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Clearly, people right now want to see Chess and don't want to see Queen very much.  Queen's average ticket price was less than Hadestown and Mormon.  Hopefully, Chess will still be playing to healthy audiences after the 'obsessed' (which include me) have largely seen it for the first time.

Even if it does not extend in January, it would be nice to see Ragtime have never played to an empty seat.  Hopefully, it will extend.

Having finally seen 'J

There is still time for a decent number of non-musicals to be announced for the reminder of the season.  How much more time can really pass before it is too late for a new musical to announce?

Based on what we are seeing so far, this is going to be one awful season for new musicals.  Versailles sucks; 2 Strangers is a very enjoyable musical with a little more depth that the title would suggest, but it is still not the stuff of best musicals.  Looking ahead, if they ever

Saw this this afternoon and wished I had seen Punch instead.  I will assume that I missed something because I am a male, but i also didn't see anything new.

I thought it was well acted...there was not a weak link in the cast.  My favorite performance, ironically, was by the woman who played the mother of four sons, probably the smallest role in the show.  

I was never bored, which is usually the case when I don't like or are indifferent to a straight

Saw this tonight.  I thought the overall performance was excellent although I do not remember the beginning of the first act (after the opening number) taking so long to get going.  The first 30 minutes seemed pretty slow to me.  Once past that, the show flew by.  A lot of positives, a couple f negatives (besides the slowish 30 minutes).

Couple of Observations:

The three leads deserve all the praise they have received.

Caissie Levy was

carlisle14 said: "KrupYou said: "How big a bump will Wicked get when part 2 movie released?"

Not a bunch of room for a bump. This is a show that is at 98%-100% weekly. Solid ticket prices already."

Unless I missed a week, Wicked has not had an empty seat since a few weeks before the movie opened.  The movie gave it a shot in the arm that I can only remember seeing once before, with Chicago.  Different case, however; Chicago was

kdogg36 said: "MezzoDiva47 said: "and yet the Hamiltons and Wickeds of the world are making obscene amounts of money"

Would Broadway theater even be a going concern at this pointwithout long-running moneymakers like those two (andLion King)?"I think there are people who still invest in hopes that the show will be the next big thing.  If you think about it, in addition to those, we have Chicago, BOM, Harry Potter, maybe MJ, Hadesto

That average ticket price for QofV is deadly.  I thought that KC fans would have frontloaded ticket sales for awhile..  Clearly that is not the case.  So, is QofV already an albatross or is KC (whose voice is still great and who still has a lot of presence) no longer capable of selling tickets in sufficient volume to justify leading a big, expensive musical?.  (Or is the real issue that, although well-named and liked, she has never really sold tickets.  (Clearly, Wick

Finally saw this tonight.

I have only seen 4 productions of this (original London, original NYC, Signature in VA, and tonight.  I far enjoyed this far more than any other version.  

Major plusses: 

The four lead performances, including Bryce Pinkham.  I thought the narration worked much better than a lot of prior posters did.  Part of the reason was that it did help to lend clarity to a story that has always been

Ensemble1711444445 said: "I take it you haven't seen his Galileo.



EricMontreal22 said: "Auggie27 said: ""I hope they dig into the love story more because right now Molokov and Walter have better chemistry than the lovers and you never see any love between Freddie and Florence. By the time we meet them, they are already about to break up..."

Wait, what? Not a ringing endorsement for the fixed book. Strong has h

I am still surprised by Glengarry Glen Ross' grosses earlier this year large, as I really did not expect that trio to sell so many tickets, especially in that large theatre at those prices.  I have not considered purchasing tickets for this, because I expect discount tickets to become available before it opens or, failing that, for it to be a regular on TKTS.  Are people on this board expecting those two to be big box office attractions? 

I am thinking that, just a f

quizking101 said: "Amy Archer said: "Can you all let Liberation get to opening night andreviews before you dance on its grave? The joy around here in pronouncing it DOA after one week of performances, for a show that should engender our support is really alarming."
...

Honestly, the only unadulterated loathing I have in my bag this season is for QUEEN OF VERSAILLES"

Love your choice of words in the last sentence.  Having seen i

inception said: "Umm...for people who live on the Upper West Side, isn't Lincoln Centereasier​​​to get to than Times Square? And is it really that much harder to get to from the East Side,Brooklyn or Queens,or coming over from New Jersey?

Last year I flew into Newark and was staying in the UWS & it wasn't difficult to get to my hotel.

I dunno, I travel an hour each way on the train from the burbs to Downtown Vancouver everyday. Our transit s