I saw this in London just a few months after it opened (the current production, not the original) - it had played about 120 performances at the time. I remember the sign outside the theatre saying
120 performances - 120 standing ovations and thinking yeah, right. Standing ovations weren't the norm even on Broadway at that time, and the only standing ovation I had ever seen in London was for Julie Andrews' opening night at the Palladium.
Well, yes indeed - a standing ovation. I saw it again about a week later, and the audience response was the same. To be sure, there are many valid criticisms that could be made, but it obviously hits a chord with audiences, and stays with you.
Don't tell anyone, please, but sometimes I get teary-eyed as the first notes of the CD start ......
2016 These Paper Bullets (1/02) Our Mother's Brief Affair (1/06), Dragon Boat Racing (1/08), Howard - reading (1/28), Shear Madness (2/10), Fun Home (2/17), Women Without Men (2/18), Trip Of Love (2/21), The First Gentleman -reading (2/22), Southern Comfort (2/23), The Robber Bridegroom (2/24), She Loves Me (3/11), Shuffle Along (4/12), Shear Madness (4/14), Dear Evan Hansen (4/16), American Psycho (4/23), Tuck Everlasting (5/10), Indian Summer (5/15), Peer Gynt (5/18), Broadway's Rising Stars (7/11), Trip of Love (7/27), CATS (7/31), The Layover (8/17), An Act Of God (8/31), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (8/24), Heisenberg (10/12), Fiddler On The Roof (11/02), Othello (11/23), Dear Evan Hansen (11/26), Les Liaisons Dangereuses (12/21) 2017 In Transit (2/01), Groundhog Day (4/04), Ring Twice For Miranda (4/07), Church And State (4/10), The Lucky One (4/19), Ernest Shackleton Loves Me (5/16), Building The Wall (5/19), Indecent (6/01), Six Degrees of Separation (6/09), Marvin's Room (6/28), A Doll's House Pt 2 (7/25) Curvy Widow (8/01)
