Why on earth are ALW and Miramontez wasting the media's time on the initial announcement of a show? The coverage won't be any better than servicing a press release (which they will no doubt still do at 10:01am) or an exclusive to the NYTimes.
Feels like a situation where he wanted to announce it on Good Morning America or Today Show and everyone passed on the pitch.
Given the mostly favorable reviews in London (especially from The New York Times), I am hopeful for the future of this title on Broadway. However, ALW needs to stop treating cast and crew members like dirt. NOW.
Previews will likely begin in February, before a March official opening.
So I guess this means no revolve at the top of Act II?
EDSOSLO858 said: "Given the mostly favorable reviews in London (especially fromThe New York Times), I am hopeful for the future of this title on Broadway. However, ALW needs to stop treating cast and crew members like dirt. NOW.
Previews will likely begin in February, before a March official opening.
So I guess this means no revolve at the top of Act II?
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It's honestly believed here is the UK that the major critics hyped this show as it was the first show to open in the pandemic. The non Newspaper critics were less then enthusiastic. This is not a good show.
Namo i love u but we get it already....you don't like Madonna
Here we go! He's going to be the same way he was with the London production! Seriously! I don't know how anyone would want to work with ALW nowadays! He's nothing but a control freak in my opinion! I've said it before and will repeat it: had he not been so controlling of the show and had a better creative team, I think it would have been a hit somehow! He should just be a composer! Not a producer, not a director, not a designer, JUST a composer. I'm sorry if some of you may disagree, but I have lost all respect for ALW at this moment.
The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only - which is the biggest only - teach you things that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes. -Harold Prince
Think SweatyOracle on TikTok (I know a lot of people discredit him but two of my friends who are well connected with theater insiders say he's 99 percent right ) said Miley Cyrus was rumored to play Cinderella and Colleen Ballinger as one of the stepsisters(she's touring in the spring though ....)
Miley as Cinderella would be among the biggest star casting in the history of modern Broadway. It's so far fetched that I can't even wrap my head around it being more than a pipedream and an obligatory offer/decline.
Plastic Hearts was the most critically successful album of Miley's career and gave her two radio staples in one year. Something she hadn't achieved since 2013. She signed a new record deal with Columbia, and is currently planning her 8th album. I say all that to say, Miley Cyrus is almost certainly not going to play Cinderella on Broadway. I'd bet good money that's one of the fake tips people have been sending to mess with him.
I’m curious to know if the creative and design team will be the same here or if it will be an all new production since Andrew didn’t seem too pleased with the West End show. If he changes the title to Bad Cinderella he deserves everything coming his way.
Dylan Smith4 said: "Here we go! He's going to be the same way he was with the London production! Seriously! I don't know how anyone would want to work with ALW nowadays! He's nothing but a control freak in my opinion! I've said it before and will repeat it: had he not been so controlling of the show and had a better creative team, I think it would have been a hit somehow! He should just be a composer! Not a producer, not a director, not a designer, JUST a composer. I'm sorry if some of you may disagree, but I have lost all respect for ALW at this moment."
songanddanceman2 said: "EDSOSLO858 said: "Given the mostly favorable reviews in London (especially fromThe New York Times), I am hopeful for the future of this title on Broadway. However, ALW needs to stop treating cast and crew members like dirt. NOW.
Previews will likely begin in February, before a March official opening.
So I guess this means no revolve at the top of Act II?
"
It's honestly believed here is the UK that the major critics hyped this show as it was the first show to open in the pandemic. The non Newspaper critics were less then enthusiastic. This is not a good show."
I sat through it and it was a VERY trying 2 hours. I could not bear to sit through it again. The newspaper critics were completely at odds with the rest of the public; as you say, I think they were delighted to review something finally (but also, especially compared with Broadway, there are very few *actual* London critics left -- most of them have been replaced by entertainment reporters whose knowledge is very limited).
Is ALW going to be there in person? If so then I wonder if this will be used to announce something about Phantom (e.g. a nonsensical 'bigger and better' spiel that they tried in London...).
A Spring opening that'll have the show closed by Labor Day...
A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.
I guess it will never happen but I could see the show working off Broadway with a low budget, a lot of cuts and a cult following. Kind of Heathers style. There are some enjoyable moments so I don’t think the entire thing needs to be thrown out and forgotten about. It will probably be slaughtered when it opens in NYC on Broadway.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
I saw a video last night speculating the show will begin before “Phantom” closes, as to not disrupt ALW’s 40+ year streak of having a show playing on Broadway