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I saw this tonight, and you'll have to count me in with the people that liked the show. Is it absolutely great theater? Nope. But it was a fun night out -- and was just plain enjoyable.A quick rundown: I'd vote Linedy Genao as Cinderella as just OK, Julio Rey as Prince Sebastian as very good, Carolee Carmello as the stepmother as OK but a bit too much, and Grace McLean as the queen as good. I liked the tunes, and thought that the lyrics worked well with the show (even when they were very deli...

I had read this thread a while ago, and based on it, I was prepared to skip this show. On a whim, I decided to see it tonight... and I loved it!Interestingly, there seems to be a pretty sharp divide in perceptions about the show. Perhaps its the age group, perhaps familiarity with the material... I have no way to know. But I thought the cast was uniformly very good, the choreography worked well for the material, and the writing, staging, and direction were all top-notch. I thoroughly enjoyed ...

Since there seems to be majorly diverging views on this show, I wanted to add a strong "pro" opinion. We saw it last night, and we liked it a LOT. I've read the complaints about the score, about the book, about the actors.... and none of that matches our experience and reactions. We seriously liked the music (but thought that the lyrics were a bit iffy sometimes), thought the book was good to great (there were excellent one-liners all over, and there was a sequence in the second act that coul...

There was a thread on this here a while ago. Apparently, generally speaking, only very specialized "record labels" do cast recordings these days, and those record labels generally use an intermediary company that prepares the digital files in the way that is required by Amazon and/or iTunes. Depending on the particular company and their relationship with the service team on Amazon and/or iTunes, this can result in there not being a digital version of the CD booklet. Sometimes, the digital boo...

KCDMX710Tickets for previews in the orchestra are almost gone....

Rotten, hands-down. The second act is a bit of letdown after the first act, but outside of that, it's fun and happy and great. An American In Paris? Well, if you like Yet Another Version of Gershwin music mated with overrated dancing that is very balletic and very boring...

I got a response from one of the record labels that has been doing a simply wonderful job of producing original cast albums lately, but has not been including a digitized version of their CD booklet on Amazon. In it, they clearly indicate that the problem lies with Amazon... that they WANT to have the booklets made available to their customers, and that the booklets indeed are generally available on iTunes. Apparently, they use a third-party company to supply Amazon with their MP3 tracks, and...

"My recollection is that the Telephone Wire bench rises from the very center of the stage and is slightly elevated. It rotates during the song, so it faces every section pretty much equally." I saw Fun Home last night, and that is exactly how it works.

I fired off a letter to Amazon... we'll see if it accomplishes anything.

" I directly emailed one of the labels about not being able to get a download of the booklet and they responded: The company that submits our discs to the various digital sites allows us to include a digital booklet at iTunes, but not at Amazon mp3. I don't understand all the reasons, but I gather it's part of THEIR deal with Amazon mp3, and there's nothing, sadly, I can do about it. " If it's OK with you, I would love to forward that to Amazon, in the hopes that they can clear it up. After a...

I just fired off a quick letter to PS Classics after noticing that not a single one of their Original Cast albums had a digitized CD booklet available on Amazon. Let's see how they respond.

I've never had any problem with Amazon customer service; I think their service is quite exemplary. Which, actually, is why I find this lack of CD booklets to be so annoying... I looked at a selection of Broadway show albums currently available on Amazon, and it seems that there are certain labels whose albums seem to never include the booklets (PS Classics comes to mind), and other labels who usually (but not always) include it. And then there are some labels for which it seems to be more ran...

For some shows, I actually go through the effort of ordering the physical CD (for most CD's, Amazon obligingly also sends the MP3 files if you buy the CD) and scanning the booklet into a PDF. It seems pretty dumb to have to do this in 2015, especially when the "booklet" is almost a book (eg, On the Twentieth Century). Oddly, for Fun Home, Amazon does NOT include the MP3 files if you buy the CD, and it also does NOT include a digitized booklet if you buy the MP3 version. Like, what are they th...

I routinely buy original cast recordings for the Broadway shows I see. I mostly buy them from Amazon, and I prefer buying the MP3 version. A while ago, Amazon announced that it was going to include a digitized version of the CD booklet (which for most Broadway shows contains a synopsis of the show and the song lyrics) with the MP3 song files. They do indeed do so for many albums, but it is a hit-and-miss affair, and it is difficult to predict whether any particular album's MP3 version will co...

It seems like I am distinctly in the minority here, but I really liked the pop-song album of Finding Neverland. I'd still love the OBC recording, but meanwhile, I am enjoying the pop "interpretations".

Thanks for your help... I saw the show and loved it. And for what it's worth, I enjoyed it a lot more than An American In Paris.

> So did I! I liked On The Town a LOT better! For what it's worth, I thought On the Town "fit" into the Lyric Theater quite nicely, and I certainly didn't at all mind the wide aisles and that fact that you can actually cross your legs when seated. On the other hand, the Lyric certainly does have lots of seats for a show to fill!

loliveve... LOL, no, in general, I'll settle for side orchestra. Thanks for the additional site... I checked newyork.com -- they don't give you a choice of seats, and are more expensive than the standard "discount price", so it doesn't seem like it pays. As to TodayTix, I figured that I'd go for it and install it. Then I discovered that it also doesn't show you your ticket locations, and the app on Android wanted permission on my phone to deal with device and app history, identity, calendar, ...

Thanks... I was thinking of doing TKTS for it...

Thanks, loliveve. I tried those, with the exception of TodayTix (I'm looking for orchestra seats), but no joy. I guess each producer figures out their own way to manage things... I'm guessing that the strategy behind On The Town's marketing will just remain a mystery to me.