The 2018 Best Actor in a Musical Race May 7
2018, 11:54:49 PM
Best tony nomination category of 2018...any could win in a single year. But I think this is going to Henry for Carousel
Best Musical The Band’s Visit (The only new Broadway Musical worth a nomination. Sorry, not sorry) Frozen Mean Girls SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical
Best Revival of a Musical My Fair Lady (Could WIN, it's very good not great) Once On This Island (SHOULD WIN! Best Musical on Broadway at this moment) Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel
Anyone who posts on chat boards like this knows that when it comes to first rate revivals of plays/musicals, Bartlett Sher is the master of the moment. So I decided to buy a premium ticket to his revival of Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady now playing at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont. For those on the fence...It was worth every cent. For me, mostly because I had never seen a professional production on stage. But also because this creative team guarantees the show will be
Now that there is absolutely no doubt Bart is a magic maker when it comes to existing material, producers should ABSOLUTELY green light his version of Funny Girl. Thats a show we haven't seen on Broadway in years and if anyone could work out it's problematic book and getting a performance out of someone who isn't just a Streisand impersonator its him. We should have gotten this years ago. Hopefully we'll get it now.
Lots of people...you don't get to where he is with out being really talented and being able to handle a show like a big broadway musical. And not everyone could put together half of what he does mind you. I agree with you, Charlie wasn't great, but I think he saved that from being a total flop which it wasn't. He inherited that from the west end team that basically dumped it when the director got a film gig. There's lot that people probably don't know about why t
Yes, it may have had a "workshop" but not in the sense that say a new show has one or a less experienced team would have had. I guarantee you with O'Brien, he staged it and almost nothing was changed unless it came from O'Brien himself. Whether he's had a major hit in the last decade or not has nothing to do with it. He's a talented legend in the theater and he's trusted....is Carousel Revival a mistep, yes. But if the show had had a real workshop, lo
CAROUSEL (2018) Previews Mar 8
2018, 03:45:26 PM
It was allowed to happen because this production didn’t have a workshop. When you choose someone like O’Brien and you decide to open on Broadway you don’t question much. The faith has to be in the team and idea from the get go.
It’s interesting though, one would think O’Brien was the right choice for this...two time tony award winner, an expert in classical theater....but I think the fact is when it comes to musicals he’s a musical comedy guy....had he applied the detail he provides to
Thanks for responding to my thoughts although I’m confused as to why it triggers such a venemous response. If you saw the 2018 Broadway revival and would like to disagree based on your thoughts, I’d love to hear them, if not take the hate somewhere else.
I simply suggested that if they weren’t going to actually deal with the material, which I don’t think they did, they should have considered a smart revisal.
In fact classics do age and sometimes not for the bette
I think most of it has to do with the fact that she isnt really an actor and it honestly seems to be tripping her up a bit. It feels like her classic training is getting in the way of her just singing it. plus the sound she is creating is getting in the way of her diction. Its hard to make out the lyrics she is singing. audra has the same problem sometimes. So you are right, it is written operetta but its not working well here
R and H are the gold standard when it comes to a broadway melody, there is no disputing that. Their bookwriting skills on the other hand, vary from show to show. For me, Carousel is one of the shows where the music runs circles around the bookwriting. And unfortunately now in 2018, the bookwriting feels sexist and in light of the #METOO Movement feels out of touch with its potential audience. This tale of a wife beating criminal who commits suicide only to be given a second ch
Chris Seiber is PERFECT FOR THIS! Hopefully they take the idea and run with it in an original way. Rule of thumb when adapting a movie....DON"T DO A SCENE BY SCENE RECREATION. Those never work.
Ripped man thanks for writing. Part 2’s design is stunning. Part 1 is what I thought looked cheap as I said in my intial post. I’m not sure what they were going for with part 1s design at all. But part 2 is a GORGEOUS example of minimal design.
Angels In America Revival: Thoughts and Review Feb 25
2018, 09:36:37 PM
Jimmy curry 01 thanks for writing. If you read my original post you may have seen that I did not forget he has performed on the stage before....I said I admired him for coming back and that he is good actor...I liked him in death of a salesman a few seasons back. However that doesn’t mean he’s right for everything, and for me, he just isn’t a Prior. And yes I do think he’s playing this role because he’s a celebrity. And no offense to anyone especially straight actors. I think a well trained open
Angels In America Revival: Thoughts and Review Feb 25
2018, 03:01:07 PM
Thanks for the thoughts, I may wax poetic about the original company too much however, we’ll have to agree to disagree about Garfield. I didn’t see character driven from the text at all in the London production, he’s getting there now in the broadway transfer but for me he’s rhere because he’s a movie Star....not a bad way to introduce it to younger theater artists, but more defy trained theater actors could have made this a home run...Garfield bats a double at best.
Thanks for writing. If you want to comment on the actual production as a theater lover, I’d love to here your thoughts. if you want to use negativity I’d appreciate it if you write it somewhere else. the chat board is for debate about the theater not hate.
In 1993, my 16 year old self was lucky enough to be on a family trip from Nebraska to New York City just after Part 1 of Angels in America, Millennium Approaches opened on Broadway. Being the president of my high school’s drama club, my parents were eager to introduce me to my first Broadway Theater experience. Now you might wonder how a teenage minor from the conservative midwest ended up at a show with such adult themes….well, most of it had to do with the fac
HEAD OVER HEELS Jan 30
2018, 11:00:08 PM
That being said there is about as much audience out there for this as there was for a a little known hip hop musical about Alexander Hamilton where a black man portrays George Washington...that sounded like a terrible idea too. You just never know.
HEAD OVER HEELS Jan 30
2018, 10:56:20 PM
I have to say it....this sounds just plain awful.
But it’s hard to compare baby and and I’m telling you I’m not going to let it go. Let it go is an action song, it’s not just an emotional catharsis. Let It go needs the action of her creating the ice palace because that’s what’s happening during it.
Changes Frozen should make before Broadway Dec 24
2017, 11:21:17 AM
“I saw it in Denver as well. I've seen many people talk about the staging in "Let It Go" here. Yes, it looked "bare bones." But as the number evolved, I was kinda figuring if they were gonna do laser and/or spectacular pyrotechnics (I'm not kidding here), or more with the set in terms ice walls out of nowhere, etc, that would have to wait for the permanent set-up at the St James. As is, it is visually adequate, I would hope the plan is to make it spectacular once they have all their bells and
