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Jfc who spit in all your bean curd? It's wild that this seems to be happening but it's probably to give it new life in licensing, they know it's not gonna be a financial bonanza. The Encores! was real fun, seeing Kerry Butler graduate to the mom was a treasure and she was hilarious in the part, some of the new stuff worked and some didn't, but seeing as nearly everything new lately has been illiterate tuneless generic slop, welcome back Bat Boy, I'm more than glad to hold you.

There was a really nice new hour-ish Dolly bio-musical at Dollywood when I went recently, it plays seasonally and I imagine it will again. My hunch is that the Broadway iteration (more expensive and without a whole beautiful park full of quality attractions attached to it) won't be able to clear that bar, much as Aladdin on Broadway was never half the show the California Adventure Hyperion version was. But I'm sure I'll be there crying anyway.

Honestly I'd rather have just the album for the voices than to be reminded of the direction and what the production looked like.

When will we learn that writers of popular songs are not automatically qualified to write dramatic songs for a musical? This is one of my favorite films but that song was...really not encouraging.

I'm glad this finally seems to be the conversation we're having.

I found this show really cloying and one-note back when it ran, just relentless and literal exposition and telling you how to feel about everything is my memory. Like I couldn't be trusted to sit in anything or have a genuine reaction for more than a second, with virtually nothing dramatized and everything told at you. But I'd be curious to see it again. There was so much quality in the 2010s that several shows from those years that I didn't think much of at the time have really appreciated f...

Best proshot since Passing Strange, so glad kids hundreds of miles from New York or London will have access to this into the future. It's a good thing for theater. I just wish we got these more often, and that it was more possible from them to come from New York.

This is a teaser, the key art is more likely related to the token with a Warriors "W" in it seen in announcement video.

Every time I see that "He gave us stars" tagline, I think of Kenneth Parcell on 30 Rock. "'Believe in the stars.' It's like that doesn't even mean anything anymore!"

I would actually probably agree based on the Encores! production alone, or at least it's my sure favorite. After years of hearing it spoken of in infamy without ever even hearing the cast album, I found it to be a basically perfect musical with a top-tier score and genuinely funny and thematically resonant book in this decade. But when I listened to the album, not only did I like the supporting cast's vocals far less, but its reputation made more sense to me just realizing that "Through the B...

As far as I've seen, kids LOVE Little Shop. It's a live cartoon. It has a few adult jokes, they go over your head. The movie is also a lot grizzlier in tone than the show onstage, despite the happier outcome. Idunno, thank God my parents weren't pearl-clutching prudes who thought I could handle nothing, or couldn't be explained anything.

Just listened to the album for the first time and wow, it really is...not good. Everything fun that was new for Central Park is gone, replaced with worse stuff. Even less of what was fun from the movie remains.So many lyrics from remaining songs rewritten for the much worse. Even the thrilling Muse harmony when we go up to Mt. Olympus in "Gospel Truth" gone. A grating, tinny sound to everything. Bewildering.

It was never really alive as a possibility.

Well I'm glad the thread has taken a turn for the positive, I was feeling pretty lonely about it last week

Sure, nothing safe or warmed-over about yet another unauthorized """parody""" musical of whatever's popular at the moment.

Yeah, the staging of "Mascara" was the low point for me. Really just baffling. I think it would have helped the show a lot to see Billy in that more vulnerable place at the top and put himself through a real transformation. (Low point of the show in general, the low point of the star performance was the stumble through the title number.) I thought he was funnier in the second act than the other Albins I've seen, "Masculinity" was a highlight. Mother had me in stitches in a way I really don't ...

Depends on where you sit and your eligibility for access programs.

Oh one other positive that may seem like faint praise but isn't for anyone who was at BAT BOY, WILD PARTY, or some of their other recent productions: the sound was fully intelligible even in the balcony.

You know, we all take turns having a production where we write something eyerollingly corny like "Is it perfect? No. Does it have problems? Of course. Did I have a great time? Yes."I think Encores! would do well to strip back to music stands and do an expectation readjustment after next season because the most unfortunate thing here is the desire to present a fully-cooked "concept" revival in a very undercooked setting. Cats kind of ate its lunch, too, in a production that made its choice fee...

Fair enough but the best of times also weren't when the original production ran during the AIDS crisis, the message of the song is simply to make the most of the moment you have with the people you love. That's why it's the encore.