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merle57 said: "With the major revival losses on Sunset Blvd and Jellice Ball Cats, I wonder if the Andrew Lloyd Webber brand no longer has the "golden touch" it once did when his early shows were a sung-thru novelty."In terms of Broadway commercial potential, I think it's pretty clear things fizzled out for ALW by 1990. Among his new shows, he's had only one modest hit since then, and several others never even made it to NYC, much less Broadway. I don't think the revivals have fared much bett...

I think some of you have correctly identified theater owners as a big part of the problem. So I'm going to take a big swing and say that Broadway theaters should be municipalized. The city should buy them and rent them out at cost.This idea might seem extreme, but I don't think it's crazy at all if you compare it to how sports facilities are financed and managed in many US cities. Here in Baltimore, both the Ravens and Orioles stadiums were built by the state and are leased to the teams for n...

melodyrose said: "I was looking to buy for another ticket before it ‘closes’, when I saw performances listed through October- at least, so one of us is wrong about the show closing and I don’t think it’s me!"The original post notes that they haven't cancelled any dates yet, and their speculation is based on other factors. You're the third or fourth person who seems to have missed that. (That sounds harsher than I'm intending it, I think!)

I feel like the original thread title was immediately understandable, and I've definitely heard the word abortion used like this (cf. senses 3 and 4 here).On topic, I don't have any interest in this movie. I agree that Cinderella was the best of the mediocre bunch, though I somewhat enjoyed Beauty and the Beast as well.

YvanEhtNioj said: "i was gonna say that but stopped myself"I'm not Black but I was thinking the same thing. Obviously there are Black directors who could nail this.

MezzoDiva47 said: "my post was tongue in cheek theres a lot of unnecessary handwringing happening"To be clear, I understood both the tone of your post and the intended message. And I was disagreeing with that intended message: I don't see any excessive handwringing, just a recognition that things are a little dicey right now.

MezzoDiva47 said: "to summarize the collective sentiment of the posts on this thread thats it broadway is closing in 2027 it had a good run"No, no one is saying that. More than a dozen shows have already announced an opening for next season. A number of long-running shows are in no danger.The collective sentiment is simply that lots of shows running right now won't be running in a year's time. Which has never been a bold claim at any point in the history of Brodway theatre, but things do seem...

ColorTheHours048 said: "Sir, this is a Wendy’s."Huh? The comment was entirely on-topic. Bizarre response on your part.

I enjoy them too!

I picked The Fantasticks and then "saw it before and I loved it." That's all correct.

Phantom4ever said: "ALW had this happen twice before 2017: in 1990 with Aspects of Love, Cats, and The Phantom of the Opera, and then again with Sunset Boulevard a few years later."I think he had done it once before in the early 1980s, too, with Evita, Cats, and Joseph.

iluvtheatertrash said: "the only marriage in Israel is religious"Which is all you need to know to conclude that it's a garbage country. **** theocracy. To be clear, the same sentiment applies to Israel's Islamist neighbors. No country dedicated to a particular religion has a right to exist.

GirlFromOz68 said: "I have to scroll across now to see all the figures for the week for one show whereas the old way i could look at one column top to bottom of a show without scrolling."I understand. We clearly have our displays set up differently! My experience is just the opposite.

BoringBoredBoard40 said: "I think casting a woman of color in a show set around the rise of Nazism in late 30's Austria is kind of odd."I think it's more than kind of odd to suggest that casting for a classic of American musical theater should be open only to white people forever and ever.

GirlFromOz68 said: "the new box office layout sucks. it was much easier to read the old way."I respect your opinion, but, for the record, I prefer it this way. I can't see as many shows at once, but I can see all the figures for a given show on my screen, which I couldn't before.

iluvtheatertrash said: "Wanting to see a historical figure be cast appropriately is racist?"Again I'll ask: does a performer's height or weight or eye color or nationality have to match the historical figure, too? If not, why not?

Here's the answer: Click Here To Toggle Spoiler ContentThey're all Tony winners who appeared on Modern Family. I left Jesse Tyler Ferguson off the list to avoid making it obvious.My roommate wanted to watch the series all the way through, so I saw most of the episodes over the past couple of months, and I decided to make this list as I went along!

Ensemble1763372746 said: "The current Broadway production ofChesshas absolutely nothing to do with Richard Nelson's script."The poster you're responding to clearly knows this. They were comparing Strong's book negatively to Nelson's attempt to fit a book to the score. Like you, they seem to have quite a bit of expertise about the history of the show, and have addressed many of the points you make in several lengthy posts about this production.

I need to add one more! After seeing the last revival of Pippin, I was hanging out outside of the Music Box Theater (not really stage-dooring, but maybe looking to see who came out), and I struck up a conversation with a somewhat older gentleman who was also waiting there. My best theater friend just had this weird smirk on his face as this gentleman and I talked about how much we loved the production. At some point the older guy said, "you know, I once played the part of Pippin," and I sudde...

MysteriousLady said: "Lincoln Center's Met Opera has presented Black artists as European characters for years. If we can have a Black Mimiwe can have a Black Maria at the Lincoln Center Theater. Musicals are not documentaries."Jessye Norman as Sieglinde is in the running for the best operatic performance I've ever seen.