The Comet at ART!

[GlindatheGood22]

Posted: 4/3/15 at 7:24pm

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/World-Premiere-of-WAITRESS-Mark-Rylances-NICE-FISH-THE-GREAT-COMET-OF-1812-More-Set-for-ARTs-2015-16-Season-20150402

 

Forgive me. I'll be excited about Waitress and the rest later. Right now I just have to flail about this. Sure sounds like a pre-Broadway run to me.

[theatreguy]

Posted: 4/3/15 at 9:59pm

I had the same thought since I had read an interview with Dave Molloy 2 days ago which includes this:

 

Could you see Comet on Broadway, like the rumors say might happen?
Totally. I would love to see that happen. It would require a very particular house, in order to maintain the kind of intimacy we had. But at the same time, we'd expand it enough to fill a Broadway house. But I do think there are ways it could happen.

 

[LightsOut90]

Posted: 4/3/15 at 10:23pm

based on their press release they mention "continual development" if all goes well i could totally see this transferring, as thats always been the plan.

[RippedMan]

Posted: 4/3/15 at 11:23pm

Maybe this is a proscenium run? See how they can design it and whatnot.

[LightsOut90]

Posted: 4/3/15 at 11:40pm

you could totally do this show in a proscenium theatre with onstage seating elements, or tables ala Cabaret. 

[Fantod]

Posted: 4/4/15 at 12:22am

I think this would play well in Studio 54. I find the score to be a mix of super fun songs and painfully bad ones (The Private and Intimate Life of the House), but I would love to see it on stage.

[oncemorewithfeeling2]

Posted: 4/4/15 at 12:30am

The Great Comet is playing at a traditional theater, but it also said it would be "a new immersive experience."  I'm interested to see what that turns out to be.

Fantod, I agree that this could do well at Sudio 54 if they used an approach similar to what was done with Cabaret...some areas of traditional seating, but much more open with tables and banquettes.

[The Josh]

Posted: 4/4/15 at 12:32am

Couldn't be more excited about this!  I missed it off-broadway, so I thought I wouldn't get another chance!

[willep]

Posted: 4/4/15 at 12:02pm

I wonder if this means that Nice Fish is going to be playing at St. Ann's next year as well.

 

What an exciting season A.R.T. has...so excited for another opportunity to see The Great Comet. I hope they make it just as exciting in a proscenium theatre. I have faith they will.

[Sauja]

Posted: 4/4/15 at 2:39pm

It feels like a show they could do at Circle in the Square. Of course, I hope Fun Home runs forever, but whenever the space became available, it doesn't seem like too much of a stretch to me that they'd be able to pull it off beautifully there.

[starcatchers]

Posted: 4/5/15 at 12:07am

They had their eye on Circle for it for some time but it never came through. I'd be interested to see it in a regular theatre. 

[Brick]

Posted: 4/5/15 at 1:03pm

Rumours are indeed true Broadway plans have are shaping up again. As recently as last month they were in talks with two movie stars, both of whom would be a catch for a Broadway run.

I didn't hear where those talk landed, but this run would seem to have little purpose if not to explore staging the piece in a proscenium.

Updated On: 4/5/15 at 01:03 PM

[willep]

Posted: 4/6/15 at 2:36am

Movie stars?? Interesting. Not sure I can think of any I would like to see in this wonderful show.

[Fan123]

Posted: 11/14/15 at 12:42am

The seating plan here gives some indication of how the show will be done in a proscenium space:

https://twitter.com/americanrep/status/660189814852067334

 

Dave Malloy also tweeted about a new song added to the show. Interesting.

https://twitter.com/dave_malloy/status/664967707771707392

[RippedMan]

Posted: 11/14/15 at 12:44am

So basically it's the same design just put on a stage and the rest of the audience watching that? 

[Wee Thomas2]

Posted: 11/14/15 at 9:53am

Friends who had booked tickets in one of the first couple of rows were recently informed by the ART that they would now be seated on the stage.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 11/14/15 at 10:11am

I wasn't so lucky, I was informed I'm now in the orchestra.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 11/14/15 at 10:21am

Are you a subscriber?  Subscribers were able to choose. 

[Buddy Plummer2]

Posted: 11/14/15 at 11:11am

Booked my bus seat and my ticket for the first night; absolutely loved this show in NY; cannot WAIT to see it again.

question- my seat is in the orchestra (four rows back, a decent view for sure), but do you think if single seats open up in the banquette/ barstool area that night, they might consider letting me switch at the box office?

 

[Brick]

Posted: 11/14/15 at 1:53pm

I must say I'm a little disappointed they are simply putting the production on the proscenium and having a house watch it. That can certainly work sometimes, like with the recent A VIEW  FROM THE BRIDGE production, which replaced one third of the audience banks with a full proscenium house. This production, though, gained so much energy from the performers moving through and around the crowd. Watching that happening seems not only flat, but also allows the audience to have such equal focus on stage, it would seem.

This creative team is so brilliant I had thought they would find some clever new opportunities in a proscenium, and despite this, I shall remain hopeful.

Also, I'm still hearing some very A-List casting rumours for Bway. I don't they materialize for ART, but they are likely still for Bway.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 11/14/15 at 2:58pm

Brick--I had the same thought.  I'd be really disappointed to be in the orchestra--especially the back half.  Of course I assume they will find some ways to involve the orchestra but there's only so much entering down the aisle you can do.  Still, if I were there I admit I wouldn't pass up the chance but from purely looking at the chart, my first thought was they'd basically perform the show as is and then the people in the Orchestra are just mererly watching looking in.