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I saw this over the weekend and actually had a great time. It feels like someone’s idea during a party game of “what’s the craziest thing that could be a musical” and then they actually wrote it. I found it to be totally original and pretty funny with just the right amount of pathos. The performances are all strong. Shapiro especially is perfectly cast in the least “showy” role, and grounds the musical with her special mixture of strength/ease/melancholy. Refreshing to see a show not use proj...

Using the terms “rail thin” and “skinny” are not the compliments people seem to think they are. Most men that receive this moniker work hard to not be “skinny.” There are lots of body image issues in the actor community around being seen as skinny and not “fit” or “strong.” Maybe let’s just stop commenting on people’s bodies.

I’ve seen it twice, and the “strange ending” has been cut. It’s now the traditional ending with the children of River City attempting to play together as a band for the first time.

darquegk said: "I’ve said for years Jane Krakowski was my pick, but there’s another pick that occurred to me today. Someone with the right mix of impishness, glamour and brassy chaotic energy. She’s the right age to play early thirties to late forties over a show, Mame’s canonical age according to the novels (although traditionally the character is played more early fifties to late sixties), though she will likely read younger and sexier than Lansbury did...Kristen Bell. She’s in that space w...

Denis Arndt wasn’t with Heisenberg from the beginning. He replaced the Kenneth Welsh very early on in rehearsals for the premiere off-Broadway

Union labor at its finest. An usher at The Color Purple a few years ago came into the partial view box where I was seated before the show started so she could bark instructions at audience members. When I told her at intermission that her continued yelling in our ears before the show wasn’t a great start to a special evening out, she said the F word to me three times and covered up her name tag. Long story short, I told a manager during intermission and she told me to speak to the house manag...

She would be incredible as Mame! She would dance the heck out of it, sound amazing on that beautiful Jerry Herman score, look stunning, land all the humor...I'm ready for it now!Who could play Vera to her Mame? Alison Janney? Bebe Neuwirth?Jenn Simard as Gooch!

After watching this, it struck me that Ms. Krakowski would make a wonderful Mame. She's the right age. She's a true comedian. She would dance the heck out of "That's How Young I Feel." And has a great voice to boot!Thoughts?Any other roles you would love to see her play? I can't wait another 13 years for her to come back to Broadway!