Profile for Balthazar Chasen

MJ has a good chance. Funny thing: I was at the dentist today and the new hygienist mentioned Into the Woods. And my town-ish city is waaaay off the radar. Missing nominations are Flying Over Sunset, Mrs. Doubtfire, and The Music Man.

BrodyFosse123 said: "Balthazar Chasen said: "I recently saw explicit shower photos from the 2002 version of Take Me Out. I didn't even know about the current staging. I can't help but wonder how the 2002 photos were procured."There’s an excellent quality full show bootleg of the original 2002 Broadway production. Shot digitally not on video so screen grabs will be of great quality. The world was quite different back then pre-social media."Thanks for the information.

I recently saw explicit shower photos from the 2002 version of Take Me Out. I didn't even know about the current staging. I can't help but wonder how the 2002 photos were procured.

As I was walking down the beach with Jason Workman and another friend in 1984, girls were shouting to him, "You are gorgeous! You are gorgeous!!" No surprise he winds up on Broadway in this production a few years later. And Donna Kane has a marvelous set of pipes -- love her!It was a treat to see "The Trolley Song" on YouTube just a year or so ago. (My own tenuous connection to this show I thought I'd share.)

Well, then, Kane channeled Garland's Esther Smith most convincingly.

BrodyFosse123 said: "Tracie Bennett captured zero of Garland in END OF THE RAINBOW. Zero. The only person ever to capture Garland exactly, both vocally and in her mannerisms, was Isabel Keating in THE BOY FROM OZ. Lots of footage on YouTube." I'm thinking Donna Kane was a most acceptable Judy in 1989's Meet Me In St. Louis revival. It's on YouTube also.

Claybourne Elder impresses. I've been following him on IG for months.The Roundabout Theater Company did a limited tour of COMPANY in 1999. It was the first tour to use revisions from Company's mid-90s revival. Peter Reardon was in it. Does anyone know anything about this small tour?

Not to namedrop, yet I've a friend who won one of these around 30 years ago. The last I heard, a mutual acquaintance said his career hasn't gone as he had hoped.

Her CD "Just In Time" is a must-have.

RIP.He was hilarious on Newhart as Michael Harris. As well as during his Bosom Buddies early days.

"Who Could Be Blue?" cut from Follies.

JERSEY BOYS is finally coming to my town where I'm seeing it March 4th @ 6:30 pm. I include the time because JERSEY BOYS is going to conflict with the Oscars telecast. Although it has taken a dozen years since this musical debuted on Broadway (on my birthday, no less) I've seen THE MIDTOWN MEN with Christian Hoff, Michael Longoria, Daniel Reichard, & J. Robert Spencer TWICE already. (And I've played JERSEY BOYS's DVD over & over....)

The day I registered for my freshman colleges classes I flew to NYC & saw Gregory Hines in Sophisticated Ladies. It was life changing.. Terri simply blew me away. I bought the album & played it over & over. Eventually, a friend did Bed & Sofa with her. I've played YouTube clips of Terri in Sophisticated Ladies (most especially Hit Me With a Hot Note & her Mood Indigo/I've Got It Bad duet with the late, great Phyllis Hyman). Glad to see this message board topic today.

This is going to sound out-of-nowhere random yet I'll be looking to who is cast as the soap ingénue Geena Davis portrayed in the film. Geena went from that role to winning an Oscar seven years later. That's quite impressive.

Don't know if it's necessarily my favorite yet.... PIPPIN's revised finale really suits the show from a show business/entertainment standpoint. The original's seemed modern in the 70s but the revival's seems traditionally Broadway.

Here's a direct quotation regarding "Louis Says" & why it was cut: "First reason was that by cutting it, Julie's vocal demands were diminished significantly. Second reason was that the cleaning/maintenance cost for that numbers costumes and wigs was insane, so they also saved a lot of money on weekly production costs." ""

I'm glad to hear favorable comments about Louis Says. I've heard from a reputable source that the song was cut, in part, because of the high cost of maintaining & cleaning all the wigs that were used in the number. It seems the production costs skyrocketed because of this song. Just FYI.

Thanks for these responses!I especially find illuminating Ulla's line from The Producers. Also, the interpretation that the winner was referring to the many audience members in Radio City Music Hall seems plausible. Still I think Light saw Huffman's 2001 acceptance speech & deliberately planned beforehand to begin her 2013 speech the exact same way...a conscious imitation of Huffman.

It's so random it's scary, yet it's a bit of a peeve. When Cady Huffman won her Tony for The Producers, she began her acceptance speech by adlibbing, "There are so many of you...." (Presumably, to thank for getting her to this point in her career.) A dozen years later Judith Light wins a 2nd-year-in-a-row Tony (for The Assembled Parties) & begins her acceptance speech with the EXACT SAME PHRASE: "There are so many of you...." (Again, the context being to thank for her achievement.) Light deli...

Night & Day (although I don't know if it qualifies as "lesser known)