I haven't seen as many plays to justify a Top 10 list. Here are my list of musicals original & revival:
ORIGINAL MUSICAL 1. Fun Home 2. The Band's Visit 3. Hamilton 4. Ghost Quartet (Off-Broadway) 5. A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder 6. The Book of Mormon 7. The Scottsboro Boys 8. Once 9. Matilda 10. Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812
MUSICAL REVIVAL 1. Hedwig and the Angry Inch <
City of Angels: West End Revival Nov 3
2019, 09:15:22 AM
The Donmar run won the Best Revival Olivier. I'm curious if the West End production will be eligible in any category at all.
I saw Renascence last year. I would say I admired it more than enjoyed it. It was a story about the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, with all the songs being her poems set to music. The last song was 20 minutes long, literally, because it is a long poem. It kept me engaged, I wasn't bored. As a matter of fact, I was quite impressed how Carmel Dean managed to write beautiful melodic songs out of poems without altering the text. Just checked Transport Group's archive page, they did qu
The casting call has a bit more information. It seems to be 2 shows lumped together. The first part being "Just One Q", which premiered in New York a few years back, and there's a cast recording of it. The second part is called Ruby. Both stories happened in Broadbend, Arkansas. I'm seeing it in the Halloween weekend, since I liked some of Ted Shen's music in A Second Chance.
Just noticed on their homepage, they're doing 3 Cole Porter musicals this fall:
FIFTY MILLION FRENCHMEN (9/28-10/6) THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ENTIRE WORLD AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF COLE PORTER (10/12-10/20) PANAMA HATTIE (10/26-11/3)
I know nothing about any of them. Is any of these worth checking out?
Shows I'm excited about and will see for sure: Flying over Sunset Company (not announced yet) West Side Story Caroline, or Change Thoroughly Modern Millie (Encores!) Little Shop of Horrors (Westside) The Inheritance Girl from the North Country Unknown Soldier (Playwright Horizons) Scotland PA (Laura Pels) Jagged Little Pill Assassins (CSC) &n
Are you me? Haha, I keep a list of composers' upcoming projects too. Here are some of the bigger names I follow:
Adam Guettel Days of Wine and Roses Millions The Invisible Man Dave Malloy Moby-Dick (2019 Boston premiere) Henriad The Happiness of Fish David Yazbek The Princess Bride (In an interview for Tootsie, he said Princess Bride i
I'm glad finally someone brought this up. It started since the latest launch of the new design. The font looks way too slim on Android phone (in Chrome, I don't use the app), it's barely readable, it hurts my eyes. iPhone looks fine, laptop looks fine too, just Android.
No, none of the rush people moved to the SRO line. For some reason, the SRO line today was quite short. First person showed up right before 2pm. But by 7pm there were about 10 people. I think all of us got in.
I have another show to see tonight at 8. I'd rather gift it away than for it to go to waste. Please PM if interested. The show's at 9:30. It's e-ticket and I can forward to you in a minute.
SomethingPeculiar said: "David Yazbek's overtures are usually an original theme not found anywhere else in the show. Which Ibelieve(correct me if I'm wrong) comes out of the opera tradition?"
Overture is one of the reasons why I love David Yazbek's works. But both Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Toosie's overtures feature songs from the shows. The Full Monty seems to fit your description. I don't remember about Women on the Verge th
She's doing a concert in Tokyo this weekend. And in July she has a few gigs with Seth Rudetsky somewhere. Not sure what her next big project will be. She was great in The Music Man in DC not long ago.
