Profile for Boq101

Marie Christine. I actually would love it if an opera company did it, too and we got it live from Lincoln Center style. 

With dangers cropping up
And sweet young strangers popping up like weeds
So if you wish official pardoning
You better do a little gardening
Ya know ya needn't be so gen'rous with your seeds
Your fertile lies don't fertilize
It needs work

- It Needs Work, City of Angels

Do you know what will help me come back? The New York Times publishing the piece it's been sitting on about sexual harassment in New York theatre. It's ridiculous that publications that are able to uncover these stories for both the TV and Film world have been so silenced when it was New York's turn for a reckoning. 

I have a friend in a Broadway show who said his contract was basically frozen until they come back. Since he had signed up for another year in January that means that he's now technically contracted for the remainder of his contract when they open, which would stretch then into 2022. This is of course, barring any show closures from lack of ticket sales. 

IslandBoy27 said: "Bettyboy72 said: "Judy Kuhn nailed my fave rare Sondhiem song. I am so glad she chose it. I wept. Katrina singing Johanna made my cry too. Stunning."

Did it not bother anyone else that she changed the lyrics from her/she to him/he?

Just pick a different song if you can’t sing the actual words. This is to honor him. Sing his words."

 

What a ridiculous thing to say. She's been singing th

I'm laughing at all the people expecting perfect realism in a movie musical. Please. Just because it's not white people in brownface doesn't make it modern. Relax. 

I really can't understand what makes a person think this was the moment to make a statement like this. It's not like Disney Theatricals is currently rolling in money. No one is. It's also a bit shortsighted to stoke this kind of fire when everyone has all the time in the world to get online and complain about it. This concert was being talked about in theater circles but also lots of disney and geekdom hubs in the internet. The reach this concert was shooting for seems like so muc

Theaters in New York are tenants why would they be in charge of streaming shows that paid rent to play there? The archives are stored in Lincoln Center. It makes no sense for people to work on this and waive all of these restrictions. You have enough streaming platforms and TV to make yourself happy. Those union restrictions are there for very real reasons and any person under normal circumstances who had a real reason to see an archived production used to be able to do so. 

This was such a touching performance! Specially with it being just four characters it felt very beautifully done. I hope they do another one. I know Love Valour has a bit bigger cast but that or even a Master Class reading (ou could even get Patti or Tyne to perform moments from it) would be another amazing way to celebrate McNally. 

Some of the shows if not having understudies do have people in the show who have some knowledge of the material. I don't remember if Sunday had any listed but I knew for a fact people playing smaller roles on that stage had done George and Dot regionally. 

People have to also realize that if a producer themselves decides to cancel performances they stand to lose more money in whatever insurance they have. They need a mandate from higher up in order to have more protection for those affected. 

As someone who has ushered and house managed in the city for a few years the first few shows can be hard for any show. You're trying to figure out new late seating cues, trying to learn to show to figure out the best ways to get both yourself to patrons as well as to do the late seating, and also working with show management to figure the best course of action. Some shows want you to intervene but I've also worked in theaters where the shows like the feeling of a concert and wouldn

I was wondering how much of the songs they'll be keeping, this is what I have so far:

Act I

• "In the Heights" — Definitely in, I wonder if all of the scenes in it will stay as musicalized.
• "Breathe" — In, maybe shortened?
• "Benny's Dispatch" — Fun song but idk that it's needed, is it also a thing in 2020?
• "It Won't Be Long Now" — In for sure.
• "Inútil"
  
  

JBroadway said: "Boq101

The fact that you haven’t seen the production yet is probably contributing to your confusion."

 

Right, but I know the show. I'm just trying to figure out what the old european white guy needs to tell me about racism that I don't already know. But sure, be rude. 

 

I know revivals are all about reimagining things and I get that but if the shows you're trying to create has nothing to do with the show you want to revive then why not just make a new show? There's a post-racial context I'm feeling here which confuses me. As a Hispanic person, this show has always been about race. It was always been about tensions between the Latin and white communities in new york. I can see if this is being ignored why you'd need to gut the book. So what is

I remember going to college at a pretty good BFA program with an entirely white faculty. For a lot of us students of color it was sometimes very difficult to do any show without the proper faculty support on some issues. I was told at a callback for Big River that I just didn't fit the look of the King or the Duke, the white teacher insinuating it was because I'm a light-skinned Latino. This was the same teacher who thought I should change my name to something less ethnic because I &q

I think we're a petty community and that's why we're not ignored. I think this place being older than dirt, meaning any tech-illiterate actor can find a way to respond, is why we're not ignored. 

We're not an important community asset. If this place closed down shows wouldn't make less money. I've seen twitter threads bear more weight than the entirety of this place. 

New costume are always made for new casts, most replacements don't always have their costumes right away, especially in shows like Wicked where every costume requires intricate and couture construction. Even remountings of certain shows like the Les Mis revival that was last here was costumed with most of the stuff already being in storage. 

You should take your "fairly certain" and try learning new things when people have facts to tell you. 

There is also the worry that most of these schools have literally no budget from the school to put on these shows. My high school years in the early mid 2000's we lost lots of money doing Cabaret even though it was the best show I feel like we put together. We HAD to go Oliver next year because we could use costume the school already owned and the large cast plus casting kids from the middle school brought in more families to see the show. 

 

One could make the case that Larry Kert did everything he did onstage with a gay subtext.