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Post by thebroadwayboy on Jul 2, 2023 4:33:07 GMT
Do you have any knowledge or guesses on what musicals to open on Broadway. Or off broadway if particularly good or "buzz" worthy
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Post by jakobo on Jul 2, 2023 9:48:47 GMT
Do you have any specific dates in mind? This autumn I’m looking forward to see Merrily We Roll Along, Harmony, Hell’s Kitchen, I Can Get It For You Wholesale, Gutenberg, Here Lies Love, Here We Are. Then in spring The Wiz and Three Houses.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2023 18:54:06 GMT
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Post by Marwood on Jul 15, 2023 18:01:00 GMT
I’ll be spending Christmas in NYC (downtown for the first time) so any suggestions will be appreciated: looking on Today Tix hasn’t been a help but maybe I need to wait until September or October
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Post by anthony40 on Jul 21, 2023 10:00:54 GMT
Well if it were me, for my money, I'd be going to see Jeremy Jordan return to the role of Seymour in the off-Broadway production of Little Shop of Horrors.
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Post by Marwood on Jul 21, 2023 19:29:42 GMT
I’m kind of tempted by Sesame Street The Musical but Here We Are sounds like it’s worth investigating, and as I will be staying downtown for a change it won’t be too much of a trek to get to the theatre,
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Post by Marwood on Jul 21, 2023 19:41:43 GMT
Ou vey! The prices! $364 for anything semi decent, I’m thinking I need to ponder this one
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2023 20:23:19 GMT
Ou vey! The prices! $364 for anything semi decent, I’m thinking I need to ponder this one
It is a small theater and the $129 and $169 seats are fine. That's what I bought.
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Post by Marwood on Jul 21, 2023 21:43:27 GMT
Cheers, it’s just not like it’s a AAA cast to charge that much: it’s got David Hyde Pierce and Bobby Cannavale as it’s ‘name’ actors and that’s about it.
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Post by Marwood on Jul 22, 2023 15:01:07 GMT
Well I’ve booked for the matinee on Saturday 23rd: I’m surprised that the only day without shows was Christmas Day but I’ll see what else arrives in the coming months and might see something else before o go home (I’m going back on the 29th, staying until the New Year would have bankrupted me)
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2023 17:23:07 GMT
Cheers, it’s just not like it’s a AAA cast to charge that much: it’s got David Hyde Pierce and Bobby Cannavale as it’s ‘name’ actors and that’s about it. From the show listing: Directed by two-time Tony Award winner Joe Mantello, Here We Are will feature Francois Battiste, Tracie Bennett, Bobby Cannavale, Micaela Diamond, Amber Gray, Jin Ha, Rachel Bay Jones, Denis O’Hare, Steven Pasquale, David Hyde Pierce, and Jeremy Shamos. Hyde Pierce and Cannavale are hardly the only "name" actors in the cast. The majority of the principal cast are beloved and well-known theater performers who regularly appear on NYC stages, as well as in TV and film. It is the last Sondheim work in a smallish space and directed by one of Broadway's best. It was always going to push the envelope of ticket prices for its better seats. I think the top tier prices are high, but correlation between cast and ticket prices long ago jumped the shark in NYC. Prices may very well come down if the eventual word of mouth is mixed or not good. |
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Post by Someone in a tree on Jul 22, 2023 18:08:57 GMT
I'm heading to NY for a Sondheim fest, Here we are (booked twice) and I've got tickets for Sweeney and Merrily also. I'm wondering, if even by my standards if its too much Uncle Steve!
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Post by Marwood on Jul 22, 2023 21:07:19 GMT
Cheers, it’s just not like it’s a AAA cast to charge that much: it’s got David Hyde Pierce and Bobby Cannavale as it’s ‘name’ actors and that’s about it. From the show listing: Directed by two-time Tony Award winner Joe Mantello, Here We Are will feature Francois Battiste, Tracie Bennett, Bobby Cannavale, Micaela Diamond, Amber Gray, Jin Ha, Rachel Bay Jones, Denis O’Hare, Steven Pasquale, David Hyde Pierce, and Jeremy Shamos. Hyde Pierce and Cannavale are hardly the only "name" actors in the cast. The majority of the principal cast are beloved and well-known theater performers who regularly appear on NYC stages, as well as in TV and film. It is the last Sondheim work in a smallish space and directed by one of Broadway's best. It was always going to push the envelope of ticket prices for its better seats. I think the top tier prices are high, but correlation between cast and ticket prices long ago jumped the shark in NYC. Prices may very well come down if the eventual word of mouth is mixed or not good. I am SO not a musicals man so please excuse my philistinism , this will be the first Sondheim I’ll have seen in a theatre (and apart from The Office: A Musical Parody, the first musical I’ll have seen in New York) and the only other name I recognised on that list was Tracie Bennett and that’s cos she used to be in Coronation Street 🤣 |
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Post by Marwood on Jul 26, 2023 19:39:59 GMT
Aubrey Plaza is going to be appearing in Danny and the Deep Blue Sea at the end of October for a ten week run at the Lucille Lortel Theatre which I might try to go to, depending on ticket prices.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2023 20:53:19 GMT
I'm heading to NY for a Sondheim fest, Here we are (booked twice) and I've got tickets for Sweeney and Merrily also. I'm wondering, if even by my standards if its too much Uncle Steve!
So long as you don't troll piano bars in a desperate search for a Sondheim Singalong, my hunch is you will be OK.
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