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Saw the show with rush tickets Wednesday evening. Seats were Orchestra left right on the aisle. Fyi - rush seats are assigned randomly so there is no advantage to buying or picking up early. Also, there were quite a few empty seats in the back row.I agree with most of the sentiments posted here already. Carmen Cusack and the two male leads were phenomenal. The show definitely closed too early on Broadway.

h6p8gv said: "Are you going? If so please report back on how he is"Just got back, he was good but the voice was a bit weaker than Bronson Norris Murphy and of course I have not seen Garoar Cortes. Meghan Picerno was outstanding although her voice seemed more strained relative to her Tuesday evening performance.

Michael Gillis is on tonight.

It's opening night here in Durham. Curtain was scheduled for 7:30, got pushed back to 8 a couple hours before and one of the producers just came out for the second time to announce that they still haven't sorted out the sets yet. Sounds like they should not have scheduled the tour with only a one day turnaround between Detroit and the next stop.

"Um, can't believe I'm jumping into this "I can't believe I'm jumping into this either. I am aware of the general issue about Asian stereotypes that GeorgeandDot is referring to but for this Asian-American woman, it's mostly an abstract issue rather than one that has a practical effect on my day-to-day life. What I mean is that the average Broadway audience member who lives in New York or other big city would be exposed to many Asian-American women who are doctors, engineers, lawyers, investm...

Saw Liana last night after already having seen Eva a couple weeks back. I saw the criticism in another thread about Eva being too "American Idol-ish" but I would much prefer that to what I saw.Her belt really wasn't there, the high notes came out either so hoarse and screechy that it was jarring. It was especially obvious at the end of Last Night of the World and I Still Believe, you couldn't hear her at all anytime Chris/Ellen were singing. There were even times when she was supposed to belt...

Does anyone have any thoughts on the Kim alternate? I was not particularly impressed by Eva N. so I am considering catching this when the alternate is on.

ChairinMain said: "The criticisms leveled at Seth and Mandy on this form are not quite, perhaps, indicative of their performances but of just how hard the score is and just how good Renee and Daveed were in these roles. "I am not sure I agree. I have a hard time imagining a world where you can't put professionally trained actors together with a dialect coach to come up with a French accent that would convince a lay-person. In Seth Stewart's case, the accent was a really bad mix of non existen...

I just saw the NY cast (all replacements except for Oak) and also saw the Chicago cast last month. I agree with most of the sentiments above that the Chicago cast blows NY replacements away. If I go down the list of characters:Hamilton- Cervantes much better than Luowye.Burr- Henry slightly better than Dixon.Washington - Kirkland lightyears ahead of Treco (s/b). The physical height disparity between Kirkland and Cervantes was so striking and effective.Lafayette/Jefferson- Stewart couldn't com...

ellingjt said: "I wanted to share our line experience here because I learned a lot from this thread and wanted to give some info back. My wife and I went to the 2pm show on Saturday, 12/17. We had a very limited time in the city, so we wanted to hire a line sitter. Over a month ago, I PM'd HamiltonObsessed and set it up. I had plane tickets purchased, and was at the airport on Friday, on my way to NYC, when I got a text that he was cancelling because it was supposed to be cold and snow. This ...

I saw it at Berkeley with Sam Barks and I will be in LA later this month to see it again.I am planning to see a Thursday matinee so I'm a little worried that Phillipa might be out. I know she was absent quite a bit towards the end of her run in Hamilton but does anyone know what her attendance was like when Hamilton was in previews last year? The show isn't too vocally demanding and it would literally be the 3rd week so barring illness, etc, I am thinking I should be fine.

Some tips on the lottery:I entered 10 shows in a row and won 5 times (exactly once every other day), although I only went once. The box office said that there were exactly 15 or 50 lottery winners every show, I couldn't hear exactly. If it's the former, I assume that he means 15 people times 2 tickets.It appears the lottery tickets are distributed based on the inventory of seats that have not been sold. In my case, I saw there was a single unsold Center Orchestra seat about 12 rows back and g...

I definitely don't share fantod's extreme opinion, but it is hard to put a finger on exactly how I feel about the show. It definitely captures the essence of whimsical. The book felt a little off and it didn't help there was no intermission. I couldn't keep up with some of the plot and the narration was confusing. The score, while not catchy, was lush and deeply moving. Even without fully getting what the full context of the plot was(I did not watch the movie), all the songs were so good at h...

Just got back from the first show. To answer the previous question, Carole King sings a soulful ballady arrangement of Will you Love Me Tomorrow, with Gerry Goffen joining in for a few bars. And then the shirrelles do the presumably original version. Here is my mini-review (may contain spoilers) : I didn't know any Carole king songs going in, they were a little outside my age range. The only exception was "Natural Woman" only because it's been covered to death by singing competitions/ Demi Lo...

Got tickets for opening night in SF. I will post an update with my thoughts.

Is the tour worth seeing? Is Topol's u/s any good?

Kate Fahrner is in the ensemble, hope this means she will be a Nellie u/s?

Also, occasionally an understudy will be permanently promoted to standby or a standby promoted to principal, but it doesn't go the other way...at least as far as I've ever known. Principals don't get demoted to standby and standbys don't become understudies. Just wanted to leap into the fray - this is not true either. Just noticed Karmine Alers used to play Mimi in Rent and now she's Mimi, Maureen u/s on tour. The principal Mimi must be really good, because she looks awfully young opposite Ad...

Is it common for producers to not pay anything to the actors performing for readings? Seems like it's a long way from Broadway...

snl89 - Do you have a source for those comments? If you did, it would completely change my objection to him.