i agree, i got a last minute orch seat way on the side, and I'm so happy i did. the audience was electric, we gave lena a standing ovation as soon as she stepped on stage to do the roadie stuff. She received many standing O's through the show especially after her big solo number. So magical! Ive seen her with every hedwig, and wish her all the best!
Darren Criss, Judd Apatow, and Leslie Mann were also in the audience with their kids!
"Mostly, I loved the size of these people's emotions. Nobody has emotions this size anymore. Outsized emotions. Operatic emotions. Kushemski and Vanda are like Tristan and Isolde, they're Paolo and Francesca. Nobody's in total thrall like this anymore. Nobody's overcome by passion like this, or goes through this kind of rage." Thomas, Venus in Fur
Entire 10pm show — from Hall's "Random Number Generation" warm-up to surprise guests (Harris, Rannells, MC Hall, Stephen Trask) and emotional thank you speech — ran 2 hours. Electric evening.
Tonight was great. From the sound check to the surprises at curtain call. I'd also like to thank the box office gods for the front row mezzanine seats via TDF.
""She was fantastic in the role. Where is she going next?" For the next two weeks, she'll be at the Cafe Carlyle. I haven't any clue, though, where she'll be going from there."
She's playing SF at Feinstein's at the Nikko on April 24-25.
A friend and I handed out the roses to people sitting on the aisle. We almost bailed on the idea about a hundred times, thinking it would hard to get total strangers to participate, that Lena has to move too quickly down the aisle to have time to collect them, etc. We decided to go for it and let the chips fall where they may. When she came down off the stage and 24 hands (including those of John Waters and Lena’s sister) simultaneously emerged along the aisle each holding out a single pink rose, I would have burst into tears were I not already crying during Midnight Radio. She took every one of them. It was one of many, many magical moments that night.