#1
Posted: 4/22/26 at 2:53pm
Title says it all -- think it's 27/28 season though
I'm just here so I don't get fined
Scott Rudin reviving 42nd Street
#2
Posted: 4/22/26 at 2:57pm
Ya either got it, or ya ain't and well...
#3
Posted: 4/22/26 at 7:45pm
And when it comes to willingness to abuse, boys, he's got it!
#5
Posted: 4/22/26 at 8:42pm
Just the thought of Sutton Foster as Dorothy Brock has me absolutely twitching. I love 42ND STREET and was literally talking to someone two days ago about how it needs to be revived.
Updated On: 4/22/26 at 08:42 PM
#6
Posted: 4/22/26 at 8:55pm
joevitus said: "And when it comes to willingnessto abuse, boys, he's got it!"
You are so boring.
#7
Posted: 4/22/26 at 9:07pm
MysteriousLady said: "Is Sabrina still attached?"
I need this to happen so badly
#8
Posted: 4/22/26 at 10:30pm
I went to see Fallen Angels today and arrived a bit early so walked down 42nd looking for a quick lunch. That street between 7th and 8th is so depressing. It felt like 50% of the storefronts were still vacant. So when I saw this thread, I thought that maybe Rudin was going to help revitalize that strip. Oh well. My mistake. Thankfully I found Schnippers.
#9
Posted: 4/22/26 at 10:32pm
George in DC said: "joevitus said: "And when it comes to willingnessto abuse, boys, he's got it!"
You are so boring.
"
I bet Joan Crawford said that to people often. Likely Weinstein, too.
Updated On: 4/22/26 at 10:32 PM
#10
Posted: 4/22/26 at 11:31pm
Pity it’s not Crazy For You
Well I didn't want to get into it, but he's a Satanist.
Every full moon he sacrifices 4 puppies to the Dark Lord and smears their blood on his paino.
This should help you understand the score for Wicked a little bit more.
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#11
Posted: 4/22/26 at 11:48pm
I feel like this show won’t look anything like previous productions. A show this size would cost too much to mount in today’s climate. The sets are huge and the cast is even bigger. All the costumes and staff… 42nd St is not a cheap show to produce. Although with a star or two they could probably get enough backing.
#12
Posted: 4/23/26 at 12:08am
This is the show Ethan Coen is involved with, right?
My father (AIDS)
My sister (AIDS)
My uncle and my cousin and her best friend (AIDS, AIDS, AIDS)
The gays and the straights
And the white and the spades
#13
Posted: 4/23/26 at 11:35am
Famebroadway2 said: "I feel like this show won’t look anything like previous productions. A show this size would cost too much to mount in today’s climate. The sets are huge and the cast is even bigger. All the costumes and staff… 42nd St is not a cheap show to produce. Although with a star or two they could probably get enough backing."
Rudin would be able to get the backing, but I agree that it would have to be scaled way back from the previous revival to have any chance of recouping. That one ran for almost four years and failed to recoup, and that was at a time when a show that size could keep running pre-recoupment on weeks that were barely clearing 50% capacity. There's no way for a show that size to run on less than 80% capacity with a crazy high average ticket price to be able to succeed
#14
Posted: 4/23/26 at 2:10pm
I was told last week that Sarah Jessica will be playing Dorothy Brock
#15
Posted: 4/23/26 at 8:27pm
I would be really excited for this. I'm curious the names that Rudin would get. I'm certain it would be an "event"
#16
Posted: 4/23/26 at 8:39pm
I've heard this is going to have a brand new script. There are exactly two great jokes in the existing one (Julian being too ambitious in his big solo, and having one of his tenors step in for him to sing the climactic high note; and Anytime Annie's name implying she's a slut, only to later reveal she got it because she'll help anybody, any time). I hope they keep those, but I've got no attachment to the rest of it.
Also: I saw a fantastic high school production a few years ago that changed nothing but a few pronouns, and made Julian Marsh into Julia Marsh. They played the whole show with the subtext that Julia, a semi-out lesbian director in the 1930s Dietrich fashion, recognizes that Peggy is brilliant, but that she's also queer, and made them more of a kindred spirits thing than "the older director picks up the young actress." It made the ending when Peggy goes with Julian instead of her age-appropriate colleagues play in a very tender way.
#17
Posted: 4/23/26 at 9:16pm
Do you mean he is making West 42nd Street look better with new/updated theaters, or he is remounting a revised production of the Broadway musical called "42nd Street"?
#18
Posted: 4/23/26 at 10:05pm
The latter. Revival of the Broadway musical "42nd Street," rumored to have a new book (potentially by Ethan Coen) and at one point ALSO rumored to be a star vehicle for Sabrina Carpenter.
#19
Posted: 4/23/26 at 10:42pm
They have to get rid of Julian kissing Peggy right?
#20
Posted: 4/24/26 at 7:47pm
barcelona20 said: "They have to get rid of Julian kissing Peggy right?"
Just "out of hand", w/o knowing who's cast as Julian and Peggy, or what ages will be assigned for each character?
I would have thought that before any mention of Julian kissing Peggy, there would have been at least one post in protest that Rudin is not only still working on Broadway, but unabashedly has plans for his future there. 
Updated On: 4/24/26 at 07:47 PM
#21
Posted: 4/25/26 at 12:32am
Theatrefanboy1 said: "I would be really excited for this. I'm curious the names that Rudin would get. I'm certain it would be an "event""
to those who have said Sabrina Carpenter I just heard that’s no longer the case, they’re casting a complete unknown to play Sawyer. However, I’ve heard Oscar Isaac is attached to play Julian. It’s gonna take the St. James next spring
Updated On: 4/25/26 at 12:32 AM
#22
Posted: 4/25/26 at 1:43am
Who is directing/choreographing? Odd that Sweaty would cite the male star, the book adapter, and the producer, but not the director.
#23
Posted: 4/25/26 at 9:16am
ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "Who is directing/choreographing? Odd that Sweaty would cite the male star, the book adapter, and the producer, but not the director."
To be honest, I wouldn't be surprised if somebody like Jerry Zaks or Jack O'Brien ends up doing it.
#24
Posted: 4/25/26 at 10:13am
So, it's a Scott Rudin revival of 42nd Street starring Sarah Jessica Parker, Oscar Isaac, and Sabrina Carpenter with a new book by Ethan Coen.
Y'all had some fever dreams before, but this one takes the cake.
Also: I'm sat.
#25
Posted: 4/25/26 at 10:28am
MysteriousLady: So, it's a Scott Rudin revival of 42nd Street starring Sarah Jessica Parker, Oscar Isaac, and Sabrina Carpenter with a new book by Ethan Coen.
Y'all had some fever dreams before, but this one takes the cake.
Also: I'm sat.
And don’t forget that Jerry Zaks or Jack O’Brien are directing.
Updated On: 4/25/26 at 10:28 AM
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