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#75REDWOOD Previews
Posted: 1/30/25 at 3:08pm
Perhaps with Idina’s selling power they can eke out a solid 525,600-minute run.
Well, I’ll be. That bird really did it.
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#77REDWOOD Previews
Posted: 2/1/25 at 10:08am
This afternoon’s performance has been cancelled due to an illness in the company.
GottaGetAGimmick420
Leading Actor Joined: 12/9/23
#78REDWOOD Previews
Posted: 2/1/25 at 10:22amooop
I'm just here so I don't get fined
Audra Gypsy show watch count: 2
Dream Rose Replacements: Sheryl Lee Ralph
#79REDWOOD Previews
Posted: 2/1/25 at 12:24pm
WiCkEDrOcKS said: "This afternoon’s performance has been cancelled due to an illness in the company."
People that saw the show last night said Idina sounded sick.
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.
#80REDWOOD Previews
Posted: 2/1/25 at 2:15pm
Between Audra, Megan, Jennifer, and now Idina, it sounds like the category this season is “DIVA DOWN!”
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#81REDWOOD Previews
Posted: 2/1/25 at 2:37pm
quizking101 said: "Between Audra, Megan, Jennifer, and now Idina, it sounds like the category this season is “DIVA DOWN!”
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Nicole holding strong
#82REDWOOD Previews
Posted: 2/1/25 at 5:24pm
Idina is out for the 8pm performance tonight. Show is still happening.
#83REDWOOD Previews
Posted: 2/1/25 at 5:48pm
Famebroadway2 said: "Idina is out for the 8pm performance tonight. Show is still happening."
Looking forward to hearing reports on Jessica's Jesse debut!
Well, I’ll be. That bird really did it.
#84REDWOOD Previews
Posted: 2/1/25 at 5:48pm
EDSOSLO858 said: "Famebroadway2 said: "Idina is out for the 8pm performance tonight. Show is still happening."
Looking forward to hearing reports on Jessica's Jesse debut!"
Happy for Jessica. Nothing on the show's website or social media about Idina being out. Were ticket holders contacted?
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.
#86REDWOOD Previews
Posted: 2/1/25 at 7:16pm
box office has been informing ticket holders that Idina is out tonight and Jessica Phillips is on.
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.
MezzA101
Broadway Star Joined: 3/29/23
#87REDWOOD Previews
Posted: 2/2/25 at 6:53am
Idina Menzel Reflects on ‘Conflict That I Have in Myself’ (Exclusive) - Parade
https://parade.com/celebrities/idina-menzel-redwood-return-to-broadway-interview-exclusive
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#89REDWOOD Previews
Posted: 2/2/25 at 9:22am
Jessica's IG stories are filled with clips from her bows. Meanwhile, nothing on Redwood's page
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.
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#90REDWOOD Previews
Posted: 2/2/25 at 9:41am
ACL2006 said: "Jessica's IG stories are filled with clips from her bows. Meanwhile, nothing on Redwood's page"
#91REDWOOD Previews
Posted: 2/2/25 at 10:10am
Wow any word on how she went?
"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
GottaGetAGimmick420
Leading Actor Joined: 12/9/23
#92REDWOOD Previews
Posted: 2/2/25 at 10:59am
I also thought it was crazy that Redwood is being so mum about it, yet other shows (like Death Becomes Her) actually celebrate their standbys and the hard work they do.....
I'm just here so I don't get fined
Audra Gypsy show watch count: 2
Dream Rose Replacements: Sheryl Lee Ralph
#93REDWOOD Previews
Posted: 2/2/25 at 11:04am
I always wanted to see Jessica as Diana in NTN but never could make it work. If I like Redwood with Idina I’ll have to go back to see Jessica.
#94REDWOOD Previews
Posted: 2/2/25 at 11:10am
I'd love to see Jessica Phillips, but I honestly just can't imagine sitting through this again.
"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "
#95REDWOOD Previews
Posted: 2/2/25 at 12:10pm
bwayphreak234 said: "I'd love to see Jessica Phillips, but I honestly just can't imagine sitting through this again."
Idina is out again today.
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.
#96REDWOOD Previews
Posted: 2/2/25 at 1:53pm
GottaGetAGimmick420 said: "I also thought it was crazy that Redwood is being so mum about it, yet other shows (like Death Becomes Her) actually celebrate their standbys and the hard work they do....."
Maybe because Death Becomes Her is selling itself mostly on its title and property name recognition versus Redwood which is just basically Idina Menzel’s Return to Broadway.
#98REDWOOD Previews
Posted: 2/2/25 at 2:30pm
WldKingdomHM said: "quizking101 said: "Between Audra, Megan, Jennifer, and now Idina, it sounds like the category this season is “DIVA DOWN!”
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Nicole holding strong"
If Nicole is out next week, it's your fault.
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.
getatme
Leading Actor Joined: 6/14/11
#99REDWOOD Previews
Posted: 2/3/25 at 12:18am
I got a great ticket for Jessica's debut last night at a very steep discount.
Thought she was pretty excellent. If I had not known it was her first time on, I don't know if I would have believed it. There were maybe a couple times she jumped in to say a line a beat early but otherwise was pretty note perfect and seemed totally and completely at ease. She is a consummate professional and I thought she delivered a very impressive and deeply felt performance -- or as deep as the material will allow anyone to go.
The score sits in a space in her voice where really and truly she sounds almost exactly like Idina at her absolute peak of vocal health. Likely an intentional choice.
For all the good of Jessica's performance, the show itself is, to me, the definition of middle of the road.
Firstly, they should stop saying it's 1:45 or 1:50. It is solidly 2 hours. And that's fine. Just tell people that. It doesn't really feel that long aside from a 20 minute stretch or so when the main character starts sleeping on a platform in the tree.
Musically I found it pretty uninspired and uninteresting. I was forgetting songs as they were happening (even know I can only sing "I can see iiiiiit" which I think is mostly because it's used in the commercial), and nothing really felt like it surpassed anything more than decent. There is a song Jesse (Idina/Jessica's role) sings early on about stars that was lovely in the moment, and Khaila Wilcoxon's character has a song about the life/development of a redwood tree that also stuck out to me at the time but now I could not tell you a single thing about it. It never truly veers into outright bad -- though a rap song performed by Zach Piser and De'Adre Aziza's characters comes close -- but it's also never as good as it needs to be. It is mostly just pleasant. Even Piser's song near the end of the show musically and lyrically had some of the cringiest moments for me when it should be packing an emotional wallop. The show also never met a tree metaphor it didn't glom onto and hold onto for dear life.
Interestingly, I found that a bunch of the material had almost one-to-one matches in tone/meaning to If/Then. Jesse has a song that basically is a lesser rehash of "Learn to Live Without," Piser's last song is basically "Always Starting Over." A rare time I find If/Then to be the better version of anything.
The show is largely about grief and living through/beyond it. But I don't think it ever goes deep enough in any direction for any character to get you to truly care. The wife character is hugely under-developed and might actually leave more of an impact if she was completely un-seen or even just played by Khaila Wilcoxon/the Becca character as there is a sort of recurring theme of Jesse thinking she's seeing someone from her past in the present day. Piser's role is pretty thankless. Park does solid work, he is a dependable actor. Wilcoxon I thought was a standout trying to do the most she could with the material and she has a real presence and gravitas to her, but the material doesn't really support her in any noticeable way. Still, I thought she acquitted herself well.
The direction didn't really wow me at all. The climbing is cool, the tree projections are presented in such high definition that they almost feel like AI or too realistic to be natural (which of course they aren't, but in a show about nature it seemed odd). Any projection that isn't part of the tree was cheesy and looked incredibly silly.
It sounds like I hated it, but I really didn't. It was easy enough to sit through and mostly entertaining. But I left feeling like it was really a shrug of a show with some good performances keeping it alive. I'm interested in going back to see Idina because I know it's a bit of a passion project for her. I can't imagine it being hugely improved but it's always nice to see the star in the star vehicle, even though I really did think Jessica Phillips was quite excellent.
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