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ggersten said: "binau said: "With over 2,200 seats every night of course not everyone is likely to love Evita."

At the performance we attended (Sat evening 28 June) six seats in front of us that had been full were empty for Act II. When I mentioned this to the person seated to my left, she explained that she had seen the original with Page and was not enjoying this version stating (slightly paraphrasing now) "This is not in my top 10. Not even top 5

With over 2,200 seats every night of course not everyone is likely to love Evita. And not everyone loved Sunset. It only becomes a bit annoying when people seem to get some weird obsession with hating a show and then make it upon themselves to 'go after' the show or individuals in the show which happened for Sunset here, which is just a mood/buzz killer and becomes tiresome. Let's not pretend that the criticism of both productions, especially Sunset, was always in good faith

Smaxie said: "The Shubert Organization appears to be reporting the full house attendance figure of 1061 seats, rather than the 760 seats that have actually been on sale for the present weeks, withthe balcony offsale. So for last week's figures, it should be4615 theatergoers filling 6088 possible seats for an actual capacity figure of around 76%."

I never understand why they'd exclude the balcony seats even if it's common practice...does the rent reduce? O

To be fair when it comes to new musicals part of the role of the director does appear to be shaping the material. So for example Michael Grief heavily influenced next to normal and Dear Evan Hansen. Hal Prince shaped kiss of the spider woman etc. 

I guess it might be hard for Arden to tell Schwartz he needs to do better and even if he did, that doesn’t mean he can. 

I don’t think Michael Arden can be thrown under the bus for this but I don’t know if h

I'm making my way around secondary/tertiary what I call 'off-beat' Sondheim to appreciate high quality work that might be forgotten or lost. So off-broadway, broadway understudies, replacements, outside Broadway etc... 

Any examples to add to the list so I can help continue researching, or if you have any thoughts on any of these performances would be keen to hear them. Most won't have cast recordings, which is kind of the point. 

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Jmuep2 said: "I saw this tonight and it has made me so irrationally angry. It’s the most facile, lazy, milquetoast forgettable trifle I’ve ever seen. A book with the emotional depth of a third grader and a score I wanted to forget BEFORE most of the notes came out of the musician’s instruments. It makes MAMMA MIA look like Chekhov. It’s like somebody took the lamest Hallmark movie, added some lame songs, found two wonderful performers and then put it on stage. The

idk I think the show IS funny and relevant..."the internet is for p*rn" will be especially hilarious after the UK just passed their laws requiring ID to watch p*rn. It would only take 30 seconds to write a joke in there to emphasise this and the audience will go crazy for it (but they don't even have to and the subtext will still be there).

For "Everything's a Little Bit Racist" - well the UK is currently in a lot of political turmoil and conflict betwee

I would say yes and no. Yes in the sense that clearly Jake G brought a new audience to Sunday - if I recall it had the highest grossing week of a Sondheim musical ever on Broadway at the time (a record that was previously held by the Bernadette Follies if I recall if you remember it had a few good weeks before the audience dried up).

But I did attend the revival twice, including the final performance (where the horn player inexplicably and infamously cracked on the final notes righ

The demand has been increasing exponentially since performances started - I only bought my ticket a couple weeks beforehand! It's already looking like limited avail in Dec even!

If you happen to be after a single ticket especially I recommend you check back occasionally, I often find in these scenarios a single ticket can pop up. 

I guess some more substantial thoughts:

* The staging is extremely complex and elaborate. Coupled with with the bear it