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Hi all! I live in Philly and I'm planning a New York day trip for Saturday 3/11. I saw Company back in July and was able to get matinee tickets like two hours before the show at $79 from the box office. I'm thinking about seeing either the matinee of Kimberly Akimbo, Funny Girl, or Little Shop, haven't made up my mind yet. I'm a bit worried about getting tickets the day of though. I guess I got lucky with Company but would I be okay to just get tickets from the box office a few hours before c...

Hi all,This is my first post in forever so my apologies if it's already been asked. I'm planning on seeing Company on Saturday 7/16 (the matinee) but now that it's closing on 7/31 I'm concerned it may be sold out or tickets will be really limited. I'm coming up from Philadelphia so it will just be a day trip and this may sound dumb but my plan was to just go to the box office and find the cheapest seat in the mezzanine. But I don't want to get there and risk it being sold out? If that makes s...

I was thinking about this earlier and it came across my mind, why do so many musicals open in the spring (near the Tony's) and then there's the random few who open in the fall when tourism is pretty low? Disregarding theater availability because of plays and their limited engagements, wouldn't it just make more sense for a show to open in the spring when its more crowded because if a show opens in the fall, won't it get 1. forgotten/brushed by with all of the new shows 2. not get a ton of mon...

Kind of a weird question but I’ve ALWAYS wondered it. On behalf of the ensemble in musicals, when their show closes or posts its closing date, what do they…do? Do they literally face reality and collect unemployment or…do some of them get lucky and get performance jobs off the bat? It’s just disconcerting especially to any making their debut as to what’s next when their job just ends and they can’t do anything about it.?? Â

Two weeks ago I saw The Prom on a Thursday night and I really enjoyed it. Was it a perfect show by any means? No. But what I really loved about it was how it was just fun. Nothing more too it, just plain all in all fun. I also really admired how much the cast was enjoying themselves especially the ensemble. Now my concern really is their grosses. For a little (ish) show at a small to medium sized house (Longacre), it needs to be selling better and it just isn't. What's more concerning is that...

So in February, I'll be in New York and I am COMPLETELY torn between seeing either The Prom or Phantom since I'll only be in the city for one night before I leave the next day...I've never seen Phantom live, I've only seen the movie but I LOVE IT, and I've always wanted to see it time after time but I never have....for Prom, I started listening to it and I've fallen in love even if it's fluff because those are my kind of shows!! I'm torn please help!!Â

The Addams Family The songs are fun but only to an extent......singing When Your An Addams and Full Disclosure are fun at first and listening to Pulled backstage is also a fun little lipsync party but once the show ended hearing them come up on shuffle on my phone made me want to throw it into a sewer....also the show is uncannily short and there's really no resolution it just kind of ends? Wednesday and Lucas get married at 18...because? Fester goes to the moon bye? Alice and Mal work it out...

Oklahoma-Great score, some songs are actually really beautiful...but it was so long and boring...it was about taking a girl to a dance for crying out loud and it felt like it was 4 hours long!!Grease-Same thing....great score, some songs are some of the most iconic songs in musical theater (Summer Nights, Hand Jive, You're The One That I Want) but it's just so boring....fun at times but mostly just boringCats-Except for the catchy opening.....it's pretty much a show with cats on stage......Mo...

So with all the buzz going around about the possible Dreamgirls revival this spring, and the current West End production with Amber Riley I want to go back to the original production in 1981. It lost best musical that year as well as best score (Henry Krieger and Tom Eyen) and best direction (Michael Bennett) all to the musical Nine? It did win best book (Eyen) as well as best actress for Jennifer Holliday with her irresistible performance as Effie. And best choreography for Bennett. I don't ...

Wilkomen from Cabaret is brilliant as well as All That Jazz from Chicago (Kander and Ebb KNOW how to make a good opening that grabs your attention!)But OH MY GOD YOU GUYS don't forget about OH MY GOD YOU GUYS from Legally Blonde! It perfectly captures what the show is and what the show is going to be. A personal favorite of mine is Wide Open Spaces from Curtains (also Kander and Ebb hehe) because it's a different way to start a show. Instead of opening the show itself it opens the show INSIDE...

OVERRATEDWicked-I liked it. Extremely entertaining with obnoxiously catchy songs and huge sets to follow.....but nothing out of this world amazing??Grease-Great songs, boring plotCats-Nothing happens, it's literally a self explanatory titleMama Mia!-Yes those songs will never leave your head, but the story is just SO BAD and the movie did it zero favors.Oklahoma-Just really boring I love Rogers and Hammerstein but usually Oklahoma lacks that oomph and quirkiness the other shows have. Jersey B...

Whenever I see a show on Broadway I ALWAYS love to graze around at the set and then after the show see if I liked it or not. I know that the set shouldn't really matter because it's truly about the show itself and the cast but I'm in a snobby theater critic mood so I wanna know, what's been your favorite (and least favorite) sets on Bway and why?Mine:Favorite: War Paint, Wicked, Kinky Boots, King And I (2015 Revival), Matilda, CinderellaLeast:Curtains-Just bleh and kind of tacky The Book Of M...

HAIRSPRAY-(the 1988 original) to me the movie was good but fell a bit flat but the musical perfectly made it so much more fun a lovableMatilda-(this is more book to stage because the movie is set in the US while the book is homage to Roald Dahl who had it take place in England because he was British) but this has so much pop and depth, so clever Xanadu-The movie is ridiculous. Thank god the musical understood this and made some of it into a parody Legally Blonde-(Yes the ultimate guilty pleas...

Hey!!! I was the 9 to 5 thread!! Honeymoon in Vegas was a super funny, campy, gem of a show and extremely entertaining. But they took a huge risk by opening it in the dead of winter at a large theater (Nederlander). And with high running costs and with tourists thinking "it's so cold! Let's stay safe and go see Wicked!" Also from what I remember the marketing wasn't that stellar. Some ads on YouTube and its own website but not much else.

Not sure why but I've somehow fallen in love with 9 to 5. Both the show (which is on Youtube) and the score. But why did it flop? It only ran for four months when it had a triple threat powerhouse leads (Allison Janney, Megan Hilty, Stephanie J Block) and great supporting cast and it was super funny. And yes the ensemble was super big and with those HUGE sets (like omg how big is the Marquis theater backstage???) and there were so many costumes those weekly costs were definetly uber high. And...

The problem with The Little Mermaid on stage is that it often comes off way too bloated because too many ideas are crammed into one. The original broadway production in my opponion was OK but no where near as good at The Lion King, Beauty and The Beast or Aida. I thought the cast was great. Sierra Boggess and Norm Lewis both have BEAUTIFUL voices and strong acting. Sherie Rene Scott got mixed reviews as Ursula but I thought she was fine a bit more an over the top diva comic relief Ursula then...

The Cabaret finale is truly magificent and thought provoking. The Annie ending is so heartwarming and sweet The Little Mermaid finale is actually really beautiful and the lyrics are nice

JBradshaw said: "You didn't once say anything about yourself. What you like to sing. If you're looking for something dramatic or funny or even songs you like. Hi I need an alto song. Why not say songs you were thinking about? No just tell me songs to do. Do some work yourself. You joined today and then asked for audition songs. Come on. So sick of this sight. "What song to sing?" "What show to see?" get an opinion and do research yourself. Watch things. Listen to obscure recordings. Find some...

trpguyy said: "BwayDreamer00 said: "I don't understand what you mean by a "DESPERATE directors visit" every show has an ongoing director that give notes to the cast and they subsequently have rehearsals to fix these issues? Once the show opens and begins its run the original director is done.....they have spent a ton of time working on this project and are moving on to another one....does Casey Nicholaw the co director and choreographer of Book Of Mormon have time to go back and watch every s...

I don't understand what you mean by a "DESPERATE directors visit" every show has an ongoing director that give notes to the cast and they subsequently have rehearsals to fix these issues? Once the show opens and begins its run the original director is done.....they have spent a ton of time working on this project and are moving on to another one....does Casey Nicholaw the co director and choreographer of Book Of Mormon have time to go back and watch every single thing wrong with the show? No ...