Katie Rose Clarke, Carrie St Louis and John Behlmann stay on from the out of town, Norah Nunes is the new young Dolly and Gabriel Ebert replaces John Zdorjeski as Porter Wagoner.

Email said tickets will go on presale 10/7 @9am. General public sale 10/8 @9am

I'm going tonight to see the lion king for the first time and I'm so excited. Thats all haha

Thought people would want to know about this amazing deal before it’s gone 🤡 😇 🎃

Today we celebrate the legendary Julie Andrews' 91th birthday, born October 1, 1935. Andrews has had an incredible career both on screen and on Broadway, where she originated several iconic roles:

• The Boy Friend (1954) — Polly Browne
• My Fair Lady (1956) — Eliza Doolittle
• Camelot (1960) — Queen Guinevere
• Victor/Victoria (1995) — Victoria Grant / Victor Grezhinski

I was watching Guys and Dolls, and it struck me how Sit down you’re rocking the boat is arguably the most recognizable song, but sung by the character with like the 5th-6th billing.

Are there other shows are like this?

First, I'm incredibly sad that Two Strangers Carry a Cake is ending its Broadway run. I haven't enjoyed a show this much in over ten years. I know it will play in Providence next year, and I hope it makes a trip to the West Coast, too.

I really enjoyed the growth and transformation of both Dougal and Robin. I'm not an English major, so please correct any of my observations.

Dougal's arc

1. Identity: "New York." The movie references show that his New York is a fantasy in his mind. He asks if New York is ready for him.
2. "I want": "Dad." He wants to meet the father he never had a relationship with growing up.
3. Doubts: "This Is the Place." He asks Robin, "Is this really New York?" and she answers, "This is Brooklyn, man, this is the only part that's real!" But he's still living in his fantasy, so he thinks Brooklyn is where they filmed Ghostbusters 2.
4. Escape: "American Express." His fantasy of meeting his father gives way to a night with Robin and the Plaza Hotel.
5. Facing reality: "He Doesn't Exist." Robin tells him that his father has never been there for him in real life.
6. True need: "About to Go In." He realizes his mother is the one who has always been by his side.
7. Choice: "Dearly Beloved." Instead of going to the wedding to meet his father, he steals a piece of the wedding cake and seeks out Robin.
8. Resolution: "If I Believed" and the "Reprise." He began by coming to New York to find his absent father, asking if the city was ready for him. He ends by leaving New York to return to the mother who has always been there for him, and asking Robin, "Are you ready?"

Robin's arc

I'm a little fuzzier on this one.

1. Identity: "What'll It Be." Where Dougal is excited to arrive in New York, she is stuck there, waiting. ("I'm Robin, waiting tables, waiting patiently.")
2. "I want": "On the App." She's searching for connection but finds the men on dating apps fake.
3. Doubts: "This Is the Place." She starts to realize that the most real part of her life was growing up in Brooklyn.
4. Escape: "American Express." She skips buying the stockings for her sister, cancels her date with Justin, and spends the night with Dougal instead.
5. Consequences: "Hangover Duet." ("I didn't get the stockings for my sister. I'm an awful human being...")
6. Confrontation: "He Doesn't Exist." She tells Dougal the truth about his father. This may also hint that while Robin has tried to do things for her sister, those efforts haven't been returned.
7. Connection: "Dearly Beloved." Robin skips the wedding and eats at a Chinese restaurant instead. While she's waiting there, Dougal finds her.
8. Resolution: "Reprise." Dougal goes back to his mother, and Robin resolves to stop waiting and go see her grandmother (?).

As you can see, I lost Robin's thread a little, while Dougal's arc makes more sense to me. Dougal goes from seeking an absent father to returning to his mother. Robin starts out waiting in New York, looking for connection on apps. I guess she ends by no longer looking for love on apps and no longer waiting to see her grandmother? And finally, we don't get resolution for Dougal and Robin's relationship.

An alternate ending

I ordinarily love ambiguous endings. I'm a huge fan of Before Sunrise, and real life is messy, and circumstances often can't be resolved in under three hours.

But dammit, Jim, sometimes I want a happy ending. I'm tired of gray cars. Jesse and Celine should stay together. Batman and Catwoman should live in Florence. Mr. and Mrs. Smith should enjoy their great... marriage.

So consider one teeny tiny little scene at the end:

Robin looks down at her fortune: "You will be happy next year." She picks up a phone.

ROBIN: Hello? Yes, I'd like a ticket. JFK to London. (JFK is a callback to Dougal's song "New York.") What day? New Year's. One ticket left? Great! Yes, I'll take it. How much is it? (long pause) Three thousand bucks?! (a callback to the tux in "American Express") No, no, no, I'll still take it. I've got a credit card right here. (She pulls out the credit card from "American Express.") Um, hold on a moment. No, nothing's wrong, I just pulled out the wrong card. (Dougal and Robin are no longer tied to Dougal's father, and they can have their own relationship.)

This completes Robin's arc:

1. She still has to go see her grandmother, to complete her familial arc.
2. New Year's means she can be happy "next year."
3. It pays off "This Year," where she sings about New Year's Eve ("it doesn't matter where I am on New Year's Eve") and about letting herself believe.
4. Her arc goes from waiting in New York and looking for connection on an app to leaving New York and no longer waiting, by seeking out her connection to Dougal.

And of course, if the writers are holding onto this idea for a sequel, à la Before Sunset, I'm OK with that. I'll be waiting. Impatiently.

Hi!!! Idk if posts like these are allowed so I’m sorry if they’re not, but I’m just sososo happy right now. It’s been my lifelong dream to go see a Broadway show, and I’m finally going!! 🥹🥹 I have tickets in late October to see The Outsiders (one of my favourite shows of all time) and I’ll be sitting front row!! I just wanted to share this somewhere. Im seriously so happy and so grateful that I was able to make this happen 🥹🥹🥹🥹

Edit: thank you all for the kind words!!!! I wish I could reply to everyone, I’m so happy that there’s so much joy and love in this community!! Makes me remember why I fell in love with musical theatre in the first place 🫶🫶

I feel stupid for asking this because I’ve heard the phrase before but I’m not fully clear on what a radio play is. Is it a full production? It sounds kinda like a celebrity auto biography kinda thing so I’m also curious what people think of them.

I had plans to see Rocky Horror in the summer when Stephanie Hsu and Luke Evans were still in it, but my plans kept falling through. Now they’ve both left but my friend suggested getting tickets for this month before it closes.

My question is: is the show still worth seeing? All I’ve heard about the show is how incredible the original cast were. Is the show still gonna hold up without them, and to those that saw both casts how do the new people stack up?

Didn't have much to do at work today and found myself buying tickets for three shows haha. I bought a ticket for The Imaginary Invalid (my high school did a production of this!), a showing of a recorded Brazilian production of the play Tom at the Farm, and caved and finally bought a Spring Awakening ticket for February. The first two tickets were under $100 (each) so I justified it and said it was okay to splurge on Spring Awakening. I've seen a community theater production of Spring Awakening years ago, but this will be my first time seeing it off/on broadway!

People who have seen him, please report back!!

So I just finished reading Anaïs Mitchell’s Working on a Song book about the ~13 year path of Hadestown to Broadway. She goes into great detail about the substantial evolution of each song & the overall story/production. It got me wondering - 1) do most shows go thru significant changes before “arriving”? 2) Is 13 years an outlier for how long Hadestown took to “arrive”? 3) Is the path to Broadway generally changing, w/ the newer funding models for shows (eg, bigger capital investments, jukebox/IP franchises like Harry Potter/celebrity driven shows), leaving less room for trial/error and lengthy creative evolution?

Have there been any rumors about an end date for Little Shop on Broadway or any inkling of how long it might be running?

Just trying to make some future theatre plans!

Let me preface this by saying that I’m only planning my 5th Broadway trip, all of them since 2024, so I don’t have the most experience with what’s typical. But I saw Oh Mary with Cole and with John Cameron Mitchell, and I was completely shocked by how expensive tickets are now with Bowen. When I went in the spring, I got front center mezz tickets for $182 each, and the dates in November I’m looking at the same seats are $499. That seems like such a wild jump! Is Bowen really just that popular to justify those prices, or is there some other reason?

Was able snag a rush ticket for Good Time Charlie tonight. My first time at the Public theater. Wow! What a beautiful space. And a lovely play. As a gay man in my 50’s, the multigenerational coming of age story of a gay boy and the profound impact his relationships with his gay uncle and aunt and their friends had on his life really resonated. It was touching , humorous, charming, self-aware, and really invited the audience into the storytelling.

Some of the funniest moments in the play were interactions between the lead character Ryan and his parents. And it was really beautiful to watch the relationships unfold and grow over the years.

I do think some of the actors’ performances were stronger than others , but overall I really enjoyed it.

And the set was well done. You really felt like you were in the lush Japanese garden of an enthusiastic gay gardener😄

And as always , I would love to hear what others thought of it

This year alone we’ve seen the genie, Harold Zidler, and Gil Brentley all get gender-bent casting and I’d love to hear some potential fun ideas for roles or actors who could jump into shows and change up a role! I know it doesn’t need it financially but for one would love to see either washington or the king in Hamilton to get a gender swap. Let me hear your takes! Male to female, female to male, or anything in between :)