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To the people saying Audra has the Tony locked up, I'm not so sure: don't underestimate the power of, Look, this woman already has more Tonys than any other actress in Broadway history, LET'S HONOR SOMEONE ELSE.,

David Cote of the Observer calls BAD CINDERELLA a "garish, braindead riff on the fairytale":https://observer.com/2023/03/review-bad-cinderellas-glass-slipper-more-like-a-moldy-croc/ Also: "It amazes me, frankly, that after decades in the business, Lloyd Webber still has no ability—or desire, perhaps—to write a bona fide musical-theater number okay I'm gonna stop you right thereAs someone who knows how kitschy Lloyd Webber's work can be, and as a connoisseur and expert on Sh***y Lyrics in Andr...

Has the creative team made any changes to the score for Broadway? Have numbers been removed/added?

Matt Windman of AMNY: "‘1776’ is reconceived for 2022 with extremely mixed results"https://www.amny.com/entertainment/theater/review-1776-is-reconceived-for-2022-with-extremely-mixed-results/

Frank Rizzo of Variety:"The opening moments of this exuberant, thought-provoking and radical revival of “1776” makes it clear who was missing from John Trumbull’s famous painting of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.As the female, transgender, non-binary and racially and ethnically diverse cast arrives on stage, exchanges street clothes for period waistcoats and literally steps into the black buckled shoes of this country’s forefathers, we know immediately that this will be a the...

David Gordon of Theatermania is Negative:"Progress isn't casting Sherman Edwards and Peter Stone's Tony-winning musical 1776 with a BIPOC or gender-expansive company. It's casting 1776 with people who don't look like the Founding Fathers and not drawing attention to it. In that regard, Jeffrey L. Page and Diane Paulus's Roundabout Theatre Company revival at the American Airlines Theatre takes a door left ajar by Hamilton and runs right through it. But this new Broadway mounting (which origina...

Here's something I enjoy doing: I have a document on my computer where I write Musical Haikus - as in, haikus about musicals. So I thought I'd put this out on the board, if anyone wants to contribute any of their own!A few favorites of my own:- ALLEGRO -Message: City BadThat may not be what you meantBut that's what you got- ASPECTS OF LOVE - Lloyd Webber: "This isA show about human beings"Me: Oh honey no- CHESS - Tim Rice's statement:1. All the world's a chess game2. Affairs are hard- GYPSY -...

Theatermania is Negative:"I'm sort of baffled by the stage adaptation of The Kite Runner at the Helen Hayes Theatre. Not that it exists; the dramatic bones within Khaled Hosseini's beloved and bestselling novel are strong and worthy. But Matthew Spangler's script is just so clumsy, and Giles Croft's production (which originated at the Nottingham Playhouse and Liverpool Everyman in England in 2013 before moving to the West End years later) is just so bland, that I couldn't help but wonder why ...

Time Out New York gives the production 4 out of 5 Stars:"...DeBessonet hits these serious points movingly and gracefully at the end of the show, without sacrificing the many pleasures that the musical offers along the way. Into the Woods’s legion fans are well-served by this revival, and at both the Encores! performance and the Broadway press performance that I attended, the audience response was overwhelming. The show, for all its thorniness, engenders the bliss of re-encountering an old fri...

Deadline is a Rave:"Even in a second- or third-rate production, Into the Woods is delightful, big and lovable and accessible and loaded with some of Stephen Sondheim’s most gorgeous and endearing songs.In a top-flight production, the 1986 musical is transcendent. And make no mistake: Whatever else this summer will be remembered for, we can say this: New Yorkers and visitors to this city currently have a chance to witness the transcendence of a musical theater masterpiece..."https://deadline.c...

Variety is a Rave:"The revival that opened on Broadway Sunday night is not just a glorious lifeline for fans reawakening to the wonders of live performance after a long, dark hiatus. It’s a crystalline showcase for sensational performances from an all-star cast of marquee veterans, and a testament to the enduring genius of the beloved musical, now in its fourth Broadway incarnation since premiering in 1987. The biggest giant in the sky this time around is Sondheim himself, and exalting his le...

Alexis Soloski of the New York Times is a Rave:"After the woods and the wolf and the dark and the knife, Little Red Riding Hood has learned a thing or two. In the first act of “Into the Woods,” while modeling a cloak made from the wolf’s pelt, she shares her wisdom. Be prepared, she advises in “I Know Things Now.” Watch out for strangers. Stephen Sondheim’s bone-dry lyrics supply one more maxim: “Nice,” Little Red concludes, “is different than good.”True. But isn’t it splendid when a work of ...

The Hollywood Reporter is Very Positive:"Of all the canonical musicals left behind by Stephen Sondheim, Into the Woods perhaps more than any other lends itself to elaborate design treatment, with its pile-up of fairy-tale characters both high- and low-born and its forest setting yielding equal parts enchantment and disillusionment. Recent New York productions have painstakingly conjured that storybook environment with scenic splendor or crafty props, while Rob Marshall’s starry 2014 film was ...

AM New York is a Rave:"If I had the time and money, I could happily sit through every single performance of the exceptionally cast, musically perfect, joyous and glorious Broadway revival of 'Into the Woods'..."https://www.amny.com/entertainment/broadway/into-the-woods-revival-review-july-2022/

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/queens-top-secret-jubilee-project-26884351I think we all know what this means:CRICKET (HEARTS AND WICKETS) ((THE SEQUEL)) or Bust

The Wall Street Journal is Mixed:"I’m skeptical about the larger point of these changes [to modernize the show]. After all, the original “Company,” like “Angels in America,” is now a history play, a kind of theatrical time capsule in which Mr. Sondheim and George Furth, who wrote the book, show us what it was like to be a member of what Whit Stillman has called the “urban haute bourgeoisie” at the exact moment when Americans were starting to collectively renounce the concept of marriage for l...

I've been looking for any detailed information I can find about the plot of IN MY LIFE (2005), an original musical with music, lyrics and book by Joseph Brooks, and also a spectacularly weird trainwreck that flopped quickly. I was wondering, for those who might know: Were there major changes made to IN MY LIFE during previews, particularly to its plot? I looked up the Broadwayworld thread from 2005 with reviews from posters, but it basically seems to just be reviews of the first few previews ...

Hey, this is great: the lyrics for GRIND are now on Genius.com! https://genius.com/albums/Larry-grossman/Grind-original-broadway-cast-album

Does anyone know where one might find lyrics for the songs in GRIND, the 1985 musical directed by Hal Prince with a score by Larry Grossman and Ellen Fitzhugh?It's a difficult request, probably: I wouldn't be surprised if the libretto has never been published. Did the CD have lyrics in the booklet? (I got my copy of the cast album from iTunes.)If anyone can help, I'd be extremely grateful :)

*blink* *blink* *blink*I feel like any way I could react to this would just be playing into its hands.