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Luscious said: "Demand For Broadway’s ‘Parade’ With Ben Platt Temporarily Crashes Ticketing Site


I mean this proves that it was just a giant press stunt i think. They put it on sale at the same time as Broadway week knowing it would crash the system (i fully understand that telecharge has it's issues) but like if you take a look at the performances for parade... it's just a flat out lie.

Deadline was also one of the first to post the original announcement so they probably had an embargoed release and then did this follow up piece.

You all are so wise and all-knowing. I'm in awe. Of course! Telecharge wanted their website to crash! Why wouldn't they? Makes perfect sense.

Updated On: 1/11/23 at 11:50 PM

The whole marketing of this is bizarre. This is a somber heavy piece with maybe the most depressing synopsis for any broadway show ever and they’re really treating it like “BEN PLATT IS BACK!”

Very weird

rattleNwoolypenguin said: "The whole marketing of this is bizarre. This is a somber heavy piece with maybe the most depressing synopsis for any broadway show ever and they’re really treating it like “BEN PLATT IS BACK!”

Very weird"

Well, BEN PLATT IS BACK probably sells more tickets than "come see a somber heavy piece with maybe the most depressing synopsis ever" lol, but I get your drift.

I think what I'd say about Ben Platt is in the right part (i.e. Dear Evan Hansen and hopefully Parade, too) he has the right balance between polish and unhinged to make you feel like he is truly inhabiting the character rather than playing the part (see also, Alice Ripley in next to normal). I agree there are probably many other much more talented Broadway performers on paper that could probably act, sing and dance Platt off the stage. And yet, sometimes that isn't enough - you need that special something, that unique X factor that takes you from being a polished cog in a machine to a star. This is exactly my problem with Annaleigh Ashford - she is a polished, talented performer but didn't bring that X factor to Sunday that I thought Bernadette had (hoping Sweeney might change that).

Updated On: 1/15/23 at 10:08 AM

BETTY22 said: "Just watchedBertie Carve performance at the Tony awards.

What an amazing talent! Gone too soon."

You mean Brent Carver, who was indeed amazing and gone too soon. Bertie Carvel is thankfully still alive, but you did give me a good enough scare that I had to check.

JasonC3 said: "^. You first said the OP's comment perfectly encapsulates "the sort of unhinged rage" and "foaming-at-the-mouth vitriol" often directed at Platt.

That's far beyond your recent comment referring to it as "all a bit much," something I think many, including myself, could agree with more readily."

You're welcome to agree with all or some of what I've said... there is an outrage at Ben Platt and Beanie Feldstein on these boards that is over-the-top and unhinged. I can't think of any other Bway performers that generate such contempt- and everytime someone offers an explanation they tell on themselves (if they are nepo babies, whats Liza Minelli? whats John David Washington? whats Charlotte D'Amboise?)

Does that mean everyone has to LIKE them, or pay to see them, of course not, and people are free to have unhinged views about whatever they want, as much as I'm free to call em out.

And if you think wishing for The Lynching of Evan Hansen doesnt perfectly encapsulate the abnormal hostility I'm referring to here, cool, you do you. I still can't believe it was typed, posted, defended- and now you're clarifying that its "a bit much" but you wouldnt go so far as to call it "unhinged rage." The Lynching of Evan Hansen and its *my* characterization of it that was too much. Gotcha.

Chase Miller said: "there is an outrage at Ben Platt and Beanie Feldstein on these boards that is over-the-top and unhinged.



I think people just don't like nepotism."

I mean, I literally addressed that directly. Can you explain why they dont seem to mind it when it applies to the dozens of other examples? I'm scratching my head and I just can't seem to remember when anyone suggested they wanted to see some lynching in the Piano Lesson...

Chase Miller said: "there is an outrage at Ben Platt and Beanie Feldstein on these boards that is over-the-top and unhinged.



I think people just don't like nepotism."



Tell that to all of the Liza queens!

PipingHotPiccolo said: "JasonC3 said: "^. You first said the OP's comment perfectly encapsulates "the sort of unhinged rage" and "foaming-at-the-mouth vitriol" often directed at Platt.

That's far beyond your recent comment referring to it as "all a bit much," something I think many, including myself, could agree with more readily."

You're welcome to agree with all or some of what I've said... there is an outrage at Ben Platt and Beanie Feldstein on these boards that is over-the-top and unhinged. I can't think of any other Bway performers that generate such contempt- and everytime someone offers an explanation they tell on themselves (if they are nepo babies, whats Liza Minelli? whats John David Washington? whats Charlotte D'Amboise?)

Does that mean everyone has to LIKE them, or pay to see them, of course not, and people are free to have unhinged views about whatever they want, as much as I'm free to call em out.

And if you think wishing for The Lynching of Evan Hansen doesnt perfectly encapsulate the abnormal hostility I'm referring to here, cool, you do you. I still can't believe it was typed, posted, defended- and now you're clarifying that its "a bit much" but you wouldnt go so far as to call it "unhinged rage." The Lynching of Evan Hansen and its *my* characterization of it that was too much. Gotcha."

I did not clarify or say it was "a bit much." You did in your second post responding to the original poster. You're clearly more invested in this issue than I ever will be. Good on you. But for me, I'm out.

Updated On: 1/16/23 at 01:04 PM

binau said: "Was ‘Big News’ in the Encores! Concert?"

No, just "Real Big News."

JSquared2 said: "Chase Miller said: "there is an outrage at Ben Platt and Beanie Feldstein on these boards that is over-the-top and unhinged.



I think people just don't like nepotism."

Tell that to all of the Liza queens!"

It's the fact that Ben's dad is a giant producer who makes sure HE's the one cast...it's the most in your face nepotism. That's what people don't like is he oozes entitlement.

Updated On: 1/16/23 at 09:19 PM