I spit out my coffee when I read that King Kong shade lmao
Really hoping that the changes will make the show more viable. I heard terrible things about the out of town run. I love Alex Timbers, so hopefully he's righting the ship.
I wonder how well that will work, given that the film AND the musical lean hard into Beetlejuice being a boorish sexual-harassment demon. I hope they haven't lost the original eleven o'clock number mock-praising dirty old men who chase teenage girls, as it was the only time in the show that the satirical beats REALLY landed in the version I saw. Very "Book of Mormon" for that one scene only.
Creepy Old Guy? I agree, I hope they don't cut it.
There's definitely a great show in here somewhere, I laughed a ton so I hope they made it a bit more coherent. I wish they let Caruso keep her blonde hair for Broadway.
It's not super uncommon in digital media for the slug to be posted reflecting the original headline or lede. It's unfortunate when something changes that drastically, though.
"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt
The sense that I got was that the material in DC was stuck between "BJ is a lovable asshole" and "it's time we realize that the lovable asshole archetype isn't actually that lovable." So there were moments like "Creepy Old Guy" that played into this and gave it a more satiric bent, and then other moments that kind of pandered to the audience digging BJ being his classic disreputable self.
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