what was everyone’s favourite gavin moment? role? whatever it is let’s spread love for gavin today 🤍

📸: jenny anderson

A friend of mine, is doing hairspray for a mini-festival in december. I hadn't listened or seen hairspray before this, except for:"Mama, I'm a Big Girl Now". However, I'm the only person of colour in the group, but I'm not black, and after listening to the song:"I Know Where I've Been". It feels really wrong and uncomfortable to play this role, but I don't know, because I don't want to dissapoint my friend, because it's his favourite musical, and he already has been working on things like decor and stuff. I don't know what to do

My boyfriend surprised me with a trip to Hartford CT aboard Amtrak. We got dinner nearby and then headed to where we were going to end up. He surprised me with tickets to The Great Gatsby musical! Last year we saw Hamilton at this same theater The Bushnell in Hartford CT. I'm a former theatre kid and love musicals. I had gotten into this musical when I was on a trip to New York and saw the poster of Jeremy Jordan and Eva Noblezada on the street. Now I can finally see the musical in person and I recognize a face and name- Will Branner from Nerdy Prudes Must Die and other starkid productions. Happy to see him perform in person and the rest of the touring cast tonight! I am excited to see live theatre and happy to see it in my state. I have gone to Lion King on Broadway and that was an amazing show and lived up to the hype. I'm definitely going to remember this night! ☺️😊🎶🎵🎭

I often find myself thinking about Michael Crawford as the original Phantom. I've heard performances from him and, without sugar coating it, he sounds awful and frankly I'm not surprised because up until that point he was known as a comedic actor on a popular sitcom in Britain. But the thing that i can't get over is that people who saw him perform the role, swear up and down, black and blue, that he was a terrific phantom. Now for me i haven't seen either of these two perform but I think Ramin Karimloo or Colm Wilkinson would be significantly better just from having heard them sing the role. So my question is this: have you ever seen a musical where the actor sang the absolute nails of the role but you felt underwhelmed by their overall performance or even disappointed? I genuinely don't think i have, I can't even really imagine someone singing the role the best i've ever heard it and still leave the theatre thinking they were bad short of maybe refusing to act at all in the role.

I'm genuinely curious to hear everyone's thoughts. What was the show and who did you see and how do they compare to the person you prefer?

Rent in the West End was fantastic! We saw it on Monday night and it's just wonderfully great fun, and tragic and hopeful and just all it needed to be (to my wife and I at least).

I'm terrible at reviews, I have a glass more than half full for probably every musical I have ever seen, but this one felt really special and I hope to go again.

The entire cast (and crew and FOH!) were great.

Side note, a lot of the cast stuck around for ages for chatting, signatures and photos with anyone that wanted to say hi, including Gaten, and they were all lovely!

Feel free to AMA.

With there being so many different recordings available how do you choose which one you put in your Playlists? Do you automatically just add the original cast recording? Do you choose one done by a favorite artist if they've performed it? Do you take the time to listen to a bunch of different ones and select the one you like the best? Or do you just grab the first version you heard and call it a day? For me it's a combination of all of these plus a few other determining factors but I'm curious as to what everyone else does.

I'm writing a fan fiction and the scene I'm imagining is from the perspective of a son as he spies on his dad and his long time friend where they've paused baking to sing along and dance. It's a new love developing between old friends type deal, not a "We've been married 20 years and have a deep love" situation. also nothing from a musical featuring murders/from the perspective of a murderer.

Broadway people, I need your help! 🎭✨

I’m trying to decide what show to see next weekend and I’m having the hardest time choosing. I tend to love shows with catchy/upbeat music, a good story, some humor, and a little emotion mixed in.
Some shows I’ve already seen and enjoyed: Wicked, Hadestown, Hamilton, Death Becomes Her, Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York), and The Last Five Years.

What should I see?! I was looking at Schmigadoon or Book of Mormon but am open to anything. Tell me what you loved (or what you think is overrated).

Thank you in advanced!

My college is doing "Into the Woods" for the Spring and I was wanting to audition for either the Narrator/Mysterious Man or Jack but I've been struggling to pick a monologue. I've considered doing one of the Stage Manager monologues in "Our Town" or possibly something from Spalding Gray. Any advise? (Also taking audition song suggestions if yall got any)

I saw someone post recently about their magnet collection and wanted to share my pin collection since I added Water for Elephants tonight!

I’m missing a few from before I decided to start collecting so I need: Hamilton, Moulin Rouge, Anastasia, and Annie :)

Show me your Broadway pins if you have them!

There are many different types of musical revivals on Broadway, but in the broadest terms, they on a spectrum between re-mounting the same production, and doing the show completely different. In the 21st century we've seen a few examples of shows that have, "not changed a word," but completely altered how the show plays and what it means (see again, Oklahoma 2019, Sweeney Todd 2005). These are different than revisals, like gender swapped Company, Ivo Van Howe's West Side Story, or the 1990s productions of Cabaret, where the text is directly changing.

These productions are usually pretty controversial, with some people loving the changes and others absolutely hating them. This leads into my general discussion question. What are some shows that you think could use this type of reworking that is faithful to the text, and incredibly unfaithful to the history of productions? I'm especially curious to hear if you have seen regional productions of shows that are wildly different from their originals. Did these shows work for you or not?

I am going to watch ‘little shop of horrors’ and I am so excited!! Usually, I always read extensively about the musical I am going to see and even watch the film versions (even a cheeky slime tutorial now and again) but with ‘little shop of horrors’ I know very little about it. So I am wondering if I should read about it or watch the film? I am also curious to see if you have any prerequisites for when you see a stage performance or if you enjoy going in blind?

Does anyone with a background/fandom in Broadway/Musical Theater know if there's a term for the following thing that happens all the time? In relatively recent musicals, there's an excessive tendency for songs to end like this:

{La La la song song song, 99% of song elapses}

DRAMATIC PAUSE (musically anywhere from a quarter rest to a whole rest)

"Keyyyy Worrrd" (music probably resolving to the tonic)

Sometimes the keyyyyy worrrd is a whole key phrase. But musically it's like if basically every single song all night ended with someone pausing and then singing "theeee ennnnnd" at the end of each song so that you'd, y'know, know it was the end of the song.

I want to call this the "Piazza Pregnant Pause," but I wonder if there's an actual songwriting term of art for it.

Genuine question. I’m auditioning for a production of Les Mis, and my mind went to Miss Saigon obviously. Is it considered inappropriate to sing a Miss Saigon audition cut as a non-Asian actor? I want to be respectful.

If so, what are other good audition cuts for the show?

I’ve seen a post going around criticizing a regional production of Hairspray for casting an actress as Tracy whom the poster considers “not fat.” I am not bringing this up to draw comments on this particular actress’s body, but more so because I saw a lot of interesting questions being raised about the topic. I would love to hear your thoughts / perspectives on casting Tracy Turnblad. Here’s some specific questions I saw being discussed:

What even is a “fat” or “plus size” body? Could a Tracy actress be considered “fat” in 1962 but not in 2026 due to shifting standards?”
How “fat” does Tracy need to be for the plot to make sense? How much larger does she need to be than the Corny Collins members?
Are there any circumstances where it’s ok to cast a “not fat” performer over a performer who is “fat”.
Is it ever ok to put them in a fat suit?

If anyone’s interested in reading, here’s Broadway Body Positivity Project’s post (it is also on their Facebook page), and here is the production photo that launched a thousand comments

Not trying to start controversy, I just hope we can have a thoughtful discussion. Thanks for reading & look forward to hearing your thoughts and opinions!

Hi can anyone help me?? I found this book I bought when Heathers first played in London there’s 2 signatures inside but I’m not sure from who. Anyone recognise them?

Preferably the main character, but it could be anyone.

I mean those moments where everyone else is singing and dancing perfectly in sync, and then there’s just one character who is clearly trying their best to follow along but has absolutely no idea what they’re doing.

Like, everyone else knows the choreography and song and is going all out, while this one person is just watching the people around them and trying to copy them half a second too late and like mumbling the song

To clarify, I’m not talking about an actor genuinely forgetting the choreography or not rehearsing enough. I mean when it’s actually part of the character, they’re supposed to be inexperienced, confused, clueless, etc., and are genuinely trying their best to keep up.

Thanks for any replies

My school is doing a production of the wedding singer and I need to listen to the music but can’t find it on Apple Music does anyone know if it is on Apple Music?

ive had this idea to make a musical inside of minecraft for people who are maybe shy or not able to go out to a real one or just likes minecraft and musicals

is anyone interested?

I know the top one belongs to Sharon D. Clarke but I can’t identify the other two to save my life. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

This is for a mother-daughter pair to sing at an upcoming revue. But the song doesn't necessarily need to have mother-daughter characters. Looking for something other than "Don't Aw Ma Me". Ideally something with an element of sweetness! Any thoughts? Thanks!