There's a difference between sitting in the top row of the Family Circle at the Met and sitting in the mezzanine/balcony in a Broadway house. Personally, the only time I've sat far away in a Broadway theatre and not been able to glean facial expressions was in a barn like The Hilton. When I sat in the balcony for
A View From the Bridge, I never had to squint or use binoculars to clearly see the actors' facial expressions. Ditto
La Cage, which I saw from the last row of the mezzanine this past Wednesday. I saw everything as clearly as if I were sitting in the front row.
Personally, I prefer the mezzanine to the orchestra. I like the perspective it offers. When in the orchestra, I only like to sit about five to ten rows back. Other than that, I'll take anywhere in the mezz.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
