BLASTED, SHREK, or BILLY ELLIOT?
BLASTED, SHREK, or BILLY ELLIOT?
hpeabody930
Featured Actor Joined: 9/8/08
#1BLASTED, SHREK, or BILLY ELLIOT?
Posted: 11/1/08 at 1:49pmREALLY, REALLY random grouping, but I can only see one of these and I can not make up my mind as to which one... Thoughts?
#2re: BLASTED, SHREK, or BILLY ELLIOT?
Posted: 11/1/08 at 1:52pmIt's a toss-up between BILLY and SHREK. Both are going to be the blockbusters of the '08-'09 season. Updated On: 11/1/08 at 01:52 PM
hpeabody930
Featured Actor Joined: 9/8/08
#2re: BLASTED, SHREK, or BILLY ELLIOT?
Posted: 11/1/08 at 2:09pmI'm down for anything. On the same trip I'm seeing Equus, Road Show, and Spamalot. I'm looking for one more, I'm leadingtowards Blasted solely because of the controversy that surrounds it... but Shrek and Billy look pretty good as well...
#3re: BLASTED, SHREK, or BILLY ELLIOT?
Posted: 11/1/08 at 2:12pm
I've seen BILLY ELLIOT and I wasn't a fan. But everyone else loves it. SHREK... yeah. I've heard from my friends that BLASTED is the most intense theatrical experience they've ever experienced.
I vote BLASTED.
#4re: BLASTED, SHREK, or BILLY ELLIOT?
Posted: 11/1/08 at 2:30pmdefinitely Blasted- the chance to see a really good production of a Sarah Kane play is not an experience to pass up
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
#5re: BLASTED, SHREK, or BILLY ELLIOT?
Posted: 11/1/08 at 2:30pm
Having seen BILLY ELLIOT, I can say first-hand that it wasn't an 'uplifting' experience a lot of the time. Whereas, with SHREK, I have an inkling it'll amount to 180 minutes of 'something warm and charming' - BLASTED I'm not *that* familiar with, but if you're one of those bold 'n' daring theatergoers, by all means...
Whatever the pick, I wish you a splendid trip! 
Updated On: 11/1/08 at 02:30 PM
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#6re: BLASTED, SHREK, or BILLY ELLIOT?
Posted: 11/1/08 at 2:34pm
Max out your credit card and see all three.
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
#7re: BLASTED, SHREK, or BILLY ELLIOT?
Posted: 11/1/08 at 2:38pm
It's a toss-up between BILLY and SHREK. Both are going to be the blockbusters of the '08-'09 season.
SHREK is going to be a blockbuster??????? I HIGHLY doubt that.
#8re: BLASTED, SHREK, or BILLY ELLIOT?
Posted: 11/1/08 at 2:57pmFinancially, you can't see this one holding it's own? I think it'll do some really good business - The name alone will most likely get the tourists in there. Why so negative?
#9re: BLASTED, SHREK, or BILLY ELLIOT?
Posted: 11/1/08 at 3:08pm
They're playing in a barn of a theater which hasn't had a hit since Miss Saigon closed up shop. They've already got a 40% off discount coupon floating around. Other than Wicked, family shows without the Disney name have not done well (Legally Blonde, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Frog and Toad, etc.) It's a big shows and their running costs have got to be exorbitant. And, the show is apparently not very good, on top of all that.
Updated On: 11/1/08 at 03:08 PM
#10re: BLASTED, SHREK, or BILLY ELLIOT?
Posted: 11/1/08 at 3:36pmDo NOT pass up the chance to see Blasted. It is absolutely the most thrilling, disturbing theatrical experience I've ever had. It's a limited run, unlike Shrek or Billy Elliot, and again, it's a SUPERB production. Be warned that it is VERY disturbing, very troubling, definitely NOT a pleasant experience (and not for the weak of heart), but it's so thrilling, and a perfectly staged production of a very important and influential piece of modern theatre.
hpeabody930
Featured Actor Joined: 9/8/08
#11re: BLASTED, SHREK, or BILLY ELLIOT?
Posted: 11/1/08 at 3:45pm
Here's a follow-up.
How does the student rush work for SoHo rep?
#12re: BLASTED, SHREK, or BILLY ELLIOT?
Posted: 11/1/08 at 8:50pmAgreed. Is there student rush for this? It sounds awesome.
larry64
Stand-by Joined: 3/3/06
#14re: BLASTED, SHREK, or BILLY ELLIOT?
Posted: 11/1/08 at 9:27pm
Blasted is sold-out for the entire run, so there's general rush every night. It's 20 if you're a student, 30 if you're not. I'd suggest getting in line early, and go in a group smaller than three, because I doubt they'd ever have more than two or three seats available.
It was the most fantastic and intensely powerful production I've ever seen. I'd recommend it in a heartbeat.
Theatre is a safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done.
-John Patrick Shanley
#15re: BLASTED, SHREK, or BILLY ELLIOT?
Posted: 11/1/08 at 9:45pmHow long before the show does general rush start? Or does it start when the box office opens?
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#16re: BLASTED, SHREK, or BILLY ELLIOT?
Posted: 11/1/08 at 10:34pm
adamgreer, the Broadway had a big hit with THE COLOR PURPLE. It recouped and made a hefty sum after that, if I'm correct...
I think SHREK will be a hit. It's a lot more of a bankable hit than LEGALLY BLONDE (the movie came out how long ago?) and FROG AND TOAD and CHITTY because it's a well-known commodity NOW. With three blockbuster films (the most recent of which was a huge hit last summer) all hitting the theaters recently, SHREK will be a hit I think. Also, it's aiming at a family fanbase as opposed to LB which was aiming at more a teen fanbase. Sure FROG AND TOAD and CHITTY aimed at families but neither are as well known commodities as SHREK in today's society.
