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I love you, Jay Lerner Z. Never change! (no sarcasm intended)

User6636a849 said: "Anyone?"

As introduced in the original Broadway production, "Someone Else's Story" made a lot of sense to me. Florence is regretting her relationship with Freddie and contemplating a better one with Anatoly. I regret that they've messed with it since then.

Speaking of the second-act "Memory"...

It's hard to believe in the age of generative AI that they can't make a better image than that, so that it looks like the graphic is actually on a curved, three-dimensional coffee mug. (Of course, they could also take a photo of the actual item, but maybe that's just crazy thinking on my part.)

Rentaholic2 said: "That’s not what a jukebox musical is."

Jeffrey didn't say that Once was a jukebox musical. He was simply adding to Wayman's list of shows that have won Best Musical this century without having an original, Tony-eligible score. Hope that's clear now. 

CoffeeBreak said: "The Lost Boys(with the mostrehearsal/tech/preview time) ."

I take your word that this is true for the Broadway production, but one should also point out that it's the only new musical not to have had one or more previous productions, so it makes perfect sense that it would need more time to work the kinks out before an official opening.

Mary_Poppins said: "No, kdogg36 clearly said: "The authors should get paid before anyone else, including the cast".

It was wrong of me to imply that the cast is not as important as the writers. I apologize for that.

With that out of the way - do you not think it is absolutely crazy that Broadway producers sometimes (often, it seems) expect writers to work for free?

Mary_Poppins said: "ALW should be paid for the 1000th staging of his stuff before the people who actually work on it and need to pay their bills?"

The actors deserve to get paid, and they always get paid. The people who wrote the material they're performing also deserve to get paid. Do you really disagree with this?

justntime330 said: "I believe the rule is: if the writers waive their royalties, then everyone on the title page automatically waives as well and it saves approximately 60k per week in running costs. The writers are not unionized so they are under great pressure to waive. Many shows have run for months with the authors and other creatives receiving no money at all. Zero.

Rick Elice explains it very eloquently in this video:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUk-HDqgKsF/?igsh=NTllbTNibHFjc2hz"

I watched that video and it is shocking. The authors should get paid before anyone else, including the cast. What can we do to fix this?

 

CarlosAlberto said: "Am I wrong for wanting a reproduction of the original 1981 production so that this new generation can experience what we did back then? So that they will witness what made this show so legendary? Am I wrong?"

Honestly, I would love to see that. I hate the feeling that I've seen a revival but I can't quite be sure that I've seen the same show that others have seen before me. (Also see: Follies)

John Adams said: "This was before he recycled "Our Kind of Love" from The Beautiful Game (which I also saw on that trip) into "Love Never Dies".Other songs are also very reminiscent of ALW's scores."

Just as a point of information, the main tune you refer to was first written for the song "The Heart Is Slow To Learn" for an earlier, abortive attempt at a sequel to Phantom. Then it was trimmed down for The Beautiful Game (shorn of its lovely verses) before coming back again for Love Never Dies.

I completely agree that it's inappropriate to recycle material from a successful show. It's one thing to use the bridge from "Half A Moment," in the original megaflop Jeeves, in "As If We Never Said Goodbye" - quite another to reuse a song from a relatively long-running Tony-winning show like Song and Dance. And frankly I think it was better used in Song and Dance.

chernjam said: "But it's interesting, "If Only" had been a part of a planned Aspects movie (Chanson d'enfance) and in the recent revival he did pillage it for that very thing."

Just to confirm, the recent London revival included the melody of "If Only" into "Chanson d'enfance"? I think they're both pretty perfect on their own.

By the way, I hope someone with decision-making power is reading this thread, because they need to know this: you cannot have a character, who is intended to be perceived as good, try to drown a bag of kittens at the beginning of the show.