. Would be cool if during the drumroll at the end, he moves to take off the mask just as the blackout occurs.  Maybe you get a very brief blink-and-you-miss-it glimpse.

Since the mask is such an important part of his stage persona, would

bwayphreak234 said: "The Laurence Connor helmed tour was an abomination of epic proportions. It was ghastly - tacky, ugly, and just really, really bad."

Add to that a few directorial choices which simply made no sense to the story.

While we know better that it's not our beloved original staging, I agree with the comments that it's better to tour this than the Laurence Connor version.  The average subscription theatergoers in the U