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Yes, she did. I didn't say the role couldn't be played by a woman, I just said it could be played by a man as well and that it brought something new to the material. It's an interesting situation where you switch the gender of the actor, but not the gender of the character.

Owen22 said: "I have disagreed with Brantley many times (beginning with giving Side Show a good review and then a bad review to Triumph of Love) but have never argued with his love of theatre and his ability to write. I will miss him very much.

As for Jesse Green...he's a pretty good writer..."

Couldn't agree more with you, Owen. Brantley always gave the best raves, which showed how much he loved theater in general, and the worst (or best?) pans, w

jv92 said: "If SEESAW was done in New York in February, I don't know where I was. But even if it was, was it with the original charts andpresented as close as possible to the way it was done in 1973?

I think people sometimes forget that Encores! is really more about showcasing a score and recapturing a long lost sound (and you could even say now that the ways shows sounded in the early 70s is long lost) than anything."

Here's a link to an artic

A first rate performer! Did anyone happen to catch his stint as Dolly and would like to share their views? I've always been curious about how he did in the role. I suppose it must've been great.

Do we know for sure the father in Jagged Little Pill can't be nominated in the Leading Actor category? Once more I can't help but compare this show to next to normal: the parents could be the leading actors, and the children could be considered featured. It seems like a good move to me to have another name in the Leading Actor category. Yes, I have seen the show, I know full well the father isn't the focus (it's either the mother or an ensemble piece, in my opinion), but it can still happen.<

Usnavi (In the Heights) and Hamilton - Lin Manuel Miranda

Joanne  (Company) - Elaine Stritch

Stanley (A Streetcar Named Desire) - Marlon Brando

Many roles from Rent will always be compared to the original cast, I imagine, for better or worse - Mark (Anthonny Rapp), Roger (Adam Pascal), Collins (Jesse L. Martin), Maureen (Idina Menzel) and even the female Seasons of Love soloist (I forget her name now). Not sure if I would say Joanne because

The 2014 revival of Hedwig comes to mind, every single actor in the original cast won a Tony. The replacements were just as good, if not better (Taye Diggs being the exception...)

All joking aside (even though that is answer enough to your question because the whole cast was excellent), I loved the obc of In the Heights, Next to Normal, the 2011 Godspell, the 2013 Pippin, Fun Home,  Come from Away and, most recently, the 2020 production of Company.

The grandmother in Pippin. She pretty much only sings her solo, and is out for the rest of the show (except for a few times where she' ontage, but doesn't even sing or talk at all). It got Andrea Martin a Tony.

The role of the buttler in La Cage aux Folles. Robin de Jesús and Michael Benjamin Washington stole the show in that tiny part and had the audience roaring with laughter, myself included, when I watched the productions of La Cage they were in. Robin

qolbinau said: "I don't think Bernadette Peters is known for having particularly strong/classical vocal technique, although I believe she describes a shift in her technique when she learned how to sing "Song & Dance" 8 shows a week.

Not sure how controversial/wrong this is, but Iwonder though if prestine vocal techique can sometimes take some of the expressiveness and individuality out of voices though. Kelli's "To Build a Home" is one of my

This has got to be one of the most exciting pieces of casting news I've seen in a long time. I pray it transfers to Broadway.

Friendship, from Anything Goes.

I also liked the new cast of the Newsies tour (Joey Barreiro) better than when I watched it on Broadway with Corey Cott. The whole cast seemed to have more energy as a whole. Neither of them were original casts, though.

There have also been a few times when the tour of Wicked has been better than the Broadway production, but then again, neither were original casts. And that isn't saying much: many times cast members of the Broadway production hit the road after performing

Spring Awakening, back in 2008. I have never been a big fan of Lea Michele's or Jonathan Groff's (but that has been changing over the past years). The tour featured Kyle Riabko (who had been Groff's replacement on Broadway) and Christy Altomare. I will say this, no Moritz has topped John Gallagher Jr's, though (in my opinion).

Boq101 said: "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
  
  

I have to say, I'm kinda baffled no one's mentioned Anita. The way I see it, if the production's Anita is good, she can very easily steal the show. So, I have to ask: how is Anita in this? Has the role been diminished in any way with the cuts?

This is in no way stunt casting - star casting, maybe, two can argue about how much star power he has. But he is certainly very capable of doing the role, which could make it star casting, not stunt casting. It's that good ol' discussion about star casting x stunt casting that always comes up in this board whenever someone famous or mildly famous is cast. It happened when Catherine Zeta Jones was cast in A Little Night Music and at pretty much every single time an actor stepped i