Anyone seeing Montego as Rose? — Page 3

tacotheatrelover said: "Why are a lot of y’all so ****ing negative all the time?

Good show, Bad show, Good singing, Bad singing, it doesn’t matter. The point is you take time out of your day to see something you enjoy, and if it doesn’t resonate with you, that’s cool too!! But I’m not getting up to leave during applause or a blackout just because something is bad.

The only time I’ve wanted to walk out of a show was the non eq tour of Chicago, but I stayed since I value the time and money I spent and the time and effort put on by those on stage. I value having the chance to see a show once or twice a month, and I’m extremely grateful whenever it’s more than that. That one month period Isaw cabaret 18 times in a month was probably the most grateful I’ve ever felt to be in a theatre that many times,

I know I should be the one being told this, but you guys need to be more grateful about having the resources and money to see all this theatre in the theatre capital. The arts are dying and heavily underfunded and over budgeted in today’s world, it should not cost 1.2 million for a revival of Gypsy or 1.16 million for a production of cabaret. The least you can do is buy your ticket, shut the **** up, and watch and support the damn show.

The negativity is what’s killing shows, it’s putting performers out of jobs, it’s making people say “No, I don’t wanna see this.” When they to form an opinion by their damn selves rather then someone who sees 5 shows a week and complains about most everything they see. It’s that mindset that kills a show and (there’sa lot of other reasons I can admit, but this is a pretty big one.) drives people away from something they might really like.

I’ll probably regret this message later but my sugars crashing in a 100° sushi restaurant parking lot in the middle of Alabama. I’m quite mad atm and need some way to get the anger out while I chug a Mountain Dew."

Hush child.

Post Covid, the number of Broadway shows that used seat filling services dropped to almost zero. Subscription houses like LCT and MTC still (rarely) utilize them but that’s pretty much it, I think. And I’ll never understand it.

Auggie27 said: "I've been posting here for 22 years, and this is one of the saddest threads I've read. Can't help but think of other star vacations when a replacement was a gimmick that added a jolt. I'm old enough to have seen Raquel Welch fill in for Bacall when she took her vacation from Woman of the Year. This wasn't the multi-month post-Bacall Welch run, which was notoriously successful. This was a 2week long-slottedBacall absence, December 1-15, 1981 - something she had not done during Applause - and the choice of her replacement shocked Broadway (and Bacall, infamously insulted).

I was there the first night, thanks to the TKTS downtown booth, in the second row of the orchestra at the Palace. The vibein the house was "oh boy! Get ready!" Palpable as lights dimmed for the overture. It was a (pre-internet) crowd clearlyexpecting an utter debacle. And of course, Welch brought her own unexpected magic, limited though it may have been, that served a mediocre vehicle like Woman of the Year. And the audience went effing crazy. We didn't hate watch, we had a helluva good time. The NY Post, a rag that loathed Bacall's politics, splashed the first Welch performance curtain call on - wait for it - the front page. Seriously. Splashed is appropriate, because the show ends with Tess having water dumped over her head - and the famous Welch figure. Even in a Norma Kamali terry robe, quite a photo.Something like "What a woman!" I'm guessing that producers have since always hoped for that to happen. It seldom does.

For Gypsy, they would've been wise to do a shutdown or simply allow the well-received standby to do the week, since this gifted performer doesn't generate box office. And that aspect is what is so sad. The gifted Ms. Montego deserves better than to be set up to fail so publicly.."

Auggie, I loved reading your post. I was there for Raquel’s first night as well.

Auggie27 said: "I've been posting here for 22 years, and this is one of the saddest threads I've read. Can't help but think of other star vacations when a replacement was a gimmick that added a jolt. I'm old enough to have seen Raquel Welch fill in for Bacall when she took her vacation from Woman of the Year. This wasn't the multi-month post-Bacall Welch run, which was notoriously successful. This was a 2week long-slottedBacall absence, December 1-15, 1981 - something she had not done during Applause - and the choice of her replacement shocked Broadway (and Bacall, infamously insulted).

I was there the first night, thanks to the TKTS downtown booth, in the second row of the orchestra at the Palace. The vibein the house was "oh boy! Get ready!" Palpable as lights dimmed for the overture. It was a (pre-internet) crowd clearlyexpecting an utter debacle. And of course, Welch brought her own unexpected magic, limited though it may have been, that served a mediocre vehicle like Woman of the Year. And the audience went effing crazy. We didn't hate watch, we had a helluva good time. The NY Post, a rag that loathed Bacall's politics, splashed the first Welch performance curtain call on - wait for it - the front page. Seriously. Splashed is appropriate, because the show ends with Tess having water dumped over her head - and the famous Welch figure. Even in a Norma Kamali terry robe, quite a photo.Something like "What a woman!" I'm guessing that producers have since always hoped for that to happen. It seldom does.

For Gypsy, they would've been wise to do a shutdown or simply allow the well-received standby to do the week, since this gifted performer doesn't generate box office. And that aspect is what is so sad. The gifted Ms. Montego deserves better than to be set up to fail so publicly.."

Thanks for sharing this anecdote. Stories like these are why I love this forum.

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "I've been wondering (baselessly!) if this is a soft-launch for Audra dropping down to 6 or 7 a week and Montego taking 1 or 2. It was always a little surprising that Audra forged ahead with 8 a week but I wonder if that's becoming unsustainable given recent absences...I couldn't imagine doing what she does 8x a week."

The production is touring next season. I assume this is essentially an audition for Montego.

I’m assuming when you bought the tickets you knew that Audra was out. If you didn’t and it wasn’t communicated to you then you could ask for a refund and then just buy a rush ticket. But you seem to know these things, so you know what you’re doing.

Yikes, these houses do look awful... but, frankly, the houses for next week when Audra returns are not any better.

AC126748 said: "ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "I've been wondering (baselessly!) if this is a soft-launch for Audra dropping down to 6 or 7 a week and Montego taking 1 or 2. It was always a little surprising that Audra forged ahead with 8 a week but I wonder if that's becoming unsustainable given recent absences...I couldn't imagine doing what she does 8x a week."

The production is touring next season. I assume this is essentially an audition for Montego."

Oh lord, that's gonna be a flop in the road. This is a vanity project, there's no reason for this to be going out on some equity tour.

Wish they had got another person with a more unique quality to their voice, even if not a name. Not a knock against Montego but...someone like Jeanette Bayardelle or Charity Angel Dawson doing this for a week would have gotten me back to that theater.

What is the source of this alleged tour?

She sang a bit in Old Friends and I’d be there.