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There is no such thing as improvements to the lighting of the Hal Prince version.

Never understood the flex behind hating Times Square.

Well, the last time I went to Masquerade, Carlotta beat me with a severed head and then forced me to hold it for the entire Hanniball rehearsal and then Christine made me hold her dress for Don Juan Triiumphqnt while she sang a song so who knows maybe they will give us prop guns for the barricade.

My only question is when can I get tickets and can I slip the producers a 20 to get them to bring the original revolve back for this?

Wow. Just saw this tonight and it made me fall in love with Les Miz all over again. I wish I could come back to New York and see it again and again (like I used to!). Bradley Jaden. I don’t even know what to say. For me, Javert was always a one note character, just a grouch with an axe to grind for no apparent reason. I always used to just sit and wait for “Stars” to end bc it was dull, at least to me. His suicide seemed to drag on forever (sorry spoiler alert from 1985). BUT TONIGHT! Bradley...

I saw it a completely different way. Taking in that scene surrounded by midtown Manhattan skyscrapers is an only-in-New York experience.

I’m getting worried by the amount of videos showing up on tiktok. I go to the Christmas show at Radio City and everybody has their phones out there so I hope Les Miz isn’t the same way.

Tonight’s show is on TKTS right now for 20% off. This first week is selling very well so I imagine if you wait til later in the run in August it’ll probably be on TKTS at 50%.

I'll be there next Friday. Built a whole trip around it.

TexanAddams18 said: "Let me be clear, I dont think it's going to happen, but I do know for a fact that discussions were had about bringing in the tour cast (since most the year long contracts end like november 1 or something) and just remounting it with the OG set (which is still in NYC storage) and then teaching the show to a new touring cast and sending them out to finish the tour."While it is heartwarming to hear that the 1988 set is still in storage AND still in New York City, CamMack wil...

MezzoDiva47 said: "TheGingerBreadMan said: "Yes, if you want to counter a claim, bring receipts. I said what I had been told to be true by people in the industry who have knowledge over these things. You want to argue? Go ahead, but do it with some intelligence.Not that your argument deserves any more of my time, but I'm well aware that international tourists often speak English. I'm also well aware that they often do not. Are you trying to turn this into a xenophobia thing? Do you just want ...

So let's see. You're repeating an anecdote that you have no idea is true or not, but you want me to substantiate a counterclaim against it? Girl, sit down. And if you want to google the percentage of overseas tourists who speak more than one language, feel free, but I'm certainly not doing it for you. But at least I can say that international tourists are quite often, in fact, at least bilingual if not trilingual. And I'm not relying on random anecdotes I've heard. If you want to continue you...

TheGingerBreadMan said: "It's my understanding that a large part of the reason CATS was able to run 18 years was because non-English speaking tourists could watch the dancing and costumeswithout having to follow much of a plot. Big seller among that crowd."This comment is a typical ignorant American POV on language. It is far more common in the rest of the world, especially with foreign tourists who have enough disposable income to fly to New York to see Broadway shows, to speak and understan...

MezzoDiva47 said: "Jay Lerner-Z said: "then reopen in a few years with new techwhich i fully expect to happen with phantom It really frustrates me when people think the original 1986/1988 Phantom even had any "tech" or needed an "new tech." The whole point of Maria and Hal's vision of the show was to to be a love letter to theater and to use theatrical "technology" that's been around forever---backdrops, curtains, footlights, etc. Even the "tech" stuff, like the strike

I am totally in favor of abortion rights, but if Disney gets involved in abortions, I may have to rethink my stance.

So are we thinking Labor Day or January closing? I kid, I kid. 😇but seriously, Labor Day 2046 or January 2047? I’m hearing lots of shows are closing then bc people just can’t afford these ticket prices and the shows aren’t as good as they used to be in the 2030s Ok let me stop and the poster above me is right. Those performers are bona fide Broadway vets, not stunts. How did we start thinking that any replacement who’s not a total unknown is a stunt cast?

Phantom was on TKTS for 21 years (2002-2023). https://playbill.com/article/phantom-of-the-opera-offered-at-tkts-for-first-time-com-106359 It first appeared there in the months after 9/11 near performance #6000. Wicked is around #8800 and hasn’t needed TKTS yet. But. Once again. Theyre not comparable. Very different situations.

Ugh.. Ya'll are too much. OF COURSE Phantom's numbers were lower than Wicked's numbers DUH. There was an strain of COVID going around, it had run for 35 years already, and oh yeah, it had a producer who was hell-bent on closing his original 1980s productions and replacing them with cheaper versions. MY POINT WAS (ugh) that posters on this board made made similar comments about Phantom (should we be worried? wow those numbers are low etc) and those comments were always met with "Phantom will b...

All of these "Wicked has nothing to worry about" is what everybody used to say about Phantom in those final years until suddenly.....

I teach this show to my seniors every spring so I am so glad I got to see it before it closed. There were so many moments that were illuminated for me by the staging and the line delivery. Before this, I’ve only heard 17 year olds struggling to read it aloud in class lol. The characterizations were on point and entertaining. Even Debbie Allen’s announcements about phones was spot on. The only problem was the obnoxious woman next to me who needed to talk back to pretty much everything the acto...