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Today on Broadway: Monday, April 28, 2025
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Broadway Reviews for ‘Just in Time,’ ‘Dead Outlaw,’ ‘Real Women Have Curves’ Since 2016, “Today on Broadway” has been the first and only daily podcast recapping the top theatre headlines every Monday through Friday.
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Matt Tammanini
Welcome to Today on Broadway for Monday, April 28, 2025. I'm Broadway Radio's Matt Tammanini and I'm.
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Grace Aki
Tell Me on a Sunday Podcast Grace.
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Matt Tammanini
Ake Grace, it is crazy. It is wild out in the streets. We are going to have, I think, a first ever in our nine plus year history of Today on Broadway. We're gonna have an episode that is just three sets of Broadway reviews because.
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Unnamed Co-Host
Over the weekend we had the openings.
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Matt Tammanini
For Just In Time, Dead Outlaw and Real Women have Curves. So we're going to dive in to.
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Unnamed Co-Host
All of those reviews.
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Matt Tammanini
Grace, you have seen two of these three shows, so we're going to talk about your thoughts on those. I've not seen any of them. I will see them all starting next week.
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Unnamed Co-Host
But I did want to let you.
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Matt Tammanini
Know I had a great episode that came out on Friday and Patreon Saturday in the regular feed where I spoke with Tony nominee Amanda Green about Regency Girls. So if you want to check that out, it is in the podcast feeds now.
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Unnamed Co-Host
But then Grace, we're getting into reviews.
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Matt Tammanini
For these episode or for this episode and you're actually going to be doing some like Grace Aki centric reviews coming up in Patreon that we're really excited about. We were just kind of planning it out. So those will be coming into May. We're going to do those as like we're in the lead up to the Tonys. You're going to be focusing on some of the Tony's shows that you don't work on, maybe some that you kind of work on tangentially. But tell us a little bit about what those different episodes are going to be considering. We've never really done anything like that with you. You've always kind of just kind of talked about the stuff here on Today on Broadway, but we're going to expand on that a little bit for this season.
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Grace Aki
Yeah, I think that there's just so much to explore and so much to critique like genuinely all out of goodness and kindness of a person who also works in this space. But yeah, I'm really excited to have this conversation with you and just to kind of like delve deeper. And I know that we obviously do the daily radio, we do, you know, the updates, the news, things like that. But we also love theater, we love talking about theater and we love critiquing theater. So I'm excited to do that. Thank you.
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Matt Tammanini
Awesome. All right, well, let's get into it. As we said, it officially had its gala opening night earlier in the week, but reviews were embargoed until Saturday.
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Unnamed Co-Host
Actually, they had originally embargoed them till.
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Matt Tammanini
Monday and then changed that, so it.
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Unnamed Co-Host
Was a little weird.
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Matt Tammanini
But just in Time officially opened on Saturday at the Circle in the Square Theater. This is, of course, based on the life of Bobby Darin, with a book by Warren Late and Isaac Oliver, and directed and developed by Alex Timbers. The cast is fantastic, led by Jonathan Groff as Bobby Darin.
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Unnamed Co-Host
Also features Emily Bergle, Erica Henningson, Gracie.
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Matt Tammanini
Lawrence, Michelle Pak, Cesar Samoya and more. In the official breakdown, it says, look out, Jonathan's back.
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Unnamed Co-Host
Tony Award winner Jonathan Groff returns to.
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Matt Tammanini
Broadway this spring as Bobby Darin, the.
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Unnamed Co-Host
Legendary singer whose short but remarkable life took him from teen idol to global sensation. Developed and directed by Tony Award winner.
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Matt Tammanini
Alex Tempers, Just in Time is an electrifying new musical that will transport audiences into an intimate night, come complete with a live band, a stellar ensemble cast.
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Unnamed Co-Host
And iconic Bobby Darin hits including beyond the Sea, Mack the Knife, Splish Splash and Dream Lover.
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Matt Tammanini
Discover the man behind the music, a once in a lifetime talent who knew his time was limited and was determined to make a splash before it was too late. As of recording time, Review aggregator site Did They Like it has collected 19 reviews.
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Unnamed Co-Host
Thirteen were positive, five were mixed, and one was negative.
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Matt Tammanini
We're going to start with the New.
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Unnamed Co-Host
York Times and Jesse Green was mixed.
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Matt Tammanini
On the show, praising the performance of Jonathan Groff while having some concerns about other things. He made a reference at the top of the article about Jonathan Groff being, you know, very spitty and sweaty, which he tried to tie in. It just felt odd and unnecessary to me.
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Unnamed Co-Host
But he continued the water metaphor by.
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Matt Tammanini
Saying, quote, grof is a rushing pipeline.
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Unnamed Co-Host
A body and voice that seem to have evolved with a specific goal of transporting feelings from the inside to the outside. A rarity among male musical theater stars. He is thrilling, not just sonically, but.
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Matt Tammanini
Also emotionally, all in one breath. I don't. I mean, I think he's amazing. But I don't. I think that there are many, many other male musical theater stars who also are thrilling sonically and emotionally. So I'm not what I'm not sure what Jesse was trying to get out there, but he continues and Darren, the self described nightclub animal who bounced from.
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Unnamed Co-Host
Bopper to crooner to quester to recluse, is a great fit for him. Not because they are alike in temperament.
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Matt Tammanini
Other than a compulsion to entertain and be embraced by the audience.
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Unnamed Co-Host
Nor do they sound alike.
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Matt Tammanini
Graf's voice is lovelier than Darren's rounder and healthier.
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Unnamed Co-Host
But the Broadway and Brill building songs Darren sang, some of which he wrote, offer the scale snap and the bravora opportunities that are more often now as then a diva's birthright, not a devo's.
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Matt Tammanini
In other words, Groff is sensational.
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Unnamed Co-Host
Greene then goes on to dive into.
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Matt Tammanini
The plot of the show and criticize.
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Unnamed Co-Host
Some of the more jukeboxy aspects of.
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Matt Tammanini
The story that he felt were contrived, kind of whitewashed some more difficult things in the story and some things that he thought were even a bit disingenuous. But he concludes saying, quote, grof is.
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Unnamed Co-Host
Still swimming right to the end. Dismayed as I was to endure so much else, I have to admit, he's.
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Matt Tammanini
Giving one of Broadway's best performances. So who's sorry now? Let's move on to some of the other reviews.
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Unnamed Co-Host
Jackson McHenry from Vulture was positive, saying, quote, grof is undeniably great at bending a crowd around his little finger, and.
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Matt Tammanini
He'S working with an audience that's delighted to be pandered to.
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Unnamed Co-Host
He spends much of the show weaving.
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Matt Tammanini
Through that crowd and traipsing up the aisles and back to find people to.
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Unnamed Co-Host
Flirt and dance with. Like a Labrador licking his way through a maze in search of treats.
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Matt Tammanini
How could you deny this guy the adulation he crepes? Christian Lewis of Variety, though, was the one negative review that we had. They said, quote, director Alex Timbers and.
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Unnamed Co-Host
The book writers fail to go beyond the concert conceit and never give us a real portrait of Darren or leave us with a clear idea of what we were supposed to think of him. The musical offers us brief glimpses into how poorly he treated many of the.
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Matt Tammanini
People in life, particularly women. Groff and the team obviously love him.
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Unnamed Co-Host
And his work, but are we meant to?
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Matt Tammanini
And I'll wrap up with Shayna Russell from Entertainment Weekly who said, quote, when Just in Time does conclude, it goes out with an exuberant bang, and though.
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Unnamed Co-Host
The vapor forms, it's clear that this is a show guaranteed to linger. Whether it be the toe tapping tunes, the memory of Grof's enthralling presence, or a certain thought sure to cross your.
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Matt Tammanini
Mind on the way out.
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Unnamed Co-Host
When can I see it again?
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Matt Tammanini
Now, Grace, this is one you have seen. I'll be honest with you, I didn't really know what to expect of these reviews, but they are pretty positive. I don't know that this necessarily pushes it into the conversation for best musical, but they are certainly probably enough to.
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Unnamed Co-Host
Have some really good pool quotes. So what did you think of Just.
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Matt Tammanini
In Time when you saw it over at Circle in the Square?
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Grace Aki
Yeah, I think it's interesting that so many people are saying that, like, they appreciate the idea, but they're not sure about the execution. I think that that's true for a lot of new shows. But I think that what's wild is that, like, the second you see Groff come out, he's Groff and like, everybody in the audience is on his side. And Timbers is so genius at having an audience kind of like won over very quickly by its protagonist by creating kind of like this really cool, like, club scene culture. All that to be said, like, the thing is, is that I could never come back to that high of how the show starts the second it begins. He's incredibly charming and then that starts to kind of wear down throughout, it seemed. But I think it's exciting that we have something that was, you know, the genesis of it was at the 92y and with. I think he called Timbers, like the next day and said, I really want to, you know, dedicate some time to developing this because he talked about it in his variety. Actors on actors and some other things. And then Ted Chapin helped shape this, you know, as a concert. But then also Grof was very excited to learn more about him. I feel like I understand where a lot of the criticism is coming from in terms of, like, not learning more from Bobby, but, you know, we can get into another time. I just think it's interesting that a lot of people have said kind of the same thing but in different ways about the execution of the project, as.
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Matt Tammanini
I will with all of these different shows. If you want to read more of these reviews or some of the ones that I didn't get to, we will have the did they like it? Review roundups in the show notes. Moving on to our next one.
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Unnamed Co-Host
It is Dead Outlaw. That was the first of two shows that opened up on Sunday.
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Matt Tammanini
This one officially opened at the Longacre Theater. And of course it had previously played Off Broadway at the Audible Theater and.
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Unnamed Co-Host
Was a huge hit.
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Matt Tammanini
Off Broadway won a bunch of awards.
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Unnamed Co-Host
And came into this season when it.
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Matt Tammanini
Was eventually announced as one of the presumed frontrunners for Best Musical. We'll see if the reviews bore that out, but before we get into that, it is a show with a book by Itamar Moses and music by David Yazbeck and Eric Della Penna. Obviously, David Yazbeck and Itamar Moses had previously worked together in the band's Visit on Broadway and they are joined by the band's visits director David Cromer, who is also currently represented on Broadway in Goodnight and Good Luck and I think very well could quite possibly get dual Best Director nominations this season. Anitaj is the choreographer for this show and as it was off Broadway, it is a very small cast.
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Unnamed Co-Host
The entire cast for Dead Outlaw on Broadway consists of Jeb Brown, Andrew Durant, Eddie Cooper, Dashiell Eves, Julia Knightle, Ken Marks, Trent Saunders and Tom Cessmate.
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Matt Tammanini
The show is essentially a true story.
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Unnamed Co-Host
So keep that in mind as we.
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Matt Tammanini
Talk about this, But Dead Outlaw is.
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Unnamed Co-Host
The darkly hilarious and wildly inventive musical about the bizarre true story of outlaw turned corpse turned celebrity Elmer McCurdy. As Elmer's body finds even more outlandish.
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Matt Tammanini
Adventures in death than it could have.
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Unnamed Co-Host
Ever hoped for in life, the show.
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Matt Tammanini
Explores fame, failure and the meaning or utter meaninglessness of legacy.
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Unnamed Co-Host
Dying is no reason to stop living.
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Matt Tammanini
Life to its fullest as of recording time. Review aggregator site Did They Like it has collected 14 reviews.
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Unnamed Co-Host
Thirteen of them were positive and one was mixed. Jesse Green of the New York Times.
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Matt Tammanini
Was not only positive, the show was.
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Unnamed Co-Host
A New York Times critics pick.
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Matt Tammanini
He said quote dead Outlaw, the feel.
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Unnamed Co-Host
Good musical of the season.
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Matt Tammanini
If death and Deadpan feel good to you. As directed by David Cromer in another.
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Unnamed Co-Host
Of his daringly poker faced stagings, the.
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Matt Tammanini
Show is to Broadway what a ghost.
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Unnamed Co-Host
Train is to an amusement park with.
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Matt Tammanini
Screams and laughs but much better music.
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Unnamed Co-Host
The funny, gross story is largely true and feels even truer as paired to.
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Matt Tammanini
The bone by Itamar Moses in the.
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Unnamed Co-Host
Musical'S terse, brisk, sure footed book.
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Matt Tammanini
The songs by David Yazbeck and Eric.
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Unnamed Co-Host
Dellapena set harsh ideas to rowdy music that somehow makes even nihilism catchy.
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Matt Tammanini
The piquant results, as played with glee.
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Unnamed Co-Host
By the Guitar Forward Band will remind you less of Yazbek's recent Broadway scores. The band's visit, Tootsie Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown and Dirty.
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Matt Tammanini
Rotten Scoundrels than of his 2000 debut.
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Unnamed Co-Host
The full Monty, with its scrappy, scrapey grunt. Or perhaps it's his album Evil Monkey man with Della Penna on guitars that feels most like Dead Outlaw in a genre you might call cheerful, melancholy. And in part, it's the respect the.
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Matt Tammanini
Authors show the audience by leaving us.
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Unnamed Co-Host
To assemble the jokes for ourselves using the components they provide contrast, surprise, pattern and disruption, though that is already surpassingly rare on Broadway. Even rarer is the way the show forces us, through pure entertainment and with no pathos, to think about things our intelligence busily helps us avo why are we alive as long as we are? What should we do about it? And do we have our papers in order? Death Outlaw does.
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Matt Tammanini
It should have a hell of an afterlife. Adam Feldman from Timeout New York was positive.
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Unnamed Co-Host
He gave the show five out of five stars. Fairly rare from Adam Here he said.
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Matt Tammanini
Quote, his mortal thread is cut and.
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Unnamed Co-Host
Durand spends the rest of the musical being moved around in early in what might be the most impressive deadpan performance in history. He's staggeringly still.
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Matt Tammanini
You can't even catch him blink.
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Unnamed Co-Host
That same level of commitment extends to.
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Matt Tammanini
All of Dead Outlaw. The writing is piquant and sly, the.
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Unnamed Co-Host
Songs have verve and resonance, and every.
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Matt Tammanini
Element of Kromer's production seems to fit exactly in place. Chris Jones of the New York Daily News was also positive, saying quote at.
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Unnamed Co-Host
One point, Kromer and his gifted lighting designer Heather Gilbert combined for what must be the best lighting cue of the entire Broadway season, as a pinhole spot lands on Duran's face for what feels like several minutes as the audience holds.
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Matt Tammanini
Its breath, not knowing whether the corpse.
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Unnamed Co-Host
Will speak, stay dead or break into.
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Matt Tammanini
Song, the show fully understanding the possibilities.
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Unnamed Co-Host
Posed by the magic of theater. It's consummate Cromer and indicative of a highly unusual and highly skilled performance by.
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Matt Tammanini
A very game actor who also sings beautifully while his character is alive.
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Unnamed Co-Host
The one mixed review comes from Johnny Oleksinski of the New York Post saying.
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Matt Tammanini
Quote the musical has many diamonds in the rough, they're just not polished properly.
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Unnamed Co-Host
By Kromer's staging, which is awfully haphazard and diffuse for a typically sure thing director. Scenes far off to the side feel quickly cobbled together even though the show premiered more than a year ago.
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Matt Tammanini
And I'll wrap up with Emilyn Travis from Entertainment Weekly who said, quote as adaptations of popular, already established franchises continue.
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Unnamed Co-Host
To pop up on Broadway, it's thrilling.
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Matt Tammanini
To see original, truly one of a kind productions like Dead Outlaw rise up to Meet them.
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Unnamed Co-Host
Eccentric, silly and moving, the tale of.
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Matt Tammanini
Elmer McCurdy is one that truly needs to be seen to be believed. Now, despite what Oleksinski thought of Cromer's direction, Grace, both David Cromer as the director and Andrew Durand as the lead actor are getting phenomenal reviews. And I feel like for me personally, I have just assumed that we were living in a world in which Jamie Lloyd was the leader in the clubhouse for director of a musical and then in best lead actor in a musical. I was thinking that Darren Criss, maybe Jeremy Jordan, were going to be the leaders here. But I think we now have to consider Andrew Durand and David Cromer as if not the front runners in that front runner pack for both of those awards.
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Grace Aki
I think it's really exciting. You know, the anticipation for this one was extremely high. I am not seeing it until later this week, so I'm sorry, I can't comment on any of the other stuff. But I think in terms of awards positioning, this is where people felt like this and hoped for it to align in terms of that excitement that they had off Broadway transferring to Broadway. So I'm very happy for them.
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Unnamed Co-Host
And you did not see it off Broadway either, did you?
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Grace Aki
Never seen it once, except for I have seen a clip because I was at the Audible Minetta Lane like theater annual artist celebration and David Yazbeck got up on stage and was like, I read about this outlaw that had his cadaver across the U.S. and here's the song I wrote and he plucked it out on guitar and everybody laughed and I was like, no, I think he's serious. And then they of course did the show. So I've seen 40 seconds of the show. That's all I can say.
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Unnamed Co-Host
Very good.
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Matt Tammanini
Yeah, yeah, very good. All right. The last one that we have for today is Real Women have Curves which wrapped up the 2024, 2025 Broadway season.
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Unnamed Co-Host
When it opened on Sunday night over.
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Matt Tammanini
At the James Earl Jones Theater. It is based on the original play by Josefina Lopez who adapted that into a screen version for HBO along with George Lavoux. This one features a book by Lisa.
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Unnamed Co-Host
Loomer and then book with Nell Benjamin. So I'm not sure what the different.
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Matt Tammanini
Cred all about, but the score is written by Joy Huerta and Benjamin Velez.
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Unnamed Co-Host
If you're unfamiliar with Joy Huerta, she.
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Matt Tammanini
Is a fairly big pop star from Mexico. So keep that in mind as you're.
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Unnamed Co-Host
Hearing these songs come out into the.
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Matt Tammanini
World and listening to and hearing some of these reviews, it is directed and choreographed by Sergio Trujillo. The cast is led in her Broadway debut by Tatiana Cordoba as Anna. Her mother is played by Justina Machado, who is one of my absolute favorites. Also in the cast are Shelby Acosta, Florencia Coenza, Carla Jimenez, Aileen Mayagoyta, Mauricio Mendoza, Mason Reeves, Jennifer Sanchez, Sandra Vowles, and more. This one, if you aren't familiar with any of the previous versions of this, is set in East Los Angeles in a garment factory. Ana Garcia dreams of flying away, but.
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Unnamed Co-Host
When her family's East Los Angeles garment.
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Matt Tammanini
Business receives a make or break order for 200 dresses, Anna finds herself juggling her own ambitions, her mother, Carmen's expectations, and a community of women all trying to make it work against the odds. As of recording time, did they like it? Has 15 reviews, 13 are positive and two are mixed. We're going to start with the New York Times, not with Jesse Green, but.
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Unnamed Co-Host
Laura Collins Hughes, who was positive.
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Matt Tammanini
But as of now, the show is not considered a New York Times critics pick, and I'm assuming that will be how it stays. But I will just note that those.
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Unnamed Co-Host
Things do sometimes come a little bit.
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Matt Tammanini
Later after a review is posted, because the author of the article actually is not the one that makes that determination. Usually it is the editor. So because we are talking about this just after it has been posted, there is the possibility that the New York Times could make it a critics pick. So I'm just throwing that out there. But in her review, Laura Collins Hughes does what she always does and gives a lot of the show away. So I'm going to try to work.
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Unnamed Co-Host
Around that as I'm pulling quotes.
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Matt Tammanini
But her opening kind of gives away something, but I think it is important to kind of put some of the rest of her comments into context. She says, quote a brief scene in.
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Unnamed Co-Host
The new musical Real Women have Curves.
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Matt Tammanini
Is as harrowing as anything in the.
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Unnamed Co-Host
Most serious drama on Broadway, a group of terrified workers in a small Los.
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Matt Tammanini
Angeles stress factory hiding in the dark.
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Unnamed Co-Host
As they listen to an immigration raid taking place next door. When the raid is over, the first sounds to break the quiet are soft weeping and breath laden with fear. It's a jolt of somber realism and.
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Matt Tammanini
A show that opts ultimately to lean.
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Unnamed Co-Host
In a feel good direction.
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Matt Tammanini
Yet such is the balancing act of Real Women have Curves, which opened on Sunday night at the James Earl Jones Theater. She goes on, this production is much.
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Unnamed Co-Host
Tighter than the 2023 version audiences saw in its world premiere at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In the first act, the braiding of.
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Matt Tammanini
Plot strains is smooth with comedy, some.
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Unnamed Co-Host
Charming, some cheesy, gracefully coexisting with gut, gripping drama. But after a bleak start in Act.
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Matt Tammanini
2, the show opts for upbeat the.
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Unnamed Co-Host
Rest of the way. On the one hand, that means some fun musical numbers, as when the women at the Factory strip down to their undies and deliver rap solos during the Body Positive title song. On the other, substance yields to banalities, leaving the show feeling somewhat empty. What buoys it is an extremely likable cast, writing the ways of a hummable.
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Matt Tammanini
Score that sounds variously of Mexico, Broadway and American pop. Juan A. Ramirez, writing for Theaterly, was positive on the show. He said, quote, cordoba, with her sweet, expressive face, is the kind of ingenue.
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Unnamed Co-Host
Who'S easy to root for and builds easy rapport with her family. Chosen and biological, the musical trusts her to deliver, and she more than heartily rises to that challenge.
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Matt Tammanini
Thankfully, despite some tonal flaws, so do these women. Meg Massarone from Theatremania was positive as well, saying quote, as pertinent as that.
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Unnamed Co-Host
Notion is, it's just one empowering theme in this triumphant musical. While some might find the plot to.
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Matt Tammanini
Be all over the place, it's about Anna's experience serving as a slice of life. It is desperately needed now, at a.
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Unnamed Co-Host
Time when so many women like her.
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Matt Tammanini
Are dehumanized on a daily basis, whether because of their body race or immigration status.
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Unnamed Co-Host
Just as beauty is so much more than meets the eye, Real Women Have Curves offers far more than just its Body Positive title. It may not be the flashiest musical.
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Matt Tammanini
Of the season, but it's real, the realest thing Broadway has seen in quite some time.
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Unnamed Co-Host
Sarah Holdren of Ultra was also positive.
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Matt Tammanini
Saying, quote, directed and choreographed with plenty.
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Unnamed Co-Host
Of energy by Sergio Trujillo, this is a musical that does what sets out.
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Matt Tammanini
To do and by weight and substance, then some.
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Unnamed Co-Host
It's got plenty of bubbly, cheeky joy.
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Matt Tammanini
And big dreaming sincerity, but it pulls back before crossing the line into either treacle or fluff. Adam Feldman of Timeout in New York was positive, giving it four out of five stars, saying quote, in a time when immigrants are being actively dehumanized throughout the United States, Real Women have Curves.
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Unnamed Co-Host
Provides a vital counterpoint, partly by depicting.
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Matt Tammanini
The dreams and fears of immigrant workers.
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Unnamed Co-Host
In specific terms, but mostly just by being lovable. This show is a bona fide crowd pleaser, a warm hug that pulls you.
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Matt Tammanini
Into its generous bosom.
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Unnamed Co-Host
With a little luck, it could turn.
- [21:04]
Matt Tammanini
Out to be a sleeper hit.
- [21:05]
Unnamed Co-Host
Go now and get ahead of the.
- [21:07]
Matt Tammanini
Curve now Grace is another one that you saw. I have been rooting for this one. I'm very excited about these reviews and, you know, I'm kind of hoping that this is the one that kind of sneaks in and takes that fifth spot.
- [21:22]
Unnamed Co-Host
In the best musical category that I.
- [21:24]
Matt Tammanini
Consider currently maybe happy ending. Dead Outlaw, Operation Mincemeat and Buena Vista Social Club. So I'm hoping that this is the one that sneaks into that fifth slot.
- [21:35]
Grace Aki
Yeah, there's like a million factors up in the air. I think what's great is that so many people identified what was so beautiful about the show and what was so funny about the show. Like the slice of life thing, the sitcom. Like there's, it's, it's, it's nice. Like it was a genuine. And I, I know that some people probably use like it's sweet or it's nice as kind of like this like weird derogatory thing. It was so nice to just see a good musical, like a lovely little musical, you know what I mean? Like, I just, I had a great time and I was very excited that it's giving the positivity that it deserves.
- [22:08]
Matt Tammanini
I'm very much looking forward to this. This is the first show I'm going to see when I'm in town coming up on Saturday. So I am super pumped to be able to check this one out and cannot wait to see it. All right, everybody, that's all that we have for today. Thanks for listening to Today on Broadway. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram rodwayradio. And you can follow me on Instagram @bww mattgrace. Where can people find you?
- [22:27]
Grace Aki
You can find me at all right.
- [22:29]
Matt Tammanini
Everybody, have a wonderful Monday, a wonderful week and we'll be back to talk to you tomorrow.
- [22:39]
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