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I took a glance through the review roundup, and it seems like most reviews are mixed, some skewing positive.  Generally strong praise for the actors and some of the music and more criticism for direction/pacing and tone.

https://playbill.com/article/what-are-the-reviews-for-the-world-premiere-of-the-seat-of-our-pants-off-broadway

I was also going to mention Secret because I thought that was really great (and I had a friend that went multiple times).  I think Derren Brown was really good at playing to a house of that size and threw frisbees out to the mezz so all the crowd work wasn't centered just on front orchestra

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/MASQUERADE-to-Launch-Lotto-666-Pre-Show-In-Person-Lottery-20251110

It sounds like there will be "special guests" so I wonder if it's a Ham4Ham situation where they make it an event (though my guess is the special guests will probably just be the ones drawing names or something), though they do mention "activities" as well.  It sounds like this Sunday will be the first instance of this and there will probably be more dates announced down the line.  I guess if the drawing is at 6pm and you live in the area you'd have enough time to change for one of the later showtimes, but you could also bring a change of clothes and just leave a bag at coat check I guess.

For standby, it does say you'd have to come dressed to be in line, but it does say it's before every performance so you could theoretically show up an hour before the first pulse and maybe just cascade down to the later pulses too?

Jordan Catalano said: "If I’m not mistaken, the show was Arden’s idea or at least he’s the one who took the idea and got everyone involved? I swear that’s what I had heard."

I think it was Lindsey Ferrentino's idea first and then she sat down next to Michael Arden at an event and pitched it to him then, but he was on board fairly early on.

I think the closest we got was Is This a Room and Dana H playing in rep, though that was because they were both extremely small and simple set-wise

There's some understated humor especially from Andrea Martin in the first act, but the second act gets funnier and lets loose a bit more.

quizking101 said: "Is eligibility determined before campaigns/nominations? I feel like running an FYC campaign doesn’t necessarily mean they are eligible"

There's a cut off date for eligibility, and I doubt producers would spend the money to run an FYC campaign unless they knew they were eligible.

How is the language of the play? Like is it easy to understand/digest or would it be worth doing some reading up beforehand (I know the general gist of the play but not any specific events).

These are the credits they have listed:

adaptation and direction by George Abud

musical adaptation and orchestration by Jake Landau

choreography by Brianna Mercado

Starring Katrina Lenk as Pirate Jenny, Barbara Walsh as Polly Peachum, and George Abud as Macheath

With Paula Gaudier as Pam/Young Polly, Mahira Kakkar as Tiger Brown, and Aline Salloum as Mrs. Peachum

Oh wow, I am so here for it! Interesting that Barbara Walsh is playing Polly Peachum and that they have a separate actress for Young Polly, so I wonder how that split is going to work.  Exciting that this also comes on the heels of a pretty high profile mayoral election too.

The Playbill article lists the cast breakdown (with Andrew Durand as Will Parker):

The company will be led by Tony nominee Micaela Diamond (Parade, The Cher Show) as Laurey Williams and opera baritone Emmett O’Hanlon as Curly McLain. The duo will be joined by Parvesh Cheena (Outsourced, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) as Ali Hakim, Jonathan Christopher (Sweeney Todd) as Jud Fry, Tony nominee Andrew Durand (Dead Outlaw) as Will Parker, Ana Gasteyer (Wicked, The Rocky Horror Show) as Aunt Eller, Tony winner David Hyde Pierce (Curtains) as Andrew Carnes, and Tony nominee Jasmine Amy Rogers (BOOP! The Musical) as Ado Annie. Additional artists will be announced at a later date.

To be fair, in the past preview tickets have been discounted because it's not necessarily a "polished product", and things like sound balance issues or tech holds wouldn't be surprising to have.  But now there seems to be virtually no price difference between previews and post-opening shows, and most of the general public doesn't seem to know there's a difference anyway so people will give their opinions on what they see.  

Okay so I've somehow never had any experience with Rocky Horror up to this point, so what should I be prepared for, in terms of audience participation and callouts?  Should I watch the movie in advance and look up the audience participation moments or just go in blind and take it all in?

I mentioned in my previous post that I couldn't really pinpoint what was off about the show to me, but I think you hit the nail on the head, Kad.  It doesn't actually dig into the characters in a way that makes them seem fully realized, and especially not in their relationships with each other.  I do wonder if the pretense of the show being a concert hurt it in that aspect, as I did find that framing device to be fairly wishy washy in how it was used as well.