SQUARE ONE on Broadway Announcement Hoax- Page 4

[JSquared2]

Posted: 12/15/22 at 12:32pm

Dylan Smith4 said: "BroadwayNYC2 said: "I get we were excited, but did y’all really think this was an official announcement :-/"

I was actually and I am so furious that someone had the nerve to disrespect Sondheim like this."

 

[Kad]

Posted: 12/15/22 at 12:36pm

JSquared2 said: "Y'all need to lighten the **ck up...



In other news, did y'all know that the word gullible isn't included in the latest Oxford English Dictionary? Check it out for yourselves and see!"

 

What a shock, JSquared2 taking an opportunity to condescend to everybody.

 

[JasonC3]

Posted: 12/15/22 at 12:39pm

Tag said: "100% read this from the Broadwayworld article and thought the editorial team perpetrated the hoax.

"The announcement has been confirmed to be a hoax by BroadwayWorld's editorial team.""

Yes lol.  Makes me fondly recall my English teachers hellbent on eliminating all passive voice.  It is so easy to do: BroadwayWorld's editorial term has confirmed the announcement is a hoax.

[ACL2006]

Posted: 12/15/22 at 2:06pm

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

[TotallyEffed]

Posted: 12/15/22 at 2:11pm

ACL2006 said: "I mean, BWW only gets their news sources from what we post here, correct?"

 

LOL

[n2nbaby]

Posted: 12/15/22 at 2:11pm

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*

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 12/15/22 at 2:27pm

Yeah, sorry I just couldn't help myself. It had to be done, you Sondheimites were getting on my last damn nerve. 

 

...just kidding! 

[KJisgroovy]

Posted: 12/15/22 at 2:30pm

"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? 

[SouthernCakes]

Posted: 12/15/22 at 2:31pm

I mean, hey, I got got. 
 

And I’ve got to hand it to them for reaching new levels of petty. 

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 12/15/22 at 2:39pm

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

[KJisgroovy]

Posted: 12/15/22 at 2:41pm

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. 

[SouthernCakes]

Posted: 12/15/22 at 2:47pm

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

[Jesse St. James]

Posted: 12/15/22 at 2:52pm

whats hilarious is that the sweaty guy is STILL trying to convince people that his "sources" are right that Square One is coming to broadway. I love that he got called out because just yesterday he was bragging about how he got the exclusive before the announcement. 

[Jesse St. James]

Posted: 12/15/22 at 2:57pm

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. 

[halfhourcheckwithmerman]

Posted: 12/15/22 at 3:02pm

This whole situation just sucks. 

And I'm so ashamed to admit it, but part of me is still holding out hope that there's a real announcement coming around the corner for this show. I know, I know, I know...

Ugh. 

[DaveyG]

Posted: 12/15/22 at 3:05pm

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. 

[KitKatBoy24]

Posted: 12/15/22 at 3:23pm

I’ll admit that I didn’t know who this Sweaty person was until today, but I can already conclude that we should all stop giving them and their platforms any attention.

Anyways, perhaps someday we’ll actually get a production of Square One and maybe all this will lead to an actual statement about the status of the material from proper sources. 

[jkcohen626]

Posted: 12/15/22 at 3:36pm

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. 

[Kad]

Posted: 12/15/22 at 4:00pm

Realistically, if this show were ever going to happen, it would not open cold on Broadway. It was unfinished, but we do not really know how unfinished. I certainly hope it’s presented in some form someday, but a Broadway production just doesn’t seem like the most beneficial route to take, at least for its premiere. 

[DaveyG]

Posted: 12/15/22 at 5:20pm

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. 

[Georgeanddot2]

Posted: 12/15/22 at 5:27pm

I think there was some truth to the mess that occurred this morning.

I was told by a reliable source that this show is in development with a creative team and is aiming for a Broadway opening "soon." I think this is true.  It's the Twitter account that's fake.

[g.d.e.l.g.i.]

Posted: 12/15/22 at 5:44pm

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.)

[BroadwayNYC2]

Posted: 12/15/22 at 5:53pm

The reactions to this are a little extreme…calling the “evil” or “disrespectful to the legacy of Sondheim” is funnier than this hoax ever was 

[jkcohen626]

Posted: 12/15/22 at 6:06pm

g.d.e.l.g.i., that is fascinating!!! 

[JasonC3]

Posted: 12/15/22 at 6:08pm

At this point, I'd be thrilled to overpay for some of Sondheim's favorite artists doing a concert version of his unstaged songs.