All New People - Any word yet?
All New People - Any word yet?
RippedMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
#1All New People - Any word yet?
Posted: 6/30/11 at 3:08pmHow is it? I haven't seen a show at 2nd in awhile. They've been a bit of a mess lately. Is this any good?
#2All New People - Any word yet?
Posted: 7/7/11 at 10:13amTheir last production, "..Vera Stark" was a success. It extended. I saw it and enjoyed it. Had a few issues with it but overall it was a good play. Plan to see "All New People".
Just give the world Love.
RippedMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
#3All New People - Any word yet?
Posted: 7/7/11 at 12:02pmI don't mean to diss them. I like what they do, but I feel like it's been awhile since they had a "hot ticket."
#4All New People - Any word yet?
Posted: 7/7/11 at 9:24pmCorrect me if I'm wrong, but I don't think their emphasis is to have a "hot ticket", although most of their shows become difficult to get tickets for. Sometimes it's more about quality rather than simply what people will flock to.
#5All New People - Any word yet?
Posted: 7/7/11 at 9:44pmAnd "lately" they had an extended run of a show. Not sure what is meant by 'A mess".
Just give the world Love.
RippedMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
#6All New People - Any word yet?
Posted: 7/7/11 at 9:58pm
Extended doesn't mean anything. It was on TDF for every performance. And I'm pretty sure every theater company wants to have a 'hot ticket.' It makes you relevant. You can be arty all you want, but at the end of the day it's a business and bills need to be paid.
It's a great company, but I just feel like their last couple of productions haven't generated much buzz.
After Eight
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
#7All New People - Any word yet?
Posted: 7/19/11 at 11:29pm
An odd, and oddly unpleasant play. I guess it's aiming to be a comedy with a message, but the message is muddled and the tale it tells is not conducive to levity. Pretty unappealing over all, in plot, characters, and language.
Poor Justin Bartha. He was so good in Lend Me a Tenor, but here he was handed a real stinker of a part. His character is dour and doleful throughout, and drains all energy from the stage. The other actors are forced to try to compensate, but though they do their best, they're up against it.
Boy, has the art of writing comedy sunk. In the good old days plays like The Voice of the Turtle, Mary, Mary, Barefoot in the Park, etc. were delightfully funny, with not a four letter word to be heard. Now we get cascades of four letter words and a total absence of fun.
Such is progress.
AGermano
Stand-by Joined: 6/27/11
#8All New People - Any word yet?
Posted: 7/20/11 at 11:31am
Does anyone know the run-time of the show? Also, what do the Second Stage Playbills look like?
And has anyone done the Student Rush here? How is it?
Sorry for all the questions- thinking about seeing this Saturday!
#9All New People - Any word yet?
Posted: 7/20/11 at 4:03pm
After Eight's post is correct in all particulars. The play is dreadful, unfunny, deeply unpleasant in many ways, and not very well-acted--although I fault the writing and catatonic direction for that. I would say that the play is written like a bad sitcom, but that would be offensive to even the worst of the worst currently on television. As I think I've mentioned, I was raised in the town in which the play is set, and having now seen it, I can only assume that Braff has actually spent little to no time there at all.
To answer some of the questions:
1) The running time is 95 minutes, no intermission.
2) The playbills are similar to the ones used at all shows at Second Stage.
3) I didn't rush, but the performance I attended (over the weekend) was not sold out, so you probably have a chance. Second Stage also sells advanced youth rush for $30.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
peijenna
Swing Joined: 11/28/10
#10All New People - Any word yet?
Posted: 7/20/11 at 11:25pm
I really enjoyed the show! I saw it last night and thought it was funny and creative. The house was full and the audience really responded to it I think all of the actors gave great performances and I would recommend it.
I did student rush and arrived 1 hr before the show and paid 20 bucks for a front row seat...
Personally, I would check it out. I may go back again to see it!
Vespertine1228
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/30/05
#11All New People - Any word yet?
Posted: 7/25/11 at 12:45am
Caught this yesterday. It's truly one of the worst plays at a high profile Off-Broadway theater in years. I would rather sit through Romantic Poetry at MTC again. That's right I said it.
If Zach Braff hadn't written it, there's no way anyone would've produced it, which makes me angry. They could've done so many other things. Shows where characters don't change motivations every three minutes and lame pop culture references don't count as jokes.
I am very interested to see what the reviews have to say.
