Profile for JudyDenmark

YES that brilliantly creative iceberg in Titanic at City Center, thank you for the reminder! 

Echoing everyone re: the fireflies in Maybe Happy Ending, but really all of the tech of that show. I was oohing and aahing the whole time. 

The whole end of Oh Mary. The end, and then the end-end. Brilliant. 

The kid coming down the stairs in Appropriate. You know which part. And the stage design of the epilogue.

Seeing Suffs the last night of the DNC while&

RippedMan said: "JudyDenmark said: "100% excited, can't come soon enough: CHESS!! (if it happens, will believe it when I see it lol), Dead Outlaw, Dorian Grey, Operation Mincemeat

Excited: Boop!, Good Night & Good Luck, Glengarry Glen Ross, Buena Vista Social Club

Interested for various reasons, but probably holding for buzz & reviews: Floyd Collins, Smash, Redwood, Real Women Have Curves, Pirates!,John Procter, Just in Time, hypothetically

100% excited, can't come soon enough: CHESS!! (if it happens, will believe it when I see it lol), Dead Outlaw, Dorian Grey, Operation Mincemeat

Excited: Boop!, Good Night & Good Luck, Glengarry Glen Ross, Buena Vista Social Club

Interested for various reasons, but probably holding for buzz & reviews: Floyd Collins, Smash, Redwood, Real Women Have Curves, Pirates!, John Procter, Just in Time, hypothetically Othello but my GOD those ticket prices

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Broadly speaking, about how far out from previews starting are mailers sent? So many things I want to see in the spring, and I’m planning ahead for when my parents visit in April, but those prices for the a-list celeb plays are INSANE. I know they won’t be on the discount sites, but hoping for a mailer code or two? I know I’m on all of those mailing lists and will get them if they’re sent, just don’t know long to hold out before potentially biting the bullet

quizking101 said: “I went last night and, although there was a bit more playing to the audience that would’ve maybe bothered me a little if it was my first time (it was my 8th), it was a very, very strong performance by all and the audience openly embraced every minute of it.”

Can you elaborate on any specific moments? I was there last night but it was my first time - I had been on the fence but figured I’d get a last minute ticket as best-case sce

It’s been such a great year for shows! According to the Mezzanine app (shoutout to the Mezzanine app for anyone not on it - I’m not affiliated, just a fan lol), this is tied for the most shows I’ve seen in a year since moving to NYC 21 years ago. And I’m even more excited for what 2025 has to bring! 

In rough order: 

1. Cats: The Jellicle Ball - an easy #1. I knew very little about ball culture (I know a little more now!) but one

I saw it today as someone who sort of knows Gypsy and has seen a few productions (Patti, plus Bette in the TV movie and the London proshot of Imelda), but doesn’t really have a strong opinion of the show.

And I thought Audra was really phenomenal. Vocally, she sounded like Audra - it’s odd to me to expect otherwise? But it worked for me - and her acting was absolutely next level. When the intermission lights came up, my mom (who barely knows Gypsy other than the mu

Real question: I have tickets to see this with my visiting parents next Sunday 12/1. When we bought them, my parents were skeptical about seeing a show in previews but I said “yeah it’s early in previews but it’s Gypsy and it’s not like they’re going to rewrite it, and Audra’s a pro.” I clearly did not know about George C Wolfe’s preview process. 

None of us are particularly big Gypsy fans (or particularly big Audra fans, though

Just saw this tonight and will add to the chorus of WOW, SPECTACULAR. I can't believe how fast it flew for a movie this long (only dragged in one part for me, which is the same part that dragged in the show for me, sorry Wizard), and 100% the right decision to make it two movies. I knew the two leads would be fabulous and they were (I've never been a huge Ariana fan but this absolutely made me come around on her a lot), but Jonathan Bailey was the most pleasant surprise

DiscoCrows said: "JudyDenmark said: "For those who have seen it already - have you dealt with much singing along in the theaters? Seeing it tonight and that NYT article from yesterday has me worried…"

I have seen it twice in public screenings in NYC. My screening yesterday in Times Square was definitely a bit morecheer-heavy (moderate applauses after the bigger numbers and moments) but that’s as far as it went. No singing at all."<

Well count me as someone who absolutely loves his work and would love for him to adapt any number of shows! 
 

I think he’d do an incredible live-action (Disney’s) Hercules - imagine the spectacle of the production numbers. Hunchback too fwiw. 
 

I also think he would do a great Sweet Charity. It’s hard to imagine that as anything other than Fosse’s original (especially something as iconic as Rich Man’s Frug) but I