{"id":91969,"date":"2023-11-05T21:59:14","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T05:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=91969"},"modified":"2023-11-05T21:59:14","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T05:59:14","slug":"revolving-broadway-doors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2023\/11\/05\/revolving-broadway-doors\/","title":{"rendered":"Revolving Broadway Doors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in 2002, Kristin Chenoweth <\/strong>had a difficult decision to make.  She had to choose between being in a musical by Stephen Sondheim <\/strong>and one by Stephen Schwartz<\/strong>.  The Sondheim show was Bounce<\/em><\/strong> (previously called Wise Guys<\/em><\/strong>).  The other turned out to be Wicked<\/em><\/strong>.  She made her choice, and Sondheim wrote her the following.  \u201cThank you for the thoughtful and generous note.  I, too, was disappointed, but I understand completely.  I hope that Wicked <\/em>turns out to be everything you want it to be (and that Steve wants it to be, too).\u201d  The rest is history.<\/p>\n

Josh Groban <\/strong>and Annaleigh Ashford <\/strong>are set to leave this terribly misguided revival of Sweeney Todd<\/em><\/strong> on January 14th<\/sup>.  One would think that the show would simply shutter and slink away; left to become a sad, little footnote in some Broadway <\/em>annals.  But, no \u2013 the show must go on (must it?).  If you thought Josh Groban was a curious choice for the Demon Barber of Fleet Street<\/em>, what do you think of Aaron Tveit<\/strong>?  Should a Sweeney<\/em> have abs of steel?  His Mrs. Lovett will be the fantastically talented, and yet equally miscast Sutton Foster<\/strong>.  I know there are roles Sutton covets \u2013 like Mama Rose.  But did she learn nothing from The Music Man<\/em><\/strong>?<\/p>\n

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What about a musical staring John Travolta <\/strong>and Katherine Heigl<\/strong>?  And again, I know what you\u2019re thinking \u2013 did he learn nothing from Hairspray<\/em><\/strong>?  Or those T-Mobile <\/em>commercials?  And who has Heigl on their radar?  If there\u2019s anything less plausible than a musical starring this pair, it\u2019s that the name of it is\u2026and I couldn\u2019t make this up if I tried\u2026That\u2019s Amore!<\/em><\/strong>  The writer says, \u201cJohn and Katherine are fantastic together, and during rehearsals they had so much chemistry.  We\u2019re not breaking into big production numbers, but I wanted to try something a little different.  We\u2019ve recorded about seven songs so far with a full orchestra, and he\u2019s just a magical person.  One of the numbers is a real throw back to Fred Astaire <\/strong>and Gene Kelly<\/strong>.\u201d  I don\u2019t look at Travolta and immediately think of Astaire or Kelly.  But another classic image does spring to mind \u2013 those dancing hippos in Fantasia<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Someone who would like to return to Broadway <\/em>is newlywed Chris Evans<\/strong>.  He told the crowd at New York Comic-Con <\/em>that he hopes to find a project soon.  \u201cI\u2019m looking.  I\u2019d love to actually try and find something next year, but it\u2019s tough because you find something that you are kind of into that could be cool but like I said, once you\u2019re in it, you are in it.  It usually runs three, four or five months.  So, it\u2019s got to be something that you don\u2019t just love, but it\u2019s got to be something that you\u2019re ready to explore from different angles every single night for a very long time.\u201d  How amusing that he considers 3-5 months to be a long time.  After 3-5 dates, I\u2019m bored and have forgotten their names.<\/p>\n

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Back in 2002, Kristin Chenoweth had a difficult decision to make.  She had to choose between being in a musical by Stephen Sondheim and one by Stephen Schwartz.  The Sondheim show was Bounce (previously called Wise Guys).  The other turned out to be Wicked.  She made her choice, and Sondheim wrote her the following.  \u201cThank<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91970,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91969\/revisions\/91970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}