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Dang. I had hoped We'd see one more set of leads on this one (I had my unrealistic hopes for Jinkx Monsoon or Amber Gray). And I had also hoped that Death becomes her would open in the fall, so it would line up with some stuff I wanted to see at the Met, but even this out-of-towner can admit that it's better timing to open in the spring. 

BrodyFosse123 said: "The8re phan said: "Laura Linney and Cynthia Nixon alternated the two leading roles in the recent revival of the Little Foxes"

Oddly enough, Linney was nominated for a Best Actress Tony Award and Nixon for Best Featured Actress."

They were nominated for the roles they each played on the production's opening night; so Linney was nominated for Regina and Nixon for Birdie.

Here me out...Stine and Stone in City of Angels. I don't know if Reynolds has the stamina or vocal skill to actually do eight shows a week, but theoretically, this would be a show that plays to both of their strengths. In my wildest dreams, it might even be a case where they could True West/Little Fox it and swap roles every night.

I don't usually feel this way but I do hope that for the Broadway leg of the tour they throw a little extra money at the set. I don't think they will, but a trap door could do wonders for the fluency of the show. 

I need. ALL the details. A full spilling of this show's tea please. 

One review claims that Grey Henson has a cameo in the film, but i can't find any other info about it. Does he? 

I send out into the universe that the rumored Cate Blanchett-lead NIGHT MUSIC comes to fruition.

Top of my wish list is an afro-centric Follies with Audra McDonald as Sally, Norm Lewis as Ben, Renee Elise Goldsbury as Phyllis and Wayne Brady as Buddy.

Kimberly is a 16 year old being played by a 64 year old actor. Seth is a 16 year old being played by a 20 year old actor. Although the visual of an older body being romantically involved with a younger person is one that is engaged with consciously, neither the characters nor the actors are doing anything inappropriate. Suspend your disbelief, or don't, and in either case there's nothing immoral happening on that stage. 

With Nicholas Christopher doing Sweeney six times a week during the transition period, what are the odds that he will be Pirelli on Sundays or will he be given the day off? 

There's occasionally been two of the same Shakespeare play  playing in NYC but never competitively on Broadway. 

I'd be curious if the Met produced La Boheme during the Baz Luhrmann's run on Broadway in 2002/2003...they tend to do it every season. The Met's database, which would be the best source for this, has been offline for weeks. 

Jordan Catalano said: "Yep! Sorry, but there’s not a single other person i want to hear sing that."

Counterpoint - Jinkx Monsoon. 

jimmycurry01 said: "Smaxie said: ">Very interesting, as Sondheim insinuates that both the tooth-pulling sequence and The Judge's Johanna were cut during previews after he and Wheeler noticed a "sag" in the plot. He writes about this decision in Finishing the Hat and makes it sound as if the decision to cut both happened simultaneously. It seems odd to have made the cut after the show was frozen.<

Sondheim's memory does get unreliable in some spots. The Judge's "Johanna" was cut very early in previews, I think perhaps even after the first preview. In an evening of shocks, the Judge whipping himself to an orgasm was perhaps a step too far. However, the tooth-pulling scene remained in. If you search, there is a YouTube video of the original Broadway production. Victor Garber was the first of the principals to leave the cast and he was replaced by Cris Groenendaal. Groenendaal is in this video (either as understudy or permanent replacement, opposite understudy/eventual Johanna replacement Betsy Joslyn), and the tooth-pulling scene is in, so it had to have been filmed sometime after opening. There is also a full audio of opening night, and the tooth-pulling scene is in."

Last night I was watching the South Bank Show documentary on the making of the London production which opened within a year of the Broadway production; there was a argument between Hal Prince and John Aron in regards to cutting some of Pirelli's material. I wonder if the choice was made to make the cut during rehearsals for the London run.

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Yup! this is basically the case. Neither the original broadway or London productions included the full version of "the Contest" but they were different cuts. The Broadway version cut both of Pirelli's opening verses ("Now signorini, Signore" etc), but retained both of the Shaving and Tooth pulling sequences. ("to shave-a the face...etc". The British production cut the song down further, removing the whole Tooth-pulling sequence, but restoring the introductory verse to the Shaving sequence, and that is basically how the song has remained since.

 

John Aron's intense argument over the cut is one of my favorite things to have ever been caught on camera, especially Hal's little shrug that boils down to "who does this guy think he is?"