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"Holler If Ya Hear Me"
#50Holler If Ya Hear Me
Posted: 4/5/14 at 3:52pm
I saw it not knowing a single Tupac song. I watched the Tupac videos later and they have been re-musicalized, if you will, much like Tom Kitt did for American Idiot.
And some of it is his poetry set to original music.
Updated On: 4/5/14 at 03:52 PM
#51Holler If Ya Hear Me
Posted: 4/5/14 at 4:46pm
The new seating has to be specific to this show. I can't see them losing hundreds of seats just to put in stadium seating?!
My issue with their marketing strategy is how close they are unrolling everything to the ticket on-sale. No other show I can think of rolled out a website two days before selling tickets, and not telling people who was in the show, or what exactly it is. I guess in circles that I don't run in, they figure Tupac is enough to sell it initially?
#52Holler If Ya Hear Me
Posted: 4/6/14 at 12:17am
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#54Holler If Ya Hear Me
Posted: 4/6/14 at 12:46am
My problem with the new orchestra seating is that now the majority of options for seating are in the rear mezz (with the top half of the stage out of view), and the god awful balcony, which will now be even MORE frustrating - the stage is farther out towards the audience, so everyone will have to lean in farther than they already did when the stage wasn't thrust.
#55Holler If Ya Hear Me
Posted: 4/6/14 at 2:51amSo it seems like they are going to be installing an entire structure of seats on the orchestra level... are the stadium style orchestra seats going to slope up to be level with the mezzanine?
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#56Holler If Ya Hear Me
Posted: 4/6/14 at 2:56amI was just thinking today that when it comes to selling seats most shows don't have a problem selling orchestra seats, it's the Mezz seats that are a hard sell. Is removing half of the orchestra really going to be a good move?
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
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#57Holler If Ya Hear Me
Posted: 4/6/14 at 7:03am
The fact that everyone is so concerned with what it is about? How it's going to do? Who is in it? Why are they not marketing? How are they going to fill this theater? I think is quite enough marketing within itself, the buzz and the questions with this show is enough to make people wanna come out and see it.
The subject matter of the show struck me as kind of odd, but the way they are keeping everything so secret and I know a lot of the actors involved. Makes me even more intrigued.
#58Holler If Ya Hear Me
Posted: 4/6/14 at 8:22am
"The fact that everyone is so concerned with what it is about? How it's going to do? Who is in it? Why are they not marketing? How are they going to fill this theater? I think is quite enough marketing within itself, the buzz and the questions with this show is enough to make people wanna come out and see it."
I often buy tickets when they first go on sale for shows i know I want to see. None of the reasons you listed are making me $129 worth of curious, they are making me wait until this is in previews before I do anything. Plus, most people on BWW have questions like: Anyone have a discount code? Anyone know how the view is from the weird obstructed seats in ZZ 6 and 8? Any rush? Any lotto?
So, if you're intrigued enough to buy a ticket, you seem to be the first one and we're all waiting for you to report back. 
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#59Holler If Ya Hear Me
Posted: 4/6/14 at 10:01am
"I often buy tickets when they first go on sale for shows i know I want to see. None of the reasons you listed are making me $129 worth of curious, they are making me wait until this is in previews before I do anything. Plus, most people on BWW have questions like: Anyone have a discount code? Anyone know how the view is from the weird obstructed seats in ZZ 6 and 8? Any rush? Any lotto? "
I was speaking in general. Not particalary to you or the Message Board Community. Everyone in the Broadway Community seem to be asking all the same questions. Our dressing room is all a buzz with questions, and that's what I'm speaking on. Mind you none of the questions you brought forth have nothing to do with what I was generally speaking on.
And I said that I was intrigued. I never said intrigued enough to buy a ticket. If i see it, it will more than likely be for free, thanks to my fellow community. So I'm safe in saying my intrigue level is good where she is. Meanwhile you will only hear feedback from me if its personally touching enough to write about.
Updated On: 4/6/14 at 10:01 AM
#60Holler If Ya Hear Me
Posted: 4/6/14 at 11:50am
Mind you none of the questions you brought forth have nothing to do with what I was generally speaking on.
So I'm safe in saying my intrigue level is good where she is.
What in the hell are you talking about, BeingSupreme? Is this even English?
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#61Holler If Ya Hear Me
Posted: 4/6/14 at 2:29pm
Well with only 4 weeks of rehearsal I'll be surprised to see the shape it will be in. The minimum rehearsal for a NEW show especially including tech is about 6-8 weeks. And that's even for a small show. And you can certainly believe the buzz about what it's not isnt moving anyone to buy tickets.
Updated On: 4/6/14 at 02:29 PM
PlayItAgain
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#62Holler If Ya Hear Me
Posted: 4/7/14 at 10:20amif anyones curious the student tickets being offered are 42$ and are in the balcony, what a joke.
#63Holler If Ya Hear Me
Posted: 4/7/14 at 12:02pm
$42 for a rush ticket in the balcony of the Palace?
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#64Holler If Ya Hear Me
Posted: 4/7/14 at 12:10pm
Casting is here!
Saul Williams (Slam), Christopher Jackson (After Midnight), Saycon Sengbloh (Motown The Musical, Fela!), Ben Thompson (Matilda), John Earl Jelks (Radio Golf - Tony nomination), Joshua Boone (Brownsville Song [b side for Tray] at Actors Theatre of Louisville), Dyllon Burnside ("Prison Break") and Tony Award winner Tonya Pinkins (Jelly's Last Jam, Caroline or Change, Play On!)
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Updated On: 4/7/14 at 12:10 PM
Broadwaystar2
Broadway Star Joined: 9/4/13
#65Holler If Ya Hear Me
Posted: 4/7/14 at 12:30pmThis still does not make me want to rush and buy a ticket...LOL!
iluvtheatertrash
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#66Holler If Ya Hear Me
Posted: 4/7/14 at 12:32pmSigh. I love Tonya. Now, I gotta sit through this? Ugh.
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Up In One
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#67Holler If Ya Hear Me
Posted: 4/7/14 at 12:47pmSounds like they've done a "Dude" or "Candide" to the theatre eliminating any seats that were on the orchestra level under the mezz so now you have one continuous level from the stage to the top of the mezz. Could be very cool, but unless the stage level was also raised the balcony folk are going to have trouble seeing things downstage. I gotta give it to them this is sounding more interesting than anything that has opened this season.
Up In One
#68Holler If Ya Hear Me
Posted: 4/7/14 at 1:04pmOk that cast definitely has me piqued.
Words don't deserve that kind of malarkey. They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good anymore…I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.
#69Holler If Ya Hear Me
Posted: 4/7/14 at 1:06pmWell, the casting has definitely increased my interest in this.
#70Holler If Ya Hear Me
Posted: 4/7/14 at 1:25pmAccording to the accepted law of theatre music, we are at exactly the right year for a serious hardcore rap musical, with gangsta rap and pre-pop hip-hop having peaked in 1994.
RW3
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/13
#72Holler If Ya Hear Me
Posted: 5/2/14 at 9:23pmthat rehearsal video gave more zero desire to see the show.
A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.
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#73Holler If Ya Hear Me
Posted: 5/2/14 at 9:36pmA lot of powerful people involved in this, big producers, all that. Sadly, Broadway audiences and Rap/Hip Hop audiences don't overlap as much as they think they do. Not to fill an 1800 seat theater night after night.
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