APPROPRIATE Reviews — Page 5

I'm sure it doesn't work anymore, but was there a mailer discount code for this? I had a mailer but must have thrown it away.

I saw this Saturday night and I liked it but didn't love it--it felt to me like an early work of a playwright who wasn't as experienced (which I suppose is true). It has a lot of ideas and threads I would love to unravel, but it seems to only be interested in bringing up different topics and then glossing over them to go on to the next topic. So I think it would be a really interesting play to read and study the text for, but in the show, everything seemed to be going by a bit too fast to make a real impact.

Though, I really enjoyed the experience of the show. The actors are all quite fantastic and they have a great sense for comedy within the drama, so it's a fun show to sit through. The characters are unlikeable in turns but in a delicious way that makes it fun to watch them fighting it out, but at the same time I think it's easy to understand their point of view and why they think the way they do (even if I personally disagree), and I was definitely siding with different people throughout different parts of the show.

To me it felt like the play was building up to more and more revelations until the family (particularly Toni) would not be able to avoid a certain truth staring them in the face, but instead it seemed to pivot, focusing on the relationship of the siblings rather than the legacy of their family history so I left the play feeling a bit unsatisfied. Nothing is really resolved about any of the issues brought up through the play, and while in other plays that can feel like a true representation of real life, here it just felt like a presentation of a messy family dynamic and the audience was left to figure out what they wanted to take away from it, without much direction from the playwright. The last few minutes after the dialogue ends I did think were beautifully done (was that new for this production or has a version of that been in prior productions?) but it also felt like the message that that was trying to give didn't really align with any of the other messages that had been in the rest of the play.

I think it's the best play I've ever seen. Having said that, I'm curious how people interpret the ending with the house. I'm guessing you'll have to put a spoiler warning, but I'd like to read what people think.

djoko84 said: "I think it's the best play I've ever seen. Having said that, I'm curious how people interpret the ending with the house. I'm guessing you'll have to put a spoiler warning, but I'd like to read what people think."

A Justified Bean said: "djoko84 said: "I think it's the best play I've ever seen. Having said that, I'm curious how people interpret the ending with the house. I'm guessing you'll have to put a spoiler warning, but I'd like to read what people think."

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Is anyone here going to tonight’s first performance at the Belasco?

Bettyboy72 said: "Can anyone going in the next few days let me know how high the stage is. The first few rows are cheaper than mid orchestra. I need to buy tickets soon but don’t want to be craning my neck. Thank you."

I cannot answer your question, but I will say that this is a show I prefer from a vantage point (front of mezz>orchestra) but not the first few rows of orchestra regardless of stage height because there is quite a bit of action played on the large staircase and the landing above. So there is craning pretty far back I would think.

Also, not asked but I would also say HL>HR.

EDSOSLO858 said: "Is anyone here going to tonight’s first performance at the Belasco?"

I was there tonight. After being one of those people who was never able to crack TodayTix's digital rush for the Hayes Theater run, I won the new lottery on the first try. They gave me Left Orchestra Row J, Seat 21.

Considering it was Ella Beatty's first performance as River, I thought she did a pretty good job. By most of the other characters, River is dismissed as 23-year-old new-age airhead, but she needs to be played to have more depth. Most of time Beatty calibrated that correctly, occasionally it felt like she was playing a broad caricature wandering onstage from a production of Larissa FastHorse's Thanksgiving Play.

During the curtain call, a stagehand brought Beatty a bouquet of flowers.

Bettyboy72 said: "Thanks Hogan, I was thinking first row mezz, but I've seen reviews of the Belasco with people complaining about the railing in front of them. I wonder how bad it is."

I don't recall about the rail but I think maybe a safer bet would be 2nd row. Belasco mezz is pretty well raked (full step).

Any more thoughts on the best place to sit since the move to the Belasco? Are the first few rows ok?

Certainly seems like theyre discounting the sides of the mezz-- curious if anyone has any insight as to why? Trying to grab tickets for this soon.

I saw the Belasco transfer tonight and was kind of shocked at how much sound from outside bled through into the theater. I can't even count the number of times I heard Empire State of Mind blaring and overpowering the non-amplified sound from the stage.