Ring Twice for Miranda and City Center Stages 1&2
Ring Twice for Miranda and City Center Stages 1&2
#1Ring Twice for Miranda and City Center Stages 1&2
Posted: 1/5/17 at 10:42am
I've seen Mainstage productions at City Center before- and loved them all- but I have yet to see something at Stages 1 and 2. What is the venue like? Share your experiences there?
Also, has anyone heard any buzz or seen Ring Twice for Miranda? The promo blurb sounded enticing.
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neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#2Ring Twice for Miranda and City Center Stages 1&2
Posted: 1/5/17 at 10:45am
It's the Manhattan Theater Club's space. They're small Off Broadway houses.
#3Ring Twice for Miranda and City Center Stages 1&2
Posted: 1/5/17 at 10:46am
I haven't seen that show, but when I hear the title I always think that Lin-Manuel is at the door!
Those theaters are both very nice. One is larger than the other and is set up as a traditional proscenium stage. There is a good rake, and you can see fine from anywhere. The smaller one is I guess you'd call it a black box, and I believe the audience sits on three sides, or maybe sometimes two sides. I think Heisenberg was in this theater.
#4Ring Twice for Miranda and City Center Stages 1&2
Posted: 1/5/17 at 10:47am
Stage 1 is a pretty traditional proscenium space of around 299 seats. Stage 2 is a malleable black-box space that is usually set up in a thrust arrangement.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#5Ring Twice for Miranda and City Center Stages 1&2
Posted: 1/5/17 at 3:43pm
But Miranda's not a MTC production, right?
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#6Ring Twice for Miranda and City Center Stages 1&2
Posted: 1/22/17 at 3:54pm
Any reports yet on this one?
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
#7Ring Twice for Miranda and City Center Stages 1&2
Posted: 2/21/17 at 11:29am
I saw.. half of it. I left at intermission, something I very rarely do.
This is truly one of the worst new plays I have seen in a long while.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#8Ring Twice for Miranda and City Center Stages 1&2
Posted: 2/21/17 at 11:56am
I have to agree with Kad. My friend and I both disliked it. Unlike Kad, though, we decided to stay for act two, hoping it would get better. Alas, no. It's a dystopian drama, but the play really doesn't have A point. The acting was all over the place. There's not much to recommend this one except for the sets, which were great.
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#9Ring Twice for Miranda and City Center Stages 1&2
Posted: 2/21/17 at 12:04pm
Wait, which play is bad: Ring Twice for Miranda or Linda?
#10Ring Twice for Miranda and City Center Stages 1&2
Posted: 2/21/17 at 12:57pm
Ring Twice. It's not affiliated with MTC at all, merely renting the space (Linda is part of the MTC season).
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#11Ring Twice for Miranda and City Center Stages 1&2
Posted: 2/21/17 at 1:07pm
Yeah I knew Linda was MTC, just wasn't clear which play the comments were about. Thanks.
