Bye Bye Birdie dress rehearsal anyone ?- Page 3

[jagfkb]

Posted: 9/10/09 at 8:18pm

Wait... how is a 2 act musical comedy only 90 minutes long?

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 9/10/09 at 10:02pm

The first mention of 90 minutes I see on this thread was posted about 90 minutes before tonight's preview started. I assumed that taylorPHENOMENON2 was simply doing a countdown to curtain, not necessarily stating that the show was only 90 minutes long.

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 9/11/09 at 1:26am

OF COURSE you can judge a show based on it's first preview. They're charging, aren't they? People paid $121 a ticket to see a show that night, right?

You are right...you pay your money, you have the right to complain. My question is WHY pay that much money to see a show so early? Isn't it better to wait until it is at least "frozen?"

Many shows change and develop a great deal over 3 to 4 weeks of previews, even revivals. Good directors watch the audience and gauge their reactions, making minor but important adjustments to the performances. If you have unlimited funds and enjoy watching a show develop, that's fine. But there is not much you gain by going in pretending toe be a critic at an opening night. And you are 100% right: They have no business charging full price for previews!

I've been reading BWW long enough to know exactly what the first preview will bring. First one of the attendees will say how much they liked it. Then someone else will say they liked it too. But before it develops into a love thread someone else will come along and trash it. And the more others say they like it the more the naysayers step up their hatred of the show and it becomes hysterical (in both senses of the word.) Happens with almost every show.