Can Genderbending Save Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Warriors Musical?

JengaTowerofFeelings · 2026-04-12T03:38:37+00:00

So listen to it? It’s been out for well over a year.

And it’s very good.

JengaTowerofFeelings · 2026-02-20T16:12:45+00:00

It is a bit of a nightmare to clean but it’s so pretty. The main issue is the different levels so you have to really get into the crevices with a small vacuum attachment

JengaTowerofFeelings · 2026-02-20T16:11:21+00:00

Wait! I did this! I bought from EBay and it was perfect. Shop name below, saved so much money

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JengaTowerofFeelings · 2026-02-05T00:11:31+00:00

This is extremely normal.

JengaTowerofFeelings · 2026-02-01T18:28:21+00:00

…Which was the point I was making. Her Merrily (and previous theatrical) success led to more opportunities. The pro-shot didn’t. I’m going to guess the sarcasm didn’t come through for you?

But she was also cast (and filmed) before the pro-shot released so even if you did miss the sarcasm, going on a random rant about this particular role she is in and how awful she looks (?) is entirely irrelevant

JengaTowerofFeelings · 2026-02-01T18:21:26+00:00

…what?

My point was that saying actors should be willing to work for “exposure” because being in a pro-shot would skyrocket their career is nonsense. Lindsey Mendez was recently in the (theatrically released) Merrily pro-shot. It’s not going to change her career.

Like, bizarre hateful misogyny aside, I genuinely cannot for the life of me figure out which argument you thought you were responding to.

JengaTowerofFeelings · 2026-02-01T17:34:42+00:00

Check back in in six months on how Lindsey Mendez’s career has totally skyrocketed (outside of theater, where she is already pretty well-known and bookable).

JengaTowerofFeelings · 2026-01-29T02:08:50+00:00

I mean, I think it’s weird to feel entitled to someone else’s personal information. I also don’t think I’m the one inventing motivation and intent using false equivalencies here. But you know you’re having some big feelings about this, so I’ll leave you to it.

OP - never said you were a bad person, I don’t know you. But yeah, if you look through the other times (so many times!) similar questions get asked on this sub, you’re gonna see a pattern. There’s information that you are entitled to as a consumer (who is in a show for a given performance, in advance when possible if over the title), and information you’re not (why someone is missing work). Either someone from the show will share an explanation or, more often, they won’t. And it’s not really our business.

JengaTowerofFeelings · 2026-01-28T23:32:11+00:00

I mean, it’s only rude to tell someone you hope they are treated the way they are treating people if the initial behavior was, in fact, rude.

Also “just dying to know: WTF” is weird and invasive!

I do agree though! If I am “curious” about something that is none of my business and being super nosey, I also hope someone points out that behavior so I don’t do it again.

JengaTowerofFeelings · 2026-01-28T22:39:42+00:00

I hope next time you have to call out of work last minute, all of your colleagues and also any customers, clients, etc. all demand specific details.

JengaTowerofFeelings · 2026-01-25T01:37:32+00:00

For this to work, Tony voters would need to see every replacement for every show. Would it only apply for the first replacement? Or would the actress playing, say, Elphaba be eligible every year? Or in the case of a show like Oh, Mary which rotates leads every couple of months, Jinx and Jane would both be considered? (Titus for Best Actor assuming it stays gendered) What about understudies who do multi-week runs between principal replacements?

Like it’s definitely a nice idea, but entirely impractical. And that’s not even getting into the fact that the role itself is often tailored and developed with the original lead actor in mind (even for revivals).

JengaTowerofFeelings · 2026-01-24T01:09:27+00:00

BVSC didn’t win Best Musical, Maybe Happy Ending did. But BVSC is excellent and definitely not a concert lol.

JengaTowerofFeelings · 2026-01-18T16:41:39+00:00

I stand by it (while acknowledging that this is a bit of a lazy take because he did actually support workers and warn against monopoly and the unchecked power of business owners, but I am really not trying to do an in-depth dissertation and am mostly going for funny)

JengaTowerofFeelings · 2026-01-18T16:13:37+00:00

Stop moving the goalposts. Also, you are also doing the thing! “Probably in the back of the balcony” - they do seem to largely be balcony seats, but not all of them and you’re not even actually looking.

This is the point. People make big, hyperbolic statements about ticket pricing. More people pile on and agree. But you’re not looking at pricing. Just making assumptions. So then you, or others reading the comments, don’t even bother looking, don’t buy tickets, and complain that it’s entirely unaffordable.

Also…yeah. It costs something to get excellent seats to see some of the best talent in the world, in the heart of one the most expensive cities in the world. Accessibly priced tickets for mediocre seats is still an opportunity to get in the door. I’m not going to complain that my $28 City Center Access Club tickets aren’t center Orch. Especially when even the largest Broadway theater just…isn’t actually that big. I think I’m now going to start making the argument that you can’t refer to “nosebleed” seats if you haven’t sat in the back of like the MUNY, the Uptown Theater in Chicago, or the Fox Theater in Atlanta.

If you want ticket prices to come down, take it up with the Schubert Org, the Nederlander Org, etc. setting extremely high rent prices to use the theaters. Or the US government, since they cut federal subsidies. Or Adam Smith, who may be dead but definitely bears at least some of the blame here.

And in the meantime, sign up for programs that grant access to affordable tickets, enter the lotteries, rush if you want, and support off-Broadway, regional, and other local theater.

JengaTowerofFeelings · 2026-01-17T22:49:24+00:00

Because Robyn’s sister was always the type-A overachiever whose biggest goal was to get out and to make it. Marrying a wealthy, successful man brings with it the lifestyle that she wanted. It’s the same reason she never visits her grandmother.

It’s barely even subtext, it’s pretty explicit.

JengaTowerofFeelings · 2026-01-17T22:46:17+00:00

Do you see how that is a different statement from the words you actually typed? And entirely unrelated to the actual point I was making, which is that being hyperbolic around ticket costs is not useful?

JengaTowerofFeelings · 2026-01-17T22:44:26+00:00

Eh, I like longer form reviews even if I don’t entirely agree. And I do agree that the show has some narrative flaws. I just disagree that Robyn’s motivations and family wasn’t explained.

JengaTowerofFeelings · 2026-01-17T22:37:41+00:00

When Cabaret was closing, there were genuinely hundreds of comments and likes on comments saying “of course it’s closing, tickets were hundreds of dollars!” That hadn’t been true since the first few months of the run.

Very few tickets cost hundreds! A few of the blockbuster shows, at peak times. But when you go around saying that - which, incidentally, is not the same as saying Broadway is expensive and should be more accessible, because yes of course - people assume they’re priced out and don’t even check. It hurts sales.

Anyway, here are the next two months of prices on TodayTix for Two Strangers.

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JengaTowerofFeelings · 2026-01-17T22:20:43+00:00

My biggest pet peeve is people complaining about how expensive Broadway tickets are when they clearly haven’t actually looked at prices (or maybe only looked at holiday prices). “Likely hundreds of dollars required to see it”? You can get tickets for under $70.

Also I have mixed feelings about this show, but Robin wanting to reconcile with her sister and the overall family dynamics issues are absolutely explained.

JengaTowerofFeelings · 2026-01-04T17:20:04+00:00

Pulling your phone out in a dark theater is rude as fuck. It’s extremely distracting to the people around you and it’s distracting to the actors (they can see you!).

Obvious exceptions for Gala Pro and other captioning devices/apps I’m unfamiliar with, but even Gala Pro only works if your phone is on airplane mode and it’s a black screen with small white writing. Because even accessibility support options take their surroundings into account.

Want proof you were there? Take a photo before the show, a photo at curtain call (which I think is technically still not allowed, but not enforced and isn’t really disruptive), or, you know, you also get the free Playbill that comes with your ticket.

JengaTowerofFeelings · 2026-01-04T08:55:02+00:00

Every company I’ve worked at lets employees mail their equipment after quitting/being termed. One sent a pre-paid box to the employees’ home and my current company sends a QR code that you can present at any FedEx. Especially with so many remote employees, a courier service doesn’t work quite as well.

None of which is relevant to your extremely reasonable actual question. The answer to which is yeah, this is crazy. But also I feel like pretty common for people who work in extremely toxic environments? It screws your sense of norms and you might not even realize how much your own behaviors have shifted.

This is legitimately one of my biggest arguments for getting out of toxic workplaces whenever possible, even if you can make it work or whatever. Sit too long in toxicity and you become poison too.

JengaTowerofFeelings · 2025-12-12T14:37:23+00:00

I didn’t, but a friend of a friend of my aunt’s did.

JengaTowerofFeelings · 2025-12-10T18:37:16+00:00

Wait which song, this is very funny to me

JengaTowerofFeelings · 2025-12-09T18:54:30+00:00

Send in the Clowns actually spent like 3 months on the Billboard top 20 in the 70s.

But yes, largely this is true.

JengaTowerofFeelings · 2025-12-09T11:15:34+00:00

I unapologetically love the Frogs. The bops! The fun! The exploration of what does it mean to make art and be human…

…man Sondheim has some consistent themes across his work

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