I wish there was something coming like Plaza Suite last season: a comedy with stars.
I put on the OBC recording of Parade last night. I don't think I have ever made it through the whole thing. Having never seen a production, I don't know if it is maybe a case where not having the book scenes it doesn't give a good representation of the show?
From the recording, the lead character feels like such a cypher that it is hard to care what happens. It isn't until so very late in the show that anyone has any decent numbers.
All I could think is that if I spend $200 to see Ben Platt in this, it could turn out to be a very expensive nap.
Are there any services in NY where you can pay someone to poke you to wake up in time so you don't miss the good bits?*
The first, insurmountable mistake they made at the inception of this show was when they hired Jason Robert Brown.
*I'm reminded if going to see a Sunday afternoon showing of Jurrassic World in theatre a few years back, with a drag queen who had been up all the previous night & then done a brunch show. They were like, "Oh I want to see that so bad, take me!" Then they promptly fell asleep as soon as the lights went down for trailers. In the last half when the dinosaur rampage started, I poked them saying "the parts you don't want to miss have started."
Someone should make a musical out of the Jurassic Park movies. Ben Platt would be perfect for that...as a dinosaur...a sad misunderstood dinosaur with a sad yet powerful 11 o'clock number as they pillage and destroy.
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Updated On: 1/7/23 at 06:36 AM