Profile for theaterdarling

BroadwayBear2 said: "Anyone with the audio? Can you PM me or email em the link/file. I saw the show and cant get "Dead Mom" out of my head. Please and thank you."

Hey, you and others who are either promoting your possession of or requesting a link to the audio of this show are complicit in stealing -- do you think those signs at shows banning recording devices are not meant for you. What is the sense of entitlement that you think you deserve this for free?

MadsonMelo said: "Yes, I would like to know primarily if there are workers there or only machines.


I don't wanna use my credit card "

There are humans there, for one, to provide hard copies of tickets already paid for by customers online on the day of show, as was my situation. However, because there are humans there, I would not assume you can use cash, and I belie

Put me in the "positive reaction" column, if we must keep count. Saw it at yesterday's matinee and really loved it. I am a big fan of Conor McPherson and his being in control of the Dylan catalogue (also a big fan of) made this a must see for me.

Was the character development and narrative arc a little tropey, yep. A little "Our Town-y"? Check. Steinbeck lite? Check. Yet, it all worked for me. I thought the book stood on its own and whatever narrative short cuts

JudyDenmark said: "I strongly prefer seeing shows by myself.The main reason being, exactly as others have said, thatlot of my friends prefer to sit far away to save money, while I'd rather spend what I want to spend on a ticket to get the best experience.Not to mention that you can often score a great seat if it's a single.

I never feel uncomfortable, but I laugh sometimes at the different vibes depending on the show. At the more touristy family shows you sometimes

"Just got out of the show. This is gonna be a hit!! A couple little tweaks. But overall very very solid. Santino had everyone eating out of the palm of his hand the entire show. I’ll post more tomorrow when I’m not on my phone.


I may know someone who has full audio..."

And  I am sure you are going to tell that person you "may know" who has full audio that what he or she did was illegal, that stealing the work of the num

TheGingerBreadMan said: "There's no reason to hinder the experience of others."

So simple, but in this day and age it seems that a lot of people do not have that consciousness of or concern for others in the theater. They believe they are  entitled to conduct themselves as they would in their living rooms. Too many candy wrapper and email reading incidents to name, but a standout was in the recent revival of THIS IS OUR YOUTH I had a smug 20-something guy si

wolfwriter said: "I've been trying to remember the last time I hated something as much as I hated this amateurish new play by Craig Lucas. Even Lois Smith, who is wasted (like the rest of the cast) can't help this.

This is not a play. It's an idea that hasn't yet become a first draft, let alone something worthy of a full production.

It's as though Mr. Lucas thoughtabout going to a therapist and decided not to bother. Instead, he putt

darquegk said: "It's a fusion of concert, autobiography and Ted Talk, and I think it only works as well as it does because Springsteen is somewhat... for lack of a better word, "literary." He's renowned as a performer and a rock star, but his lyrics (particularly before and after his eighties pop period) are as much free-form post-Beat poetry as they are simply song-words.

There's a lot of acts that could do a good "MTV Unplugged" style show

Jordan Catalano said: "The show needs SO much work before it comes to Broadway. It would be wise of them to take as much time as they need to completely overhaul the book before even thinking of a transfer."

Resoundingly agree as to how much work it needs, though we might be in the minority given the overwhelmingly positive reaction the show received.  Also, though Diane Paulus has no heavy lifting at A.R.T. in the Fall (only a musical revue incorporating songs

dramamama611 said: "IdinaBellFoster said: "rjm516 said: "I know that many of you believe you are entitled to see everything you could possibly want to see and that absurd sense of entitlement leads you to think that it's no big deal but JFC stop breaking the law."

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Many??? One person mentioned bootlegs. One.<

I sat in House Right Orchestra row L seat 16 (starting in seat 18 and upward they warned of limited view) . Despite there being no limited view warnings popping up when I purchased my seat, I recall that twice, for a couple of minutes, that I was not able to see something on the house right side of the stage. I believe both times it was Aaron singing (NOT during Elephant medley and not Roxanne and not Chandelier --I'm too lazy to take out my Playbill and recall which song) - heard his voi

nasty_khakis said: "No offense meant, but based on this casting we can assume we won't see much...dancing, right?"

Don't know if you are old enough to remember that Fosse chose the fabulous Roy Scheider ( who was not a dancer though light on his feet due to his amateur boxing training)  to play his alter-ego, Joe Gideon, in Fosse's semi-autobiographical "All That Jazz" (one of the greatest movies of all time). Although the scenes where Sche

VintageSnarker said: "I don't care if it's a thin, romantic melodrama. This moment was perfectly executed in the movie and it's what audiences are going there to see.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8dW1ddAC_4"

I am going to see the show on Aug 3 and thus part of the "audience" you refer to. Contrary to your assertion,  I am going there to see Alex Timbers and John Logan's interpretation of Luhrmann's "Moulin Rouge&

If he is coming back to Broadway in a fifteen year old show as the millionth Fiyero he needs to fire his entire management team, Star or not a star, this would be such a huge come down.  Not quite sure on what planet this would occur on or on what cold day. That the mostly knowledgeable denizens of these boards would seriously float this is so puzzling to me. What a death wish for someone who otherwise seems to have very little ill-will aimed at him.

He's earned some of that n

Saw the show last night and really loved it. The cast has their timing down beautifully and really click. I think Parsons was fantastic and I believed every note. Bomer was a little uninteresting to me, but worked as part of the whole given the strength of the other dynamics created.

Quinto was more mannered and stilted than the others, as another commenter noted, and though a big Quinto fan, his performance was, for me, the least successful of the evening, though not so much so that i

I saw it two nights ago and have to agree with the negative critiques.

The book is awful. As others have said, the show lacks focus, suffers from a hackneyed, derivative plot lines and the dialog is maddingly trite. It plops down every de rigueur social issue (suburban opiate addiction, sexual identity, racial identity, teenagers party/date rape) with all the originality of an Afterschool Special. So many plot lines, so little time (well 2 hours 30 minutes to be exact). The fi