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From my understanding, it's less about how the person sounds than the fact that mixed race roles aren't available in the same quantity as roles for white performers, so the optics of a white actor taking a role like this, albeit an animated one, are... not ideal.

bryan2 said: "Katherine is great in this and I heard that Smash is well known in the UK. I am glad and hope they record this"It's well-known by musical theatre nerds, and that's about it!

The thought that we might see something from Megan as Marilyn is sending me into convulsions. Ideally, since we almost saw it on the finale but didn't, a fully-staged Let's Be Bad introduced by Anjelica Huston (announcing its development as a full-scale musical) would be lovely.

Leslie Odom Jr. has put his cover of Justin Timberlake's Mirrors online featuring some backstage footage - 1:32 looks like a fully-staged Touch Me, no? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeyX0ClVCfo

I wasn't impressed by Sharon D Clarke in the least - her performance is wildly overrated in my opinion, so I don't think she deserved to open the show on Broadway. Richard and Caissie are both great.

Matt Shingledecker messed up Light My Candle when I saw it earlier this month, leaving the understudy Mimi to pick up the song at "Bah humbug", which came out of nowhere. Again, he just laughed... professional. As I said at the time, Off-Off-Broadway beckons.

I agree with the anti-Kimball/pro-Pascal sentiments. I've seen it once with Chad and once with Adam, and found the latter occasion a much more pleasurable experience thanks to his take on Huey. Many of Kimball's choices were just bizarre and frequently off-putting. I can't quite get behind the Montego Glover praise though - both times I've seen the show she's ducked out of the high notes in Colored Woman, and they're not even that high, relatively speaking. I have found her vocal performance ...

Oh bless their earnest little hearts, but this is just bad. (Not from a high school, but I feel its home is here nevertheless.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZjanBIL9dY

I saw it last Thursday night. I might have been a bit coloured by the lukewarm-at-best reviews but it was my least favourite show out of 6 I saw during my trip (Mormon, Sister Act, Memphis, Anything Goes and How to Succeed being the others). I was glad to see Aaron in person since I missed Next to Normal and Norbert was excellent, but I just didn't care much about anything. The songs were okay in the moment but pretty forgettable, and I have no desire to hear any of them again... Fly Fly Away...

I was first in line at 8am recently. It was only at about 9:40 (still the only one in line) that I realised there's no show on Mondays. A great moment in my life. (In my defense, there was a little Broadway guide that said they did Monday shows) The following Wednesday, my boyfriend called into the box office after 10am and got two in Row B Orchestra. This was two weeks ago.

Does anyone know the name of the green-shirted white dance-off guy from the Tonys performance? And is he still in the show?

What an incredibly sycophantic audience. And how strange that 6 people on the OBCR can make a bigger and fuller sound than 30 plus there.

Yeah, it definitely works. One line they should have changed is "white shoes after Labor Day" - (practically) nobody here knows what that is and it never gets a laugh. It could be replaced with anything, "double denim" or any other fashion faux pas and it would be much improved. Another change that happened during previews was changing Paulette's "With one more on the way/and we live out in Worcester" to "And this one's name is Seamus". Presumably changed to avoid confusion with the Worcester...

The video has made its way to the Booth Theatre and Kyle Dean Massey (at least) loves it! http://www.broadway.com/videos/show/next-to-normal/normal-life-with-kyle-dean-massey-video-blog-11/

Me neither but here's your answer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyIPmidV_Uc Not exactly tasteful, is it?

"Jerry Mitchell mentioned in a talkback from the WOS outing that they didn't want to talk of "shooting people in the knees". It's avaliable to listen to on the website." Can't quite work our if you mean the LB website, this website or the WOS site! Would love to hear that talkback.

There's a cheap but fun video on the official site of the London cast performing So Much Better Link: http://www.legallyblondethemusical.co.uk/funstuff/index.php

Maybe I'm lacking a certain objectivity having grown up with the music (or maybe I've just got terrible taste) but I genuinely think the songs are, by and large, pretty great.

YES YES YES to the Grease 2 idea! I think it would work as a Xanadu-style tongue-in-cheek sort of affair. Seeing the biker heaven scene onstage would be the highlight of my life (not really but you know...). Oh and the actor playing Michael would have to be tone-deaf.