Nah. Some malls will survive. They may look different than they used to, but I have a few malls near me that are all doing pretty well - the one I live closest to has expanded into self-care with additions like different fitness franchises (CycleBar, Orange Theory, etc), a waxing place, salons, etc. I think the age of…

Every Auntie’s is a drive-thru if you’re brave and skilled enough.

good plan since malls are soon to be a hazy 80's memory.

Because a lot of revivals of plays and musicals and new plays and musicals start outside of New York for a try out run, and DC is often one of those cities. It’s usually cheaper, it means that you don’t necessarily have to deal with New York’s harsher critics, etc (back when musicals and plays weren’t so expensive to…

It’s one of those plots that’s full of contrivances and a lot of metaphorical tap dancing. If we’re going to analyze it on a deeper level, we should factor in that Conner’s parents and basically the whole school put Evan on the hook for keeping Conner’s memory alive and speaking for him. The grammar of the story…

Yeah, there are certainly musicals that haven’t aged well (like 1958's Gigi about a teen being groomed to become a high-end Parisian prostitute as if that was something to aspire to), but Carousel never hid that Billy was not a nice person. That was the whole point -- he was allowed to come back after death to set…

Tvtropes even has a trope for that named “Dawson Casting” (Although obviously Dawson’s Creek wasn’t the first show where we were expected to accept twenty-somethings as teenagers).

They are almost always in their twenties and sometimes thirties. It’s fine. Why are you suddenly noticing now?

I think part of the issue is also that Evan isn’t supposed to be cool. Ryan in the OC is cool. Luke Perry on 90210 was cool. Even Rizzo in Grease, cool. So we expect them to look worldly and adult in a way high schoolers don’t. A filled out, adult Evan looks too healthy.

I would argue that everyone ended up cast too old because they cast it around Ben Platt. I even think that Julianne Moore is too old to be honest. I do think adult!Ben Platt looks more off because he seems overdeveloped for Evan. That’s more perception than anything in the script most likely, but Evan “feels” like he…

Some people just cannot handle the idea of the unlikable protagonist or anti-hero.  You can very patiently try to explain that depiction doesn’t equate to endorsement to these people and it just doesn’t compute with them.  

I saw a production of Carousel with a friend when I was 16 and we both were baffled by the “romance” element that involved a guy relentlessly bullying and abusing a woman while she fell in love with his puppets.

Yeah, honestly I’m a bit surprised to see how much of a “thing” a backlash to Evan Hansen’s plot has become, at least with certain people online.  It feels like you have to work pretty hard to misread the musical’s intentions to truly be offended by it.

As a musical theatre geek, on the other hand, I’ve heard the…

You should probably check out the original 90210. Just for kicks. 

Is it that they don’t seem to have had makeup and hair done to make them look younger?

I wish her the best.

Actors, writers, and other above-the-line people draw royalties from old shows, whether it’s a rerun on basic cable, or a small cut of every DVD sale. As long as someone wants to watch an old show, it has value to the studio that owns it. So while the only “true hard cost” may be the servers hosting the content, the…

It’s weird to complain about this when it’s only adding options, not taking them away. For some people it will be worth it to save $5 a month and watch ads. I’ll keep spending $15 a month and not having them /shrug. 

How does this advanced service which matches passengers with drivers not know which customer left what in the rideshare? That’s all these companies do is harvest, match, and sell data, they should know whose food this was. Were the passengers fleeing for their lives at the end of their rides?

last summer I was so desperate for content I loved this dumb show, I wonder if it’ll hit the same this year. I like the weird roll-out experiment, that’s fun.