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I'm happy with the casting it's just that some of the hype about the announcement made it seem like we were going to have some shocking star event or novelty when what we've got is (hopefully) a very excellent group of talented actors that are going to do an amazing job doing what George C Wolfe asks of them. That's fine but I won't be excited until I see the actual work. 

It would be like if we got Marin Mazzie (RIP who I'm sure would have been excellent i

It could be right because those numbers do not seem unheard of anymore, but that would be a difficult business to make a profit unless this can maintain momentum for close to a year I would think.....Patti LuPone Gypsy was $9 million I believe, but of course that was done on the cheap and it was 2008. Sam Mendes/Bernadette production was $8 million in 2003.

$8 million in 2003 is $13.7 million in 2024 after inflation I believe. Given at least anecdotally Broadway costs seem to be rising

Exactly, I mean he walks outside of the building and sings a live performance while it is live streamed inside the theatre the whole time for god sake. That is obviously quite a visual feast and I think a major reason why the song works in this productions (my previous reaction to this song is boredom at best or cringe at worst). I think people watch to try to trip people up/split hairs on small details to try and find someone to argue about but it’s pointless to do this when it co

I’m going to do what I do every time a show like this comes along (eg Follies, War Paint, Company etc). Get excited at how good early ticket sales look, claim things are looking just fine, refresh the seating chart daily and defend the show in the grosses week proudly until we hit the approx. 11-12 week mark before there appears to be just too many seats available before show time than there used to, and a week later we see the average ticket price decline and erode a slow death wh

Broadway Flash said: "Sutton can do the next revival in ten years and she’ll be the same age as Patti was. Audra also apparently did Roses turn in concert and people said it was bad. Why wouldn’t you want to see her do Gypsy? She’s a great actress, but I feel like people don’t give her that. "

You’re right - it’s probably unfair of me to judge a concert performance (I also have seen Tracie Bennett do Rose’s turn and I wish sh

I think I might have seen Sutton Foster perform Rose’s Turn in concert once and the fact I haven’t thought about it since and barely remember it probably tells me everything I need to know. I would expect her to do the show one day in a prestigious regional theatre but I can’t see it happening on Broadway now. It was either/or with Audra and the theatre gods have chosen Audra. The racial concept of the production also means it’s practically impossible for Sutton to rep

Soaring29 said: "It seems like Riedel and Laurents ruined the 2003 revival of Gypsy, the former was particularly cruel."

Riedel might have impacted the word of mouth but of course it was Laurents who impacted the actual production itself, according to David B who played Tulsa Arthur Laurents stopped several directorial choices - such as the idea of Rose’s face being covered with smeared makeup at the end of Rose’s Turn. No wonder Ben Brantley described th

Maybe having low expectations helps but I actually enjoyed it more than I thought I would. The score is catchy and fun, there are a number of clever lyrics. The second act is too long and maybe falls apart a little but not terrible. There is a really nice leading performance from Jo Foster. In a weird way the show is starting to feel a little old fashioned because I wonder if queer culture has been explored to death in recent years. I guess you have to get past the somewhat cringe idea of the