While the play has some flaws and some extraneous subplots, the performances and production are great. The main performers are great and this is definitely worth seeing.
Especially fun to be right up in the action as it is a small space.
Definitely do so as it is a shame to have empty seats for such good work.
So much depends on the relationships between the songwriters, like when it was clear that "Make 'em Laugh"and "Be a Clown" were pretty darn similar, but the composers worked together so nothing was made of it.
Watching "Fosse/Verdon" keeps reminding me of trivia, such as that the Rixton song "Me and My Broken Heart" which was a moderate hit a few years ago had a chorus similar enough to Rob Thomas' "Lonely No More" that Rob Thomas was included as a songwriter with no trouble - but that "Lonely No More" had sent theater fans' minds into "The Rhythm of Life" (so "Me and My Broken Heart" did, too). I figured Cy Coleman's heirs could have gotten a piece if they'd asked, but must have decided to take it as homage. It could be the Cy Coleman estate, with all its musical riches, was doing fine without raising a ruckus.
It does remind me of that way they sold TV reruns, and even what Lehman Engel would say when a show trotted out to-him-ancient shtick like the cheering when Angela Lansbury as "Mame" appeared as the man in the moon Vera Charles was singing about: if you haven't seen or heard it before, its new to you.
There was a minor-classic scene between Valerie Harper and Julie Kavner on "Rhoda" with Brenda so in love and so thrilled that her boyfriend Nick was writing songs especially for her. When Brenda insisted Nick's song "I count all the charms about Brenda" was still special because he had rewritten it for her. sung at 6:30, Rhoda reacts at 8:40 here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXLNgwHo8F8
Rhoda's comeback "All he did was change the Li for Bre, the nda was already there" was the talk of the school cafeteria. (and the terrific throwaway "Love me, Brenda, love me sweet" was later in the episode )
Total side note that Siri or something brought me because of that post: Jack Lawrence wrote "Linda" to honor Linda Eastman, the young daughter of his lawyer. (Now that's a lawyer-client relationship!) "Linda" married Paul McCartney in 1969.