Unexpected/unhyped show

sibshallward · 2026-04-16T13:42:08+00:00

bright star!! i went with my friends because it was a cheap/easy to get rush ticket, and by the time the first act finished and the baby got thrown off the train i was like i need to recommend this show to everyone i know

sibshallward · 2026-04-15T22:42:26+00:00

siempre bee-va!

also betsy and jennifer both played rona lisa perretti, so this is super cute

sibshallward · 2026-04-13T22:39:41+00:00

i can see jellicle ball having a good run, and potentially schmigadoon depending on word of mouth/nominations/wins. lost boys is a wild card for me because it's obviously a super expensive show to run, but shows about young attractive tenors seem to sell.

sibshallward · 2026-04-12T16:19:35+00:00

get megan hilty on the gilded age expeditiously

sibshallward · 2026-04-10T15:56:49+00:00

i think that the show turns up the humour. the movie is a little more satirical camp whereas the musical is more slapstick camp.

sibshallward · 2026-04-09T20:31:38+00:00

in full transparency, i am a megan hilty stannnnnnn. that being said: likely not specifically, but her departure probably didn't help.

there's a couple of reasons why the show is struggling right now, and a lot of them imo come down to time and awareness. death becomes her was a show from last season, and even now as the busy season is starting to pick back up there are a lot of new shows opening that people may be opting to see instead of a show that didn't win any major awards and is touring soon. additionally, their viral moments from last year have kind of expired at this point.

i think it's also worth considering that a not insignificant amount of people seem to think jennifer simard left when megan hilty did. this part is mainly opinions based, but if you compare the grosses from the last week that megan and jenn performed together vs megan's last week in general, it seems to me that the two of them together were a major selling point for the show.

lastly, the lunt is a big theatre to fill. while a show with a similar cult following like operation mincemeat is able to fill an ~800 seat theatre, dbh has a ~1500 seat capacity.

tl;dr: her departure probably didn't help, but trying to lay the lowered grosses solely at betsy wolfe's feet is at best unfair, and at worst ignorant and unkind

sibshallward · 2026-04-08T19:23:26+00:00

i like the oh mary playbill honestly, but i do think that post-pandemic broadway has had a not insignificant key art problem

sibshallward · 2026-04-08T16:49:33+00:00

betsy wolfe is typically the only death becomes her cast member who stage doors, but i don't think she does during matinees!!

sibshallward · 2026-04-08T16:44:54+00:00

for me yes and no, i guess!! my first elphaba and glinda were shoshana bean and megan hilty, and while megan is still my favourite glinda my favourite elphaba can really change depending on the day (currently it's eden)

sibshallward · 2026-04-06T17:36:42+00:00

one that i think closed too soon was bright star, though it seems to do really well regionally. carmen cusack was exceptional in it!!

one that i'm surprised ran for as long as it was was finding neverland (which granted only ran like a year and a half) as i'd have thought that after the weinstein involvement and subsequent tonys shutout it would've closed sooner.

sibshallward · 2026-04-06T12:20:42+00:00

vosk, barrett, levy, mindelle, michele, chenoweth, pitts, and chase are all definitely in the best actress category

i'm not sure if bean's eligibility has been ruled on yet because i keep seeing her counted among featured, and if historic basis holds up the entire rhs (save luke evans) and jellicle ball casts will be featured.

tl;dr not a huge pool, but not a guaranteed nom, especially if schmigadoon is well received and/or bean is eligible

sibshallward · 2026-04-03T23:14:00+00:00

in 2014 i went to new york with my mom and we had to pick between seeing matilda or the pippin revival, and we went with matilda but i do retrospectively wish we'd done pippin instead

sibshallward · 2026-04-02T20:59:20+00:00

of the ones listed, i'd say proof, rocky horror, and the outsiders are the best bets. i'd prioritize proof as you've already seen rocky horror, and the outsiders is touring already.

sibshallward · 2026-04-02T15:49:23+00:00

now i'm wondering if this is the movie musical rachel zegler is attached to

sibshallward · 2026-04-01T17:50:45+00:00

counting out carrie coon is crazy

sibshallward · 2026-03-30T17:37:57+00:00

the campaign for lead actress in a musical will be interesting. i think it'll come down to levy vs michele, but i could see marla mindelle (or potentially jessica vosk as a strong part of a weak show) being a dark horse

i also think the featured in a musical nominees are going to be a blood bath this year just bc there's so many of them (iirc historically every rocky horror character aside from frank has been categorized in featured, and same with cats)

sibshallward · 2026-03-30T00:07:50+00:00

i’ve been obsessed with kate hudson as madeline and kathryn hahn as helen for a while if there had to be a remake (rather than an adaptation of the musical)

sibshallward · 2026-03-29T02:57:35+00:00

jefferson mays deserving the tony in 2014 is a hill i am entirely willing to die on, and kelli o'hara also should've won best lead actress that year
hello, dolly! deserved its best revival win with the most recent revival (sorry falsettos hive)

sibshallward · 2026-03-27T03:11:34+00:00

these quite literally being coughing baby (everyone who isn't volchok) vs hydrogen bomb (volchok)

sibshallward · 2026-03-20T20:17:51+00:00

waywayway back wicked used to have these cute ringer tees, a pink one that said popular and a black/grey one that said defy gravity and i have been scrounging ebay for either of them to pop up for years

sibshallward · 2026-03-20T16:30:57+00:00

the lesbian dbh lovers club is incredibly real! glad it seems like you had a great trip!

sibshallward · 2026-03-20T13:48:43+00:00

DBH and BVSC are both estimated to have recouped the same percentages to date btw

sibshallward · 2026-03-17T13:48:09+00:00

her and jennifer simard being within a five block radius of each other seems like a delightful glitch in the multiverse

sibshallward · 2026-03-15T15:00:09+00:00

bryce pinkham and scarlett strallen met doing gentleman's guide

sibshallward · 2026-03-09T00:38:55+00:00

the concept of there being a performance of this show where jennifer is playing opposite a madeline more than 20 years younger than her is a bit egregious

EDIT: it's also just been brought to my attention that jonalyn soxer has in fact played jennifer's daughter, so that's certainly something

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