Well I didn't want to get into it, but he's a Satanist.
Every full moon he sacrifices 4 puppies to the Dark Lord and smears their blood on his paino.
This should help you understand the score for Wicked a little bit more.
Tazber's: Reply to
Is Stephen Schwartz a Practicing Christian
Unless Alfred and Eddie have previous engagements, I don't see why not. As far as re-casting goes, I don't think the producers would go for it.
"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." -Stephen Colbert
Well I didn't want to get into it, but he's a Satanist.
Every full moon he sacrifices 4 puppies to the Dark Lord and smears their blood on his paino.
This should help you understand the score for Wicked a little bit more.
Tazber's: Reply to
Is Stephen Schwartz a Practicing Christian
I've been meaning to see this and thankfully snagged a $25 ticket for the final weekend. It took me a few tries to get a performance that had tickets still available at this price.
"Why do you care what people might say? Why try to fit into their design?" (Side Show)
Red is a two-hander, granted with a busy set and a lot of props that have to be built for every performance, but that set also doesn't move and nothing flies.
Not next season, but the 2011-2012 season, Red will be the play-most-produced-in-regional-theatres in the world.
"If my life weren't funny, it would just be true. And that would be unacceptable."
--Carrie Fisher
I find it extremely hard to believe the producers will choose not to extend RED.
Does anyone remember how long it was before they announced the God of Carnage hiatus/reopening last year? This seems like much the same type of situation, a cast with prior engagements, but with the win last night I'm pretty sure they'll be able to work it out.
The show wasn't selling out before and Best Play win notwithstanding, I think it's a stretch to suggest it would enjoy a sold-out extension even if it could extend with the current cast (which it can't). Maybe by a couple of weeks, but not months.
Also, it's not a comedy like "God of Carnage" which is markedly easiee to re-cast than this very intense and technically complicated drama.
Add to that the fact that director Michael Grandage is booked solid for the rest of this year -- and he would need/want to rehearse any name replacement actors -- and the fact that the Golden is a much sought-after house that the Shuberts would not want to keep dark for any length of time and I think we can rely on those posters who have stated definitively that the show cannot extend and will not close and re-open at some future date.
"No matter how much you want the part, never let 'em see you sweat." -- Old Dry Idea commercial
As much as I'd love for it to extend, I think frogs_fan85 did in fact give a definitive answer. He'd just been to the box office and reported that it is NOT extending.
Arielle Tepper Madover said in the Times that the production will close as scheduled on June 27 (because of Molina's and Redmayne's film schedules), will have turned a profit, and that she has no interest in recasting in order to keep it open. There it is, straight from the horse's mouth.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body