GavestonPS said: "Dave13 said: "You can use the Broadway grosses tool on this site.
I looked at the last week of each year, which is the holidays.
The earliest is 1984. $31.34 1990 $39.72 2000 $67.73 2010 $99.62 2018 $152.56"
To push it back a few years, I remember paying $16.50 for a top price ticket to ANNIE in 1977. I thought it was outrageous (even before I endured the show)!
LLW2 wrote: I'm intrigued by your idea that Oisin set the goose free deliberately, that it wasn't an accident. That adds a layer to the Act I ending.
OMG -- I just went back and looked at the end of Act I. Now I'm more sure of the idea than ever. Now add to all that -- exactly how is the goose slaughtered? Yeah, that too.
LLW2 said: "Mike66 said: "The written play states specifically that Aunt Maggie Far Away hears Banshees in the final scene."
It says we do too! The stage directions say, "Outside, the Banshees scream. It rises." I don't remember hearing offstage screams, but as others have said, there's a heck of a lot going on in that last minute."
But more to the point, I was 5 when my parents took me to see "Pajama Game" (1955) -- I still remember the 'magic' of it. The dancing, the movement, 'all those people down there.'
If you want to start her out with the best, the costumes, the music, and yes, the wonder of the story -- you really cant go wrong.
And, I'll also second the recommendation about LION K
FERRYMAN> Easy choice, especially with the ones you are already scheduled for. It's not a star driven piece, it's an ensemble presentation, so the cast specifics aren't critical. (I assume they'll have the Goose and the Rabbit totally ready to go....)
It's Uncle Pat who talks about the Ferryman on the River Styx. His point being that The Ferryman cannot take a soul to rest (to either heaven or hell) until there is a body. So Uncle Pat inquires of the priest as to what happens to someone's soul in the time between death and the discovery of the body of the deceased.
The written play states specifically that Aunt Maggie Far Away hears Banshees in the final scene.
I too would have bet my after show cheesecake that there would be a murder -- and definitely after the proposal scene I was sure I knew who was going to die.
All credit to the writer, the director and the cast to tell such a wonderful tale.
If I had to pick one to see right now, it would be WAVERLY, because Elaine May is fabulous and its closing soon. I think FERRYMAN will run for quite a while.
To the comments made here -- I agree that the intervals (to move the sets around) in Waverly were annoying at the time, but I forgot them by the next morning, and the performances stayed. The accents were very difficult in Ferryman -- t
Saw and loved Ferryman this past weekend. Well, I loved it when I could understand it. The accents were very very hard for me, and I lost a lot of dialogue.
I thought it was me, except that at intermission and leaving the theater, I heard lots of people commenting that they didnt understand this or that -- large chunks of material.
And sitting around after the show and talking with the group that went -- there were a half dozen people who basically heard just parts
Saw Waverly last weekend after seeing the Off Broadway production years ago. (It's different seeing it at age 40 than at age 60...)
I so very much remember a scene in the hallway that served as the climax between Grandmother and Grandson. And then the Grandson spoke to the audience with the line "Well, Grandma had gone to pieces, but the pieces were still Grandma."
I've used that line for decades trying to explain dementia
I liked them both. CFA is a lot more fun. TBV is a quiet, thoughtful piece, very much like Once was several years ago. I think the more Broadway musicals you have seen, the more you will enjoy TBV as counterpoint.
But they are both excellent, award winning, hit musicals. So you are likely to love whichever one you see.
The current and ongoing discussion about TBV and what kinds of folks find what kinds of shows interesting makes me wonder -- If you knew someone who had never seen live, Broadway theater, and s/he was coming to NYC for a weekend -- what currently running THREE (or maybe four) Shows would you recommend??
Feel free to even program them -- which ones on Friday and Saturday evenings, which ones as matinees. Don't worry about availability of tickets -- assume your friend can ge
Nothing happens in the most interesting ways, in lives lived by very normal and yet interesting people. Just like the people we meet every day. The people meet, they connect and they separate.
Then life goes on.
Maybe they learned something that makes the rest of life better. Maybe not. That's not the point. It's 'a moment in the woods' and that's worth remembering. By them. And by
JBC3 said: "Saw this for the third time today. As good as some of it is, I do hope a few things are changed should it transfer.
The changes in the script during the final bar exchange between Bobbie and Joanne needs some work. Joanne offering up Larry for Bobbie to sleep with sounds so out of place and unexpected. It does not have the emotional or psychological effect of Joanne offering herself up to Bobby personally.
Some of the posts here prove that people will never be happy.
Here you have a moment when a BROADWAY SHOW is something that everyone is talking about, and that media markets want more of. As someone noted, expect the Hamilton segment to be the last one of the show because CBS is trying to hold onto eyeballs.
What a great moment for those of us who think that Broadway should get more exposure. The life tv shows these last few years have been, in my opinion, pretty awf
