WaPo review: A ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ where everyone else in the audience can see you cry Nov 18
2025, 07:35:16 PM
The bus I wanted drove right by the stop at full speed. The driver looked out the window as he went by & you could see he was thinking "Oh crap there was a stop there."
I'm on my to the Kennedy Center again for the Comedy show they have there "Shear Madness."
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WaPo review: A ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ where everyone else in the audience can see you cry Nov 18
2025, 07:24:47 PM
I looked at tickets for this, then I looked at getting there and back on transit from where I'm staying in DC and decided it was too much trouble. (Also, I don't feel like paying for an uber/lyft)
Right now waiting in the rain at a bus stop & a mentally ill guy is going right off.
I went to the Air & Space Museum today and it was very good. Then I went over to the Natural History Museum and I found it disappointing compared to the one in NYC.
So I wen
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OH, MARY! Reviews Nov 17
2025, 07:18:51 PM
I'm still in DC and toured Ford's Theatre this afternoon. It seems like many of the things presented in this play are not historically accurate. The guide said that Lincoln & Booth were not likely homosexual FWB's.
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CHESS (2025 Broadway Revival) Reviews Nov 17
2025, 10:12:47 AM
bear882 said: " What will word of mouth be forChess? Maybe it holds up well on the strength of its score and star power. But I can imagine it fading after a few months as the novelty wears off and more people realize this isn’tMerrily."
I don't see this until this coming weekend. If you want to compare to Merrily, that had a bigger star in Radcliffe to draw people. And he was funny & heart breaking in that. I still don
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Nov 16
2025, 02:24:56 PM
Thanks for your comment. I think Relling is correct though when he states that Ekdal is more likely to end up a drunk. Statistically many couples who experience the loss of a child do end up separating.
I didn't read the play in preparation. I liked how they chose to end it with Relling yelling at Young Werle. I sympathized with Young Werle when he was dealing with his Father, but he would have been best to mind his own business when it came to the Ekdal
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"The Wild Duck" at TFANA Nov 16
2025, 08:42:01 AM
This didn't spark much interest here. I think more people at the Talking Broadway board wrote about it, but I just lurk there. Saw the matinee yesterday at STC & its final performance is today. Some great acting from a few of the players, especially the young girl. The theme seems to be just mind your own business & don't be a busy body in other's affairs, people are better off not knowing sbout affairs etc. I don't think Ibsen
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Kennedy Center ticket sales have dramatically plummeted since Trump takeover Nov 15
2025, 04:53:38 PM
For still traveling to the US.
My doctor & her husband did an RV trip this past summer down to a bunch of national parks in the West, and she told me last week thst everywhere they went people thanked them for still visiting the US despite all the craziness.
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Kennedy Center ticket sales have dramatically plummeted since Trump takeover Nov 15
2025, 01:18:12 PM
I attended opening night of WNO's Mozart's Marriage of Figaro last night. It was excellent. The Opera's general director Timothy O'Leary made a comment at the start, something about how it is nice to be presenting a work about the equality of all. That got a big round of applause. As a first time attendee it would be a shame if they had to move as the sound & sight lines, even from an upper level were excellent. This might be a better
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NYT: Coming to the Metropolitan Opera: Sting and Nov 13
2025, 04:42:57 PM
quizking101 said: "You wouldn’t say that about Sondheim and any number of his shows - particularly MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG."
I would. 😛
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THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES Reviews Nov 12
2025, 10:03:04 AM
I put my ticket for next week on stubhub at face value. I doubt it will sell, but it doesn't cost me anything to list it. Lots of other tickets there. Probably lots of other suckers like me who bought early based on Chenoweth's name. She'll probably never get another penny out of me for the rest of my life.
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Keala Settle is the next Mary Todd Lincoln… Nov 12
2025, 09:53:02 AM
You should get a career writing click bait. 😁
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TWO STRANGERS (CARRY A CAKE ACROSS NEW YORK) Previews Nov 12
2025, 09:51:25 AM
Haven't seen it yet, and the London cast album doesn't give spoilers for this part of the plot. Does seem like a strange plot point. But really how is the fiance not held to more account? Come on, we all know guys - gay or straight - who pull out all the stops to just get it in. Playboy seducers. You have to have serious blinders to marry one of those guys because they will 100% be cheating on you today, tomorrow, & for the rest of th
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Back to Chess Previews Nov 11
2025, 12:11:49 PM
Pvr'd Fallon & watched it this morning as I don't have to work today. Wow I hate Fallon nowadays. The whole interview on the couch felt scripted. Performances were good though.
Next week I'll be in NYC & seeing this & 9 other shows. At one point in my planning this was my most anticipated show. But I don't know what is now? I've been preoccupied following the government shutdown as I'm heading to DC first at th
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Richard Linklater developing a film about Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart, BLUE MOON Nov 8
2025, 03:53:22 AM
Went to see this after work today. I forgot that it was by Linklater until the credits rolled. Very unlike his best films which usually don't stay on one person ( the cavalcade of characters in Dazed & Confused); and yet very him when you remember the endless conversation of Before Sunrise.
I think Hawke is best on film. I still think the worst thing I ever saw on Broadway was him as [edit it was Macbeth not Hamlet] in 2013.
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Back to Chess Previews Nov 6
2025, 07:34:47 PM
Scarlet Leigh said: " It's cutting also goes entirely unnoticed. If you had not know that it was there in the first place, you would never know something had been cut.
Sort of like a foreskin
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OEDIPUS Previews Nov 4
2025, 10:23:34 PM
Looks like this will do well. When The Baker's Wife finally anounced their schedule they didn't have the mid-week matinee I was expecting. I decided to sacrifice seeing this so I could see that, and had no trouble re-selling my ticket for this at face value a few weeks out.
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BAT BOY : The Musical at NYCC Encores! Nov 3
2025, 12:16:29 PM
Oh it's BwyFlash again. Now this makes sense. Sort of like trying to reason with a meth head
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Will Swenson and Lesli Margherita to Star in SWEENEY TODD Directed by Jason Alexander Nov 1
2025, 09:26:06 PM
And of course I'm in LA 2 weeks after it closes. 🙃
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The Best of Gay Halloween - Sunset Blvd Edition Nov 1
2025, 11:37:03 AM
meh
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Kennedy Center ticket sales have dramatically plummeted since Trump takeover Oct 31
2025, 01:49:36 PM
Has anyone tried to purchase tickets for an event at the Kennedy Center?
It looks like Damn Yankees at Arena Stage won't extend to my dates in DC, so I was looking at getting tickets to the Symphony, but their site is so glitchy and keeps getting errors when loading seat maps. I think probably many people just give up trying to buy anything.
Edit: I gave up and instead got a discounted ticket through Today Tix for something else
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