EDSOSLO858 said: "Anyone go tonight? Their final performance was at 7:30."
I was there - lots of standing ovations. Off the top of my head, Alex’s first line, The Whole Being Dead Thing (during which Alex tried to break Dana Steingold as she was frozen in her final pose), Delia’s entrance (Leslie’s “there’s very good energy in here” got a huge laugh after all that), Lydia’s reveal on the couch (this one was so long that Elizabeth Teeter broke character for a second), Dead Mom, Say My Name (a short one because the orchestra started the playoff music right away), That Beautiful Sound, Barbara 2.0, What I Know Now, and Home (again, short).
other things of note:
- In the opening number, the lyric was changed to “hey folks, ain’t it pretty?/ one last time in New York City!” as well as “I DID this bull**** like 8 times a week.”
- There were lots of other moments where the actors were just having fun (Leslie Kritzer was humming Baby One More Time to herself at the beginning of the No Reason scene until Lydia entered).
- after Fright of our Lives, people were applauding for Beetlejuice’s “no one’s like me, Barbara, that’s the problem” so Alex ad libbed “I don’t even know why these people are clapping”
- During his final exit into the Netherworld, Alex left, came back, said “GOODBYE BROADWAY!” and left again, to which Adam Dannheiser replied (in character), “what the **** does that mean?”
- Alex and Elizabeth hugged twice for the “you smell disgusting” line because people cheered so much.
Elizabeth was crying too much to sing the final “I’m home” in Jump in the Line and barely was able to speak it before everyone onstage hugged her and the lights went out
there were a few small changes to blocking that were put in place when Alex returned from his concussion - primarily, he did not pop up on the lift to scare the Girl Scout (he snuck up behind her from one of the wings) and was not lifted by the clones at the end of the show.
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