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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 2/10/19  Feb 11 2019, 07:25:38 PM

I think the problem with "The Prom" is its title. People remember their own proms and don't want to visit that part of their life.



RIP Albert Finney  Feb 8 2019, 07:56:45 PM

The obits and these comments deal mainly with his film work.  But on Broadway, he starred in "Luther" and (I believe) the original production of "Joe Egg."



Most Outrageous Hypothetical Miscasts  Feb 1 2019, 08:23:29 PM

Harvey Fierstein and Rosie O'Donnell as Golde and Tevye in FIDDLER ON THE ROOF.



Broadway Show Admission Prices  Jan 26 2019, 11:21:56 AM

As an example, the top price for "My Fair Lady" when it opened in 1956 was $7.50, soon to be raised to $8.05.  That price was retained for its seven-year run. The top price for "Gypsy" (1959) was $9.20.  The top price for "Chicago" (1975) was $12.  "A Chorus Line" (1975) changed the rules in a few ways.  It charged the same for orchestra and mezzanine.  It charged the same for Wednesday matinees (which had always been cheaper th

Big Broadway Hardback Books!  Jan 25 2019, 08:32:56 PM

It's not devoted to one show, but Martin Gottfried wrote two BIG books, "Broadway Musicals," which ends around the time of "A Chorus Line," and a second volume that goes into the '90s.  The first is hard to carry, the second less so.



 Jan 23 2019, 08:16:30 PM

Jarethan -- Ditto.



REVIVE CARNIVAL  Jan 19 2019, 07:34:41 PM

Is Carnival the type of musical that could use a "big, splashy" production?  The original was small in scale, which was a large part of its charm.  Anything big and splashy would overwhelm the material.



Saddest songs in musical theater  Jan 10 2019, 06:43:54 PM

"Surabaya Johnny" (Weill, "Happy End"



What would you see if you had a time machine and tickets to 3 shows?  Dec 29 2018, 11:37:45 AM

To join the chorus for two of my picks:

Follies (OBC)

The Glass Menagerie (OBC)

And one new one:
The Visit with Lunt and Fontanne



Hal Prince, A Director's Life - link  Nov 30 2018, 06:54:19 PM

The documentary is excellent, but it portrays Prince as a stage-struck kid who pursued his dream by writing to George Abbott and striking gold from there. Presumably just as any of us could have done.  However, I was reading a discussion between Prince and Sondheim and how they met.  Prince says it was at South Pacific's opening night.  "I was with the Rodgerses and he was with the Hammersteins."  So obviously he had some top-drawer Broadway connections to be

Most underrated "Best Musical" of the last 15 years?  Nov 29 2018, 10:34:31 AM

I think the question should be "What is the most overrated (i.e., least deserving) Best Musical of the last 15 years?"

Anyone for "Thoroughly Modern Millie"?



Hal Prince, A Director's Life - link  Nov 24 2018, 12:48:45 PM

Wonderful use of animation.



The Art of the Overture  Nov 20 2018, 11:24:09 AM

For the revival of "South Pacific" the audience was rapt during the overture, just letting all this beautiful music wash over them.  Of course Michener's introduction was being projected on the curtain, so they also had that to read.



If you could go back to one performance...  Nov 17 2018, 03:00:58 PM

Maggie Smith in "Lettice and Lovage."  I had the chance to see it a second time but passed because I didn't want to sully the memory of the first performance.



What is the best Stage Performance You Have Ever Seen?  Nov 5 2018, 10:44:53 AM

Uta Hagen in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and Margaret Leighton in "The Night of the Iguana."  (Original productions)



Top 3 favorite and least favorite Broadway theatres?  Oct 27 2018, 12:10:15 PM

I agree that the shape of the theater makes a difference.  The long and narrow ones, such as the Lunt, the Golden, and the August Wilson present problems unless you sit far forward.

Like Jarethan, I can't help thinking of some of these theaters by their former names.



Spotting Celebrities at Shows  Sep 7 2018, 11:25:26 AM

This was a long time ago.  I was sitting in the balcony of the Lyceum for Jules Feiffers' "Grown Ups" when I noticed a spare orchestra seat.  At intermission I went down to grab it. I asked those seated next to it if it was vacant, and the woman put her head down.  I realized it was Meryl Streep, who obviously did not want to be recognized and who believed I was planning to talk to her.  I took the seat and positioned my head so that I could hardly see her.&n

Bad lyrics by good lyricists  Sep 2 2018, 05:12:03 PM

My choices are by the usually estimable Oscar Hammerstein.

1.  From "Flower Drum Song," "Chop Suey"

Basically the whole song but especially "Harry Truman, Truman Capote [not Ca-po-te], and Dewey/Chop suey."

What a shame that Juanita Hall had to descend from the heights of "Bali Hai" to sing this drivel.

2. From "The Sound of Music," "So Long, Farewell"

The line "Adieu, adieu, to yuh and yu


After Bruce, who?  Aug 27 2018, 08:11:35 PM

Little as I like the idea, Springsteen's Broadway success may inspire other pop acts to take their chance on solo concert runs on Broadway.  We already have an excess of jukebox musicals; the next step is to jettison the book and simply perform the songs.. Do you think this might happen, and who are the likely perpetrators?



"Oklahoma!" at Ashland  Aug 26 2018, 06:24:49 PM

How do they treat the chorus?  Is it implied that the cowboys are all gay and the women are all lesbians?  And what about the "Kansas City" lyric "as round above as (s)he was round below"?  I guess that description could apply to a sexy man as well as to a woman, but it seems a stretch.



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