Box office was busy yesterday. I bought a box seat for $69 - didn't want to spend $160 on the show as I saw it twice Off Broadway. Any idea how the view is from the boxes?
have they been selling SRO? Might try for it come January.
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Anshel2 said: "Box office was busy yesterday. I bought a box seat for $69 - didn't want to spend $160 on the show as I saw it twice Off Broadway. Any idea how the view is from the boxes?"
I was in a box seat on 11/26 and I had no issues. Very comfortable, there were only two of us in the box. Also the views were fine, I didn't feel like I missed anything at all
I've already bought tickets for two future performances, as I imagine they will be hard to come by soon enough.
"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
I don't know if this has been mentioned, but this sounds like a softened, less cynical and nasty version of the Robin Williams cult film, "World's Greatest Dad."
darquegk said: "I don't know if this has been mentioned, but this sounds like a softened, less cynical and nasty version of the Robin Williams cult film, "World's Greatest Dad."
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Yeah, I mentioned it in the other thread. That's exactly what it felt like to me. Although I'd lump in "less incisive" and "less honest" with "softened."
Looks like discounts are on the horizon. Just got an e-mail from a local theater that does touring Broadway shows, and they passed along a DEH discount for $109 orchestra seats from January through early March. That said, the links were all wrong and redirected through Ticketmaster to the DEH website, but once that gets sorted, I imagine it will resolve to be a legit promo...
When I booked tickets for Feb....LOTS of seats available for the date I grabbed.
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So I just read the NY Times review... For those who have seen the show, did Isherwood give away pretty much everything about the plot? I'm seeing it Sunday and am worried I just spoiled everything about it lol
LYLS3637 said: "So I just read the NY Times review... For those who have seen the show, did Isherwood give away pretty much everything about the plot? I'm seeing it Sunday and am worried I just spoiled everything about it lol"
It gives away a lot, but honestly, I don't think it matters. The power of the show isn't in the surprise or twists of the story, it's in the performances and seeing it all unfold, even if you know what's coming. I saw it off-Broadway, and when I went to the first preview in November, knowing the story didn't take anything away from it for me. Just my opinion...
sgreen3 said: "LYLS3637 said: "So I just read the NY Times review... For those who have seen the show, did Isherwood give away pretty much everything about the plot? I'm seeing it Sunday and am worried I just spoiled everything about it lol"
It gives away a lot, but honestly, I don't think it matters.
I agree. Otherwise, there wouldn't be so many people returning to see the show over and over again.
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Less incisive and honest is one good way to put it; "some people really are worthless and better off dead" is a hard message to sell in ANY medium other than a Bobcat Goldthwait film.
RaisedOnMusicals said: "I'd say that the majority of the reviews gave those plot details also. So Isherwood is not alone in this regard. "
It doesn't make it right. Truly. It's lazy writing to rely on plot summary for a show like Evan Hansen. And it ultimately does a disservice to the readers. But whatever.
darquegk said: "Less incisive and honest is one good way to put it; "some people really are worthless and better off dead" is a hard message to sell in ANY medium other than a Bobcat Goldthwait film.
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That movie provokes such a range of responses. That's not what I got out of it; I thought it was more about the phenomenon of how people use grief, want to be involved in it, want to make it their own. Grief is weird and ugly, and WGD is one of the only movies I've ever seen address it in such a direct way.