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Sorry to say I can only echo the critiques the above posters have written. If the sets, costumes, lights, staging and choreography are ALL deliberately ugly, trashy and amateur, one has to conclude this must be the very deliberate choice of director Sam Pinkleton. In a show about the glamor and gorgeousness of the art of drag, with lyrics like: "What we are is an illusion", where in God's name was the illusion, the Shalimar, the Maribou? Would one gorgeously designed w

Count me in the crowd who is cheering to the rafters! Finally a musical film created by someone who absolutely loves that it's a musical. Scene after scene builds to a heart-leaping high between music, dance and camera moves.

It really is Cynthia's movie with everyone else including Arianna there to support the leading lady. And Erivo is magnificent-- full of subtlety and unexpected quietness mixed with gorgeous pyrotechnics. And every word out of her mouth i

CIVILIAN at 8th Ave and W 48th is our favorite by a mile for anyone on BWW who by definition is a theater lover. Great location, great touches in decor designed by Bway designer David Rockwell, wallpapers made from Bway costume sketches, 2 dozen set models of the latest shows permanently displayed on the second floor breakfast room, memorabilia in glass cases from the last 50 years. This past month the memorabilia included a handful of Jo Mielziner's ORIGINAL charcoal and pencil sketches

Thanks to Eric from Montreal for steering me toward this thread (I was searching under East West Players).

We just saw the extraordinary production of PACIFIC OVERTURES now playing at the East West Players in Los Angeles for just a couple more weeks. This is hands down the best show we've ever seen at EWP.

The cast (including Jon Jon Briones and Gedde Watanabe) is brilliant, the voices are gorgeous, the music-making is impeccable, the staging is so specific

Is it possible no-one has yet posted here on the extraordinary production of PACIFIC OVERTURES now playing at the East West Players in Los Angeles for just a couple more weeks? This is hands down the best show we've ever seen at EWP.

The cast (including Jon Jon Briones and Gedde Watanabe) is brilliant, the voices are gorgeous, the music-making is impeccable, the staging is so specific and personal and right for this culture. Sets and lights are lovely, costumes are glorious and

I’m no shill, just a 68-year-old former worker on Bway who gets his Bway fix twice a year now. This show was easily our 2nd place favorite of the 7 shows we saw last week (just behind the scrumptious MAYBE HAPPY ENDING). It shouldn’t work but somehow it does, landing joke after joke and gag after gag, giving you a complete party onstage for 2 1/2 hours. A brilliant addition to musical theater literature this ain’t. What it is is a campy shticky schlocky hoot and a holler tha

Boy I would never have guessed this show would be up my alley-- I'm a Sondheim/JRBrown/Adam Guettel type of musical theater fan. I need gravitas and wit and profundity to really enjoy a show. And yet...and yet.... this stupid insane show just left me in happy tears for 2 1/2 hours straight and I couldn't be more delighted!

The visuals are as tacky as they come, but that's what makes them perfect for this trashy shticky show. The songs are fine though I couldn

I haven't waded back through this thread to read my own reaction to SA when we saw it twice back 2017, once without and then with Audra. My memory is the show failed to click together as a whole for me, but the PARTS they had could be astonishing. The tale was so important to tell, but they never found the right structure to get all the facts out succinctly. The men in the cast were dazzling one and all. Yet this may surprise some on here, but I found Audra oddly miscast in the show,