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muscle23ftl said: "Eric, do you think that a man that feminine wouldn't have survived a jail in Argentina?

Your comment may be controversial, but we all have the right to express our opinions, free speech on BWW! Haha."

I admit my own issue with my feelings about this is I don't want to be seen taking away a potentially major trans role--though I feel like Molina was one of the first complicated gay roles in commercial Broadway musical theatre

"In terms of casting the character - in the book, Molina is described as a homosexual male, in prison for soliciting sex from minors. I suppose if we look at the character's gender through the lens of today, perhaps he might be nonbinary, but if set period, I don't know the character would fully identify in that way at that time."

Right, this is how I feel.  In the book, much is made of the fact that Molina is "a different side of being male" than V

I've seen some of the video clips on social media, but none were for the songs I was most curious about.

I know Anthony Roth Costanzo from his great performance in the Glass opera Akhenaten, and know he's a counter-tenor, so I guess it makes sense that he seems to be singing songs written for women (Spread a Little Sunshine...)  He has two duets with Chenoweth, and I know nothing about the Queen of Versailles one, but I realize Happy for Me must be the current English

I dearly love this show--seeing the Chita tour when I was 14 or so was just a major part of my theatre going life (I was going to say life changing but that seems over the top--but maybe it was.)  That said, I can't imagine it ever working as well as it did in that Hal Prince staging.

I hate to say this, but I hope they don't cast Molina "on the trans spectrum."  I know that's a controversial statement and I can see the desire to cast the role that w

Kad said: "Finally saw this last night. It's probably the only Sondheim show for which I feel the book outshines the score, which I found to largely sound like motifs from Road Show with glimmers of Sunday.

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The piece is clearly unfinished regardless of what Ives and Mantello say and what we have is best efforts to make the show work without Sondheim. I don't know that anybody can fairly assess the show right now because Sondheim's death and wha

berniesb!tch said: "uncageg said:
I did not get a scolding tone from this piece and found what he said about those lyrics to be pretty much on target. What I got from the piece is that there was/is a distinction to Sondheim's works that we may not experience again for a long time. (Fosse immediately came to my mind) And as mentioned in the piece, it could possibly be Miranda. (Although for me, I prefer Tesori but get why he sees Miranda possibly achieving the "passi

AND I have a feeling few on here care about all these changes as much as I do so apologies for this long rambling post.  But I will say I re-watched the 1981 bootleg that's on Youtube and was filmed right after opening (so doesn't have all the differences in previews) and watched those opening scenes and it reflects the publisher's proof of the script I have, with the only difference being in the bootleg during the title song transition from the party to the restaurant "

bear88 said: "One other thing about whether Frank's movie is a commercial success.

I think the story makes more sense if it is a box office hit. Frank would have everything he thought he wanted: commercial success after years of struggle and setbacks, the glamour of show business that always attracted him, the clout to make his own personal and business decisions - even if they're selfish. Why isn't he happy, though?."

That makes sense to m

joevitus said: "You could well be right about it not being a bomb. With the lyrics "Terrible--beautiful, Frank!" and "When a movie's that bad what on earth can anyone say?" I assumed it must be a roaring flop for the in-crowd to turn on him--they seem all about fame and monetary success, not works of integrity, so I assumed the movie was an obvious bomb. But quite possibly it wasn't. I've never read the script, so I'm going on my memory of hearing