Hi! My girlfriend and I are going to be going to NYC in May of 2019 and will for sure be seeing Kiss Me Kate, The Cher Show, Hadestown, and Hillary and Clinton. We have room for one more show and are stuck between these two. What are everyone's opinions? :)
If you've never seen any production of Oklahoma!, then I suggest watching Ferryman. I think it helps to appreciate this revival of Oklahoma! more by knowing the story or at least having watched the National Theatre recording with Hugh Jackman or the 1950s movie. This revival is very avant-garde and for the average person who has never seen Oklahoma! it may be confusing. This was the first time I saw any production of Oklahoma! and though I appreciated the acting and the songs, some of the things that were happening were quite confusing to me.
Wick3 said: "If you've never seen any production ofOklahoma!, then I suggest watching Ferryman. I think it helps to appreciate this revival of Oklahoma! more by knowing the story or at least having watched the National Theatre recording with Hugh Jackman or the 1950s movie."
One imagines watching a movie is something the average person can sort out within five months...
The Ferryman has about an hour and a half of great theater sandwiched within a 3-hour play. If that math works for you, go book your seats-- the acting and staging is admirable. For us frankly, that left a long Act I and much of Act III that we couldn't wait to be done with.
I feel like pretentious has now come to mean "I wasn't paying attention, I don't understand it, I don't feel like trying to understand it, it was different so me no like it."
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