Updates

A few updates on previous posts:

It looks like Ragtime will not be happening at New York City Opera after all. The more I thought about that, the more I didn't think it was a very good idea anyways. I'm really not into mixing opera and Broadway and the experience more than likely would have been dull. However, another unjustly underrated and overlooked musical may be finally getting a second life. Kander & Ebb's The Visit, which I saw in it's world premiere here in Chicago and LOVED, is finally getting it's second production, almost 6 years later, this time in DC. The critics weren't very kind, but it was sold out, and I loved it. With a little bit of luck, the show will finally get to Broadway, or at least result in a cast album, like Bounce (another inexplicably underrated/overlooked show by a master that for some reason the critics just couldn't get behind despite obvious audience enthusiasm, that also went to DC after Chicago before disappearing before good).

Scarlett Johanson is reportedly up for the lead in the upcoming South Pacific. She's exactly how I picture Nellie (young and spirited, not old like Glenn Close), and I believe she can sing pretty well. I wasn't a big fan of her when she burst onto the scene with that Pearl Earring movie and the stupid Lost in Translation, but she redeemed herself with a great performance in what could have been a throwaway role in In Good Company, and she was superb in Match Point. I really hope this works out, it could be a match made in heaven.