If there was an award for Best Proscenium, I'd give it to Spongebob. It's fun and impressive but so many other times throughout the show the stage looked bare and bland. Once on this Island transported you for the entire show, start to finish. Spongebob had moments, and those moments were creative and incredible, but as an entire design I give the edge to Once on This Island.
The Mean Girls musical cast an Asian actor as the Jewish character portrayed by a white actor in the movie. No one seemed to bat an eye. It just doesn't matter.
First time seeing the show last week. I agree -- Stemp was incredible, a real standout. I loved Bernadette, despite her cold. Garber and Fontana were underwhelming, unfortunately. Had an understudy for Irene and thought Kristen Beth Williams was incredible! Griggs was great too as Minnie.
Evsever said: "If you look at the first page of Broadway.com, and look at musicals from The Lion King to The Phantom of The Opera, you’ll see that NONE of them have gay protagonists. Sure, some of them have gay characters, but again, they’re not protagonists. And that’s kinda what I’ve been thinking about.
What are your thoughts?"
I always thought the Lion King would be a better story with a gay lion. It is called
Interestingly enough, I saw the show for the first time last night and you could tell Bernadette was fighting a bad cold. I felt badly for her as anyone else would have called out but thankful that she pushed through for us. Save for some minor hiccups she sounded great and I thought her Dolly was charming and full of energy. That said, I wouldn't be surprised if she called out for the matinee today.
Saw the final preview last night as well and missed all of the riffs due to the audience's cheers after the dress reveal. It was pretty ridiculous and left me laughing through the blackout and then enraged that I missed the part I was most looking forward to. I also didn't love the child behind me talking at full volume: "Which one is Anna? Is that Olaf??" Where are the parents to say "hush, we'll talk later?"
I was able to transfer my tickets on Ticketmaster to another email address. If not, then pdfs of the tickets would be made available 3 days before the date of the show.
Probably because it's easier to put a standby on then someone in an ensemble track where you would then have to teach two people different tracks in under 4 hours (the Janis understudy and the swing going on for the ensemble understudy). Even if Tee doesn't understudy Janis, she has spent the whole rehearsal and preview period studying the show so is at least very familiar with the book and songs, learning the role in a short time was deemed more doable than any other alternative.
