Theater Geek

For any other 90's kids in Tumblr-land who happen to also be theatre kids...Marc Summers is coming to an Off-Broadway stage this summer and he is bringing slime!!!

I had gotten hints that this was coming from his interview on the "Hey Dude The 90's Called" Podcast but this sounds even better than I expected! I mean just the pictures of the set are a huge nostalgia bomb!

Summers developed the show with Alex Brightman (yes Beetlejuice's Alex Brightman!) and there is going to be music by a composer, Drew Gasperini, who I am just learning the name of but am apparently a fan of his work (Skittles! The Musical!).

OMG!!!!!!

Images were posted today on BroadwayWorld from The Center Group's production of The Secret Garden currently playing at The Ahmanson in LA.

They look AMAZING!

If I wasn't so sure that this production had Broadway in its sights (I mean Sierra Boggess is starring in it...), I might have been hopping on a plane across the country to see it!

The Secret Garden was one of the first Broadway shows I saw as a kid and, while I realize nostalgia plays a factor, it is still one of my favorite scores of all time.

There are really good discounts available on Goldstar.

I am so incredibly excited about this news!!!!!

And I feel like I manifested this since I was JUST talking about how much love I had for The Public's production of this musical.

It was honestly one of the best pieces of theatre I have ever seen, and I see A LOT.

I know this blog has been a bit quiet recently but I filled out my Show-Score/ TodayTix #yearinreviews to see how many shows I had seen this year and I wanted to share it here.

The grand total was 49!

(It was actually 52 but BOTO, The Classic Theatre of Harlem’s Twelfth Night, and the production of Into The Woods at Signature Theatre in Alexandria weren’t on the list to check off).

My #theatregoing adventures were split pretty evenly between Broadway and Off-Broadway shows and took me from uptown to Brooklyn.

Very belated pics from some of the Broadway-related events at New York Comic Con earlier in October (it has been a VERY busy month!)

Playbill had a big presence at NYCC this year . I attended 2 of their 3 official panels as well as the #BroadwaytoHollywood panel.

The Big Broadway Nerd Panel

From left to right Jenna Leigh Green, Fergie Auguste Phillipe, Justin Matthew Sargent, Mason Alexander Park, Bryan Campione (host)

#BroadwaytoHollywood: 2nd Annual Look at the New Age of Musicals

From left to right: Lorna Courtney, Charlie Rosen, Mia Neal, Ian Eistendrath, Esin Aydingoz, Daniel Merzlufft

Tune In! TV & Film Panel

Just finished off an intense week of theatre-going!

From right to left & top to bottom

A Strange Loop (Broadway) - Tuesday 4.19.22

Take Me Out (Broadway) - Wednesday 4.20.22

Next to Normal (Westport Country Playhouse, CT) - Thursday 4.21.22

The Gazillion Bubble Show (Off-Broadway) - Saturday 4.23.22

Suffs (The Public Theater) - Sunday 4.24.22

I'm so excited that this show is finally making it's way to Broadway!

I saw this 4 YEARS AGO during it's run off-Broadway and I can't wait to see how it is evolved to fit into Circle in the Square.

I completely missed the first season of this but apparently Broadway Cares/ Equity Fights AIDS filmed their own version of The Masked Singer as a fundraiser on their YouTube channel and now they are back for Season 2!

After 2.5 years of holding tickets to see Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster in The Music Man, the evening finally arrived!

Slate.com put together a list of all of the fabulous cameos in #ticktickboom (though they missed Jelani Alladin who you get a glimpse of at the very end).

However, for those wondering how many of the supporting cast were Broadway performers and what you may have seen them in... the answer is A LOT!

Here is the Amanda/ TheaterGeek addendum:

Focus Group Scene: Laura Benanti (Gypsy, My Fair Lady, etc), Danielle Ferland (OBC Into the Woods), Micaela Diamond (The Cher Show), Utkarsh Ambudkar (Freestyle Love Supreme),

Workshop Performers: Kate Rockwell (Mean Girls), Joel Perez (Fun Home), Lauren Marcus (Be More Chill), AND Joshua Henry (Scottsboro Boys, Carousel, and soon to be in Waitress).

Friends: MJ Rodriguez (Rent Off-Bway), Ben Levi Ross (Dear Evan Hansen)

Parents: Judy Kuhn (currently in Assassins but too many other fabulous credits to list), Danny Burstein (Moulin Rouge!, Fiddler On the Roof, etc).

Won tickets to tonight’s fan performance/ dress rehearsal of The Book of Mormon! Brought my dad to be my #missioncompanion since he is the reason I fell in love with musical theatre and he’s been talking about wanting to see this show for forever! It was the first time seeing it for both of us and we had a fantastic time!

Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Casey Nicholaw, and Robert Lopez popped out before the show to say HELLO!