Dancingthrulife2 said: "Judging from the audio recording "out there," I am not really impressed with many of her choices, which I find jarring and lacking Ambrose's porous humanity that makes this production so special to me personally."
Without renovation, that space would allow for a small fraction of the stock that Drama Book Shop currently has. It would totally defeat the purpose of a niche store like this.
People complain about the Disneyfication of Broadway, about Broadway turning into Vegas... but jeez, this is straight-up Branson, Missouri, level stuff.
Isn't the point of stunt casting to get people in seats who may not otherwise have been interested? Casting someone with teen girl appeal in a show that is already built on teen girl appeal is redundant.
I would be shocked if Patti did not have a right of first refusal for a transfer in this contract- or any high-profile contract she does, with an exceedingly sizeable payout if she is not asked. She's no fool. It's up to her.
I think it's ridiculous for an ambitious new American play by an American playwright to debut in America with a mostly-British cast in a British premiere production , but I wouldn't be shocked if that was the case.
I think it makes sense to expand the role of Beetlejuice far more than Chocolate Factory's handling of Wonka. After all, Wonka is only really absent for the first third of that story, but then shows up and dominates the rest as the co-main character and the one who incites the plot. The musical made the poor adaptational choice to turn the first third into the first half, which meant less time for the character.
But Beetlejuice is doled out in fairly small amounts through
I can't recall if they ever explicitly state her age, but if she could have a son that is nearly 18, it kind of establishes her as being at least in her later 30s.
It's pretty well established that it was BMC's cast recording that really helped cement its fanbase- and the success of its Broadway transfer is anything but assured right now.
The response here is positive and the questions seems in line with the sort that always appear after a first performance of a new work. Compared to the Tootsie thread, this is barely anything.
