Charlie & The Chocolate Factory Tour Aug 1
2018, 01:23:24 PM
Casting for Wonka and the Charlies has been announced! https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Noah-Weisberg-Henry-Boshart-Collin-Jeffery-and-Rueby-Wood-Will-Lead-CHARLIE-AND-THE-CHOCOLATE-FACTORY-National-Tour-20180801
dmwnc1959 said: "Is there anyone here that has seen the show on Broadway and enjoyed it? Just curious. With all the recent posts about very spartan set designs and exploding kids, I’m getting sort of worried. Also, one of my co-workers, who desperately wanted to see this while it was still on Broadway, is dying to see the tour. I’m afraid she’ll be terribly disappointed and write-off ever seeing any more shows."
herewegoabc said: "I really don't get that. I saw nothing that was bordering on LGBT fetishism. Maybe I'm not watching this show with the right glasses, but this seems to be blown way out of proportion.
Rich says he's bi at the end of the show, but that was apparently in the original run as well (no idea if it's in the source material novel). He mentions that Michael has been visiting the hospital and asks if he's Jeremy's boyfriend. Michael respond
nasty_khakis said: "I can 100% see how the "them" joke, referring to Peppermint's character in Head Over Heels (who is nonbianary plural) can be taken as offensive, but, forgive me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the show make a joke about someone saying it too at the end? I remember a few jokes/reactions when the Oracle says this of a "huh? them? she?" nature."
The whole tone of the article comes off as snide and condescending, as Brantley
Be More Chill Off-Broadway Jul 27
2018, 10:35:49 AM
I took a horrifying dive into the Be More Chill tumblr tag last night, and it seems like the vast majority of the fans have fixated on “how gay it is now!!” and seem to be disregarding the whole point of the show. I personally have nothing against fan service, but only if the changes you make service both the overall story and the fans. I have a very basic grasp of the show and it’s plot, and don’t particularly consider myself a fan, but I talked to a friend who was there last night who said tha
Be More Chill Off-Broadway Jul 26
2018, 02:58:30 PM
I have a friend attending tonight! Hopefully if anything insane goes down tonight she’ll be fine with me passing it along here. I’m not a big fan of the show, save for a couple of songs, but I’m sort of sadistically hoping we get some DEH/Spongebob/Heathers craziness from all of this.
A few of my friends who just graduated high school wrote original plays/musicals as senior projects. One of them, which is basically a parody of every popular fantasy series ever (LoTR, Harry Potter, Narnia, etc) is actually getting performed at a local theater later this week. It's definitely possible for high schoolers to write their own content, the question is just how well it's actually written.
I think an American Idiot revival couldn't be more relevant given our current political climate...
Desperately Seeking co-presenter for Falsettos Meetup at broadwaycon. Jul 12
2018, 07:25:52 PM
I guarantee you that any "older Falsettos fans" will be staying far away from the younger group, if they even attend BroadwayCon. Unfortunately, Falsettos has developed a very intense "fandom", which in my opinion has tainted the reputation of the show and has reduced it to a teenage fad, losing the respect and poignancy it had amongst the theatre community in the years before the revival came along. I don't mean the disrespect the OP, the show, or the cast, but I feel like the majority of this
After spending a day on the internet after this news dropped, it's amazing to see how many people don't read actual articles and only headlines. The number of asinine comments/complaints I've read are truly astounding. People think the Palace is being demolished, the whole original cast is touring, the show will reopen after renovations, other theaters refused to allow the show to move in, a number of crazy things. People also absolutely refuse to believe that the show was underpe
Mine is the marquee of the Shubert while Spamalot was playing there. Spamalot is my favorite musical because it's fun and makes me laugh, and I thought the picture was really cool!
Popular shows you haven't seen....by choice? Jun 19
2018, 08:31:23 PM
I don’t live anywhere close to NYC, but I got season tickets to one of our local touring venues a few years ago. I had the option to add on Book of Mormon and Phantom for a small fee, but I only did BOM. I’ve really never had any desire to see Phantom live (though, if I can get to the city to see it with Ben Crawford and Jay A. Johnson I just might!)
Questionable set pieces? Jun 16
2018, 02:42:33 PM
As cool as it is, the scaffolding in Newsies always scares me- the second time I saw it on tour was near the end of the run, and it was really loud and shaky every time someone got on it.
Shows don't get kicked out for other shows to open- a large number of factors play in to how long a show runs for, and a potential new show for a theatre is not one of them. If producers make the call to close a show, that means that it is losing money, or actors are leaving, or a whole number of other things- no producer is going to axe their show so a new one can come in, especially if the new show is not produced by the same group of producers. If an incoming show needs a theatre, they
funhamilton_rent said: "I don't think stans are bad at all, especially teen ones. They're becoming the younger generation of theatre lovers, and shaming them only gets rid of theatre lovers.
Just because they are young theatre fans does not mean they get a pass for being downright rude to Broadway actors. Stan behavior often crosses personal and professional boundaries, and causes many actors to shy away from public appearances. There's a reaso
That being said, I genuinely love all nine of these shows and ranking them was really hard!
Dear "STANS" ... Jun 11
2018, 01:00:05 PM
Agree with this. The number of tweets/comments/etc. trashing The Band’s Visit for winning was appalling, and the worst part was that most of them were prefaced by “I haven’t listened to/seen TBV BUUUUTTTT...” and that really frustrated me. I know most of these “stans” are teenagers that latch onto a show to the point where they become possessive of it and everyone involved, but it saddens me to see why they all overlooked why this show is actually insanely important to the community and the worl
