Gothamist: Big Broadway News, People! Guys and Dolls! Hedda! West Side!

lucyvanpelt

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:31:56 -0500

babyhitler--Platt is playing Nathan Detroit. Casting for Masterson has not yet been announced.

NannyState

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:55:15 -0500

Damn. And here I was hoping Mary-Louise Parker was playing Hedda Nussbaum.

babyhitler

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:08:52 -0500

gilmore girl yes. Oliver Platt as sky masterson? wtf?

Splicer

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:53:18 -0500

I'm primed to see West Side Story but only if the music is live. I have no desire to watch karaoke done to a backing track of Bernstein. To use recorded music is to dishonor one of the finest scores in all of Broadway history (if not the finest).

Ronkonkoma Ondinnonk

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:01:33 -0500

Mike Daisey's How Theater Failed America covered this subject perfectly.

rhonda718

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:57:17 -0500

Revival, revival, and revival. These plus the 100 new musicals based on schlocky movies... I'm so glad Spring Awakening, [title of show] and Passing Strange have/had to close to make room for this "new" material. Any over/under on how long In The Heights will last now?

Jen Chung

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:54:02 -0500

Well, Arthur Laurents--who wrote the book for West Side Story--is directing WSS. And he just directed the revival of Gypsy.

fj

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:47:17 -0500

How many different versions of this musical do audiences need? I had to sing the songs in elementary school music class, and they drive me batty now with their dumb, sticks-in-your-head-all-day, sing-song simplicity. Good one, KiljoyWasHere.

KiljoyWasHere

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:35:09 -0500

I care. I had no idea that Mary Louise Parker and the mother from the Gilmore Girls were different people.

HUGO_MEGO

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:07:11 -0500

Is there really anyone out there who cares about this?