Tick,Tick....Boom!....?- Page 2

[Mattt]

Posted: 6/25/09 at 7:38am

I am taking my friend as a birthday gift since we are both big fans of the show. I am very excited, after years of waiting, to finally see a live production of tick tick boom. The music is leagues above the score for Rent. Colin Hanlon is great, I remember him as Mark the first time I ever saw Rent on Broadway.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 6/25/09 at 8:56am

after years of waiting, to finally see a live production of tick tick boom.

I think I'm going this weekend, and that's exactly how I feel. I can't believe that are all these years, I'm finally going to see it live.

[raulmark]

Posted: 6/25/09 at 10:15pm

lol that's exactly how i felt when I saw Big River at Goodspeed last year

[CONAries]

Posted: 6/26/09 at 10:33am

After years of waiting I finally saw the recent London production, and LOVED every second of it! AMAZING SHOW!

[raulmark]

Posted: 7/1/09 at 7:39pm

I saw the matinée today and thought it was great. Glad I went. traffic coming backed sucked donkey &%^#, but otherwise....
Performances were great
Wilson Cruz could have been a little louder

[wonkit]

Posted: 7/4/09 at 2:47pm

Anyone else see this yet?

How long is the performance? Any intermission?

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 7/4/09 at 2:50pm

I ended up not being able to go last weekend, and I think that was the only possible time I could have gone. I'm still going to try, but, it's not likely.

ttb is like 90 minutes.

[raulmark]

Posted: 7/4/09 at 10:29pm

there was no intermission and it was a little over 1 1/2 hours

[wonkit]

Posted: 7/6/09 at 1:52pm

I went to the matinee yesterday, Sunday. The renovated Westport Playhouse is a jewel!

I enjoyed the performance but would have to say that I was not blown away by it, as I expected to be. The settings, costumes, direction, were all fine, but there was so little fire in the performance. To be fair, because this was a captioned performance - the electronic crawl was on the right side of the proscenium and very unobtrusive- the average age in this audience appeared to be 97. But they were not necessarily a "blue-haired" audience - when the performance merited strong approval, they were appreciative.

The two men (Wilson Cruz as Michael and Colin Hanlon as Jon) seemed to be very under-miked: the good news is that meant you could hear the quality of their voices, but the bad news is that there were times when the musicians overpowered them a little. Pearl Sun as Susan had the one OMG! moment singing "Come to Your Senses," of course.

It felt a little too pat - I know, the book is hardly Shakespeare - but Hanlon seemed a little too likeable and good natured. I didn't feel the neurotic suffering of someone really not knowing what to do with his life. I kept wishing he would deliver his songs rather than just sing them, give them a dramatic feeling. Some of my favorite songs just dropped like stones - 30/90, Green Green Dress and Sunday.

I am glad I saw this, but I came home and listened to the cd. Maybe I just love the original cast too much.

[Dirty Rotten Scoundrel]

Posted: 7/11/09 at 11:55am

Just got back from seeing this in Westport last night. I have to say that I agree completely with someone who said there was no energy. With the original off-Broadway cast, there was this spark, this energy, it even shone through on the cast recording. Something about this production didn't quite click and I was really disappointed with it.

The cast was alright. I've never been a particular fan of Colin Hanlon's, and he turned out an OK performance. I have yet to see him in a role where he's capable of carrying a show. Pearl Sun was also just OK. Her "Come to Your Senses" was pretty good but some parts I felt as if she was yelling at me. Wilson Cruz was good, but something was missing. Maybe I found that there was a lack of chemistry between the three of them, but even in solo scenes and numbers something just wasn't working.

Oh and don't get me started on the sound design. If I wasn't familiar with the score I'd have no idea what they were singing through half of it. The friend I was with didn't hear a lot of it, and I heard other audience members complaining about it at times as well. A lot of really good lyrics were completely drowned out.

Best number of the night was "Therapy." They did a great job with that. Other than that the "BIG" numbers, "30/90," "Louder than Words," and even "Come to Your Senses" fell flat in my opinion.

I will say this, however: the audience ate it up. Maybe it was just me. Maybe I'm too attached to the OOBC, but I don't think I'll be recommending this production to too many people. Oh well.

Posted: 7/11/09 at 4:04pm

Yes!! I saw it in Westport opening night! It was amazing! I never saw the original one and it was such a great experience. Rodney Hicks who was in the original broadway cast of RENT in ensemble and the closing cast playing Benny was there! I'm good friends with him so I went to the cast party after! You should definitely check it out if you live near Westport! The cast is really talented as well.