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The past few years, I've feel like I've developed a pretty good strategy for the Flea. I go early and find stuff I want to get at "rope drop." Then slowly make my way around to all the booths. I take a lot of time, I go through things, I go back to things, I ask passerbys where they got their stuff from and go back to those booths if I missed something. I have no problems waiting out a booth that's crazy and coming back later. This year, I only had a couple hours, so that kinda went out the window. For the first time ever, I didn't come away with a single Playbill or program/Tony voter book because I just didn't have the time to look through bins and I also didn't get a signed item of any kind because I didn't have the time to wait in line for show booths. I didn't really feel it in the moment. But, looking back, I do think that it was worse than previous years. Definitely felt harder to get to the front at booths. 

That being said, I still came away with a great haul. My first and best find was Shucked corn holders (if anyone knows what they're from, let me know). I also came away with an item from each of the major Broadway trinket food groups: a pin (Bad CIndy spray can), button (Fat Ham Broadway), magnet (Shucked magnetic chip clip), keychain (Take Me Out baseball bat), and sticker ("New Jersey's Favorite Musical" Akimbo). Two big goals of mine were a Stereophonic opening night gift and a Mother hat. I found a Stereophonic ash/trinket tray at the Stage Managers' Union booth and got the Mother hat from 2st. Then I got a few more bits and bobbles. I got an Akimbo scarf from Broadway Crew, Pop Six Squish gum from Shubert, and, another favorite find, a Freestyle Love Supreme opening night gift puzzle, which I found at the Once Upon a Mattress booth (somebody must have worked on both shows and donated the puzzle). 

Shucked at an open-air theatre sounds AMAZING. What fantastic producing. I continue to be so impressed by Mike Bosner. I'm excited to see what he does next. 

Broadway SF is still using Playbills right now for Wicked. At first I thought maybe that's because it's the last show in the 23/24 season and the contract with Playbill included that whole season. But, I looked it up and it's the first show in the 24/25 season. It's not even an add-on this year, it's fully part of their subscriptions. 

willep said: "I assume whatever you are referring to has since been deleted, as I see nothing about Lin-Manuel"

Yep. He used to be the last last account tagged in the caption. I have a screenshot, but I'm not sure if I can upload it here. 

Renée Elise Goldsberry appears to have spoiled that Lin Manuel miranda is joining the cast at some point in her Instagram caption. 

https://www.instagram.com/p/C_1Sz3KPvOA/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== 

Great to hear this show has a future. Hopefully this means it'll be filmed. Would KILL for them to get Rachel Bay Jones back for this. She was the heart and soul of this show. 

Jordan Catalano said: "Yeah glad we got there early. And with a million dollar NDA, i guess that’s the end of my thoughts on the evening lol"

Same, lmao

The overbooking is the way these things tend to go. It sucks, but they don't give a **** about your time. They just want the theatre to be full. A great way to ensure that is to have more people showing up than there are seats. 

Voter said: "ljay889 said: "Take this for what it's worth, but apparently this person is a journalist.
https://x.com/MisterD80/status/1822674622153896064"




Anyone know if there are test screenings for this soon?"

The link to sign up for one in NYC this Thursday is several posts above this one in this thread. 

hearthemsing22 said: "Does anyone think the Mamma Mia tour could come back to Broadway in a limited run as well?"

That's the plan. 

Glad I'm not the only who saw this and though "this is way too early to announce a cast like that" 

Broadway Flash said: "The other Gatsby is not stopping this one from moving in. And that Gatsby is going to run on broadway for years, it’s selling very well."

It isn't really. Being in the million dollar club is good. But, it's a lot less good when you're in a 1700-seat theatre. They're selling a ton of tickets at TKTS and that's just not sustainable for a long run. 

If I remember correctly, it's not during one of his songs, it's during a competition during Bustopher Jones. That also probably makes it less memorable. 

Broadway Flash said: "American Buffalo didn’t recoup?"

American Buffalo was not at all a hit. It averaged around $500k per week and was regularly under 80% capacity. That whole 2021/22 seasons was particularly rough for plays. A lot of stuff that would do a lot better if it was on broadway right now. 

Bette's Turban said: "Hudson is too big for this show and would be a mistake."

Hudson is the 5th smallest commercial proscenium theatre and I'd argue it feels just as intimate as the Kerr and more intimate than the Lyceum. Honestly, I'd prefer sitting in the Hudson balcony over the Golden rear mezz any day. If it can't get into the Booth or Golden, the Hudson is the best option. 

I'm guessing Left on Tenth. I thought that might be the type of thing that was announced with only stars attached and then never happens. But, their website has the full cast and says that Stro is directing and Daryl Roth is producing, so I think it'll actually happen. 

https://www.leftontenthbroadway.com/ 

EDSOSLO858 said: "Isn’t Danya also directinga new play this Broadway season?"

I hadn't heard anything, but I hope so! I'll go see anything she does.