From LCT's website: orchestrator Bruce Coughlin on returning to Floyd Collins with an expanded instrumental palette, and sound designer Dan Moses Schreier on "Floyd Collins and its echoes" (both men won Drama Desk awards for their work on the 1996 Off Broadway production), as well as music director Ted Sperling, likewise returning from that original team.

Coughlin and Sperling shared the 2005 Tony Award for Best Orchestrations with Guettel for their work on The Light in the Piazza.  Schreier is a five-time Tony nominee, including for Gypsy (2008), A Little Night Music and Sondheim on Sondheim (both 2010), but Floyd could potentially be his first win.

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Limited theatrical release October 17, going wider October 24.

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It actually costs $20 at FedEx Office if you want a digital copy of your photo (in addition to the physical copies), although they do throw in a flash drive. 

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Closing on Broadway the following day, with five Tony nominations (Clooney as Best Actor, plus all four design categories), Good Night, and Good Luck has broken multiple box-office records and swiftly recouped its $9.5 million capitalization.  It accomplished these feats by charging dizzying prices — which still didn't seem to make tickets any less sought-after, but which did (along with the critically-panned, Tony-snubbed but equally pricey Denzel Washington/Jake Gyllenhaal Othello, whose limited run closes the same day as GNaGL's) stoke plenty of grumbling about greed, hypocrisy, and the invasion of Broadway by Hollywood.

All of which is to say, this free livestream is probably a good idea from the perspective of PR as well as that of accessibility — though of course, to the terminally media-disillusioned, especially among the right wing, the confluence of this particular story with Clooney and CNN probably can't look like anything but liberal-elite mutual masturbation (animated, in 2025, by more than a little political desperation in addition to the usual greed-hypocrisy-etc.).

Regardless: the play has gotten good reviews, I enjoyed the movie back in 2005, and Scott Pask's Tony-nominated set has been especially well spoken-of; so, while I might not have seen it in person even if ticket prices weren't ludicrously prohibitive, I'll be watching the livestream.

In late breaking news (emphasis on late), the new Gypsy cast recording has been out for over a month in streaming and digital formats.
(CD and vinyl can be pre-ordered here to ship on July 25).

I think FC would be an excellent candidate for a "Live From Lincoln Center" or "Great Performances" broadcast (although, given the current state of PBS, the money it would cost to record the show may simply not exist).

My sense is that, while Floyd isn't in danger of closing prematurely (in less-unstable times, its limited run and well-funded, prestigious nonprofit venue alone would ensure that), neither is it packing audiences in: a random glance at this coming Tuesday's and Saturday's seating charts shows both performances currently looking around 75% full, with the Loge at least half-empty and a generous smattering of orchestra seats still available as well.  Premium seats top out at $299, while TDF is offering discounted tickets at $50 for some weekday performances.  None of which is too surprising for fairly "niche" material which, as such, has garnered mixed reviews and audience reactions.

But it also suggests that, if a full video recording for broadcast or streaming were being planned, it might be kept under tight wraps until much closer to (or after) closing, so as not to eat into ticket sales that already look, not disastrous, but decidedly unspectacular.  (Household-name stage megahits like Wicked may see box-office spikes from the even-broader exposure and increased accessibility of a movie or streaming version, but I doubt that would be the case for a show like Floyd which hasn't yet, probably never will, and arguably shouldn't achieve that kind of mass appeal).

On that basis (i.e., that a full proshot not having been announced, or even leaked as a possibility, might theoretically just mean that it remains a well-kept secret for the time being), I'm not ruling the idea out altogether — though I'm not getting my hopes up either.

Added yesterday:

My top things to do this weekend:
• Laundry (done!)
• Renew my passport (still need a photo; I tried to take one yesterday, but they weren't acceptable to the State Department, so I will try again today, and if that doesn't work, I'm going to have to fork out $15 to FedEx Office to get "real" ones done)
• Cook dinner (not just reheat a frozen one)

I think I will need to turn on the AC this week.   

Wow, you have all kinds of visitors! I especially like that the Arizona Coyotes and Arizona Cardinals showed some team support.