Ladies and Gentleman....Taye Diggs is your next Hedwig — Page 30

" As others have mentioned, they recouped long along thanks to NPH, and I think I remember someone here saying their nut is in the low 300s so they're at least paying the bills. "

I read 317K plus royalty rights for the creators, so I don't see why suddenly all the gloom and doom from"concerned" fans.

The reality is that since Michael C. Hall every subsequent Hedwig's box office has declined, JCM, Darren and now Taye; it's not rocket science.

Updated On: 8/17/15 at 11:22 PM

"Yup, your comment speaks volumes."

About your inability to read anything I write with any sense of humor? I agree!

"Those not in the cult need not give any opinion."

If she was on BWW, sure. But lots of people on here going to see it and not liking Taye aren't really disproven by some random person we know nothing about who "loved" it. I can get that from following Hedwig on social media and just reading the positive stuff they retweet, too. Here you go, the day I saw Taye, three people walking out ahead of me, all older African-American women who clearly came to see Taye, were like "Could you make any sense out of that ending? I don't know what that was supposed to be all about," etc. So there's another non-cult anecdote for you.

If you want to keep looking for some trajectory into how if you don't know the show, and never saw anyone better, you might actually like Taye, that's fine. But I was able to enjoy Darren after seeing JCM 8X, so I don't think I lack objectivity, either. I enjoyed him just fine. And I wouldn't spend money just to dislike Taye. I'd much prefer to say he was good... if that were true.

God damn Taye Diggs.

Ha! I just snort laughed at that, Tim.

Well I saw the show tonight on a whim - friend had tickets.

i have to say that Taye was doing well and then he brought out emotions in me that I had never felt with the show before: I laughed during WLTR. Laughed loudly. The poor guy did NOT remember the words and just made up his own damn song

BroadwayConcierge said: "ChildofEarth, what parts did he mess up/what did he sing in their places?

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He had the right words...but they weren't in the right order most of the time? One that stuck out to me was "and there's no mystical...nothing in the sky but air."

he he had the first few lines right and then something dropped. He really was doing fairly well all show until that moment.

My friend just texted me - he also sang something along the lines of "and now your feet are on the ground and if you hear some sweet sound, all the lost things can be found."

Updated On: 8/20/15 at 01:55 AM

UGH - are you kidding me?! Come on, Taye. It's like he doesn't even care!!!

I am so sad he is going to be the one closing this show.

I saw the show today. This was my second time seeing the show after seeing Neil Patrick Harris last year. Aye Diggs is delivering a pretty rough and uneven performance IMO. I still enjoyed the show, but I did not find him to be particularly engaging, and a lot of the jokes fell flat. The last two songs were GREAT though, so at least he ended the show on a high note. I still think that this show has one of the best sound and lighting designs on Broadway.

We saw the matinee on Sunday. Our first matinee and first time with Taye. And we were disappointed with his performance. Not his singing, that was great, but his "dancing" seemed a whole lot more like sleepwalking to us. And the blown lines STILL, after 2 months?

Lots of audience interaction near us, I thought he'd lick my glasses (was in Row B, on the aisle), but he reached in to the row to get someone else's. And a bad sound cue on the final "open the door to hear Tommy", when Tommy went silent a solid 2 seconds before the door slammed shut.

Rebecca Naomi Jones was great, first time we've seen her. I thought she was too pretty as Itzhak, but she played the role extraordinarily.

Taye was on Girl on Guy podcast with Aisha Tyler

He spoke in depth about why he took the role of Hedwig, and how he felt he performed

Interesting listen!

http://www.girlonguy.net/podcast/girl-on-guy-211-taye-diggs/