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Then my first recollection of hearing about this means I was late to the party about finding out about this production. Thank you for the dates.My larger point is that a *lot* of people bought tickets based upon that art pop-esquire advertisement, where you see all the faces of the cast. I think there’s something lacking in finesse, to say the least, to have marketed the show this way and then to have such haphazard casting issues follow. It plays fast and loose with the audience’s expectatio...

I was at yesterday’s performance. I really love MJ and I’m glad I just missed missing her Broadway debut. I was impressed by her work and the whole show.That said, there really is something genuinely offputting and lacking in class about how this casting business has been executed.While it may be true that the stars are not above the title and people are not technically entitled to refunds, I recall that the first advertisement had all their faces on it. It was very clear that the cast was a ...

Thank you!!

I’m going to be that person and ask how the stage door has been? I’d be thrilled to meet Michaela Jae. I absolutely love her work.

Thank you! Were they pretty efficient with opening the pouches?

I’ve seen the play listed as being 1 hour and 55 minutes.Can anyone attest to this?I am trying to figure out whether I should go late to an event downtown at 4 after the performance of “Bug” this Sunday or just consider it a loss and not even bother.

Before I make an entirely new thread just to ask one question, does anyone know if there is SRO for this show / at the Hayes in general?Thank you.

DramaTeach said: "Hated If/Then. Trying to be high art, and so tedious."I love Idina dearly and always will, but she didn’t have the character acting chops to delineate Liz and Beth.What a great premise, but the ingredients didn’t come together. I was left rather cold.

uncageg said: "Jordan Catalano said: "BKLYN"I saw BKLYN twice when it premiered at the New Denver Civic Theaterin Denver before it went to Broadway. Loved it. But I remember thinking, when the Broadway run was announced, that it just would not work in a bigger theater. I think it was meant to run off-Broadway. I never saw it on Broadway but it was "semi" interactive when I saw it in Denver, from what I remember. And I really wish they had done a studio recording instead of a Live recording. I...

n2nbaby said: "The two things I’ve hated the most on Broadway have been Jagged Little Pill and The Great Gatsby. Absolutely baffling that either made it. Abysmal."I agree about JLP. I’m a longtime, diehard Alanis Morissette fan, but the show was atrocious. It was like being assaulted with every politically correct trope imaginable; in a sense, it gave the 2010s the ending the decade deserved.I call it the flavor-blasted Cheetos of musicals. Completely inorganic and needless.

Kad said: "The first answer that comes to mind was the revival of The Gin Game with James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson. A dull, twee play, poorly staged and designed, and featuring a Jones who was barely a shadow of his formidable self- who could barely stand and was reciting lines. I left at intermission.But I have to say,having to sit through fringe festival shows, entire off-Broadway seasons,and bottom-tier semi-professional regionaltheater for work drastically altered what “bad theater” me...

KarenValentine'sheadband said: "On Your Feet - Just a sad sad show. My hope was high for it but it fell hard.The last revival of Oklahoma. WOW! What a pretentious borefest."The portrayal of Emilio alone - I blame the director and the Estefans themselves, not the actor - was so reductive, unfunny, incongruous and, above all, untruthful. I still can’t get it out of my head.It was a fun celebration of Gloria’s music and resilience, but little more. More a concert than theater.

scripps said: "BentleyB said: "“But “Burn This” I couldn’t run out of the Hudson fast enough along with several other audience members at intermission. I fell asleep at least 3 times in act 1."I saw Burn This the summer day there wasa blackout that closed most shows but not this one! Oh, lucky me! I refuse to watch Adam Driver in anything since this travesty. I stayed for Act 2 because I have had a crush on David Furr since I spotted him in the ensemble of Cymbeline at LCT but it was an absol...

Dreamboy3 said: "With apologies to Christopher Durang, Sex and Longing was really really tortuous.I guess I had blocked out some truly awful shows that others have posted about. And I’ve excluded off broadway given the OP — otherwise In Transit and Women on the Verge would surely have been on my list. And a very obscure play from the 80s called Waltz of the Stork.The Philanthropist truly was awful. The Play that Goes wrong I hated within two minutes. The Rose Tattoo with Marisa Tomei. And fro...

BentleyB said: "I had forgotten about “Bullets Over Broadway” wow that was an abortion and in the 70s seeing a show with Bernard Hughes in the lead called, “Da”. I could only understand about every 12th word because of the thick Irish brogue. I think I slept thru Act 2."How funny - my mom still fondly remembers “Da.”

kidmanboy said: "Absolutely has to be Memphis. Utterly baffling.A few dishonorable mentions: Pirate Queen, Pretty Woman, The Last Ship, Frank Wildhorn’s Dracula. And, yes, Great Gatsby." Yes, that Dracula is the single worst thing I’ve ever seen on a professional theater stage.My mom got me tickets thinking it was a revival of the Langella play, which she enjoyed in her youth.Strong performances. Godawful music and lyrics. A total lack of suspense.

broadfan327 said: "[title of show], Guttenberg the Musical, Scandalous, Come From Away top my list."Come From Away is my number 2, after Dracula the Musical.I’m always refreshed when I find others who loathed CFA. I felt so emotionally manipulated with no payoff - weak book and mediocre music surrounding a truly beautiful story.

yahyahyah said: "For what it’s worth- which at this point is just how the show is remembered and spoken of-I was interested in this material and story from when I heard of the show’s run in La Jolla. Not because I am an Lempicka devotee- but because it stood out as different than so much of what we see coming down the Broadway pipeline. The jukebox, the film adaptations, revivals, established properties being pumped full of MT pizazz. (And yes I’ve enjoyed some of those.) After Lempicka opene...

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It feels almost forbidden to bring up this topic anymore, but I’m going to anyway - does anyone know if Ani DiFranco has been doing the stage door beyond her opening night, when we know she did?I haven’t been to a stage door since 2018, but I’d make an exception for a chance to meet her after the show. She’s such a hero of mine.I’m rather shocked to see no one discussing how she’s doing in the run!Thank you.