Profile for Clara's Pony

The $8000 is anecdotal and may well be an exaggeration... (even though I admit stagehands' salaries are regularly bumped up by overtime). Also not the first controversial thing said by Joe Allen. I'm afraid I'm only likely to believe this kind of stuff when it's been researched properly & verified...

"Most people's brains do hurt" -speak for yourself....

It's a harmless song, but I'm glad it was cut. Liked the melody, but later on there were far too many modulations in a short space of time- just seemed a bit too cliched... Did like the nod to Good Morning Baltimore at the end (although I prefer it at the end of YCSTB, as in the final cut).

In Drowsy, I Remember Love being replaced by Love is Always Lovely in the End. Neither of them are great songs, but it was a wise move.

"I think the musical was performed only once in Japan and it was rather a disaster (LOL)" With numbers like "Radies who Runch" and "Being Arive" I can understand this...

http://hairspraythemusical.co.uk/vid/video_V02.html Clips from YCSTB, Welcome to the 60's, Good Morning Baltimore, Big Blonde & Beautiful; also some rehearsal footage & other stuff. Worth watching for Leanne Jones & Michael Ball if you haven't already seen it in London...

Good for you.

Do we know when it will be released?

"Why should producers share in profits?" - to have lunch at Sardis every day and drink champagne until they puke...

There used to be a Theatre Museum in London, but the visitor numbers were very low (not aided by some pretty poor and outdated exhibits). So now it's been closed indefinitely. It's a shame since it was in a prime location (Covent Garden) - so it's a cautionary tale. But with a bit of vision and some decent exhibits there's no reason why a museum of theatre, either in London or NY, shouldn't be successful.

As well as UB & B&S, it's also been on CSI, Arrested Development, House and Passions. And yes, it is produced by Universal.

I agree - Wicked totally does not need the publicity. But isn't this a continuation of a storyline from last season, when Henry gets Betty tickets for Wicked and she doesn't go because of the love triangle with his girlfriend? Feel free to correct me on the details, but if it is a daydream, it might be a kind of 'what might have been' reverie of that night?

I think it's a case of supply & demand. So long as blockbusters like Wicked keep getting box office receipts of 100%/week, then the prices will keep on rising until the demand slows down (at this point in time, seemingly never...). When the anticipated public appetite for a show isn't that big - that's the only time when tickets seem discounted. Example: the new production of Rent in London, General Admission for £30 ($60 - a far cry from $125 for Hairspray at the Shaftesbury), but the show i...

About the riffs in Welcome to the 60's... Michael also does the yadaba yadaba yoo-hoo that Travolta sort of throws away in the movie. The yoo-hoo! is belted out in typical Ball fashion & just sounds amazing. Essentially, Marc's reworking of Edna has really paid off. Obviously there's the riffs, but things like key signatures have also been dramatically altered - Edna's reentry in Welcome to the 60's is a LOT higher in pitch than on Broadway. Timeless to Me is in the same key (I think), only W...

It's a shames she's a) ill & b) not on Broadway. Loved her in Misery (music by Marc Shaiman funnily enough...)

End of November, if I can get tickets...

Just booked my tickets! Michael really does look outrageous, I'm so excited about seeing him now!

I agree with most of the above, am very surprised that nobody has mentioned the wonderfully talented Laura Michelle Kelly... She has a big future ahead of her. Obviously Scarlett is another great Mary, I also thought her sister Summer was absolutely amazing in the Drowsy Chaperone.

hmmm, Christine as Norma Desmond... Loved her 'As If We Never Said Goodbye' at the Kennedy Center.

"The thing about the NEW YORKER review that bugs me, is that he is pretty much saying, "Since it is not a carbon copy of the Broadway show, I am not too fond of it." coughcough . . . THE PRODUCERS, anyone?" Fair point. Also, from IMDB today: "Hairspray director Adam Shankman has hit back at a journalist who is proposing a boycott of the film because its star John Travolta has "no business" playing an iconic gay character. The Pulp Fiction actor stars as super-sized woman Edna Turnblad in the ...