Comments on: This Week on Stage: ‘The Understudy,’ ‘Idiot Savant,’ and ‘Nightingale’

By: Lauren

Lauren — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:46:31 +0000

Go see Next to Normal, if that’s what you want. It’s a phenomenal show.

By: ia

ia — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:34:46 +0000

Oooops…I meant “WHERE are all the great original musical playwrights…” Sorry.

By: ia

ia — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:33:48 +0000

Can we please stop with the revivals on Broadway…were are all the great original musical playwrights (and I don’t mean Disney movies, or comic book heroes, or any movie that was on the big screen). I feel Broadway desperately needs original musicals. How low can you go when you’ve got Hollywood now making films based on board games???!!!??? I hope Broadway doesn’t turn into that!! I wish Stephen Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd Webber would be writing great original Broadway musicals once again. And I know that there’s a bevy of new composers/writers out there. Come on, Broadway, work on this, pleeeze!

By: Ali

Ali — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:27:16 +0000

Thank you! I totally agree – EW reviews everything and the stage section is so tucked away it’s tough to remember it’s there. Thanks for calling attention to theater!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:42:06 +0000

I’m always pleasantly surprised when I see stage coverage on EW’s home page. =)