Matt Tamanini

Words @TheStreamable, @landgrant33, @BroadwayRadio. @OuterCriticsOCC member. Previously @bigten, @BroadwayWorld, @truecrimeobsess. he/him

[Matt Tamanini @BWWMatt]

I wrote about how being overly invested in a team (either positively or negatively) is the wrong way to approach fandom.

[Land-Grant Holy Land @Landgrant33]

We’ve all been online enough to know that @KirkHerbstreit is right that there are “psychotic” fans in #BuckeyeNation, but just because you critique your favorite team doesn’t mean you’re a bad fan.

https://t.co/Rwyt7i32B0

[Connor Lemons @lemons_connor]

Posting "according to sources" several minutes after the player himself posted the announcement on his own social media is so funny to me.

[Matt Tamanini @BWWMatt]

@FeldmanAdam ♟️

[Matt Tamanini @BWWMatt]

@lukezim Cowboy Mouth has been my favorite band since high school. Saw them a year or so ago in New York.

[Matt Tamanini @BWWMatt]

@theater_lovers Brockmire is brilliant and deserved such a better reception than it got.

[Matt Tamanini @BWWMatt]

@howrudeareyou When I got off the boat, I knew you were on the Queen Mary, so I was waiting… and then life and work got in the way. But it is on my to-do list for the week!

[Matt Tamanini @BWWMatt]

@PokerGO Lon and Norman are “legends,” but having them call the late stages of the Main Event is disrespectful to fans. They are a significant step down in quality from nearly all other options. Let the analysts who would rather talk poker than make unfunny jokes call the event. Please.

[Matt Tamanini @BWWMatt]

@DreaRenee_N @PokerGO Joining the chorus begging for this to be streamed, even if it requires some graphics concessions. Please make it happen, @PokerGO.

[Matt Tamanini @BWWMatt]

@divarobbie I haven’t either. They keep extending, so maybe we should take it as a sign/

[Matt Tamanini @BWWMatt]

@katereinking I’m not saying Mincemeat needs to go OB, just that every show has its own path and forcing a square peg into a round hole doesn’t help. I swore SIX’s multI-regional/cruise strategy was a mistake, obviously I wrong. I’d just hate to see a good show make too big of a leap and fail.

[Matt Tamanini @BWWMatt]

@katereinking So, if a show needs to “prove” itself with a smaller run on the other side of the Atlantic before moving into a bigger, more prestigious house, I’m ok with that. I mean, most of the best Broadway stuff comes from Off-Broadway anyway.

[Matt Tamanini @BWWMatt]

@katereinking But did they not try because their data, discussions, instincts said it wouldn’t work?

I think after Hadestown and Cabaret (and ASL) getting such different responses on each side of the ocean, I am gun-shy to assume that something that works in one place will work in the other.

[Matt Tamanini @BWWMatt]

@katereinking I agree, but the fact that the original never moved is part of the discussion, I feel. I know very little about Mincemeat (other than that people love it), so I’m mostly speaking in the abstract, but inherently, I don’t think everything that works there works here and vice versa.

[Matt Tamanini @BWWMatt]

@katereinking Can’t that be said in reverse, N2N? A decade-plus after winning a Tony & Pulitzer, it had to play a small, albeit prestigious, non-West End house to get a West End commercial run?

I never want to underestimate that US and UK audiences have different tastes, knowledge, interests.

[Matt Tamanini @BWWMatt]

@katereinking *for N2N

[Matt Tamanini @BWWMatt]

@katereinking I’m not saying that I’m going to vote for him, but I am overjoyed to have the opportunity to vote for him.

[Matt Tamanini @BWWMatt]

@MoMoPerry @FeldmanAdam Oh yeah, when I asked my contact from the show if they were involved with it, he said, “I wish!”

[Matt Tamanini @BWWMatt]

@FeldmanAdam @MoMoPerry I can confirm as well. I spoke to a member of the production staff that said that if they had done something like this, they certainly would not have done so on the night that the critic from a certain Gray Lady was in the house.

[BroadwayRadio @BroadwayRadio]

Last night, @NotebookMusical opened on Bway and while the reviews were mixed, @BWWMatt thinks it is far better than the critics are giving it credit for.

He also says that the casting of the central couple works on a talent and narrative level as well.

https://t.co/qanMPUIoIz

[Matt Tamanini @BWWMatt]

@katereinking @ashleyhufford You are a saint!