This news has made my day... No, week... last TWO weeks... No, MONTH!
"TO LOVE ANOTHER PERSON IS TO SEE THE FACE OF GOD"- LES MISERABLES---
"THERE'S A SPECIAL KIND OF PEOPLE KNOWN AS SHOW PEOPLE... WE'RE BORN EVERY NIGHT AT HALF HOUR CALL!"--- CURTAINS
I'm pretty sure After Eight has already bought their ticket and already hates it because the characters are unlikable, the tone is cynical, and the whole thing a chore.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
After triple checking the calendar to make SURE it's not April 1st, I have to wonder if there's a possibility that Leap Day might be the British answer to our April Fools Day.
This is almost too good to be true. I thought I'd missed my chance to see the premiere of a new Sondheim musical in New York, but I'm thrilled that I might've been wrong about that!
"Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos."-Stephen Sondheim
I'd be more excited about this news if I hadn't seen Bounce at the Goodman. But then, I don't really know how I feel about this or what words I am permitted to use until After Eight weighs in. But I have a tendency to lean towards joekv's assessment. No original book?!?! Fail. Broadway is dead. This will surely be nothing but tourist fluff and fodder. Probably a 3-D Harry Potter musical produced by Disney co-composed by Wildhorn and Lloyd-Webber using nothing but animatronics and pyrotechnics directed by Julie Taymor. At least, that is what the article insinuates.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian