^^ Chery Jones is eligible in Lead Actress, not Featured. All three stars of Lifespan of a Fact were billed above the title and the committee didn't move any of them to Featured.
I'm worried Joan Allen and Mercedes Ruehl get forgotten amid huge amount of featured actresses in King Lear and Ferryman. And then there's Celia and Julie White.
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I'm guessingUnmasked, Hands on a Hardbody,andCinderella(10 minutes taken off of clock...holiday show?) I have no guess for the Susan Boyle clue, although it is a picture of her carrying the Queen's Baton. I also don't know about the holi paint clue.
I also dont think the Susan Boyle one is torch song because its not a torch she's carrying, but the "Queens Baton."
A baton made me think Music Man...but with the Hugh Jackman announcement, would a major company so close to New York be able to get the rights to that? Could just be Les Mis, which would be their big mass appeal show to act as an anchor for the season.
If the Holi Festival pic is Joseph...that's a really lame clue for Joseph
Are we sure that black and white graphic is a clock? There are no numbers on it, and they've used clock images in the past that were very clearly a clock (like when they did Half Time). It could just as easily be a pie with a slice cut out.
Sometimes these dont really pan out though...remember when the image for Beauty and the Beast was a picture of all the countries in the world, colored various shades of blue? Still confused about that one (it made me think of the song "
This likely has to do with whatever amount the theater is being paid for the ticket. For example: if I list a show on TDF with full price tickets at $50, TDF will sell them for $25 (plus their $4 service fee on your order). But even though they are being sold for $25, the box office doesn't get that full amount. I get $21.
Depending on what the setup is with the ticketing system being used, the price type for the tickets may pri
While the "road" presenters used to make up about a quarter of the voters, those numbers have changed in the last decade and so has their influence over the Tonys (that is of course assuming the majority of them vote the same way). Road presenters are now roughly 10-12% of Tony voters.
I personally think road voters are more than willing to vote for something daring for Best Musical. They have jukebox shows that will make them easy money without that Tony, Tootsie could alrea
Saying the MFL cast resents Benanti b/c she "invented her own schedule" is imagining a scenario that doesn't exist. She is a working actor who had obligations after her initial contracted run (including her role in Younger, and many concert dates). Producers offered her an extension fully aware of her conflicts and decided that was ok. This is far from the first time scheduling accommodations have been made for a Broadway star and it will not be the last.
There is room at the Lunt for a limited run of something until then. Why hasn’t GFTNC announced anything? Because most recently they were looking at filling said space for a limited run at the Lunt and then returning next season at a new theater. But word is they have abandoned this plan.
Expect Frankie and Johnny to announce the Broadhurst soon.
Imelda Staunton is sadly unlikely to bring Gypsy here. Th
You can try it, but I highly suspect they may ask you to leave. Even if just ordering a soda. It's not about being mean or non empathetic, but if an inspector happened to be in the bar that night and discovered underage persons inside, they could get their license taken away. The odds of said inspector being there on the same night you attend are probably low, but its quite understandable for them to not want to risk their business.
"I have a gut feeling that the F&J's producers were hoping eitherhe Ferryman,orNetwork, wouldn't extend orThe Promwould have its last dance in early January, or even as many thought near the end of summerBeautifulwould end its run "On Broadway" andWaitress's would close up the dinner in January, but the fall seemed to have a pretty bountiful harvest of new shows and especially plays outside of the quick demise of<
Girl From the North Country has waffled SO many times on what they're doing. First is was the Kerr but they couldn't pull the trigger, so the Kerr booked Hadestown instead. Then GFTNC was just going to wait until next season. Then it was a limited engagement at the Lunt, opening right before Tony cutoff, with the promise to come back next season at a different theater (since they'd have to vacate for Tina). Now it seems like th
So someone correct me if I'm forgetting something, but with this announcement, that leaves the Lunt-Fontanne as the only viable Broadway house that will be empty for the spring (unless a currently running show shutters soon). And if that's the case, unless Girl From the North Country finally pulls the trigger on their limited engagement plan at the Lunt, the 2018-2019 Season is officially full.
Dreamgirls and Secret Garden were the ones that were announced, and then radio silence (both rumored not to have enough funds in place in time to open this season). Oklahoma is said to be recruiting investors...but would obviously be looking at CITS instead of the Lunt.
This could be where Girl from the North Country is headed.
While King Kong isn't making the kind of money it needs to in order to sustain a run and make a profit...I have heard that the producers intend to keep it open to Tony season in hopes of a Best Musical nomination. That's obviously an unlikely Tony scenario for them, but just reporting what I heard
Hmm hard to think of a show with several of those roles, most just have one. Ivy in "On the Town" was the first to come to mind. Susan in "Finian's Rainbow" is another, she communicates solely through dance.
There are several shows with opportunities to create great featured dance roles from ensemble characters (though they would require a bit of singing. "Beauty and the Beast" first came to mind for this option: I did a production where the actr
oh man there are some great casting choices here and now I need a Taylor Mac take on Frank. An all out unabashedly queer cast that can play a great Off-Broadway venue for a while would be perfect.
Frank - Taylor Mac
Janet - Molly Pope
Brad - Andrew Keenan Bolger (It'd be fun to have a Janet that is a more imposing and boisterous figure than Brad)
@Hogan I suppose I meant "dead" in terms of arts criticism as a career path. There is more criticism, absolutely. But what has been added to the pile is freelance and/or unpaid work. Look at how many major publications went from having separate theater, dance, music, movie critics to lumping them all under one art critic (and firing writers in the process). Major critics are now trying to hack it as freelancers. And then there is the insane amount of people trying to start their own
Hogan hit the nail on the head in the above post. Even more than just the newspaper industry, criticism is all but dead. Anyone can now put up a blog post and call themselves a critic, and being a "Top Critic" means less and less to the general public as time goes on. The Times is clearly trying to experiment with the form in order to draw in more eyeballs and keep the theater section afloat. It may be nasty, but that dual review will probably get twice the clicks as a standard revi
