THE MUSIC MAN Previews- Page 21

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 1/25/22 at 10:50am

Have they trimmed some of the dance sequences and added choreography?

Is IT'S YOU still cut at the top of act 2?

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 1/25/22 at 10:51am

Sutton Ross said: "They don't skip matinees unless it's scheduled or in an emergency."

you would know........... (scroll up for a chuckle)

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 1/25/22 at 11:28am

Hahahaha! Totally missed that, love it. Thanks for the chuckle  

[quizking101]

Posted: 1/25/22 at 7:45pm

Question: I’m going on Sunday - do they have a windowcard available yet? The website says it was coming late January 2022

[FANtomFollies]

Posted: 1/25/22 at 8:41pm

quizking101 said: "Question: I’m going on Sunday - do they have a windowcard available yet? The website says it was coming late January 2022"

I remember seeing someone on instagram the other day holding one outside the theater so I'm assuming that it's available now :)

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 1/25/22 at 8:47pm

quizking101 said: "Question: I’m going on Sunday - do they have a windowcard available yet? The website says it was coming late January 2022"

Now available at the Winter Garden Theatre:

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 1/25/22 at 8:58pm

Gorgeous.

[jo]

Posted: 1/26/22 at 4:35am

Elysa Gardner of USA Today writes about the creative vision of Jerry Zaks and Warren Carlyle for The Music Man --

https://broadwaydirect.com/jerry-zaks-and-warren-carlyle-on-the-joy-of-the-music-man/

[FirstNighter2]

Posted: 1/26/22 at 10:19am

Does anyone know if “It’s You” is still cut? I can’t imagine why they would take this impossibly charming, 2-minute song out of the show. It’s one of my favorites. I hate that they’ve done so and I’m desperately hoping they corrected this error.

[Bill Snibson]

Posted: 1/28/22 at 12:08am

BrodyFosse123 said: "quizking101 said: "Question: I’m going on Sunday - do they have a windowcard available yet? The website says it was coming late January 2022"

Now available at the Winter Garden Theatre:


I’m always a little bummed and shocked when they don’t include the entire cast on the window card! 

 

[TotallyEffed]

Posted: 1/28/22 at 9:00am

Bill Snibson said: "BrodyFosse123 said: "quizking101 said: "Question: I’m going on Sunday - do they have a windowcard available yet? The website says it was coming late January 2022"

Now available at the Winter Garden Theatre:


I’m always a little bummed and shocked when they don’t include the entire cast on the window card!

"

There wouldn’t be signs big enough!

[Melissa25]

Posted: 1/28/22 at 6:29pm

Can anyone share about the view from Right Orchestra A2 or Left Orchestra A1. Nothing posted yet on A View from My Seat and I'm curious how high the stage is and whether you miss much. I'd like to see feet.

[angoradebs]

Posted: 1/28/22 at 6:37pm

Melissa25 said: "Can anyone share about the view from Right Orchestra A2 or Left Orchestra A1. Nothing posted yet on A View from My Seat and I'm curious how high the stage is and whether you miss much. I'd like to see feet."

I'm sitting in A1 tomorrow night and will report back as long as it doesn't get cancelled! I was in E1 the other night and ran up and kind of crouched down in A1 for a second and it seemed like it would be fine. 

[BoringBoredBoard40]

Posted: 1/28/22 at 8:34pm

Well this certainly feels like a red flag

https://deadline.com/2022/01/the-music-man-broadway-hugh-jackman-critics-opening-night-1234922144/

[TaffyDavenport]

Posted: 1/28/22 at 8:59pm

BoringBoredBoard40 said: "Well this certainly feels like a red flag

https://deadline.com/2022/01/the-music-man-broadway-hugh-jackman-critics-opening-night-1234922144/"

How is this a red flag? In addition making up for the for the 10 days of previews they lost, they probably want all the critics to review the same performance, considering the fact that positive COVID tests could result in a different overall cast every day over the course of press week. When a movie embargoes reviews until opening day, it's generally cause for alarm. This is not that.

Updated On: 1/28/22 at 08:59 PM

[BoringBoredBoard40]

Posted: 1/28/22 at 9:05pm

its called you push the opening which is what several other shows that experienced COVID delays have done and the press reps response was a real Rudin move which coincidentally 

 

https://nypost.com/2016/10/04/front-page-is-making-broadway-critics-even-crankier-than-usual/

Scott isn't involved anymore huh?

[TaffyDavenport]

Posted: 1/28/22 at 9:17pm

OK, so a red flag that Scott Rudin is still involved with the show? Got it. 

[BoringBoredBoard40]

Posted: 1/28/22 at 9:22pm

whats your roll on the show btw?

Updated On: 1/28/22 at 09:22 PM

[TaffyDavenport]

Posted: 1/28/22 at 9:42pm

BoringBoredBoard40 said: "whats your roll on the show btw?"

I don't know what this means.

[Melissa25]

Posted: 1/28/22 at 11:38pm

angoradebs said: I'm sitting in A1 tomorrow night and will report back as long as it doesn't get cancelled! I was in E1 the other night and ran up and kind of crouched down in A1 for a second and it seemed like it would be fine. 
 

Thanks! Looking forward to your report. Hopefully you will still get to go and they don’t cancel. 

Updated On: 1/28/22 at 11:38 PM

[willep]

Posted: 1/28/22 at 11:49pm

I don’t see that as a red flag. My first thought was that it sounds like they are trying to make opening night feel like the old days where the critics really were in the house that night and then run home to write their reviews.

[BoringBoredBoard40]

Posted: 1/29/22 at 12:14am

There is a reason they stopped doing it this way decades ago

First it causes rushed writing, how can you really absorb a show and write a thoughtful piece if you need to get it to your editor a few hours later, also not really considerate of THEIR time that YOU as a producer/show are asking them to give consideration to your show 

second I thought Ilana Keller from USA Today brought up a good point on twitter

"If there’s a goal of diversifying critics’ voices, maaaaaaybe making moves that make it really difficult for those who don’t live or work in the direct vicinity of the theater district to competitively review your show isn’t the best way to do it"

but regardless of any of that, what a gross ridiculous response from the press rep

[jo]

Posted: 1/29/22 at 1:01am

This is not a new show. It was the Tony winner in the year that it opened on B'way. The film adaptation a few years later ensured that there's a living memory of it -- how it goes, the book, the song list, the characterizations. Surely the advance of USD fifty million ( before the current bloodbath on B'way) is an indication of already a  very strong interest in the  show,  heightened by the presence of B'way&H'wood star Hugh Jackman!

This is a new revival and there is also heightened interest  to see how this new show has been adapted to make it more enjoyable now ... or to judge its artistic vision vis-a-vis current times. The critics will likely focus on those possibilities?

Maybe the show is teasing the critics to be part of the show's  welcome guests to  a potentially glittering premiere ( maybe we might even see some film royalty ... or that songster who made " 'Til There Was You" into a pop music hit  decades ago and who also happens to own the rights of the songs from The Music Man? ) and then maybe to an equally glittering after -show celebration?

Btw, will they sell maybe a few seats to the public for Opening Night ?

 

Updated On: 1/29/22 at 01:01 AM

[akhoya87]

Posted: 1/29/22 at 2:40am

Was anyone at tonight's performance?  (Started late due to a technical issue.)  It looked like Hugh broke character twice - both times after Sutton physically interacted with him in some way.  The first time (during Marian the Librarian, I think?), it looked like Sutton did something a little harder than anticipated, so he sounded like he got the wind knocked out of him.  The second time, he got pushed almost to the edge of the stage, and he started laughing and couldn't get to his lines. 

It was all in good fun - Hugh took it very well, but this is the first time in a while I've seen an actor "break."

[Auggie27]

Posted: 1/29/22 at 9:04am

It was all in good fun - Hugh took it very well, but this is the first time in a while I've seen an actor "break."

And it was the signature style of last Rudin show, i.e. Midler played both Dolly and Bette-as-Dolly. It was remarkably successful, the meta experience of watching a great star become a character yet steal moments to remind us she knew she was on a Broadway stage (famously, during the title number). I usually resist such behavior, but she pulled it off, always able to take us back into Dolly's world. And of course, Jackman did it in Boy from Oz. Yet that was a different piece, one that had a built in performative presentation in its DNA. One can cynically say: at these prices, audiences aren't going to object. They're there to bask in the star's performance, and likely will do so no matter what Jackman does. 

Updated On: 1/29/22 at 09:04 AM