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The LA production is the best the show has ever had - perfectly cast, directed, costumed.  The video on YouTube doesn't have the original LA Tina, Lindsay Ridgeway, who was brilliant - a shame she's not there.  I produced the cast album of that production and she's on that and the entire album will give you a sense of how great the production was and why it had such a long run at the Canon.

I wasn't aware that Our Town was written in a foreign language, so I'm not understanding "translation."

ScottyDoesn'tKnow2 said: "I think it helps that he has a very niche audience who mostly act, look, and think like him. If he was a bigger star with broader appeal, who knows. It took forever for Woody Allen and Roman Polanski to finally suffer career set backs. Nothing is truly over. Younger people become the dominate voice and they won't tolerate as much as the older generation that let things slide...if Randy Rainbow will still be relevant in the next decade. Most of the ti

Jordan Catalano said: "I just don't understand how the NY theater community isn't able to come together and offer anything new other than Zoom readings. I've said a zillion times before - the West End is just providing SO much content and really keeping theater "alive" by streaming live productions (both new and archival) for months now while Broadway (no fault to the actors/musicians/etc) just sits on it's hands saying "Here, have another Zoom video&qu

And of course the cancel haters had to bump the other thread.  They tried to remove him from life but it failed to work.  This pisses them off because they're discovering that people have pretty much had it with this stuff and so their "power" is going into the toilet.  And so it goes.  This new thing is already hugely popular.

Yeah, well, all you cancel culture people who seem to take such delight in it and think you can do such damage to people - it didn't work in the case of Randy Rainbow, I hate to tell you and no amount of bumping this thread is gonna make it work.  He offered his apology and explanation and on he goes doing his thing, the latest of which debuted yesterday I believe, and he's doing just fine.  Guess you'll have to find the next person.

I thought Facebook was the only place where people can die multiple times.  Apparently, it's catching.  I think LuPone fanatic has some 'splainin' to do rather than just disappearing into the good night. :)

Well, gee, I guess I'll chime in, since I DID work with her on three different occasions.  She was suffering health-wise on all three occasions, but on the first of our recording sessions for the studio cast album of Night of the Hunter, we had the best time and I got her through it and she trusted me completely and once she heard the finished album she was thrilled.  We dined several times after the sessions and I never once saw her take a drink of anything other than soda and

Odd indeed. Canby was a terrible film critic, IMO, and an even worse drama critic.  The sets he says are threadbare won the Tony.  The show ran around 780 performances, not so far way way as Canby thought, from the original.  Tony for Best Revival of a Musical as well.

EvanstonDad said: "I always think it's so interesting that people can have such different opinions about the same thing. Someone said they don't like the '96 recording because it's not full enough, whereas it's always been my favorite recording of the show precisely because it sounds so lush. I didn't see the Broadway show, but I did see the tour in Chicago. It was at the Auditorium Theatre, which is a barn, and I saw it on a weekend matinee that was virtually

This is a wonderful article?  It is so riddled with errors that it's a joke - not a funny joke.  I mean, one person has pointed out ONE error - how can no one on a theater chat board like this not know what the others are?  Happily, in the comments on the article someone has pointed out each and every one of them.

I don't know, what HAVE you been handing people for a month?  I'll take the stick out of my <<edited by BWW staff>> when this film getting made actually happens.  Where did you get what you've been handing out for a month?  Do people know you've been handing whatever it is out for a month?  Do tell.

Who's producing?  Until you can answer that question, take it all with a Rosie grain of salt.  And saying late 2021 gives her a whole year of playing this out.  We'll see what's what, but...

The revival was terrible.  Peter Stone failed the original book.  By making it a "story" being told you never think you're watching an actual story but a story within a conceit and that doesn't work because you don't invest in the characters in the same way.  Bernadette was not at her finest, Wopat was charming.  A clever director would know exactly how to stage the "problematic" aspects, which really aren't problematic if you know what

What is it that is so difficult for certain people here to understand - the producers have to PAY TO PERFORM ON THE TONYS.  These producers did not pay.  No one didn't give him a chance to do his song other than his producers not having the rather large chunk of change to have him sing that song or someone else do something else.  

SoCalDirector said: "He needs to get over it and himself. I listened to the score and I’d liked to couple of the songs. I did enjoy Michael in the Bathroom. I was in New York I had a slot left open for show. There were only small discounts for Be More Chill in advance . I got in the TKTS line for the first time in probably 10 years. I got a half-price center orchestra seat in the sixth row so I thought I would go. Not only did I not care for the show I considered George Salazar

The group is a joke.  Ann Harada's response is perfect.  And of course the little cowardly mofo took his page down, just as whoever took down his post took down his post.  What he should have done was apologize to Ms. Harada.  Also, no one seems to be aware of Jeff Whitty's great response, too - it's in the thread on her page.

I was sitting next to Fred Ebb.  At the end he turned to me and said, "You're not going to record this, are you?"  I assured him I was not.  Just not my cup of tea, I'm afraid and I don't like the Lippa either.

But magically all this panic and hysteria will be over on March 25?  Whew!

Gower Champion fixed many of the show's issues in Los Angeles and that production was terrific - Morse, Larry Kert, and Gale Gordon subbing for Ritchard, who had a heart attack prior to the opening.  And Leland Palmer as Sugar.  Huge laughs, and no one is ever going to tell me MUSIC is subpar - it's fantastic - some of the lyrics are a little, well, sketchy, but the music is classic Styne all the way.  That production had at least one cut song put back in for Sugar (Nic