Posted: 3/7/23 at 5:11pm
As far as seating, I haven't been disappointed with Lodge seats I've sat in, but the orchestra will be better. There's very little Lodge overhang, so just about anywhere in the Orchestra will be closer.
If you get a chance, if you go more than once, try sitting in the first or second row, either to the left or right of the pit, it’s like you’re practically on stage, and you can see every expression on their faces. It’s a unique experience to me.
I don’t recall rewriting the book of a music that’s already classified up there as an almost classic. Although it’s certainly not known that way because of its book. I think Sorkin is going to be preaching to us, and I just hope it isn’t heavy handed, but he lays it in between the lines.
If they were going to rewrite a book, I’d like them to write a new book for a musical like Pipe Dream, one of the Rodgers and Hammerstein’s flops. It has good songs, and some interesting characters. Mrs. Maisel actually used a couple of tunes from that show as incidental music. The infectious “Sweet Thursday” is heard as they’re all going into the theater for the musical written by the music director from their Catskills resort.
