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The Boch Center in Boston has announced its own mini-series of touring shows. Unlike Broadway in Boston’s usual two-week runs (at a minimum) for subscription shows, these are a week or less: Nov 24-26: Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer Mar 15-17: The Cher ShowApr 23-28: Hadestown Surprised to see Hadestown back in the city so soon, especially because Worcester just finished its own run of it.

“ just picked up a couple of the $25 seats - A 4&5 - for next Sunday's matinee, and they're listed as partial view. There are seats in front of that selling for full price. I've sat just about everywhere a person can sit in the Loeb Drama Center (including the stage and literally the floor) and never had a bad seat, so I'm curious what makes these partial view. I'd love to hear from anyone who's seen the show or is otherwise familiar with this production.”From what I’ve seen in the past, thos...

MattieIce2018 said: "Just got an email - the stop in Worcester this week was cancelled due to "unforseen circumstances" and pushed back to next June. It's so last minute (it would have started performances on Thursday) that I can't help but wonder if something happened. Has anyone heard anything?"For some reason, I can’t drop a link here, but if you go to the theater’s website, the latest blog entry talks about this. Basically, it was due to the perception that sales will be better in June th...

I remember reading an article back in the 90s that said that Tommy’s audiences were noticeably more informally dressed than other audiences at the time. It seems to line up with what was said above since that show opened in 1993. No idea if that opened the casual floodgates.

For what it’s worth, Boston is getting a regional production in the spring: https://www.speakeasystage.com/shows/2022/04/the-inheritance/

I noticed in the Playbill that the first character listed in the second act is Second Bellhop. That character didn’t appear at our performance. From start to finish, the show ran 2:35 (as opposed to the 2:45 listed at the theater or the 2:40 mentioned in an earlier reply). I’m curious if a sequence was cut from the beginning of the second act at our performance. Does anybody who went to an earlier performance remember a second bellhop in the second act?

Mike: Angels in America toured back in 1994 with two parts. I don’t know how extensive or successful the tour was, but it started in Chicago and did include Boston.

The critic reviews have been coming out in Boston the last day or two and they've been just gushing over this show.Saw it tonight and can't add much to what's already been written in this thread. It's a thorough joy from beginning to end. Not much of a narrative arc, but there's a thematic arc that we're guided through by Byrne's narration.I'd be curious if it has the same appeal to people unfamiliar with (or not enamored with) Byrne's work, but I thought this was a delight.

Saw this review just posted: https://www.theatretalkboston.com/post/review-tea-at-five-huntington-avenue-theatre-pre-broadway-engagement

Mike: for me, the ART’s Loeb Drama Center has the most comfortable seating in the Boston area. Most shows there are set up like the current We Live in Cairo (you can take a look at seating charts for that show) with eight rows in front, a break, and then the rest of the seating. I prefer to be behind the break because those are “permanent” seats; the ones in front of the break are on platforms that tend to spread vibration more - I’ve had restless neighbors in that area that have caused MY se...

Mike: off-topic, but if you’re interested in seeing Once in Boston and aren’t aware, there’s an excellent production of it currently running at the Calderwood, put on by SpeakEasy... it’s there through April 7