Generally I like Huntington, Lyric, Speakeasy, and ART. When Huntington had Merrily We Roll Along it was stupendous. I don't subscribe to Broadway in Boston because I'm not interested in all the shows (and I could never afford a subscription even if I were), but I do see some national tours with them.
Arts Emerson had Born For This last summer. It was terrific.
Does anyone know -- what about releasing the filmed version of Allegiance for individual purchase on DVD? Wasn't that supposed to happen around fall/winter 2018 (ie now)?
I'd also love them to release this new "making of" film along with it. I'd buy a two-DVD set of those.
Did anyone listen to the stream of West Side Story today from BBC Proms? I thought it was wonderful. I've been a fan of Eden Espinosa since I saw her in Merrily We Roll Along in Boston, so that's one reason I tuned in. I'd never super bonded with WSS before but now I suddenly have.
Recs for which cast album I should get? Open to any, but not to the movie soundtrack. I think it was the movie that made me bounce off the show years ago.
I have one ticket that I can't use for THE WIZ at the Lyric Stage in Boston, June 23, 8:00. Second row center. It's a physical ticket so you need to be willing to give me your snailmail address. First person to message me can have it.
I watched She Loves Me tonight and, for a personal reason that I'm not going to go into -- nothing about the production, which was great! -- it's not a show that I want in my life. I bought the cast recording a while ago -- the 2016 one, Benanti/Krakowski/Levi -- and hadn't listened to it yet. Anyone want it? First person to message me your name and mailing addie, I'll send you the CD.
Depending how important the time-tracking is to you, you could try a cheap, old-fashioned watch -- not one with a light, but one with a face that's big enough and numbers that are bold/clear/offset enough that you might be able to read it in the darkened house.
It bothers me very much. It nabs my focus from the stage even if the person is in the row in front of me or not next to me. Please, please keep it off. I have sympathy for you enjoying tracking the time in terms of the show's structure -- I do that sometimes with tv shows -- but in the theater it's not fair because you're interrupting other people's experience.
Jarethan, I absolutely adored FN at ART and saw it repeatedly here. (I live in Cambridge and those early tickets were cheap before it caught fire and sold out.) I had never heard any of the rumors about HW (I have no personal connections to pro theater) yet during the event when HW came to the ART for that fake ha-ha match with the reporter, I found his vibe to be disturbing and domineering. He walked around ART like he was king. It never influenced my love for the show, but nor did
Brantley: "For the first time in my experience, Frank is the beating, shattered heart of the show. That’s partly a matter of how Ms. Friedman has ingeniously framed her production. But it’s also a consequence Mr. Umbers’s startlingly sympathetic performance of a (usually unsympathetic) man to whom fame happens."
I saw it again. Even though, as somebody said here, it doesn't have a difficult plot, I realized tonight that the first time I saw it, I was spending a bunch of brain energy following the causations, just because of the reverse chronology. This time, I was able to watch in an "all-heart" way. It was SO GOOD. This cast -- wow, wow, wow. The singing level is fantastic. I feel so lucky that this came to Boston. Mark Umbers' acting job in terms of ch
