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pmensky said: "John Adams said: "An "I Want" song for St Bernadette? This Disney version of St. Bernadette looks to be as disconnected from reality as pmensky."Disney is not involved in this production, and the song Jeremy Jordan sings is neither sung by Bernadette nor an “I want” song. “I want” songs are sung by the central character at the beginning of the story. Jordan’s character is a secondary one, and this song is sung just before the spring is discovered which takes place well into the...

According to the NY Times "The show was capitalized for up to $15 million, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission; it has not recouped its capitalization costs."https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/05/theater/anastasia-musical-closing.html I just saw this this past weekend, and could not agree more with RippedMan re: the ending. It's based on that cartoon, I would've been fine with a cartoonish ending of Dimitri wrestling him to the ground or something. Great score, but ...

Actually kind of surprised with this choice... I would've thought they would've lined up with a bigger voice from the Wildhorn-world: Ryan Silverman, Rob Evan, Jeremy Jordan, etc

Sierra was in It Should've Been You (?) during the entire run of the original Ever After at Papermill...

Scarlet Leigh said: "philly03 said: "My last comment is on the tone - is this supposed to be satire (all the political books)? Comedy? "Historic-fiction" drama? There doesn't seem to be a clear idea of what this is."The tone of the MOVIE is very much the last one,"Historic-fiction" drama. And the LAST thing the movie was was a satire. I'm curious as to what on the show caused satire to be the thing that came to mind FIRST with the tone for you."The "mockery" of the monarchy re: satire. I stil...

She also just performed at the Philly Thanksgiving Day parade, but I missed it, and can't seem to find footage of it now.

Linda never wanted to be famous, nor was she ever set on being a "Broadway star" (that was Frank Wildhorn's idea). She had a lot of high profile fans too - Rosie O'Donnell, Kathy Lee Gifford, I even sat next to Larry King once at Feinstein's at one of her concerts.Years ago with WONDERLAND she was asked to be The Mad Hatter (the role would go to Kate Shindle for the second Tampa/Broadway run), but the story is she didn't want to be out of town for months with her son (who I think was pre-teen...

ALW's Whistle Down the Wind could not sell tickets, even with promo for Andrea Ross (she must have been 16/17 at the time?) who was being hailed as Andrew's next prodigy at the time. It was also one of those "rumored for Broadway" tours.

Where was the outrage at Lea Salonga playing Mother in Ragtime, which was specifically written as a "White Anglo-Saxon Protestant"? I am in the boat of the best singer/actor should get the job, regardless of race/etc.

Does anyone know who is the lead in Tell Me on a Sunday at the Walnut Street Theatre in Philly? Additionally, does anyone know which version of the musical they are doing? (Original, Broadway, UK 03, etc?)

She wouldve been great as "I" in Rebecca had the show happened. She is one of my favorites as well.

Lea Salonga over Daphne Rubin-Vega, Les Mis 2006Rachel York over Christine Andreas, The Scarlet Pimpernel

Best: Sister Act or Beauty and the BeastWorst: Leap of Faith, although his music was the best part and not an issue. It was those lyrics and book!

Other trivia - Jekyll & Hyde was the only musical not nominated for "Best Musical" in the 96-97 season (out of 5) and was the longest running of them all (4 years). Titanic won that year (and ran for 2 years).

"And yet we know someone had because, by opening (as opposed to the preview version), "Carpe Noctem" -- at least -- was a dead rip of the original." Kunze was brought in I believe just prior to previews, and was likely him. Jim Steinmen was going to do original "translation" prior with another book writer... and the producers, if I remember the quote "wanted 10 jokes on each script page."

Kunze wasn't that much involved with Broadway Dance with Vampires either until VERY late into the game... The only musicals I can think of that were done by non-Americans abroad that tried to go to Broadway or the West End would be Napoleon (Canadian writers, tried out in Toronto then tanked on the West End); The Ten Commandments (French, w/ Val Kilmer and Lauren Kennedy in LA from the French production - such a disaster never even made it to Broadway); Notre Dame de Paris (French, flopped on...