YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU previews.

[qafgenius122]

@ClydeBarrow, pretty sure we saw the same performance... I was the guy in A1. Lol. (At least I'm pretty sure based on ur A2 box complaint, it's u.)

[ZiggyCringe]

Saw the show last night and was underwhelmed.

The cast is mostly wonderful, with the exception of Jones who looked like he inadvertently wandered onto the Longacre stage.

The first act suffered from lack of cue pickup. An actor would deliver a line, and then ten seconds would pass before the response. In a Champagne comedy, this was deadly.

On the plus side, Ashford was HYSTERICAL. She made that character something new, and it worked like gangbusters.

Nielsen was very good, Halston wrung everything out of a three line character, and Ashley was lovely.

The problem was the pace, which was sluggish at best.

It's early, maybe they'll fix it.

I did see several moments where actors waited for laughs that didn't happen. They should know better.

[PJPan]

The intermissions felt so short, I didn't mind two at all. The only play I've been to that had them was "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and I didn't mind it then, either.

Saw the show last night. So charming. I knew going in that I would enjoy Kristine Nielsen, Mark Linn-Baker, Elizabeth Ashley, Annaleigh Ashford, and Will Brill (a bit meta since he was also in Act One), but the real surprise for me was Rose Byrne. I did expect her to be as natural and just...funny as she was. She really held up well against more seasoned stage actors.

I didn't expect much from James Earl Jones - after seeing him do a talkback for The Best Man it seemed he operates a bit slower, but he really looked to be giving it his all and I couldn't ask more than that. The show was just too much fun to watch to really nitpick at it.