"From what I've seen and heard from this show it looks like a train wreck anyway."

How much has been seen or heard of this yet? Aside from one song on the Tonys not sung by anyone in the show... and, according to Riedel, a table read. I know people want to call things early, but shouldn't we let them have one rehearsal first?

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Updated On: 6/13/14 at 01:08 PM

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Michael Riedel: Walking The Plank In Finding Neverland
Posted: 6/13/14 at 01:11pm

I hate that Riedel is trying to say that Gentleman's Guide only won because it had more producers (in his previous article below). I find GG to be a superior show to Beautiful in so many ways, and it deserved its win.

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Updated On: 6/13/14 at 01:11 PM

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Michael Riedel: Walking The Plank In Finding Neverland
Posted: 6/13/14 at 01:16pm

Considering what they had to cut from the broadcast in order to accommodate Weinstein, and considering he had the gall to sack Frankel and Korie, for all I care, Riedel can have at it.

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Michael Riedel: Walking The Plank In Finding Neverland
Posted: 6/13/14 at 01:24pm

They previewed a couple of songs from the original version awhile ago.

I'm not sure if they are still in the show since Harvey fired Frankel and Korie.

The Barlow songs I've heard are pretty sub-par.

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Michael Riedel: Walking The Plank In Finding Neverland
Posted: 6/13/14 at 01:26pm

"Considering what they had to cut from the broadcast in order to accommodate Weinstein"

What did they have to cut?

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Michael Riedel: Walking The Plank In Finding Neverland
Posted: 6/13/14 at 01:30pm

I liked the fact they had more musical numbers... that being said I was reaslly upset they didn't let Audra perform.

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Michael Riedel: Walking The Plank In Finding Neverland
Posted: 6/13/14 at 01:35pm

Regarding Neverland, as my aunt Essie would say "What's to like?"

No good can possibly come from using this vast wasteland of error and deliberate deceit. You should get off of it and warn others away. You should make sure your children and grandchildren know what a corrupt and morally bankrupt institution it truly is.

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Michael Riedel: Walking The Plank In Finding Neverland
Posted: 6/13/14 at 01:36pm

"I was reaslly upset they didn't let Audra perform."

Did her show offer to pay for her to perform a number from Lady Day, and they were turned down?

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Michael Riedel: Walking The Plank In Finding Neverland
Posted: 6/13/14 at 01:52pm

How could Roger Bart "overstep the mark"? Unless he was unprofessional and personally abusive- which I found very hard to believe- then his honest candid judgments ought to have been welcomed or at least acknowledged. You can disagree with someone without firing them.

So was he abusive or did they just not want to hear what he had to say?

If there was a bit more aerial work, I'd swear this was turning into Spiderman 2.

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Michael Riedel: Walking The Plank In Finding Neverland
Posted: 6/13/14 at 01:55pm

I saw the show in London and while it has numerous problems, the score was the weakest link. I'm glad they are starting over.

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Michael Riedel: Walking The Plank In Finding Neverland
Posted: 6/13/14 at 02:13pm

Riedel's smelling blood in the water.

It'd be nicer if he targeted Paulus for using a non-profit theatre as an out-of-town tryout center.

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Michael Riedel: Walking The Plank In Finding Neverland
Posted: 6/13/14 at 02:15pm

That Smee jab was hilarious.

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Michael Riedel: Walking The Plank In Finding Neverland
Posted: 6/13/14 at 02:28pm

Is this her first attempt at a new musical? I haven't been too impressed with her directing. Curious to see what she brings to the table. I feel like her last two hits were all based on this spectacle idea, with the actual directing of scenes to be kind of lackluster.

Anyone see her Cirque show?

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Michael Riedel: Walking The Plank In Finding Neverland
Posted: 6/13/14 at 03:10pm

Roger Bart has never struck me as the boisterous, abusive, over the line type. Wonder if/when we will get the full story behind his departure.

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Michael Riedel: Walking The Plank In Finding Neverland
Posted: 6/13/14 at 03:30pm

Riedel is such a creep.

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Michael Riedel: Walking The Plank In Finding Neverland
Posted: 6/13/14 at 03:31pm

^^^ Agreed. Just reading this article annoyed me.

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Michael Riedel: Walking The Plank In Finding Neverland
Posted: 6/13/14 at 04:08pm

Oh for ****'s sake….

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Michael Riedel: Walking The Plank In Finding Neverland
Posted: 6/13/14 at 04:29pm

Is this her first attempt at a new musical?

She also directed The Donkey Show, The Karaoke Show and Eli's Comin.

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