What is your favorite new play this season?
What is your favorite new play this season?
#1What is your favorite new play this season?
Posted: 4/9/09 at 10:44amI have never been to a play before in my life and I reall want to see most of the new ones out. I want to hear your personal opinions on the ones that you saw so far this season.
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#2re: What is your favorite new play this season?
Posted: 4/9/09 at 10:46amREASONS TO BE PRETTY and RUINED
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#2re: What is your favorite new play this season?
Posted: 4/9/09 at 10:56am
Ruined
God of Carnage
reasons to be pretty
#3re: What is your favorite new play this season?
Posted: 4/9/09 at 11:04amI loved Irena's Vow, but it does seem like a love-it-or-hate-it show. People feel strongly one way or the other about it.
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
#4re: What is your favorite new play this season?
Posted: 4/9/09 at 11:14amYankeefan.. i really wanted to see God of Carnage.. That could be a good choice.. thanks
#5re: What is your favorite new play this season?
Posted: 4/9/09 at 11:16am"Reasons to be pretty"--- "Joe Turner..." a close 2nd
bwaygal1
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/5/07
#6re: What is your favorite new play this season?
Posted: 4/9/09 at 11:17am
I know it's a revival but Exit the King was really good. (Can't say about God of Carnage. I may break down and get a standing room even though I have an awesome seat for 6/3 that I'm planning on using.)
"A birdcage I plan to hang. I'll get to that someday. A birdcage for a bird who flew away...Around the world."
"Life is a cabaret old chum, only a cabaret old chum, and I love a cabaret!"-RIP Natasha Richardson-I was honored to have witnessed her performance as Sally Bowles.
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#7re: What is your favorite new play this season?
Posted: 4/9/09 at 11:20amIf we're talking revivals, as well, EXIT THE KING, hands down, the best production of the season.
jordangirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/1/06
#9re: What is your favorite new play this season?
Posted: 4/9/09 at 11:31amGod of Carnage and Irena's Vow
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#10re: What is your favorite new play this season?
Posted: 4/9/09 at 11:40am
Too many awesome plays to choose from this season, but that said:
New- Irena's Vow
Revival- The Seagull, Joe Turner's Come and Gone and Exit the King (Sorry I just couldn't decide)
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Tony: Eh, she's a no chip!
harper4
Understudy Joined: 6/9/08
#11re: What is your favorite new play this season?
Posted: 4/9/09 at 11:52am
NEW plays?
1.REASONS TO BE PRETTY (was the best reviewed new play of the year)
2. RUINED
and if you really must:
3. GOD OF CARNAGE
If you can get a free ticket:
4. IRENA'S VOW
wonkit
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/30/08
#13re: What is your favorite new play this season?
Posted: 4/9/09 at 12:02pm
In terms of revival, EXIT THE KING and BLITHE SPIRIT are both great choices.
I haven't seen any new plays this season as far as I can remember but I've heard fantastic things about GOD OF CARNAGE and RUINED.
However, if you have never seen a play, I highly highly HIGHLY recommend going to the Music Box to watch AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#14re: What is your favorite new play this season?
Posted: 4/9/09 at 12:10pmI agree about AUGUST. REASONS and RUINED are great but pale in comparison to the brilliance that is AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY.
#15re: What is your favorite new play this season?
Posted: 4/9/09 at 3:22pmIs August really any good because when the weekly grosses come out, it seems that everybody is saying to put it out of its misery.. Although my drama teacher said it was fabulous.
#16re: What is your favorite new play this season?
Posted: 4/9/09 at 3:28pm
^ That is only because it has been on for alot longer than most plays normally run, therefore most people have seen it already who want to see it.
It is FANTASTIC! First professional "Play" I saw and I am returing to alot more because I had such a good time at August.
#17re: What is your favorite new play this season?
Posted: 4/9/09 at 6:54pm"August:OC" is scary good !!!
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#18re: What is your favorite new play this season?
Posted: 4/9/09 at 7:26pmA:OC is nowhere near as good as RUINED.
#19re: What is your favorite new play this season?
Posted: 4/9/09 at 8:05pm
God of Carnage is amazing
also why torture is wrong and the people who love them
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#20re: What is your favorite new play this season?
Posted: 4/9/09 at 8:06pmReasons to be Pretty...and with it's grosses it may not be around long (here's hoping it finds its audience), so it would be a good place to start.
#21re: What is your favorite new play this season?
Posted: 4/9/09 at 8:06pm
I have been hearing a lot of good things about RUINED. Is it still on TDF? I might just renew my subs...
J*
wonkit
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/30/08
#22re: What is your favorite new play this season?
Posted: 4/9/09 at 9:01pmI love AUGUST, too - but strictly speaking it was "new" last season.
#23re: What is your favorite new play this season?
Posted: 4/9/09 at 10:24pmI actually really liked Distracted. I don't know if it was just Cynthia Nixon's performance or possibly my relating to the material, but I thought it was a lot better than others I saw. Of course if I'm counting plays from last season, I would say August: Osage County, since that is quite possibly the best play currently on Broadway (especially with Estelle Parsons in the cast).
