Profile for Broadway61004

AEA AGMA SM said: "JBroadway said: "It doesn’t happen often. But I think the most common reason is when a show is doing better than anticipated (usually a limited run), and chooses to continue running longer - but the original theatre may already be booked by the next show, so they may choose to move theatres rather than close."

If I recall correctly this is essentially what happened withChicagoand its first move. Steel Pieralread

dramamama611 said: "Dating anyone that has any sort of power over your job is never smart. Why? Coercion and favoritism tops the list. Not far behind is retaliation and and harassment.

Bway actors dating each other doesn't have that power play.

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Broadway actors dating each other doesn't have that power play, but I do find it interesting that there's never been a big deal made about directors casting someone they're romantically

If this was about a fictional person?  Maybe.  Given it's a real-life woman we're portraying?  No.  Absolutely no.

I've seen him twice: In "Match" (which was an otherwise horrendous production of a horrendous play) and "Man and Boy" (which was an otherwise mediocre-at-best production of a mediocre-at-best play).  Both times, he completely elevated the material and made the productions much more bearable to watch than they should have been.  However, I can definitely see him as "chewing the scenery" too much in otherwise better written roles in better written scr

I agree it's wonderful so many plays stand a shot at nominations this year.  However, I'll caution that it's still very, very early in the Oscar race.  We're essentially where we were in August last year (since the awards are pushed back 2 months), and looking back at some predictions from August 2019, "Hustlers", "Just Mercy", "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood", "Harriet" are just some of the ones that were on almost everyo

JBroadway said: "I feel like they would have announced already if they planned to combine categories? If not before now, then today would have been the perfect time to announce it, since it's very likely that the decision has been made already."
 

It's likely they'll make those final decisions on Tuesday, I would imagine.  That's not to say there are going to be any category changes, but the last time they met at the end of August, they

I agree this is an American healthcare system problem more than a union problem, but it also feeds into the exact reason I feel AEA in particular is a horrendous union.  I'm not sure the most recent statistics, but using 2017 as an example, there were 51,000 people in the union and only a little over 18,000 who got ANY work during the calendar year.  And the average number of weeks working were around 16, meaning about half of those 18,000 worked less than that.  So in othe

This may sound crazy and prior to 2020 I never thought I'd type this, but I suspect the college football season has a lot to do with the holdup.  Yes, the awards are going digitally, but I imagine they are still contractually obligated to work with CBS to present it in some way (perhaps using CBS as their still-to-be-determined online platform or incorporating a special on TV to go along with it).  And with CBS also contractually obligated to college football which is still

blaxx said: "Love, there are no shows currently on Broadway, hello?!

I would like for Company to actually openfirst, and before anyone considers your all-white Sondheim fantasies."

Actually, anything that hasn't announced a closure is still "currently on Broadway", just currently having temporarily suspended performances.

As much as I love Gypsy and Sundayin the Park, they've both had multiple revivals this century already (as have

Definitely Beetlejuice, because it's totally still reopening.  Well, maybe not now that TikTok is banned, but I'm sure it's coming back by 2021.

I also feel it's one of those shows that's done so much regionally and in so many community theatres and high schools, that there's a huge question of whether people would really travel to New York to see it for Broadway prices when they can see it for $15 down the street.  And yes, you can make that same argument for a lot of shows that have been revived (South Pacific, Carousel, Gypsy, etc.), but combined with as others have said the movie is often regarded as superior to t

itsjustmejonhotmailcom said: "I highly doubt that it is coming in. There will be a backlog of shows fighting for theaters when Broadway reopens and I don't think Secret Garden will be at the top of the list. Plus, the producer just had investors lose their money in not one but three different productions of Bill More Chill. I can't imagine it's easy to raise money after that."

Given the amount of shows that have either closed or seem likely to before Broa

The Best Score category is really tricky.  On the one hand, like in 1995, we have one original musical score that would essentially be given the trophy by default (unless, of course a play happens to win) which seems almost unfair to compare to past Tony winners who actually had to compete against somebody else.  But at the same point, if we want more original scores to be written for Broadway, is it really the right thing to do to say to the one show that bothered to write an origi

Jordan Catalano said: "“Lightning Thief” winning Best Score would definitely be on track with 2020, though. It would make absolute sense this year that some of the worst music ever created would end up on the same list as “Follies”, “Fiddler”, “Cabaret”, “South Pacific”, etc. etc."

To be fair, though, that list also includes Cats.

Regarding crime, as someone living in NYC, I can assure you that regardless of what you may have heard, Times Square is absolutely nothing like it was in the early 1990s right now.  Yes, there have been an increased numbers of shootings this summer in all 5 boroughs.  Yes, there has been rioting like there has in every other major city.  No, it's not as safe as it was last year at this time.  But that doesn't mean it's unsafe or anything like the war zone that

Philly Theater Girl said: "Slightly off topic but, when it comes to the acting awards in a musical, how much consideration is given to an actor's singing ability vs acting? There are some leads in musicals who are much stronger singers than actors and vice versa."

@JBroadway summed this up very well.  But one other thing to note is I think a lot of it has to do with the role itself.  For instance, John Lithgow in Sweet Smell of Success and Tony Shalhoub

aimeric said: "Tag said: "Islander_fan said: "Another example, is that when Larson found out Idina was from Long Island, he than made her character from Long Island too. Hence the line, “you can take the girl out of Hicksville, but you can’t take the Hicksville out of the girl.” When they started to tour the show they changed Hicksville to Jersey."

Wow, after all these years...I always thought Hicksville was a reference to &quo