Profile for QueenAlice

I can imagine no parallel universe in which Beth Leavel would ever have been asked to recreate her role in the movie version of this. The star casting IS the event here - at least for the vast majority of people who will end up watching it on Netflix.  I think the trailer looks like a lot of fun, and while sure, someone like Nathan Lane would have been, in my opinion, a more inspired choice than Corden for that role, it's easy to see why Murphy cast this project the way he did.  

In The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Jessie Muhler and Andy Karl were playing second rate white actors earnestly playing stereotypes of Indian characters in an 1890 English musical hall production.They were hilarious, the production clearly made a point that they were in 'bad taste' and sorry, yes I do think you're taking political correctness to extreme.

I think Buckley was also inferring the final performance -- I think where she was going with her story was that her brother flew in for the final performance [and that it was difficult for him to get a ticket because the show was sold out.]

I'm still kicking myself for not having seen the show at Stratford, though I had girlfriends, even then who went and saw the production 2-3 times. It definitely was a show that found a cult following pretty quickly.

I think you are all being a little literal minded about the semantics of the ticket sales in New York. Plenty of shows start previews with discounts available and then build an audience and start selling out. "Dear Evan Hansen" comes to mind. I didn't inte

You know I hate to say it, but I think I've kind of come to the conclusion that this score just...doesn't sound that great without Streisand.  Why is it these songs sound thrilling in her voice and basically sound...I don't know, kind of like shriek-belting whenever anyone else performs them?

Any star big enough to headline a Broadway revival of FUNNY GIRL deserves (and would do better) having an original new musical written expressly for their talents.

I must admit, I was initially skeptical of Camilla the Chicken taking on the challenging role of Angelica Schuyler, but boy does she deliver.

I would be highly doubtful, regardless of its eligibility in this unusual year, that the film makers who make up the Academy would see HAMILTON as anything other than what it is: a video taping of a Broadway performance.

joevitus said: "QueenAlice said: "Nobody ever captured the bizarre, other worldly quality of the character quite like Sarah Brightman did - especially when the production first opened in London. She and Michael Crawford were like two souls from another planet - and I mean that to say - together- utterly extraordinary. Others came later who sang the roles better, but the show would doubtful have become quite the sensation it did if it didn't start with that original pairi

Nobody ever captured the bizarre, other worldly quality of the character quite like Sarah Brightman did - especially when the production first opened in London.  She and Michael Crawford were like two souls from another planet - and I mean that to say - together- utterly extraordinary. Others came later who sang the roles better, but the show would doubtful have become quite the sensation it did if it didn't start with that original pairing.

The Center Theatre Group, the largest not-for profit theatre in Los Angeles, just announced all programing is cancelled until April 2021.  I think thats a sobering, but realistic timeline for when we might see major theatre reopening.

I think you have to consider what musicals would be 'enhanced' by the medium of film. Pretty much all the great movie adaptations of Broadway musicals - from THE SOUND OF MUSIC, to WEST SIDE STORY to MY FAIR LADY, OLIVER, FIDDLER and even CHICAGO were able to use the medium of cinema to tell the story in a way you just can't do on stage.  

On the flip side, the trap to SWEENEY TODD, LES MISERABLES and PHANTOM was that the musicals on stage were larger than life -

We are waiting for NYC COVID cases to spike  in 3...2...1. So this is not going to happen. If anything I expect we may see some re-shutting down in Manhattan before it all re-opens again.

Seriously, we are realistically still the better part of a year away from Broadway returning.

Hot Pants said: "QueenAlice said: "Ben Platt is way too old at this point to convincingly play this part on film. I can't imagine he wouldn't get put through the ringer by the press for trying it...If he is seriously considering doing the movie, he should watch the film version of "Rent" 7 times, ask how much that filmed helped THOSE actors' film careers, and then become a producer on the film of "Dear Evan Hansen", where he can offer forwardh

Ben Platt is way too old at this point to convincingly play this part on film. I can't imagine he wouldn't get put through the ringer by the press for trying it...If he is seriously considering doing the movie, he should watch the film version of "Rent"  7 times, ask how much that filmed helped THOSE actors' film careers, and then become a producer on the film of "Dear Evan Hansen", where he can offer forward his expertise on the role in an actually&n

On the Broadway for Black Lives Matter forum last night,  one of the panelists, Amber Iman essentially said 'white allies who endlessly focus their energies on how traditionally white casting can be diversified are completely missing the point.'  

Why don't we instead hope the people behind the film add some POC to the production team and see what naturally extends from that from that rather than just hope the film adds a little token diversity to i

But this issue moving forward shouldn't be 'how many ethnic performers can we jam into existing, long running traditionally white Broadway musicals just to prove how diverse we can be" -- we've tried that and it hasn't worked. The answer is to champion more writers of color - to champion more stories about diverse communities and to allow performers new opportunities based on that.

VintageSnarker said: "OffOnBwayHi said: "Anyone who would question Griffin's post just might be racist themselves —they just might bepart of the problem."

Well, I question the part about commenting on the age of the actors vs the characters. That's always being debated whether it's the recent My Fair Lady or basically any shows with teens (Mean Girls, Heathers, Wicked, etc.)Even if it's not in critic reviews, it's being discusse

Matthew's comments about Diane Paulus - even without the racial perspectives - are pretty much in alignment with what I've heard from industry insiders for years -- so many stories from those who have worked with her essentially saying she is a slightly mentally unhinged creative bully: a brilliant but lazy academic, whose greatest strength is surrounding herself with brilliant collaborators who she essentially wears to the ground (unkindly) with no innate decision abou

Barbara Cook claimed she narrowly escaped a collision with the piece of scenery that comprised the back wall of Carrie's house. The original set design was a sort of elaborate puzzle box that one person I know who saw it described as being rather like a "series of reverse garage doors:" pieces came up, slid back, and then over to come into place.

But I think Cook likely used the incident as an excuse to get out of the show. From her biography

While it's easy to point to things like disappointing box office, I think the closing of FROZEN is a more sobering glimpse into the realities Disney is going to be facing in the wake of COVID.  As far as entertainment goes, Broadway theatres are going to be one of the last things to re-open - second perhaps only to theme parks. Aside from caution about travel going to be a major blow to tourism, the economic blow to many Americans means that even when these things do reopen, mos