SQUARE ONE on Broadway Announcement Hoax — Page 4

I mean, BWW only gets their news sources from what we post here, correct?

This is kind of hilarious. Clearly whoever did this, did so to make Sweaty Ballsack look like an ass because “everyone confirmed it to him.” And they did so.


I am super bummed, do NOT get me wrong - but it’s kind of genius. *shrug*

"Clearly whoever did this, did so to make Sweaty Ballsack look like an ass... it’s kind of genius."

It could have been... but the execution is pretty poor. "Sweaty Oracle LIED" I mean. I feel like we could have been a lot wittier and a lot more creative than that. Also, in this instance, he just reported what he was told. That makes him gullible and an idiot... but not a liar?

Updated On: 12/16/22 at 02:39 PM

Y’all lost me. There’s some who is sweaty and conned people out of money by being a Broadway gossip personality?

KJisgroovy said: "Oh don't get me wrong... He is UNQUESTIONABLY a liar. Haha. I just mean. This stunt. He didn't lie? They did. Even "Sweaty Oracle is a dumb idiot" woulda been better."

the way he presents the information as a fact rather than a blind item is what bothers me. and now he is backtracking after being called out. hope nobody listens to his BS anymore.

Let's not forget that Rolling Stone Magazine gave this guy a platform and called him the "Deux Moi of Broadway". That's what is dangerous to me.

I don't know, maybe I'm an idiot, but I kinda think that the person who did this account and the people giving Sweaty Oracle info are different people.

The account has existed since July, before Sweaty Oracle existed. I kinda think it was someone who grabbed the account then to store it away for future mischief and decided now was the right time to use it because Sweaty Oracle has been talking about this show for the past few weeks.

Is it in such active development that it might be on Broadway in less than a year? I don't know. Is there any way that there aren't people thinking about what a future for it might look like? Not a chance.

DaveyG said: "Let's not forget that Rolling Stone Magazine gave this guy a platform and called him the "Deux Moi of Broadway". That's what is dangerous to me."

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/arts/nathan-lane-bernadette-peters-sondheim-square-one-broadway-1235282694/

The Hollywood Reporter wrote about this nonsense. The world is mad.

I'll second that, Georgeanddot2. Steve was working on several projects when he passed, and I strongly suspect Square One was never the title of the Buñuel one, to begin with. It just got caught in all the confusion.

Here's why I think so. A published author on one of his frequent creative collaborators very publicly, and confidently, said when he announced Square One on Colbert that it was not the Buñuel piece, and retracted that when, IIRC, the NY Times seemingly confirmed that it was. She privately confided in me, when I asked about that whole mishegas, that she was aware of several projects he was working on at the time, and consequently, that was the source of the confusion. (I think I even remember defending her on here at the time as well when people were beating her with the same stick on display in this thread.)

After this whole public debacle, I was reminded of that conversation, and I got to thinking. When you look at every public statement since his death, a possibility does seem to emerge: Nathan Lane was pretty clear that as of the reading they hadn't decided on a title and only assumed Square One was Sondheim's name for it, which everyone bought with no reason to think differently. As for the Times reporter, they could have been confused, or even Steve himself. (He was 91. It can happen.) And let's not forget that the Buñuel piece was not the first he worked on with David Ives, nor was Ives the only person to touch it. (It was reliably reported at one point that Jeremy Sams was working on the book for something with him as well, which I suspect was a variant of the Buñuel piece since he seemed to know a lyric from it.)

Thus, the ability of representatives to confidently say that Square One is not coming to Broadway... a statement which does not preclude the possibility that the Buñuel one is. (And there is enough fire amid all of the smoke right now for me to believe that is indeed the case.)

g.d.e.l.g.i., that is fascinating!!!