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I'll wait for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir version.

 

SouthernCakes said: "How is it normally presented on stage? All in the recording studio? Single set kind of production?"

There are two locations: the recording studio with the control booth and the "band room" in the basement.  Do a Google Image search to see different productions.

 

darquegk said: "As a Pittsburgher born and raised, it wasn’t until grad school that I discovered Wilson was a comparatively minor figure in American literature, and not the single predominant voice of the twentieth century drama."

What?  How long ago were you in grad school? There are many important voices in twentieth century American drama. August Wilson is high on the list.  Unlike O'Neill, Williams , Miller, Shepard, Lanford Wilson, he wrote a

An interesting  article  about the play and the film.

https://www.post-gazette.com/ae/theater-dance/2020/12/11/Ma-Rainey-movie-play-different-August-Wilson-Christopher-Rawson/stories/202012110014

I watched the movie tonight. It is an EVENT. Viola and Chad are outstanding. Give them their Oscar now.  The rest of the cast are very good. I have some minor quibbles with the directing at the beginning, but things settle down. The movie is a hit to the gut.  It is not to be missed.

qolbinau said: 

I know this is perhaps the least important thing to complain about, but is anyone else bothered by the lyric 'That in ten years or so, we'll do Eleanor 2'? It's one of the few Broadway satire moments that I don't actually feels real at all and is catering to a mass audience who doesn't know anything about Broadway. Yes, Broadway has had a couple of sequels historically but unlike film it is definitely not part of our culture and not

Manny, It might have been a better movie is the New York City folks weren't in the story.

Dream on, Ms Close, "Sunset Boulevard" will never become a movie.  No studio is going to spend money for a musical with limited appeal.  On the other hand, it could be Ryan Murphy's next movie for Netflix.

The music and lyrics are bland and forgettable. The show might have worked if the four people from New York City weren't in the show. I don't understand why it got to Broadway in the first place. It's one step above a Summer Stock/Dinner Theatre musical.  Yes, The Prom was on Broadway, but 309 performances doesn't mean it was a hit.

I don't know if any of these woman are sopranos, but they are all in Rock.

https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/best-female-rock-singers/

joevitus said: "Baffling to call this a translation. My assumption would bethat it would hurt rather than help the show to make it "more universal" by removing Grover's Corners from its own narrow, specific identity, but as everyonehere who has seen it issinging the praises of this version, it must work very well, after all."

This production was set in Grover's Corners from 1901 to 1913 and the actors wore period costumes. The story did not change.

Jordan Catalano said: "Very cool. And yes, it is the greatest play ever written. I doubt any production could ever come close to the 1977 filmed version, but it’ll be great to see different takes on it.

Just don’t f*ck with the staging."

This production closed in 2017. The script is now available for anything to do. I sort of remember the 1977 production, but the one to beat is the 1989 Lincoln Center production.  Here's a short clip o

I wonder if this show  will return when Broadway reopens?  Perhaps not!

With endless postings about who can or cannot play roles, here is some information about a new translation of OUR TOWN.  The floor is open.

https://www.thorntonwilder.com/blog/2020/11/5/our-town-with-translations-by-nilo-cruz-and-jeff-augustin-now-available-in-acting-edition

A List of Native Theatres and Theatremakers

Resources, institutions, and more than 100 artists spanning North America.

 

BY AMERICAN THEATRE EDITORS

This list of Native American theatres and theatremakers was compiled in part by Madeline Sayet, with suggestions from Randy Reinholz and with help by Jerald Raymond Pierce.

 

Native-run theatre companies:
Amerinda (American Indian Artists) Inc. (NYC)

This discussion has gone off the rails. The OP made a few errors. A White actor must be cast in A RAISIN IN THE SUN because there is a White character in the play.  Three white actors must be cast in PORGY and BESS because there are three White characters in the opera. The OP didn't list them, but there are White characters in three August Wilson plays, GEM OF THE OCEAN, JOE TURNER'S COME AND GONE and MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM.

The term "color-blind casting&qu

https://deadline.com/2020/10/conchata-ferrell-dead-two-and-a-half-men-co-star-77-1234596750/#comments

joevitus said: "This constitutes "throwing Michael Bennett under the bus"? The gripes are fair (although obviously it ignoresthat their "suggestions" just happened to coincide with the story of the Supremes), but clearly this is how things are done, and had any of those castheld out for a part of the rights, they would have simply been replaced, or their suggestions ignored. No way was that pie going to be split anything like equally."

This may ha

Huss417 said: "I have used up my NYTimes free articles. Would be nice to at least include the headline in the original post."

New York City Ballet Dropped From a Woman’s Photo-Sharing Lawsuit

The suit cited the company, its school and dancers in a case that described “a fraternity-like atmosphere” at the ballet. Her ex-boyfriend remains a defendant.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/28/arts/dance/new-york-city-ballet-lawsuit.html