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Addicted to love. Flower cultivator, flute player, verse maker. Usually delicate, but at times masculine. Well read, even to erudition. Almost an orientalist.

Acclaimed cast of NEXT TO NORMAL return as Donmar Warehouse production transfers to West End (www.westendbestfriend.co.uk)

The critically acclaimed cast of the smash hit Donmar Warehouse production of the Broadway musical Next to Normal are set to return as the show prepares to transfer to London’s Wyndham’s Theatre from 18 June for a strictly limited 14-week run....

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This was a very good production. For me the standout was Eleanor Worthington-Cox, who's easily the best Natalie I've seen, but everyone was very good, so it's great that the entire company is doing the West End run.

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For me the most encouraging news is that Shaina Taub and Leigh Silverman have reworked the show. It's not that it was bad - it was quite decent - but it did feel (to me) derivative. Or maybe it was just watching a sung-through (sometimes rapped) musical about the life of an under-appreciated political figure at the Public Theater that reminded me of Hamilton.

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Fingers crossed. A lot of shows do go on tour even after they've flopped on Broadway. Costs are much lower outside of New York (especially if it's a non-equity tour) and a show having had a stint on Broadway helps with marketing it on the road.

Rona Siddiqui and Lisa Loomer Receive 2024 Kleban Prize for Musical Theatre (www.broadwayworld.com)

The Kleban Foundation has announced the recipients of the 34th annual Kleban Prize for Musical Theatre. The 2024 Kleban Prize for the most promising musical theatre lyricist has been awarded to Rona Siddiqui. The 2024 Kleban Prize for the most promising musical theatre librettist has been awarded to Lisa Loomer....

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The Kleban Prize is administered by New Dramatists. Applications are accepted from mid-March to May although the New Dramatists page for the prize doesn't seem to have been updated since last year.

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It would be nice to see people engaging with old posts when they stumble across a community and subscribe to it.

One barrier that will make this difficult is that instances only get a community's feed from the moment they first subscribe to it, if that community's home instance is on another server. So if you're a user on - say - leminal.space and you're the first person on that server to subscribe to - say - Musicals@kbin.social then you will not see any of that community's old posts, only posts created (or boosted) after you've subscribed. This makes it difficult to engage with old content unless other people on your instance have been members of that community for much longer.

This is one of the issues with the fediverse model that doesn't exist in a centralised model like reddit. And - sadly - smaller, niche communities are the ones most likely to be affected by this limitation, because they're the ones least likely to be federated to a large number of instances. It makes smaller, less active communities look even more inactive than they actually are.

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It means you weren't the first person on your server to subscribe that community/magazine.

15 Best Broadway Singers of All Time (singersroom.com)

Broadway singers, the vocal virtuosos of the theater world, bring the magic of musicals to life through their exceptional voices and dramatic flair. These performers are the heart and soul of Broadway productions, enchanting audiences with their ability to convey emotion, tell stories, and showcase unparalleled vocal talents....

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I'm not convinced that downplaying the fact that the movie is a musical is good marketing strategy. Misleading the audience tends to produce lower audience scores. And while Mean Girls did open to good box office numbers (the referenced $33 million over four days), I think the second week dropoff will be telling. The Color Purple also opened quite strong, but fell off rapidly.

Wonka of course has been a box office success, but I think the difference is that most people associate the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory movie as a musical (and I'd argue the original Gene Wilder movie has more cultural currency than the Tim Burton/Johnny Depp version), whereas most people think of The Color Purple and Mean Girls as being a straight drama and comedy respectively. Wonka is also a prequel, so audiences probably didn't have as many locked-in expectations, whereas Mean Girls and The Color Purple are basically promoted as remakes.

‘Big River’ musical movie adaptation in the works (variety.com)

Douglas Lyons, the writer of “Chicken and Biscuits,” is adapting “Big River” as a film. The show, which features music influenced by country and gospel, is based on Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” It opened on Broadway in 1985 and won seven Tony awards, including best musical, and seven Drama...

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I love Big River. The book of the musical (not to be confused with the book the show is based on, ie Huckleberry Finn) is maybe not as strong as it could be (something the screenplay could actually address), but the songs are fantastic.

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I saw the Paper Mill production last year and agree that it deserved mixed reviews. The Great Gatsby is one of the great novels in American literature and this adaptation was workmanlike, stripping the book of a lot of its elegance and subtlety. I did like Eva Noblezada (more than I liked her in Hadestown and Miss Saigon) and some of the other performances. I suspect that as long as the Broadway production has some well-known stars it'll run, but as soon as Jordan and Noblezada leave (assuming they aren't replaced by performers of comparable stature) it'll sink pretty fast.

Broadway's "How to Dance in Ohio" shines a light on autistic stories (www.cbsnews.com)

Clinical psychologist Emilio Amigo, who runs a counseling center for autistic people in Columbus, Ohio, had a big idea: "Many of my clients never went to their homecoming or prom because they weren't welcomed," he said. "I'm like, 'How many of you guys would love to go to a big formal?'"...

Mean Girls and the movie to musical to movie pipeline (www.avclub.com)

Mean Girls, the movie-musical adaption that opens in theaters this weekend, feels like both an inevitable release and a bizarre confluence of trends that began long before its young cast was even born. We know that Hollywood will take any opportunity to expand an existing piece of intellectual property in a bid to make more...

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It may have something to do with the bug mentioned here:

The improved collapsible comments add-on, part of the original KES collection in version 1.0.0, has some conflicts with kbin's own implementation of collapsible comments. I am cleaning this up, but it may take some time

Mean Girls fetches $11.6M on opening day for estimated $31.5M MLK opening weekend (www.hollywoodreporter.com)

Mean Girls is easily winning the box office popularity contest with an estimated four-day opening of $31.5 million over the long Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend, although severe winter weather saw more than 50 theaters close Friday in such hubs as Chicago and Toronto. Many of the shuttered cinemas hope to reopen Saturday....

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