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joevitus said: "sinister teashop said: "I just sat through the film at the forlorn AMC 25 and couldn’t see much of value beyond the two songs Parton wrote for the film. “ Sneaking Around” is charming. It’s significant that in the film, the girls are diverse but their clients are all white, except for a couple of dancing black members of the football team.I’ve never seen it on stage so I can’t compare but the main joke of the thing is that the whorehouse is completely in harmony with the conse...

I just sat through the film at the forlorn AMC 25 and couldn’t see much of value beyond the two songs Parton wrote for the film. “ Sneaking Around” is charming. It’s significant that in the film, the girls are diverse but their clients are all white, except for a couple of dancing black members of the football team. I’ve never seen it on stage so I can’t compare but the main joke of the thing is that the whorehouse is completely in harmony with the conservative values of the Texas town, which...

This was never a problem until people started abusing the law by bringing their emotional support animals with them everywhere. The real service dogs you used to see in the audience were complete pros and everyone loved them. The abuse of this law is akin to people without disabilities parking in spaces reserved specifically for the disabled.

Not dumb enough for Broadway audiences.

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "Joe Mantello is one of the great directors of his generation, full stop.Pam Mackinnon did superb work on this play in its prior incarnations, and while I'm sad she's not doing the Broadway run, I have no doubt thatMantello will do something great with this.Who knows, she might even be making some money off the Broadway production, since she was involved in developing the play and two actors are continuing on."Oh, definitely, it’s always good when money trickles ...

I’m with the Flash-creature in wondering why anyone would prefer Joe Mantello to Pam McKinnon’s incredible sensitivity and complete self-effacement as a director. Mantello does know how to work a Broadway house and a Broadway audience with the right pacing, actor sight-line movements, and zinger dialogue tosses to the house and that’s not nothing. He’s a great director of plays for people who would rather be seeing musicals.

TotallyEffed said: "Jumpin_J said: "Trump doesn't have a legal leg to stand on. The judge's orders were crystal clear."Trump doesn't give a damn."These legal battles about his ego are pretty much the only thing he does give a damn about. But he loses nearly 70% of the cases he pursues, even after running out the clock with delays and appeals. SCOTUS he has better luck with…

I doubt if the Yale Rep. production will transfer. I'm not familiar enough with the play to say what was right or wrong with the production but I was happy that I saw it. The final act or section where a romantic relationship is shown disintegrating under the pressure of authoritarianism in a sped-up short hand is pretty brilliant. I thought Reg Rogers was excellent as well.

It would have been “bone chillingly prescient” in 2017. Putting it on now as Yale Rep did last year feels like a very safe peep and squeak against Trump in the near absolute silence from theatre of the last two years. But seeing it now you do start noticing that the play is about the power of conformity in all its forms, beyond that of fascism.

I loved it, from beginning to end. The audience I saw it with was rapt with attention. I was so glad to hear the entire play, it made sense to me for the first time. It's like The Tempest, the "tale" lets you see the gears working behind the dramatic tricks and it's intentional and very beautiful. Did I love all the casting, no. But everyone spoke the lines beautifully, clearly, and passionately.

Now that he has no influence over nyc theatre I don’t not enjoy his “Le Roi Danse” exhibitions of himself. I do find them a bit sad because they end up mostly being about money. If he understood that, his narcissism and pretentiousness might become more human. But thank goddess he has money or he might pull a Perez Hilton.

Yes to a Lincoln Center Fiorello revival, one that could give it the historical realism it would need.

I was a bit more split on the play but not on the actors and production which are solid.

I saw it again last night (after seeing it at The Cube) and one thing I did find myself thinking was I would have liked to have heard the words in the text a bit more.It feels like more of a spectacle on Broadway on its own terms and less of a heartfelt, daring, and incredibly apt interpretation of the original material. It’s still a fantastic show and it’s sad to see it end its run.

JSquared2 said: "Sutton Ross said: "Such a great space and once again, proving some of the best talent is off Broadway.IF that's the current set-up, then it looks like EVERY seat is lousy! Not only uncomfortable folding metal chairs, butthe first row is practically a football field away from the upstage playing area?"The sight lines are excellent, the large space in the front was historically use

Wonderful news. I would guess much of the original Steppenwolf cast will be a part of it.... that's usually been the case with their Broadway transfers. But goodness the online discourse about Israel and what is a meaningful response to the crisis has gotten idiotic. And I say this as a long time supporter of Palestinian human rights.

SweetLips22 said: "Sport is the King is Australia and there are pages in newspapers supporting this. There only the companies advert. for their show and maybe 2 paragraphs-somewhere by the paper. Reviews are spasmodic and more about the writers ego. There are hours of sport weekly on TV and the only showbiz news is about pop 'stars' or on showbiz drama. There is no outlet for live theater. Australia has only a very small population and an even smaller one for theater. We have no tourists that...

Fantastic piece, thanks for posting. I had no idea it had been a functioning theater for that long.

Full performance of Sara Bareiiles at Kings Theater Brooklyn rally with Mamdani to get out the vote for Democratic Socialist of America endorsed candidates for NYS and US Congress.Performance starts at the 31:00 mark.Sara Bareilles

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