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Carrie Hope Fletcher's Olivier Awards competition will include not only Jessie Buckley's Sally Bowles but also Sutton Foster's Reno Sweeney.

Teresa Stratas was Tony-nominated for "Rags" but declined to appear on the recording; Julia Migenes took her place.Cesare Siepi starred opposite Georgia Brown in "Carmelina," but Paul Sorvino took his place on the recording.Andrea McArdle opened the London production of "Annie," but because McArdle had already recorded the Broadway album, the first (British) Annie replacement got to make the London cast recording.

I thought Matt Wolf did the official NYT review for the London production and that Brantley also praised the piece in a column he wrote about both Company and Caroline or Change. Or were they both "official" reviews with Wolf's simply appearing a few months ahead?Both count as reviews, even if Brantley filed less formal pieces on his annual London sojourns. Wolf's articles, from an American abroad, also tend to cover several shows at once and rarely appear on opening nights (Wolf's recent Tim...

Had this production of "Company" opened, as originally scheduled, in March 2020, Ben Brantley would have undoubtedly reviewed it in the Times, just as he had reviewed this new version in London.But I wouldn't be so sure that he would have raved again. If one looks up his London review (from early 2019; the production opened in 2018 ), one sees that Brantley's Times rave gave equal credit to the staging and to the leading lady, Rosalie Craig. Brantley thought that Craig reinvented the role jus...

All in all the worst set of reviews for a Broadway musical leading lady since........Jill Haworth in "Cabaret"? (Just as others here like Lenk, I still maintain that Jill did not deserve what she got.) Lenk either got singled out or became a buried lede.

I'm wondering if TOFT somehow managed to preserve the 2020 "West Side Story." Considering it only played (following lengthy previews) from Feb. 20 to March 11, I'm not sure a taping could have been arranged.

Maya Phillips' NY Times review: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/04/theater/the-visitor-review.html

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