Little Dog Laughed industry pressntation
Feb 27 2026, 12:17:11 PM
Julie White won a Tony for a reason
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Will Disney bring Hercules to Broadway?
Feb 20 2026, 10:01:44 AM
rosscoe(au) said: "Disney has basically become a parody of themselves. Aladdin was a major mess of a show. What made the movie enjoyable was destroyed on stage ( of course no one was ever going to be Robin Williams ) but it came across as a school pantomime.
From what I hear and read from those that have seen it, sadly Hercules is the same."
Hot take, but I saw the Toronto tryout of Aladdin, where his three friends (Babkak, Omar, and Kassim) were narrators, and
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David Henry Hwang is revising FLOWER DRUM SONG again for East West Players
Feb 20 2026, 09:48:22 AM
I highly suggest finding a copy of "Flower Drum Songs: the story of Two Musicals" by David H. Lewis. It is a fascinating and informative read about the creation of the original production, film, revival, and some productions in between.
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God Is A DJ new musical in development
Feb 17 2026, 01:55:29 PM
"If God is a DJ, life is a dancefloor" -Pink
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Prince of Egypt @ LCT
Feb 17 2026, 08:35:30 AM
Some context is missing here.
Prince of Egypt is playing David Geffin Hall at Lincoln Centre, which is being rented out like the Jeremy Jordan and Laura Benanti concert of Parade, the Ragtime concert with Lea Salonga and Norm Lewis, Titanic concert, Joseph with Noah Gavin, etc.
The Man of La Mancha concert is playing the Beaumount, but is a gala for Lincoln Centre Theatre. This is same as the Camelot concert with Lin Manuel Miranda, which somewhat lead to the revival
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2026-2027 Season Tour Launches
Feb 10 2026, 10:26:13 AM
Toronto's 26/27 Season:
Hell's Kitchen
The Karate Kid: The Musical
Operation Mincemeat
13 Going on 30: The Musical
The Mousetrap
Inside the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Salesman in China
Additions:
Paranormal Activity, Dirty Dancing, Water for Elephants Great Gatsby, Mamma Mia, etc.
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AMERICAN CLASSIC tv show
Feb 5 2026, 01:56:18 PM
ggersten said: "I presume, despite the involvement of Bob Martin, this has no connection to "Slings and Arrows" which was about an actor who has a public meltdown (multiple) and then returns to his "family" in New Burbage to save it with a production of a classic play.
Per the website, this show is about an actor who has a public meltdown and returns home to his family theatre to save it with a production of a classic play.https://press.amazonmgmstudios.com/us/en/mgm-plus-series/american-classic/1
I do wonder if the British playwright, Richard Bean, is okay with his name being used in this show."
You know, I thought this has to be a "somewhat-inspired" version of Slings and Arrows lol
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COME FROM AWAY at Papermill
Feb 5 2026, 11:24:22 AM
I didn't know it was "basically" the same production as Ogunquit...which is funny, because I thought to myself that the set looked very similar to another production photos I saw, and wondered if it was the same designer.
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Have you ever seen a show before it goes to Broadway and feel…
Jan 21 2026, 09:45:46 AM
SkidRow82 said: "I saw Six and Death Becomes Her prior to their Broadway runs. Loved them both, but when I'm in NYC the vibe is always that time is limited - so I'm always going to see something new."
By the same token the rare few times that I get to the city, I always try to see the "flops" or the things that I know will never tour.
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Have you ever seen a show before it goes to Broadway and feel…
Jan 21 2026, 08:55:50 AM
I was speaking to a friend about this over the holidays, and the want to revisit shows especially in the subscription world.
For example, Toronto had the North American/Try-out of &Juliet in Summer 2022. Now, we have a Canadian production, which is apart of the subscription. While, I had fun nothing changed between the 2 productions, other than cast. Doesn't mean much. Although, the pre-Broadway Aladdin in Toronto was such a different beast that while I didn't get ove
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Overheard at the Theatre
Jan 9 2026, 09:01:52 AM
Leaving the theatre after a performance of Carrie Fisher's one woman show "Wishful Drinking"...
"It was too much about her. I didn't think it would be all about her"
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New WICKED Cast Replacements this month and next?
Jan 8 2026, 02:41:03 PM
In completely honesty, I have seen Wicked every time the tour came to my city, and the only time I was bored, and thought the show needed better than it had was when Lauren Samuels and Austen Danielle Bohmer were Elphaba and Glinda during Summer 2024. It seemed like it was one of those long, unfunny SNL sketches that needs to be over the moment it started.
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Lonny Price directing new DIRTY DANCING stage musical aimed for Broadway
Jan 6 2026, 09:04:14 AM
I saw the Toronto production back in 2008. It wasn't great. It seemed to be the screenplay on stage. If remember correctly too, the band was small (as someone else pointed out), but I also remember many of the numbers were prerecorded, and there were only a couple that were sung live (including "I Had the Time of My Life". I don't believe either Johnny or baby actually sang.
It was almost a play with music
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Vape or Don’t Vape?
Dec 19 2025, 12:04:22 PM
KJisgroovy said: "They are probably talking about the musical currently running off-broadway, no?"
This is what I thought as well
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“Roundabout Warns Studio 54 Could Close”
Dec 18 2025, 12:54:08 PM
Kad said: "KJisgroovy said: ""Frankly I'd like to see nonprofits be forced to divest from their real estate holdings if they're not in active use by the nonprofit for a certain period of time. Why should Roundabout get to control and profit off the Sondheim when they haven't produced a show there in almost 15 years?"
Of all the weird bootlicking things posted on here... this is one of the weirder ones."
How is that bootli
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Remember "Give the Tonys back to broadway [from Hollywood]!!" 2010
Dec 16 2025, 01:54:56 PM
I remember for a while there, part of the conversation for Best Musical was always what will tour better, especially in the South
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Rumor: BEACHES opening at the Majestic this season
Dec 16 2025, 12:48:58 PM
Melissa25 said: "If Versailles was raking in over $1M a week, this can too. I see all sisters and mother/daughter dates lining up. What I don’t understand is that I have not heard “Wind Beneath My Wings” in that Calgary clip or mentioned anywhere. Isn’t that chart topper in this musical? Why the hell not lead with that?"
I believe in the NYT article is says "Wind Beneath my Wings" is in the show. If indeed it isn't, I'm sure
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Remember "Give the Tonys back to broadway [from Hollywood]!!" 2010
Dec 16 2025, 09:12:50 AM
I remember a few things from that year. As a frequent viewer of CUNY TV's Theater Talk (even to this day I rewatch episodes), there was a complaint that there were so many stars on Broadway, but then the next season they wondered where are all the stars were.
2010 was also an incredibly lean year, at least in my opinion. Coming off of 2009, which had some really high points. I remember too Jen Cody (Foster's wife) being vocal, and there being a feeling that they were maki
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What revivals were flops but then later revivals become hits?
Dec 9 2025, 02:36:40 PM
blaxx said: "fashionguru_23 said: "There is the age-old question of defining a flop and a hit. I would strongly disagree that Ragtime was a flop, but to each their own."
You must have never invested money on anything if you think this is unclear.
Tell someone who have lost millions in an investment that you disagree their business flopped but at least they had a good time.
"
On a financial level, something like Ragt
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What revivals were flops but then later revivals become hits?
Dec 9 2025, 08:40:59 AM
There is the age-old question of defining a flop and a hit. I would strongly disagree that Ragtime was a flop, but to each their own.
Merrily We Roll Along, to a certain point Follies (the 2012 revival was the first Sondheim show to gross over a million dollars in one week), the 1990's revival of She Loves Me ran longer that the original production by 52 performances.
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