Just watched the Facebook Live, so for anyone interested:
Richard H. Blake thanked the cast, crew and creative team. Then he introduced "the man whose story we get to tell every night," Chazz Palminteri.
CP thanked Menken, Slater, De Niro, Zaks and Trujillo (who was in the audience- none of the others were there). He said 50 years ago on the stoop he never thought this would happen. He dedicated the show to Sonny ("who never got to see me make someth
Glenda Jackson's "A" spinning a yarn about receiving a bracelet from her naked lover that was hanging on his erect penis was worth the price of admission alone."
bfreak said: "Even though the cast is great, I believe there will be discounts. Even though the combination of the three may prove to sell out, Daniel Radcliffe didn't sell out Cripple of Inishmaan and there were plenty of discounts available. And outside of a few exceptions (Three Tall Women), straight plays haven't been selling out lately. Even Denzel Washington didn't sell out Iceman Cometh, whereas four years ago you couldn't get a ticket at all to Raisin in the S
It doesn't happen often, but for me the most recent examples are NPH beating Jefferson Mays' bravura comic performance in Gentleman's Guide and James Corden beating Phillip Seymour Hoffman(who gave one of the best performances I've ever seen) in Death of a Salesman
The only song I really like is Apex Predator. Where Do You Belong was great in performance, but Grey Henson's mugging and audience patter don't translate well to a recording.
I don't have a problem with them including Off Broadway, mostly because Yerma was one of the best productions of the season and I really wish it/Piper were eligible
LesWickedly said: "I’d love for Kiss Me Kate to be in the American Airlines. Loved On the Twentieth Century in there, but I’d say Studio 54 is likely."
True West opens January 24 at the American Airlines, so it would likely overlap with Kiss Me Kate previews- so my guess is Studio 54
