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To answer the original question with an unpopular opinion: these shows were bad.”Cabaret” is a near-perfect show which had a definitive revival (twice!) on Broadway within memory for many NYC audiences; this production was both garish and paled by comparison.”Sunset” may have been better when the director was around to keep it strictly within his vision, but I didn’t see it until May…and actors mugging for cheap laughs on camera, plus the deadly pacing while nobody even looked at each other, ...

Broadway Flash said: "Are you aware that we are talking aboutthe SIDEWALK here. New Yorkersaren’tallowed the ride bicycles there, and yet we’ve got people having a party right in the middle of the sidewalk. We’re not talking about some park. People are walking through just trying to get to wherever theyre going, and they have to deal withall the trash thrown on the block, and all the rest of it. there’s also been more murders in the Brooklyn tent I understand."You would spend 1/10th of the ti...

Yes.To sum up: the reason you’re getting a big old collective shrug in response to your very strong feelings is that New Yorkers generally recognize and value that different cultures celebrate and congregate in different ways. It’s what makes this city what it is.Have you ever been to Marcus Garvey Park on the 4th of July? Have you ever tried to ride a bike from the 125th St Fairway (RIP) to the GWB/Little Red Lighthouse on a summer Saturday around 5 pm? (Note: these are rhetorical questions;...

Broadway Flash said: "On 8th avenue? With kids running around? Them blasting salsa music? And having a weed party. This is totally fine with you?"I mean…yeah?Do you live somewhere that adults don’t drink beer around children?Is salsa music somehow…wrong to play?At least in NYC there tend to be fewer guns around when people have a drink and/or sit in a lawn chair…

Huss417 said: "Broadway Flash said: "I’m just reading the rest of the comments, I got banned for a month for making comments about a certain individual on the hadestown tour who proposed on closing night. Yes the residents on 8th Avehave been a disaster for two years now. They’ve got lawn chairs out there now and drinking corona. I could go on, but I’ll stop cause everytime I talk about this, people get all shook up in their boots."Lawn Chairs and Corona sign me up.It's not just this post. "p...

BorisTomashevsky said: "Biden can’t string a sentence together. But being a nice guy is apparently enough these days.And that’s what’s got us into this mess. Kamikaze empathy."That’s what one might think if they were only watching selectively edited videos, sure.Go watch his speech at Normandy. Watch the whole thing. Bonus points if you learn some stuff!

Groff pretty much singlehandedly made the “Spring Awakening” reunion happen, including finding funding and a TV partner.Are we really debating whether distribution would be a challenge for a project with Daniel Radcliffe And His Tony, the day after somebody paid thousands of dollars for a box of Sondheim’s pencils?LOL. OL. OL.

Oh, and one more thing: Biden is a good president who broadly values the things I value, and I will not have to hold my nose to vote for that guy.As for the rest of the NYC politicians, I’m an independent, so the elections are decided by the time I cast my ballot. But Adams is dreadful, and given a chance, I too would have gone for Maya Wiley.

It’s been a long time since I posted, but this thread is just beyond.Broadway’s challenges are nuanced and complex, and have to do with things like:1. international tourism2. the massive shift to work-from-home3. politically motivated fearmongering about cities with Democratic mayors4. Southern governors who think it’s funny to bus poor immigrants to the most expensive cities in the country, without the ability to work legally in those places…and many other factors.People who demonstrate comp...

FWIW, every Tony voter I have spoken to has raved about "Come From Away." Mostly artists but also a couple producers. I think DEH has a great shot at book, score, lead actor and featured actress, but I'd give the edge to CFA for Best Musical.

Just read a piece about the Met Gala that said Osnes was invited on short notice after Anna Wintour saw her show last week.Sorry, kids, but if that happens while you're trying to promote your show in a busy season, you drop everything and go to the gala. It's one of the most photographed events of the year. Any agent or publicist worth their salt would advise her that someone else can step in and perform one number in a salute to Kelli O'Hara. Although I'm sure she was disappointed that she h...

Food for thought: I haven't seen a lot of shows this year, but I know plenty of Tony voters, and FWIW the show I've heard the most about from them is "Come From Away."

Valentina3 said: "Littleshopofcarrie said: "What about Dove Cameron as Regina George?" Hah! I said that when Hairspray Live happened; with Kristin Chenoweth playing Amy Poehler's character. I know the role is probably too small for Kristin, but they could beef it up. I wonder what Nikki Snelson (who played Brooke Windham in Legally Blonde) is up to these days. She was a hoot on stage!"IIRC, they have combined several of the adult females into one track. Meaning that the actor who plays Ms Nor...

Some thoughts:1. Don't weep too hard for performers in their twenties. They get tons of opportunities. Plus, lots of shows try first to cast people of accurate ages, only to find that slightly older performers are--wait for it--more experienced and often just a little better. See also: that last WSS revival, for which people in their early- to mid-twenties were not able to get seen for months because they were "too old"...and then they couldn't actually find a teenage Tony and hired Matt Cave...

...but *I* was there the night she played Rose, Louise AND Dainty June. Stopped the show with Rose's Turn, the Moo Cow song and Little Lamb.Really added a lot of layers to the Tulsa plotline when Louise had to face that he ran off with...another version of herself. And I enjoyed hearing her sing in two-part harmony on If Momma Was Married.She'll have it down to a one-person show in no time!

Riedel. Yawn.I'm almost as excited at the (in my imagination, at least) possibility that Dave Malloy could replace Groban as I am about seeing the show. Assuming, of course, that he can still sing it; I believe he wrote some new and presumably difficult material for Groban?If the show is good, there's no reason to be certain it will close without Groban.

trpguyy said: "A free public concert in a park on the tip of Long Island is a big deal?"This concert may be happening in a park, but Bay Street Theatre is a big deal. It's not just a random place on Long Island. It's a prestigious institution in the heart of the Hamptons, with an extremely moneyed and influential creative and audience base. If anyone should know better, they should.

It's not garbage IMHO. It's a critique that reads like a thesis. Totally fair for this writer to call out some of the Hamilton incongruities.

QueenAlice said: "There are indeed union mandated pay "bumps" for an after actor they have won a Tony award for that performance." No there aren't. It's not an unusual thing for an agent to negotiate into a contract, but it's not standard Equity language.

PalJoey said: "Rather than create some icky fiction about a talented woman "kicking herself," why not celebrate the fact that in Karen and Renee we have the gift of two remarkably talented women, both of whom happen to be women of color and both of whom have been connected with developing Lin's work AND both of whom have been recognized by the overall theater community with Tony awards?Isn't that a better story? And probably closer to reality."^^^^THIS^^^^ Reminds me of that post a few weeks ...