I love the one intro where she mentions (paraphrasing) "The musical was based on Stud Terkel's book 'Working', written by Stephen Schwartz-What was thinking?!?!"
How did Phantom lose Best Score?? Jul 29
2019, 09:52:02 PM
You can't give best score to a show that only has 6 tunes that it recycles to over and over and over again.
Mack and mabel Jul 9
2019, 09:18:36 PM
Jack Virtel in his book talks about how we don't want to spend time with Mack, because he tells you negative things about movies, and then sings a song ("Movies Were Movies") telling you how great the movies are.
g.d.e.l.g.i. said: "Well, if Hello, Dolly! could restore "Penny In My Pocket," what are the odds someone sticks "Camouflage" and "Love Is Only Love" back in this one?"
I say that they both can, but depending on who Vera is,"Camouflage" would be fun!
I remember Michael Cole (or Stephen Cole), who is/was? Stephen Schwartz's personal assistant mention that Sutton Foster was playing either Pfanee or Shenshen in workshops/readings of Wicked. The role of Glinda's friends weren't much larger than what they are now, but they did keep their names from the original book.
SomethingPeculiar said: "disneybroadwayfan22 said: "fashionguru_23 said: "According to Michael Riedel'a article on the Tony Awards yesterday, Hugh Jackman is going to move into the Winter Garden with "The Music Man"." But the show is opening next year?"
disneybroadwayfan22 said: "fashionguru_23 said: "According to Michael Riedel'a article on the Tony Awards yesterday, Hugh Jackman is going to move into the Winter Garden with "The Music Man"."
But the show is opening next year?"
Correct. Its more of a reference to the comments above that something must be circling the Winter Garden and The Music Man is it.
BroadwayRox3588 said: "Does anyone else think this was just a giant, desperate publicity stunt cooked up by the show?"
You know, I never thought of that until you mentioned it, and I can completely and 100% get behind it. It was a surge of social media that got the show to Broadway, so why not now.
Personally, the show fell flat to me, but I will continue to watch every year. For me, the lack of surprises in winners made the show less exciting. Any interest in Hadestown I had before the show is gone. It came across as a boring slog. Although, not sure what show came of as the best.
One thing I can say is the opening number was long as f. Also, the sound seemed weird to me, so I missed a lot of the lyrics. Those bits with James and the audience were a bit boring as well. I was hop
