I saw this last night and figured I'd provide a brief review of the show. First, for those who are considering seats close to the stage, the stage is very high for this show. I'm 6' tall and I would have had significant problems seeing had I been any shorter. With regard to the show, the best way to sum it up is it suffers from the problems you would expect a show like this to suffer from, but does a lot better of a job than you would expect. This doesn't ever really feel like
Late notice, but if anyone is interested in purchasing one ticket to Company starring Aaron Tveit at Barrington Stage Company tomorrow night at 8pm, let me know. I'm looking to sell the ticket for twenty-five dollars. Thanks!
I'm going to go ahead and cover my bases here because I can: as was said earlier, it's pretty hard to know 100 percent that you'll be able to go because the chance is always miniscule that you'll win (i.e. entering daily, it's hard to know for sure). With all of these, my wholehearted intention was to go, but stuff comes up, and it's harder to make these things work with more than one or two people. The AiP wins speaks to how many lottery tickets they were giving out t
Not sure if this should count, but I won the AiP lottery six times in one weekend last summer. I also ended up winning The Humans lottery that same weekend. Didn't end up seeing either show but it was a fun experience entering!
I have one extra ticket to Night of the Iguana at ART starring James Earl Jones tonight. It's a front row seat and I'm looking to get 35 dollars for it. Let me know if you're interested!
I loved the 1986 movie and the musical, but I'd almost rather not see a name in this. I'd also like to see this movie be more faithful to the original musical.
I would also say the great comet is the right choice. Even if you are in rear mezz, they make a tremendous effort to get all over the theater. Just an overall outstanding show. If I had to choose between the two you mentioned though, I'd probably go with Falsettos. Personally, I wasn't a huge fan of TCP, although I know I'm an outlier. Falsettos seems like a lot of fun.
The biggest regional theaters in the area, american repertory theater and huntington theater company, are both outstanding. I don't think ART will have any major productions running in late October, but Huntington will have Tiger Style! directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel. For regional theaters, both have fantastic production values. I think Huntington recently won a tony award for best regional theater.
I would tend to agree, something rotten is not the show I would bring someone who doesn't think they enjoy musicals to. Personally, I would go for The Front Page and Falsettos in addition to either The Cherry Orchard or The Color Purple, but that's just me.
I saw the show at ART. We sat right in front of the stage pretty much in the middle of everything and it was probably the best experience I've ever had at the theater. Being that close definitely changed the experience for me. I think you would get something different out of the show being farther back. There is a lot going on in the show and it's hard to catch all of it, especially if you're on stage. You'd probably get a better view of the bigger production numbers. The
I think waitress and paramour would be the most missable of all the shows you mentioned. Have you considered the great comet? It will still be in previews, but it is an incredible show that is absolutely worth seeing.
Awesome, makes sense. I think I'll go for Fun Home. I was a little surprised to hear so much of the original cast is still in it, so I'm looking forward to it. Thanks for the help.
Sorry about tacking on to this thread, but I didn't want to start a new discussion for such a similar question. I'm coming to New York in late August and I'm trying to decide between 40-50 dollar seats in the 400s for Fun Home and rushing The Color Purple. I know these are both supposed to be great shows, but does anyone have a preference for one or the other? Thanks for any help!
