DROWSY WILL TAKE THE MARQUIS! — Page 4

Just you wait to see Sutton in her big number. It's one of the most inventive and original pieces of musical business you're ever likely to experience. And it's one of those numbers that keeps topping itself in unexpected ways.

WIT!! When was the last time you heard and saw genuine wit on stage?

saw the show in LA.....can't wait to see it in NYC! beth leavel could read the phone book and make it funny! she's a gem in this show. sutton's great, but don't look for a huge star turn here....this is certainly an ensemble show! her big number is great, but don't expect another millie.

this show is so clever and cute. i think audiences will fall in love with it. i haven't laughed so hard in a show in a long time!

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Well, the Tonys are officially swept.

Sorry, new musicals this season, we have a winner.

I'm so excited! I saw this show in LA and loved it! Good times at the theatre. Congrats Drowsy! Much love and success to the cast and crew! :)

~Rosalynn

I'll also say it was a wonderful show. My friend turned to me in the middle of it and said "It can't be this good!?"

I think all the Tony talk is premature. It might pan out, it might not. But it's worth remembering that the Tonys no longer have ANY grounding in artistic merit and are all about the business and the money. And that's where Chaperone may come unstuck.

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This is great news! I've heard such good things...I'm looking forward to seeing this!

>>Maybe I'm missing something, but does Drowsy really have enough widespread/commercial appeal to warrant as large a space as the cursed Marquis? As far as I understand it from my colleagues on the west side, this is more of a show for showpeople -- people who know broadway, like most of us on this board, but certainly not the masses that a large scale show needs to stay alive.

You know, I really don't care (not to sound disrespectful to you). As they say, that's not my problem. One of the biggest problems we have with Broadway is the mindset of producers hedging their bets by worrying whether something is commercial or not. That's why we end up with such sick, pathetic junk.

I want producers who will stage a show because they themselves LOVE THE SHOW. I finally had the privilege of meeting Michael Richie who runs the LA theatre venue where it played and I can tell you this man LOVES MUSICAL THEATRE. He's not an accountant wonk, a lawyer who wants to be in show biz or a guy who's second guessing himself to figure "what the public wants." He is a veteran of the Surflight Summer Theatre where he sat at the feet of Joe Hayes and learned musicals by sweeping floors and apprenticing.

I honestly do not remember the last time I laughed so hard and so long at a show. And best of all, when I went to see it a second time, I laughed even harder. Multiple viewings only increased my antipation for what was about to appear on stage. There are so many delights in this show, you honestly cannot get them all from one visit.

Wow - guess I'm going to have to get tickets to this!

Loved Sutton in her Joe's Pub show recently....

Just go see it! :)

I heart steveshack!

I plan on getting tickets the day they go on sale.

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ummmmmmmmmm, you're right!

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