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Matilda is going to be gargantuan. They’ve already got stagehands working on it, and it doesn’t begin previews until… March? April? Crazy. Cinderella is already bugging me. The poster is such a great concept, but flawed in execution, and the tag line on the marquee is “Glass slippers are so back.” Which… Why would you do that to Rodgers & Hammerstein? D: I hope it proves me wrong, though. However, I am excited for Ever After (hurry up, guys!). Also? Your dad sounds awesome.
Dear gods o.O that;s crazy. And i haven’t seen much about Cinderella yet so I don’t know. It was one of my favorite shows that became a movie as a child, though (partially because Brandy’s mom was one of my mom’s really good friends, partially because I just really really loved it). Hopefully it will prove you wrong! i’d like to have a good classic back but updated a little. And same! but that’s a while out i thought.
(also random fun factoid- my childhood best friend’s family lives in the Hammerstein mansion.)
um, wow! fancy!
oh, I know. I really want to be wrong, but the current trend of churning out big family shows laden with innuendo and cheap jokes aimed at roping in the big dumb average middle-American audience has got to stop. The producers of these big “blockbuster” shows never keep their heads in the right place. But that’s a supercharged rant for another day! And yeah, Ever After has only done one reading so far, I think. I really want the girl who’s playing Mary Robert in the Sister Act tour to play Danielle; she looks just like Drew and has a stunning voice to match. (Omg I am so long-winded tonight)
Well, they turned it into a bed and breakfast, and it’s super pretty. It’s not like a mansion mansion. It’s just a big old country house.
I totally hear you on that. I love the shows that have character, or something unique about them, and typically those are the shows that don’t make it very long. i LOVE LOVE LOVE wonderland. I think it had a lot of issues in the first act because they re-wrote the opening number and it just didn’t kick in very well to get it going on a high note, but it’s one of my favorite shows. (but I think i mostly was in love with the costumes. I want to bear the children of those costumes).
But I look at shows like Shrek. Shrek tried SO hard to be spamalot, but at the same time it tried too hard to be for the mass market. It really did. I LOVED shrek, but i sat there and was like “yeah i’m pretty sure spamalot did that joke already”.
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Aw! I recognize a bunch of those! I never buy the show program, but I do keep the playbills. Unless I see the show more than once…yeah, I really lucked out with Mormon. I had a friend who wound up with an extra ticket, so I got to go, otherwise I’d probably still be waiting to get tickets. It was just as brilliant as people built it up to be.
EDIT: and yeah, Peter was some of the best theater I’ve seen in a while. And in the off-bway venue, the production was so wonderfully intimate. Christian totally deserved the Tony for that one.
ugh jealous! but hopefully we’ll get tickets soon. So far the only thing we know for sure we’re seeing this year is Kinky Boots, since we already got tickets. But I want to see Drood so badly (my SN/twitter/everything is Moonfall for a reason. i love that song) and he totally did! he was amazing. And even the theater for the broadway one was nice and cozy. They did a fantastic job with it.
oh I’m so glad to hear that! I was worried that the transfer to a bigger house would hurt the intimacy of the show & the connection with the audience. I hear Kinky Boots is supposed to be fantastic! I’m a little skeptical about some of the incoming shows, but that’s another one I’d love to see. I hope it does well.
Kinky Boots is my dad’s FAVORITE movie of like all time, so when I found out we knew it was happening. i love the movie, but he’s obsessed. So i’m so excited for it. I’m skeptical about some of the new shows too, though i want to see Drood, Cinderella, and maybe matilda. and Jekyll and Hyde whenever that is opening.
Matilda is going to be gargantuan. They’ve already got stagehands working on it, and it doesn’t begin previews until… March? April? Crazy. Cinderella is already bugging me. The poster is such a great concept, but flawed in execution, and the tag line on the marquee is “Glass slippers are so back.” Which… Why would you do that to Rodgers & Hammerstein? D: I hope it proves me wrong, though. However, I am excited for Ever After (hurry up, guys!). Also? Your dad sounds awesome.
Dear gods o.O that;s crazy. And i haven’t seen much about Cinderella yet so I don’t know. It was one of my favorite shows that became a movie as a child, though (partially because Brandy’s mom was one of my mom’s really good friends, partially because I just really really loved it). Hopefully it will prove you wrong! i’d like to have a good classic back but updated a little. And same! but that’s a while out i thought.
(also random fun factoid- my childhood best friend’s family lives in the Hammerstein mansion.)
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Aw! I recognize a bunch of those! I never buy the show program, but I do keep the playbills. Unless I see the show more than once…yeah, I really lucked out with Mormon. I had a friend who wound up with an extra ticket, so I got to go, otherwise I’d probably still be waiting to get tickets. It was just as brilliant as people built it up to be.
EDIT: and yeah, Peter was some of the best theater I’ve seen in a while. And in the off-bway venue, the production was so wonderfully intimate. Christian totally deserved the Tony for that one.
ugh jealous! but hopefully we’ll get tickets soon. So far the only thing we know for sure we’re seeing this year is Kinky Boots, since we already got tickets. But I want to see Drood so badly (my SN/twitter/everything is Moonfall for a reason. i love that song) and he totally did! he was amazing. And even the theater for the broadway one was nice and cozy. They did a fantastic job with it.
oh I’m so glad to hear that! I was worried that the transfer to a bigger house would hurt the intimacy of the show & the connection with the audience. I hear Kinky Boots is supposed to be fantastic! I’m a little skeptical about some of the incoming shows, but that’s another one I’d love to see. I hope it does well.
Kinky Boots is my dad’s FAVORITE movie of like all time, so when I found out we knew it was happening. i love the movie, but he’s obsessed. So i’m so excited for it. I’m skeptical about some of the new shows too, though i want to see Drood, Cinderella, and maybe matilda. and Jekyll and Hyde whenever that is opening.
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Aw! I recognize a bunch of those! I never buy the show program, but I do keep the playbills. Unless I see the show more than once…yeah, I really lucked out with Mormon. I had a friend who wound up with an extra ticket, so I got to go, otherwise I’d probably still be waiting to get tickets. It was just as brilliant as people built it up to be.
EDIT: and yeah, Peter was some of the best theater I’ve seen in a while. And in the off-bway venue, the production was so wonderfully intimate. Christian totally deserved the Tony for that one.
ugh jealous! but hopefully we’ll get tickets soon. So far the only thing we know for sure we’re seeing this year is Kinky Boots, since we already got tickets. But I want to see Drood so badly (my SN/twitter/everything is Moonfall for a reason. i love that song) and he totally did! he was amazing. And even the theater for the broadway one was nice and cozy. They did a fantastic job with it.
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had to ask my parents to help me remember, but i think this is the complete list of shows i’ve seen on broadway in NYC. I’ve seen other stuff on national tours, but this is my NYC list.
Grease
Peter Pan
Cats
Music Man
King and i
Lion king
Sweeney Todd
Avenue Q
Fosse
Mamma Mia
Tarzan
Les Miserables
Wicked
Come Fly Away
Movin’ out
42nd Street
In the Heights
Little Shop of Horrors
Billy Elliott
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Mary Poppins
How to Succeed In Business without Really Trying
Sister Act
Phantom of the Opera
Hair
The Addams Family
Priscilla Queen of the Desert
Evita
25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
La Cage Aux Folles
Spamalot
Cats
Hairspray
Crybaby
The Producers
Kiss me kate
A Chorus Line
Jersey Boys
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
A Catered Affair
Shrek the Musical
Fiddler on the Roof
Annie Get your Gone
Gypsy
Annie
Sweet Charity
Young Frankenstein
Producers
Little Mermaid
Aida
Curtains
Legally Blonde
Spring Awakening
Chicago
Wonderland
All shook up
Bye bye birdie
Catch me if you can
Into the woods
Woman in white
Harvey
Peter and the Starcatcher
Aw! I recognize a bunch of those! I never buy the show program, but I do keep the playbills. Unless I see the show more than once *cough*SweeneyRevival*cough*Xanadu*cough*I have all the playbills too, and all the tickets, in a big box. The sweeney revival was AMAZING and i wish i’d been able to see it more than once omg. And i didn’t get to see xanadu. What else have you seen?
Now i want to actually find that list i used to have of shows I’ve seen and update it.
See? SO tumblr inept. Yeah, I don’t think I can rattle them all off, but from what’s currently playing, I’ve seen the big ones (Wicked & Jersey Boys) of course, and Nice Work, Elf (when Sebastian was in it), Peter & the Starcatcher (LOVE) during its off-Broadway run, and Book of Mormon. I’m actually out of touch with what’s out right now. D: but I’d really like to see Newsies! Um, let’s see… Title of Show, Apple Tree, War Horse, South Pacific, Exit the King, Driving Miss Daisy, Equus… Oh man, there are a few more, but I’m way too lazy to look them all up.
and then, out of your pile, I can add Sister Act, Addams Family, Drowsy, Tarzan, In the Heights, La Cage, How to Succeed, Curtains, Spring Awakening & Lion King. :D
OMG Peter and the Starcatcher is like my favorite thing I’ve ever seen in NYC. I LOVED IT OMFG. it was just so beautiful (though i saw it while it was on broadway, not off-broadway). and nice, you’ve seen some things that are out that I want to see so badly (like book of mormon. we just haven’t had the chance to get tickets we like yet)
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Inspired by crayolagron’s post, i went through the Souvenir Books from the shows I’ve seen. Whenever I see a show that has a book I get it. Unfortunately, some shows either closed before they could get a book or I saw them in previews and never got a chance to get the book, or 6 year old me was too in love with the book and wore it out (-cough-Beauty and the beast), but these are the ones I still have.
Time to see Priscilla Queen of the Desert! Then, Peter and the Starcatcher tonight!
