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carolinaguy said: "Some of the posts here mention audience participation or involvement during parts of the show. Can anyone elaborate on that?"

The show hasn’t changed much since the Chicago reviews were posted.

An audience member is offered a drink near the top of the show. “Jack Daniels” was Tuesday night’s reply.

The entire audience offers four or five “Yes” replies in a conversation with The Lady Chabli

• Minerva’s enunciation of CHILDREN in the opening cemetery scene was different. Every time Minerva said “children” it was clearly “children”.
• A better smoke effect has been added at the base of the shimmering silver drop at the start of the Shed nightclub number LET THERE BE LIGHT.
• One change happened several performances ago: the minister had  displayed his gu

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Cameras were set up Tuesday night in the house to capture promotional stage pictures.

Last week, the Stranger’s Tomb in Bonaventure Cemetery had been one of tombs downstage left. The unknowns are now buried under the large central arched memorial.

Jim Williams continues to offer a drink to an audience member. If the theatergoer is alert, they’ll order a whiskey sour or wine. (the bars are offering 3 Garden themed drinks, too - order o

• in the opening cemetery scene, Minerva is no longer sitting on the downstage left bench. Instead, she is sitting on the steps of the center stage memorial
• at the end of the cemetery scene, The Lady Chablis had offered Savannah's Rule #2 downstage right. They are now center stage, coupled with Jim Williams, as The Lady offers Rule #2.
• a painfully small, revolving disco ball has been added to TH

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"I am so confused, and it's wonderful," a nearby balcony guest boasted at one of the intermissions this week. After 3 nights, the production still feels like it's throwing spaghetti at its southern walls to see what sticks. Things are fixable, but will the egos work together to strengthen the story.

When the pre-show announcement finishes with "the performance will begin shortly," the quiet cemetery scene starts.  At the first perfor

Act One Numbers

Bonaventure

Mercer House

The Shed Shack

Let There Be Light

Savannah is Restored

Since My Mama Died

Jim and Danny

Lift Her Up

The Empress of Savannah

Finale Act 1

Act Two Numbers

True Crime

Sad House

What a Ride

Reasonable Doubt

Clap On One and Three

It Ta

To answer some of the questions upthread, several gracious cast signed Playbills and posed for photos at the stage door Tuesday night. The stage door is IN the main lobby south of the ticket windows.

Conductor Thomas Murray led an orchestra of 12.

1 - piano, keyboard, electric guitar

2 - keyboard, percussion

3 - acoustic and electric bass

4 - drum set, percussion

5 - acoustic and electric guitar

6 - violin

7 - cello

8 -

Caught the first 3 evening previews - Thursday thru Saturday - and Metcalf is as magnetic as ever.

The very simple staging allows the audience to focus on the story and the performances.

The set is simply a shiny gray, 3-seat sofa that sits atop a round swatch of gray carpet. A ceiling fan whirls above.

Though it’s a four-person cast, Meighan Gerachis does not appear until the final scene.

Sound effects have been added since the first

Just one more:

Before the 5-week run started, a large hourglass inside a deluxe wood frame could be spotted in the lobby from the outdoor sidewalk. I suppose it was an oversized set piece that was nixed.

When the roustabouts were loading the show through the Wells Street doors, one of the old prop carts still had MATILDA stenciled onto the canvas.

During the first half of the run, in the NY apartment scene, Madeline L

A stagehand was briefly part of the final performance in the opening notes of FOR THE GAZE - the sound of something steel could be heard when Madeline Ashton rose from her oval mirrored, light-bulb dressing room table.  The black-clad stagehand quickly checked out the table and may have adjusted it. The table did its usual smooth disappearance when the number kicked into high gear.

Grindr returned as today's wedding sponsor. 

Later at Helen Shar