Need some show help!! Honeymoon in Vegas cancelled
Need some show help!! Honeymoon in Vegas cancelled
vtalum05
Stand-by Joined: 2/12/08
#1Need some show help!! Honeymoon in Vegas cancelled
Posted: 4/1/15 at 7:42pm
Hello,
I'm coming to NYC in a few weeks and my tickets for Honeymoon In Vegas have been cancelled for a Wednesday night. I need some advice for a replacement show that I can get tickets for fairly quickly. I already have tickets for On The Town and Kinky Boots. Have seen most of the longer running shows and have considered Aladdin, Finding Neverland and Hamilton but they all might be difficult to get tickets for. Thoughts? I'm bringing my 60 year old mother so wanted to keep the choices light and fun and not too difficult to follow. Any thoughts, help or friendly advice would be greatly appreciated. Unfortunately I am out of the country until Saturday with limited internet access so getting tickets before I get home might be impossible. Thanks in advance!!
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#2Need some show help!! Honeymoon in Vegas cancelled
Posted: 4/1/15 at 7:43pm
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A1st
Featured Actor Joined: 5/5/14
#2Need some show help!! Honeymoon in Vegas cancelled
Posted: 4/1/15 at 7:50pm
Something Rotten, it's perhaps the lightest and most fun mucial I've been to in years! But Finding Neverland was amazing as well but not as light. I liked Aladdin a lot, but in the end the choice will have to be up to you!
FishermanBob
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/9/12
#3Need some show help!! Honeymoon in Vegas cancelled
Posted: 4/1/15 at 8:11pm
"I'm bringing my 60 year old mother so wanted to keep the choices light and fun and not too difficult to follow. Any thoughts, help or friendly advice would be greatly appreciated."
Here's my advice. Don't assume someone 60 years old is far too old to follow a complex story line or wouldn't be into an edgy story.
MVintheheartland
Featured Actor Joined: 11/19/13
#4Need some show help!! Honeymoon in Vegas cancelled
Posted: 4/1/15 at 8:28pm
On the Twentieth Century is great. I saw it last weekend, you and mom should both enjoy it.
MVintheheartland
Featured Actor Joined: 11/19/13
#5Need some show help!! Honeymoon in Vegas cancelled
Posted: 4/1/15 at 8:29pm
BTW, I'm 61, and the edgier, the better. Loved "Hand to God" last weekend.
However, my husband was upset with me when I let our early teenage kids see Rent (twice,I think).
I know, I am a bad mother.
#6Need some show help!! Honeymoon in Vegas cancelled
Posted: 4/1/15 at 8:34pm
I have not seen Gigi, Dr. Zhivago, or The King and I yet, so I cannot comment on those. But based on your criteria, and only including new musicals (that seems to be what you want) some good bets would be:
Finding Neverland - better than I expected
Something Rotten - very cute and funny
On The 20th Century
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Hamilton is awesome but unless you already have tickets or an extra $2000-3000.00 for 2 tickets you won't be able to go in April.
It Shoulda Been You was ok, not the best, but it is very funny and it fits what you describe you are looking for, also, tickets would be easy to find.
An American In Paris, it was better than I expected but I would pick one of the others listed above before this. Its style is also similar to On The Town and you are already seeing that.
Aladdin was ok .... I love Disney in general but if I was going with my mom I would pick something else from the list above before Aladdin.
I would not recommend The Visit (I was disappointed with it) or Fun Home based on your comments, although Fun Home is excellent.
Updated On: 4/1/15 at 08:34 PM
#7Need some show help!! Honeymoon in Vegas cancelled
Posted: 4/1/15 at 8:38pm
See THE KING AND I. It's a classic, it's beautifully done, and it's not terribly dark or "depressing."
I would go with FUN HOME or THE VISIT, personally. But since you mention you want to please your mother, I think your best bet is THE KING AND I.
ebontoyan
Broadway Star Joined: 9/22/14
#8Need some show help!! Honeymoon in Vegas cancelled
Posted: 4/1/15 at 8:39pm
On the Twentieth Century (I saw first in Feb, I have tix to see again in May) and Something Rotten (I haven't seen yet but I've read good things about it!)
#9Need some show help!! Honeymoon in Vegas cancelled
Posted: 4/1/15 at 9:15pm
It Shoulda Been You, Finding Neverland, Aladdin, Beautiful
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ethan231h
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/5/11
#10Need some show help!! Honeymoon in Vegas cancelled
Posted: 4/1/15 at 9:32pm
Fun Home or Curious Incident...
#11Need some show help!! Honeymoon in Vegas cancelled
Posted: 4/1/15 at 10:07pm
On The 20th Century or Something Rotten
"Anything you do, let it it come from you--then it will be new."
Sunday in the Park with George
#12Need some show help!! Honeymoon in Vegas cancelled
Posted: 4/4/15 at 10:39pm
If your mother is already a big R&H fan (you can usually tell by checking to see if there are moldy 33 1/3 OBC albums stacked somewhere in the basement), then she will love this production of a classic from her era. You would be doing her a disservice by not taking her to this production.
If she is not an R&H nut then On The 20th Century, book by Comden/Green, is fun if not classic and was given good to great ratings by all.
