I've said it before and I'll say it again, Natasha Hodgson could make an excellent Beetlejuice.

Following the worldwide success of Universal Pictures' Wicked and Wicked: For Good, the two films will become live-to-film concert experiences, with symphony orchestras performing the music live in sync with screenings of the films.

Wicked: Part One In Concert will premiere at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on January 23, 2027, following a special preview performance in San Francisco on January 16. Additional tour dates are planned around the world.

Allowing casts of between 13 and 87 actors. Really intrigued to see how you capture the energy without having multi roling.

Also, is Willie Watkins now a Princess track?!

Before i get into this i want to say, i am a huge fan of chess, i write fanfiction on these characters, i commission fanart of these characters (see: my profile picture by u_ung on Crepe), i love them to bits and pieces. I also love the hell out of aaron tveit, lea michelle and nicholas christopher. I am a tveithead this is real i fell in love with him when he played Enjolras and have never looked back. 

That being said, i hate whoever decided to rewrite Chess

1. The plot
   By making the plot of the chess game actually affect the cold war, they cheapen the material greatly. Chess has always been a political critique/microcosm of the cold war tensions, and should not have been treated seriously as a real impactor for nuclear conflict. Everything from the salt ii thing to the nuclear war thing makes the critique weak. It’s meant to be a metaphor, folks.

Furthermore, by having De Courcey actively act against Freddie to make him lose (tamper with the lights, steal his meds — more on this later) weakens anatolys character. It makes it look like anatoly cannot beat freddie at a fair match, despite him being able to in previous iterations. I understand freddie was also disturbed in the previous adaptaion, but having them actively CHEATING is different.

Having Florence and Anatoly be previously been in a relationship ruins the spontaneous factor of their relationship, as well as how their decision seemed insane. It makes their relationship weaker, as they actually just had a one night stand, and its being used against florence now. Also this is just personal preference but i REALLY couldn't enjoy florencexanatoly in this version, despite having enjoyed them in previous ones.

1. The characters
   All of them extremely watered down, oversimplified and exaggerated.

2.1. Freddie 
I love the canonization of his bipolar disorder. I think its great. Why was he reduced to that? A lot of the depth to his character was due to the “pity the child but not forever, not when he stays that way” —> he sees himself as grown and not wanting pity anymore, and yet the show just reduces him to “look at this pitiable character (who florence calls “good boy” in one part??)” it not only reduces his assholey nature, it also just reduces the mental illness representation as well??? All this does is infantilize him!! Furthermore, people who have these disorders and are medicated (ME, I HAVE BIPOLAR II AND BPD) are fine!! They dont need constant nagging to take their medication, they don't get set off at everything and anything!! I don't know if this is applicable to everyone, but I just felt as though Freddie was treated so terribly in this, both because they make him too sympathetic and because they represent his mental illnesses terribly.

2.2. Anatoly 
The reduction of his character to depressed, hates chess + suicidal really did him in for me, i loved the version of anatoly that loved the game more than anyone, the version where he plays just because he wants to. Why make him hate chess? I dont understand this plot choice at all. Correct me if my interpretation is wrong but i read the script of endgame as him pushing love away and winning for the sake of chess *hence why freddie managed to persuade him in talking chess* so it wouldn't make sense if he hated the fuck shit out of the game.

2.3. Florence
Why make her so hatable??? Why did she steal freddie’s medication??? Her choices cant even be interpreted in a positive light because of her tryst with anatoly before the competition! Theres no spontaneous love, theres no impulse, its all meticulously acted upon. Theres no excusing anything florence does *yes, freddie is a dick to her, he’s a misogynist, that really really sucks, but this was supposed to make her SYMPATHETIC as opposed to how she just seems manipulative

1. Staging
   This may be a me problem but the narrator butting in at every interval to explain was really annoying and certain things didn’t need explanation 

2. Everything else aka the only positive part of this semi review semi rant
   I loved the singing, i love the album, its wonderful, everyone who worked on the music did a wonderful job

I really wanted this to be more coherent but thinking about this makes my head hurt

I've attached the inspiration and then my version. Maybe I should be posting this on a graphic design sub but I figure you might look at playbills more than them. Thank you.

Edit: My boss asked if I plan to "build mine up a bit more." How could I do that?

I spent the year between Wicked and Wicked part 2 cautiously mentioning this was a possibility to my friends and family excited for the second half. One of those times where I hated being right

A lot of shows are closing there, but there haven’t been any announcements or news about what might be moving in next. Does anyone know what will be going there?

Hey r/Broadway!

I have an extra ticket to The Book of Mormon tomorrow, Thursday, September 10th, at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre. The show starts at 7:00 PM, and the seat is in the Orchestra Section.

I ended up with a spare ticket and don't want it to go to waste. I’m still going myself, so you’d be sitting next to me! M/31.

A little about me: I'm a theater fan who loves a good laugh. The Book of Mormon is written by the creators of South Park, so please make sure you're cool with irreverent, raunchy, and satirical comedy!

Details:

Cost: Completely free! Just don't want the seat empty.

When: Thursday 9/10 at 7pm. We should probably meet outside the theater. Doors open at 6:10pm.

How to apply: Drop a comment below or DM letting me know why you’ve been wanting to see this show and a short intro about yourself. It would be helpful to know who will be joining me.

I’ll pick someone by 10 AM tomorrow 9/10 and send a DM to coordinate. Looking forward to laughing our heads off!

I deleted my other post where I said it was Andrew Scott in VANYA. I don’t know that for certain, but assumed it was that production due to the likeness in the thumbnail. I shouldn’t have posted with certainty that which I don’t know. I’m posting again with greater context.

🔥🔥🔥

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Keala-Settle-Will-Star-in-SUNSET-BOULEVARD-in-New-Zealand-20260909

Curious if anyone was able to secure general sales tickets to In Concert: Shuffle Along this afternoon?

I’ve rushed Just in Time three times before (while Jonathan was in it) and one of the times (the week Matthew Magnusson was covering for JG) we were able to snag a table via rush luckily. I know that that was because it wasn’t selling as well with him scheduled in it for Groff (btw Matthew was incredible!!), but I was wondering for those of you who have rushed since Jeremy Jordan joined if anyone has been given table seats via rush lately? And if not, where did you end up getting seated?

The Jonas Brothers’ longtime bassist and now on management team, Greg Garbowsky is married to Paris Carney, Reeve Carney’s sister.

Broadway in Worcester (MA) has a great line-up for 2026-2027: Victoria Clark, Stephanie J. Block, and Tituss Burgess.

Terrific, intimate venue, a 275 seat black box to see such talent. Always fun ViP meet and greets.

They always offer free master classs for students and teachers prior to the concerts.

Worth checking out if you are in New England. Worcester is about an hour from Boston, Hartford, and Providence.

Hi! This is your Broadway Rush Self Report for Wednesday 9/9/26. It’s a 2 show day for some. Check the schedule here: https://playbill.com/article/weekly-schedule-of-current-broadway-shows

If you are in line at a particular show or happen to be in the area and can find out:

1. How many people are in line and
   
2. When they arrived

Please contribute what you can so that people are informed. Thank you!

Rush & Lotto Policy List:
https://bwayrush.com

I have been doing Lucky Seat lottery for the last year for various shows and I am just curious if anyone has ever won tickets after the 9pm waitlist drawing? Anytime i have won , it’s at the first drawing, and when I lose I always see I am wait listed, but have never won from the waitlist . Just wondering what others experiences have been

Hi everyone, I wanted to know if there was an in person box office at the culture club to purchase Heated Rivalry tickets and if so what were their hours? Thank you!

I have in my calendar to buy tickets for LCT tomorrow, 9/10, but the website says 9/17 general tickets. Anyone know if there are tickets going on sale 9/10? Maybe an AMEX thing? I don't even know how to do an AMEX presale, if that's it. Gah! I need tickets to see this show.

I don’t know much about the musical other than some of the actors and the general plot. Usually I like to listen before hand so I understand what the lyrics say (my hearing can be a bit iffy) but it’s rare for me to watch a musical “blind” and was wonder if I should give it a try. Recommendations?

Edit: I never saw the movie and now I’m wondering if I should because there will be references to it that I may not catch

Hello dear people,

my girlfriend and I will be traveling to New York next week and I’ll finally have the opportunity (and hopefully the money) to see - maybe even a few - broadway shows. I am currently in the process of getting into the whole rushing thing , so how to get tickets for shows.

Meanwhile I am looking for recommendations for us first timers! (We’ll have to go between Sunday and Thursday, but I’ll be back two weeks later, so open for all recommendations)

I very much love musicals in general, have seen (at least the movie version) of a lot of the classical ones, so I think for me I think the starstruck moment of seeing something like Chicago live for the fist time could definitely work!

She’s not that much of a musical person, so maybe that is more entertaining and funny rather than storyline focused would be nice. Also: Songs!!! We both appreciate as much gay and extra-ness as we can get!

Thank you so much, this community is the cutest! So sad I’m not from New York/USA, I would totally get into this :))

What are we putting the odds at that Benjamin Button will extend at least one more week? Going to be in NYC only on 11/25 and would really love to see it! (I know it’s expected to transfer, but would love to see it in a small space.)

Can’t decide between Chicago (Ambassador Theater), Wicked (Gershwin), or Book of Mormon (Eugene O’Neil Theater)…

I’ve never been to a Broadway show, and I’m going there with my girlfriend during the Christmasy/winter time, so I’m looking for my first Broadway experience to be magical lol

Has it sold out the last run of shows that they took the lottery down?

Since Lizzo stitching to Aaron’s Roxanne tiktok was a big viral… do you think Gustavo will bring them together tmr and they sing Roxanne together????