SIX: THE MUSICAL (CHICAGO / BROADWAY)

[Impossible2]

Wee Thomas2 said: "Impossible2 said: "Wee Thomas2 said: "Did you happen to notice actual run time?

Shortness of the show was our only problem with it, clocking in at just under 70 minutes in Cambridge"

The run time is not going to change.

I have seen it 7 times and it has never once hit under 80minutes, so I don't know where this continual 70 minute thing is coming from. The runtime ends AFTER the girls have left the stage after the encore, not at the end of their stories.

Or maybe people just clap longer in London..."



At our showing in Cambridge I checked lights down to lights up and stage clear. 68 minutes. Friend who was there a week later confirmed under 70 minute runtime.



I assure you, we stayed because we were expecting 75 minutes and thought there might be some sort of additional material after the lights went up, but there was not.

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Someone needs to tell them to talk slower....

[Mister Matt]

Oddly, tonight there was no (awkward) applause after All You Wanna Do which was appropriate (especially as Howard was really giving us everything), but it was a marked change from past viewings.

That's exactly how it was the 2 times I saw Samantha Pauly in Chicago.  The 2 times I saw Courtney Mack, she didn't play the end of the song with as much intensity, always resulting in applause at the end.  Either way, the song is such a departure from the rest, there will always be the possibility of the awkward nervous applause from those who simply want to applaud out of habit.

[Impossible2]

Mister Matt said: "Oddly, tonight there was no (awkward) applause after All You Wanna Do which was appropriate (especially as Howard was really giving us everything), but it was a marked change from past viewings.

That's exactly how it was the 2 times I saw Samantha Pauly in Chicago. The 2 times I saw Courtney Mack, she didn't play the end of the song with as much intensity, always resulting in applause at the end. Either way, the song is such a departure from the rest, there will always be the possibility of the awkward nervous applause from those who simply want to applaud out of habit."

The first 2 times I saw the show in London it was not played that way at all and you didn't really 'get' the seriousness of what happened and it got the same response all the other queens got. The 3rd time I was quite shocked how far they took it, but it still got a huge reaction. The 4th time, they really took it to the extreme and not a single person in the theatre clapped. It was embarrassing and uncomfortable if you had seen the show before. But they've kept it that way for a while now and sometimes it gets a response and sometimes it doesn't depending on the crowd.

I also think because of the way the song ends it isn't really clear unless you've seen the show or know it from the soundtrack that the song is actually over. They also seem to bring on the incoming joke quicker if there is no/little applause so it isn't as awkward as that line always gets a huge reaction.

[starcatchers]

Impossible2 said: "Wee Thomas2 said: "Did you happen to notice actual run time?

Shortness of the show was our only problem with it, clocking in at just under 70 minutes in Cambridge"

The run time is not going to change.

I have seen it 7 times and it has never once hit under 80minutes, so I don't know where this continual 70 minute thing is coming from. The runtime ends AFTER the girls have left the stage after the encore, not at the end of their stories.

Or maybe people just clap longer in London..."

 

20 minute pre-show tech hold aside, my performance in Cambridge clocked a solid 80 minutes. I was surprised how late it was when we got out (knowing that the show had started around 2:20).

 

[MNNiceorIce]

So...now this has wrapped up its pre-Broadway run in St. Paul with alternates on for two queens the entire run (one, Abby Mueller, formally announced, one, Brittany Mack, not), any thoughts that there could be casting shifts before Broadway previews start?

Seemed the St. Paul cast solidified their show/music/personalities into a tight knit group...nary a mention of either absent queen in any of their “ready for Broadway” posts, etc these last five or so weeks. Just interesting...

[wish i were here2]

MNNiceorIce said: "So...now this has wrapped up its pre-Broadway run in St. Paul with alternates on for two queens the entire run (one, Abby Mueller, formally announced, one, Brittany Mack, not), any thoughts that there could be casting shifts before Broadway previews start?

Seemed the St. Paul cast solidified their show/music/personalities into a tight knit group...nary a mention of either absent queen in any of their “ready for Broadway” posts, etc these last five or so weeks. Just interesting..."

Well on Nicole’s most recent post, she said she can’t wait for Abby and Brittney to be back 

https://www.instagram.com/p/B6a4PAGHOGe/?igshid=14bhdvoa0ki8d