Can a Broadway performer criticize their own show?

1776 cast member calls the show a "relic"; gives only "75 percent"

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This week, The Broadway Maven has a Weekly Blast but no classes.

This Weekly Blast includes:

A) an ESSAY about a hot controversy on Broadway from Mickey Jo Boucher, an Internet “stagey content provider” who runs the MickeyJoTheatre YouTube channel;

B) an ANNOUNCEMENT about a new Broadway Maven feature: the Archive;

C) a Broadway Maven YouTube GEM about why Wicked sounds magical;

D) a POLL about continuing Broadway COVID policies;

E) a LETTER TO THE EDITOR sharing a memory about Angela Lansbury;

F) a YouTube GEM about advanced musical theater terms you may not know; and

G) a LAST BLAST about Little Shop of Horrors, Damn Yankees, The Little Mermaid, and Phantom of the Opera. (Do you see the connection?)

(Last Blasts are a new FREE Weekly Blast feature: qui…