I was in the cast of 54 SINGS SUGAR back in 2017, with Tony Roberts as a special guest...the evening was sold out and the audience ate it up. Granted, it was more a concert than a fully staged production, but I don't see why the original musical can't benefit from an Encores! or York Mufti treatment.This could end up like Phantom, where one adaptation is a global phenomenon and the other fades into the "hidden gems" realm of the theatre canon.
I wish they would allow more than 4 cross-offs for musicals, but I understand that would defeat the purpose lol. I'm just pickier than many hardcore theatergoers. I still might try this out one day...$59 for a potentially hot show is hard to beat.
As I said, I have a friend in the cast, so I really hope I'm wrong, but this feels like the Amelie of the 2019-2020 season. A new musical telling a VERY European story transfers from California with some notable Broadway names, flies under the radar, and (perhaps) shutters on Broadway before too long.
Pretty sure these songs are still in the Broadway score and were in La Jolla too. I think "If" is supposed to be Diana's 11 o'clock number. In the show's defense, it's difficult to say what someone thought of herself when she is dead and can't be consulted. Then again, overcoming that challenge is part of the writer's job...
Let's not forget the ahmayzing Theatre Hall of Fame tucked away at the Gershwin, which you can only visit if you're seeing Wicked.I was an exception- I went into the theatre more recently for Marin Mazzie's memorial and snapped a photo.
I concur with those who've said that the hopefulness of the love story being lost, is a really bad thing. I have not seen the production, but as a writer, I wholly believe that balance is important when you are telling a story with as grand a scope as this one. It's part of the reason I despise the work of Sarah Kane and others like it...it's just too morbid/grim. I get nothing out of it but despair, which is not why I go to the theatre or make theatre, for that matter. There is a light at th...
I'm happy to hear that, it must mean he's recovering steadily from his fall.Even if he hated the production as much as Be More Chill, there was no intermission for him to walk out during! Hahaha- only joking.