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This felt like a draft or two away from being a very, very good play.

Some wonderful writing, and some very on-the-nose, paint-by-numbers writing. It's an enjoyable evening, but not life-changing by any means.

This play very much needed to give its antagonist the best argument, and it just... doesn't. (Unlike Eureka Day last season. The closest it comes is when 

I don't care what anyone does in the audience if it doesn't ruin someone else's experience. Recently, I've been at two shows where VERY tall men have decided they needed a booster seat in the front rows of the orchestra. Like, let's maybe start there and not worry about someone taking photo when the show is over.

Ensemble1698878795 said: "Just saw the matinee. This is definitely a contender for Best Musical. It will win best Book. Choreo and costumesare competitive though I doubt it’ll beat Cats. Worth a $45 lottery ticket. Well done."

Two Strangers probably had Best Book locked up months ago, being (I think) the only original book.

I mean, you can think whatever you want about the choice of car. (I was right up front and didn't see the boombox, I guess we were too far over.) The costumes other than maybe Happy's are 1940s era. There are no script changes at all. It's 1948.

inception said: "I guess I've got to be patient and wait for discounts for Fall, because right now seats I looked at for Fall are priced about $50 more than they are for the next couple months."

I think they don't usually release discount codes until they know they will last through the summer.

RippedMan said: "I mean it literally just started previews. I'd wait until reviews come out, word of mouth, the cast do the talk shows, etc."

It's not like this is a new show, though, or new to New York. 

Two Strangers is going to run away with Best Book, Best Score, and probably Best Musical.

It's important to take every message with a grain of salt. These days, influencers are paid to come on here and say nice things. 

quizking101 said: "yyys said: "Can they possibly reschedule the final show to tomorrow night?"

Also, Jak Malone was already committed to the Tracy Letts play reading festival at CIRCLE IN THE SQUARE tomorrow"

With the travel ban through noon tomorrow, I can't imagine that's going to be happening either.

Kad said: "I saw this tonight and thought it was pretty tremendous."

We did, as well. I hope this finds somewhere else to run. It was incredible.

We went with no expectations, and boy, that was a lot of fun. Lots of really good work being done on stage.

Andrea Martin, God bless her, went up on a line later in the show (she has so much material, holy ow) and said, out loud, "It's late, and I'm tired" to much, much applause. 

Definitely get tickets if you can.

Kad said: "I pulled up the original Reddit post in which it was shared by the person who recorded it, and you can see their Reddit posting history. It does seem to date back several months but the person doesntprovide a lot of context for the call.


Although NY is a one-party consent state when it comes to recording phone conversations in most situations, I think still think this is pretty icky, particularly when the greatest crime Fox seems to have committed is… being egotistical and having poor judgement?"

Thanks for posting this. I think Slam Frank has done way more harm than good, but it's hard to take anyone seriously who calls it Zionist propaganda. Zionist is not a slur. It basically has always meant Jew. For thousands of years.

 

Charley Kringas Inc said: "it's funny to me that their post was essentially pro-israel/zionist, in that it was spoofing overweening tumblrfied leftist identity politics ("unalived folx") and the way those are used in pro-palestine discussions, but because it's such a dark joke in such ahyper-specific format that's leveraging a real tragedy that literally just happened, it's sparking the exact kind of infighting and linguistics-warfare that the show mocks

BoringBoredBoard40 said: "The shows writer Andrew Fox doubling down with "anyone who thinks I am anti-semetic is stupid, I made jokes right after a different shooting happened too" in his Instagram stories in the middle of the night is certainly a choice."

Making light of any shooting just makes you a bad person.

via Timothy Burke on Bluesky

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