110 in the Shade closing this weekend! — Page 3

i love how she does "raunchy"! it must have been fun to be that close.

how was the audience? was there any special speech at the end? did you also stage door?

More details, please!!!!

It was WONDERFUL!!! Audra was spot on. Steve was amazing. Bobby was adorable. The whole cast was wonderful!! I didn't notice anything out of the ordinary...no tricks or anything that I saw. "Raunchy" was definitely in full form and AMAZING!!!

My tears started with "Old Maid", then dried over intermission, but were in full-force by "Wonderful Music". And I was sobbing at curtain call.

So were they. Audra made a little speech thanking us all for being there and explaining to people who didn't know that it was the last show. She thanked Lonny and others involved with the production. Then thanked us all again saying she knew there were other places we could have gone in the city...something like out to Long Island, getting carried away by gypsies or to an enchanted castle, and she appreciated us being there.

The stage door really wasn't any crazier than I'd seen it before. Definitely nothing like closing at The Vertical Hour. The whole cast was really great. A lot of them are off to LA. Aurdra, John Cullum is going to shoot an episode of..."Mad Men" I think he said ~ some new series. Steve's moving out there tomorrow to give it a go out there. Bobby's starting rehearsals fr something with the Public.

It was a GREAT day!!!! Very emotional. But great!!

---

FINALLY, thanks for a detailed review!! I'm surprised that the stage door wasn't that crazy. It's great to hear about their plans after the show as well.

I assume the show was sold out? did they sell rush tickets?

Updated On: 7/29/07 at 10:56 PM

jochang ~ If it wasn't sold out it was darn close. I don't know if they had rush or not. I'd guess so because when I got into Manhattan from Brooklyn I walked by the tkts board and it was on there. I was SO SAD!!!! but the mezz looked full from my vantage point.

---

I was looking around as well, and did not see any open seats in the Mezz--- I am guessing that the show must have been a
sell-out, or very close to it.

last night was almost sold out too...just the upper balcony seats were vacant and they were doing rush last night...I have been dying for details all night so thanks...hope BATB was awesome too...

---

violet ~ It was awesome! I'm sure I would have cried harder if I hadn't cried almost the whole way through 110.

An emotional day all around. (Beauty's why I didn't get a review of 110 up until late.)

---

I loved how the acting in this was so effortless, so natural...they all seemed to relate so well to eachother and they could really play with their roles..I wish it was recorded for PBS so I could show all my drama kids, so they could see what acting is suppose to be

---

do you think a majority of the audience knew it was the last performance of the show?

it seems like for some closing performances, annoyances occur - like a cell phone going off during joann's staredown with bobby in company a few weeks ago for their last show. you'd think if the audience knew it was the last show, they would be sure to be on their best behavior.

I couldn't tell. People around me weren't talking about it. I agree about best behavior.

Sadly...as I witnessed at Beauty that's not always the case. (I won't go into details, but the woman who flounced into the seat in front of me was horrid! She almost pushed the usher down the stairs GRABBING a playbill from him (she wanted to CLIMB OVER EMPTY SEATS to get to hers rather than going in the row to which she was assigned. Then apparently went to another usher to complain that SHE was treated rudely!)

---

Yeah. I was in shock. Like, let the enchantment wash over you lady. Just relax. She never showed up after intermission, though her bag was in a chair. I wonder if someone had to be called or something.

Anyway... back to 110!! :) and

---