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Re: OTHER DESERT CITIES 2026 Previews

Oct 21, 2026 — 7:20:32 PM

Back from the 10/21/26 matinee: Probably an outlier take on this board, but for my money - a statement with real potency here - this production's MVPs are Harris and Rabe, whose emotional connections to their characters' confessions ground the play anew for me. The Wednesday matinee audience was ready to laugh raucously, and seemed to find the shifting gears in Baitz's well-oiled machinery a challenge. A decade plus fan of the play, I'm still more moved - and entertained - by the shifts away ...

Re: OTHER DESERT CITIES reviews (Hudson) - Louis-Dreyfus, Harris, Janney, Keery, and Rabe

Oct 20, 2026 — 1:55:15 PM

I was able to use a slight discount for seats repriced as "partial view" on the side rear orchestra. Still pricey, but reduced, so I snatched 'em up. I was at the b.o. the day they went back on sale with a new price in early September, and the staffer said the "partial" aspect isn't really an issue, and they were the best bargain, seats about the same price as rear balcony. I am at TDF guy, seeing almost everything via that great membership (even Salesman and Oedipus - good seats to both - la...

Re: OTHER DESERT CITIES 2026 Previews

Oct 20, 2026 — 1:45:15 PM

Can anyone comment on the sound design? Is everyone in a body mic, and easily heard?

Re: Other Desert Cities reviews (Hudson) - Louis-Dreyfus, Harris, Janney, Keery, and Rabe

Oct 19, 2026 — 7:07:40 AM

I'm old enough to remember the signature Walter Kerr paeans to actors - praise for a single performance that overtake an entire review, famously documented and deconstructed in The Season. Haven't read one in a while, but Helen Shaw's embrace of Louis-Dreyfus is certainly close to it in both spirit and content. Whatever else this production is feeling this morning, as it picks over pull-quotes (nicely distributed among the cast members and Baitz, if not the director) - and I agree, even the g...

Re: Other Desert Cities reviews (Hudson) - Louis-Dreyfus, Harris, Janney, Keery, and Rabe

Oct 18, 2026 — 9:07:55 PM

Curtain call posted at 9:05.

Re: OTHER DESERT CITIES 2026 Previews

Oct 18, 2026 — 3:40:20 PM

Sergius, a trusted and discerning voice on ATC, found much to admire, despite reservations. I’m starting to believe the reviews might be mixed to positive. The play has never appealed to everyone - I recall it being considered old fashioned two decades ago - but it is so wildly entertaining, it delivers.

Re: A FEW GOOD MEN Previews

Oct 14, 2026 — 11:20:07 AM

In his Social Reckoning interview with Nicole Wallace, Sorkin mentions that he turned down prior revival requests because he didn't want his early work revisited (paraphrasing) but finally succumbed to LCT's/Arden's vision, providing he could do a page one rewrite/polish. One can guess that it's the same play with a more seasoned writer's perspective inside the dialog. I'm reminded that some plays undergo more significant changes without much attention. Albee revisited Virginia Woolf* and too...

Re: Rumor Roundup - Potential Additions to This Season

Oct 13, 2026 — 8:38:03 PM

The Bat Boy moment seems to have come and gone, even if the album of the City Center production (which I saw; excellent) seemed to indicate the possibility. It seemed more viable as a Little Shop like production Off Broadway.

Re: OTHER DESERT CITIES 2026 Previews

Oct 11, 2026 — 9:03:01 PM

My own subjective take, and it's an alternative POV, not a scold: calling it "dated" misses the point of the revival's timing. It's not being staged in the present, it's being offered now with the prism of invaluable historical fiction. The early years after 9/11 were horrific in this country, divisive, frightening, irresolute in foreign policy and its domestic consequences; and let's be politically specific: the origin story of the Tea Party, the Tea Party the forerunner of the MAGA mindset....

Re: OTHER DESERT CITIES 2026 Previews

Oct 11, 2026 — 11:17:58 AM

Show Score is coming in more positive, 77% and mostly quite glowing; but Reddit is 50-50, several finding Louis-Dreyfuss miscast or unsuccessful within the constraints of her taking on the role. I suppose that's the comment that confuses me. To be sure, Channing was likely definitive, her ability to suggest old school Hollywood and sort of cosplay Texan gal without visible effort was a unique synergy of actor and character. She was droll, yet she carried a gravitas. But here's a question: can...

Re: A FEW GOOD MEN Previews

Oct 10, 2026 — 8:33:58 AM

Interestingly comment about Rodriguez being a musical theater actor: guess who stood by for the character in the original production? Betsy Joslyn. And Pamela Blair took over for Megan Gallagher. It was a production that employed some of the best young actors in the industry over its 500 performances. J. K. Simmons, Perry King, Timothy Busfeld (um, man of the hour), Ron Perlman, Tom Hulce, Mark Nelson. I remember walking by the Music Box back in the day and seeing the new photos. It was known...

Re: OTHER DESERT CITIES 2026 Previews

Oct 6, 2026 — 11:08:26 PM

I much appreciated every observation, yet I'm not sure I understand one reaction: that these actors don't suggest 2004 (and the three decades before). 2004 America may be 22 years ago, but it's not a foreign country. And Baitz has shaped these people, the two sisters in particular, with a spry contemporaneity that is more tethered to class and second tier celebrity than specificity of era. When the play arrived a decade after its time frame, we were closer to that post 911 climate and more wi...

Re: THE LOST BOYS Reviews

Oct 6, 2026 — 10:50:44 AM

If past is prologue for this kind of targeted entertainment, the winter months will be a challenge.

BILLY CRYSTAL: 860 Previews

Oct 4, 2026 — 7:43:26 PM

That's just a lovely post, Jordan C.I have been oblivious to the show's LA fire-specific content until this thread, and feel ashamed that I had not investigated even minimally. (A friend lost her house, and I've been a bit reluctant to parse other stories.) This strikes me as a noble, cathartic effort to share grief and resilience, the wisdom from the examined life. Good for Mr. Crystal.

Re: OTHER DESERT CITIES 2026 Previews

Oct 3, 2026 — 8:07:42 PM

This last post by broadwayfreak underscores my earlier point: that the play belongs to the two adult children, who arrive at this Christmas to confront a layered legacy. If the three older characters carry the traumatic history, Brooke carries the linear action, and her brother is certainly in limbo about the family's ability to forge a broader reconciliation. It's a tribute to the focus of this production, and direction in particular, that the two younger stars are emerging as central to the...

Re: OTHER DESERT CITIES 2026 Previews

Oct 3, 2026 — 4:35:34 PM

Everyone, do read Kad's post. He makes a telling point. We have been paying a lot for ... a while. If not these prices, high for the respective era. Certainly in the 2000s. And yet ... I'm old enough to remember when Liza in The Act set a record with a $25 orchestra seat for Saturday. Google it, youngsters (NY Times, October 5, 1977). It was considered a jolt about Broadway's future. $25 in 1977 would be about $138 today. Arguably, today $138 is a steal. But a forecast? To be sure.

Re: OTHER DESERT CITIES 2026 Previews

Oct 3, 2026 — 8:32:10 AM

The Reddit posts are mostly about the play; they cheer the actors, question the play's worthiness for the company. Nothing in the advertising suggest political content; and yet the play is infused with the post-9/11 climate in America, the jingoism and the cynical response to Bush-Cheney's exploitation of a dark moment. And then comes - no spoilers - the tumultuous revelations about Vietnam era. It's quite possible that a preponderance of ticket buyers see the video ad - the actors elegantly ...

Re: Broadway songs sung with very little vibrato

Oct 2, 2026 — 4:45:25 PM

Jeremy Jordan has a rich vibrato - listen to his National Anthem this week - yet used it sparingly in his Floyd Collins. Contrast Jordan’s “The Call’ with the original’s, Christopher Invar’s. It seems a characterization decision, to create a vocal representative of a hardscrabble existence. Jordan soars on the show’s standalone final epiphany, the spiritually transcendent “When Glory Goes,” but before characterizes Floyd with a far more straight sound. A friend who’s a singer pointed this out...

Re: It's A Wonderful Life with Hilty, Rannells, Burgess, coming to the Broadhurst

Oct 1, 2026 — 5:12:40 PM

I saw this is community theater 4 years ago, a family member in the cast. It's ... fine. Its best feature is its relative economy of storytelling. Speed and brevity, overly cute wink-wink commercials aside. Don't expect all of the iconic scenes in the film's moving, nuanced (and arguably least sentimental) second act; they aren't there. But this would be an event with brilliant young actors who might re-mint George Bailey and Mary's journey. If anyone believes Rannells and Hilty, triple-threa...

Re: OTHER DESERT CITIES 2026 Previews

Sep 30, 2026 — 3:37:51 PM

How’s the sound? I’m presuming that everyone is in a body mic, after Oedipus and Salesman.

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