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Wow thank you for that.  I'm in tears from laughing.   The boys did great.

TerrenceIsTheMann said: "How in any way are Allegiance tickets "super cheap"? Are they giving away 20 dollar tickets somewhere, or?"

Oops that's my mistake.  I keep seeing $39 on my TodayTix app, so I assumed they are giving away the tickets.  I didn't realize that price is for Rear Balcony seating.  But I believe, they are running Lottery through Social Media for discounted tickets.

They are releasing the Allegiance Cast Recording in January.  Is that a sign that they have some sort of profit going on?  Or are they recording while they can. 

It seems they announced Lea Salonga's Fun Home casting this early on, to hint she won't be around for long and hope to boost ticket sales, but it seems that strategy isn't working.

I'd hate to continue the "I really wanted to love the show, but it just fell flat" theme of the reviews, but that's exactly how I felt after watching it for the first time last week.  

I thought it was "GOOD".  But not that good for me to sing praises and tell my family and friends to fly to New York to go see it.  

Also, after seeing Spring Awakening the day after, I just felt bad for the Allegiance production as a whole.  It just felt.. extremely low-budget.  

Pros:

Lea Salonga is radiant as always.  Lots of humor (perhaps too many).  Lea Salonga and George Takei both succeeded in putting me to tears (yes, this is a good thing).  Was not a fan of the song Higher, but when sung in context of the show, it turned out to be a very emotional and heartfelt moment.  

Cons:

Felt like a high school production, seemed like the lights were just on the whole time.  No creative stage lighting, props, stage design, etc.  

Too much humor.  I honestly did not feel like they were mistreated in any way.  I was expecting a song about, "what have u done to me, America?" kind of gritty song, but nope, they just played baseball and went to the dance.  Everything was sugar coated.  The show didn't show them suffering.  AT ALL.  

I think it suffered a Pearl Harbor the Movie kind of dilemma, where as the Internment camp alone should have been enough of a tragedy, yet they added other tearjerkers (father/son drama), which I felt was unnecessary.  SPOILER ALERT.   Granted,  I did cry when old Sammy was talking about his father and how he never said he loved him, but it  felt like a cheap trick to get the emotions riled up to end the show on a high note.  

WITH THAT SAID, Go see Allegiance since the tickets are super cheap now.    

The revival is miles better than the original.  Luckily, the original cast recording sounds practically the same.  As much as I'd love to have Austin McKenzie's versions of the songs, there seems to be no need for a re-recording. 

Has there been any announcement regarding filming the staged version for theatrical release ? 

American Beauty and the Beast

Beautiful: The Carole King and I

Spelling Be Yourself

My Fair Lady and the Tramp

Little Miss Saigon

Austin Mckenzie would make a heartbreaking Chris. 

Speaking of casting, what the hell ever happened to  Miss Saigon the Movie?

gypsy101 said: "Scarywarhol said: "Was hoping that Late Night performance would move a few tickets. It just came on and oh my God, was that awkward in every possible way. The performance and filming. Ouch."

I didn't think it was a bad performance, but thought the song selection wasn't correct. A missed opportunity, that's for sure."

Hamilton22 said: "I honestly can't bring myself to see this production. I saw the original production many times and just don't have the motivation anymore  to sit through teenagers jumping up and down and singing lyrics that don't make any sense. "

The original tweet, which Lea replied to, mentioned of a troll that was in this board.  Lea's reply was mostly about the troll.  I think she assumed the link to the board was regarding the troll's judgment of the show, which was only 2 previews in at that time.