Live Theatre / Musicals

[Parkscope Joe]

Oh, and at my BMG shows they had the toilet paper finally and the the water vortex, no zoetrope. @Legacy

 

[Legacy]

Oh, and at my BMG shows they had the toilet paper finally and the the water vortex, no zoetrope. @Legacy

*cries in sadness*

*weeps for joy*

I have wanted this as musical for two decades. And it’s finally happening.

A Knight's Tale Musical Will Make World Premiere in Manchester Next Year

Brona C Titley is adapting the 2001 film that starred Heath Ledger and Paul Bettany.

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[Parkscope Joe]

Lin confirmed the much rumored Warriors concept album.

Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis Confirm Warriors Concept Album

The musical is adapted from the 1979 cult film.

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[Parkscope Joe]

 

[Legacy]

For every waiting for Bill and Ted to come back…

You can keep waiting for Godot.

Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter Set Excellent Broadway Adventure With Jamie Lloyd-Helmed Waiting for Godot

The Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure film stars will head the cast of the Samuel Beckett play in the 2025–2026 season.

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[Parkscope Joe]

For every waiting for Bill and Ted to come back…

You can keep waiting for Godot.

Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter Set Excellent Broadway Adventure With Jamie Lloyd-Helmed Waiting for Godot

The Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure film stars will head the cast of the Samuel Beckett play in the 2025–2026 season.

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"Bill & Teds Existential Adventure" - @JungleSkip

 

[rob@rar]

If anyone is a fan of Netflix's Stranger Things series, it's just been confirmed that the Stranger Things play "The First Shadow" is coming to Broadway next year. Tickets go on sale on 13 September if you sign up for their priority presale. The play opens next March at the Marquis Theater.

I've seen the play a couple of times in the West End and loved it. I'm a big fan of the Netflix series and this is an 'origin story' set in Hawkins, Indiana, in 1959. We see a lot of the adult characters from the 1980s-based TV series but as teenagers in the late 1950s. The play centres on Henry Creel, and I'll say no more to avoid spoilers except for it's very heavy on cutting-edge theatrical effects as well as a very solid story based on familiar characters that you'll enjoy getting to know their back story.

 

[Wesker69]

So I gave in & got tickets for BTTF in November at the Hollywood Pantages here in LA...


I figured if I was going to see it, there was only ONE acceptable date to do so...

NOV 5th - The day Doc Brown invented the Flux Capacitor, which is what makes time travel possible!

Got my ticket during the presale & only paid $80. Front row mezzanine. Was going to go for orchestra level seats, but haunt season is soon lol

 

[Legacy]

Kansas City has a ridiculously attractive Broadway series this year: Lion King, Parade, Funny Girl, Beetlejuice, Back to the Future, The Wiz; so we went ahead and bit that bullet.

 

[Parkscope Joe]

Kansas City has a ridiculously attractive Broadway series this year: Lion King, Parade, Funny Girl, Beetlejuice, Back to the Future, The Wiz; so we went ahead and bit that bullet.

Great list even if Beetlejuice and BTTF are meh

 

[Clive]

Kansas City has a ridiculously attractive Broadway series this year: Lion King, Parade, Funny Girl, Beetlejuice, Back to the Future, The Wiz; so we went ahead and bit that bullet.

Yeah, not a single stinker in that lineup. I really dig Beetlejuice, and while Back to the Future is undeniably the weak link, it's still an entertaining spectacle.

 

[PenguinCowboy]

I am just so curious how the show will travel. Very curious how it scales (the projections will be a 1-1, but the car alone is a feat of automation)

 

[Wesker69]

SOON.... well a month & 2 weeks..

 

[Parkscope Joe]

Putting this here...

 

[Grabnar]

Anyone in Texas, Strange Bird Immersive just put up tickets for their limited run immersive show “The Endings” Strange Bird Immersive, Houston's Award-winning Escape Room

Guided by a Narrator only you can hear, explore a ruined office and the hallways of your own mind. Choose what happens next in this dark comedy that always ends in your very own ludicrous death

 

[Parkscope Joe]

Finally saw Hamilton on tour thanks to the seat lottery! $10 and front row seats. Wow what a show, absolutely incredible.

 

[Parkscope Joe]

*gasp*

It never ever registered this was a show! Like, I know it is, but it was supposed to run forever!

Sleep No More to Close Off-Broadway After 5,000 Performances

The beloved adaptation of Macbeth kickstarted a craze for immersive theatre throughout New York City.

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Ok the funniest thing is happening…

 

[GAcoaster]

I keep hearing really good reviews of the stripped down Sunset Boulevard with Nicole Scherzinger, and I'm kind of shocked.

 

[Tobias]

I keep hearing really good reviews of the stripped down Sunset Boulevard with Nicole Scherzinger, and I'm kind of shocked.

Considering how the revival really wowed the West End, I'm not as shocked by this. Before it debuted over there, one could say the stripped-down direction and casting Scherzinger was a bit of a risk, but both are clearly showing it was a risk well worth taking. The various play with cameras/cinema and a bit of movie magic is very fitting, and Scherzinger absolutely has the chops for it.

 

[GAcoaster]

Considering how the revival really wowed the West End, I'm not as shocked by this. Before it debuted over there, one could say the stripped-down direction and casting Scherzinger was a bit of a risk, but both are clearly showing it was a risk well worth taking. The various play with cameras/cinema and a bit of movie magic is very fitting, and Scherzinger absolutely has the chops for it.

I know she has the talent, it's just hard for me to picture paying Broadway ticket prices to see a 'Pussycat Doll' star in a show if that's all I knew about her.

There are plenty of West End hits that have flopped on Broadway. American audiences can be fickle, and even critical success may not guarantee financial success.