Notables include Oprah Winfrey (who could win her first Tony as producer of “The Color Purple”), Cate Blanchett (making her Broadway debut this winter in Chekhov adaptation “The Present”), Nathan Lane (heading back to Broadway this fall in the revival of “The Front Page”, which also features Dayton native and Tony nominee Micah Stock), Steve Martin and Edie Brickell (nominated for their charming bluegrass musical “Bright Star”), and Jake Gyllenhaal (starring this fall in a NY concert version of Sondheim’s “Sunday in the Park with George”). Miranda has already this year won a Pulitzer Prize, a Grammy, the Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History and a MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant.
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NEW YORK, United States-Tickets to the smash-hit Broadway musical “Hamilton” are going for record-breaking prices-skyrocketing to more than $6,000 apiece. One of the most dark and twisted shows was “American Psycho”, with a knife-wielding hero smeared in blood.
The “should win” categories among “Hamilton” nominees include director Thomas Kail and best featured actress in a musical for another CMU alumna, Renee Elise Goldsberry, as Hamilton’s strong-willed sister-in-law, Angelica Schuyler.
“Inherently what I think Lin’s show is saying and what so numerous shows this season are saying is, ‘Your story matters.’ It can be about a waitress in a little town”. It can be about a group of dockworkers.
I mean that in any other year, the quality and richness of this season’s remarkable plays and musicals would have had a chance to define more of today’s theatre conversation.
Toronto-raised Sergio Trujillo has worked on Tony-winning musicals like Jersey Boys and Memphis, and has previously attended the annual ceremony saluting Broadway’s best.
You will hear “Hamilton” repeatedly tonight, so get used to it. One of the most hotly contested races is between Andy Blankenbuehler, who devised the sensational, nearly continual movement in “Hamilton”, and Savion Glover, whose enchanting tap choreography is the most elevating element of director George C. Wolfe’s “Shuffle Along, or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed”. Similarly, in musical revivals, we have wonderful yet mostly conventional productions of “She Loves Me” and “Fiddler”, compared to the Deaf West production of “Spring Awakening” and John Doyle’s intimate rethinking of “The Color Purple”.
But in any case, those huge asks can’t help but make the $199 and $179 nonpremium prices (up from $177 and $139) look like steals when the next bloc of 2017 NY shows go on sale this week.
“As a person of color, I feel like people are really getting to see someone who looks like them on stage”, Odulukwe said. The musical tells the story of the mounting of a new musical and how its all black cast changes the face of theatre.
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