I feel like it's too easy to assume Kyle is dead. I feel like that's what they want us to think. He's probably in a coma and will wake up on the night of the Tonys with amnesia, just like any other soap opera.
"The writers were SO sure the audience would love everything Jimmy and it has backfired on an epic scale. He took down Karen with him, and I think it is really showing in McPhee's performance. It's almost like she doesn't want to be there anymore. Maybe she had the insight that this storyline wasn't working, but was helpless do anything."
I turned to my daughter and said: Andy Mientus must only be able to sing if he's walking down a street. Interesting requirement.
If he is dead, at least HIS misery is over.
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.
Kyle also sung the lines "Eight Bux for a Tux" and "Got the weed" in the recent CARRIE revival.
"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